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    Argentine Judge - Turkey Committed Genocide

    [ 2011/04/02 | 09:50 ] world

    An Argentine judge has said `the Turkish state committed the crime of
    genocide against the Armenian people' between 1915 and 1923, this
    according to today's AP.

    The ruling on Friday also says Turkey should help an Armenian
    descendant living in Argentina learn the fate of more than 50 of his
    relatives who disappeared nearly a century ago.

    Many international experts say the killing of up to 1.5 million
    Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I was
    genocide. Turkey maintains that far fewer died and due to civil war
    and unrest, rather than genocide.

    The Turkish Embassy in Buenos Aires has not immediately responded to a
    request for comment.

    Judge Norberto Oyarbide says his ruling is `declarative' only, with no
    value other than the truth.

    http://hetq.am/en/world/56809/




    From: A. Papazian
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