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Talk Show Hosts Apologize For Armenian Genocide Comments

Earlier this week we published a story about a California based KFI 640 AM talk show host Bill Handel and his co-host Lara Hermanson making discriminatory comments about deporting the Armenian from California and making painful jokes about the Armenian Genocide. After the Armenian community raised its voice from all over the world, both of the hosts apologized today.

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Talk Show Host Suggests Deporting Armenians From Glendale

Om May 12, popular radio talk show host from California Bill Handel, touching upon the economic problems of the United States during his morning program of Californian broadcasting KFI 640 AM radio station, has stated that the only solution to existing issues may become the deportation of all non-Americans from the states, as an example, mentioning the deportation of Armenians from Glendale.

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Armenians In Turkey's Villages Hide Identity, Feared

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This report shows how the Armenians in the villages of Turkey hide their identity because of the fear. Armenians who ID themselves in the villages are called infidels.

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April 24 Marks The 90th Anniversary Of Armenian Genocide

The year 2009 marks the 90th anniversary of April 24 as a day of commemoration of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey. Here is the history of this sad commemoration event. The United State of America has not yet called the events of 1915 as a genocide. However, the president Barack Obama has promised in his campaign to call the events as Genocide and recognize the Armenian Genocide.

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Book Describes Armenian Identity In Turkey After The Genocide

The Armenian Genocide Museum Institute presents the book titled “And Those Who Continued Living in Turkey after 1915” by Rubina Peroomian, which issued under the auspices of the AGMI publishing-house.

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Online Project Documents Cultural Destruction in Azerbaijan

Aimed at spreading awareness about cultural cleansing in the Republic of Azerbaijan, a project to document the deliberate destruction of the world’s largest medieval Armenian archaeological site has been launched online.

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Nataline Sarkisian Passes Away, Family to Sue CIGNA Health

WESTWOOD (KTLA)--Attorney Mark Geragos says he plans to file a lawsuit on behalf of the family of a 17-year-old girl who died just hours after her health insurer agreed to pay for a liver transplant.

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International Genocide Scholars Association Recognizes Assyrian, Greek Genocides

In a groundbreaking move, the International Association of Genocide Scholars has voted overwhelmingly to recognize as genocides the massacres of Assyrian and Greek populations of the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1923.

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Obama Hears from Armenian Americans During Visit to Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES--Presidential candidate Barack Obama heard from Armenian American activists Monday during his most recent swing through Southern California. Senator Obama was in town for a number of events, including a major rally at the Gibson Amphitheater at Universal Studios.

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Javakhk Armenian Representatives Meet with US, German Diplomats

AKHALKALAK, Georgia (A-Info)--Representatives of Armenian public organization in Samtskhe-Javakheti met with the US Embassy attach? Scott Perish and political affairs director Joy Davis-Kirschner at the Embassy compound in Tbilisi.

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New ANCA Eastern Region Office Opens In Manhattan

NEW YORK--ANC activists from both New Jersey and New York came together for the opening of the new office of the Armenian National Committee of America, Eastern Region in Manhattan.

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ARF Inaugurates Droshak as its Official Publication

YEREVAN (Yerkir)--The Armenian Revolutionary Federation unveiled Thursday its official publication Droshak during a ceremony at the party's Bureau offices, where noted activist and academician Rouben Hovsepyan was introduced as the publication's new editor.

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