1. Turkish Academics Apologize for the Armenian Genocide
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... Armenian News Agency reported that the statement would be opened for signatures online. Armenia Liberty, an online publication, reported that nearly 300 Armenian intellectuals appealed to Turkey’s president, ...

2. Barack Obama's win equals the Armenians' win
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... mate with a 35-year pro-Armenian track record," Hachikian said. "We are close to the day when an American president finally ends nearly a century of U.S. complicity in Turkey's denials." The Armenian ...

3. System of a Down interested in Eurovision 2009
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... has been advocating for Armenian Genocide recognition since its early garage band days is noted for the liberal political views expressed in their songs. The band's music tackles a myriad subjects including ...

4. Armenian president plans to invite the Turkish PM to watch a soccer game
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... diplomatic links since Ankara intensified its protests against Armenian invasion and violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Armenia invaded in a war with Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. The border ...

5. Nagorno-Karabakh and Independence
(Armenians/History)

... decline of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s (see fig. 3). In the early 1990s, the struggle defied all negotiating efforts of the West and Russia. Karabakh as a National Issue The protests of the ...

6. The Communist Era
(Armenians/History)

... nation to an industrial, urban society--by the early 1980s, only a third of Armenians lived in the countryside--the ruling elite remained largely unchanged. As a result, corruption and favoritism spread, ...

7. Between Russia and Turkey
(Armenians/History)

... socialists. Armenian revolutionary parties, founded in the early 1890s in Russia and Europe, sent their cadres to organize in Turkey. Because of the self-destruction of one major party, the Social Democratic ...

8. The Middle Ages
(Armenians/History)

... From the fifteenth century until the early twentieth century, most Armenians were ruled by the Ottoman Turks through the millet (see Glossary) system, which recognized the ecclesiastical authority of the ...

9. Language
(Armenians/History)

... frontier of Anatolia that was already different from ancient Indian (commonly called Sanskrit) and ancient Iranian. Cretan Mycenaean texts from the same eras as Mitanni, deciphered in the early 1950's ...

10. Early Christianity
(Armenians/History)

Early Christianity Mesrop Mashtots statue in Oshakan Village After contact with centers of early Christianity at Antioch and Edessa, Armenia accepted Christianity as its state religion in 301 A.D. ...

11. The Ancient Period
(Armenians/History)

... as an in situated development of a 3rd millennium BC Proto-Indo-European language. The first major state in the region was the kingdom of Aratta. The word Armani - an early form of Armen-Armin [Armen or ...