Month: August 2013
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ABC 7.30 airs feature on Turkish Gallipoli ban threat against Australians
(armenia.com.au, SYDNEY) – Australia’s national broadcaster, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), aired a powerful feature on Australia’s connection to the Armenian Genocide, and the recent threats made by the Turkey’s Foreign Ministry to ban Australian politicians from attending ANZAC Day centenary commemorations in Gallipoli. The feature was part of the prime-time “7.30” program (WATCH THE…
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Turkey’s “race codes” and the Ottoman legacy
VICKEN CHETERIAN 20 August 2013 The revelation that modern Turkey continues secretly to classify its citizens according to religious criteria reflects the weight of the Ottoman past. It also has implications for those in the middle east seeking a state based on equality before law, says Vicken Cheterian. Only days before the verdict in the latest…
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Diyarbakir Exodus Chronicles Memories of Three Families
(yerakouyn.am) – By Gabriella Gage The late Josephine Mangasarian’s Diyarbakir Exodus is more than the story of a singular life; the memoir is an extensive family history — the interconnected stories of Mangasarian’s mother’s, father’s and husband’s families — between the years 1895 and 1927. In April, the Mangasarian family published her unfinished memoir. In 1905, Josephine…
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The Father of Genocide
(horizonweekly.ca) The Father of Genocide – Outraged by the Ottomans’ massacres of Armenians, a young Polish lawyer pushed to have the crime of genocide enshrined in law – By YASCHA MOUNK During World War I, Soghomon Tehlirian, an Armenian civilian, looked on helplessly as Ottoman troops shot his mother, raped his sisters and hacked his…