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Armenian genocide

Supporters of the Turkey Youth Union chant slogans during a protest against US President Joe Biden's statement, outside the US consulate in Istanbul, April 26, 2021.
Human rights
Turkey’s Erdoğan calls Biden’s acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide ‘unfounded, unjust, unrealistic’
Yevnige Salibian, 101, is one of the few remaining survivors of the Armenian genocide.
Conflict
101-year-old Armenian genocide survivor tells her story
An American minister organized a last-minute sea rescue of 250,000 people from the Ottoman city of Smyrna at the height of the Armenian genocide
Books
The American who saved 250,000 from death during the Armenian genocide
Armen Demircian says he's found a home at this recently restored Armenian Church in Diyarbakir, Turkey — though he's not a Christian.
Conflict
One man in Turkey struggles with his long-hidden Armenian identity
Harout Bassmajian in the family store, Arax Market, in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Conflict
Even after a century, the Armenian genocide is a cornerstone of Armenian identity
TV celebrity Kim Kardashian gestures on her way to a hotel shortly after arriving in Yerevan, Armenia, on April 8, 2015.
Culture
Kim Kardashian (and the Pope) thrusts Armenia and its horrific past into the spotlight
Cover of the book "President Calvin Coolidge and the Armenian Orphan Rug" by Dr. Hagop Martin Deranian
Arts, Culture & Media
The White House says a rug gifted to Calvin Coolidge by Armenian orphans will stay in storage for now
Global Politics
Turks outraged over French passage of genocide law
Turkey’s only all-Armenian village a lens to the past
Global Politics
Syrian Armenian Refugees Back President Assad
Arts, Culture & Media
Turkey Calls French Genocide Bill ‘Racist’
Arts, Culture & Media
In Turkey’s Last Armenian Village, a Place to Get Away From it All
Global Politics
Turkey reacts to US Congress vote on ‘genocide’
Arts, Culture & Media
Armenia and Turkey
Global Politics
Soccer diplomacy