Eclipse

Armenia’s Ministry of Culture shut down an exhibit entitled ECLIPSE at the Tumanyan House Museum in Yerevan stating that it was ‘politicized’ and would need to be re-curated. The exhibit highlighted the severity of the repressions of the Stalin era in the 1930s known as the Great Purge. It was an era of extreme persecution, oppression and terror. Thousands of Armenians, including writers, artists, clergymen, intellectuals and many others were arrested, exiled and many were killed. Hovhannes Tumanyan, one of Armenia’s most revered writers lost three of his sons to Stalin’s oppression.

Letter from Azerbaijan: Live, From the Fifth Most Censored Country, It’s the First Ever European Games

Andrew Connelly

 

Rejoice! After years of enviously watching athletes in Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas flaunt their sporting might together as continental brothers and sisters, Europe finally has a competition to call its own. Live, from the fifth most censored country in the world, it’s the first ever European Games.

10 Shameful Facts About Censorship In Turkey

Jeremy Bender

 

Turkey has a long tradition of censorship that culminated this week in a ban on Twitter that has infuriated the international community.

Below we have compiled some of the most egregious examples of censorship in Turkey, starting with the most recent one.

Freedom of Ignorant Speech?

Vartan Matiossian

 

The December 21 editorial of The Los Angeles Times, "France Considers Armenian Genocide Bill," continues the American time-honored tradition of taking the First Amendment to the utmost extreme and senselessly complaining about those narrow-minded and headstrong Europeans who do not understand the gist of it.