(AINA) -On March, 19 2012, the Armenian Parliament rejected a proposal tabled by Armenia's Heritage Party to consider a bill recognizing the Assyrian and Greek genocides (AINA 3-20-2012). The proposal was also supported by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun Party) but opposed by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). …
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(AINA) -- On February 29, 2012 Hürriyet Daily News published an article on the erection of an Assyrian Genocide monument in Armenia. The article was based on interview questions answered by Sabri Atman, Chairman of the Assyrian Genocide Research Center. Hurriyet did not publish the full interview. The following is the complete interview. The interview was translated from Turkish to English by Abdulmesih BarAbraham. …
(AINA) -- The Assyrian Genocide Research Center (Seyfo), based in Sweden, has sent a letter to Serzh A. Sargsyan, the President of the Republic of Armenia, urging Armenia to officially recognize the Assyrian genocide, which occurred simultaneously with the Armenian Genocide. Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks were all victims of genocide between 1914 and 1923, a campaign which aimed, and succeeded, in cleansing the Ottoman Empire of most of it's Christian subjects. Nearly three million Assyrians, Armenains and Greeks were killed …
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(AINA) -- In a significant milestone for efforts towards the worldwide recognition of the Assyrian genocide, nearly thirty internationally renowned holocaust and genocide scholars, and Assyrian and Greek social, cultural and religious groups, have written to the Israeli Knesset calling for the inclusion of Assyrians and Greeks in the Knesset's forthcoming legislation on remembrance of the Armenian genocide. …
Thousands of Turks demonstrated in Istanbul on Thursday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink …