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	<description>This blog is created to facilitate an open discussion, as well as exchange of information and insights on Armenian issue.</description>
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		<title>Armenian Government Not Courageous Enough To Accept Turkey&#8217;s Offer</title>
		<link>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/02/05/armenian-government-not-courageous-enough-to-accept-turkeys-offer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish EU minister said that the government of Armenia was not courageous enough to accept Turkey&#8217;s offer that archives should be examined by scholars.EU Minister Egemen Bagis attended a program &#8220;Talk to Al Jazeera&#8221; on news channel, Al Jazeera English. Recalling that Turkey offered that all archives of Turkey and Armenia must be examined by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporters Without Borders urge MPs to refer French denial bill to Constitutional Council</title>
		<link>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/26/reporters-without-borders-urge-mps-to-refer-french-denial-bill-to-constitutional-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporters Without Borders in Paris urged parliamentarians to refer the bill adopted on Monday to make it a crime to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman era incidents of 1915 to the Constitutional Council. A letter by Jean-Francois Julliard, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, said that parliamentarians must demand the bill&#8217;s referral to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open letter to French lawmakers</title>
		<link>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/26/open-letter-to-french-lawmakers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sophie Quintin Adali Honorable members of the Senate and of the National Assembly, There is something rotten in our Republic. The adoption by the two chambers of a law criminalizing a thought crime (denial of Armenian “genocide”) is both a shame for French democracy and a violation of the fundamental rights enshrined in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turks march through Paris to protest against passing of genocide law</title>
		<link>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/23/turks-march-through-paris-to-protest-against-passing-of-genocide-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkish-Armenian Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Turks from across Europe marched through the French capital on Saturday to denounce a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide. Turks young and old, waving their country&#8217;s red flag or wrapped in it, marched to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over Turkish Protests, French Lawmakers to Vote on Bill Penalizing Genocide Denial</title>
		<link>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/22/over-turkish-protests-french-lawmakers-to-vote-on-bill-penalizing-genocide-denial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkish-Armenian Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The French Senate is scheduled to vote on Monday on a law that would penalize those who deny genocide, taking another step along a path that has already damaged France’s relations with Turkey. The draft law, passed in December by the National Assembly, France’s lower house, does not specifically mention the mass killings of Armenians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A. Times: French Senate should reject the bill</title>
		<link>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/19/l-a-times-french-senate-should-reject-the-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Armenian Claims]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Armenian Diaspora]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article published on January 19, the Los Angeles Times has said that the &#8220;French Senate should reject a bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915&#8243;. Titled &#8220;Speech crimes and France&#8221; and written by Timothy Garton Ash, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research sheds light on architecture in Ottoman</title>
		<link>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/17/research-sheds-light-on-architecture-in-ottoman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/17/research-sheds-light-on-architecture-in-ottoman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkish-Armenian Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Selman Can’s research on 19th century Ottoman architecture reveals the real architects of Ottoman buildings. ‘The Balyans, known as the architects of in the Ottoman, were actually contractors,’ he says Istanbul’s Çırağan Palace’s history consultant Associate Professor Selman Can said the Balyans, one of the well-known Armenian families of the Ottoman Empire, were not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armenian church to host classical music concert</title>
		<link>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/12/armenian-church-to-host-classical-music-concert/</link>
		<comments>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/12/armenian-church-to-host-classical-music-concert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Surp Vortvots Vorodman Church in Istanbul’s Kumkapı district, which was recently reopened for worship after 100 years, will host a concert Jan. 22 as part of the “Bach Before and After” events. The event, organized by the Hakan Erdoğan Production every two months, will feature Czech violinist Jiri Barta and pianist Stanislav Gallin. Beethoven’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Armenian resolution at French Senate may cause great harm to Turkish-French relations, says PM Erdogan</title>
		<link>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/10/an-armenian-resolution-at-french-senate-may-cause-great-harm-to-turkish-french-relations-says-pm-erdogan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/10/an-armenian-resolution-at-french-senate-may-cause-great-harm-to-turkish-french-relations-says-pm-erdogan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that an Armenian resolution at the French Senate may cause great harm to Turkish-French relations if it gets adopted there. Answering questions of the media at a joint press conference with his Norwegian counterpart Jens Stoltenberg in Ankara, Erdogan said that there were around 550,000 Turks living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armenian deportation should not be deemed genocide, analysts say</title>
		<link>http://www.armenianissueblog.org/2012/01/08/armenian-deportation-should-not-be-deemed-genocide-analysts-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid controversy over a bill accepted last month in the French National Assembly that penalized denial of the “Armenian genocide,” a circle of academics have suggested that the Ottoman Empire’s acts against the Armenian community in Eastern Anatolia cannot be considered “genocide” due to a lack of intention on the part of the Ottoman Empire [...]]]></description>
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