None Dared Call It Genocide. Yigal Schleifer.
by Schleifer, Yigal; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 76Family. Publisher: Jerusalem Report, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Censorship -- Turkey | Europe -- Foreign relations -- Turkey | European Union | Genocide | Jews -- Political activity | Massacres -- Armenia | Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Middle East | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire (1288-1918) | Turkey -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Armenians claim the Ottoman Turks killed as many as 1.5 million of their people during the years 1915-1923 through deportations and mass killings in what is now eastern Turkey. To the Armenians, this was an ethnic cleansing campaign, meant to drive the non-Muslims out of Turkey's Anatolian heartland. On April 24 [2005], Armenians worldwide will commemorate 90 years since the beginning of the massacres. Turkey rejects the genocide claim, admitting that Armenians were killed at the time, but disputes the number and says the deaths were unorganized and part of wider regional wartime violence that also affected Muslim Turks....The question of what occurred fundamentally divides Turks and Armenians." (JERUSALEM REPORT) This article discusses how Turkey "has begun to discuss this troubling chapter in its history" and considers how the Turks and Armenians can bridge the gulf between them.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: None Dared Call It Genocide, May 2, 2005; pp. 24-27.
"Armenians claim the Ottoman Turks killed as many as 1.5 million of their people during the years 1915-1923 through deportations and mass killings in what is now eastern Turkey. To the Armenians, this was an ethnic cleansing campaign, meant to drive the non-Muslims out of Turkey's Anatolian heartland. On April 24 [2005], Armenians worldwide will commemorate 90 years since the beginning of the massacres. Turkey rejects the genocide claim, admitting that Armenians were killed at the time, but disputes the number and says the deaths were unorganized and part of wider regional wartime violence that also affected Muslim Turks....The question of what occurred fundamentally divides Turks and Armenians." (JERUSALEM REPORT) This article discusses how Turkey "has begun to discuss this troubling chapter in its history" and considers how the Turks and Armenians can bridge the gulf between them.
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