Armenian

The return of Ottoman Armenians who had been exiled by the Turkish Government since the beginning of the war.

Armenians call the deaths of their ancestors at the end of World War I a genocide. Turkey says it was a tragic result of war.

By the time the war ended in 1994, the victorious Armenians had doubled the enclave's size and carved out a land corridor to Armenia proper.

Many Muslim Turks came to see the rise in nationalism of the Christian Armenians as a threat to the existence of the Ottoman state.

Diaspora Armenians are especially incensed by a plan for a joint commission of historians to investigate the events leading up to 1915.

He might have added Armenians and Greeks too.

Only one cloud hung over Mr Obama's trip: his campaign pledge to call the mass killings of the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 "genocide" .

Both the Armenians and Helma were allowed to see what they had lost.

during the first world war , all decisions on the conduct of the war ( and the treatment of the armenians ) were taken by the committee.

The dominant issue, however, was the dormant conflict with Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh, a disputed enclave populated by Armenians.

Armenians who want to break out of their landlocked and poor economy are looking for normal relations with Turkey.

We were like detectives, Mrs. Vidian and I. We put ourselves on the trail of any Armenians who lived in Paris.

Whoosh, a second rocket wipes out the incorrigible Trans- Caucasians , the Georgians, Azerbaijanis and Armenians.

Visitors, mostly diaspora Armenians, will come from the United States, Canada, France, Russia, Lebanon and Iran.

For decades, Armenians round the world have lobbied for explicit official recognition of their point of view.

"Theyuse machine-spun silk, our girls make everything by hand, " boasts Mr Bayram. Just like the Armenians, he adds.

Turkey and Armenia are in a long-running dispute over the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago.

Witness the annual international tussle over whether the 1915 Turkish massacre and deportation of the Armenians qualifies as genocide.

The Kremlin refused and a nasty war between Azeris and Armenians followed.

From Palestinians to Greeks, Armenians to Hmong, young Internet users learn much about their culture and politics in their diaspora.

The miner, son of Australian-Armenians, is a smart if naive boy with an iron will and a heart that is easily broken.

That was until 1915, when Ottoman forces slaughtered most of the villagers, and hundreds of thousands of other Armenians.

So Turks and Armenians will get achance to talk about Ani, if history's ghosts can be exorcised.

When the war ended, its leaders fled, fearing prosecution for their atrocities against the Armenians.

An Englishman apologizes to the Armenians for a Turkish crime?

Armenians voted overwhelmingly for independence in a September 1991 referendum.

The Armenian authorities and diaspora Armenians with deep pockets are also interested.

The event symbolises a budding rapprochement between ordinary Turks and Armenians.

Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenians want recognition for their breakaway state, but Azerbaijan is unwilling to grant anything more than autonomy.

For Armenians, securing recognition of their ancestors' fate is a sacred cause.

DURING the late 1980s and early 1990s the conflict between Armenians and Azeris over the Nagorno-Karabkh region was often in the news.

In Ottoman times the Armenians, Greeks and Jews were responsible for most of the country's commerce.

Armenians say the mass extermination of their forebears was genocide.

Our guide told us it was primarily the Armenians who worshipped here.

The Holy city of Etchmiadzin is a sacred place of pilgrimage for millions of Armenians.

Conflict erupted in 1988 as the territory's Armenians sought to secede from Azerbaijan.

I don't know about the "longest" but my top five is Greeks, Jews, Persians(Iranians), Armenians, Chinese.

We're a mixture here: Syrians, immigrant Greeks, Armenians , Medes.

For Armenians, the big cause is recognition that the mass killings of 1915 were genocide.

In Turkey, it is a crime to refer to the mass killings of Armenians during World War I as genocide.

The Armenians are signalling that they accept the draft.

Equally importantly, Nagorno-Karabakh's 140, 000 Armenians have built a small but functioning state.

In 1921 when most of the site was ceded to Turkey, the Armenians were dismayed.

The comfort is that ordinary Turks and Armenians are ignoring their leaders and building friendship on their own terms.

Chinese, Indians, Armenians, Arabs and more all traded alongside each other.

That was until 1915, whenOttoman forces slaughtered most of the villagers, and hundreds of thousands ofother Armenians.

FOR centuries Armenians in the village of Agacli, in south-east Turkey, cultivated silk.

Between 1988 and 1994 more than 1m Armenians and Azeris fled from both countries and Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Commissar for Caucasian Affairs would assist the Armenians in the realization of these goals;

[ edit ] Protection of Armenians' right to self-determination

armenians have a rich cultural heritage and are a deeply religious people