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Armenians Decry Kobe Bryant's Deal With Turkish Airlines
By Justin Vela - AOL NewsISTANBUL, Turkey -- Kobe Bryant probably wishes he'd kept to the basketball court. Armenians in the U.S. and abroad are crying foul against the NBA superstar and want him to drop his deal with Turkey's premier airline to serve as its new "global brand ambassador." Bryant's two-year contract with Turkish Airlines "is wrong because Turkey denies the Armenian genocide," Karine Ter-Sahakian, an editor of the PanArmenian news agency, said in an interview with AOL News. "Bryant talks about Darfur and says nothing about the Armenian genocide." The opposition to Bryant's deal, which calls for him to ...
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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