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Waiting for justice Hrant Dink

Waiting for justice

WASHINGTONCongress officially acknowledged last week that the Ottoman Empires 1915 slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians, and the forced deportation of nearly half a million others, constituted genocide. Turkey protested, with a spokesman for Presi…
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December 19, 2019
Trump Is Allowing Turkey’s Erdogan a Veto on U.S. Policy, Senator Says As White House Fails to Recognize Armenian Genocide Hrant Dink

Trump Is Allowing Turkey’s Erdogan a Veto on U.S. Policy, Senator Says As White House Fails to Recognize Armenian Genocide

President Donald Trump's administration is undermining America's reputation on human rights by refusing to adopt a Congress-approved resolution officially acknowledging the Armenian genocide, an advocacy group has said. Last week, the Senate passed a resolut…
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December 19, 2019
After Congress Votes, State Dept. Says White House Policy on Armenian Genocide ‘Has Not Changed’ Hrant Dink

After Congress Votes, State Dept. Says White House Policy on Armenian Genocide ‘Has Not Changed’

(WASHINGTON) — The State Department said Tuesday that recent congressional action to recognize the Armenian genocide does not reflect Trump administration policy. In a short statement likely to please Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the department sa…
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December 18, 2019
The Betrayal of the Kurds Hrant Dink

The Betrayal of the Kurds

Cengiz Yar for Rolling Stone On the morning of October 12th, Hevrin Khalaf, a rising young Kurdish political leader, rode along the M4 highway in northern Syria. Seated in the back of a bulletproof Toyota SUV, she rushed past the battle-scarred villages of h…
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December 18, 2019