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Pope Leo XIV in Ankara with 'Peace' Message
Pope Leo XIV, President of the Vatican City State and spiritual leader of Catholics, conveyed the message to journalists on the special plane flying to Ankara, "We hope to emphasize how important peace is for the whole world." The Pope, who was welcomed by clerics and ministers at Esenboğa Airport, visited Anıtkabir. The Pope, also welcomed with an official ceremony at the Presidential Complex, held a private meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
27 November 2025
Pope Leo XIV and Erdoğan Statement: Visit an Important Step Strengthening Our Common Ground
Pope Leo XIV and President Tayyip Erdoğan, who held inter-delegation talks in Ankara as part of the Türkiye visit, addressed the guests. Erdoğan said, “I consider this visit to be a very important step strengthening our common ground.” The Pope stated, “May Türkiye be a source of stability and rapprochement among peoples in the service of a just and lasting peace.”
27 November 2025
Former Karabakh leaders imprisoned in Azerbaijan: Prosecutors seek life sentences for five
At a hearing in Baku, prosecutors requested life imprisonment for five former high-ranking Nagorno-Karabakh officials, including former President Arayik Harutyunyan. The other detainees face prison terms of up to 20 years.
16 November 2025
2025 Aurora Prize Awarded to Sudanese Dr. Jamal Eltaeb
Dr. Jamal Eltaeb, chief physician of Al Nao Hospital in Sudan, has been awarded the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, presented for the 10th time this year, for continuing to provide critical health services under civil war conditions and saving hundreds of lives.
16 November 2025
Armenian actors from Türkiye were offered "Would you play an ASALA militant?"
Filming has begun on "Çatlı," a film about the life of Abdullah Çatlı directed by Onur Tan. It has emerged that Armenian actors from Türkiye were approached to play the role of an "ASALA militant" in the film, but the actors rejected the offer.
12 November 2025
Program of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Türkiye announced
The official program has been announced for the first apostolic journey of Pope Leo XIV, spiritual leader of Catholics and Head of Vatican City State, scheduled to take place from November 27 to December 2, 2025.
11 November 2025
Inauguration of the Ara Hrechdakian Chair of Armenian Studies at Saint Joseph University of Beirut
Saint Joseph University of Beirut inaugurated the Ara Hrechdakian Chair of Armenian Studies on October 27, 2025, made possible through a generous donation from the Hrechdakian family. The Chair, operating within the university's Bibliothèque Orientale, will focus on research activities while organizing academic conferences, cultural workshops, and exhibitions, as well as offering courses in Armenian Studies. Actress Arsinée Khanjian has been appointed as Chairholder, and Dr. Vahe Tachjian will serve as Executive Director. The Chair plans to create a website devoted to Armenian communities in Lebanon and the Middle East, aiming to preserve family materials and reconstruct the memory of community life while engaging both Armenian and non-Armenian audiences.
9 November 2025
PKK says it is withdrawing all forces from Turkey to northern Iraq
The militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said on Sunday it was withdrawing all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq and urged Ankara to take the necessary legal steps to protect the peace process.
26 October 2025
Statement from Daron Acemoğlu to Agos: I am not working with any party in Armenia or Turkey
At the latest meeting organised by the ‘Our Way's’ movement, founded by Russian oligarch Samvel Karapetyan and currently in the process of becoming a political party, a video message sent by Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoğlu was shared, stating that Acemoğlu would be advising the movement. Acemoğlu told Agos, ‘I sent a message for their conference, but I have no connection with the party.’
16 October 2025
Yetvart Danzikyan
The Journalists Were Murdered
Since 7 October, six journalists had been working under harrowing conditions to expose the massacre in Gaza. On 10 August, they were killed inside a media tent in a deliberate Israeli airstrike, which Israel confirmed had been planned. While the world remains silent, Gaza’s journalists continue their mission—to be the voice of the voiceless and to bear witness to the truth, no matter the cost.
26 August 2025
Nazan Özcan
Daughter of Hurmüz Diril, missing for five years: Our demand for justice is an urgent necessity to be met
Şimuni Diril, a Chaldean couple believed to have disappeared in the village of Mehre in Şırnak on January 7, 2020, was found murdered by their children on March 17. Hurmüz Diril, who turns 76 today, has been missing for five years. His daughter, Gülcan Diril Üzümcü, said, "My father's age remains 71. This is murder, and my father is missing. I do not accept its normalization. As Assyrians and Chaldeans, meeting our demand for justice is not a favor, but an urgent necessity."
7 August 2025
Marta Sömek
Silivri for beginners
We are Silivri's mandatory visitors. For now, some of us, but potentially all of us. Although we cannot fully know or understand what our loved ones in prison are going through, there is one thing we have learned through experience: what it means to be an intimate of a prisoner. And I quickly learned the number one rule of being an intimate of a prisoner: to wait.
21 July 2025
Ilgaz Gökırmaklı
Zoryan Institute responds to İYİ Party's proposal to name border gate after Talat Pasha: “Why not name it after Hrant Dink?”
İYİ Party (Nationalist opposition party) in Turkish Grand National Assembly) Chairman Müsavat Dervişoğlu and 28 İYİ Party members submitted a bill to the National Assembly proposing that the name of the Alican (Margara) Border Gate on the Turkey-Armenia border be changed to “Talat Pasha Border Gate.” The Zoryan Institute, responded to the proposal and put forward a new suggestion.
5 July 2025
Armenia “talks Turkiye” in new diplomatic offensive
Not to say that the normalization process will be smooth, especially as Turkiye remains hostage to Azerbaijan in terms of options. Yet normalization between Armenia and Turkiye was never supposed to be that easy or that quick. And after all, look at how far the two sides have already come. This offers a degree of hope and optimism.
24 June 2025
Richard Giragosian
Journalist Tuğçe Yılmaz Faces Charges Under Article 301 for Interview with two Armenian Youths
biianet website editor Tuğçe Yılmaz, who was detained for one day explanation, is now facing prosecution under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code over an interview she conducted with two Armenian youths on April 24 last year, marked globally as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
15 June 2025
Serra Bucak: Trusteeship practices are taking away the right to participation of city components
Following the 3-year and 9-month prison sentence given to Van Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Abdullah Zeydan, another DEM Party municipality was appointed a trustee. Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality also faced two trustee appointments in 2016 and 2019. We spoke to Serra Bucak, Co-Mayor of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality, about the social and political consequences of the trusteeship practices after Zeydan was sentenced to prison. Regarding the trustee appointments, Bucak said, ‘Even though the government persistently and stubbornly does not learn lessons from undemocratic methods, the people have always said and will say, 'No matter what you do, we are on the side of the just struggle.' The government must now digest and accept the will of the people and give up these anti-democratic practices."
9 March 2025
Burcu Karakaş
"I want to hand over this archive and be liberated”
Political documentary photographer Ali Öz, as he calls himself, is not currently working for a publishing organisation. But for a very long time, he has not needed a contract to record Turkey's social and political life. Ali Öz's photographic archive is full of images documenting the story of labour and at the same time recording all kinds of social actions in almost fifty years of Turkey's history. For Öz, who sees journalism not as a job, but as the main endeavour at the centre of his life, which motivation weighs more heavily: political responsibility, professional appetite or the desire to document?
9 February 2025
Pınar Öğünç
A worrying year for rights
Turkey lived a period believing that torture and ill-treatment fell behind, convinced by this showcase. Yet, this year alone, 692 people or their relatives have applied to the HRFT with allegations of torture and ill-treatment. This is only the number of those who consider applying to a human rights institution in case of victimization, and who have the power and means to do so. Likewise, 2024 was a year in which freedom of assembly and demonstration was largely ignored. According to the data of the HRA Documentation Unit, at least 4,368 people were took into custody under torture and ill-treatment as a result of the intervention of law enforcement forces in peaceful protests.
9 February 2025
Pınar Öğünç
A life without borders: What is happening after ceasefire in the West Bank?
Andrey X, as he prefers to use the name on social media, is a Russian-Israeli journalist and activist living in Palestine. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he immigrated to Tel Aviv, which turned his world upside down and also gave him an opportunity to delve into Israel-Palestine conflicts. Now he is covering unjust practices in the West Bank. We have talked about conditions, the current situation, and importance of journalism in the West Bank.
3 February 2025
Deniz Kaya
On the territory of the global factory
The last few years have been a period in which every problem that can be discussed under the heading of agriculture has deepened and multiplied for Turkey, which continues to boast of being an agricultural country because it does not face the real landscape. Agricultural lands are being sacrificed for investments in other sectors such as energy, mining, construction and tourism, which are seen as the main vein of the growth fetish.
23 January 2025
Pınar Öğünç
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Shame indeed had changed sides
Gisèle Pelicot, 72 years old, has won so much admiration and respect for the way she handled the judicial process concerning the gang rape of which she was the victim, that she has become a symbol of courage in recent years, going beyond 2024. “Shame must change sides” she said, “it's not us who should be ashamed, it's them. I don't want any woman who has been raped to feel shame anymore."
23 January 2025
Pınar Öğünç
Hrant Dink was commemorated on the 18th anniversary of his assassination. This year's speech was given by Takuhi Tovmasyan
On the 18th anniversary of his assassination, Hrant Dink , the founder and editor-in-chief of our newspaper, was commemorated in front of the old Agos office where he had been shot in 2007. Huge crowds attended the commemoration. This year's speech was given by Takuhi Tovmasyan, one of Hrant Dink's close friends. Tovmasyan said, "What was Hrant Dink's crime? His crime was obvious: His love for humanity, his passion for democracy and human rights, his belief in freedom of expression, and as if that were not enough, his advocacy for peace between the two nations and his desire to open the Turkey-Armenia border... On top of all this, his God-given ability to persuade people. This last one scared some people very, very much."
19 January 2025
Education in the midst of multiple crises
One of the distinctive features of this year is that the number of children who are out of education despite being of compulsory education age is at the highest level of the last three years. Income inequality has reached its highest level in the last 18 years, signalling the severity of the economic crisis in education. 42 out of every 100 children are poor. ERG's report reveals that the number of students between the ages of 6-17 who are out of education increased by 38.4 per cent compared to the previous year.
5 January 2025
Pınar Öğünç
Report documenting genocide against Palestinians
Amnesty International has examined and documented Israel's policies and actions against the Palestinians in Gaza since 7 October 2023 and, within the framework of international law, has named what has happened and is happening: Genocide. This new 300-page report, the first of its kind, is based on interviews with 212 people, including Palestinian survivors, local officials in Gaza, health workers, humanitarian NGO workers, analyses of a wide range of visual and digital data, published news reports, and statements by officials representing various institutions of the Israeli state. We talked to Ruhat Sena Akşener, Director of Amnesty International Turkey, about the report titled ‘You Feel Like You're Not Human-Israel's Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza’, which leads to the determination of ‘genocidal intent’.
5 January 2025
Pınar Öğünç
“Turkey's problem is not ageing, but ageing in poverty”
‘’Politicians does talk about family but the conventional family consisting of mum, dad, children and the elderly does not exist in Turkey. The family is transforming, the family has never been a sterile environment. Besides, Turkey is trying to provide all the care service through this conventional family. How will people living alone receive support? What about the elderly who have lost their children or the elderly who have chosen to live differently? This is a policy blind to society. It also has nothing to do with increasing fertility because the number of poor elderly will not decrease when the number of babies increases. As well as the existing elderly population, let's also think about the old age of children who are forced to work in temporary, mobile jobs and in the agricultural sector, young people who are currently working in flexible employment. Moreover, retirement means becoming poorer and poorer in Turkey."
22 December 2024
Pınar Öğünç
From police barricades to Instagram screens: A new map of Suriçi (Diyarbakır) that leads to amnesia
I wander around Suriçi, using both my own testimonies and the memory provided to me by journalism by listening to witnesses and as a map. After a hundred days of conflict, the police barricades and screens that I last saw in 2019 have been removed from some streets that were closed for years. They have removed, but many of them seem to have opened neither to the old nor to the new, but to gaps that freeze space in time. As I wander around, I listen to the old inhabitants of Sur. One of them is a construction worker, he migrated to another district when his house was demolished. What is significant is that now, if there is a job in construction, he comes to his old neighborhood to work. Another is a plumber whose house, shop and tools were leveled in Sur. They are collectively paying installments to own a new Sur house.
22 December 2024
Pınar Öğünç
While you are reading these lines they are cutting
The last destructive blow of the holding that gets sturdy as it leans on the political power. Preparations for the ‘Halilağa Copper Quarry Capacity Increase, Ore Enrichment Plant and Waste Storage Facility’ to be built in Hacıbekirler village of Çanakkale Bayramiç have begun by cutting down trees on 5200 decares of land. On 9 November, minibuses, buses and vehicles departing from different parts of the Aegean, Thrace and Anatolia park on both sides of the road. When a person cries with choking breath for a tree, it brings to mind the mythic past of this geography, the Homeric texts. As in the tragedies where pain rises from human bodies to the clouds of Zeus, where vows of revenge and anger do not fit in the mountains, women cry out “do not cut down our trees”, doubled over from shouting.
8 December 2024
Pınar Öğünç
While capital blocks the way to the railway stations once again
Words get mixed up with words. Railway porterage which ended when wheels were invented for suitcases... Trains and porters carrying the gold coming from Europe while the Central Bank was opening... The killing of public spaces and the concept of public interest... Tugay Bey always reads the industrial heritage and the plans of capital through labour. If the skyscrapers rent project, which was put forward at the time, could not be realised, those who resisted by looking at the railway stations from this perspective, those who forced both the judicial path and the streets, are of great importance in this. What 668 weeks means! Haydarpaşa Solidarity will come together for the 668th time this Sunday and raise their voices against this new project for Haydarpaşa Station.
24 November 2024
Pınar Öğünç
Authoritarian “solutions” where non-solutions are deliberately chosen
It is important for those who do not want to waste the slightest chance of a permanent solution and an honorable peace to calmly make sense of this ebb and flow of politics. The report titled “Looking at the Kurdish Problem with its Changing Dynamics after 2015 in Terms of Authoritarian Conflict Management” puts some of the pieces in place and offers a perspective that can serve as a source. The report is based on the basic idea that authoritarian regimes consider keeping conflict processes at the ‘unresolved’ stage as a kind of solution for themselves, and that they realise this not only with military force but also by supporting it with a series of political, spatial and economic policies. The underlying structural causes of the conflict are not specifically addressed, any democratic space for a solution is seen as a threat, and the involvement of international actors is not recognised. It can be coordinated with neoliberal policies and corruption can be used as a tool.
24 November 2024
Pınar Öğünç
Looking at the time, leaving it to time
Until November 11, one of the venues of the Çanakkale Biennial is the Korfmann Library, one of Turkey's most important libraries focused on archaeology. Before this building became a library dedicated to Manfred Osman Korfmann, who headed the Troy excavations, it was a tobacco warehouse, but it was originally built as the Infant School of the adjacent Surp Kevork Church, founded in 1669. David Blandy and Larry Achiampong, who came to Çanakkale for the opening, work on shared political concerns. Experimental videos and performances that touch on the colonialism embedded in the root fringes of scientific knowledge and technological progress, and the racism that permeates the the visual symbols of popular culture...
28 October 2024
Pınar Öğünç
While women are becoming twice as poor
Women feel gender-based discrimination in the labor market at every stage, from job search to working conditions, from office life to unemployment. The victimizations that diversify with advancing age are completely invisible despite affecting millions of women. Kadın İşçi (Woman Worker, www.kadinisci.org) provides valuable journalism that focuses its editorial line on women's labor. The Women Workers' Solidarity Association, which created the website, recently announced a report titled “Gender-Based Discrimination Faced by Women Over 50 in the Field of Paid Labor and Solution Suggestions” and addressed the invisibility of this field. So what do women over 50 do?
28 October 2024
Pınar Öğünç
What crime, whose punishment, what justice?
Prisons described as Type S and Type Y Penitentiary Institutions or High Security Penal Institutions, which became operational after 2021, mostly consist of single-person cells, where isolation prevails due to both their architectural structures and practices. The sky is not even visible in the prison yard, all communication is provided by megaphones and buttons, which is completely dehumanizing, and open visits are even more isolating as they are separate for each prisoner. This is why they are referred to as “wells”. The Human Rights Association's report on the issue warns of the psychiatric disorders that these conditions may cause, as well as the physical illnesses they may cause in the short, medium and long term.
20 October 2024
Pınar Öğünç
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