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Barack Obama presses Turkey to acknowledge Armenian Genocide

By: Joellen send a private message
Washington : DC : USA | about 1 year ago  
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Today, May 2, on Yom HaShoah, the day Jews remember the Holocaust, it is fitting to remember other genocides as well. Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama did so on April 28, issuing a statement remembering the Armenian genocide and calling on Turkey to acknowledge its difficult past.

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