3098) Exclusive Interview With Ara Baliozian: " I Would Identify Myself As Someone Who Does His Utmost To Be An Honest Witness"

Armenian papers used to publish his commentaries/book reviews, but they have been turning down his works lately. Most of his notes are highly criticized by Armenians in general and they do anything and everything to silence him and even managed to bar him from many sites.He always says if he is wrong, correct him, but do not silence him.Here are few more lines from Ara:Can an Armenian and a Turk engage in dialogue?Not if either one or both are...

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3097) Letter From Permanent Representative Of Turkey To UN About Ex ANCA Chairman & Convicted Armenian Terrorist Mourad Topalian

General Assembly Fifty-Fifth SessionAgenda Items 156 And 164Consideration Of Effective Measures To Enhance The Protection, Security And Safety Of Diplomatic And Consular Missions And Representatives Measures To Eliminate International TerrorismSecurity CouncilFifty-Sixty Year . . ....

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3096) Turkey, Canada, and the Armenian Genocide

By Jasmeet Sidhu, Toronto Star Blog, May 27 2010The first thing I immediately noticed when I arrived in Turkey, was the price to get into the country. While British and American VISAs were only about $20, Canadians had to pay a whopping $60 for a VISA to enter the country. I never really thought about why, until we met with members of the Turkish foreign ministry in Ankara, Turkey.Here in Turkey with my Peace and Conflict studies class to learn...

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3095) TESEV Panel Notes by Sukru Aya: Recent Developments In Turkish – Armenian Relations - Istanbul-Turkey 28 May 2010

Turkey – Armenia: Moving on?28 May 2010, Friday, 09.30-13.00 / TESEV, Bankalar Cad. No:2 Kat:2 KaraköyThere will be English-Turkish simultaneous translation throughout the event.On Friday May 28th, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) and the Yerevan-based Caucasus Institute will jointly organize a panel on the recent developments in Turkish – Armenian relations. . . The panel will also discuss their recent publication “Turkey-Armenia...

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3094) Questions To All Of The Young Hasty-Premature Scholars

Prematured freshmen scholars jumping in the shallow "genocide swiming pool"! See where and how you are jumping and watch your heads fellows! Comment on posting 3091, Ugur Umit Ungor ( Armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2010/05/3091-young-turk-mass-violence-regime.html ) (Replies also Post."3092) An Octuple Problem Of Representation 147 Years After* Representation, Headache, And The Square Wheel By Ayda Erbal" ( Armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2010/05/3092-octuple-problem-of-representation.html...

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3093) Basic Disconnect—On The Part Of Armenians And Turks—That Is The Product Of Ignorance

The Armenian Weekly By Nanore BarsoumianWATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—On Wed., May 12, two Armenian American newspaper editors came together and spoke about their recent trips to Turkey. One was the editor of the Armenian Reporter, Emil Sanamyan, and the other, the editor of the Armenian Weekly, Khatchig Mouradian. Their experiences and impressions were telling, and at times controversial.. . The event was hosted by the Armenian Library and Museum...

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3092) An Octuple Problem Of Representation 147 Years After* Representation, Headache, And The Square Wheel By Ayda Erbal

Perspectives / The Armenian Weekly April 2010The Turkish edition of Vartan Artinian’s doctoral thesis, “A Study of the Historical Development of the Armenian Constitutional System in the Ottoman Empire, 1839–1863,” submitted to Brandeis University’s Near Eastern and Judaic studies department in 1970, starts with a preface written by Rober Koptas, now a columnist for Agos and one of the editors of Aras Publications. Koptas quotes an anecdote . ....

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3091) Young Turk Mass Violence : A Regime-Focused Approach By Ugur Umit Ungor

For The Record / The Armenian Weekly, April 2010This article will discuss the proposition that the Armenian Genocide may be contextualized within a wider vista of mass violence committed against civilians by the Young Turk regime over roughly four decades of rule. It will take as a point of departure the suggestion that a relatively cohesive regime profoundly transformed the multi-ethnic Ottoman society from the 1913 coup d’état to the elections...

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