"Turkey split by ban on Armenian massacre conference
JON HEMMING
IN ISTANBUL
HUNDREDS of Turkish nationalists chanting slogans and waving flags protested yesterday against a controversial academic conference on the First World War massacre of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey.
The conference had been due to open on Friday at two universities in Istanbul but a last-minute court order blocked it, causing acute embarrassment to the Turkish government just days before the start of its EU membership talks."
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