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		<title>Genocide hangover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the words of a Naional Review blogger:
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, has been in London, with a photo-op next to Gordon Brown, his British opposite number, on the steps of Downing Street. The ceremony, the courtesy, goes with the job. In return, Erdogan did something extraordinary. He threatened to expel 100,000 Armenians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogian.hayastan.com/2010/03/19/genocide-hangover/</link>
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		<title>Deport yourself to humanity, Mr. Erdogan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turkey’s prime minister needs to relocate himself to humanity instead of threatening to expel Armenian workers in response to international recognitions of the WWI genocide. ]]></description>
		<link>http://blogian.hayastan.com/2010/03/19/deport-yourself-to-humanity-mr-erdogan/</link>
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		<title>Taner Akcam&#8217;s letter to Turkey&#8217;s PM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Open Letter to the Prime Minister and Bülent Arınç
By Taner Akcam, Turkish-American historian
Published in Taraf (in Turkish), Saturday, March 13, 2010
              There is something I have difficulty understanding.  You, who have put an end to 95 years of “there are no Kurds, they’re just Turks who wander around the mountains” lying policies by the state on the Kurds; who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogian.hayastan.com/2010/03/19/taner-akcams-letter-to-turkeys-pm/</link>
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		<title>Mozart’s muse Mithradates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over two millennia ago, this Greek leader’s kingdom stretched from Europe to Asia. He was not Alexander the Great and his empire was much smaller. Yet he revived Greek democracy, freed slaves, inspired Mozart’s first opera but also mastered a massacre of Roman settlements in what is today western Turkey.
Controversial alike every other classical celebrity, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogian.hayastan.com/2010/02/04/mozart%e2%80%99s-muse-mithradates/</link>
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		<title>Turkey: Name Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After repeated silence from municipal officials regarding a name change, a civil society group in Istanbul, Turkey has itself replaced the sign of a local street from that of a mythical toponym &#8211; used by a terrorist group - to the name of an Armenian journalist murdered three years ago this month by a ultra-nationalist youth.
The teenager who shot Hrant Dink [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogian.hayastan.com/2010/01/21/turkey-name-change/</link>
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		<title>A grandson of the Ottoman “bloody sultan”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The late 19th century Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II banned the use of the scientific formula for water. He thought that H2O might be interpreted as he (Hamid the second) being equal to nothing (zero). The reverse, unfortunately, was the case: even during his rule Hamid became a world-famous figure nicknamed the “bloody sultan” – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogian.hayastan.com/2010/01/11/a-grandson-of-bloody-sulta/</link>
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		<title>Vandalism in Georgia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First he started a devastating war with Russia allegedly because of personal distaste for fellow autocrat Vladimir Putin and for bullying the latter as “Liliputin.”
 

Now Georgian president Saakahsvili has finished the demolition of a WWII memorial honoring his countrymen (and countrywomen) who gave their lives in fighting the Nazis. Add two more people to that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogian.hayastan.com/2010/01/06/vandalism-in-georgia/</link>
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		<title>And my blog, Ahmadinejad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would expect my blog to be banned in Turkey and in Azerbaijan, but not in Iran. Yet, according to a friend who lives in Tehran, Iran’s regime has blocked access to my blog (even though I have commended Iran’s treatment of minority Christian monuments). But then there is Ahmadinejad who doesn’t like, I assume, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogian.hayastan.com/2010/01/06/and-my-blog-ahmadinejad/</link>
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		<title>Letter on Djulfa cemetery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Azerbaijani &#8220;humanitarian consultant&#8221; Dr. Vugar Seidov has the following to say about www.djulfa.com, a website documenting Azerbaijan&#8217;s December 2005 destruction of sacred Armenian khachkars &#8211; intricately carved tombstones from the medieval times:
This is complete bullshit. If there is no Armenian in Julfa, why should there be a cemetery? Bye-bye, cemetery! You, idiots, should have taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogian.hayastan.com/2009/12/07/letter-on-djulfa-cemetery/</link>
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		<title>Wildlife Wars in Armenia and Azerbaijan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A month after Armenia’s districting of a new wildlife sanctuary, Zangezur, its ex-Soviet neighbor Azerbaijan has renamed a newly-expanded national park –  not too far from the one in Armenia – Zangezur. 
The environmentally praiseworthy move may prove politically dangerous. While a likely coincidence, the name-sharing of the two parks could increase the already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogian.hayastan.com/2009/11/29/wildlife-wars-in-armenia-and-azerbaijan/</link>
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