Despite threats from official Ankara, France’s National Assembly passed a bill making it a crime to deny the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
Thus, if the government declares eminent domain and gives land to the plant, it must first sit down and consult with the people affected before taking such a decision.
His home in Sydney's high-end Chatswood suburb is a far cry from the ramshackle camp in Greece where his family had found refuge from the 1915 Turkish massacres and where he grew up, and he no longer goes hungry or unshod.
From Cairo’s Tahrir Square to Khuzdar in southwestern Pakistan, from Mogadishu to the cities of the Philippines, the risks of working as a journalist at times of political instability were highlighted more than ever in 2011. The street was where danger was to be found in 2011, often during demonstrations that led to violent clashes with the security forces or degenerated into open conflict.
I am gratified that the Genocide Education Project (GEP) has responded to my article Facing History, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Silence of the Lambs (Dec. 6).
“I do whatever I can for my kids. Whether it’s collecting bottles, this or that, just to have some money to feed them,” Aghun said.
This video depicts a confrontation between environmental activists and Syunik governor Surik Khachatryan in Kajaran (the video is in Armenian).
Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia has seen a growing bond between a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals and the oligarchs that run roughshod over the country.
Law enforcement agencies across Europe have arrested 112 people in 22 countries suspected of setting up file-sharing networks of child pornography.