Tuesday, August 10, 2010

TURKEY: Celebrity lawyer takes on Turkish government, banks for Armenian assets | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times

"TURKEY: Celebrity lawyer takes on Turkish government, banks for Armenian assets
August 10, 2010 | 6:18 am

The Los Angeles-based Lawyer Mark Geragos is used to representing celebrities like Chris Brown and the late Michael Jackson, but he recently took on a very different kind of case, one with deep personal significance for him.

Last Thursday, Geragos and his team of litigators filed a lawsuit against Turkey and two major Turkish banks seeking restitution for Armenian properties and assets that were seized by Ottoman forces during the mass killings that took place almost a century ago and that many have labeled the first modern genocide."

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