Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has hinted he may not visit France again if a proposed bill that would criminalize the rejection of Armenian genocide claims passes in the country's Senate today. When asked what his reaction would be in the event the bill …
Knesset members from all sides of the political spectrum called for the government to officially recognize the Armenian genocide. The discussion took place a week after France’s lower house of parliament moved to criminalize Armenian-genocide denial. Knesset Speaker Reu …
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Wednesday warned France it would take further action against Paris should the French senate pass a bill making it a crime to deny the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey constituted genocide.
Turkey halted diplomatic consultations and military dealings in a major rupture with France on Thursday after the lower house of the French Parliament approved legislation making it a crime to deny that the Turkish Army committed genocide against Armenians in the early 20th c …
A Turkish court on Tuesday pressed separatism charges against 23 suspects, including a university professor and a publisher, on suspicion of membership in a separatist Kurdish rebel group, state-run television reported.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Turkey to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide in remarks Friday that drew sharp criticism from Ankara.
Committee president and a deputy of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Ayhan Sefer Üstün said it has launched a program to monitor the course of the investigation into the Oslo massacre.
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Turkish media groups say more than 60 journalists are in jail and they accuse authorities of using flimsy evidence to bring charges against them. .
Tourists flocking to see carpets and calligraphy at one of Istanbul's most renowned museums were met Sunday by a rare public display of opinion on perhaps the darkest episode of Turkey's history, the massacres of Armenians during World War I.
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