Turkey and Ottoman Empire
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Michael Collins is undoubtedly one of the most important and significant men in the history of Ireland. He is, at the same time, a great and tragic figure, both determining the course of history and perishing as a result of how he himself determined it. Collins was born at Woodfield, Sam’s Cross, in County Cork,…
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Samuel P. Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilisations and the Making of the World Order’ originally appeared in article form in the illustrious Foreign Affairs periodical in 1993. The initial article generated more discussion in the United States than anything written since World War Two and it was expanded into a famous book by the author,…
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What is the origin of the Ottoman relocations of the Armenians of Eastern Anatolia, which Armenian campaigners describe as the centrepiece of the “Armenian Genocide”? In recent years there has been much focus on the German connection, for obvious reasons. Successfully associating a historical event with Hitler and the Nazis/Fascists is the ultimate objective of…
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It is the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 this month. The Irish Times of November 3, 1922 described what it saw as the triumph of the “Treaty” in the following way: “It perplexed the sagacity of Queen Elizabeth. It defeated the genius of Cromwell. Pitt failed and nearly every great statesman in English…
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TRT World’s new book “The Karabakh Gambit: Responsibility for the Future” offers an insightful examination of the prominent aspects of the Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia and the future implications for the South Caucasus. Download it for free here: The book, published by TRT World Research Centre, is edited by researchers Turan Gafarlı…
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Article published in Daily Sabah, 2 October 2021: A year ago, on 27th September 2020, Azerbaijan began the liberation of its territory that had been occupied by Armenia for nearly 30 years. The Armenian aggression at Tovuz, a few weeks earlier, had begun the countdown to war. The Yerevan government, through its provocations, had signalled…
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Quo Vadis Armenia? (Where are you marching Armenia?) (Updated and retitled due to the addition of postscripts.) I have sometimes been asked in interviews whether Armenia has accepted the new reality in the Southern Caucasus, brought about by its defeat in the Second Karabakh War, which now has its first anniversary. That is a difficult…
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Nikol Pashinyan has been officially reappointed as Prime Minister of Armenia, after his unexpected triumph in gaining almost 54 per cent of the vote in June’s snap parliamentary election. Pashinyan is in a much stronger position than could have been expected, considering he is a defeated war leader. One commentator described the choice that faced…
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One hundred years ago, on 18th July 1921, a Dashnaksutyun terrorist, Misak Torlakian, assassinated the Azerbaijani statesman, Behbud Khan Javanshir, outside the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul. Behbud Khan Javanshir was born in 1877 in the village of Azad Qaraqoyunlu, which was situated in the Javanshir Uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate. His father Azad Khan…
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On May 28th Azerbaijanis will commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. They will celebrate this momentous event in 2021 with greater joy this year, after the liberation of Karabakh and the occupied territories fresh in the minds of the Azerbaijani people. The Azerbaijan Republic emerged unexpectedly during as a result of a…
