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FRESNO, Calif. — The valedictorian at Fresno's Bullard High School won't be attending college in the United States this fall because he's scheduled to be deported. Arthur Mkoyan's 4.0 grade-point average qualified him to enter one of the state's top universities. But the 17-year-old and his mother have been ordered back to Armenia after their last appeal for asylum failed.

Fresno, CA (AP) -- The valedictorian at Fresno's Bullard High School won't be attending college in the United States this fall because he's scheduled to be deported. Seventeen-year-old Arthur Mkoyan's 4.0 grade-point average qualified him to enter one of the state's top universities. But he and his mother have been ordered back to Armenia after their last appeal for asylum failed. The family fled from what used to be part of the Soviet Union and has been seeking asylum since 1992. A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement says they were given an extension until June 20

Federal officials announced Monday that three Glendale gang members -- two from Armenia and one from Mexico -- were among 26 Southern Californians arrested as part of a two-week nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting violent street gangs. The men were taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel as part of Operation Community Shield, an ongoing anti-gang initiative in which 582 people have been arrested nationwide between July 16 and Thursday, federal officials said. Officials would not release the names of the suspects because they were arrested on suspicion of administrative immigration violations. Two of the local men...

BEIRUT: The red, orange and blue stripes of the Armenian flag fluttered beside the cedar of Lebanon Thursday as thousands of Lebanese citizens of Armenian descent protested Turkey's planned participation in the UN peacekeeping forces patrolling South Lebanon. "We, the Armenian community, are against the deployment of Turkish troops in South Lebanon, because of their history as a violent state," explained Hagop Havatian, spokesman for the ARF Tashnak Party, the youth party responsible for coordinating Thursday's demonstration. "Last week we sent letters to every member of the Lebanese Parliament asking them to reconsider this issue. We also sent a letter...

Michigan Armenians mark genocide by Turks The Associated Press 4/22/2004, 8:47 a.m. ET DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Armenian Americans are preparing to mark the 89th anniversary of a mass murder that helped mark the 1900s as the century of genocide. Before the Nazi slaughtered 6 million Jews, before the Khmer Rouge killed 1.7 million of their fellow Cambodians, before Rwandan Hutus killed 800,000 ethnic Tutsis, the Armenians of Turkey endured mass slaughter at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Armenians say they lost 1.5 million people in 1915-23, during and after World War I, as Turkish authorities forced them out...

A foreign policy expert consulted by presidential hopeful Barack Obama has accused members of the American Jewish establishment of "McCarthyism" in its attitude towards critics of Israel. Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says that the pro-Israel lobby in the US is too powerful, while the slur of anti-Semitism is too readily used whenever its power is called into question. Presenting a solution for the Middle East, he listed historical compromises that had to be made by Israelis and Palestinians but accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) -- the largest and most influential lobby group -- of obstructing...

NORTH HOLLYWOOD -- Two people were shot dead and five others were wounded by gunfire in three separate shootings Tuesday night that had police searching neighborhoods door to door for gunmen, finding one suspect in a backyard. The two fatal shootings were related and took place within three blocks of each other in North Hollywood at about 7 p.m., LAPD's Deputy Chief Michel Moore told reporters. About an hour earlier, a man was shot in Northridge by a gunman riding with a number of men in a car near Wilbur Avenue and Parthenia Street, said LAPD Lt. Bill Maarschalk. His...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Armenia's Orthodox leader on Wednesday used the pulpit of the Vatican to condemn the 1915 killing of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians by Ottoman Turks, saying the whole world should recognise it as a genocide. "We Armenians are a people who have survived genocide, and we know well the value of love, brotherhood, friendship and a secure life," Karekin II said in a public address during Pope Benedict's general audience in St. Peter's Square. "Today, many countries of the world recognise and condemn the genocide committed against the Armenian people by Ottoman Turkey ..." the head of...

This year commemorates the 93rd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In 1915, the ottoman empire under the auspices of the young turks carried out the first genocide of the 20th century and set a precedent for all future genocides. One and a half million Armenians were systematically massacred as they were evicted from their homes onto the merciless deserts of eastern turkey and into the darkness of the Black Sea.

Israeli police rushed into Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre to break up fist fights between dozens of Greek and Armenian worshippers on Orthodox Palm Sunday, witnesses said. Some 20 officers intervened after Armenian worshippers threw a Greek Orthodox priest out of the church, sparking a free-for-all, they said. Several worshippers then started beating the police officers with palm fronds they were holding for the Palm Sunday celebrations that mark the return of Jesus to the Holy City a week before he was crucified. After the incident, dozens of members of Jerusalem's Armenian community marched from the church to the...

Thousands of people have gathered in the Turkish city of Istanbul to commemorate the murder last year of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Flowers were laid and candles lit in the street where Mr Dink was shot dead, while a huge picture of him covered part of the building where he worked. Mr Dink campaigned for his country to confront the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I. Observers say Mr Dink's stance made him a hate figure for Turkish nationalists. Nineteen people, including two leaders of an ultra-nationalist group, are currently on trial for his...

  Muslim Claims of Accomplishment   By Peter BetBasooChristiansOfIraq.com | Friday, January 04, 2008 EDITOR'S NOTE: There is great need for setting the record straight on the history of the Middle East. The revisionism of the last few years will lead Western Civilization into bondage. The following letter by Assyrian scholar Peter BetBasoo is a very important step in the right direction. It was sent by Assyrian scholar Peter BetBasoo to Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett Packard Corporation, in response to a speech she presented in Minneapolis on September 26, 2001. It is reprinted by permission. Please read and...

Robed Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests went at each other with brooms and stones inside the Church of the Nativity on Thursday as long-standing rivalries erupted in violence during holiday cleaning. Orthodox and Armenian priests clash in the Church of the Nativity two days after Christmas. The basilica, built over the grotto in Bethlehem where Christians believe Jesus was born, is administered jointly by Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic authorities. Any perceived encroachment on one group's turf can set off vicious feuds. On Thursday, dozens of priests and cleaners came to the fortress-like church to scrub and sweep...

Seven people were injured on Thursday when Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how to clean the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Following the Christmas celebrations, Greek Orthodox priests set up ladders to clean the walls and ceilings of their part of the church, which is built over the site where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born. But the ladders encroached on space controlled by Armenian priests, according to photographers who said angry words ensued and blows quickly followed. For a quarter of an hour bearded and robed priests laid into...

Armenians Believe That Jews Made Turks and Armenians Hostile * ‘Talat Pasha was a Jewish’ YEREVAN – Turkish journalist Mrs. Ece Temelkuran’s interviews from Armenia continue in Turkish daily Milliyet newspaper. In today’s part (17 May 2006) Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran met with Arsak Sarkisyan: Sarkisyan argues that the Jews encouraged the Ottoman Turks to commit genocide against Armenians. Sarkisyan continues: “Talat Pasha was a Jewish. They made Turks and Armenians hostile. Turks would not have committed genocide. But all of the Jon Turks (Young Turks) were Jewish”. Source: Milliyet, 17 May 2006

  A Byrd's eye look at the historic 'Israeli - Arab conflict' towards Annapolis 2007    Around 2,000 years ago, the Romans that have conquered Israel, the Jewish people, the Jewish land, (after killing Jesus) destroy Jews' second temple, massacre hundreds of thousands after a rebellion against Rome's oppression and prohibition on practicing Judaism and mass torture [an armed rebellion which was disapproved by the rabbis & any religious leaders], and expell majority of Jews out of the land [as was expected throught the Jewish prophets, because God expects from his people - the Jews much more than from other...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 — With backing from more than half of the House this summer, proponents of a resolution condemning the Armenian genocide were confident that they would finally prevail in their quest for Congressional recognition. Adding to their optimism, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a longtime backer of the resolution, which had been pushed mainly by her fellow Californians, and was committed to bringing it to a House vote. But supporters of the measure were not prepared for the vehement opposition of two powerful governments — Turkey, the successor state to the Ottoman Empire, which historians say conducted the genocide,...

... Make no mistake: I'm on the Armenian side in the court of history. ... ...It's not the wording - but the timing. Legislation similar to this has come up repeatedly in Congress, yet it's always been defeated - in 2000, because of pressure from the Clinton administration. But if the resolution passes the House and Senate now, the Turks plan to evict us from Incirlik airbase in southeastern Turkey, to halt our military over-flight privileges and to shut down the supply routes into northern Iraq. That's what the Democrats are aiming at. This resolution isn't about justice for the...

I never thought the day would come. But here it is! Being an Armenian -- like playing women's basketball at Rutgers, losing money on Enron, and contracting AIDS in Africa before it -- is now relevant and topical. Hell, yes. I feel so damn temporarily important, and I wouldn't trade it for having sold steroids to sluggers or resisted arrest in Los Angeles or, for that matter, having rented storefront from Barney Frank. Bask, fellow Armenians! Bask. Ours is the world and all that's in it -- and, which is more, we'll have a hairy son. Lest you've been comatose...

Turk Warns Against House 'Genocide' Motion By SEBNEM ARSU Published: October 15, 2007 ISTANBUL, Oct. 14 — The chief of the Turkish armed forces has warned that military relations with the United States would take a negative turn if Congress approved the Armenian genocide resolution that was passed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week. Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, the armed forces chief, was quoted by the newspaper Milliyet on Sunday as saying that the resolution, which condemns the killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915 as an act of genocide, has caused considerable disappointment in...

Justice: Of course, it's right to recognize the wrong that the former Ottoman Empire did to the millions of Armenians it slaughtered and deported from 1915 and 1922. That said, does Congress have to recognize it now? The answer is no. The country that was formed following the Ottoman Empire's collapse in 1922, Turkey, is today a stable, democratic and secular country — and an ally of the U.S. and Europe. Believe it or not, after ours its army is the second-largest in the NATO alliance — bigger than Britain's, France's or Germany's. More importantly, it straddles a swath of...

HISTORY - Time line [some] Important dates in radical ISLAM VS WORLD 1263 - 1328 The 'Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism' Who is the True Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism? His name is Ibn Taymiyyah, or Taq ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah, and he lived from 1263 to 1328. His name by birth was Ahmad ibn Abdul-Halim ibn Abdas-Salaam. This individual could be considered as the real godfather of fundamentalism. Maududi borrowed extensively from Taymiyyah's writings. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php? id=1194248__________________1347 [The Bahmani sultans & genocide on Indians]The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death....

In recent years, President Bush has had no trouble using the word "genocide"--first in reference to Saddam, then to the killings in Darfur. The word connotes a moral imperative to intervene, perhaps because of its reductio ad Hitlerum quality--how can you stand idly by during a genocide? But, when discussing the million-plus Armenians killed in Turkey between 1915 and 1923, President Bush, like President Clinton before him, has avoided the word entirely. That's because, unlike other questions of who killed whom that the United States has answered over last decades (Iraq, twice in the Balkans, Rwanda, Sudan), there is a...

Armenians and their supporters gathered on the streets of Hollywood today to commemorate the 92nd anniversary of one of the first acts of genocide in the 20th century. "We are recalling the attack on the night of April 24, 1915, when, in Istanbul, the leaders of the Armenian community were executed," Haig Hovsepian, community relations director for Armenian National Committee of America Western Region, said this afternoon. Hovsepian described the act as the beginning of years of violence against the Armenian community by Turks. An estimated 1.2 million were killed between 1915 and 1918, the last days of the Ottoman...

Armenian Genocide Moviehttp://www.cbs47.tv/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=87631c0e-07bc-4d0c-8065-fddf4a4e5e7b More than eighty years after the Armenian genocide of 1915 Armenian-Americans have a documentary to remember the horror. The movie was brought to Fresno at the request of the Armenian community. Carla Garapedian, the film’s director said, “The term screamers comes from a book by Harvard professor Samantha Howard. She calls a screamer someone who refused to stand idly by and watch genocides unfold in front of them. All through history, we’ve had screamers who have raise a hand and said we’ve got to stop this.” Over the weekend, the film took on extra significance when one...

Media insiders are asking if the History Channel bowed to political pressure in pulling a documentary suspected of detailing Turkish atrocities against Armenians. "Ottoman Empire: The War Machine” mysteriously disappeared from the History Channel schedule on June 22, the day it was to premiere – even though the network had run promos just days before and pre-sold DVDs on its Web site. The documentary recounts the six-century reign of the Ottomans, and their empire, the precursor of modern-day Turkey. "Although none have seen the documentary, critics suspect that it likely covers the death of more than a million Armenians at...

"The Genetic Bonds Between Kurds and Jews"by Kevin Alan BrookKurds are the Closest Relatives of JewsIn 2001, a team of Israeli, German, and Indian scientists discovered that the majority of Jews around the world are closely related to the Kurdish people -- more closely than they are to the Semitic-speaking Arabs or any other population that was tested. The researchers sampled a total of 526 Y-chromosomes from 6 populations (Kurdish Jews, Kurdish Muslims, Palestinian Arabs, Sephardic Jews, Ashkenazic Jews, and Bedouin from southern Israel) and added extra data on 1321 persons from 12 populations (including Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Berbers, Portuguese,...

LYON, France, March 18, 2006 (AFP) - Several thousand people joined a boisterous rally in this southeastern French city Saturday organized by Franco-Turkish associations opposed to the construction of an Armenian genocide memorial. The meeting turned rowdy when another group, students staging their own protest against a controversial new employment contract for youths, began throwing bottles and police stepped in with tear gas to separate the two groups. Police estimated the pro-Turkish gathering at about 3,200 protestors, who carried signs claiming "There never was an Armenian genocide". "We do not want a monument erected. It is a verdict without a...

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Nor Serund (New Generation), the Union of Armenians of Georgia, addressed a letter to Azerbaijani Ambassador to Georgia Ramiz Gasanov to express indignation with the acts of vandalism, specifically the destruction of khachkars (cross-stones), gravestones and monuments in the Armenian cemetery in Old Julfa in Nakhichevan, Nor Serund told PanARMENIAN.Net. A group of representatives of various Georgian NGOs was formed for the further investigation of the above-mentioned fact. The leaders of the organization are hopeful for the support of the Ambassador in relative structures for conduction of a monitoring. The letter addressed to Ambassador Gasanov says in part, “We,...

History teacher Bill Schechter and high school senior Ted Griswold believe their lawsuit is about a worthy and innocent educational principle: presenting different views of a tricky and disputed historical topic. The Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School teacher and his student believe that when Massachusetts high school students learn about the deaths of at least 1 million Armenians in Turkey during the early part of the 20th century, they should be taught that, while many historians call it a genocide, there are some who disagree.

Recently a news item came to my attention. The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called for an impartial study by historians into the claims that over a million Armenian people were slaughtered by Turkish troops from 1915 until about 1923. April 24, 2005, marked the 90th anniversary of what the Armenians refer to as the "Genocide," namely, the systematic and planned destruction of a particular ethnic or national group. What makes this news item about the Turkish Prime Minister's call for a study remarkable is that Turkey has never officially acknowledged that genocide on a massive scale against...

CS Song - Come, give us Your Guns, Sung to "The old Villiage Doctor or Come, Take Your Medicine!" (For the 170,000,000 people who have been killed by their OWN GOVERNMENTS enabled by "reasonable" gun control laws) Original song by Henry Clay Work (1879) Update Parody by Coral Snake (2005) Midi - The Old Villiage Doctor or Come Take Your Medicine: at: www.pdmusic.org/work Look under 1879 (Musical Introduction) (1.) In a Turkish villiage warry, Some Armenians did terry; When new gun control laws on their nation fell. How they propaganda fed them, And then killed, tortured and bled them, There...

ARAB RACISM & ISLAMIC JIHAD!!! Are Militant Muslims DECAPITATING Tourists in S. Philippines? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Did Sadistic Saddam attack Arab Kuwaiti 'brothers' tortured them horrifically? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Did Sadistic Saddam BUTCHER/GASSED/TORTURED HIS OWN PEOPLE? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Do Arab Muslim Militant Hamas/Islamic-Jihad/other 'Palestinian' Militants (& often Fatah - connected to the official 'Palestinian' authority) TARGET BABIES, (not as the West targets terrorists) Yes or no? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Did Arab Islamists attack French subways? (1985) IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM +...

Monday, 1 August 2005, 16:00 GMT 17:00 UK Armenian quest for lost orphans By Dorian Jones Producer, Masterpiece, BBC World Service Ninety years ago, hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in mass killings that still resonate through Turkey's social and political life. Armenians say that up to 1.5m of their people were deported and died at the hands of the then Ottoman rulers of Turkey. But it is believed that thousands of orphaned Armenian children were saved secretly by Turkish families. Until now, the very existence of the children has remained largely an untold story, buried along with those who...

The cornerstone of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral boldly proclaims, in the words of the Prophet Isaiah, "My House Shall Be a House of Prayer for All Peoples." We enflesh those words in number of ways. Since its dedication, an innumerable number of interfaith prayer services have been held in our Cathedral. Last month for example, representatives of the Armenian, Evangelical Christian, Baha'i, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Evangelical Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, United Church of Christ, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Faiths lead a large congregation of diverse people in an Interfaith Prayer Service commemorating the life of our Late...

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A conference questioning Turkey's official policy as regards the Armenian killings during World War I has been cancelled following pressure from the government. The conference entitled "Ottoman Armenians at decline of the empire. Scientific responsibility and issues of democracy" was to start on Wednesday (26 May) and would have given the floor to academics to discuss the Turkish position of denying the genocide. But Turkish Justice Minister Cemil Cicek said that the conference was "treason" and a "stab in the back of the Turkish people", according to international media. "We must end this treason, the spreading...

PRISTINA (AA) - Filizler Turkish Cultural and Arts Association (TKSD), one of Kosovo's most active cultural associations, is organizing a ''Turkish Cultural Week'' in Kosovo for the first time in history. Sponsored by the Kosovo Cultural, Youth and Sports Ministry, a painting exhibition of Kosovo Turkish Writers Association Chairman Zeynel Beksac has opened and poems were read, accompanied by ''Filizler'' pianists. TKSD Chairman Ferhat Dervis delivered a speech indicating that they will do every thing to keep Turkish culture alive in the region. ''We expect more support from Turkey and want to make the Turkish cultural week an annual event,''...

The Jihad Genocide of the Armenians April 22nd, 2005 I attended a banquet in New York City April 2, 2005, celebrating Professor Vahakn Dadrian’s distinguished career, most notably, his singular contributions to the study of the Armenian genocide. Dadrian’s scholarship is characterized by a unique combination of painstaking, tireless research in the face of unseemly and well financed resistance, brilliant innovation (for example, his use of Austrian and German diplomatic sources free of either Armenian or Turkish biases), and, most remarkable of all in this era, an intellectual honesty oblivious to political correctness. Regarding this latter point, specifically, Dadrian has...

Armenian Orthodox Chruch Representative: Kemal was a Butcher, too By Anadolu News Agency (aa) Published: Wednesday 13, 2005 zaman.com Armenian Orthodox Church representative Vertanes Kalayjian insulted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Republic of Turkey, at a conference held in the US Congress, saying: "Kemal was a butcher, too." The Helsinki Commission, an independent organization of the US government conducting studies on issues like human rights and democracy, has organized a conference about "religious freedoms in Turkey" in the US House of Representatives in Rayburn. During his speech at the conference Kalayjian said that despite a reconciliatory initiative by...

RA foreign minister said in his speech at the 28th session of the UN General Assembly that Hitler bound the Jews with the Armenians forever. The 28th session was dedicated to 60th anniversary of liberating the prisoners of Auswenzin concentration camp. "Who remembers the annihilation of Armenians," Hitler said few days before entering Poland. The cynical statement made by Hitler about the Armenians is properly represented at the Holocaust Museum in Washington," Oskanian said. "After Auswenzin we all are Jews, gypsies, we all are banished and hated by someone, somewhere. After Auswenzin a human being’s consciousness can’t remain the same."...

Dear Dr. Lewis, This e-mail is in response to your above-referenced article published today, Dec. 19th on ChronWatch.http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=11860. Very little of what follows will be news to you but please indulge me. These past 60 odd years the West has been on the defensive trying (ineffectually) to keep Islam at bay and Islam has been on the offensive their declared aim being to convert by armed force the infidels except the Jews whose eradication from this planet has been (with Europe's quiet acquiescence) pronounced, save young Jewish maidens destined to be parceled out to the harems of the faithful. It...

Three days before a key European Union summit that is likely to give Turkey a date for starting formal entry talks, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier has said that Ankara must reassess its past. Barnier said yesterday that Turkey must come to terms with the mass killing of Armenians in the late years of the Ottoman Empire before it can enter the EU. The remarks have already provoked reactions in Turkey. Ankara has long denied charges that Turks committed genocide against Armenians. Prague, 14 December 2004 (RFE/RL) -- The comments by French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier came after talks in...

France has said it will ask Turkey to acknowledge the mass killing of Armenians from 1915 as genocide when it begins EU accession talks. French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Turkey had "a duty to remember". Armenians say 1.5 million of their people died or were deported from their homelands under Turkish Ottoman rule. France is among a group of nations that class the killings as genocide. Turkey denies any organised genocide, claiming they were quelling a civil uprising. Mr Barnier said France did not consider Turkish acknowledgement a condition of EU entry, but insisted his country would raise the...

GENEVA, April 7 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday warned of another possible genocide in western Sudan as he marked the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 people died. The Hague-based International Criminal Court -- the only permanent global court capable of trying those accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity -- said genocide has helped make the 20th century the bloodiest in history. Below is a partial list of genocides -- defined as the systematic and planned extermination of a national, racial, religious or ethnic group -- plus acts of mass political...

Mar 11, 2004 Cyprus takes legal action to recover stolen treasures By Staff Reporter CYPRUS has filed a civil suit in a German court to retrieve antiquities stolen after the Turkish invasion and retrieved by the Bavarian authorities, which have withheld them since, the Legal Service said yesterday. Following the occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops, looters stripped the region’s churches, removing an estimated 15, 000 to 20,000 icons, several dozen major frescoes and mosaics dating from the sixth to the fifteenth century as well as thousands of chalices, wooden carvings, crucifixes and Bibles. Effort to retrieve the stolen...

Roth: Resolution of Cyprus Question is very important for Turkey Anadolu Agency: 3/10/2004 BERLIN - Claudia Roth, the chairwoman of the German government`s human rights board and the Turkish-German Parliamentary Friendship Group, has said that resolution of the Cyprus question was very important for Turkey. Roth had a meeting on Tuesday in Berlin with Parliamentary Commission for Adjustment Into European Union (EU) members headed by former Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis. Speaking at the meeting, Roth said that end of human rights violations and removal of regional economic differences were important for Turkey`s EU membership. Although it was not among the...

When the Tigris Burned and the Euphrates Ran Red A New Book Chronicles America's Response to the Armenian Genocide The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response By Peter Balakian HarperCollins, 475 pages, $26.95. Imagine it is the present day in an alternate universe. A historically progressive American paper publishes a front-page article declaring that the Jews of Europe were killed in World War II because they were agents of a foreign power that did not yet exi›t. A prestigious literary journal sneeringly dismisses the Holocaust as having been the massacre of a few thousand Jews "who had rioted...

Cyprus has been destroyed by Greece many times over. Its people is indigenous and does not belong to the Greek racial characteristics, although many migrants from Greece arrived during the Ottoman Empires open borders which allowed Greeks to prosper and migrate to other lands. Many Greeks also migrated during the period which the British Empire temporarily monitored the island at the approval of the Ottomans. The Greeks arrived in huge numbers during the period where economic, political and social conditions in Greece were horrendous after the Greeks declared their independece from the Ottoman Turks. The Greek government suffered greatly after...

Memorial Is Vandalized By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 23 — A memorial to British servicemen who died defending Azerbaijan's oil fields in World War I has been vandalized, a week after it was erected, the British Embassy here reported today. The vandalism followed threats from groups that say the British forces should not be honored because Britain backed ethnic Armenian partisans against the Turks. A war in the 1990's between Armenia and Azerbaijan reawakened old animosities. The monument is a series of stone slabs engraved with the names of the 47 British servicemen who died.