Day: January 29, 2026
As Armenia approaches its parliamentary elections scheduled for June, opposition forces appear increasingly eager to revive long-discredited narratives in an attempt to mobilize a shrinking and disoriented electorate. The closer election day comes, the more desperate the rhetoric sounds. Among the most active voices in this campaign of political nostalgia is Armenia’s former president and former leader of the so-called “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic,” Robert Kocharyan.
Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz opened the “Population Policies Council” meeting at the Presidential Complex, emphasizing that the session aims to create a shared framework for guiding action plans through evaluations spanning current data on families and population structure to demographic transformation.