Ottoman Turkey
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There are some important things emerging from the protests along the Lachin road in Azerbaijan which Armenians have called a “blockade”. The campaign against the Azerbaijani environmental protests has undoubtedly provided a degree of momentum for those in Yerevan, and in the Armenian diaspora in France and the US, who wish to break free of…
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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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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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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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There has been a strange silence in this part of the world over the centenary of the opening of the Great War on the Ottoman Empire. After the great fanfare surrounding the centenary of the war on Germany and all the nonsense about Ireland having apparently forgotten its part in such a world-historic event nothing…
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There has been remarkably little comment in Ireland and England about the war that began 100 years ago yesterday. That is the war on the Ottoman Empire. Perhaps no war has had such repercussions for things today as this war. And yet there are no discussions about how it came about, what it was for…
