Two weeks ahead of the annual commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday marked the 15th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda with a statement urging the United States and its world partners to deepen their commitment to ending the cycle of genocide, the White House reported.

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.

The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy sent a letter to President Obama signed by more than 340 associations from European civil society when he was just leaving Europe for Turkey. All these associations mainly made up by descendants of survivors of the Armenian Genocide ask the American President to honour his pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

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

The year 2009 marks the 90th anniversary of April 24 as a day of commemoration of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey. Here is the history of this sad commemoration event. The United State of America has not yet called the events of 1915 as a genocide. However, the president Barack Obama has promised in his campaign to call the events as Genocide and recognize the Armenian Genocide.

U.S. President Barack Obama ahould should stand up to his promise and recognize Armenian Genocide, thus liberating Turkey and restoring justice.

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.

Never before in English, ARMENIAN GOLGOTHA is the most comprehensive and dramatic eyewitness account of the twentieth century’s first genocide conducted in Eastern parts of the Ottoman Empire, which is today's Turkey. It sheds light on the Armenian Genocide as no other book has done.

WATERTOWN, MA – The Armenian National Committee of Massachusetts joined with Armenian Americans throughout the commonwealth today in mourning the passing of former House Speaker and government reform champion George Keverian.

“Ravished Armenia”, one of the first documentary memoirs of an eyewitness of Armenian Genocide was published in 1918, in New York. In this book Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian, a girl from Chmshkatsag, Armenian populated town in the Ottoman Empire, gave a detailed account of the terrible experiences she endured during the deportations. At the age of fourteen Arshaluys was beaten and tortured in harems of Turkish officials and Kurdish tribesmen.

ANCA Warns the U.S. Congress of Turkey's efforts to block decisive international action to stop Darfur Genocide.