Alternative media and radio activist José Ignacio López Vigil: "There are many community radios in Latin America putting up a fight against mines and transnational corporations."

The chairman of Dev Maden-Sen Görgün claimed that the statement of the labor “The mining laws in Turkey are advanced than ILO agreement” don't reflect the truth, and Turkey evaded its responsibilities by not signing the agreement.

Turkey hasn’t signed the International Labor Organization’s No.176 “Security and Health in Mines Agreement” for 19 years. The agreement loads many responsibilities to the government and the employers.

Rıza Türmen, a former judge at ECHR and CHP deputy, evaluated Foreign Minister Davutoğlu’s statement regarding not paying the penalty to ECHR for Cyprus.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay 90 million euros for its military intervention to Cyprus in 1974 and leaving the island divided ever since.

In response to PM Erdoğan’s claims that “the archives are open” for researchers on the Armenian Genocide, researcher Polatel told bianet:“The documents in Ottoman and Republic era were hidden, destroyed or unclassified.”

The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty of violating “right to respect for private and family life and correspondence”, ordering the Turkish state to pay non-pecuniary damages to the applicants.

Turkish authorities are building a 30 centimeters wide and 3 meters high concrete wall in Kuşaklı village of Reyhanlı town on Turkish-Syrian border in order to prevent “border violations”.

Canada’s CBC and Radio Canada are doing a documentary for the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide. bianet interviewed Ines Faro, owner of the idea and the journalist of the documentary.

What did Armenians think about Erdoğan’s speech on April 24? Elif Akgül reported from Yerevan.

From the early hours of yesterday morning, thousands flocked into the Armenian Genocide Monument in Yerevan, leaving flowers in memory of those who lost their lives in 1915.

Most commentators have turned a blind eye to some of the more unsavoury aspects of either Putin and the Maidan, depending on their ideological background. Hypocrisy is everywhere, but that doesn't mean we should be ambivalent about what's happening in Ukraine.

The Armenia-Turkey border is shut down by Turkey since over 20 years. Being pressed in this difficult corner of the world, the issue of the closed border is the bleeding wound of Armenia, which is languishing the country everyday. This is an issue that even the friends of Armenians in Turkey are still hesitant to talk about it.

On the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, bianet interviewed Hayk Demoyan, Armenian Genocide Museum Director in Yerevan. “Turkey must recognize the Armenian Genocide for the sake of its people and democratization,” Demoyan said.

Experts, monitoring organizations, journalists including bianet have met around “Safety Net for European Journalists” project to make a difference for media freedom in Europe.

“I felt that my tears were not enough. It was a big tragedy and I should do something. I should tell people why such a young boy escape and come to their country.”

“Tahrir, Taksim, Tempelhof” can be taken, therefore, as a provocation to rethink the similarities and differences as well as the connections between these sites, one located in Europe, another in the Middle East, and a third bridging the two.

Twitter officials Crowell, McSweeney and Nieto are currently visiting Turkey. The company reportedly declined the government’s demand to open an office in Turkey.

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee released a statement saying that they were unable to confirm whether a candidate is admitted for the prize.

Tensions between Kurdish students and ultranationalist Turkish students in Near East University left with the arrest order of 16 students for 3 days. The police is looking for 164 suspects.