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Top lawyers’ group in Kurdish-majority Turkish city calls for reckoning with Armenian genocide

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The main lawyers’ group in Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province, which has faced prosecution over earlier April 24 statements, has called for Turkey to confront the 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians, saying the events are “widely defined internationally as genocide,” Turkish Minute reported. In a statement on Friday the Diyarbakır Bar Association said the events […] The post Top lawyers’ group in Kurdish-majority Turkish city calls for reckoning with Armenian genocide appeared ...