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ARMENIAN-AMERICANS SUE TURKISH GOVERNMENT FOR $63.8 MILLION OVER LAND CLAIMS
Associated Press
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-armenian-lawsuit,0,4888178.story
12:47 PM PST, December 15, 2010
LOS ANGELES
Three descendants of Armenians who lost their property in the Ottoman
Empire have filed suit in Los Angeles against the Turkish government
for restitution of more than $63 million for acreage that includes
the strategic Incirlik Air Base used by the U.S.
military.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court says that ancestors
of the litigants had their property confiscated in the alleged Armenian
genocide. The families say they have deeds to the parcels.
In the past, Turkey threatened to withhold access to the base when
Congress reconsidered recognizing the Armenian genocide.
Turkey has long denied that the loss of 1.5 million Armenian lives
between 1915 and 1919 constituted genocide and instead describes the
deaths as resulting from civil unrest that accompanied the collapse
of the Ottoman Empire.
From: A. Papazian
Associated Press
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-armenian-lawsuit,0,4888178.story
12:47 PM PST, December 15, 2010
LOS ANGELES
Three descendants of Armenians who lost their property in the Ottoman
Empire have filed suit in Los Angeles against the Turkish government
for restitution of more than $63 million for acreage that includes
the strategic Incirlik Air Base used by the U.S.
military.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court says that ancestors
of the litigants had their property confiscated in the alleged Armenian
genocide. The families say they have deeds to the parcels.
In the past, Turkey threatened to withhold access to the base when
Congress reconsidered recognizing the Armenian genocide.
Turkey has long denied that the loss of 1.5 million Armenian lives
between 1915 and 1919 constituted genocide and instead describes the
deaths as resulting from civil unrest that accompanied the collapse
of the Ottoman Empire.
From: A. Papazian