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    UN Family in Armenia pays tribute to colleagues who fell in line of duty in hotspots around the world
    The UN Office in Armenia together with the United Nations offices around the world are flying the UN flag at half mast today (Wednesday, April 6, 2011), as a symbol of support for the bereaved in this time of sorrow. The UN staff in New York will also be attending a wreath-laying ceremony in the Chagall Window area. BAN Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the UN said: “As...
    April 6, 2011 21:10
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    Cemal Pasha’s Grandson Says Genocide, Morgenthau’s Great Granddaughter doesn’t
    By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Hundreds of Armenians turned out at UCLA last Thursday night to hear with great apprehension Hasan Cemal, the grandson of Cemal Pasha — one of the top three Turkish butchers of the Armenian nation. This unique and controversial event, titled “From Der Zor to Dzidzernagapert: A Conversation with Hasan Cemal,”...
    April 6, 2011 13:28
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    Armenian was supposedly captain of crashed UN airplane
    Three Georgian citizens killed in an air crash in Democratic Republic of Congo were identified on Tuesday, reports Georgian Rustavi-2. They were crew members of the UN mission airplane and employees of Georgian Аirzena – Georgian Airways company which owned the plane. Pilot David Tsutskiridze, 22, crew member Guram Kepuladze, and technician Albert Manukov were identified. The...
    April 5, 2011 21:21
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    Stalin’s Last Victims Trickle Home to Georgia
    Nearly 60 years after Stalin deported them from Soviet Georgia, members of the Meskhetian Turkish community are on the brink of returning home. Georgia agreed to facilitate the minority’s return when it joined the Council of Europe in 1999, but the necessary legislation was not enacted until 2007. (See (See Tbilisi Criticised Over Repatriation Requests on delays to...
    April 5, 2011 15:45
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    (Հայերեն) Նազարբաևը նախագահական ընտրություններում հավաքել է ձայների ավելի քան 95%-ը
    April 4, 2011 9:58
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    Video of Baku protest, people beaten
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDTGqn2mFZw&feature=player_embedded Azerbaijani police detained over 100 opposition activists who were trying to hold an unauthorized rally in the center of Baku on Saturday. Activists tried to get closer to fountain square but were stopped by policemen who used tear gas. Separate groups of demonstrators managed to hold protest actions...
    April 3, 2011 0:32
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    “Claudia Schiffer of North Africa” joins Gaddafi troops
    The Libyan leader’s 34-year-old daughter Aisha Gaddafi joined troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. “Colonel Gaddafi has unleashed his latest weapon against Libyan rebels-his glamorous blonde daughter,” Daily Star reports. According to the source, 34-year-old Aisha headed to the war zone without makeup and in a veil. Earlier, Aisha Gaddafi had been stripped of her role...
    March 31, 2011 18:11
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    Ethnic Armenian rejects post of Turkey’s ambassador to OECD
    Turkish officials confirmed that Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu planned to appoint a Turkish-Armenian as the country’s permanent representative to a leading international organization. However, because the academic Davutoğlu had in mind prefers to continue his career in academia, the planned appointment did not take place, a senior diplomat told Today’s Zaman....
    March 30, 2011 18:48
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    Patrick Devedjian reelected in Hauts-de-Seine constituency
    On March 27, Patrick Devedjian from the Union for a Popular Movement party, the outgoing chairman of the General Council, was re-elected in the second round of cantonal elections in the Hauts-de-Seine, which is considered a stronghold of President Nicolas Sarkozy, Le Figaro reports referring to Reuters. His opponent Isabel Balkany from the Union for a Popular Movement,...
    March 30, 2011 11:43
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    Armenian Attorneys Respond To Court Appeal of German Companies
    Attorneys for Armenian heirs of life insurance policyholders filed a powerful response last month to the petition of German companies seeking a rehearing by a federal appeals court. The majority of a three-member panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled in favor of the Armenians’ right to pursue their demand for unpaid claims, reversing an earlier ruling by...
    March 30, 2011 11:17
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    (Հայերեն) Հնդկուհին կիկլոպ է ծնել
    March 28, 2011 10:39
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    Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk fined for the phrase “Turks killed 1 million Armenians”
    Famous Turkish writer and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk must pay a compensation of 6, 000 liras (U.S. $ 4,000) for the phrase “Turks killed 1 million Armenians,” by the Turkish court’s decision. The writer was sued in 2005 by five people, including ultra-nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz, as well as four other people who are relatives of soldiers killed in action....
    March 28, 2011 8:14
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    All Parties Must Disclose Disbursement of Insurance Settlement Funds
    By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Ever since 2004 and 2005, when lawsuits against New York Life and AXA insurance companies were settled for $37.5 million, there has not been a full accounting of the disbursements made to heirs of genocide-era policyholders and Armenian charitable organizations. In recent years, there have been disagreements among...
    March 22, 2011 16:54
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    Turkey’s 4 major parties nominate Armenian candidates for parliamentary election
    Turkey’s four major political parties, the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), all of which have a group in Parliament, are expected to nominate Armenian candidate hopefuls in the upcoming general elections slated for June 12. According...
    March 19, 2011 11:20
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    Erdogan presents copy of Russia-Turkey treaty to Russian President
    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev a copy of a treaty on friendship and fraternity between the two states and a stamp issued by Turkish authorities to mark 90 anniversary of the document. He recalled that on March 16, 1921 Soviet Russia recognized the Republic of Turkey and gave security guarantees of the joint borders. “The...
    March 17, 2011 12:09
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    Lawsuit Against U.S. Federal Reserve Seeks Armenian Gold Looted by Turkey
    The Glendale-based nonprofit Center for Armenian Remembrance (CAR) sued the U.S. Federal Reserve on March 4, seeking information on its acquisition of a large amount of Armenian gold looted by the Ottoman government in 1915. CAR filed the lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. The gold, originally valued at five million Turkish Gold Liras ($22 million dollars),...
    March 16, 2011 11:21
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    (Հայերեն) Կալիֆորնիայի ափերին «թեփուկավոր արհավիրք» է
    March 9, 2011 20:33
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    Who Rules Turkey: Erdogan or Aliyev?
    Turkish leaders often brag about their success in transforming Turkey from a country with a failing economy and serious domestic problems, to a robust regional power that projects its influence far and wide. Indeed, Turkey has the second largest army in NATO after the United States, and the 15th largest economy in the world in terms of GDP. As a self-appointed mediator...
    March 9, 2011 10:40
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