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Given the draw of Sylvester Stallone, the movie could easily push recognition of the Armenian genocide onto the front pages. Stallone says that the flick will be “an epic about the complete destruction of a civilisation. (But) talk about a…

Hrant Dink, an Armenian-Turkish newspaper editor who had received death threats from nationalists for questioning Turkey’s denial of an Armenian genocide, was shot in the head and killed today. Emphasis added.

Stepan Haytayan is the grandfather of Serj Tankian, the lead singer of System of a Down. Haytayan is a survivor of the Armenian genocide where 1.5 Armenians were slaughtered by Turks in 1915. The band has made a documentary about…

As well they should. The French parliament voted yesterday to make it a crime to say the Armenian genocide did not happen, just like Germany already does with their law banning Holocaust revisionism. Both atrocities happened. To pretend they didn’t…

The French parliament has voted to support a law that criminalizes denying the Armenian genocide happened. The European Commission attacked this saying open dialogue is needed about Armenia in Turkey, a potential EU member. Yet Turkey has already made it…