Who will decide new spiritual leader of Turkey's Armenians? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Fehim Tastekin

Fehim Tastekin

Mar 27, 2019

Mourners attend the funeral of Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafyan at Surp Asdvadzadzin Patriarchal Church in Istanbul, Turkey, March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC16121CA2E0 — Mourners attend the funeral of Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafyan at Surp Asdvadzadzin Patriarchal Church, Istanbul, Turkey, March 17, 2019. — REUTERS/Umit Bektas

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Patriarch election saga drags on for Turkey's Armenians

Orhan Kemal Cengiz

Orhan Kemal Cengiz

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan`s wife Emine Erdogan (L), Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd L), Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (C), Armenian Orthodox Archbishop Aram Atesyan (2nd R), and Chief Rabbi Ishak Haleva (R) take their places during a dinner on August 28, 2011, at the Archeology Museum Garden in Istanbul. Erdogan hosted religious leaders and the heads of about 160 minority trusts at a fast-breaking dinner for Ramadan. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Imag

Turkey’s Armenians in crisis over patriarch

Orhan Kemal Cengiz

Orhan Kemal Cengiz

Some 40 million Turks ruled by appointed, not elected, mayors

Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics

A Lebanese man of Armenian descent holds a sign during a march from Bourj Hammoud to downtown Beirut's Martyrs Square, April 24, 2013, to mark the 98th anniversary of the mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST ANNIVERSARY) - RTXYXZD

What does Armenian diaspora want?

Pinar Tremblay