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  • ISTANBUL: Insurance Case In US Not Precedent For Incirlik

    INSURANCE CASE IN US NOT PRECEDENT FOR İNCIRLIK

    Hurriyet Daily News
    Feb 29 2012
    Turkey

    A U.S. federal appeals court ruling against a lower court ruling
    allowing Armenian descendants to file claims against life insurance
    companies over the 1915 incidents may not serve as a precedent for
    three Armenians who claim their property was confiscated from them,
    their lawyer has said.

    "The [U.S.] ruling for the moment is being applied to the cases against
    insurance companies, and not the [three Armenians'] İncirlik case,
    which is more related to stolen properties," said Vartkes Yeghiayan,
    lawyer for Rita Mahtesyan, Anais Harutyunyan and Alex Bakalyan. "We
    would not like to characterize this ruling as evidence that the court
    is 'against Armenians,'" said Yeghiayan. "It is difficult to determine
    if any political factors were at play in the court's decision-making,
    but the fact that they mentioned the French denial law is significant
    in and of itself." The federal court's decision came after the French
    Senate passed a bill criminalizing denials of Armenian genocide claims.

    İncirlik is now the site of a major military base in the southern
    province of Adana.


    From: Baghdasarian
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