• 1934: About a year after it was published, the book The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was banished in NAZI Germany.

• 1965: For the 50nt commemoration year of the Armenian massacres, the Uruguay Senate and House of Representatives pass a resolution recognizing the events.

• 1960s: Is considered the years when the Turkish government has officially decided to teach to the world, “the other side of the story.” The following decade, the Turkish government will found and fund grants of Turkish and Ottoman studies, as well as history chairs at the middle east department of occidental universities.

• 1973: The 26th session of the UN Human Rights Committee’s Subcommittee on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of National Minorities adopted a report, containing a reference on the Armenian massacres, calling it: “The first Genocide of the twentieth century.”

• 1973: Karekin Yanikian, an Armenian of 80 year, who's family was decimated during the 1915 massacres killed two Turkish diplomats, from 1973, to 1975, other crimes were committed against Turkish interest, by the “Yanikian Commando,” which mission was to brake the silence behind the 1915 event, and as a reprisal against the Turkish government attempt to deny its past.

• 1974: The Turkish representatives at the U.N., during the 30th meeting has pressurized the organization to redraw the paragraph 30 of the adopted report, because concerns the Armenian cases. This followed with intense negotiations and pressures for few years, up until which, in 1978, the paragraph was removed until further discussion and in 1979 restored, from that year on, the matter was researched by the U.N..

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

• 1984: The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal after deliberation, concluded that the tragedy Armenians have faced during the last years of the Ottoman Empire, constitute a genocide.

• 1985: United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities has passed to a vote, a report containing a reference recognizing the Armenian massacres as genocide.

• 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.

• 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 [1], 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. [2] 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.

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• 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: 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.

• May 25, 2005: A conference about "Ottoman Armenians during the Decline of the Empire" focusing on the "Armenian Genocide" to be held in Bosphorus (Boğaziçi) University of Istanbul, Turkey is postponed by the administration of the Bosphorus University (one of the three organizers) due to the remarks in the speech of Justice Minister Cemil Cicek in parliament.

"This is a stab in the back to the Turkish nation. This is irresponsibility," the Anatolian News Agency quoted Cicek as saying at a parliamentary debate. "We must put an end to this cycle of treason and insult, of spreading propaganda against the nation by people who belong to it," he added.

• May 26, 2005: The Organizing Committee of the "Ottoman Armenians during the Decline of the Empire" publicly declared that the conference is going to be held in the near future.

• June 16, 2005: Germany officially recognises the Armenian Genocide. While the German resolution does not use the term genocide, it uses terms such as annihilation and murder to refer to the suffering of the Ottoman Armenian population. It also contains an apology for any German responsibility.

• August 2005: Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, visited Armenia and called on the United States, Turkey, leaders of both nations and the world community to recognize the Armenian Genocide. He had made previous calls for genocide recognition during his 2004 presidential run.

• 1923 - Current: To this day, Turkey admits there were large scale massacres of Armenians but disputes the extent, premeditation and cause of many of the deaths and denies their qualification as genocide based on these objections.