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29 Jan
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Turkish Actor Yilmaz Erdogan wins AACTA for his role in The Water Diviner

Turkish Actor Yilmaz Erdogan won the AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) Award as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the Water Diviner. Mr Erdogan is the first Turkish Actor to be given the award.

Oscar winning actor Russell Crowe’s first directorial debut The Water Diviner, and Jennifer Kent thriller The Babadook have both won the AACTA Award for best film, marking the first time that two titles have shared the country’s top film prize.

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29 Jan
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Caption Contest

If you live long enough, you will see everything.

Today, at the European Court of Human Rights, we were treated to the spectacle of international celebrity lawyers, Geoffrey Robertson and Amal Clooney, both of whom have made fame and fortune as ‘champions’ of human rights and free speech argue that it was ok to ban freedom of expression in Switzerland.

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29 Jan
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29.01.2015 – ATA-A Remembers victims of Armenian Terrorism : Kemal Arikan

On 28th January 1982…

Two Armenian gunmen assassinate Turkish Consul General, Kemal Arikan, in his automobile while he waits at an intersection. The Justice Commandos of Armenian Genocide (JCAG) claims responsibility. One of the assassins, Hampig Sassounian, a 19-year-old Armenian American member of the JCAG is arrested shortly thereafter. Sassounian’s father states on public television, “I am glad that a Turk was killed, but my son did not do it.”

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29 Jan
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ECHR adjourns ruling on Turkey’s Worker’s Party chair over 1915 statements

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delayed on Jan. 28 its ruling in the case of Workers’ Party (İP) Chairman Doğu Perinçek, who was sentenced in Switzerland for publicly denying that the 1915 killings of Ottoman Armenians amounted to genocide.

In his defense, Perinçek reiterated the decision issued by the ECHR’s second chamber on Dec. 17, 2013, which found Switzerland unjust in its sentencing on the grounds of freedom of expression. The court had also determined that opinions on the 1915 incidents were still disputable, he added.

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