Today’s Zaman daily in Turkey recently published a story about Turkey’s ex-president Turgut Ozal’s “pro-Armenian policy” with reference to his former assistants and friends.

Vehbi Dincerler, 71, a former education minister and a state minister in Ozal's Cabinet, cited his leader’s words on recognition of the Armenian Genocide:

According to a report by Democracy and Freedom Watch, a scuffle broke out Tuesday in the Georgian parliament during a debate about the Armenian Genocide.

The dispute arose as MP Jondi Baghaturia was speaking on the question of whether the National Assembly would honor a request to recognize the genocide.

A sit-down strike organized by the Say No to Racism and Nationalism initiative in Taksim Square, Istanbul, was attended by a group of public figures including wife of the killed Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, Rakel Dink, pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) İstanbul deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Sebahat Tuncel, Ufuk Uras, journalists Oral Çalışlar, Hüseyin Hatemi, Hilal Kaplan along with other intellectuals, as reported by Todayszaman.com.

Celebutante Kim Kardashian has 14.5 million tweetees on her Twitter subscriber list. On April 24 – Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day – the sexbomb/reality TV star/model/potential mayor of Glendale tweeted:

Hundreds of thousands of people made their annual pilgrimage to the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan on Tuesday in commemoration of 1.5 million innocent victims of mass killings and deportations in Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of last century.

Leaving aside their political differences and reciprocal accusations amid a heated parliamentary election race, representatives of Armenian political forces took a “day off” from the campaign to join in the national day of mourning for the 97th annual commemoration of what was the first Genocide of the 20th century.

The author of the newly-published ‘The Armenian Genocide: Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors’ historical-documentary book says that it can serve as a proof at the international court “if there is an Armenian Nuremburg.”

Two Turkish students in a French school have reacted after a cartoon depicting a Turk carrying a basket full of skulls with the words "Armenian Genocide" written on its side was shown in class, Turkish Hurriyet writes.

Egemen Bağış, Turkey’s Minister for European Union (EU) Affairs will not be made accountable for his statements over the Armenian Genocide made in Switzerland in the heat of debate about France’s failed initiative to criminalize genocide denial. As Turkish mass media report, the Zurich General Prosecutor’s Office believes that when Bağış made that statement he had diplomatic immunity.

Prime Minster of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as fold in Armenia say, has again launched his “April 24 advance.”

At a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday in Seoul, South Korea, Erdogan called on Obama “not to mistake U.S. senators, lawmakers and politicians for historians,” and to abstain from the adoption of the resolution in the U.S. Congress regarding the Armenian Genocide.

United States Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) have formally introduced a new Senate resolution calling upon the government to “properly recognize the Armenian Genocide and to use the lessons of this atrocity to prevent future crimes against humanity.”