"Debate on Armenians still painful for Turks
By Amberin Zaman
Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — A controversial conference on the mass killings of ethnic Armenians during the last days of the Ottoman Empire opened amid heavy security yesterday in defiance of a court ban.
The forum was hailed by participants and Western observers as a groundbreaking event where Turkish academics for the first time publicly could challenge their country's official version of the events leading to the Armenian tragedy."
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