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Change Armenian 'Genocide' Stance To Access Incirlik Airbase: Turkey Tells Germany
Turkish permission for German lawmakers to visit the Incirlik airbase will depend on the Berlin government distancing itself from a resolution branding a 1915 massacre of Armenians as "genocide", Turkey's foreign minister said today.
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Pope Francis Says 'Never Again' To Tragedies Like Armenian Genocide
A sombre Pope Francis, "with pain in my heart," paid tribute today to the 1.5 million Armenians massacred in 1915, an event which he has labelled a genocide, risking Turkey's ire.
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Pope Francis Prays At Armenia Memorial After Denouncing 'Genocide'
Pope Francis heads to Armenia's genocide memorial today for a prayer service, fresh from his ad-libbed declaration that the Ottoman-era massacre of Armenians a century ago was a planned "genocide."
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Pope Francis To Visit Armenia After Irking Turkey With 'Genocide' Label
Pope Francis visits Armenia this weekend and will try to avoid reigniting a diplomatic dispute with Turkey after his branding of the 1915 mass killings of Armenians as a genocide infuriated Ankara last year.
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As Armenia Marks 1915 Killing, Berlin Calls it Genocide
Armenia marked the centenary today of a mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks with a simple flower-laying ceremony attended by foreign leaders as Germany became the latest country to respond to its calls for recognition that it was genocide.
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Mass Murder Cannot be Justified : Vladimir Putin at Armenia Genocide Ceremony
President Vladimir Putin said today that Russia mourned the victims of the Armenian genocide and that mass killings could never be justified.
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War of Words as Armenians Fight For Genocide Recognition a Century On
Mass killings? Mutual bloodletting? Genocide? The hundreds of thousands of dead have been silent for a century, but generations on, Armenians are still battling to get the World War I slaying of their ancestors recognised as a genocide.
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Pope Francis' Genocide Comments Spark Frustration Among Turks
When Pope Francis became the first pontiff to publicly call the 1915 Armenian massacre a genocide this weekend, the reaction from Ankara was swift and irate: it summoned the Vatican ambassador for a dressing down and recalled its own envoy.
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Pope Francis Marks 100th Anniversary of Armenia Genocide
Pope Francis faces a key diplomatic test today as he marks the centenary of the mass killings of Armenians and elects whether to use the word "genocide", at the risk of alienating Turkey.
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Vladimir Putin to Attend Genocide Centenary in Armenia
Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend ceremonies marking 100 years since the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in April, the Kremlin said today.
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Turkey-France ties fray over Armenia genocide bill
Ties between France and Turkey, strategic allies and trading partners, abruptly unraveled Thursday after French legislators passed a bill making it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constitute genocide.
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Change Armenian 'Genocide' Stance To Access Incirlik Airbase: Turkey Tells Germany
Turkish permission for German lawmakers to visit the Incirlik airbase will depend on the Berlin government distancing itself from a resolution branding a 1915 massacre of Armenians as "genocide", Turkey's foreign minister said today.
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Pope Francis Says 'Never Again' To Tragedies Like Armenian Genocide
A sombre Pope Francis, "with pain in my heart," paid tribute today to the 1.5 million Armenians massacred in 1915, an event which he has labelled a genocide, risking Turkey's ire.
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Pope Francis Prays At Armenia Memorial After Denouncing 'Genocide'
Pope Francis heads to Armenia's genocide memorial today for a prayer service, fresh from his ad-libbed declaration that the Ottoman-era massacre of Armenians a century ago was a planned "genocide."
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Pope Francis To Visit Armenia After Irking Turkey With 'Genocide' Label
Pope Francis visits Armenia this weekend and will try to avoid reigniting a diplomatic dispute with Turkey after his branding of the 1915 mass killings of Armenians as a genocide infuriated Ankara last year.
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As Armenia Marks 1915 Killing, Berlin Calls it Genocide
Armenia marked the centenary today of a mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks with a simple flower-laying ceremony attended by foreign leaders as Germany became the latest country to respond to its calls for recognition that it was genocide.
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Mass Murder Cannot be Justified : Vladimir Putin at Armenia Genocide Ceremony
President Vladimir Putin said today that Russia mourned the victims of the Armenian genocide and that mass killings could never be justified.
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War of Words as Armenians Fight For Genocide Recognition a Century On
Mass killings? Mutual bloodletting? Genocide? The hundreds of thousands of dead have been silent for a century, but generations on, Armenians are still battling to get the World War I slaying of their ancestors recognised as a genocide.
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Pope Francis' Genocide Comments Spark Frustration Among Turks
When Pope Francis became the first pontiff to publicly call the 1915 Armenian massacre a genocide this weekend, the reaction from Ankara was swift and irate: it summoned the Vatican ambassador for a dressing down and recalled its own envoy.
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Pope Francis Marks 100th Anniversary of Armenia Genocide
Pope Francis faces a key diplomatic test today as he marks the centenary of the mass killings of Armenians and elects whether to use the word "genocide", at the risk of alienating Turkey.
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Vladimir Putin to Attend Genocide Centenary in Armenia
Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend ceremonies marking 100 years since the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in April, the Kremlin said today.
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Turkey-France ties fray over Armenia genocide bill
Ties between France and Turkey, strategic allies and trading partners, abruptly unraveled Thursday after French legislators passed a bill making it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constitute genocide.
