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Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

French Genocide Bill Provokes Uproar, Sparks Debate: Turkish Overreaction May Backfire

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach | January 10th, 2012 | 2 comments

The bill voted up on December 22 by the French parliament (Assemblée Nationale), which would make denial of genocide (including the 1915 genocide against the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey) a crime, has provoked strong reactions [...]

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Can Germany Mediate Armenian-Turkish Reconciliation?

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach | November 11th, 2011 | 1 comments

In 2005, the German Bundestag passed a resolution calling on the German government to facilitate a process of Armenian-Turkish understanding and reconciliation. Now, six years later, scholars and civil society activists are asking: what has [...]

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