Reporters Without Borders in Paris urged parliamentarians to refer the bill adopted on Monday to make it a crime to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman era incidents of 1915 to the Constitutional Council. A letter by Jean-Francois Julliard, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, said that parliamentarians must demand the bill’s referral to the [...]
Thousands of Turks from across Europe marched through the French capital on Saturday to denounce a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide.
The French Senate is scheduled to vote on Monday on a law that would penalize those who deny genocide, taking another step along a path that has already damaged France’s relations with Turkey.
Selman Can’s research on 19th century Ottoman architecture reveals the real architects of Ottoman buildings. ‘The Balyans, known as the architects of in the Ottoman, were actually contractors,’ he says Istanbul’s Çırağan Palace’s history consultant Associate Professor Selman Can said the Balyans, one of the well-known Armenian families of the Ottoman Empire, were not the [...]
Amid controversy over a bill accepted last month in the French National Assembly that penalized denial of the “Armenian genocide,” a circle of academics have suggested that the Ottoman Empire’s acts against the Armenian community in Eastern Anatolia cannot be considered “genocide” due to a lack of intention on the part of the Ottoman Empire [...]