Thursday, October 04, 2007

Turkey and Armenia | Genocidal follies | Economist.com

"Genocidal follies Oct 4th 2007 | ISTANBUL AND YEREVAN From The Economist print edition The trouble that might flow from an American congressional resolution A RECENT evening in Istanbul, Turkey's (and Europe's) biggest city. Armenia's leading musician, Djivan Gasparyan, is playing his duduk, an Anatolian-style clarinet, as Yavuz Bingol, an ethnic Kurd, belts out Turkish folksongs. The event symbolises a budding rapprochement between ordinary Turks and Armenians. But America's Congress may now torpedo this fragile process by voting for a bill calling the mass slaughter of up to 1m Ottoman Armenians in 1915 a genocide."

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