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Published on December 21, 2011
JOURNALISTS PROTEST IN ISTANBUL
- Turkish police detained dozens of people in a wave of raids targeting suspected members of the "press and propaganda wing" of a banned Kurdish separatist group accused of committing acts of terrorism, the semi-official Anatolian Agency reported Tuesday, the CNN reports. In a move that alarmed human rights organizations, journalists' associations and press freedom activists, police swept up a number of journalists in the raids. "Thirty-eight colleagues have been detained," announced the Freedom for Journalists Platform, an umbrella group that represents dozens of Turkish journalist associations and unions. Hours after the arrests, hundreds of Turkish journalists took to the streets in Istanbul, conducting a hastily organized protest march down the city's main pedestrian thoroughfare.
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Headlines for December 21, 2011NAMES OF CONTEST WINNERS ARE KNOWN
Contest for journalists titled "DigiTec exhibition: fest for technological Armenians" awarded Samvel Avagyan (www.news.am) with 50,000 AMD in "Best Article" nomination. Gayane Khachatryan (www.1in.am) ...TIGRAN HARUTYUNYAN APPOINTED DEPUTY MINISTER OF ECONOMY
Tigran Harutyunyan was appointed as the deputy minister of Economy, by the decree of the Prime Minister of the Armenian Republic Tigran Sargsyan, the Information and Public Relations department of the ...AROUND 40 PEOPLE KILLED IN SYRIA
Over a hundred people, including civilians, security forces and military deserters, are reported to have died within the last two days in Syria, theopenglobe.org reports. According to the Syrian Observatory ...SERZH SARGSYAN RECEIVED NEWLY APPOINTED HEAD OF EU MISSION
Today RA President Serzh Sargsyan received the newly appointed head of the EU mission to the Republic of Armenia, ambassador Traian Hristea. RA President Press Office reported that the two attached ...FRANCE CALLS ON TURKEY TO RECOGNIZE ITS REAL HISTORY
The Minister responsible for European Affairs, Jean Leonetti, called on Turkish government to recognize the Armenian Genocide as a reality taken place in the 20th century and rejected the views by Ankara ...KIM JONG-UN SHARES POWER WITH HIS UNCLE AND THE MILITARY
North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week's death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with ...JOURNALISTS PROTEST IN ISTANBUL
Turkish police detained dozens of people in a wave of raids targeting suspected members of the "press and propaganda wing" of a banned Kurdish separatist group accused of committing acts of ...PM TIGRAN SARGSYAN RECEIVES GREEK AMBASSADOR
Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan received Ambassador of Greece Ioannis Korinthios, who ends his diplomatic mission in Armenia. "We have passed together a way full of many ordeals and challenges during your ...ALL ROADS ARE PASSABLE IN ARMENIA
Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Armenian Republic reports that all the roads in Armenia are passable. Fog is possible in Ararat valley, Kotayk, Vayots Dzor, Aragatsotn and Syunik. By preliminary ...CAMPINAS APPROVED RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
According to the MFA press and public relations department, Brazilian city of Campinas (Sao Paolo) has officially informed the Armenian Embassy in Brazil that on December 16, Mayor D. Vilagra approved ...SERZH SARGSYAN MEETS WITH OUTGOING MG FRENCH CO-CHAIR
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan had a meeting with the outgoing OSCE French co-chair Bernard Fassier.
At the meeting, the Armenian President thanked the outgoing French Co-Chair for his active work. ...FRENCH PRESIDENT N. SARKOZY DOESN'T WANT TO TALK TO GÜL
It is two days already that Turkish President Abdullah Gül tries to talk to French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the phone, the latter however postpones the talk for different reasons and does not ...ARMENIAN TEAM LOSES TO CHINESE TEAM
In the third round of the World Women Chess Team Championship in Turkey the Armenia's team lost to China's team (0-4). Elina Danielian lost to Hou Yifan, Lilit Mkrtchian lost to Ju Wenjun, Lilit Galojan ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1851 Birth, in Samsoon of Arpiar Arpiaryan (writer and public figure). He died in 1908 in Cairo (Egypt).
- 1912 In Constantinople, the Armenian National Assembly decides to raise the Armenian Question in London at the conference of ambassadors.
- 1917 The Gevorgyan Academy closes in Echmiadsin.
- 1920 The Revolutionary Committee of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia decrees the dissolution of the Russian Empire's legal assembly within the frontiers of Soviet Armenia. The assembly was introduced by the temporary government of the Transcaucasian Seim and Armenia's Dashnak government.
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