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California State Assembly votes to divest from Turkey

With a vote of 61 to 0, the California State Assembly overwhelmingly voted to adopt Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian’s measure (AB 1597) – a movement long championed by the Armenian National Committee of America Western Region and Armenian Youth Federation Western Region – calling for the divestment of California public funds from Turkish government controlled financial instruments, ensuring taxpayer funds are no longer used in this manner to aid and abet Turkey’s century long obstruction of justice for the Armenian Genocide, asbarez.com reported.

02.06.2017, 19:04