By a vote of 233 for and 180 against, the House failed to achieve the two-thirds majority needed to pass a resolution (H.J. Res. 192) designating April 24, 1986, for remembering the killing of more than 1 million Armenians in Turkey between 1915 and 1923. Sponsors said the victims, ...
An estimated 1.5 million died in massacres, deportations and forced marches that began in 1915 as Ottoman officials worried that the Christian Armenians would side with Russia, its enemy in World War I. The event is widely viewed by historians as genocide. Turkey denies the deaths constituted ...
ARMENIANS DIVIDED OVER RAPPROCHEMENT WITH TURKEY, CITING NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT. ALLEGED 1915 GENOCIDE, POTENTIAL WEAKENING OF TIES TO RUSSIA; MEANWHILE, FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV SEES POTENTIAL BENEFITS FOR MOSCOW.An excerpt from the article "Silent Peace," by Gayane Movsesyan and Ivan Solovyov, ...
Instead, Turkey refers to “the events of 1915” in which many people lost their lives, including Turks and Kurds and at the hands of Armenian revolutionaries. Ani, a ruined medieval Armenian city located next to the closed border of Armenia in Turkey’s province of Kars. Among the victims...
hands of Islamic State terrorists who overran eastern Syria in 2014. The ISIS militants, who committed genocide against the Yazidi people of northern Iraq and persecuted the local Kurdish populations, were very likely to have inflicted damage to the memorial in service to their sponsors in Turkey...
1915Throughout the history of the Turkish Republic, Turkey's Armenians have been subjected to a trade-off between the limited minority rights granted by the 1923 Lausanne Treaty and equal national citizenship. Traditionally a closed, depoliticized community, the citizenship practices of the Armenian ...
There are still those in Turkey who ask what they would lose if Turkey apologized. Wasn’t there an apology already on Turkey’s behalf? These attitudes seek to divide Turkey and they serve Armenia’s goal of recognizing genocide and seeking reparations. On the other hand, look at what typ...
There is little agreement between the Turks and the Armenians on what actually happened in 1915. What the two sides can agree on is this: Starting in 1915, under the rule of the Ottoman Empire — not modern-day Turkey — the Ottomans killed Armenians. The reasons for the killings, as ...
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The government of Turkey often registers complaints when foreign governments describe the event, which began in 1915, using the word “genocide.” They maintain that it was wartime and there were losses on both sides, and they put the number of dead Armenians at 300,000. ...