Forging the past: Oxford University Press and the ‘Armenian question’
In 2005 Oxford University Press published Donald Bloxham’s The Great Game of Genocide. Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians. The first hardback edition was followed by a paperback version in 2007. The book is more of a prosecutor’s brief than a balanced study of the fate of…
Documentary Screening & Lecture: The Story of 1915 in Armenian Documents by Serkan Koç and A Review of 2015 EHRC Grand Chamber Decision by Dr. Mehmet Perinçek at Türk Ocağı, Lyndhurst, NJ; Sunday, April 3 2016
There were more than 50 attendees at Türkocağı. Its president Mehmet Yar welcomed the attendees and former president Gülen Hanım conducted the meeting. Several speakers including our own president Mehmet Toy and New York Deputy Consul General Reyhan Özgür spoke briefly underlining the importance of having a united front against…
‘There was no Armenian genocide’
23 OCTOBER 2007 NEWSTATEMAN ‘There was no Armenian genocide’ The Turkish Embassy’s Orhan Tung responds to the BY ORHAN TUNG ntrary to the Armenian allegations, in fact, there is no consensus among the historians and legal experts to qualify the events of 1915 as “genocide”. There is a legitimate historical…
Armenian “Settled History Syndrome”: An affliction that runs deep in the media
So, I was a “Genocide denier,” and Armenian “genocide” was a settled history, the arbiter presumably being the all-knowing International Association of Genocide Scholars. Case shut. Opinions and facts brought forward by others will not change anything … The response was the embodiment of a frozen mind. Frozen in time,…
THE PRESENT-DAY SOURCES OF ARMENIAN ALLEGATIONS AND PREJUDICES AGAINST TURKS
Utterings of hatred and violence: The speech delivered by Zhirinovsky, after receiving his award, was particularly noteworthy. Here are some excerpts from his remarks: “The day will come when Armenians will celebrate their festivals in the territory of liberated Western Armenia. That could be a festival bearing the name of…
EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS – GRAND CHAMBER VERDICT OF OCTOBER 15, 2015 : PROS & CONS
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. …( the verdict) fine-tunes the “denial laws” and teaches Switzerland (and the rest of the world) that only “genocides supported by the verdict of a competent court” shall benefit from the protection afforded by the “denial laws.” That is, while the Jewish…
ARMENIAN TERRORISM AND PROPAGANDA SINCE 1972
Demonstrators of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation burning the Turkish flag in Thessaloniki,Greece, on April 23, 2007 Hundreds of attacks were perpetrated by Armenian terrorists during the 1970s and 1980s, and someothers during the 1990s, the last one in Brussels, on 23 June 1997. The majority of these attackstook place…