Anti-Armenianism

102 years later, the World still fails to come to grips with the legacy of the Armenian Genocide

On this date in 1915, hundreds of Armenian intellectuals – Christians, for the most part – were forcibly deported from the Turkish capital of Constantinople. The number soon escalated into the thousands, and most were eventually murdered.

“Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide” uncovers lost evidence

For more than a century, Turkey has denied any role in organizing the killing of Armenians in what historians have long accepted as a genocide that started in 1915, as World War I spread across continents. The Turkish narrative of denial has hinged on the argument that the original documents from postwar military tribunals that convicted the genocide’s planners were nowhere to be found.

Eight suspects arrested in murder case of Turkish-Armenian journalist Dink

Eight suspects, including police and journalists, were arrested on March 28 on charges related to the murder of prominent Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.       
Dink, the founder of the bilingual Armenian-Turkish weekly newspaper Agos, was shot dead in an Istanbul street on Jan. 19, 2007.

Turkish FM says Khojaly massacre a 'crime against humanity' at commemoration

The 1992 Khojaly massacre in Nagorno-Karabakh was a "crime against humanity," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu stated on Feb. 22. 

"We have never forgotten Khojaly and we will [never] forget it," Çavuşoğlu told the Khojaly Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and Terrorism conference in the capital Ankara. 

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