The Armenian Genocide of 1915 carried out by the Ottoman Empire is a historical fact. Despite Turkish denials, it is unanimously verified by the International Association of Genocide Scholars and accepted by nations that uphold moral responsibility above political gain.
Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide (Independent) - It's only a small grave, a rectangle of cheap concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow lilies. Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of up to 300 children, Armenian orphans of the great 1915 genocide who died of cholera and starvation as the Turkish authorities tried to "Turkify" them in a converted Catholic college high above Beirut. But for once, it is ...
Turkey still frosty with U.S. over Armenian genocide move (CNN) - Turkey will not send its U.S. ambassador back to Washington until it receives "clarity" on a measure that recommends the United States recognize the 1915 killings of ethnic Armenians as genocide, Turkey's prime minister said Tuesday.
Turkey warns US over Armenian genocide vote (Westport News) - ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey warned the Obama administration on Friday of diplomatic consequences if it doesn't quash a congressional resolution that would brand the World War I-era killing of Armenians genocide.
Letters: Free speech and the Armenian genocide (Guardian Unlimited) - Marcel Berlins ( Writ large: Genocide vote is an ignorant stunt , 9 March), in criticising the US foreign relations committee vote to recognise the Armenian genocide, says the word and its definition were crafted by Raphael Lemkin in 1944: in fact Lemkin began his campaign to criminalise the murderous repression of racial and religious groups much earlier, in 1933, always by reference to the ...
