Armenian genocide

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  5/2/2021
  

  How Israel Quashed 1982 Efforts to Recognize the Armenian Genocide

  A host of political concerns led the Israeli Foreign Ministry to try to sabotage a 1982 conference comparing the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/24/2021
  

  Breaking With Predecessors, Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide

  The declaration, which has been long expected, was greeted with modest enthusiasm by human rights activists who view it as symbolic, and with denunciations by the Turkish government. 

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• SOURCE: NPR Illinois
  4/26/2021
  

  'The Historical Record Is Affirmed': Armenian Reaction To Biden Recognition Of Armenian Genocide

  Historian Ara Sanjian says that the Biden Administration's recognition of the Armenian Genocide is long overdue. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/24/2021
  

  The Armenian ‘Genocide’: This is What Happened in 1915

  The Polish Jewish Lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" in part after losing 49 family members to the Holocaust. But he was also motivated by his earlier study of the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  9/5/2020
  

  Beyond Jermag Yev Sev: A Roundtable on Armenian American Identity

  A dialogue with a historian of Armenians in the United States shows that the boundaries of the "white race" have shifted historically and been determined not by biology but by politics played out in immigration courts. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  12/4/19
  

  The History That Happened: Setting the Record Straight on the Armenian Genocide

  by Ryan Gingeras

  For a brief moment this fall, world interest fixed its attention to an event of the past. News that the U.S. Congress approved a formal resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide was carried as a leading story by media outlets worldwide. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11/14/19
  

  What Recognizing the Armenian Genocide Means for U.S. Global Power

  by Charlie Laderman

  It could spark a recognition that America First is the wrong course.

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• SOURCE: Clark University
  1-17-18
  

  Historian Taner Akçam’s new book includes "smoking gun" of Armenian Genocide

  In his groundbreaking new book, “Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide,” due out in March, Clark University historian Taner Akçam destroys the Turkish government’s denial strategy.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-22-17
  

  ‘Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide’ Uncovers Lost Evidence

  Taner Akcam, a Turkish historian at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., who has studied the genocide for decades by piecing together documents from around the world to establish state complicity in the killings, says he has unearthed an original telegram that confirms authorities knew what was happening.

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• SOURCE: Armenpress
  10-21-16
  

  German historian reveals documents of 1100 pages in Vatican archives linked with Armenian Genocide

  The German historian, Michael Hesemann, told the reporters that he plans to write a book based on the findings.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-24-16
  

  Pope Francis Condemns ‘Genocide’ of Armenians Before Visit to Memorial

  Pope Francis waded into turbulent geopolitical waters once again on Friday during his first visit to Armenia when he made an unscripted remark referring to the World War I-era massacre.

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• SOURCE: Russia Today
  6-2-16
  

  German parliament acknowledges Armenian genocide amid intense Turkish pressure

  The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  4-24-16
  

  Tens of thousands rally in Los Angeles to commemorate Armenian genocide

  “Today, we are all Armenian,” said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) as he addressed the crowd from the stage. “We have one cause and that cause is justice.”

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  12-1-15 (accessed)
  

  Alexandros K. Kyros shocked to encounter Armenian Genocide denials at Harvard event

  by Alexandros K. Kyrou

  "The audience, which had filled the 175-seat auditorium to standing room only, was invited to ask questions. What followed was disturbing."

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• SOURCE: We're History
  4-24-15
  

  America and the Armenian Genocide

  by Steven Cromack

  As in 1915, the American government still struggles to balance moral leadership with political pragmatism.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4-24-15
  

  It’s time the world recognised the Armenian genocide

  by Sossie Kasbarian

  While the language of denial, methodologies and nuances have shifted over the past century, in essence the formal stance remains unwavering.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-23-15
  

  The Cost of Turkey’s Genocide Denial

  by Ronald Grigor Suny

  Reconciliation of Armenians, Kurds and Turks will require a hard look backward in order to move forward.

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• 4-23-15 (accessed)
  

  Armenia debuts website devoted to genocide

  There website debuts on the 100th anniversary of the genocide.

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• SOURCE: The Walrus
  4-22-15 (accessed)
  

  In Denial

  by Atom Egoyan

  The Armenian genocide, a century later

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• 4-22-15
  

  Largest Muslim organization in the US lambasted for refusing to face up to the Armenian Genocide

  by Rick Shenkman

  Critics call out the organization for hypocrisy.