On Friday, April 24th, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on Armenian Remembrance Day, also known as Genocide Remembrance Day. However, as he did when he visited Turkey earlier, he refrained from calling the event "genocide," which differs differs from his stance during his presidential campaign.

Is Obama's statement on Armenian killings a great relief for Turkey's government? We will see… Although Obama did not use the G-word as promised, he used the Armenian phraze "Meds Yeghern" for it. Barack Obama was seen by the Turkish diplomats as the most decisive president to use the G-word. Tackling that can be considered as a diplomatic victory on Turkish side. But for the Armenian diaspora, it is certainly the biggest disappoinment ever.

Early this morning Turkey, Armenia and Switzerland announced that a road map agreement is reached between Armenia and Turkey for normalizing relations. No details are yet available about the Turkish Armenian roadmap, but some scarce information from major newspapers and diplomats is already leaking.

The Foreign Affairs Ministries of Armenia and Turkey joint with the FM State Department of Switzerland spread an announcement regarding the improvement of the Armenian-Turkish relations.

How does anyone deny the existence of a systematic killings of the Armenians as a genocide in the early 20th century after looking these documents presented online by the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute on the occasion of Adana Massacres of 1909.

BY ALLEN YEKIKAN

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan on Tuesday hailed what he called progress in the ongoing talks to normalize his country's strained relations with Armenia. His remarks come amid growing concern in Yerevan that Ankara's increasingly uncompromising preconditions on Armenia may be guiding the negotiations in an untenable direction.

President Barack Obama spoke in Turkey Monday, calling a partnership with Muslim nations “critical,” the Associated Press reported.

Armenian Public Radio reports that close to 20,000 vacationers from neighboring Iran have traveled to Armenia to celebrate Novruz, the Iranian New Year in Armenia due to liberties, affordability and warm weather.

YEREVAN--In a letter to the chairman of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Howard Berman, the Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Armen Rustamian on Thursday expressed his strong support for US affirmation of the Armenian Genocide, stressing that US recognition would be the greatest contributor to the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.

When Inga And Anush Arshakyan sisters won the Armenian national contest for the Eurovision 2009 song festival in Moscow people cheered for a great selection, but perhaps were unsure about them winning the contest. This is because the song itself is indeed a "new word" of presenting their long record of championing the Armenian culture.

Armenia is a developing tourism destination with numerous sights. It is also home to three UNESCO world heritage sites and as such lures cultural tourists as well as history lovers.

Politifacts from the St. Peteresburg Times, which keeps track of all the promises of President Barack Obama during the campaign, added the promise to recognize the Armenian Genocide to its list. The date is April 24, when the Armenians and other governments that recognized the events in 1915 as a genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Turkey commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide.