Armenia

Turkey and Armenia: Normalizing Relations, Reopening Border

Date: October 14th, 2009 |

After a century of hostility, Turkey and Armenia have signed an agreement to normalize relations, a deal that must still be ratified by parliaments of both countries. The agreement will reopen the border closed by Turkey in 1993 and call for a commission of independent historians to examine the question of genocide in 1915 and [read more]

Armenia: State of Emergency in Yerevan

Date: March 6th, 2008 |

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Authorities declared a 20-day state of emergency in Yerevan March 1 following a violent clash between protesters and police in which eight people died and more than 130 were injured. Major rallies over a disputed presidential election have occurred almost daily since Feb. 19, but now the city is under martial law with numerous checkpoints [read more]

Armenia: Yerevan State of Emergency Lifted

Date: March 26th, 2008 |

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The government ended the state of emergency it imposed on Yerevan March 1 when it broke up a week of mass protests over a disputed presidential election. More than 100 protesters remain in custody on charges of causing unrest and plotting a coup, and the legislature passed a new law granting authorities the right to [read more]