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French Senate Votes Genocide Denial Criminilization Law
PARIS, France — The French Senate on Jan. 23 passed a bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide, despite threats and bullying from the Turkish state. The bill passed with 127 votes for, 86 against. Drafted by French General Assembly member Valerie Boyer, the bill renders denial punishable with a year in jail and…
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Knesset’s Education Committee Positive on Armenian Genocide Recognition. Discussion Postponed.
(ACF) The Education, Culture and Sports Committee of Israel’s Knesset held a session today to discuss about the possibility of setting a memorial day commemorating the Armenian Genocide perpetrated in 1915, by Turkey. According to Israeli Press the Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin (Likud) pointed out that the timing has nothing to do with the tension…
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French National Assembly Adopts Genocide Antinegation Law Proposition
(ACF) On December 22, the National Assembly of France adopted a law proposition criminalizing the negation of Genocides acknowledged as such by the French law. During the four-hour session, the overwhelming majority of the deputies wholeheartedly supported the need to protect by law the French people, the Genocide victims and the democratic values that run…
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ANCA: Landmark U.S. House Resolution Presses Turkey To Return Stolen Christian Churches
Press Release The U.S. House of Representatives today adopted a landmark religious freedom measure, H.Res.306, calling upon Turkey to return the Christian church properties it stole through genocide, and to end its repression of the surviving members of the vast Christian civilizations that once represented a majority in the territory of the present-day Republic of…
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Zoryan Announces New Book that Sets Post-WWI Ottoman Trials in Their Historical and Legal Context
PRESS RELEASE In the aftermath of its disastrous defeat in WWI, Ottoman Turkey had to face the wartime crime of the destruction of its Armenian population. An inquiry commissioned by the Ottoman government in 1919 presented enough preliminary evidence to organize a series of trials involving the perpetrators of these crimes. It is the record…
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Diyarbekir hosts Genocide workshop
The Hrant Dink Foundation and Diyarbakir’s metropolitan municipality organized a workshop from November 11-13. The workshop focused on the social and economic history of the city and its surrounding areas from 1838 to 1938, tackling head-on the fate of the region’s vibrant Christian minorities. Opening remarks were made by Mayor Osman Baydemir who reminded the…
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Talaat Pasha’s Report on the Armenian Genocide
compiled and introduced by Ara Sarafian PRESS RELEASE Gomidas Institute 42 Blythe Rd London W14 0HA UK Recent documents released in Turkish archives, combined with surviving documents from Talaat’s Pasha’s private papers, confirm that Talaat was indeed the architect of the Armenian Genocide. There is a clear record that he ordered and supervised the general…
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R. Kevorkian’s “The Armenian Genocide: A Complete Story”
Raymond Kevorkian is a renowned French-Armenian historian academic and curator of the AGBU Paris Nubarian library. Kevorkian is also a lecturer at the Institute Française de Géopolitique, University of Paris. His book “The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History” provides an authoritative account of the origins, events and consequences of the Armenian Genocide. Kevorkian considers the…
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FACT SHEET 2/2011-1
Resolving the Grievances of the Armenians of Samtskhe-Javakheti; integration, but not assimilation. Download PDF document
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Galichian’s “The Invention of History”
By Levon Chorbajian YerevanReport.com Rouben Galichian’s “The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Showcasing of Imagination” (Gomidas Institute/Printinfo Art Books) is a very important book that addresses a core issue facing the Armenian people 95 years after the Armenian Genocide: survival in the face of further erasures and eradications. This is an issue with…