Two Earthquakes and Three Babies

Two Earthquakes and Three Babies

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By Seta Haig, Glendale, Sunday morning, October 23, 2011

Like any other morning, the first thing I do when I get up is to turn on the morning news and walk over to the stove to heat the water for my morning coffee.

The big news early today is a 7.2 magnitude devastating earthquake in the region of Van, Eastern Turkey. The TV broadcasts the tragic news. The screen exhibits heartbreaking images of large residential areas with huge piles of debris from hundreds of collapsed, crumbled houses and apartment buildings.

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Presence of the Past in Legal Dimensions

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On 2 October 2011 a Symposium was held at the U.C.Berkeley co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program and the Organizing Committee of the Congress of Western Armenians.

Under the title "The presence of the past: Legal dimensions of Armenian-Turkish Relations" scholars and specialists of international law from Paris,Geneva, Washington and Berkeley addressed in a most pragmatic, scientific and methodical way the treaties of Sèvres, Kars and Lausanne as well as the Turkish legislation concerning the public and private property of Armenians of the Ottoman Empire including the issue of the cultural heritage of this population.

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