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Turkey Allows Mass at Ancient Armenian Church But Sows Anger
By Justin Vela - AOL News
VAN, Turkey (Sept. 17) -- For the first time in nearly a century, Turkey will allow a Mass at a 10th-century Armenian Orthodox cathedral in eastern Turkey, but the state's failure to restore a cross atop the building has soured the occasion for many Armenians. Some 5,000 members of the Armenian diaspora are expected to descend upon tiny Akdamar Island on Lake Van for Sunday's Mass. The Turkish government has portrayed the event as a gesture of religious tolerance and rapprochement with Armenia, which is at odds with Turkey over the classification of massacres carried out by Ottoman forces in ...
Turkey Protests House Panel Vote to Call Armenian Deaths 'Genocide'
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyBy a narrow vote of 23 to 22, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has passed a measure calling on President Obama to characterize Turkey's killing of 1.5 million Armenians during and immediately after World War I as "genocide." In response to the vote, the Washington Post reports, the Turkish government recalled its U.S. ambassador and warned that the move "could adversely affect our cooperation on a wide common agenda." Turkey has contributed troops to the war effort in Afghanistan and allowed the use of an air base to supply U.S. forces in Iraq. It also sits on the U.N. Security Council and ...
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