November 9th is a day of remembrance. It commemorates the Kristallnacht of 1938, which marked the transition from the discrimination of German Jews to their systematic extermination. In these weeks, another people finds themselves threatened with imminent to medium-term extermination: 3 million Christian Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Republic of Armenia. 105…
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Azerbaijan and Turkey have started the war. As early as the summer of 2020, Turkish and Azerbaijani military forces rehearsed the conquest of the autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh in a maneuver. On September 27, they finally launched their joint war of aggression, led by Turkish officers and special forces, as well as Islamist mercenaries imported by Turkey from northern Syria. Nagorno-Karabakh is independent under international law.…
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It's a war of aggression with a warning: Since the summer of this year at the latest, Turkey and Azerbaijan have been preparing their joint attack against the autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Republic of Armenia. When some journalists here make the wild claim that "the Armenians" "took Nagorno-Karabakh away from Azerbaijan two decades ago," this demonstrates not only a profound lack of knowledge...
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Only at first glance does the conflict in the Caucasus over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited primarily by Armenian Christians, seem distant. Against the backdrop of the Turkish president's neo-Ottoman imperial fantasies, German arms deliveries to Turkey, and the German Empire's complicity in the genocide of 1,5 million Armenians, the crisis becomes politically very close.
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At Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, journalist Eike Christian Petering moderated the dialogue event "Which Europe Do We Want?" Dr. Patricia Flor, the Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control and Head of the Directorate-General for International Order, the United Nations and Arms Control, answered numerous questions from the approximately 100 participants. How should Europe...
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April 24, 2015, marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. The ZDF documentary "The Forgotten Genocide" sheds light on this crime against humanity and how it is being dealt with today. On April 24, 1915, 280 Armenian politicians, journalists, and writers were arrested and deported in Constantinople, now Istanbul. It was the beginning of the genocide...
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