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| Several significant occurrences followed the ] of 1915 to 1917. The following is a chronology of those events. | |||
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| ==20th century== | |||
| ===1918=== | |||
| ] | |||
| * May 28: The ] declares its independence from the ]. | |||
| * December: An Ottoman ] tries the ]: ], ], and ] ] and sentences them to death. | |||
| * The book '']'' is published. | |||
| ===1919=== | |||
| * ] ] sends a fact-finding mission to ], headed by ] ]. Harbord issues a lengthy report on the situation in 1920.<ref> .</ref> | |||
| * ] publishes '']'', the first major work on the ]. | |||
| * A film based on the book ''Ravished Armenia'' is released.<ref> at the ]</ref> | |||
| ===1920=== | |||
| ].]] | |||
| *August 10: The ] promises to unite Armenia with its historic land, to allow Greece to expand into parts of ] and to create an independent ]. Turkish nationalists, led by ] reject the treaty and call it "unacceptable." The ] begins. | |||
| *November 29: ] is proclaimed to be part of the ]. | |||
| ===1921=== | |||
| * March 15: Talat Pasha is assassinated by ] whose family perished in the Genocide. After being tried, Tehlirian was acquitted. | |||
| * October 23: The ] is signed between the Soviet Union and the new ], ceding to it the present-day areas of ], ], ], and ] in exchange for ]. Feeling their security threatened, the remaining Armenians in these regions emigrate to Soviet-occupied Armenia. | |||
| ===1922=== | |||
| * July 21: Djemal Pasha is assassinated by ] | |||
| * August 24: Enver Pasha is killed while fighting in present-day ]. | |||
| * September 11: The Treaty of Kars is ratified in ]. | |||
| * December 30: The remainder of Russian Armenia becomes the ] of the Soviet Union. | |||
| ===1923=== | |||
| * The ] is signed establishing most of Turkey's present-day borders. | |||
| * In September, Turkey declares that all Armenians who have emigrated from Cilicia and the Eastern Anatolian areas were not allowed to return.<ref name=hoffman>], "A law was adopted as early as September 1923, stating that no Armenian who had emigrated from Cilicia and the “Eastern Provinces” could return to Turkey."</ref> | |||
| ===1926=== | |||
| *August 1: In an interview with the '']'', Atatürk stated that the remainders of the Young Turk government should be held accountable for the Armenian Genocide. "These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule", he said.<ref>Hildebrand, Emile. "," '']'', 1 August 1926.</ref><ref>Dwyer, Thomas. ," '']''</ref> | |||
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| ===1934=== | |||
| * About a year after it was published, the book '']'' was listed as "undesirable" in ]. ] painted its author, ] as an agent who created the "alleged Turkish horrors perpetrated against the Armenians" and denounced "America's Armenian Jews for promoting in the U.S.A. the sale of Werfel's book." | |||
| ===1935=== | |||
| * Turkey pressures ] and the United States government from allowing the film giant to produce a film based on ''The Forty Days of Musa Dagh''.<ref>Albig, William. ''Public Opinion''. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939</ref> | |||
| ===1939=== | |||
| * June 23: Following the policy of ], France cedes the ], an area that includes the ruins of ] as well as ] from its ] to Turkey.<ref> July 3, 1939</ref> | |||
| * August 22: ] delivers the ] to ] commanders at his ] home, a week before the ]. He orders them to "kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of the Polish race or language" and concluded by asking "Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?"<ref>Adolf Hitler, 1939-08-22, according to reports received by ] bureau chief in Berlin, Louis Lochner</ref> | |||
| ===1942=== | |||
| * After the Nazi conquest of Greece, Turkey, increased ] for Armenians, Jews, and Greeks, and even Dönme (Christians or Jews who converted to Islam), the Armenians being affected the most. Those who did not pay were condemned to ] in the quarries of ] (the Turkish equivalent to ]), near ]. The government claimed to be doing this action to "turkify" the economy.<ref name=hoffman/><ref>Faik | |||
| Ökte, "The tragedy of the Turkish Capital Tax", Kent 1987</ref> | |||
| ===1944=== | |||
| * Prof. ] coins the term ''genocide'' and states that it happened to both the Armenians and, at the time, the Jews. The name ''Armenian Massacres'' soon falls from popular use by the ] and is soon replaced by ''Armenian Genocide''. | |||
| * March 15: The "property tax" action is repealed. | |||
| ===1945=== | |||
| * The Soviet Union attempts to annul the Treaty of Kars with Turkey and return parts of Northwestern Armenia back to the Armenians. These efforts are halted by intervention from ] and ], fearing Soviet ]. | |||
| ===1955=== | |||
| * The ] is launched in Turkey against ] residing in Istanbul, in particular Greeks, Armenians, and Jews.<ref name="VRYO">], ''The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6–7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul'', New York: 2005, ISBN 0-9747660-3-8 {{Page needed|date=September 2010}}</ref> | |||
| ===1965=== | |||
| * On April 24, ] during the fiftieth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Soviet troops entered the city and attempted to restore order. To prevent any further demonstrations from occurring, the Kremlin commissions a memorial for the genocide. | |||
| * The Uruguay Senate and ] pass a resolution recognizing the events. | |||
| ===1967=== | |||
| * The ] in Yerevan is completed. | |||
| ===1960s=== | |||
| * Considered to be the years when the ] has officially decided to teach to the world, "the other side of the story." The following decade, the Turkish government will found and fund grants of Turkish and Ottoman studies, as well as history chairs at ] department of occidental universities. | |||
| ===1973=== | |||
| * The 26th session of ] ] Committee's Subcommittee on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of National Minorities adopted a report, containing a reference on the Armenian massacres, calling it: "The first Genocide of the twentieth century."<ref name="UNconvention">{{Cite book|first = Merrill D. | last = Peterson | title = Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After | publisher = University of Virginia | |||
| Press | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-8139-2267-4 | page = 162}}</ref> | |||
| * Gourgen Yanikian - Georgeu Yanikian, a 78 year-old Armenian, whose family was decimated during the 1915 massacres - killed two Turkish diplomats in the United States. He is sentenced to life imprisonment but is released later due to illness. | |||
| ===1974=== | |||
| * The Turkish representatives at the U.N., during the 30th meeting has pressurized the organization to redraw the paragraph 30 of the adopted report, labeling the paragraph propaganda and effectively starting the Armenian initiative.<ref name="UNconvention"/> This followed with intense negotiations and pressures for few years, up until which, in 1978, the paragraph was removed until further discussion and in 1979 restored, from that year on, the matter was researched by the U.N. | |||
| ===1975=== | |||
| * Two Armenian militant organizations, the ] (ASALA) and the ] (JCAG) are founded in the midst of the ]. Numerous Turkish diplomats are assassinated. | |||
| * October 22: the Turkish ambassador to Austria, ], is assassinated in his study by three Armenian gunmen. This is the first attack by the ASALA. | |||
| * October 24: the Turkish ambassador to France, ] and his driver, ], are assassinated. This is the first attack by the JCAG. | |||
| ===1976=== | |||
| * United States President ] acknowledges the Armenian Genocide while addressing the US House of Representatives.<ref name="USquotes">{{Cite book|first = Shahzad Z. | last = Najmuddin| title = Armenia: A Resume with Notes on Seth's Armenians in India (Black and White Edition)| publisher = Trafford Publishing| pages = 46, 51| year = 2006 | isbn = 1-4120-7916-0}}</ref> | |||
| ===1978=== | |||
| * May 16: United States President ] officially acknowledges the Armenian Genocide, calling it "probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group."<ref name="USquotes"/> | |||
| ===1979=== | |||
| * October 12: Ahmet Benler, the son of Ambassador Ozdemir Benler, is assassinated on the street by Armenian gunman in the Hague. ASALA and JCAG claim responsibility. In retaliation, Turkish nationalists bomb the church of the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate in ] on October 19. | |||
| ===1981=== | |||
| * April 22: United States President ] officially acknowledges the Armenian Genocide in a speech commemorating the Holocaust.<ref name="USquotes"/> | |||
| ===1982=== | |||
| * July 1: The ''Red Armenian Army'' unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate the Turkish ], ], in ]. No one sustained any injuries from this attack and a member of the group named Penyemin Evingulu was later sentenced to six years in prison for his role in the incident.<ref>, ]</ref><ref>Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature - Page 675 by Albert J. Jongman, Alex Peter Schmid</ref> | |||
| * August 7: Two ASALA gunmen ] in a crowded passenger ] in Ankara at the ]. One of the guerrillas takes more than 20 hostages while the second is apprehended by police. The attackers leave nine people dead and 82 injured. The surviving gunman, Levon Ekmekjian, realizes the horror of his crime before the execution. He issues a strong appeal to his young comrades to reject the program of murder. | |||
| ===1984=== | |||
| * The ] after deliberation, concluded that the tragedy Armenians have faced during the last years of the ], constitute a genocide.<ref>{{Cite book|first = Steven L., Samuel | last = Jacobs, Totten| title = Pioneers of Genocide Studies (Clt)| publisher = Transaction Publishers | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-7658-0151-5| page = 81}}</ref> | |||
| ===1985=== | |||
| * ] recognizes the Armenian Genocide. | |||
| * United Nations ] has passed to a vote, a report containing a reference recognizing the Armenian massacres as genocide.<ref></ref> | |||
| ===1986=== | |||
| * November 23: A bomb explodes in front of the ] in ], Australia. One dead (presumably the perpetrator) and one Australian injured. This is the last attack attributed to Armenian militants. | |||
| ===1988=== | |||
| * January 24: Turkish security forces apprehend a 24-year-old Armenian, Manvel Demir, accusing him of being tied to the ASALA. He becomes heavily injured and later dies in a hospital. The parents of Demir argue that he was tortured and that he was a victim of ]. | |||
| * April 28: ], one of the main leaders of the ASALA is assassinated on a sidewalk in an affluent neighborhood in ], Greece. | |||
| * In the late 1980s access was granted to some archives by the Turkish government, but it appears that the material was limited and the government took a very selective approach to who was allowed to study the material.<ref>State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples, By Heather Rae, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-79708-X, p. 128</ref><ref>Ottoman archives and Denial of the Armenian Genocide, by ]// The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics and Ethics, NY, 1992</ref> Heather Rae marks that "scholars have long been denied access to Ottoman archives". Historian ] also writes about the "carefully selection" of Ottoman archive materials. "While we are missing a significant portion of these papers, what remains in the Ottoman archives and in court records is sufficient to show that the ] Central Committee, and the ] is set up to carry out its plan, did deliberately attempt to destroy the Armenian population".<ref>A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility, by ], Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 0-8050-8665-X, p. 5</ref> | |||
| ===1990=== | |||
| * An Armenian Genocide memorial opens in ], ] the location said to be the largest extermination ground for the Armenians during this time period. | |||
| * April 20: United States President ] officially acknowledges the Armenian Genocide in a speech at ]. Bush stated that "the United States responded to this ] by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts."<ref name="USquotes"/> | |||
| ===1991=== | |||
| * Armenia becomes independent from the Soviet Union and subsequently recognizes the Armenian Genocide. | |||
| ===1993=== | |||
| * During the ], Turkish President ] makes a controversial remark that not only alarms ], but worldwide as well. "What will happen then if three of our bombs hit Armenia? Will they intervene in Turkey?" Özal asked. He then threatened, hinting at the Armenian Genocide, "They learn nothing from history. In Anatolia, they also tried it. But they got an incredible ] . And they have not forgotten the pain to this day. If they try it again here , relying on this or that foreign country for help , they have something coming."<ref>{{Cite book|first = Touraj | last = Atabaki| title = The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide| publisher = Routledge| year = 2005 | isbn = 0-415-33260-5| page = 89}}{{Failed verification|date=October 2008}}<!-- the author, isbn, and title all disagree with one another! --></ref><ref></ref> | |||
| * April 8: The official ] of the ] (MHP), Türkiye announced: "Like the Karabakh mountains, Armenia has been Turkish land for millennia and it will also belong to the ]. Then, in the Caucasus, Armenians will only be found in the museums." | |||
| ===1994=== | |||
| * April 24: United States President ] issued a news release to commemorate the "tragedy" that befell the Armenians in 1915, yet he bowed to ] and refused to refer to it as "genocide", despite referring to the massacre as such before being elected president. | |||
| * April 27: Israeli Deputy ], ] stated in response to a TV interview of the Turkish Ambassador: "It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember... We will always reject any attempt to erase its record, even for some political advantage.<ref name="Israeli Quotes">{{Cite book|first = Yair, Cathy, Michael | last = Auron, Block, Presley | title = The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide | publisher = Transaction Publishers| year = 2003 | id = ISBN 0-7658-0834-X| page = 119}}</ref> | |||
| ===1995=== | |||
| ] | |||
| * April 14: Russia recognizes the Armenian Genocide. | |||
| ===1996=== | |||
| * April 25: Greece recognizes the Armenian Genocide. | |||
| ===1997=== | |||
| * The Parliament of the State of ], Australia passes a motion acknowledging and condemning the Armenian Genocide.<ref>, Armeniapedia.org {{Verify credibility|date=October 2008}}</ref> | |||
| * Belgium recognizes the Armenian Genocide. | |||
| * April 4: ] recognizes the Armenian Genocide. | |||
| * December 3: Italy recognizes the Armenian Genocide. | |||
| ===1998=== | |||
| * May 29: France recognizes the Armenian Genocide. | |||
| * On June 30, the ] band ], whose members are Armenian in ancestry, wrote the song "] (Political Lying, Unholy, Cowardly Killers.)", about the Armenian Genocide and the denial of it as genocide. "P.L.U.C.K." can be found as Track 13 on the self-titled album, '']''. | |||
| ===1999=== | |||
| * On October 5, along with a similar museum, Turkey opened a memorial to Turkish deaths caused by Armenians in ]. The monument consists of five crossed swords and, according to a spokesperson of the governor of Iğdır, it is also visible from the Armenian capital Yerevan: "Whenever the Armenians look towards their holy ], they will see our monument." | |||
| ==21st century== | |||
| * 2001–2004: Also breaking a ], the subsequent U.S. President ], in each year of his ], refused to use the word "genocide" to describe the killings, though promising ] during his ] to recognize the "genocidal campaign" to which Armenians were subjected. He has yet to call it a genocide despite it being his ] (2005–2009)<ref>, Armenianpedia.org {{Verify credibility|date=September 2008}}</ref> | |||
| ===2001=== | |||
| * On January 18, Turkey recalls its ambassador from Paris in protest to a parliamentary bill that was unanimously passes formally recognizing the Armenian Holocaust as genocide and placing blame on the Turks. Relations between Turkey and France consequently suffer. | |||
| ===2002=== | |||
| * The Armenian Genocide is the subject of the ] '']'', by ] director ]. | |||
| ===2003=== | |||
| * February 20: A report on " of the United Nations ] to Events which Occurred During the Early Twentieth Century" by the ] () stated that "...at least some of the perpetrators of the Events knew that the consequence of their action would be the destruction, in whole or in part, of the Armenians of Eastern Anatolia, as such, or acted purposely towards this goal, and, therefore, possessed the requisite genocidal intent." The report concluded that "...the Events, viewed collectively, can thus be said to include all of the elements of the crime of genocide as defined in the Convention, and legal scholars as well as historians, politicians, journalists and other people would be justified in continuing to so describe them" (p. 17). | |||
| * April 14: According to the League for Human Rights,<ref></ref> the Turkish ] issued a document instructing heads of schools to organize conferences stating that Turkey never exterminated its minorities. It also recommended that the students should write dissertations on "fighting allegations of genocide", in which phrases such as "Turks may have killed Armenians" are banned in favour of presenting these events as a necessity in the face of the "massacres perpetrated by Armenians". A first report detailing the application of these recommendations was to be sent by each school to the local Ministry directorates on May 13, 2003. | |||
| ===2004=== | |||
| * The ] and ] ] organization successfully prevented the screening of Atom Egoyan's ''Ararat''. | |||
| * April 21: the ] voted to officially recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide. The motion passed easily by 153 to 68, however, the ]-controlled ] was instructed to vote against it. The federal government, in opposing the motion, did not express a position on whether the genocide took place, but rather cited a desire to avoid reopening old wounds and to maintain good relations with Turkey. | |||
| * April 24: In marking the 89th Anniversary of the genocide, ] issued a statement calling for international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. | |||
| ===2005=== | |||
| * March: The ] and the head of the opposition held a ] proposing the meeting of Armenian and Turkish historians to find out what really happened. The Prime Minister also called on Armenia to open its archives. The Armenian Foreign Minister rejected the invitation, stating that the world already knew what happened, and that its archives have always been open. | |||
| * The Turkish State Archive issued a list of more than 523,000 Turks whom it said were killed by Armenians in Turkey between 1910 and 1922 as Armenians allegedly tried to establish themselves as the majority population in Eastern Anatolia.{{Citation needed|date=May 2007}} | |||
| * The Turkish historian Murat Bardakçı opened the alleged notes of Talat Pasha dating back to 1914 about the population of Armenians under Ottoman rule. The following is an alleged script from Talat Pasha's notebook: | |||
| <blockquote> | |||
| The number of Gregorian and Catholic Armenians that lived under the Ottoman Empire was 1,256,403. By considering the fact that there might be some unaccounted people, we can increase this number to 1,500,000. The cities where the relocation is applied there are 284,157 Armenians but if we increase this number by 30% just to be sure, there are between 250,000 and 400,000 in the cities where the relocation was applied. | |||
| </blockquote> | |||
| * May 25: A conference about "Ottoman Armenians during the Decline of the Empire" focusing on the "Armenian Genocide" to be held in ] of Istanbul, Turkey is postponed by the administration of the Bosphorus University (one of the three organizers) due to the remarks in the speech of ] ] in parliament. | |||
| ::"This is a ] to the Turkish nation. This is irresponsibility", the Anatolian ] quoted Cicek as saying at a ]. "We must put an end to this cycle of treason and insult, of spreading propaganda against the nation by people who belong to it", he added.<ref></ref> | |||
| * May 26: The Organizing Committee of the "Ottoman Armenians during the Decline of the Empire" publicly declared that the conference is going to be held in the near future. | |||
| * June 5, Armenian President Robert Kocharian announced that he was ready to "continue dialogue with Azerbaijan for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and with Turkey on establishing relations without any preconditions." <ref></ref> Armenia has also stated that as a legal successor to the ], it is loyal to the ] and all agreements inherited by the former Soviet Armenian government.<ref>{{Cite news | |||
| | title = In Vartan Oskanian's Words, Turkey Casts Doubt On The Treaty Of Kars With Its Actions | |||
| | publisher = All Armenian Mass Media Association | |||
| | date = 2006-12-13 | |||
| | url =http://www.mediaforum.am/armtoday.php?year=2006&month=12&day=13&LangID=1 | |||
| | accessdate = 2006-12-13 }}</ref> Yet Turkey continues to lay preconditions on relations, insisting that Armenia abandon its efforts to have the Genocide recognized, which official ] is not willing to do. | |||
| * June 16: German ] passed a resolution that "honors and commemorates the victims of violence, murder and expulsion among the ] before and during the First World War". The German resolution mentions that "many independent historians, parliaments and ]s describe the expulsion and annihilation of the Armenians as genocide", but stops short of doing so itself. It also contains an apology for any German responsibility.<ref name="bundestag"></ref> | |||
| * September: A Turkish court has ruled that a controversial conference on the mass killing of Armenians living under the Ottoman Empire should be suspended. The conference of academics and intellectuals was to offer a critical look at the official approach to the events of 1915. It is the second time the conference has been called off.<ref>{{Cite news | |||
| | title = Turkey bans 'genocide' conference | |||
| | publisher = BBC | |||
| | date = 2005-09-25 | |||
| | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4273602.stm | |||
| | accessdate = 2005-09-25 | |||
| | first=Sarah | |||
| | last=Rainsford}}</ref> | |||
| ===2006=== | |||
| Turkey has drafted laws like ] that state "A person who publicly insults Turkishness, or the Republic or Turkish Grand National Assembly of ], shall be punishable by imprisonment". This law has been used, for example, to bring charges against writer ] for stating that "Thirty thousand Kurds and a million ] were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it".<ref>Sarah Rainsford '''' ] 14 December 2005.</ref> The charges were later dropped.<ref>Madeleine Brand speaks with Hugh Pope '''' ] 25 January 2005.</ref> | |||
| * 7 February 2006 the trial opened against five journalists charged with insulting the judicial institutions of the State, and also of aiming to prejudice a court case (Article 288 of the Turkish penal code).<ref>'''' ] 9 February 2006.</ref> The five were on trial because they criticized a court order to shut down a conference in Istanbul about the ] by Turks during the ] – the conference was nevertheless eventually held after having been transferred from a state university to a private university. The case was adjourned until 11 April, when four of the journalists were acquitted on a technicality. The case against the fifth journalist, ], proceeded. On 8 June 2006, Murat Belge was acquitted by the Istanbul court. The trial is seen as a test case between Turkey and the ] (EU), which insists that Turkey must allow increased rights to free expression as part of the negotiations on EU membership.<ref>Benjamin Harvey '''' in ] 8 February 2006.</ref><ref>] '''' in ] 11 April 2006.</ref> | |||
| The aim of the conference, organized by a number of academics and intellectuals, was to offer a critical look at the official approach to the events of 1915, a topic that has long been ] in Turkey.<ref>Sarah Rainsford '''' ] News 22 September 2005.</ref> | |||
| * September: Leading Turkish author ] is to go on trial for a ] in her latest book discussing the genocide.<ref>, '']''</ref>{{Dead link|date=October 2008}} The charge is "insulting Turkishness" under ] and she could have faced a prison term for writing the story. Asked about the alleged real-life crime her character committed in the novel, she stated "Turks and Armenians are not speaking the same language. For the Turks all the past is gone, erased from our memories. That's the way we Westernized: by being future-oriented. ... The grandchildren of the 1915 survivors tend to be very, very past-oriented." She was later acquitted by the Turkish ] in its first sitting. | |||
| * May: ], newly elected ], officially confirms that his government will continue to recognize motions adopted by the Canadian senate and parliament in 2004 acknowledging that the Armenian Genocide took place. | |||
| ===2007=== | |||
| * January 19: Turkish-Armenian editor ] was assassinated by ] because of Dink's personal recognition of the Armenian genocide (for which he had previously been legally prosecuted). While much of the Turkish community condemned the act,<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6281193.stm | work=BBC News | title=Fury in Turkey at editor's murder | date=January 19, 2007 | accessdate=May 22, 2010}}</ref> several ] factions lauded it, and even after the assassin was captured, a photo of him was leaked showing Samast posing in front of a Turkish flag and a poster of ] with two police officers on either side, suggesting that such nationalist elements are working within the Turkish government.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2211573.ece | work=The Independent | location=London | title=Turkish police posed for picture with killer of Armenian journalist | first=Peter | last=Popham | date=February 3, 2007 | accessdate=May 22, 2010}}</ref> | |||
| * March: A Swiss ] in ] convicts Turkish politician ] for denying the Armenian Genocide; public ] is illegal in Switzerland. Perinçek, who was fined ] 10.000 (] 6.230, ] 8.180), appealed the verdict.<ref>{{Cite news|title= Turkish politician fined over genocide denial| date= March 9, 2007 | publisher= ] with agencies| url=http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/Turkish_politician_fined_over_genocide_denial.html?siteSect=105&sid=7603245}}</ref> The conviction was upheld by the ] on December 12, 2007.<ref>Decision no. {{Fr icon}}</ref> | |||
| * April 20: The ] recognizes the Armenian Genocide.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=22235 |title=Basque Parliament recognizes Armenian Genocide |publisher=Panarmenian.net |date=2007-05-13|accessdate=2008-10-10}}</ref> | |||
| * June 5: The ] unanimously passes a resolution calling on the government to join the 1985 UN resolution on the Armenian Genocide.<ref>{{Cite news|title= Chile Senate recognizes Armenian Genocide| date= June 7, 2007 | publisher= Yerkir| url=http://www.yerkir.am/eng/index.php?sub=news_arm&id=30536}}</ref> | |||
| * October 10: ], which was introduced to the US Congress on January 30, 2007, was referred to ]<ref></ref> where it passed a 27-21 vote and was sent back for a full house vote. | |||
| * November 23: The ] parliament adopted a resolution recognizing the “Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, which took 1.5 million lives from 1915 to 1923.” The Mercosur resolution also expressed its support for the Armenian Cause and called on all countries to recognize the Genocide.<ref></ref> | |||
| ===2008=== | |||
| * July 10: BBC has published Questions and Answers about the Armenian genocide. The media have wrote word genocide without quotes.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6045182.stm | work=BBC News | title=Q&A: Armenian genocide dispute | date=March 5, 2010 | accessdate=May 22, 2010}}</ref> | |||
| * ] insurance company announces an outreach program to "compensate heirs of approximately 1,000 life insurance policies issued to Greeks in the Ottoman Empire prior to 1915",<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115940 | |||
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| |title=Versality of Ottoman Rums | |||
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| }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.newyorklife.com/cda/0,3254,17289,00.html | |||
| |accessdate=2008-09-22 | |||
| |title=New York Life Launches Voluntary Program To Reach Out To Heirs Of Greek Policies From 1914 | |||
| |date=2008-09-22 | |||
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| }}</ref> following their 2004 disbursement of $20 million in settlement to survivors, and $3 million to Armenian civic organizations.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.newyorklife.com/cda/0,3254,13529,00.html | |||
| |accessdate=2008-09-22 | |||
| |title=Agreement Is Reached To Settle Armenian Insurance Policies From 1915 | |||
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| * In October, the Swiss court ruled that three Turks were guilty of racial discrimination after having claimed that the Armenian Genocide was an "international lie." The ]an representative of the ], ''Ali Mercan'', was sentenced to pay a fine of 4,500 ]s ($3,900), two others were ordered to pay 3,600 Swiss francs.<ref></ref> | |||
| * In December, the ] ruled that Turkey violated the property rights of the ] ], School and Cemetery and the Foundation for the Armenian Hospital in Yedikule. According to the ruling, Turkey must return the titles of all properties to each foundation and pay compensation of 600,000 euro to the Samatya Foundation and 275,000 euro to the Yedikule Foundation. Turkey has the right to appeal the ECHR decision in a higher authority. No announcement has been made as yet.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10580596.asp | |||
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| |title=ECHR rules against Turkey in Armenian property ownership case | |||
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| |work=Hurriyet Daily News Online | |||
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| ===2009=== | |||
| * In March, The New York Times reported that a long-hidden official document from the Ottoman Interior Minister, Talaat Pasha, detailing the deportations of 972,000 Ottoman Armenians from 1915 through 1916 has been unearthed. According to a long-hidden document that belonged to the interior minister of the Ottoman Empire, 972,000 Ottoman Armenians disappeared from official population records from 1915 through 1916, the NY Times said. The document was published by Turkish author and columnist, Murat Bardakci. The documents, given to Mr. Bardakci by Mr. Talat's widow, Hayriye, before she died in 1983, include lists of population figures. Before 1915, 1,256,000 Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire, according to the documents. The number plunged to 284,157 two years later, Mr. Bardakci said.<ref>http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/09/europe/turkey.php</ref> | |||
| ===2010=== | |||
| *On March 5, 2010, the ]n Parliament recognized the Armenian Genocide on the initiative of the members of ]’s Friendship Union with Armenia.<ref></ref> | |||
| *On March 11, 2010, ] Parliament approved a resolution branding the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide.<ref></ref> | |||
| ===2011=== | |||
| *On December 22, 2011, the ] passed a bill that would make the denial of the Armenian genocide a crime punishable by one year in prison and a fine of €45,000. Turkey responded by freezing bilateral relations with France and banning French military from Turkish docks and airspace<ref></ref><ref></ref> until February 28, 2012, when the Constitutional Council of France ruled that the new law would be unconstitutional and contrary to the democratic principle of ].<ref></ref> | |||
| ==References== | |||
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Post-Armenian Genocide Timeline}} | |||
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