“If you lose culture," Henry Rollins explains, "the society dies.”

There is a deep irony in the situation — that a government committing a genocide in the present recognises one committed more than a century ago.

A formal letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, faithfully submitted.

The main lawyers’ group in Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province, which has faced prosecution over earlier April 24 statements, has called for Turkey to confront the 1915 mass killings and deportations...