WASHINGTON - Corporate America typically hires lobbyists to pressure Congress on taxes and trade rules. But in an unusual - some say risky - move, five military contractors and an energy company have stepped into a fight over whether the United States should label Turkey’s alleged slaughter of a million Armenians nearly a century ago […]
Head of the Azerbaijan International Diaspora Center (IDC) Ismayil Aghayev held a press conference on his visit to Igdir province of Turkey. Aghayev said every year Armenians marked the anniversary of false “Armenian genocide” in April, APA reports. He said IDC held series of events to prevent these falsehoods. Aghayev said within these events they […]
It’s almost April, so Washington is gearing up for another performance of the “Armenian Genocide Resolution Spectacular,” a regular event since 1984(…) Before staging this year’s performance, however, Congress should note that hitherto frozen relations between Armenia and Turkey are now showing signs of melting, and that this may be the first step toward reconciling […]
Armenian students respond to genocide denials
One of history’s most controversial debates came to the Marvin Center Monday night. Turkkaya Ataov, a professor at Ankara University in Turkey who is internationally recognized for his vehement denials that the 1915 massacre of Armenians was a genocide, presented a lecture entitled, “How to Come to Terms with One’s […]
Justin McCarthy, TGNA 2005
The History
OTTOMAN PROVINCES
Conflict between the Turks and the Armenians was not inevitable. The two peoples should have been friends. When World War I began, the Armenians and Turks had been living together for 800 years. The Armenians of Anatolia and Europe had been Ottoman subjects for nearly 400 years. There were problems during […]