3383) The Distortions & The Facts Against California AJR-2

Re: www.anca.org/legal/insuranceclaims/defendant_appeal_enbanc.pdf Compiled by Sukru Server Aya - Istanbul Dec. 20, 2012Counter Comments On The Distortions Of Subject Resolution:California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session Assembly Joint Resolution No. 2Introduced by Assembly Members Gatto and AchadjianDecember 3, 2012Assembly Joint Resolution No. 2— Relative to the Armenian Genocide. legislative counsel’s digestThe use of the term “Armenian...

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3382) Methodology Of Taner Akçam

The expanded English edition of German sociologist Taner Akçam’s last book, The Young Turks’ Crime against Humanity. The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, was published last April. To analyze all the distortions, falsifications and other flaws of this book would mean writing a whole volume. However, some significant examples can be provided here.Mr. Akçam alleges (p. 203) that “the clearest statement that the aim of the...

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3381) Demographic Statistics by Associations Patriotiques Armeniennes-1919

Title Demographic statistics produced by the Associations Patriotiques ArmeniennesCreator Messoby, KevorkCreator-Culture ArmenianCreator-Role authorCreation Date 1919-08-06Description Demographic information submitted to the Commission by the Associations Patriotiques Armeniennes, focusing on numbers of Armeniens in different parts of Turkey and the former Ottoman Empire. Subject (LC) Armenia -- Population -- StatisticsArmenians -- Turkey...

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3380) America As Mandatary For Armenia (1919) Free E-Book

Author: American Committee for the Independence of Armenia.Published: New York, 1919.Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 > Armenia.United States > Foreign relations > Armenia.Armenia > Foreign relations > United States.Physical Description: 56 pagesClassification Number: D651.A7 A6 . . . If the document is not be viewable on the above embedded version:Please click the download link at this addressKindly provided by TruckTurk...

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3379) Book Review: Preposterous Paradoxes of Ambassador Morgenthau : A Factual Story About Politics, Propaganda and Distortions

Sukru Server Aya's new book titled "Preposterous Paradoxes of Ambassador Morgenthau : A Factual Story About Politics, Propaganda and Distortions" is expected to be released in February 1913.Here's a review by Professor Dr Ata ATUN:The book titled “Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story” written by Mr. Henry Morgenthau Sr. the U.S. Ambassador in Istanbul from 1913 to 1916, on which the Armenian allegations mainly based on, when cross checked day by day with...

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3378) What Did Talat Pasha Speak With Soviet Intelligence ?

What Did Talat Pasha Speak With Soviet Intelligence ?Why Talat Pasha Was Angry About Morgenthau ?Talat Pasha - Contacts With Bolsheviks and The BritishDirect Link To: What Did Talat Pasha Speaks With Soviet Intelligence?Please feel free to email us a better translati...

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3377) Free E-Book: Relief Of Armenians, Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 21, 1916

. . . Direct Link To The DocumentKindly provided by TruckTurkeyComment by Sukru S. AyaThis new addition to your E-library, is a great contribution as “historical evidence”, and reconfirms my previous comments and book contents. The sorrowful reality is the fact that U.S. politicians or Turkish speakers or scholars, do not read such discoveries and repeat their own stale opinions, despite the fact that “documents show the very opposite”.This document...

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3376) State Identity, Continuity, And Responsibility The Ottoman Empire, The Republic Of Turkey And The Armenian Genocide A Reply To Vahagn Avedian

by Pulat Tacar And Maxime GauinIntroductionWe have been asked by the European Journal of International Law to write a reply to an article entitled ‘State Identity, Continuity and Responsibility: The Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey and the Armenian Genocide’. The article accuses Turkey of ‘prac-tising a denialist policy’ with regard to ‘the act of genocide committed during 1915– 1916’, demanding that it ‘make itself responsible for its...

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3375) Photograph links Germans to 1915 Armenia Genocide

Newly discovered picture shows Kaiser's officers at scene of Turkish atrocityRobert Fisk 21 October 2012The photograph – never published before – was apparently taken in the summer of 1915. Human skulls are scattered over the earth. They are all that remain of a handful of Armenians slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks during the First World War. Behind the skulls, posing for the camera, are three Turkish officers in tall, soft hats and a man, on the...

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3374) A Turk, a Kurd, and an Armenian Walk into a Church

by Khatchig MouradianWe had met the culprits earlier, near the lake—a large herd of sheep that covered the landscape stretching between two hills. (Photo by Khatchig Mouradian)We park the car near Lake Van and start our long hike towards the side of a hill where the ruins of a medieval Armenian monastery await us. It is a long hike over uneven surfaces thoroughly sprinkled with dry manure. We had met the culprits earlier, near the lake—a large herd...

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3373) Critical commentary to Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story

A critical commentary to Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story which largely consists of a Sidney B. Fay quote from the journal Kriegschuldfrage (1925).Excerpted from: Harry E. Barnes, Genesis of the World War (New York: Knopf, 1926), pp. 241-247: . . . This luxuriant and voluptuous legend was not only the chief point in the Allied propaganda against Germany after the publication of Mr. Morgenthau’s book, but it has also been tacitly accepted by Mr. Asquith...

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3372) The Holocaust and Other Genocides Edited by Wichert ten Have and Barbara Boender

Edited by Wichert ten Have and Barbara Boender Since Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide after the destruction of the European Jews during WWII, the United Nations signed the Genocide Convention in 1948. Though this convention served the prevention of genocide in the future, large scale mass murder returned on all continents, the genocide in Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Armenia as some of the most notorious cases. 176 pages · 31 b/w and...

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3371) Book Review: Shattering Empires :The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918

by Michael A. ReynoldsNew York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 324 pp. $90 ($31.99, paper)Reviewed by Yücel GüçlüKavaklıdere/AnkaraShattering Empires traces the course of foreign relations between the Ottoman and Russian empires from the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 to the end of World War I. Reynolds of Princeton University examines Russia's policies toward eastern Anatolia and highlights the way interstate competition shaped local identities...

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3370) Book Review : Crime of Numbers: Role of Statistics in the Armenian Question (1878-1918), Fuat Dündar

Reviewed by Yücel Güçlü, independent scholarTransactions Publishers, 2010. xiv + 238 pages, with tables, figures, appendices, bibliography, index. $49.95, hardcover.Crime of Numbers is a continuation of Fuat Dündar's postgraduate research. It is a controversial and provocative venture whose overarching thesis is that "during the First World War, in order to find land for homeless refugees from the Balkans, the Ottoman government evacuated certain...

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