Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. 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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Censorship--Turkey European Union Genocide Jews--Political activity Massacres--Armenia
Europe--Foreign relations--Turkey Turkey--Foreign relations--Middle East Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire (1288-1918) Turkey--Politics and government