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ACCORDING TO TURKISH NEWSPAPER, 65% OF PBS STATIONS AIRED
ROND TABLE FOLLOWING DEMONSTRATION OF "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE"
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  • 2006-04-20 16:00:00

ISTANUL, APRIL 20, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The film "The Armenian Genocide" of Andrew Goldberg was aired on April 17 by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

TURKS AND AZERIS OF AMERICA ENVISAGE TO HOLD DEMONSTRATION
OF COMPLAINT IN NEW YORK ON APRIL 22
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  • 2006-04-19 13:25:00

NEW YORK, APRIL 19, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The Assembly of Turkish American Associations and the Azeris' Union of America envisage to hold a demonstration of complaint in the "Times" square

BILL ENVISAGING TO ERECT MONUMENT TO ENVER-PASHA IN BAKU
SQUARE SUBMITTED TO AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT
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  • 2006-04-11 17:45:00

ISTANBUL, APRIL 11, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Kudret Hasankuliyev, one of the leaders of the People's Front opposition party of Azerbaijan, submitted a bill to the country's parliament demanding that a

ARMENIAN YOUTH DOES NOT REFUSE TO PRESENT LAND DEMANDS TO
TURKEY, TURKISH NEWSPAPER WRITES
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  • 2006-04-11 16:50:00

ISTANBUL, APRIL 11, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The most part of young people of Armenia does not want to refuse to present land demands to Turkey. The Turkish "Milliet" daily informs

TURKISH PARLIAMENTARY UNION SENDS LETTER TO M.E.P.S
INCLUDING PHOTOS OF TURKISH DIPLOMATS KILLED BY ASALA
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  • 2006-01-25 18:25:00

ANKARA, JANUARY 25, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Turkish Parliamentary Union (TPB) sent letters to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) including the photos of those Turkish diplomats killed by ASALA (Armenian

KAZIMIROV CALLS TO ACTIVIZE NATIONAL DIPLOMACY FOR
PREPARING ARMENIANS AND AZERIS FOR COMPROMISE ON NAGORNO
KARABAKH
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  • 2005-11-25 13:15:00

MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 25, NOYAN TAPAN. Vladimir Kazimirov, former head of the Russian Intermediary Mission on Nagorno Karabakh turned to the Azerbaijani and Armenian NGOs with an open letter, calling on them to

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT CALLS ON IN BRUSSELS EU LEADERS TO APPLY
PRESSURE ON TURKEY DURING NEGOTIATIONS ON TURKEY'S JOINING EU
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  • 2005-10-21 19:45:00

ANKARA, OCTOBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN. According to Chihan News Agency (Turkey), Armenian President Robert Kocharian called on in Brussels the European leaders to apply pressure on Turkey during the negotiations on Turkey's

TURKISH INTELLECTUALS EXPRESS THEIR SUPPORT FOR AGOS
NEWAPAPER EDITOR-IN_CHIEF HRANT DINK SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT
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  • 2005-10-12 17:00:00

ANKARA, OCTOBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. Hrant Dink, the Agos newspaper editor-in-chief, convicted and given a six-month suspended prison sentence for insulting Turkey in one of his articles, has received support from journalists,

SWISS SENATE NOT TO DISCUSS ISSUE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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  • 2005-08-09 16:00:00

BERN, AUGUST 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Peter Brener, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Senate - the upper chamber of the Swiss parliament, stated last week that "the Senate will not

MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN MONASTERY FOUND IN KYRGHYZSTAN
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  • 2005-08-09 16:00:00

BISHKEK, AUGUST 9, NOYAN TAPAN. A group of archaeologists from the Slavonic Institute of Kyrghyzstan discovered a medieval Armenian monastery on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul (Kyrghyzstan). "We heard long ago about

TURKEY, GREECE, PREPARE TO QUIT DISPUTED ISLET AFTER US
INTERVENTION
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  • 1996-01-31 12:07:00

ANKARA, Jan 31 (AFP-NT) - Greek and Turkish forces prepared Wednesday to withdraw from around a disputed islet in the Aegean Sea following heavy pressure from the United States to step

GREEK CHOPPER CRASHES NEAR DISPUTED ISLET, THREE SOLDIERS
MISSING
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  • 1996-01-31 09:50:00

ATHENS, Jan 31 (AFP) - Three Greek soldiers were reported missing early Wednesday after their helicopter crashed into the sea near a disputed Aegean islet, Greek military officials said. The military

BILLION-DOLLAR AIRCRAFT DEAL FOR RUSSIA
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  • 1996-01-31 09:45:00

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (AFP-NT) - The US Export-Import Bank gave preliminary approval Tuesday for financing of the sale of one billion dollars worth of aviation equipment from US suppliers to Russia.

TURKEY-GREECE-ACCORD
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  • 1996-01-31 09:35:00

ATHENS, Jan 31 (AFP-NT) - Greece and Turkey concluded an agreement overnight acknowledging Greek sovereignty over a disputed Aegean islet, following the intervention of US assistant secretary of state Richard Holbrooke, Greek

HIGHER CRUDE OIL PRICES AND COST CUTTING HELPED OIL GIANTS
IN 1995
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  • 1996-01-24 19:30:00

New York 24 (DPA-NT) - U.S. oil companies had solid operational results in 1995, due to higher crude oil prices, continued cost cutting and very strong chemical earnings, according to American petroleum

CASH CRISIS THREATENS PIONEERING OZONE MONITORING EXPERIMENT
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  • 1996-01-24 17:10:00

NOORDWIJK, Netherlands, Jan 24 (AFP) - The most ambitious experiment ever made to keep track of changes in world's ozone layer is in danger of grinding to a halt next year

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES STILL DENIED HUMAN RIGHTS: UN REPRESENTATIVE
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  • 1996-01-24 16:55:00

SYDNEY, Jan 24 (AFP-NT) - Australia is continuing to violate the most fundamental human rights of Aborigines, the country's representative to the UN Human Rights Commission said Wednesday. "The position of indigenous

THE PLO CHARTER DISPUTE: A SYMBOLIC STEP TOWARDS PEACE
  • World News
  • 1996-01-24 16:45:00

JERUSALEM, Jan 24 (AFP-NT) - Cancellation of clauses in the PLO charter calling for Israel's destruction is of capital importance for Palestinians and Jews alike, even though the document retains little more

MITCHELL REPORT REJECTS BRITISH DISARMAMENT PRECONDITION
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  • 1996-01-24 16:30:00

DUBLIN, Jan 24 (AFP) - The international commission on disarming Northern Ireland's paramilitaries rejects London's insistence that illegally held weapons be handed in before all-party talks on the province's future can begin,

CLINTON CHALLENGES CONGRESS AND AMERICA
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  • 1996-01-24 16:05:00

Washington (DPA, AFP -NT) - U.S. President Bill Clinton used his annual State of the Union address Tuesday to challenge the Congress and the American people to work together to strengthen community,

SHATTUCK CHIDES BOSNIA PARTIES OVER PRISONER RELEASE DELAYS
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  • 1996-01-24 15:50:00

SARAJEVO, Jan 24 (AFP-NT) - Top US human rights official John Shattuck on Tuesday publicly reprimanded Bosnia's former belligerents for failing to meet commitments to release all prisoners. In a blunt

THREE INDIAN MINISTERS FORMALLY CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION
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  • 1996-01-24 15:45:00

NEW DELHI, Jan 23 (AFP) - India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) formally charged three former members of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao's cabinet with corruption on Tuesday. The federal detective

LIBERATION OF HOSTAGES POSTPONED IN CHECHIA
  • World News
  • 1996-01-23 18:35:00

NOVOGROZNY, Russia, Jan 23 (AFP-NT) - Hostages held by Chechen independence rebels were not freed Tuesday as planned, but will be released on Wednesday, rebel military commander Aslan Maskhadov said. "Tomorrow

GHALI AND CLINTON CALL FOR SPEEDY BAN ON NUCLEAR
TESTS
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  • 1996-01-23 17:45:00

GENEVA Jan 23 (DPA-NT) - United Nations Secretary General Butros Ghali and U.S. President Bill Clinton have called on the 38 member states of the U.N. Disarmament Conference in Geneva to

CZECH REPUBLIC SUBMITS APPLICATION FOR E.U. MEMBERSHIP
  • World News
  • 1996-01-23 17:15:00

Rome Jan 23 (DPA-NT) - Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus submitted his country's official application for European Union membership to Italian Foreign Minister Susanna Agnelli, whose country currently holds the E.U.'s revolving

CONSERVATIVE ELECTED SPEAKER OF RUSSIAN UPPER HOUSE
  • World News
  • 1996-01-23 16:50:00

MOSCOW, Jan 23 (AFP-NT) - The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, Tuesday elected as its speaker Yegor Stroyev, a conservative former apparatchik, ITAR-TASS news agency reported. Stroyev,

TURKEY'S CILLER PROPOSES ROTATING PRIME MINISTRY
  • World News
  • 1996-01-23 16:35:00

ANKARA, Jan 23 (AFP-NT) - Prime Minister Tansu Ciller Tuesday proposed a coalition government with the conservative Motherland Party on the principle of a rotating prime ministry. Motherland leader Mesut

NEW GREEK PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET SWORN IN
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  • 1996-01-23 16:30:00

Athens Jan 23, (DPA-NT) - The new Greek Prime Minister Kostas Simitis and his newly-formed cabinet were sworn in by President Kostis Stephanopoulos Monday. Papandreou's last

PALESTINIAN STATE IS BORN, SAYS ISRAELI MINISTER
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  • 1996-01-23 15:25:00

JERUSALEM, Jan 22 (AFP) - The self-rule elections have in effect turned the Palestinian territories into an independent state, a left-wing Israeli minister said Monday. "The elections have created a

NORTH KOREA SEEKING MORE RICE FROM JAPAN: JAPANESE SENATOR
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  • 1996-01-23 15:05:00

TOKYO, Jan 22 (AFP) - North Korea is seeking additional rice aid from Japan amid international efforts to coordinate an approach to a food crisis in the hardline communist state, a Japanese

FLOODING SWAMPS U.S. EAST COAST, DEATH TOLL RISES
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  • 1996-01-22 20:50:00

Washington Jan 22 (DPA -NT) - Melting snow and ice, combined with earlier heavy rains, swelled the great rivers of the eastern United States Monday and caused some of the worst flooding

RUSSIAN MPS STILL SUPPORT ABKHAZ SEPARATISTS: SHEVARDNADZE
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  • 1996-01-22 18:50:00

TBILISI, Jan 22 (AFP-NT) - Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze Monday accused Russian opponents of President Boris Yeltsin of undermining Moscow's interests by supporting separatists in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. "Supporters

KINKEL GEORGIA VISIT AIMED AT STRESSING BONN'S REGIONAL
ROLE
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  • 1996-01-22 16:05:00

Bonn Jan 22 (DPA-NT) - German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel travels to Georgia Tuesday in a trip aimed at underscoring Germany's continuing political and economic interest in the Transcaucasian region, the Bonn

ITALY'S NEO-FASCIST LEADER UPSETS EFFORTS TO FORM NEW GOVERNMENT
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  • 1996-01-22 16:00:00

ROME, Jan 21 (AFP) - Efforts to form a new government in Italy ran into trouble at the weekend after neo-fascist leader Gianfranco Fini, who wants early elections, refused to accept Lamberto

DESPITE ELECTION EUPHORIA PROBLEMS REMAIN FOR ARAFAT AND
PALESTINIANS
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  • 1996-01-22 15:10:00

Gaza/Jerusalem Jan 22(DPA-NT) - On the most basic level Saturday's general elections provided a sweeping and unifying victory for Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat and his policies of peace with Israel. But just

G7 OFFICIALS SEEN TRYING TO BOOST CONFIDENCE
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  • 1996-01-22 14:20:00

PARIS, Jan 22 (AFP-NT) - The Group of Seven (G7) leading industrial countries sought to convey a signal of confidence to business and consumers at the weekend, asserting that Japan, helped by

COUNCIL TO DECLARE INDEPENDENCE WITHIN THREE YEARS: PLO
OFFICIAL
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  • 1996-01-22 11:15:00

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, Jan 22 (AFP-NT) - The newly-elected Palestinian legislative council will declare an independent Palestinian state during its three-year mandate, a senior PLO official said here Sunday. "The

CILLER ASKED TO FORM NEW GOVERNMENT
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  • 1996-01-20 20:25:00

ANKARA, Jan 19 (AFP) - Turkish President Suleyman Demirel asked caretaker Prime Minister Tansu Ciller to form a government Friday, after pro-Islamic leader Necmettin Erbakan failed to find a coalition partner and

IRAN HOLDS THREE-NATION TALKS ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION
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  • 1996-01-20 16:00:00

TEHRAN, Jan 20 (AFP -NT) - The foreign ministers of Iran, Armenia and Turkmenistan held talks here Saturday on boosting economic cooperation. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar

CHRISTIAN OBSERVERS TRY TO KEEP JEWISH-MOSLEM PEACE
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  • 1996-01-19 16:00:00

HEBRON, West Bank, Jan 19 (AFP-NT) - A small group of American Christian social workers and farmers have set up an unofficial peacekeeping force between Jewish settlers and Palestinian Moslems in the

KINKEL TO DISCUSS CHECHENIA CONFLICT WITH RUSSIAN
COUNTERPART
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  • 1996-01-19 16:00:00

Moscow/Bonn Jan 19 (DPA-NT) - German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel will travel to Moscow for a one-day visit on January 27 to discuss with his Russian counterpart Yevgeny Primakov the Chechenia crisis,

TENSIONS RISE AS SETTLERS URGE PROTEST, TROOPS CLASH WITH
WOMEN
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  • 1996-01-19 15:50:00

HEBRON, West Bank, Jan 19 (AFP-NT) - Jewish settlers on Thursday called for a demonstration on the day of Palestinian elections, as Israeli troops clashed with Arab women protesters, raising tensions in

MICHAEL JACKSON AND LISA MARIE PRESLEY TO DIVORCE =
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  • 1996-01-19 15:40:00

Los Angeles Jan 19 (DPA-NT) - Lisa Marie Presley, the wife of controversial pop star Michael Jackson, filed for divorce Thursday, citing "irreconcilable differences", records showed. According to the three-page divorce petition

DAYTON ACCORDS TO STAY UNCHANGED: HOLBROOKE
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  • 1996-01-19 15:35:00

SARAJEVO, Jan 19 (AFP-NT) - Deadlines in Bosnia's peace accord must be met, Richard Holbrooke, the US diplomat who brokered the agreement, said here Thursday ahead of the Friday midnight limit for

JORDANIAN NO-SHOW AT COLORFUL BAPTISM CEREMONY ON JORDAN
RIVER
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  • 1996-01-19 14:30:00

JORDAN RIVER, West Bank, Jan 18 (AFP-NT) - Orthodox Christians gathered here Thursday for colorful celebrations at the site where tradition says Jesus was baptised, but an historic twin ceremony on the

SIMITIS SUCCEEDS AILING PAPANDREOU
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  • 1996-01-19 14:00:00

ATHENS, Jan 19 (AFP) - Greece's socialist PASOK party on Thursday elected pro-European modernist Costas Simitis to succeed ailing Andreas Papandreou as the country's new prime minister, officials said.

ERBAKAN REFUSES TO CONFIRM ABANDONING QUEST FOR COALITION
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  • 1996-01-18 20:30:00

ANKARA, Jan 18 (AFP-NT) - Islamic leader Necmettin Erbakan on Thursday refused to confirm that he would abandon the quest to form a coalition and return his mandate to Turkey's

PRELATE: ARMENIANS WILL MAKE HISTORY
From the Providence Journal, 1/17/96, pg. 1
PROVIDENCE -- Only hours after meeting with President Clinton at
the White House, the world leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church
yesterday came
  • World News
  • 1996-01-18 19:51:00

Karekin I, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, visited the state as part of an 11-day visit to the United States. The Syrian-born, Oxford-educated prelate, enthroned last April, is

PRESIDENT CLINTON MEETS WITH HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN I
  • World News
  • 1996-01-18 19:15:00

Washington, Jan 18 (ANCA, NT) Below is the statement by the White House Press Secretary made after the meeting of president Clinton with His Holiness Karekin I, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of

SUMMIT OF SPIRITUAL LEADERS OF RUSSIA, ARMENIA, GEORGIA AND
AZERBAIJAN SCHEDULED FOR MARCH
  • World News
  • 1996-01-18 18:55:00

BAKU, Jan. 18, (Noyan Tapan). In early March Spiritual Administration of Caucasian Muslims plans to hold a summit with the participation of spiritual leaders of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan dedicated to