Armenian genocide

How Israel Quashed 1982 Efforts to Recognize the Armenian Genocide

A host of political concerns led the Israeli Foreign Ministry to try to sabotage a 1982 conference comparing the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. 

Breaking With Predecessors, Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide

The declaration, which has been long expected, was greeted with modest enthusiasm by human rights activists who view it as symbolic, and with denunciations by the Turkish government. 

'The Historical Record Is Affirmed': Armenian Reaction To Biden Recognition Of Armenian Genocide

Historian Ara Sanjian says that the Biden Administration's recognition of the Armenian Genocide is long overdue. 

The Armenian ‘Genocide’: This is What Happened in 1915

The Polish Jewish Lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" in part after losing 49 family members to the Holocaust. But he was also motivated by his earlier study of the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. 

Beyond Jermag Yev Sev: A Roundtable on Armenian American Identity

A dialogue with a historian of Armenians in the United States shows that the boundaries of the "white race" have shifted historically and been determined not by biology but by politics played out in immigration courts. 

The History That Happened: Setting the Record Straight on the Armenian Genocide

by Ryan Gingeras

For a brief moment this fall, world interest fixed its attention to an event of the past. News that the U.S. Congress approved a formal resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide was carried as a leading story by media outlets worldwide. 

What Recognizing the Armenian Genocide Means for U.S. Global Power

by Charlie Laderman

It could spark a recognition that America First is the wrong course.

Historian Taner Akçam’s new book includes "smoking gun" of Armenian Genocide

In his groundbreaking new book, “Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide,” due out in March, Clark University historian Taner Akçam destroys the Turkish government’s denial strategy.

‘Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide’ Uncovers Lost Evidence

Taner Akcam, a Turkish historian at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., who has studied the genocide for decades by piecing together documents from around the world to establish state complicity in the killings, says he has unearthed an original telegram that confirms authorities knew what was happening.

German historian reveals documents of 1100 pages in Vatican archives linked with Armenian Genocide

The German historian, Michael Hesemann, told the reporters that he plans to write a book based on the findings.

Pope Francis Condemns ‘Genocide’ of Armenians Before Visit to Memorial

Pope Francis waded into turbulent geopolitical waters once again on Friday during his first visit to Armenia when he made an unscripted remark referring to the World War I-era massacre.

German parliament acknowledges Armenian genocide amid intense Turkish pressure

The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining.

Tens of thousands rally in Los Angeles to commemorate Armenian genocide

“Today, we are all Armenian,” said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) as he addressed the crowd from the stage. “We have one cause and that cause is justice.”

Alexandros K. Kyros shocked to encounter Armenian Genocide denials at Harvard event

by Alexandros K. Kyrou

"The audience, which had filled the 175-seat auditorium to standing room only, was invited to ask questions. What followed was disturbing."

America and the Armenian Genocide

by Steven Cromack

As in 1915, the American government still struggles to balance moral leadership with political pragmatism.

It’s time the world recognised the Armenian genocide

by Sossie Kasbarian

While the language of denial, methodologies and nuances have shifted over the past century, in essence the formal stance remains unwavering.

The Cost of Turkey’s Genocide Denial

by Ronald Grigor Suny

Reconciliation of Armenians, Kurds and Turks will require a hard look backward in order to move forward.

Armenia debuts website devoted to genocide

There website debuts on the 100th anniversary of the genocide.

In Denial

by Atom Egoyan

The Armenian genocide, a century later

Largest Muslim organization in the US lambasted for refusing to face up to the Armenian Genocide

by Rick Shenkman

Critics call out the organization for hypocrisy.