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Recent history — timeline

• 1975: ASALA, a terrorist group that demanded recognition of genocide by the Turkish government, was founded. Backed by some western countries, the group killed 4 civilians and 42 Turkish diplomats in various bombings and assasinations until the early 1980s.

* 1975 wird Asala, eine Terrorgruppe, die die Anerkennung des Völkermordes fordert, gegründet.

• April 24, 1994: President Bill Clinton issued a news release to commemorate the "tragedy" that befell the Armenians in 1915, yet he bowed to political pressure and refused to refer to it as "genocide," despite referring to the massacre as such before being elected president.
• June 30, 1998: The American rock band System of a Down, whose members are Armenian in ancestry, wrote the song "P.L.U.C.K." ("Political Lying Unholy Cowardly Killers"), about the Armenian Genocide and the denial of it as genocide. "P.L.U.C.K." can be found as Track 13 on the self-titled album, "System of a Down".
• January 18, 2001: Turkey recalled its ambassador from Paris in protest to a parliamentary bill that was unanimously passed formally recognizing the Armenian Holocaust as genocide and placing blame on the Turks. Relations between Turkey and France consequently suffered.
• 18. Januar, 2001: Die Türkei zieht ihren Botschafter aus Paris zurück, um gegen einen einstimmigen Parlametsbeschluss zu protestieren, der die armenische Katastrophe als Völkermord bezeichnete und dabei die Schuld den Türken zusprach. Die Beziehungen zwischen der Türkei und Frankreich litten stark.
• 2002: The Armenian Genocide was the subject of the film Ararat, by Armenian-Canadian director Atom Egoyan.

• February 20, 2003: A report on "The Applicability of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to Events which Occurred During the Early Twentieth Century" by the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) stated that "...at least some of the perpetrators of the Events knew that the consequence of their action would be the destruction, in whole or in part, of the Armenians of Eastern Anatolia, as such, or acted purposefully towards this goal, and, therefore, possessed the requisite genocidal intent." The report concluded that "...the Events, viewed collectively, can thus be said to include all of the elements of the crime of genocide as defined in the [UN] Convention, and legal scholars as well as historians, politicians, journalists and other people would be justified in continuing to so describe them" (p. 17).
• April 14, 2003: According to the League for Human Rights [2], the Turkish Ministry of Education issued a document instructing heads of schools to organize conferences stating that Turkey never exterminated its minorities. It also recommended that the students should write dissertations on "fighting allegations of genocide", in which phrases such as "Turks may have killed Armenians" are banned in favour of presenting these events as a necessity in the face of the "massacres perpetrated by Armenians". A first report detailing the application of these recommendations was to be sent by each school to the local Ministry directorates on May 13, 2003.
• April 2004: The Turkish government, in their new Penal Code, added a penalty of ten years in prison for any person who confirms that the Armenian Genocide took place. [3] The U.K. Parliament suggested, however, that "There is no mention of ... the Armenian genocide" in this penal code.
• April 21, 2004: the Canadian House of Commons voted to officially recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide. The motion passed easily by 153 to 68, however, the Liberal-controlled Cabinet was instructed to vote against it. The federal government, in opposing the motion, did not express a position on whether the genocide took place, but rather cited a desire to avoid reopening old wounds and to maintain good relations with Turkey.
• April 24, 2004: In marking the 89th Anniversary of the genocide, John Kerry issued a statement calling for international recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
• March, 2005: The Turkish Prime Minister and the head of the opposition held a press conference proposing the meeting of Armenian and Turkish historians to find out what really happened. The Prime Minister also called on Armenia to open its archives. The Armenian Foreign Minister rejected the invitation, stating that the world already knew what happened, and that its archives have always been open.
• 2001-2004: Also breaking a campaign promise, the subsequent President George W. Bush, in each year of his first term, refused to use the word "genocide" to describe the killings, though promising Armenian-Americans during his election campaign to recognize the "genocidal campaign" to which Armenians were subjected.

In the past, many prominent American politicians have made statements in support of formal recognition of the Armenian genocide. While president Ronald Reagan publicly referred to the events of 1915 as a 'genocide', a major feat in and of itself, nonetheless to this day no formal resolution recognizing the genocide has been passed by the US government. The Armenian side speculates that fear of retribution from Turkey, a US ally and NATO partner, is behind the lack of formal recognition, whereas the Turkish side speculates that the only reason for the possibility of such a recognition would be the strength of Armenian lobby efforts within the US rather than the genuineness of the claims.

• April, 2005: The Turkish State Archive issued a list of more than 523,000 Turks whom it said were killed by Armenians in Turkey between 1910 and 1922 as Armenians allegedly tried to establish themselves as the majority population in Eastern Anatolia.
• April, 2005: Das tükische Staatsarchiv veröffentlicht eine Liste von mehr als 523.000 Türken, die vor Armeniern getötet worden sein sollen,m als diese zwischen 1910 und 1922 angeblich versuchten, sich als Bevölkerungsmehrheit in Ostanatolien zu etablieren.

• April, 2005: The Turkish historian Murat Bardakçı opened the notes of Talat Pasha dating back to 1914 about the population of Armenians under Ottoman rule. The following is a script from Talat Pasha's notebook "The number of Gregorian and Catholic Armenians that lived under the Ottoman Empire was 1,256,403. By considering the fact that there might be some unaccounted people, we can increase this number to 1,500,000. The cities where the relocation is applied there are 284,157 Armenians but if we increase this number by 30% just to be sure, there are between 250,000 and 400,000 in the cities where the relocation was applied." He says that "The total Armenian population was a maximum of 1,500,000. Out of these many people, 924,158 were relocated and there are still around 400,000 people in cities where relocation was applied" He also says that there were 68,422 Armenians in Istanbul in 1914 and this number went up to 80,000 in the next year. None of these people were subject to relocation.
• April, 2005: Der türkische Historiker Murat Bardakçı öffnet die Notizen Talat Paschas über die Bevölkerung der Armenier unter der Osmanischen Herrschaft, die bis 1914 zurückreichen.

• [Current]: To this day, Turkey admits there were massacres of Armenians but disputes their extent and denies their qualification as genocide.