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Calls for Australia to follow Germany's lead on Armenian killings

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The Australian parliament is being urged to follow Germany's lead and recognise the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces during World War One as genocide. The call comes from an Armenian-Australian community group, after the German parliament passed a resolution designating the deaths as the most serious of war crimes. But as ................ reports, a Turkish-community organisation says Australia has no business taking a position on the issue.


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The Australian parliament is being urged to follow Germany's lead and recognise the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces during World War One as genocide. The call comes from an Armenian-Australian community group, after the German parliament passed a resolution designating the deaths as the most serious of war crimes. But as ................ reports, a Turkish-community organisation says Australia has no business taking a position on the issue.


Image: Protesters outside the German Consulate in Istanbul, rallying against the German parliament's decision to adopt a resolution on the mass killing of Armenians during World War One -

 


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