For centuries Germany and Armenia have maintained friendly relations, but there are probably only a handful of individuals, whether in Berlin or Yerevan, who have any inkling of this fact. For broader layers of the two populations, it is virtually unknown. But thanks to the initiative of Armenians and their German friends in the city of Bochum, the exciting history of this close relationship is being brought to light. Read Further...

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Book review: The Armenian Genocide in Literature: Perceptions of Those Who Lived Through the Calamity, Rubina Peroomian, Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, 2012.
http://armenieninfo.net/muriel-mirak-weissbach/4106-muriel-mirak-weissbach-working-through-the-past-to-embrace-the-future
http://asbarez.com/104802/book-review-working-through-the-past-to-embrace-the-future/
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2012/08/16/book-review-working-through-the-past-to-embrace-the-future/

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Why does Turkey have such difficulty in dealing with its historical past? Why can the Turkish authorities not acknowledge that in 1915 the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire was the victim of genocide? If the German post-war political elite was capable of facing up to the Holocaust and establishing relations with the Jewish people, in Israel and elsewhere, why cannot the Turkish leadership do as much? The question was raised during a seminar in Potsdam, Germany on November 5, on “The Inner Turkish Discussion of 1915/1916.”Read Further...

Tags:Armenian genocide, Ragib Zaragolu, Rober Kaptas, AGOS, Elke Hartmann, Hrant Dink, Vahakn Dadrian, Fetiye Cetin, Musa Dagh