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    ANKARA TO HOST SYMPOSIUM ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    02.04.2010 11:26 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On April 24-25, a symposium on the Armenian
    Genocide, titled "1915 within its pre- and post-historical periods:
    denial and confrontation," will be held in Ankara. Organized by the
    Ankara Freedom to Thought Initiative (AFTI), the symposium will not
    only address the history, but explore issues like the confiscation
    of Armenian property and reparations, The Armenian Weekly reported.

    Confirmed participants include Ragip Zarakolu (publisher), Recep
    Marasli (author of The Armenian National Democratic Movement and 1915
    Genocide), Sait Cetinoglu (activist and writer), Dr. David Gaunt
    (genocide scholar, author of Massacres, Resistance, Protectors:
    Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia During World War
    I), Dr. Henry Theriault (professor of Philosophy, Worcester State
    University), and Khatchig Mouradian (Doctoral student in Holocaust
    and Genocide Studies, Clark University; editor, the Armenian Weekly).

    Dedicated to the memory of Hrant Dink, the symposium will comprise of
    four sessions: a) the Armenian Genocide from a historical perspective,
    b) official ideological denial from the Committee of Union and Progress
    (CUP) to Kemalism, c) Turkification of the Economy and the issue of the
    confiscated Armenian Property, and d) what needs to be done and how?

    The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
    destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
    and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
    deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
    lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
    reaching 1.5 million.

    The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
    Genocide survivors.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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