Civilitas approaches its one-year anniversary with a full agenda. We are grateful to our partners -- the Swiss, Norwegian, British, Polish, Dutch governments and their aid agencies, as well as the Eurasia Partnership Foundation and particularly to the Ekserciyan Family of Argentina.

We are pleased to be working on a project that couldn’t be more timely – a project that makes it possible to translate articles from Armenia’s press into Turkish, and articles from Turkey’s press into Armenian. The Armenian translations, with occasional English translations, too, can be found on our site on a daily basis. Turkish translations can be found on the website of the Agos Newspaper of Istanbul.

This program began September 1, just one day after the announcement by the Swiss, Turkish and Armenian foreign ministries that protocols are to be signed in six weeks, with provisions for the long-awaited normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey. Yet, the protocols are, at the very least, problematic. Vartan Oskanian, Chairman of the Board of the Civilitas Foundation, explains why. We ask you to weigh in on this topic by responding to our Question and Answer which can be found on our website.