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UCLA compiles list of Armenian properties confiscated by Turkey during the genocide

Last week, the Armenian Genocide Research Program (AGRP) within The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA launched a groundbreaking project enabling Armenians to seek restitution of their properties confiscated by the Turkish government during and after the Genocide. In addition to the mass killing of 1.5 million Armenians, the Turkish government occupied their homeland of Western Armenia and seized their properties. Thanks to the UCLA initiative, for the first time, all missing information is g

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Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

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  1. Thank you Harut for bringing this to our attention. How realistic is it that Armenians will be compensated when the Turkish government denies any wrongdoing during that period! The international community is too busy with their own problems to want to pursue this topic. The most Armenia will get is a token mention in European parliaments. I doubt if Pashinyan will even support a move for the acknowledgement of the losses to the Armenians.

    1. What I am suggesting has nothing to do with Pashinyan, the international community or Turkey’s denials. Our rightful demands will be adjudicated by a Federal Court.

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