According to an interview held with the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Howard Berman, many Congressmen that formerly refrained from supporting the Armenian Genocide Resolution now agree with the procedure as Turkey’s involvement with the IHH has caused massive resentment. However, Berman states that in either case the resolution would not affect […]
Excerpted from an article published in the Huffington Post on March 9, 2010 by Alon Ben-Meir, Senior Fellow at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs.
(…) The recent resolution adopted by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs-to officially recognize actions against the Armenians in 1915 as genocide committed by the Ottoman Turks-has less to do with the […]
The British House of Lords has rejected to further a measure to recognize as “genocide” the Armenian-Ottoman tragic events of 1915.
Lord Hylton in his remarks at the meeting stated that he did not support the term “genocide” to describe the events of 1915 and suggested that parliamentary action would undermine Turkish-Armenian normalization efforts. Lord Maginnis, […]
Former deputy foreign minister and negotiator for Armenia, Gerard Libaridian believes the ongoing process between Turkey and Armenia to be full of misjudgments, misconceptions and self deception. According to him both countries sacrificed long term strategic interest for short term issues. In his interview with Cumhuriyet he analyses the mistakes and weaknesses of all parties.
How […]
Bad Things Happen When Empires Fall Apart
The following are excerpts of an article by Norman Stone, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford and head of the Russian-Turkish Institute at Bilkent University, Ankara, published in The Times, March 8, 2010.
The best thing said about the Armenian tragedy was a sermon delivered in […]