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The European Parliament backed a motion on Wednesday that calls the massacre a century ago of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a “genocide”, days after Pope Francis triggered fury in Turkey by using the same term. … Continue reading →

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/middleeast/syria-yarmouk-isis-shubert/index.html “Besieged and bombed by Syrian forces for more than two years, the desperate residents of this Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus awoke in early April to a new, even more terrifying reality — ISIS militants seizing Yarmouk after defeating … Continue reading →

It was confirmed that on the 8th of April, over 200 Yazidis, a group of Kurdish descendants of whom are also one of the oldest religious communities in the world based out of northern Iraq, were released by ISIS. The group … Continue reading →

I made a post yesterday discussing how Turkey had blocked Twitter and YouTube. As of this morning (4/7/15), Twitter has complied with Turkeys request and removed the image of the gunman holding a gun to the Turkish prosecutor’s head. As … Continue reading →

http://armeniangenocidecentennial.org.Armenian Genocide Centennial Events in Washington, DC This is an Armenian newspaper: In 1994 it became the first Armenian newspaper with a web site on the Internet with http://www.Massisweekly.com By Florence Avakian Preparations for the Genocide Centennial to take place in … Continue reading →

Author Explores Armenian Genocide ‘Obsession’ And Turkish Denial Writer Meline Toumani grew up in a tight-knit Armenian community in New Jersey. There, identity centered on commemorating the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I, a history … Continue reading →

Twitter and YouTube have been blocked in Turkey after a court decision. The blocks come just a few days after an Istanbul prosecutor was killed when his office was taken hostage by members of a far left group. An image … Continue reading →

A Turkish prosecutor and his two captors were killed Tuesday after a shootout with police at an Istanbul courthouse, bringing a six-hour hostage standoff to a bloody end. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/31/report-turkey-hostage/70711160/    

Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 We must stop denying the Armenian genocide. But the year 2015 also marks the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, the first genocide of the 20th century, organised and perpetrated throughout different regions of the Ottoman Empire … Continue reading →

“This report is part of series of reports that provide analysis to track and assess impacts of the armed-conflict on the socioeconomic situation and the lives of people in Syria during the current crisis. The report is the fourth in … Continue reading →