Armenian genocide 
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SOURCE: Haaretz
5/2/2021
How Israel Quashed 1982 Efforts to Recognize the Armenian Genocide
A host of political concerns led the Israeli Foreign Ministry to try to sabotage a 1982 conference comparing the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/24/2021
Breaking With Predecessors, Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide
The declaration, which has been long expected, was greeted with modest enthusiasm by human rights activists who view it as symbolic, and with denunciations by the Turkish government.
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SOURCE: NPR Illinois
4/26/2021
'The Historical Record Is Affirmed': Armenian Reaction To Biden Recognition Of Armenian Genocide
Historian Ara Sanjian says that the Biden Administration's recognition of the Armenian Genocide is long overdue.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/24/2021
The Armenian ‘Genocide’: This is What Happened in 1915
The Polish Jewish Lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" in part after losing 49 family members to the Holocaust. But he was also motivated by his earlier study of the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
9/5/2020
Beyond Jermag Yev Sev: A Roundtable on Armenian American Identity
A dialogue with a historian of Armenians in the United States shows that the boundaries of the "white race" have shifted historically and been determined not by biology but by politics played out in immigration courts.
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SOURCE: War on the Rocks
12/4/19
The History That Happened: Setting the Record Straight on the Armenian Genocide
by Ryan Gingeras
For a brief moment this fall, world interest fixed its attention to an event of the past. News that the U.S. Congress approved a formal resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide was carried as a leading story by media outlets worldwide.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
11/14/19
What Recognizing the Armenian Genocide Means for U.S. Global Power
by Charlie Laderman
It could spark a recognition that America First is the wrong course.
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SOURCE: Clark University
1-17-18
Historian Taner Akçam’s new book includes "smoking gun" of Armenian Genocide
In his groundbreaking new book, “Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide,” due out in March, Clark University historian Taner Akçam destroys the Turkish government’s denial strategy.
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SOURCE: NYT
4-22-17
‘Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide’ Uncovers Lost Evidence
Taner Akcam, a Turkish historian at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., who has studied the genocide for decades by piecing together documents from around the world to establish state complicity in the killings, says he has unearthed an original telegram that confirms authorities knew what was happening.
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SOURCE: Armenpress
10-21-16
German historian reveals documents of 1100 pages in Vatican archives linked with Armenian Genocide
The German historian, Michael Hesemann, told the reporters that he plans to write a book based on the findings.
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SOURCE: NYT
6-24-16
Pope Francis Condemns ‘Genocide’ of Armenians Before Visit to Memorial
Pope Francis waded into turbulent geopolitical waters once again on Friday during his first visit to Armenia when he made an unscripted remark referring to the World War I-era massacre.
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SOURCE: Russia Today
6-2-16
German parliament acknowledges Armenian genocide amid intense Turkish pressure
The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining.
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SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
4-24-16
Tens of thousands rally in Los Angeles to commemorate Armenian genocide
“Today, we are all Armenian,” said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) as he addressed the crowd from the stage. “We have one cause and that cause is justice.”
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
12-1-15 (accessed)
Alexandros K. Kyros shocked to encounter Armenian Genocide denials at Harvard event
by Alexandros K. Kyrou
"The audience, which had filled the 175-seat auditorium to standing room only, was invited to ask questions. What followed was disturbing."
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SOURCE: We're History
4-24-15
America and the Armenian Genocide
by Steven Cromack
As in 1915, the American government still struggles to balance moral leadership with political pragmatism.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4-24-15
It’s time the world recognised the Armenian genocide
by Sossie Kasbarian
While the language of denial, methodologies and nuances have shifted over the past century, in essence the formal stance remains unwavering.
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SOURCE: NYT
4-23-15
The Cost of Turkey’s Genocide Denial
by Ronald Grigor Suny
Reconciliation of Armenians, Kurds and Turks will require a hard look backward in order to move forward.
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4-23-15 (accessed)
Armenia debuts website devoted to genocide
There website debuts on the 100th anniversary of the genocide.
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SOURCE: The Walrus
4-22-15 (accessed)
In Denial
by Atom Egoyan
The Armenian genocide, a century later
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4-22-15
Largest Muslim organization in the US lambasted for refusing to face up to the Armenian Genocide
by Rick Shenkman
Critics call out the organization for hypocrisy.
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