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Bulgaria's Parliament recognizes the Armenian Genocide

StandartNews |
24.04.15


Today the Bulgarian Parliament recognized the mass extermination of
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the period 1915 - 1922 and declared
April 24 a day of remembrance of the victims. The decision was adopted
by the 43rd National Assembly with 157 votes "for", 37 against and no
abstentions, after several hours of debates.


The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the
Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian
subjects inside their historic homeland, which lies within the
territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. The total
number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between
800,000 to 1.5 million.


The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day
Ottoman authorities rounded up and arrested, subsequently executing,
some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in
Constantinople. The genocide was carried out during and after World
War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the
able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army
conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women,
children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the
Syrian desert.


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ARMENIAN FM: TURKEY CRITICIZES WORLD FOR SPEAKING A DIFFERENT 'LANGUAGE'

NEWS | 27.04.15 | 13:18

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Turkey has recently criticized all - France, Russia, the European
Parliament, Germany, Austria - for the mere fact that the international
community does not speak the "language" that it understands, Armenian
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said today in Yerevan at a joint
press conference with his visiting Belgium counterpart Didier Reynders.

The Turkish side has something to think about in this
connection,News.am quotes Nalbandian as saying.

Nalbandian referred to several angry statements issued by the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in which it condemned and leveled harsh
criticism at the leaders of Russia, France, the United States as well
as the Pope, European parliamentarians and others for their April
24 positions consonant with that of official Yerevan that regards
the Ottoman-era massacres of Armenians as the first genocide of the
20th century.

Belgian FM Reynders, for his part, has called for "joint work" of
Armenia and Turkey that would pave the way for normalization between
the two nations.

http://armenianow.co...ward_nalbandian

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