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Why Armenia Genocide recognition remains a tough sell - LA Times

Why Armenia Genocide recognition remains a tough sell

More than 20 nations have recognized the Armenian deaths as the result of a genocide.

When parties in the Austrian Parliament last week signed a declaration calling the slaughter of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks that began in 1915 a genocide, the Republic of Turkey issued a statement saying it would leave “permanent stains on Turkish-Austrian friendship” and recalled its ambassador from Vienna.

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