- Post-Armenian Genocide timeline
Several significant occurrences followed the
Armenian Genocide of 1915 to 1917. The following is a chronology of those events.__NOTOC__20th century
1918
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May 28 : TheDemocratic Republic of Armenia declares its independence from theTranscaucasian Democratic Federative Republic .
* December: An Ottomanmilitary tribunal tries theThree Pashas :Mehmed Talat Pasha ,Ismail Enver , andAhmed Djemal in absentia and sentences them to death.
* The book "Ravished Armenia " is published.1919
* U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson sends a fact-finding mission toArmenia , headed byMajor General James Harbord . Harbord issues a lengthy report on the situation in 1920. [ [http://armenianhouse.org/harbord/james-harbord.html James G. Harbord ] [http://armenianhouse.org/harbord/conditions-near-east.htm Conditions in the Near East: Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia] .]
*Henry Morgenthau, Sr. publishes "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story ", the first major work onthe Armenian Genocide .
* A film based on the book "Ravished Armenia" is released. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009892/ "Ravished Armenia"] at theInternet Movie Database ]1920
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August 10 : TheTreaty of Sèvres promises to unite Armenia with its historic land, to allowGreece to expand into parts ofAnatolia and to create an independent Kurdistan. Turkish nationalists, led byMustafa Kemal Atatürk reject the treaty and call it "unacceptable." TheTurkish War of Independence begins.
*November 29 :Russian Armenia is proclaimed to be part of theSoviet Union .1921
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March 15 : Talat Pasha is assassinated bySoghomon Tehlirian whose family perished in the Genocide. After being tried, Tehlirian was acquitted.
*October 23 : TheTreaty of Kars is signed between the Soviet Union and the new Republic of Turkey, ceding to it the present-day areas of Kars, Iğdır, Ardahan, and Artvin in exchange forAdjara . Feeling their security threatened, the remaining Armenians in these regions emigrate to Soviet-occupied Armenia.1922
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July 21 : Djemal Pasha is assassinated byStepan Dzaghigian
*August 24 : Enver Pasha is killed while fighting in present-dayTajikistan .
*September 11 : The Treaty of Kars is ratified inYerevan .
*December 30 : The remainder of Russian Armenia becomes theArmenian SSR of the Soviet Union.1923
* The
Treaty of Lausanne is signed establishing most of Turkey's present-day borders.
* In September, Turkey declares that all Armenians who have emigrated from Cilicia and the Eastern Anatolian areas were not allowed to return.Tessa Hofmann , [http://www.armenian.ch/~gsa/Docs/faae02.pdf Armenians in Turkey Today] "A law was adopted as early as September 1923, stating that no Armenian who had emigrated from Cilicia and the “Eastern Provinces” could return to Turkey."]1926
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August 1 : In an interview with the "Los Angeles Examiner ", Atatürk stated that the remainders of the Young Turk government should be held accountable for the Armenian Genocide. "These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule", he said. [Hildebrand, Emile. " [http://www.nishra.com/files/Assyrian%20Genocide%20Paper.pdf Kemal Promises More Hangings of Political Antagonists in Turkey] ," "Los Angeles Examiner ", 1 August 1926.] [Dwyer, Thomas. [http://groong.usc.edu/odwyer-haaretz.html Nothing Personal / Among the deniers] ," "Haaretz "]1934
* About a year after it was published, the book "
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh " was listed as "undesirable" inNazi Germany .Nazi propaganda painted its author,Franz Werfel as an agent who created the "alleged Turkish horrors perpetrated against the Armenians" and denounced "America's Armenian Jews for promoting in the U.S.A. the sale of Werfel's book."1935
* Turkey pressures
MGM and the United States government from allowing the film giant to produce a film based on "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh". [Albig, William. "Public Opinion". New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939]1939
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June 23 : Following the policy ofappeasement ,France cedes theHatay Province , an area that includes the ruins ofAntioch as well asMusa Dagh from its Mandate of Syria to Turkey. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,761578-2,00.html TIME Article, "Semitic Friends"]July 03 ,1939 ]
*August 22 :Adolf Hitler delivers theArmenian quote toWehrmacht commanders at his Obersalzberg home, a week before the Invasion of Poland. He orders them to "kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of the Polish race or language" and concluded by asking "Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?" [Adolf Hitler, 1939-08-22, according to reports received by the Associated Press bureau chief in Berlin, Louis Lochner]1942
* After the Nazi conquest of Greece, Turkey, sympathetic to the Germans increased
property tax for Armenians, Jews, and Greeks, and even Dönme (Christians or Jews who converted to Islam), the Armenians being affected the most. Those who did not pay were condemned to forced labor in the quarries ofAşkale (the Turkish equivalent toSiberia ), nearErzurum . The government claimed to be doing this action to "turkify" the economy. [Faik Ökte, "The tragedy of the Turkish Capital Tax", Kent 1987]1944
* Prof.
Raphael Lemkin coins the term "genocide" and states that it happened to both the Armenians and, at the time, the Jews. The name "Armenian Massacres" soon falls from popular use by theArmenian diaspora and is soon replaced by "Armenian Genocide".
*March 15 : The "property tax" action is repealed.1945
* The Soviet Union attempts to annul the Treaty of Kars with Turkey and return parts of Northwestern Armenia back to the Armenians. These efforts are halted by intervention from
Winston Churchill andHarry S. Truman , fearing Sovietexpansionism .1955
* The
Istanbul Pogrom is launched in Turkey against ethnic minorities residing in Istanbul, in particular Greeks, Armenians, and Jews.Speros Vryonis, "The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6–7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul", New York: [http://www.greekworks.com Greekworks.com] 2005, ISBN 0-9747660-3-8 pn]1965
* On
April 24 , thousands of Armenians demonstrate in the streets of Yerevan during the fiftieth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Soviet troops entered the city and attempted to restore order. To prevent any further demonstrations from occurring, the Kremlin commissions a memorial for the genocide.
* The Uruguay Senate and Chamber of Representatives pass a resolution recognizing the events.1967
* The Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan is completed.
1960s
* Considered to be the years when the Turkish government has officially decided to teach to the world, "the other side of the story." The following decade, the Turkish government will found and fund grants of Turkish and Ottoman studies, as well as history chairs at the middle east department of occidental universities.
1973
* The 26th session of the UN Human Rights Committee's Subcommittee on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of National Minorities adopted a report, containing a reference on the Armenian massacres, calling it: "The first Genocide of the twentieth century."cite book |first = Merrill D. | last = Peterson | title = Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After | publisher = University of VirginiaPress | pages = p. 162 | year = 2004 | id = ISBN 0813922674]
* Gourgen Yanikian - Georgeu Yanikian, a 78 year-old Armenian, whose family was decimated during the 1915 massacres - killed two Turkish diplomats in the United States. He is sentenced to life imprisonment but is released later due to illness.1974
* The Turkish representatives at the U.N., during the 30th meeting has pressurized the organization to redraw the paragraph 30 of the adopted report, labeling the paragraph propaganda and effectively starting the Armenian initiative. This followed with intense negotiations and pressures for few years, up until which, in 1978, the paragraph was removed until further discussion and in 1979 restored, from that year on, the matter was researched by the U.N.
1975
* Two Armenian guerrilla organizations, the
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and theJustice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide (JCAG) are founded in the midst of theLebanese Civil War . They decide to "take matters into their own hands."
*October 22 : the Turkish ambassador to Austria,Danis Tunaligil , is assassinated in his study by three Armenian guerrillas. This is the first attack by the ASALA.
*October 24 : the Turkish ambassador to France,Ismail Erez and his driver,Talip Yener , are assassinated. This is the first attack by the JCAG.1976
*
United States PresidentGerald Ford acknowledges the Armenian Genocide while addressing the US House of Representatives.cite book |first = Shahzad Z. | last = Najmuddin| title = Armenia: A Resume with Notes on Seth's Armenians in India (Black and White Edition)| publisher = Trafford Publishing| pages = p. 46, 51| year = 2006 | id = ISBN 1412079160]1978
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May 16 : United States PresidentJimmy Carter officially acknowledges the Armenian Genocide, calling it "probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group."1979
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October 12 : Ahmet Benler, the son of Ambassador Ozdemir Benler, is assassinated on the street by Armenian guerrillas in the Hague. ASALA and JCAG claim responsibility. In retaliation, Turkish nationalists bomb the church of the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate inIstanbul onOctober 19 .1981
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April 22 : United States PresidentRonald Reagan officially acknowledges the Armenian Genocide in a speech commemorating the Holocaust.1982
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1 July : The "Red Armenian Army" unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate the Turkish Consul General,Kemalettin Demirer , inRotterdam, Netherlands . No one sustained any injuries from this attack and a member of the group named Penyemin Evingulu was later sentenced to six years in prison for his role in the incident. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20071018214040/http://tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3951 The Armenian Red Army] ,Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism ] [Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature - Page 675 by Albert J. Jongman, Alex Peter Schmid]*
August 7 : Two ASALA guerrillas open fire in a crowded passenger waiting room in Ankara at theEsenboga International Airport . One of the guerrillas takes more than 20 hostages while the second is apprehended by police. The attackers leave nine people dead and 82 injured. The surviving gunman, Levon Ekmekjian, realizes the horror of his crime before the execution. He issues a strong appeal to his young comrades to reject the program of murder.1984
* The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal after deliberation, concluded that the tragedy Armenians have faced during the last years of the
Ottoman Empire , constitute a genocide. [cite book |first = Steven L., Samuel | last = Jacobs, Totten| title = Pioneers of Genocide Studies (Clt)| publisher = Transaction Publishers| pages = p. 81 | year = 2002 | id = ISBN 0765801515]1985
*
Argentina recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
* United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities has passed to a vote, a report containing a reference recognizing the Armenian massacres as genocide. [ [http://www.teachgenocide.org/files/DocsMaps/UN%20Report%20on%20Genocide%20(excerpts).pdf Excerpts from UN report of 1985.] ]1986
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November 23 : A bomb explodes in front of the Turkish Consulate General inMelbourne ,Australia . One dead (presumedly the perpetrator) and one Australian injured. This is the last Armenian guerrilla attack.1988
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January 24 : Turkish security forces apprehend a 24-year-old Armenian, Manvel Demir, accusing him of being tied to the ASALA. He becomes heavily injured and later dies in a hospital. The parents of Demir argue that he was tortured and that he was a victim ofpolice brutality .
*April 28 :Hagop Hagopian , one of the main leaders of the ASALA is assassinated on a sidewalk in an affluent neighborhood inAthens , Greece by the Frenchsecret service s.1990
* An Armenian Genocide memorial opens in
Deir ez-Zor ,Syria the location said to be the largest extermination ground for the Armenians during this time period.
*April 20 : United States PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush officially acknowledges the Armenian Genocide in a speech atOrlando, Florida . Bush stated that "the United States responded to thiscrime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts."1991
* Armenia becomes independent from the Soviet Union and subsequently recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
1993
* During the
Nagorno-Karabakh War , Turkish PresidentTurgut Özal makes a controversial remark that not only alarmsArmenians in Turkey , but worldwide as well. "What will happen then if three of our bombs hit Armenia? Will they [the Western Powers] intervene in Turkey?" Özal asked. He then threatened, hinting at the Armenian Genocide, "They [the Armenians] learn nothing from history. In Anatolia, they also tried it. But they got an incredible slap in the face [i.e. Armenian Genocide] . And they have not forgotten the pain to this day. If they try it again here [in Azerbaijan] , relying on this or that foreign country for help [i.e. Russia] , they have something coming." [cite book |first = Touraj | last = Atabaki| title = The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide| publisher = Routledge| pages = 89| year = 2005 | id = ISBN 0415332605Failed verification|date=October 2008 ] [ [http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=24 ANCA report on Clinton's helicopter deal with Turkey.] ]
*April 8 : The official daily newspaper of theNationalist Movement Party (MHP), Türkiye announced: "Like the Karabakh mountains, Armenia has been Turkish land for millennia [sic] and it will also belong to theTurkish people . Then, in the Caucasus, Armenians will only be found in the museums."1994
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April 24 : United States PresidentBill Clinton issued a news release to commemorate the "tragedy" that befell the Armenians in 1915, yet he bowed to political pressure and refused to refer to it as "genocide", despite referring to the massacre as such before being elected president.
*April 27 : Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister,Yossi Beilin stated in response to a TV interview of the Turkish Ambassador: "It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember... We will always reject any attempt to erase its record, even for some political advantage.cite book |first = Yair, Cathy, Michael | last = Auron, Block, Presley | title = The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide | publisher = Transaction Publishers| pages = p. 119| year = 2003 | id = ISBN 076580834X]1995
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April 14 :Russia recognizes the Armenian Genocide.1996
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April 25 : Greece recognizes the Armenian Genocide.1997
* The Parliament of the State of
New South Wales , Australia passes a motion acknowledging and condemning the Armenian Genocide. [ [http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Recognition_of_Armenian_Genocide_by_Australia Recognition of New South Wales] , Armeniapedia.org Verify credibility|date=October 2008]
*Belgium recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
*April 4 :Lebanon recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
*December 3 :Italy recognizes the Armenian Genocide.1998
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May 29 : France recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
* OnJune 30 , theAmerican rock bandSystem of a Down , whose members are Armenian in ancestry, wrote the song "P.L.U.C.K. (Political Lying, Unholy, Cowardly Killers.)", about the Armenian Genocide and the denial of it as genocide. "P.L.U.C.K." can be found as Track 13 on the self-titled album, "System of a Down".1999
* On
October 5 , along with a similar museum, Turkey opened a memorial to alleged Turkish massacres by Armenians in Iğdır. The monument consists of five crossed swords and, according to a spokesperson of the governor of Iğdır, it is also visible from the Armenian capital Yerevan: "Whenever the Armenians look towards their holyMount Ararat , they will see our monument."
* OnOctober 6 ,The Onion , a parody newspaper, publishes the " [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/36992 Top 10th Century Genocides] ", with an accurate list of genocides by death toll, including the Armenian Genocide.21st century
* 2001–2004: Also breaking a campaign promise, the subsequent U.S. President
George W. Bush , in each year of his first term, refused to use the word "genocide" to describe the killings, though promisingArmenian-Americans during his election campaign to recognize the "genocidal campaign" to which Armenians were subjected. He has yet to call it a genocide despite it being his second term in office (2005-present) [ [http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush George W. Bush] , Armenianpedia.org Verify credibility|date=September 2008]2001
* On
January 18 , Turkey recalls its ambassador from Paris in protest to a parliamentary bill that was unanimously passes formally recognizing the Armenian Holocaust as genocide and placing blame on the Turks. Relations between Turkey and France consequently suffer.2002
* The Armenian Genocide is the subject of the
film "Ararat", byArmenian-Canadian directorAtom Egoyan .2003
*
February 20 : A report on " [http://www.tarc.info/ICTJ%20Memorandum%20Feb.%2003.pdf The Applicability] of the United NationsConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to Events which Occurred During the Early Twentieth Century" by theInternational Center for Transitional Justice ( [http://www.ictj.org ICTJ] ) stated that "...at least some of the perpetrators of the Events knew that the consequence of their action would be the destruction, in whole or in part, of the Armenians of Eastern Anatolia, as such, or acted purposely towards this goal, and, therefore, possessed the requisite genocidal intent." The report concluded that "...the Events, viewed collectively, can thus be said to include all of the elements of the crime of genocide as defined in the [UN] Convention, and legal scholars as well as historians, politicians, journalists and other people would be justified in continuing to so describe them" (p. 17).*
April 14 : According to the League for Human Rights, [ [http://www.ldh-france.org/actu_internationale.cfm?idactu=679 League of Human Rights report.] ] the TurkishMinistry of Education issued a document instructing heads of schools to organize conferences stating that Turkey never exterminated its minorities. It also recommended that the students should write dissertations on "fighting allegations of genocide", in which phrases such as "Turks may have killed Armenians" are banned in favour of presenting these events as a necessity in the face of the "massacres perpetrated by Armenians". A first report detailing the application of these recommendations was to be sent by each school to the local Ministry directorates onMay 13 ,2003 .2004
* The Pan-Turkic and ultra-nationalist
Grey Wolves organization successfully prevented the screening of Atom Egoyan's "Ararat".*
April 21 : theCanadian House of Commons voted to officially recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide. The motion passed easily by 153 to 68, however, the Liberal-controlled Cabinet was instructed to vote against it. The federal government, in opposing the motion, did not express a position on whether the genocide took place, but rather cited a desire to avoid reopening old wounds and to maintain good relations with Turkey.*
April 24 : In marking the 89th Anniversary of the genocide,John Kerry issued a statement calling for international recognition of the Armenian Genocide.2005
* March: The Turkish Prime Minister and the head of the opposition held a press conference proposing the meeting of Armenian and Turkish historians to find out what really happened. The Prime Minister also called on Armenia to open its archives. The Armenian Foreign Minister rejected the invitation, stating that the world already knew what happened, and that its archives have always been open.
* The Turkish State Archive issued a list of more than 523,000 Turks whom it said were killed by Armenians in Turkey between 1910 and 1922 as Armenians allegedly tried to establish themselves as the majority population in Eastern Anatolia.Fact|date=May 2007
* The Turkish historian Murat Bardakçı opened the alleged notes of Talat Pasha dating back to 1914 about the population of Armenians under Ottoman rule. The following is an alleged script from Talat Pasha's notebook:
The number of Gregorian and Catholic Armenians that lived under the Ottoman Empire was 1,256,403. By considering the fact that there might be some unaccounted people, we can increase this number to 1,500,000. The cities where the relocation is applied there are 284,157 Armenians but if we increase this number by 30% just to be sure, there are between 250,000 and 400,000 in the cities where the relocation was applied.
He says that "The total Armenian population was a maximum of 1,500,000. Out of these many people, 924,158 were relocated and there are still around 400,000 people in cities where relocation was applied." He also says that there were 68,422 Armenians in Istanbul in 1914 and this number went up to 80,000 in the next year. None of these people were subject to relocation.Fact|date=May 2007
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May 25 : A conference about "Ottoman Armenians during the Decline of the Empire" focusing on the "Armenian Genocide" to be held in Bosphorus (Boğaziçi) University of Istanbul, Turkey is postponed by the administration of the Bosphorus University (one of the three organizers) due to the remarks in the speech ofJustice Minister Cemil Çiçek in parliament.::"This is a stab in the back to the Turkish nation. This is irresponsibility", the Anatolian News Agency quoted Cicek as saying at a parliamentary debate. "We must put an end to this cycle of treason and insult, of spreading propaganda against the nation by people who belong to it", he added. [ [http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2005/05/05x05x25.HTM Turkish Press Review - quote from Cicek.] ]*
May 26 : The Organizing Committee of the "Ottoman Armenians during the Decline of the Empire" publicly declared that the conference is going to be held in the near future.*
June 16 : GermanBundestag passed a resolution that "honors and commemorates the victims of violence, murder and expulsion among the Armenian people before and during the First World War". The German resolution mentions that "many independent historians, parliaments andinternational organization s describe the expulsion and annihilation of the Armenians as genocide", but stops short of doing so itself. It also contains an apology for any German responsibility. [http://www.armenian-genocide.org/Affirmation.339/current_category.7/affirmation_detail.html Bundestag resolution] ]2006
* September: Leading Turkish author
Elif Şafak is to go on trial for afictional character in her latest book discussing the genocide. [ [http://www.forbes.com/business/manufacturing/feeds/ap/2006/09/09/ap3004650.html Trial for fictional character discussing genocide] , "Forbes "] Dead link|date=October 2008 The charge is "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish Criminal Code and she could have faced a prison term for writing the story. Asked about the alleged real-life crime her character committed in the novel, she stated "Turks and Armenians are not speaking the same language. For the Turks all the past is gone, erased from our memories. That's the way we Westernized: by being future-oriented. ... The grandchildren of the 1915 survivors tend to be very, very past-oriented." She was later acquitted by the Turkishcourt of first instance in its first sitting.
* May:Stephen Harper , newly electedPrime Minister of Canada , officially confirms that his government will continue to recognize motions adopted by the Canadian senate and parliament in 2004 acknowledging that the Armenian Genocide took place.2007
* March: A Swiss
district court inLausanne convicts Turkish politicianDoğu Perinçek for denying the Armenian Genocide; public genocide denial is illegal in Switzerland. Perinçek, who was finedCHF 10.000 (Euro 6.230,USD 8.180), appealed the verdict. [cite news|title= Turkish politician fined over genocide denial| date=March 9 ,2007 | publisher=Swissinfo with agencies| url=http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/Turkish_politician_fined_over_genocide_denial.html?siteSect=105&sid=7603245] The conviction was upheld by theSwiss Federal Supreme Court onDecember 12 ,2007 . [Decision no. [http://jumpcgi.bger.ch/cgi-bin/JumpCGI?id=12.12.2007_6B_398/2007 6B_398/2007] Fr icon]
*April 20 : TheBasque Parliament recognizes the Armenian Genocide. [cite news|url=http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=22235 |title=Basque Parliament recognizes Armenian Genocide |publisher=Panarmenian.net |date=2007-05-13|accessdate=2008-10-10]
*June 5 : TheChilean Senate unanimously passes a resolution calling on the government to join the 1985 UN resolution on the Armenian Genocide. [cite news|title= Chile Senate recognizes Armenian Genocide| date=June 7 ,2007 | publisher= Yerkir| url=http://www.yerkir.am/eng/index.php?sub=news_arm&id=30536]
*October 10 :US House Resolution 106 , which was introduced to the US Congress on January 30, 2007, was referred toUnited States House Committee on Foreign Affairs [ [http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press_display.asp?id=430 Opening Statement by Chairman Lantos at markup of H. Res. 106] ] where it passed a 27-21 vote and was sent back for a full house vote.
*November 23 : TheMercosur parliament adopted a resolution recognizing the “Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, which took 1.5 million lives from 1915 to 1923.” The Mercosur resolution also expressed its support for the Armenian Cause and called on all countries to recognize the Genocide. [ [http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=11955&formato=pdf Mercosur recognizes the Armenian Genocide] ]2008
New York Life insurance company announces an outreach program to "compensate heirs of approximately 1,000 life insurance policies issued to Greeks in the Ottoman Empire prior to 1915", [cite news|url=http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115940
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last=Ferentinou] [cite press release|url=http://www.newyorklife.com/cda/0,3254,17289,00.html
accessdate=2008-09-22
title=New York Life Launches Voluntary Program To Reach Out To Heirs Of Greek Policies From 1914
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publisher=New York Life ] following their 2004 disbursement of $20 million in settlement to survivors, and $3 million to Armenian civic organizations. [cite press release|url=http://www.newyorklife.com/cda/0,3254,13529,00.html
accessdate=2008-09-22
title=Agreement Is Reached To Settle Armenian Insurance Policies From 1915
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