Turkey's parliament has extended by a year the military's mandate to carry out operations against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq after a closed-door debate about the fight against the separatist guerrillas.
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My roots are nearly 2,600 years old, my ancestors made landmark contributions to world civilization, and my presence was felt from North Africa to the Fertile Crescent -- but I barely exist today. You see, I am a Jew from the Arab world. No, that's not entirely accurate.
The Holocaust was not the first genocide of the twentieth century: that dishonour goes to the Turks and Kurds in present-day Turkey for the slaughter of up to 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children in a campaign that began in earnest in 1915.
What if, instead of slavery, the United States had murdered all of the African Americans? What if, instead of relocating some Native American tribes, they were completely wiped out? This annihilation is essentially what happened with the Armenians in the early 1900's and the Kurd …
A large part of the people who inhabited it were Armenians - it had once been at the heart of a great Armenian empire. Today there are almost none. The only two buildings still standing there are mosques. Of the dozen or so churches, there is no trace.
Turkey must pay about $170,000 (euro133,000) to the family of a slain ethnic Armenian journalist, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday, saying the state failed to protect him despite threats against his life.
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"Kenyan officials today welcomed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to a signing ceremony for Kenya's new constitution, in direct contravention of the state's legal obligations as an International Criminal Court signatory, to arrest the indicted sitting head of state.
The Enough Project's John Prendergast and Laura Jones, point out eight areas in which the United States, either alone or with allies, possesses leverage that it is currently under-utilizing.
This story was not well covered by the media-- seeded as background to the current US withdrawal from Iraq. After the US is out-- can the Kurds expect more atrocities like this?
"There are six kinds: genocidal, political, ideological/racialist, legalized, globalized boycotts and new/old Protocols."
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