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Nov 2001Year in which the French recognized the murder of two thirds of Turkey's Armenians during World War I as "genocide": 2001
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Institute for the Study of Genocide (N.Y.C.)

Nov 2001Number of days after France recognized the genocide of two thirds of Turkey's Armenians that Turkey canceled a major order from a French defense contractor: 5
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Embassy of Turkey (Paris)

January 20, 2007 Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, who wrote extensively about the Armenian genocide, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul.
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BBCnews.com

January 6, 2007 Armenian politicians were accused of buying votes with potatoes.
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Telegraph

May 3, 2006A plane flying from Armenia to Russia crashed into the Black Sea, killing 113 people.
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BBC News

December 23, 2004Yusuf Halacoglu, president of the Turkish History Institution, accused Armenia of genocide.
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Zaman Online

December 24, 2002 The Department of Justice added Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Armenia to the list of countries whose adult male citizens residing in the U.S. must register with federal authorities but later dropped Armenia after it was pointed out that most Armenians are Christian.
December 4, 2001Rwanda hosted a gathering of genocide survivors that included Tutsis, European Jews, American Indians, Cambodians, and Armenians.
January 16, 2001 Turkey announced that it had killed 23,000 separatist Kurds in the last 15 years and threatened to get even with France if its parliament passed a bill recognizing the Turkish genocide of Armenians. The U.S. Congress almost passed a similar bill last year.

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