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		<title>The Meds Yeghern and Turkish Intellectuals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 86
Breaking the Nation&#8217;s Taboo
The Meds Yeghern and Turkish Intellectuals
PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 86
Nona Shahnazarian
Center for Pontic and Caucasian Studies, Kuban Social and Economic Institute (Krasnodar) September 2009 (Dr Nona Shahnazarian is an anthropologist at Kuban University and a researcher at the Center for Pontic and Caucasus Studies, Krasnodar, Russian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/10/the-meds-yeghern-and-turkish-intellectuals/</link>
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		<title>The Armenian Genocide Resolution is a Farce all Around”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ermeni Tasarisi Elestirisi

ABD Temsilciler Meclisi Dis Iliskiler komitesinde Ermeni iddialarini iceren karar tasarisinin 04 Mart 2010 persembe gunu yapilan oylamada bir oy farkla kabul edilmesi ile baglantili olarak, yabanci medyada cok sayida yorum ve kose yazisi yayinlandi. Asagida, Henry Barkey&#8217;in Washington Post&#8217;ta yer alan makalesine yanit olarak bir fransiz arastirmaci Maxime Gauin&#8217;in okuyucu mektubunu aktariyorum. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/10/the-armenian-genocide-resolution-is-a-farce-all-around%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Can Turkish and Armenian diasporas open the channels of dialogue?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Monday, March 8, 2010
İLHAN TANIR [tanir.ilhan@gmail.com]


The first round of the annual &#8220;genocide&#8221; resolution fight is over. Though there are different interpretations for the close call and controversially managed House Foreign Relations Committee voting, both sides can claim victory following the result.
The Armenians announced that the victory was attained in spite of the powerful lobbying forces of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/10/can-turkish-and-armenian-diasporas-open-the-channels-of-dialogue/</link>
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		<title>Syria, Israel: Turkey To Mediate, Talks Beginning Soon &#8211; PM</title>
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March 9, 2010


Israel has agreed to have Turkey serve as mediator in Israeli-Syrian  negotiations, and talks may begin soon, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip  Erdogan said March 9 while in Saudi Arabia, Today’s Zaman reported, citing  NTV.






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		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/10/syria-israel-turkey-to-mediate-talks-beginning-soon-pm/</link>
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		<title>Turkey: PM Opposes More Sanctions On Iran</title>
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March 9, 2010


Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said March 9 that further sanctions on Iran over its nuclear enrichment program would not solve the crisis, AFP reported. The prime minster added that previous sanctions “have never yielded results.”










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		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/10/turkey-pm-opposes-more-sanctions-on-iran/</link>
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		<title>Bashing Turkey&#8217;s Army</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor


By ASLI AYDINTASBAS

Published: March 1, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/opinion/02iht-edasli.html

ISTANBUL — I should be rejoicing. Dozens of Turkish Army officers and retired  generals have been rounded up this past week on suspicion of plotting against  the elected government led by the Islamic-inspired A.K. Party.
The 5,000 pages of documents that landed on the doorstep of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/09/bashing-turkeys-army/</link>
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		<title>TWO NEW STUDIES PUBLISHED ON THE TURKISH ARMENIAN CONFLICT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Study One:  
The Armenians and Ottoman Military Policy, 1915
Edward J. Erickson
War in History 2008 15 (2) 141–167  (27 pages)
10.1177/0968344507087001 © 2008 SAGE Publications
First page, first paragraph:  
“ Mainstream western scholarship maintains that the Armenian insurrection of
1915 was never an actual threat to the security of the Ottoman state in the First World [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/09/two-new-studies-published-on-the-turkish-armenian-conflict/</link>
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		<title>TURNING POINT IN TURKISH AMERICAN PUBLIC ADVOCACY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ATAA&#8217;s Statement on H.Res. 252 
Dear Turkish Americans and Friends of Türkiye: 
House Resolution 252 passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) by a vote of 23-22 after HFAC Chairman Howard Berman extended the voting period thrice and forced reluctant legislators to show up and vote in favor of the resolution. 
The passage of H.Res. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/09/turning-point-in-turkish-american-public-advocacy/</link>
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		<title>Armenian-Americans Should not Allow Obama and Clinton to Bury Genocide Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier
It was bad enough that Pres. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had failed to keep their campaign pledge to reaffirm the facts of the Armenian Genocide. They sunk to a new low last week, when Mrs. Clinton announced that she and the President opposed adoption of the Armenian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/09/armenian-americans-should-not-allow-obama-and-clinton-to-bury-genocide-bill/</link>
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		<title>CLINTON : More united than we seem</title>
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Published: Saturday February 27, 2010
Proponents of a more centralized Europe often cite a remark attributed to Henry Kissinger, who served as national security advisor and secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. &#8220;If I want to talk to Europe, what phone number do I call?&#8221; Kissinger is supposed to have asked.
The same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/09/clinton-more-united-than-we-seem/</link>
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		<title>Turkey should pause before a mirror</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


Amid the finger-pointing, let&#8217;s recall how Turkey helped push the US Congress committee toward its vote on Armenian genocide




   


 Stephen Kinzer




Leftist Turks shout slogans during a protest outside the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey, after a US congressional committee approved a resolution branding the 1915 killing of Armenians a genocide. Photograph: Burhan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/09/turkey-should-pause-before-a-mirror/</link>
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		<title>Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US wants to deny that Turkey&#8217;s slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 was genocide. But the evidence is there, in a hilltop orphanage near Beirut

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

  





The unmarked grave at Antoura for the bones that were found there in 1993

   More pictures 


  
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		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/09/robert-fisk-living-proof-of-the-armenian-genocide/</link>
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		<title>Bad things happen when empires fall apart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Harking back to Armenia in 1915 will only drive modern Turkey into China’s arms
Norman Stone
The best thing said about the Armenian tragedy was a sermon delivered in  the  main church in Constantinople in 1894, more than 20 years before it  happened. Patriarch Ashikyan had this to say: “We have lived with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/09/bad-things-happen-when-empires-fall-apart-2/</link>
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		<title>GENOCIDE CHARGES DO NOT MAKE SENSE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To:  Los Angeles Times, Editorial Board 
Re:  “ Making sense of genocide “ 
,  Los Angeles Times, 8 March 2010; a rebuttal. 
GENOCIDE CHARGES DO NOT MAKE SENSE  
I will not get into the argument of whether it is good or bad for American interests today to pass judgment on others’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/09/genocide-charges-do-not-make-sense/</link>
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		<title>Book on the World and Turkey: The Next 100 Years, by George Friedman, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turkey faces   great dangers from those who pretend to be her friends.




The Revenge and the Bullshit &#8211; Review of a book, “The Next 100 Years – A Forecast for the 21st Century”, written by George   Friedman, Chief   intelligence officer and founder of Strategic Forecasting, Inc. (STRATFORD), Published   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/08/book-on-the-world-and-turkey-the-next-100-years-by-george-friedman-2009/</link>
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		<title>Internet access is &#8216;a fundamental right&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.


The survey &#8211; of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries &#8211; found strong support for net access on both sides of the digital divide.
Countries such as Finland and Estonia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/08/internet-access-is-a-fundamental-right/</link>
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		<title>The Armenian Question Resolved-Policies Toward the Armenians in the War Years according to Ottoman Documents By Taner Akçam.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Taner Akçam.
Middle East Policy, Vol. XVII , No. 1, Spring 2010
© 2010, The Authors
Journal Compilation © 2010, Middle East Policy Council
Book Reviews
Review Essay: The Armenian Question*
Ermeni Meselesi Hallolunmuştur: Osmanlı Belgelerine Göre Savaş Yıllarında Ermenilere Yönelik Politikalar
[The Armenian Question Resolved: Policies Toward the Armenians in the War Years according to Ottoman Documents]1 By Taner Akçam.
İstanbul: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/08/policies-toward-the-armenians-in-the-war-years-according-to-ottoman-documents1-by-taner-akcam/</link>
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		<title>Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of Armenia, Vigen Sargsyan Undermines Armenia&#8217;s National Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
By Appo Jabarian

Executive Publisher / Managing Editor
USA Armenian Life  Magazine

In February, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of  Armenia Vigen Sargsyan visited the Center for Strategic and International  Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, to discuss the prospects and &#8220;potential  benefits of normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia,&#8221; according to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/08/deputy-chief-of-staff-to-the-president-of-armenia-vigen-sargsyan-undermines-armenias-national-security/</link>
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		<title>Turkey earthquake kills 57 after striking while villagers slept</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey killed at least 57 people this morning after burying victims in their sleep.
Around 100 more were injured as the tremor, which measured 6.0 on the Richter scale, tore down mud-brick houses in remote villages in Elazig province.
Rescuers’ bid to dig survivors from the rubble was also hindered by 20 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2010/03/08/turkey-earthquake-kills-57-after-striking-while-villagers-slept/</link>
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		<title>US Congress panel &#8216;Armenian genocide&#8217; vote wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baroness Sarah Ludford Ingiliz Liberal Party Avrupa Milletvekili &#8211; soyledikleri cok guzelkendisine tesekkur edelim assagidaki yazisi icin (emaili var)
Haluk
Turkish Forum, Ingiltere
YONETIM KURULU ADINA
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To: grassroots@turkishforum.com.tr; turkish-forum-advisory-board@googlegroups.com








Sent: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:02
Subject: US Congress panel &#8216;Armenian genocide&#8217; vote wrong
 
NEWS RELEASE
BARONESS SARAH LUDFORD
MEP    Liberal Democrat MEP for London
www.sarahludfordmep.org.uk
Date: [...]]]></description>
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