Resources: Database Armenian genocide
An internet petition has been launched in Turkey, apologising for the "great catastrophe of 1915" when hundreds of thousands of Ottoman Armenians died. Many international historians say the massacres and deaths of Armenians during their forced removal from what is now eastern Turkey were "genocide". Turkey firmly denies that, saying those who died were just victims of war. The petition - the first of its kind - was initiated by prominent Turkish academics and newspaper columnists. They say they want to challenge the official denial and provoke discussion in Turkish society about what happened. The petition is entitled "I apologise". »
Serdar Kaya is 43 and has never been to court before; now he's suing the Turkish ministry of education. The father of an 11-year old girl, Mr Kaya is angry that she was forced to watch what he calls a "very bloody propaganda film" at school. Sari Gelin, or "Blonde Bride", was commissioned by the Turkish General Staff and distributed in recent months by the education ministry. It is an attempt to counter what Turkey calls "baseless" claims that Ottoman Turks committed genocide against the Armenians in 1915. The DVD was sent to all elementary schools with a note »
Several years ago, when my students were studying the Armenian genocide, one of my students was outraged when he learned that the Turkish government was denying that they had any responsibility for the fate of the Armenians and that what happened to the Armenians was a genocide. He decided to write an e-mail (under the name “confused student,” as he wanted to remain anonymous) to the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C. The following is the response he received, dated 15 Jan, 2004. The student's letter that elicited this response from the Turkish embassy appears after the Embassy's letter. To Confused »
Turkey's self-destructive obsession with denying the Armenian genocide seems to have no limits. The Turks pulled out of a NATO exercise this week because the Canadian prime minister used the term "genocide" in reference to the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during and after World War I. Before that, the Turkish ambassador to France was temporarily recalled to protest a French bill that would make it illegal to deny that the Armenian genocide occurred. And before that, a leading Turkish novelist, Orhan Pamuk, was charged with "insulting Turkish identity" for referring to the genocide (the charges were dropped after »
The Armenian Genocide: MEMORANDUM OF THE "TEN COMMANDMENTS" OF THE COMMITTEE OF UNION AND PROGRESS, 1914-1915 (1). Profiting by Arts: 3 and 4 of Comit Union and Progres, close all Armenian Societies, and arrest all who worked against Government at any time among them and send them into the provinces such as Bagdad or Mosul, and wipe them out either on the road or there. (2). Collect arms. (3). Excite Moslem opinion by suitable and special means, in places as Van, Erzeroum, Adana, where as a point of fact the Armenians have already won the hatred of the Moslems, provoke »
The Armenian Genocide: MEMORANDUM OF THE "TEN COMMANDMENTS" OF THE COMMITTEE OF UNION AND PROGRESS, 1914-1915 (1). Profiting by Arts: 3 and 4 of Comit Union and Progres, close all Armenian Societies, and arrest all who worked against Government at any time among them and send them into the provinces such as Bagdad or Mosul, and wipe them out either on the road or there. (2). Collect arms. (3). Excite Moslem opinion by suitable and special means, in places as Van, Erzeroum, Adana, where as a point of fact the Armenians have already won the hatred of the Moslems, provoke »
If you have not seen the mid-December (2005) video from Hin Jugha (now Julfa, Nakhichevan) that shows Azerbaijani soldiers destroying the last headstones of the ancient Armenian cemetery, visit and do so. Watch it closely, because this is the first documented "hot action" of cultural genocide against the Armenian heritage. Watch it and know that most Azerbaijanis look at these scenes and deny. They deny this happened. I never truly realized the deep and hateful evil of the Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide before I faced the Azerbaijani denial Jugha's destruction. While we can assume that Turkish deniers may »
Author's trial set to test Turkey By Sarah Rainsford BBC News, Istanbul Orhan Pamuk Pamuk longs to return to his books but knows he is a political symbol The rooms in Istanbul's Sisli courthouse are tiny. There is barely space for a single wooden spectators bench squeezed between battered metal filing cabinets. But on Friday one of these rooms will be the setting for a test case for Turkey. Turkey's most internationally-acclaimed novelist will go on trial here charged with "insulting Turkishness". The charges relate to a magazine interview in which Orhan Pamuk said 30,000 Kurds and one million »
Turk-Armenian Fight Over WWI History Goes to a U.S. Court Massachusetts Law Sparks A Free-Speech Debate About Teaching 'Genocide' By KARA SCANNELL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 27, 2005; Page A1 Nearly a century ago, perhaps a million or more Christian Armenians were slaughtered by Muslim Turks. It ranks among history's major instances of genocide. Or is "genocide" the wrong word? For generations, Turks and Armenians have argued the point. Armenians say it was genocide, pure and simple. Some Turks respond that the deaths were a tragic byproduct of World War I and that both Turks and »
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