WorldNews Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 [attach=full]19773[/attach]The Cypriot parliament unanimously approved Thursday a law that makes it a crime to deny that mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915 amounted to genocide. The law also establishes April 24, the date the killings began, as a national day of remembrance in Cyprus, much of whose Armenian community descends from survivors of the killings. Cyprus itself was Ottoman until coming under British rule in the 19th century and has been at odds with Turkey, the empire's successor, since being invaded by it in 1974 after a coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece. Continue reading... Quote
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