“We should reflect to the third component—role and importance of the Armenian Community in these elections. First and foremost, I should mention, that the Armenian Community assumed a rather passive role, that of a voter only. Armenian organizations only stated that they will support neither Hillary Clinton, nor Donald Trump.”
Why and how are elections forged in Armenia? Everybody knows. They’re forged for the sake of keeping the power and are mostly forged through election bribe. What is election bribe?
He reportedly laughed and replied: “I know the meaning of that question. I sleep regular, I sleep and work and eat normal and do sports.”
‘If my life was ever frustrating, I tried not to show it. I was like “happy face”’ – she assumes an exaggerated smile that brings to mind the grinning emoji – ‘because this was what everyone needed from me…Happy Mum. Sad face never works.
Access to social media and sharing websites has been blocked in Turkey following the arrests of 11 Kurdish-backed politicians, according to an internet monitoring group.
“Obviously the statement issued by the PM is simply ridiculous, as for that reason our group of MPs wouldn’t have been arrested. This is a part of wider policy by Turkish authorities, spread both in Syria, Iraq, as well as inside the country, tended to weaken Kurdish people and destroy perspectives for Kurdish autonomy,” Gür said.
The end of Azerbaijan’s energy boom requires economic reform, which is harder to implement without allowing some politics from below. While there are signs that the country’s leaders are prepared to undertake some economic liberalization, the new changes enacted in the constitution suggest the president wants only to protect and prolong his long-standing political system.
“It’s early speaking of Armenia-Iran global energy programs,” Kayhan Barzegar, Director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies (IMESS) in Tehran, told 168.am, reflecting to current Armenia-Iran relations.
What is unnerving in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s march to authoritarianism is how dismally familiar it is: the coup that becomes a pretext for a massive roundup of real and imagined enemies; the claims to be the one man who can withstand the onslaught of foreign foes; the invocation of purported historical slights; the silencing of the news media. The world has seen this before in other countries. The pattern is tried and true; the tough question is how to break it.
“After sanctions against Iran have been lifted, by launching cooperation, I consider, the sides will discuss their possibilities for wider cooperation, with the possibility of transition of Iranian gas to Europe. However, at the initial stage supply of gas to Armenia with small volume may be expected.”
