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. [...]
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 [...]
Shortly before the resolution calling the Armenian killings genocide was to take place, Turkish politicians engaged in diplomatic efforts to prevent the resolution from being passed. Yet, all attempts were in vain. Prof. Dr. Selcuk Erez discusses the need for political marketing and the apparent lack of it in Turkey’s politics. The adoption of a [...]
Excerpted from Report by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), March 1, 2010, full text at http://www.jinsa.org/node/1316. [ ] The Congress of the United States is not the place to debate the history of other people in other times. It would be unacceptable for Brazil to pass a resolution condemning 19th Century American [...]
During World War II, some 5 to 6 million Jews were murdered to destroy them as an ethnic group – the paradigm case of genocide. Now imagine for a moment that the Nazis had spared three categories of people: Jews willing to be baptized, pretty women in order to marry them and children to be [...]