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| 6000 people cannot attend Sourb Khach mass |
| Posted on: August 16, 2010, 9:39 am |
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World |
Sourb Khach church on Akhtamar Island in Lake Van, eastern Turkey, occupies only 100 square meters and there will be no enough room for many people, President of Van-Vaspurakan NGO Romik Hovnanyan told a press conference today. |
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| Armenians seek billions of dollars in lawsuit against Turkey |
| Posted on: August 4, 2010, 7:06 am |
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After struggling for decades to get the Armenian Genocide recognized, and having taken legal action against western banks and insurance companies, Armenian-Americans filed their first lawsuit against the Republic of Turkey last week, seeking compensation for confiscated properties and belongings, and loss of income as a consequence of the Genocide of 1915-23. |
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| Ambassador-Designate Ricciardone will be committed to US stance over Armenian Genocide |
| Posted on: July 21, 2010, 7:19 am |
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US policy on the Armenian Genocide, Cyprus, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate took center stage at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 20 hearing as Senator Robert Menendez pressed US Ambassador-designate to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, on a range of concerns dealing with America's increasingly strained ties with its NATO ally, reported the Armenian National Committee of America. |
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| Hillary Clinton shocked Turkey |
| Posted on: July 6, 2010, 8:30 am |
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Turkish statesmen are concerned over Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims. This event was labeled as shocking by Turkish press. |
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| Hillary Clinton visited Genocide Memorial |
| Posted on: July 5, 2010, 8:58 am |
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Politics |
On July 5, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims, Tsitsernakaberd. Hillary Clinton laid a wreath at the Memorial, paying tribute to the victims’ memory with a minute of silence. |
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| Hillary Clinton should visit Genocide Memorial |
| Posted on: July 3, 2010, 7:54 am |
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Politics |
The Washington-based office of the Hay Dat hopes that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend the Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims during her visit to Yerevan. Official Washington has not recognized the Armenian Genocide. |
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| Knesset to Discuss Armenian Genocide |
| Posted on: June 18, 2010, 6:07 am |
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Politics |
Despite the diplomatic tensions between Israel and Turkey aroused by last month's botched raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, the Knesset is scheduled to hold a session later this month on the Armenian genocide of 1915, which is attributed to the Ottoman Turks. |
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| US Jewish Lobby No Longer Backs Turkey |
| Posted on: June 10, 2010, 8:24 am |
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US House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert had promised to bring a resolution commemorating the Armenian genocide to the floor for a vote, a move that Ankara said would be a slap in the face to a NATO ally. |
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| Don't Ask Me about Genocide |
| Posted on: May 1, 2010, 6:37 am |
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Society |
Salih Yuge, a Turkish political figure and President of Youth Union Association non-governmental organization, currently in Armenia, left a press conference today untimely due to questions over the Armenian Genocide. |
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| 2+2=5 or 6:How? |
| Posted on: April 30, 2010, 6:48 am |
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Politics |
In the near future Turkey has not planned anything pertaining Armenia, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Burak Ozugergin said, referring to a draft bill recently adopted on the Israeli Knesset agenda recognizing the Armenian Genocide. |
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| PACE Statement Recognizes and Condemns Armenian Genocide |
| Posted on: April 30, 2010, 2:32 am |
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Politics |
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe published during its today's full session a statement recognizing and condemning the Armenian Genocide, member of the Armenian delegation in PACE and a Prosperous Armenia Party MP Naira Zohrabyan told Tert.am in a phone talk from Strasbourg. |
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| Commemoration at the Armenia Marty’s Monument in Montebello |
| Posted on: April 26, 2010, 6:53 am |
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Diaspora |
With collaborative efforts by the Armenian Genocide United Commemorative Committee and various Armenian organizations, the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide remembrance ceremony on April 24, featured notable elected officials, community leaders, advocates and the Armenian Archbishops along with the clergy. |
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| Turkish Nationalists Burnt Armenian Flag in Istanbul |
| Posted on: April 26, 2010, 4:08 am |
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World |
On April 24 representative of the Turkish Great Union Party (BBP) burnt the Armenian national flag on Taksim square in Istanbul a few hours after other Turkish residents had held a rally to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide. |
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| Radio Aurora Changing Playlist on April 24 |
| Posted on: April 23, 2010, 3:01 am |
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Society |
An Armenian local radio station Aurora is changing its play-list from the midnight on April 24 on the occasion of the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. On this day the station will air music performances relevant to the symbolism of the atmosphere of the day. |
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| Turkey's Afraid of Its Own Historians |
| Posted on: April 19, 2010, 6:26 am |
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Politics |
All the parliaments across the world would have far long ago recognized the Armenian Genocide, should Turkey have been of less international significance, writes the Chief Editor of the Istanbul-based Armenian-Turkish language weekly Agos, Etyen Mahcupyan. |
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| Turkey's Tactics in Response to Passing of Genocide Bills |
| Posted on: April 1, 2010, 6:53 am |
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Politics |
Its persistent policy of denial of the Armenian Genocide suffered serious setbacks when the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives, the Swedish Parliament, and Catalonia’s regional Parliament in Spain adopted resolutions acknowledging the Armenian Genocide. |
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| If Only Nalbandian had Agreed... |
| Posted on: March 26, 2010, 7:14 am |
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If Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian had agreed, his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoğlu would have spoken about the idea of a “just (or fair) memory” in his speech to be delivered after the signing of the Armenia-Turkey Protocols in Zurich last year. |
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| Genocide Issue Not Discussed |
| Posted on: March 26, 2010, 5:29 am |
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RA Deputy Defense Minister Arman Kirakossian denied a statement allegedly made by Turkey’s former Foreign Minister Ali Babacan and disseminated by some media. |
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| Milliyet Refutes Armenian Media Sources |
| Posted on: March 24, 2010, 6:58 am |
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Society |
Turkish local daily Milliyet refuted reports by some Armenian media sources that Ankara, in an attempt to counter the adoption of the US congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, was going to close down McDonald’s restaurants across Turkey. |
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| We’re Not Indifferent to the Great Calamity of 1915 |
| Posted on: March 23, 2010, 9:45 am |
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Society |
In a letter to the editor published in Turkish daily Taraf today, a group of readers criticized Turkish state policy to refute the fact of the Armenian Genocide and Turkish PM Recept Tayyip Erdogan’s threats last week to deport Armenians living illegally in Turkey . |
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| Annual American-Turkish Conference Cancelled |
| Posted on: March 20, 2010, 6:37 am |
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The annual conference of the American-Turkish Council (ATC) will not take place this year. The reason? The recent adoption of a US congressional resolution (H.Res.252) which recognizes the Armenian Genocide. |
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| Erdogan’s Intervention is Demagogic and Disreputable |
| Posted on: March 19, 2010, 6:04 am |
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Deportations have powerful symbolism in modern European history. The notion that the government of a would-be member state of the EU might propose the forced collective expulsion from its territory of a specified nationality ought to be unthinkable, wrties The Times. |
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| Turkish Opposition Criticizes Erdogan for Statement on Deporting Illegal Armenians |
| Posted on: March 18, 2010, 7:47 am |
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The statement by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — that he will deport illegal Armenians from Turkey should the Armenian Diaspora continue its efforts to have more parliaments adopt resolutions recognizing the Armenian Genocide — is vey dangerous and violates human rights, said Deniz Baykal, leader of Turkey’s largest opposition party, the Republican People’s Party. |
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| History Should be Left Up to Historians |
| Posted on: March 16, 2010, 9:43 am |
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History should be left up to historians, since it’s not right for politicians to make decisions on historical issues, said Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) President Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. |
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| Armenian Genocide Resolution was a Mistake |
| Posted on: March 15, 2010, 4:52 am |
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expressed regret over the passage of US House Resolution 252 on the Armenian Genocide, while voicing awareness of probable “damaging” impacts of the US House committee’s resolution on Turkey-US relations. |
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| Armenia-Turkey Protocols are Dead |
| Posted on: March 13, 2010, 7:23 am |
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Politics |
With the adoption of the House Resolution on Thursday, March 4 in the United States House of Representatives’ Foreign Relations Committee regarding the Armenian Genocide, along with the adoption of a motion Thursday in the Swedish Parliament, Turkey’s official denialist positions have been hard hit. |
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| Turkish Troops in Lachin Corridor? |
| Posted on: March 12, 2010, 7:21 am |
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NKR |
The visit by Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioğlu and his assitant Ünal Çeviköz to Russia immediately after the adoption of the US congressional resolution on Armenian Genocide has caught the attention of the Turkish media. |
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| Erdoğan Should Not Cancel His Upcoming Visit to US |
| Posted on: March 10, 2010, 5:34 am |
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Once again, as has been the case every spring for years, the debate over whether the ethnic clashes against the Armenians in the break up of the Ottoman Empire amounted to genocide has made it into the US political arena for Congress to weigh in, writes Alon Ben-Meir. |
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