“The campaign helped overcome the Genocide-related fear prevalent in the Turkish society,” Turkish analyst Ali Bayramoglu said.

The opera staging, performed by a 27-year old film director Hayk Karapetyan, enjoyed positive critical acclaim.

Oil production in Libya "slowed to a trickle" as the fighting and mounting unrest prompted an exodus of foreign oil workers and led international companies to halt their operations in the country.

On April 24, Commemoration Day of the Armenian Genocide, protest actions, processions and other events will be organized in Istanbul, Ankara and other Turkish cities to commemorate the victims. This was stated by Professor of Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, Cengiz Aktar at the conference “Armenian Genocide Awareness Building in Turkey”. Cengiz Aktar is an initiator of the campaign “Armenians, We Apologize”.

As Japan struggles to recover following last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, the International Skating Union said the nation would not stage the Championship.

The program was initiated by the member of the international association of journalists, writers and publishers, the editor of Ararat newspaper in Latvia, Alexander Geronyan.