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Headlines for October 16, 2006
CHIRAC APOLOGIZED TO TURKISH PRIME MINISTER
French President Jacques Chirac in a telephone conversation with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he felt sorry that the bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial was approved and added ...NUDITY AGAINST FRANCE?
Former forward of Besiktas (Istanbul football team) Pascal Nouma, who lives in Turkey at present, said he will go to Paris and undress in front of the French parliament in protest against the bill penalizing ...PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE OF ARMENIA AND TURKEY POSSIBLE
Armenian and Turkey co-exist in peace, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said in an interview with the Armenian Public TV. “Turkey is a big country and our neighbor. We should resign ourselves ...FRENCH JOURNALISTS IN ISTANBUL CONDEMNED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
Thirty-three French journalists, who came to Istanbul to see famous photographer Goksin Sipahioglu’s exhibition, condemned France for the adoption of the Armenian Genocide bill. “France made a historical ...RA FM WELCOMES ORHAN PAMUK’S NOBEL PRIZE
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian welcomed awarding of Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk with Novel Prize. “We do welcome this decision that coincided with the adoption of the Armenian Genocide bill ...11TH SITTING OF ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN INTERPARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN
The 11th sitting of the Armenian-Russian Interparliamentary Committee on Cooperation will be held in Yerevan October 17, reports the RA NA press office. On the same day Committee Co-chair Nikolay Ryzhkov ...RA PRIME MINISTER DEPARTING FOR FRANCE ON 3-DAY WORKING VISIT
Today co-chair of the state committee for the organization of the Year of Armenia in France, Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan will depart for France on a 3-day working visit to take part in ...RA FM DISCUSSED KARABAKH PROBLEM RESOLUTION WITH NKR LEADERSHIP
October 15 Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian paid a visit to Stepanakert, reported the RA MFA press office. Vartan Oskanian met with NKR President Arkady Ghukasian and FM Georgy Petrosian to discuss ...FRANCE: STOLEN MONUMENT TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS NOT FOUND YET
The monument to the Armenian Genocide victims stolen last week in the French town of Chaville has not been found yet. The 300-kg monument was stolen two days after the adoption of the Armenian Genocide ...MUBARIZ AHMEDOGLU: AZERBAIJAN SHOULDN'T RELY ON UN IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
November 6 the UN General Assembly will discuss the problem of frozen conflicts in the former USSR space. The Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be on the agenda as well, reports Day.az. The head of the Center ...TURKISH EX-PRESIDENT: FRANCE WON’T WISH TO OFFEND IMPORTANT FRIEND LIKE TURKEY
The adoption of the bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial in France is a “great shame”, Turkish ex-President Suleyman Demirel said. “This is France’s erroneous opinion about Turkey and Turkish ...DUTCH HISTORIAN: MODERN TURKEY FOUNDERS’ HAD BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS
On October 14 Channel 1of the Dutch Public Television broadcast a program titled “Dutch historians on the Armenian Genocide” with participation of Ton Zwaan, a Dutch historian, specialist for genocide ...EUROPEAN COMMISSION: TURKEY’S ACCESSION TO EU MAY TAKE 20 YEARS
The process of Turkey’s accession to the EU is dragging out and may take some 20 years, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said giving to understand that the pessimism over Turkey’s capability ...TURKISH TERRITORY WASN'T FIRED FROM ARMENIAN SIDE
Turkish territory was not fired from the Armenian side, Vardan Karapetian, the spokesman of the frontier department of Russian Federal Security Service (FSS) told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. According ...ROMANIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA COMPLETING MISSION
Armenian President Robert Kocharian received Romanian Ambassador to Armenia Nicolae Iordache, who is completing his mission in Armenia, reported the RA leader's press office. The parties thanked ...POPE TO VISIT TURKEY
The Vatican on Monday officially confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI will visit Turkey at the end of November, a trip that had been put into doubt by Muslim anger over controversial comments he made about ...RA FM TO VISIT CANADA, U.S. AND FRANCE
October 17 Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian is departing for Canada, reported the RA MFA press office. October 18 he will meet in Ottawa with Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay, members of ...U.S. AMBASSADOR TO OSCE JULIE FINLEY ARRIVING IN ARMENIA OCTOBER 17
October 17-19 U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley will be paying a visit to Armenia, the press office of the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. The details of the visit will ...THE OBSERVER: GENOCIDE BILL ADOPTION MADE FRANCE ENEMY OF FREEDOM
British daily The Observer commented on Sunday that making denial of the Armenian Genocide a criminal offense is "wrong and bad," describing the French move as an "enemy of free speech." ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1886 Birth of Armin Wegener (soldier, humanitarian). As a German soldier in the Near East, he surreptitiously photographed scenes of the 1915 Armenian Genocide as it was being implemented by the Turks. He unsuccessfully tried to warn governments of possible future genocides. He died in 1978.
- 1914 The German-Turkish fleet, headed by the German admiral Sushon, bombard Russian Black Sea ports.
- 1919 Major General Harbord (Chief, American Military Mission to Armenia) writes: mutilation, violation, torture and death have left their haunting memories in a hundred beautiful Armenian valleys, and the traveler in that region is seldom free from the evidence of this most colossal crime of all the ages.
- 1991 Levon Ter-Petrossyan was elected President of Armenia.. He was the first president after the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
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