How do these prosecutions square with Mr Erdogan's stated wish to take the sting out of Turkish-Armenian relations by allowing some honest research?

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There were no angry letters to the White House and the Attorney General's office demanding an explanation of how these prosecutions came about.

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Dorothy Rabinowitz, the leading Fourth Estate investigative columnist who showed that the prosecutorial emperor had no clothes, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 in large part for her work in exposing the fraud of these prosecutions.

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