Turkey reacts with anger after the French Senate approves a bill making it a crime to deny genocide was committed by Turks against Armenians in World War I.

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The bill criminalizes the denial of officially recognized genocides, including the Armenian genocide begun in 1915 — an event whose public affirmation in Turkey is treated as a crime.

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French Senate Passes Genocide Bill, Angering Turks

The French Senate approves a controversial bill that makes it a criminal offence to deny that Turks committed genocide against Armenians during World War I.

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French Senate passes genocide law

Turkey halted diplomatic consultations and military dealings with France on Thursday after the lower house of the French Parliament approved legislation about the Armenian genocide in the early 20th century.

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Rift Between Turkey and France Over Genocide Bill Worsens

STEPANAKERT, Nagorno-Karabakh — This is where the first war set off by the Soviet collapse took place. And it may be where the next one breaks out. Twenty years ago, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, unleashed from Soviet control, waged a bitter struggle for this mountainous region in the South Caucasus. A cease-fire was reached in 1994, after about 30,000 people had been killed, leaving Nagorno-Karabakh outside Azerbaijan’s control, as an unrecognized, de facto republic in the hands of ethnic Armenians. Read full article > >

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In Nagorno-Karabakh, peace elusive 20 years after Soviet fall

STEPANAKERT, Nagorno-Karabakh — This is where the first war set off by the Soviet collapse took place. And it may be where the next one breaks out. Twenty years ago, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, unleashed from Soviet control, waged a bitter struggle for this mountainous region in the South Caucasus. A cease-fire was reached in 1994, after about 30,000 people had been killed, leaving Nagorno-Karabakh outside Azerbaijan’s control, as an unrecognized, de facto republic in the hands of ethnic Armenians. Read full article > >

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In Nagorno-Karabakh, peace elusive 20 years after Soviet fall

US officials charge 73 people, mostly Armenians, over a massive fraud against the country’s medical insurance system.

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Charges over US health care scam