WATERTOWN, MAY 7, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Armenian Reporter editor Emil Sanamyan and Armenian Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian will talk about their recent trips to Turkey at the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) on Wednesday, May 12. The event will be moderated by Marc Mamigonian, NAASR's director of academic affairs. Sanamyan and Mouradian visited Istanbul, Ankara, Kars, and Ani in March 2010. During their visit, they met and interviewed Turkish political leaders (including president Abdullah Gul and foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu), policymakers, and journalists. According to www.hairenikweekly.com, in April, Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian made a second trip to Turkey, giving a commemoration lecture in Istanbul on April 24 and taking part in a symposium on the Armenian genocide and reparations in Ankara on April 25, as well as attending the commemoration events in Istanbul.

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