In Erdogan's denial Turkey, April 24 is an ordinary day. Not for millions of Armenians (of nationality or origin), who commemorate the outbreak, on this date, 106 years ago, of the first genocide of the twentieth century: 1.5 million men, women and men 'children exterminated on the lands where they had lived for more than two thousand years because the Turks - Ottomans then Kemalists - wanted to purify a territory of all traces of Christianity and "hayk"; physical and intellectual; religious and cultural; human and material. Michel Marian recalls this in
L'Arménie et les Arméniens en 100 questions
(Tallandier): by ordering the deportation of Armenians from eastern Anatolia, cradle of their civilization and their culture, Talaat Pasha transformed them
"In herds for the slaughterhouse"
.
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Nagorno-Karabakh: the new martyrdom of the Armenians
Armed with her only camera, with a look whose sobriety and aesthetic singularity command admiration, Anne-Laure Bonnel walked the snow-covered roads of Armenia and Artsakh to try to understand what happened there. down, "up there", for forty-four days
But does this past pass?
The war - with geopolitical, cultural, religious and civilizational dimensions - which took place this autumn in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) and which
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