Born in Istanbul in 1952, in 2005 Pamuk was charged with having declared to the Swiss weekly Das Magazin that "we Turks are responsible for the death of 30 thousand Kurds and a million Armenians and no-one in Turkey dares speak about it, except me".

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The Turkish Coalition of America and the University of Utah have announced a class soon to be taught on "ethnic cleansing" using a text book entitled, "The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey - a Disputed Genocide".

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US & Zionist Armenian Genocide Denial & Obama backflip

April 24 is Armenian Genocide Day marking the atrocity in which 1.5 million Armenians perished . Pro-Zionist- and Zionist-beholden Obama has reneged on his pre-election promise to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

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The picture of the president of the United States smiling broadly as he met President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela startled me. Our president is a nice guy. Chavez is anything but. Answer: Simply because President Obama is both naive and self-delusional.

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Turkish Intellectuals Apologize For Armenian 'Great Disaster'

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Turkish academics and writers risk backlash and courageously issue an Open Letter making an Apology for the Turkey-inflicted WW1 Armenian Genocide that killed as many as 1.5 million Armenians.

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Health insurance is now compulsory in Massachusetts, but the state's largest insurer is still sponsoring the alleged anti-bias program known as "No Place for Hate" linked to denial of the Armenian Genocide.

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The Armenian genocide was a real historic tragedy, writes Jules Crittenden . Still, the U.S. cannot pursue the Pelosi-led policy of enabling a new genocide in Iraq through a symbolic assignment of blame on the murders of 90 years ago.

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The Washington Post has severely condemned the Armenian Genocide resolution, as has Jimmy Carter [this a.m. on CNN], Senator Lindsey Graham, Juan Cole, and Zbigniew Brzezinski.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi found herself in a tight spot this week over her support for a resolution condemning the Ottoman Turks' slaughter of Armenians more than 90 years ago.

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As a result of Bush's invasion of Iraq, more than one million Iraqis have died, and several millions are displaced persons. The Iraqi death toll and the millions of uprooted Iraqis match the Armenian deaths and deportations. If one is a genocide, so is the other.

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The most extraordinary spectacle of the past week has been the apparent desire of the US Congress to pronounce as genocide the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Turks, even though there is nothing more provocative to Turkey, and no worse time at which to do it.

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"Hitler cited the Armenian Genocide as an inspiration for the Holocaust - the lesson he drew was that the Turks got away with it."

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Here we go again. ANKARA (Reuters) - A symbolic declaration about events 92 years ago might seem of little but academic interest, but to Turks a text now before the U.S. Congress is so sensitive that they are ready to risk ties with their main strategic ally.

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A Washington Post column discussing a congressional resolution that would label the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915-1923 as genocide quoted White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe saying, "What happened nearly 100 years ago in Turkey and Armenia is tragic, but  …

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If The Resolution is a 'Democratic Ploy', It Sure Was Clever to Have the GOP House Speaker Lead the Way!

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Çare about starting wars? It looks like our friends the dems in congress want Turkey to start a shooting war between them and the Iraqi Kurds. That will be the end result of passing this resolution calling what the Turks did to the Armenians a genocide.

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Armenia's president, Robert Kocharian, is adamant at proving his point - whatever it is! He's looking to bring accountability to Turkey's government for facilitating the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians - he wants these evil acts 'acknowledged fully in U.S. policy toward Turkey'.

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Relations between America and Turkey may be badly strained by Congress's wish to make a ruling on history

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President Bush strongly urged Congress on Wednesday to reject legislation that would declare the World War I-era killings of hundreds of thousands of Armenians a genocide, saying it would do "great harm" to relations with Turkey, a key ally in the Iraq war.

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The historian Taner Akçam has been defamed, harassed and threatened over his scholarly work on the Ottoman-era genocide of the Armenians in what became modern Turkey. Here, he responds to his accusers.

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Turkey's prime minister said the US Congress would harm bilateral ties if it backs a resolution recognising the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, the state Anatolian news agency said on Sunday.

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The second day of Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul's visit to Washington DC was marked yesterday by talks on the Armenian Genocide bill that was presented to the U.S. House of Representatives last week.

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It is unfortunate that the first thing readers might know about this bold and raggedly beautiful new novel is that writing it nearly cost Elif Shafak her freedom.

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Professor Stanford J. Shaw, the historian who challenged Armenian claims of genocide at the hands of the Ottomans and provided evidence of Turkey's aiding and fostering Jews before and during World War II, died on Saturday at the age of 76.

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