AZERTAC – May 26, 2015 Baku, May 26, AZERTAC Baku 2015 has added Iran, the largest country in western Asia, to the already impressive number of countries that will be broadcasting coverage of the European Games. General Entertainment and Media (GEM...
AL AHWAZ – May 25, 2015 (Opinion) By DANIEL BRETT For those Persian chauvinists who see history as a competition, Al-Ahwaz’s backwardness and poverty are merely the result of the cultural and racial inferiority of its Arab inhabitants. Arabs lost and Persians...
PRI’s The World – May 20, 2015 Reporter JULIA BARTON On May 21 every year, Circassians memorialize what they say was a genocide of their people in the Caucasus in the 1860s. This protest took place in Times Square, New York,...
THE FINANCIAL TIMES – May 11, 2015 By ANDREW BYRNE, Budapest Ethnic Albanians carry the coffin of one of eight police officers killed in the weekend’s violence. Fourteen armed men also died. Mourners console the wife of Zarko Kuzmanovski, a member...
THE TIMES OF INDIA – May 13, 2015 10:29PM IST By Naresh Mitra Guwahati: With the Narendra Modi government considering granting citizenship to Hindus who have migrated to the country from Bangladesh due to religious persecution, various organizations in the...
THE AUSTRALIAN – May 22, 2015 12:00 AM By BRUCE LOUDTON Rohingya refugees from Myanmar sit in a police truck in East Aceh after they were rescued this week off the coast of Indonesia. Source: AFP They are the world’s most persecuted...
Two South Azerbaijani civil rights activists, Huseynali Mohammadi and Taha Kermani were found guilty of “Insulting Islamic Sanctity” , “Insulting the Supreme leader of Islamic Republic” and “Causing Damage to Public Properties” and each were sentenced to 13 years in...
By FARZIN FARZAD TABRIZ, South Azerbaijan Araz News: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was in the city of Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, on May 20 to garner support for the nuclear negotiations, as a predominantly ethnic Azerbaijani crowd of 40,000 gathered in Takhti Stadium to...
Araz News via todayszaman: People across Turkey mark May 19 as the Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day, a day that is celebrated as the beginning of the War of Independence, the day Mustafa Kemal Atatürk landed in Samsun, an act...
BAKU, Azerbaijan Araz News: A building fire on Tuesday ripped through a renovated building in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, killing at least 16, including at least one child, and injuring over 60 according to the Ministry of Health. The 16-storey...
Araz News via Kurdpress: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the enemy has failed in its attempts to create ethnic and religious discord in the Kurdistan province. The remarks were part of the Leader’s written statements read...
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Report: Çınar Oskay – TEHRANPhotos: Sebati Karakurt Hürriyet correspondent Çınar Oskay and photojournalist Sebati Karakurt write about the unfortunate league final for Tractor Sazi Tabriz, an Iranian football club with its Azeri fans who sport Turkish nationalist symbols. Tractor’s supporters...
TABRIZ, Azerbaijan Araz news: Azerbaijanis activists have launched a campaign with the hope of garnering the attention of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The “Red Card Campaign,” named in reference to Friday’s soccer championship game where a Tractor Sazi midfielder was suspiciously red...
Thousands of fighters arrive in western Anbar province in controversial decision following rapid advances by ISIL. 18 May 2015 20:09 GMT | War & Conflict At least 3,000 Shia-led fighters have arrived near Ramadi in Iraq’s western Anbar province, a day after...
