ARMENIANS PROTEST TURKISH MEETING IN BEIRUT

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April 19 2010

Lebanese of Armenian descent have pelted Turkish businessmen with eggs
outside a Beirut hotel to protest their participation in a business
conference in Lebanon.

Some 200 Armenians gathered outside the venue for the Turkish-Lebanese
Economic Conference on Monday.

They held flags and banners reading "trade is expensive, justice
is priceless" and hurled eggs at cars and a bus bringing in Turkish
businessmen.

The police intervened and quickly dispersed them.

Lebanon has 150,000 Armenians, or nearly 4 percent of its population.

The community harbors deep animosity toward Turks over the 1915
killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire.

Armenians want Turkey to recognize it as a genocide. Turkey rejects
the label and says the death toll is inflated.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress