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Peter Balakian

Peter Balakian is the Donald M and Constance H Rebar Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University. His book The Burning Tigris: the Armenian Genocide and America's Response (Harper Collins, 2003) was awarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize in 2005.

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Hrant Dink's assassination and genocide's legacy

The killing in Istanbul of the Armenian-Turkish journalist highlights the need for Turkey to confront the 1915 genocide of the Armenians, says Peter Balakian.

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