While numerous factors contributed to the United States' rise to the top spot in the annual Country Brand Index survey for the first time ever, the most significant factor is the man in the White House: President Barack Obama.

Yesterday two senators from Nevada and New Jersey introduced a new resolution in the U.S. Senate aiming to confirm by the Senate that the atrocities carried out by the government of Turkey in 1915 amount to genocide of the Armenian people. The significance of this new resolution grows on the backdrop of the recently signed protocols between Armenia and Turkey.

France 24 correspondence Jasper Mortimer from Ankara says that it is more likely that the issue of Nagorno Karabakh, to which Turkey wants to link the signature of protocols with Armenia has caused the delay. Turkey and Armenia abruptly postponed the signature of the protocols aimed at normalizing the relations.

Today, the president of Armenia Mr. Serzh Sargsyan, just hours ahead of the signing of the protocols between Armenia and Turkey on normalization of relations, issued an address to the nation saying his country's commitment to protocols is not unilateral. "Therefore, if Turkey fails to ratify the protocols within reasonable timeframe or to accomplish its provisions in due time, Armenia will undertake corresponding measures in accordance with international law," said the president.

The role of Red Cross Societies in rendering assistance to the Armenian refugees who suffered the Genocide is significant. One of the first organizations that responded to the Turkish violence was the American Red Cross. They set shelter camps in Armenia, particularly in Etchmiadzin and in other parts of the world meeting the genocide victims' needs fleeing from Turkey.

On September 17, during the Iftar dinner, which the PM of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave to Turkish media editors-in-chiefs, he said Turkey would not open its border with Armenia without solution to Nagorno Karabakh problem. He also said that Armenia must be freed from the influence of the powerful diaspora. We asked the Armenian Foreign Ministry to comment on the above, which said that the Turkish PM's comments are not helpful to the process and that genocide survivors must be respected.

In a very rare news article published by one of the top newspapers in Turkey Today's Zaman the author openly speaks about the Armenian Genocide and how they were orchestrated.

Turkey is again concerned with the international acknowledgment campaign of the fact of Armenian Genocide. As Turkish “Sabah” daily informs, the issue of the Armenian Genocide will be raised at the European parliament on October 6.

In a breaking development just about half an hour ago the websites of the foreign ministries of Armenia, Turkey and Switzerland posted a release informing about Turkish Armenian protocol agreement on establishing diplomatic relations and improving bilateral tiles.

Earlier this week we published a story about a California based KFI 640 AM talk show host Bill Handel and his co-host Lara Hermanson making discriminatory comments about deporting the Armenian from California and making painful jokes about the Armenian Genocide. After the Armenian community raised its voice from all over the world, both of the hosts apologized today.

In April Barack Obama failed to go the full distance and publicly - as President - call the Armeninian holocaust what it was: Genocide. Many human rights groups were dismayed and furious. But Obama went too far for Turkey which dubbed his remarks "unacceptable." Which makes is surprising that Turkey's PM has conceded that Turkey's past was "facist."

The society is awakening and slowly changing in Turkey, particularly when it comes to the recognition of the Armenian genocide. Today, a well respected Armenian American author and a genocide hisotiran Vahagn Dadaryan says his book on Armenian Genocide is to be published in Turkey.