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.

WASHINGTON--In a move widely seen as intended to calm Turkish anger over growing strains in its ties with the United States, Senators Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) have introduced legislation which ignores key points of tension in this relationship and offers unconditional praise to Turkey and its leaders, reported the Armenian National Committee of America.