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Obama's Promise Reminder: Armenian Genocide

Politifacts from the St. Peteresburg Times, which keeps track of all the promises of President Barack Obama during the campaign, added the promise to recognize the Armenian Genocide to its list. The date is April 24, when the Armenians and other governments that recognized the events in 1915 as a genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Turkey commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

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An important Kurdish Leader in Turkey apologizes to Arameans

An important Kurdish Leader in Turkey apologizes for the contribution of the Kurds to the Aramean Genocide of 1915- Appeal to Ahmet Turk.

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Turkey Remembers Armenian 'Martin Luther King Jr.'

The second anniversary of a murdered journalist once again had the power to move mountains in strained relations between between Armenia and Turkey, two states separated by the biblical mount Ararat and an unholy history. When ethnic Armenian Hrant Dink was assassinated in front of the Istanbul office of the Agos Armenian weekly newspaper he edited on 19 January 2007, thousands of Turkish citizens attended his funeral chanting, “We are all Hrant Dink. We are all Armenians.”

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Intellectuals Of Turkey Apologize For Armenian Great Disaster

In an unprecedented gesture, a group of Turkish intellectuals have publicly apologized for what they called a “great disaster” that befell the Ottoman Empire’s Armenian minority and urged their compatriots to follow suit.

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U.S. Ambassador In Armenia After Two Years Presents Credentials

US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch presented the copies of her credentials to Foreign Minister of Armenia Mr. Edward Nalbandian. Thus U.S. has an ambassador in Armeia after two years of absense when the previous ambassador expressed his personal opinion acknowledging the events of 1915 in Eastern Turkey as genocide against Armenians.

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McCain Attack On Obama Genocide Policy

Armenian Americans – a community of one a half million citizens that has experienced the horrors of genocide and continues to endure the pain of its denial –defended Senator Barack Obama against Senator John McCain's unfounded and starkly hypocritical charges that the presumptive Democratic nominee is not serious about preventing future genocides.

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Armenian Genocide Museum Presents "My Memories"

On July 15th of 2008, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, located in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, will host the congratulatory event dedicated to Sirak Sarhatian's “My Memoirs” book.

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Author Ahnert Honored for Gripping Memoir on the Armenian Genocide

New York--Margaret Ajemian Ahnert, author of The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide was honored this weekend at The New York Book Festival. This searing account of her mother's escape from the horrors of this largely unacknowledged genocide was first honored for Best Fiction.

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US Recognized Armenian Genocide In 1951, World Court Document Reveals

While President Bush and several of his predecessors have avoided characterizing the organized mass killings of Armenians in 1915 as genocide, it has recently come to light that 57 years ago the United States government officially recognized the Armenian Genocide in a document submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), also known as the World Court.

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Armenian Genocide Monument Opens in Larnaka

On 28 May a monument commemorating the victims of Armenia Genocide in 1915 in Turkey took place in Larnaka, Cyprus, reported the press service of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

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Bulgarian Town Defies Turks, Recognizes Genocide

YEREVAN (Armenpress)-Despite strong opposition from its Turkish members, the Council of Communities of the Bulgarian city of Varna overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to adopt a special decision recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

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Turkey's Claims on ARF Archives False

GLENDALE--Turkey's recent claims that the Armenian Revolutionary archives are closed are false, said the ARF archivist Tatul Sonentz-Papazian Friday, who managed the archives until 2000.

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