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House Panel Condemns Armenian Genocide

UPDATED–Well, history is repeating itself–the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee once again voted to condemn the Armenian Genocide on Thursday, and the Turks are unsurprisingly furious. The last time this happened was 2007, but the measure never reached the House floor for obvious reasons.

The New York Times quoted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan saying [...]

Protocols For Relations Between Armenia and Turkey, Pt. 2

Below is the full text of the second protocol slated to be signed by authorities from Turkey and Armenia in five weeks time. Many of these points seem to be repeated from the first protocol, which I criticized in my previous post. My comments appear in italics.

Protocol on Development of Relations between the Republic of [...]

Protocols For Relations Between Armenia and Turkey

To generate more discussion about the protocols that are meant to normalize relations between Armenian and Turkey, which are to be signed in about five weeks time then ratified by both Turkish and Armenian parliaments, I have taken it upon myself to list the points of the first protocol and criticize each one. The opinions [...]

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