Recently, a letter seeking cosponsors for a renewed drive to secure the adoption of an “Armenian Genocide Resolution” was circulated on Capitol Hill. The lead authors of the proposed legislation included four members of congress from districts with sizable Armenian constituents. They included Armenian Caucus Co-Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ). Rep. Pallone has turned his office [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Erman Sahin Abstract The tragic fate of the Ottoman Armenians during World War I, the massacres that accompanied their forced migration, and the role of the Committee of Union and Progress—the ruling faction in the Ottoman government during World War I— constitute one of the murkiest chapters in the modern history of the Middle East. [...]
ISTANBUL – Turkish Daily News March 13, 2008 The alleged Armenian genocide never happened and foreign reporters at the time wrote false stories about things they never saw, said Justin McCarthy, an American professor, at a conference titled “Enemies of the Truth” Tuesday. McCarthy, author of the book, “The Ottoman Peoples and the [...]