Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

BAKU CRITICIZES OSCE KARABAKH MEDIATORS
Khalaf Khalafov

News.Az
Tue 10 January 2012

An Azerbaijani official has accused the OSCE Minsk Group of taking a
“laissez-faire attitude” to resolution of the Karabakh conflict.

The efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group to find a peaceful resolution to
the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Karabakh have not produced a
result, which is hampering the liberation of Azerbaijani land from
occupation and the return home of IDPs, Deputy Foreign Minister
Khalaf Khalafov said during a meeting on Tuesday with Ilkka Kanerva,
head of the Finnish delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

Khalafov accused Armenia of continuing to disrespect the norms of
international law and of taking a non-constructive stance during
negotiations, Interfax-Azerbaijan reports.

In turn, he accused the OSCE Minsk Group of taking a laissez-faire
attitude which he said was unacceptable.

He said that it was also unacceptable in the modern era to change
borders by force or occupy another country’s territory.

Azerbaijani officials periodically criticize the Minsk Group for
failure to make progress in peace talks with Armenia.

Khalaf Khalafov and the head of a delegation of visiting Finnish MPs
also discussed the development of Azerbaijani-Finnish relations and
noted the importance of boosting interparliamentary ties.

Ilkka Kanerva said that Finland was interested in developing relations
with Azerbaijan in international organizations, describing Azerbaijan’s
election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council as
evidence of its international standing.

From: Baghdasarian

FRENCH AUTHOR EXPLAINS RATIONALE BEHIND GENOCIDE BILL

PanARMENIAN.Net
January 10, 2012 – 10:19 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – French writer and academic Bernard-Henri Levy
explained the rationale behind the recent bill passed in the French
Parliament criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide in a
January 4 article in Huffington Post.

“The law whose purpose is to penalize negationist revisionism, voted
before Christmas by the French parliament, does not propose to write
history in the place of historians. And this for the simple reason
that this history has been told and written, well written, for a long
time,” Levy writes in the Huffington Post. “This we have always known:
that, beginning in 1915, the Armenians were the victims of a methodic
attempt at annihilation.”

“It’s time to stop mixing everything up and drowning the Armenian
tragedy in the ritualized blahblahblah assailing the ‘memorial laws.’
For this law is not a memorial law. It is not one of those dangerous
power plays capable of laying the path for dozens if not hundreds
of absurd or blackguardly rules, codifying what one has the right
to say about the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre, the meaning of
colonization, slavery, the Civil War, the misdemeanor of blasphemy
and heaven knows what else. It is a law concerning a genocide – which
is not the same. It is a law sanctioning those who, in denying it,
intensify and perpetuate the genocidal act – which is something
else entirely. There are not, thank God, hundreds of genocides,
or even dozens. There are three. Four, if we add the Cambodians to
the Armenians, the Jews, and the Rwandans. And to place these three
or four genocides on the same level as all the rest, to make their
penalization the antechamber of a political correctness that authorizes
a stream of useless or perverse laws on the disputed aspects of our
national memory, to say, “Watch it! You’re opening a Pandora’s box from
which everything and anything can pop out !” is another imbecility,
exacerbated by another infamy and sealed with a dishonesty that is,
really, grotesque,” the author writes.

“Let us confront this specious line of argument with the wisdom of
national representation. And may the senators complete the process
by refusing to be intimidated by this little band of historians,”
he concludes.

From: Baghdasarian

AMERICAN TV CHANNEL ABC NEWS INVOLVES NAGORNYY KARABAKH IN THE LIST OF 7 UNUSUAL REGIONS OF THE WORLD TO BE VISITED IN 2012

arminfo
Monday, January 9, 17:06

The American TV channel ABC News has involved Nagornyy Karabakh in
the list of 7 unusual regions of the world to be visited in 2012.

“If you’re looking for an adventure, this landlocked autonomous region
between Armenia and Azerbaijan is the place to go. It’s the kind of
place that’s so contested that not only does it not have an embassy,
but its “Office of Permanent Representation” in Armenia doesn’t
even ask if you want your visa pasted into your passport. They
know you don’t, so they just attach it with a paper clip. Stay at
the recently-built Armenia Hotel in the capital, Stepanakert, and
use the city as your base to explore the region. Go hiking through
snow-topped mountains and fields of yellow and red flowers. Feast on
shish kebob and grilled vegetables. If you’re staying with a local,
don’t be surprised if you’re offered homemade mulberry vodka with
breakfast. Don’t miss the Gandzasar Monastery, meaning “hilltop
treasure,” built in the 10th century. Visit it at night to see it
lit up in the darkness”, the announce of the TV channel says.

To note, according to the information shared by the consulate service
of the NKR Foreign Ministry, the number of foreigners which visited
the NKR over the nine months of 2011 is by 64% more than at the same
period of 2010. The majority of foreigners which visited Karabakh were
from Russia, the countries of the EU, the USA, Iran and Canada. The
geography of visitors has been extended and tourists from Japan,
China, Singapore, Brasil, Venezuela, Israel, New Zealand, India and
other countries also visited Nagornyy Karabakh.

From: Baghdasarian

KURDISH, GREEK, AND ARMENIAN AMERICANS CALL FOR U.S. INQUIRY INTO TURKISH AIRSTRIKE

asbarez
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Victims of the Turkish airstrike

Community Groups ask Congressional Leaders to Press for Administration
Investigation of the Use of U.S. Arms in Attack that Killed 35 Kurdish
Boys and Young Men

WASHINGTON~WKurdish, Hellenic and Armenian American leaders joined
together Tuesday in calling upon key Congressional leaders to demand
that the Obama Administration investigate whether Turkey violated U.S.

arms export laws by using American-supplied weaponry in a December 28,
2011, airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish boys and young men along the
Turkey-Iraq border.

In a January 10 letter addressed to the bipartisan leaderships of
the Congressional committee~Rs overseeing the State Department and
Pentagon, the American Hellenic Institute, American Kurdish Information
Network, Armenian National Committee of America, Kurdish Human Rights
Watch, and Kurdish National Congress of North America called upon
the eight chairpersons and ranking members of these panels to request
that the Obama Administration officially investigate this potential
violation of U.S. law.

In their joint letter, the signatories noted that: ~Spress accounts,
in the Associated Press, Economist, Boston Globe, Radio Free Europe,
and elsewhere, have reported that this attack was conducted by
U.S.-supplied F-16s, guided by aerial drone intelligence.~T

They stressed that: ~SIn light of these widely reported accounts
indicating the possible use of U.S. arms ~V and in the context of both
the horrendous human costs of this particular attack and the history
of Turkey~Rs having long used its military arsenal against civilian
populations ~V we call upon you to request that the Administration
investigate this matter. We also ask that you request that the
Administration submit an immediate public report to Congress on any
potential violations of U.S. law in connection with these killings.~T

The letter was addressed to John Kerry, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations; Richard Lugar, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee; Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee; John McCain, Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services
Committee; Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee; Howard Berman, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee; Buck McKeon, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee;
and Adam Smith, Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee

The complete text of the letter is provided below.

Dear Senators Kerry, Lugar, Levin and McCain and Representatives
Ros-Lehtinen, Berman, McKeon and Smith:

We are writing to ask you ~V as the legislators with primary oversight
responsibility for the Department of State and the Pentagon ~V to call
upon the Obama Administration to investigate and publicly report to
Congress regarding Turkey~Rs compliance with the Arms Export Control
Act of 1976 and other relevant U.S. laws, in regard to the December
28, 2011 Turkish airstrike that killed as many as 35 innocent Kurdish
boys and young men along Turkey~Rs border with the Kurdistan Regional
Government of Iraq.

As you have likely seen, press accounts, in the Associated Press,
Economist, Boston Globe, Radio Free Europe, and elsewhere, have
reported that this attack was conducted by U.S.-supplied F-16s,
guided by aerial drone intelligence. In light of these widely
reported accounts indicating the possible use of U.S. arms ~V and in
the context of both the horrendous human costs of this particular
attack and the history of Turkey~Rs having long used its military
arsenal against civilian populations ~V we call upon you to request
that the Administration investigate this matter. We also ask that you
request that the Administration submit an immediate public report to
Congress on any potential violations of U.S. law in connection with
these killings.

Thank you for your leadership on human rights and for all your service
in government promoting U.S. interests and advancing American values
in the international arena.

Sincerely,

Nick Larigakis President American Hellenic Institute

Kani Xulam Executive Director American Kurdish Information Network

Aram Hamparian Executive Director Armenian National Committee of
America

Dr. Pary Karadaghi President Kurdish Human Rights Watch

Dr. Kamal Artin President Kurdish National Congress of North America

From: Baghdasarian

TRUTH IS PERSISTENT: HRANT DINK CASE

Today’s Zaman
Jan 10 2012
Turkey

Why can’t we solve the Hrant Dink murder? I have tried to answer
this question in this column many different times, approaching it
from many different angles.

My answers have one simple common denominator and it is this: We
cannot solve it because the whole system was involved in it.

Let me explain it in plain English. Dink’s murder was planned and
orchestrated by circles within Ergenekon. Everything was planned in
advance. Dink once said that the Armenians would be free once they
had gotten rid of “the poisonous blood associated with Turks.” What he
meant was very obvious. The Armenians, according to Dink, were poisoned
with the hatred of Turks and once they had managed to overcome this
hatred, a healing process would have been started.

One lawyer, Kemal Kerincsiz, who is now behind bars in connection
to being a member of Ergenekon, brought a case against Dink for the
above mentioned words, alleging that he was insulting “Turkishness.”

Normally, any judge could have easily come to the conclusion that
Hrant’s words were not about “Turkishness,” but were an invitation for
Armenians to look at their hatred towards Turks from different angles.

However, the Turkish courts, as they were instructed to do,
“misunderstood” these words and took them literally as if they were
suggesting that Turkish blood was poisonous.

When Dink was put on trial for insulting “Turkishness,” he became an
open target. While he was being tried before the courts, circles within
Ergenekon were not only pressuring the courts to give him a prison
sentence, but were also preparing murderers in Trabzon. Yasin Hayal,
who has very strong ties with the gendarmerie, was trying to convince
Ogun Samast to kill Dink. While he was doing this, they also talked
to Erhan Tuncel, who informed police intelligence of every single
step that Hayal and Samast were taking. Basically, everyone knew
that Dink was going to be killed. Since both intelligence services
were involved in this murder we have not been able to take any steps
forward since the beginning of the case.

As I was writing this article, the Ä°stanbul Court was holding its
24th hearing in the Dink case. I kept one eye on my twitter page to see
the messages being sent by journalists at the courtroom. Two important
developments happened in this hearing. The first one was the lawyers’
analysis of the data on the records kept by the Telecommunications
Directorate (TÄ°B). After 1 million requests the TÄ°B provided its
records showing who was talking on mobile phones in the vicinity of
the spot where Dink was killed. Dink’s lawyers stated in this last
hearing that the two accused had talked to five people in the area
before, during and after the murder. This is quite important, and if
the lawyers have not made a technical mistake, this will prove beyond
reasonable doubt that the murderer was not alone when he killed Dink.

This would of course open up a new dimension to the case.

The other important development is this: Hayal claimed that “the state”
is now trying to kill him in prison. He said he was used by the state
and if he is killed, everyone should understand that he was killed
by it. He also stated that Tuncel had used and manipulated him.

His remarks may be the beginning of an honest confession or he may
be trying to send a threatening message to “his masters” to save him,
hinting that if they don’t, he will tell the whole truth.

While all this was happening, Hrant’s friends were reading out a
press release outside the court room. I highlighted some statements
in this press release:

“You have neared the end of five years. You, not us. For five years you
hid the real killers; those who set up a treacherous ambush to take him
away from us, those who set up the bloody pathway leading to murder
under the shield of the state. For five years you have spoiled the
evidence; you hid the evidence that would unveil the real murderers
— you concealed them. For five years you brought a few triggermen
before us and asked us to suffice with this. For five years you have
been adamantly doing this with a cold, insidious tenacity.

The tens of thousands marching after him, the millions crying after him
did not touch you one bit. Your cold hearts didn’t bleed. The state of
law is far from you. That is why you preferred to show us the law of
the state instead. And this we have seen. … This is almost the end
of five years and the 24th hearing … you are still concealing the
real killers. But now that we, us Hrants, are very patient and very
determined, neither five, nor 95 years will deter us from demanding
from you — those who protect them — the real killers.”

I really hope that we will see some concrete developments in this
case soon.

From: Baghdasarian

PACE PRESIDENT GOES ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO TURKEY

ITAR-TASS
January 9, 2012 Monday 11:20 PM GMT+4
Russia

The president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE), Mevlut Cavusoglu, will pay an official visit to Turkey on
January 9-13, 2012.

In Ankara (January 9-10), he will meet the President and Prime
Minister, the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly and the heads
of the main political parties, as well as the Foreign Affairs and
Justice Ministers. He will deliver a speech to the General Assembly
of the Grand National Assembly, and will visit the tomb of Ataturk.

In Istanbul (January 11), the president will meet religious
leaders, including the Chief Rabbi of Turkey, His Holiness
Patriarch Bartholomeos I and the Deputy Patriarch of the Armenian
Patriarchate in Istanbul. He will also take part in a conference of
the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, and meet the Rectors of Fatih and
Koc Universities, as well as addressing students.

In Hatay Province (January 12), he will visit Syrian refugee camps and
will address students at Mustafa Kemal University, as well as visiting
the St Pierre Church, the Habib-i Mosque, the Orthodox Church, Havra
and the Hatay Archaeology Museum.

In Antalya (January 13), Cavusoglu will address students at Akdeniz
University, PACE reported on Monday, January 9.

From: Baghdasarian

REVUE DE PRESSE
Rachid Nekkaz refait parler de lui

Businessman français d’origine algérienne, ayant fait fortune grce à
la ` bulle internet ` refait parler de lui, cette fois-ci jusqu’en
Turquie. Il propose de payer les futures amendes de tous ceux et
celles qui s’aventureront à nier l’existence du ` génocide` arménien`,
si la loi est votée au sénat d’ici la fin du mois de janvier. Mettant
en scène cette opération de communication devant l’Assemblée Nationale
à Paris, hier, il offre un chèque de 1 million d’euros pour montrer
qu’il soutient la Turquie, mal-aimée en France selon lui parce que
c’est un pays musulman. Il avait déjà fait parler de lui par le passé,
en proposant de payer les amendes des femmes voilées qui se seraient
faites condamnées par la justice. Rachid Nekkaz est candidat à
l’élection présidentielle.

Meriem Draman () jeudi 5 janvier 2012

Conférence de presse Mardi 3 janvier à 15h devant l’Assemblée nationale

DÉCLARATION :

‘ Moi Rachid Nekkaz, candidat à l’élection présidentielle,

je déclare ne pas reconnaître la responsabilité du peuple turc dans le
génocide arménien.

Je lance ce jour un fonds d’un million d’euros pour garantir la
liberté d’expression et la dignité du peuple turc `

Est-ce que le peuple des Indiens d’Amérique a été victime d’un
génocide perpétré par le peuple européen ?

Non.

Est-ce que le peuple juif a été victime d’un génocide perpétré par le
peuple allemand ?

Non.

Est ce que le peuple algérien a été victime d’un génocide perpétré par
le peuple français ?

Non.

Est ce le peuple arménien a été victime d’un génocide perpétré par le
peuple turc ?

Non.

Il est important de ne pas confondre les crimes commis par des États
ou régimes politiques à des moments très particuliers de la vie d’une
Nation avec les crimes commis par les peuples de ces mêmes États.

La responsabilité des colons européens n’est pas la responsabilité du
peuple européen.

La responsabilité du régime nazi n’est pas la responsabilité du peuple allemand.

La responsabilité du régime de la 4ème République n’est pas la
responsabilité du peuple français.

La responsabilité du régime turc en 1915 n’est pas la responsabilité
du peuple turc.

Ainsi, à la lumière de cette analyse de bon sens au regard de
l’Histoire et cette position intellectuelle honnête,

je déclare ne pas reconnaître la responsabilité du peuple turc dans le
génocide arménien et je suis donc prêt immédiatement à payer une
amende de 45000 euros et à passer 365 jours en prison pour infraction
à la Loi votée par mon Parlement français qui s’est auto-proclamé ‘
Tribunal international de l’Histoire `.

Fait à Paris, le 27 décembre 2011

Rachid Nekkaz

lundi 9 janvier 2012,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES AMBASSADOR KOCHARIAN

On December 30 Ambassador Ashod Kocharian handed to Catholicos Aram I a
letter from the Foreign Minister of Armenia. In his letter the Minister
expressed his good wishes to the Catholicos for Christmas and New Year.

The Ambassador also briefed the Catholicos on the visit of the President of
Lebanon to Armenia.

The same evening, His Holiness Aram I called the President of Armenia Serge
Sarkissian and His Holiness Catholicos Karekin II, transmitting his good
wishes for New Year and Christmas.

From: Baghdasarian

Matthew Bryza Leaves Azerbaijan, But Promises to Come Back

BAKU. January 5, 2012: On January 3, the US ambassador to Azerbaijan
Matthew Bryza left Azerbaijan due to the completion of his diplomatic
mission, reported the US Embassy in Baku. Adam Sterling will serve as
Charge d’affairs till the appointment of the new US ambassador.
Ambassador Bryza’s candidacy was blocked in the US Senate by the US
Senators Boxer and Menendez. Although President Obama appointed Bryza,
the US Senate did not hold a vote to confirm Matthew Bryza’s
appointment. According to unofficial sources, Bryza plans to leave
public service, but the information was refuted by the US Embassy.

Matthew Bryza served one of the shortest terms among the previous US
ambassadors. The previous US ambassadors served in Azerbaijan for
three years: Richard Miles (1992-1993), Richard Kozlarich (1994-1997),
Stanley Escudero (1997-2000), Ross Wilson (2000-2003), Reno Harnisch
(2003-2006), and Anne Derse (2006-2009) (Turan).

From: Baghdasarian

Synopsis of `Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials’

January 4, 2012 in Books & Art ·

`Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials’
By Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akcam
New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books
2011, 363 pp
ISBN 978-0-85745-251-1 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-85745-286-3 (e-book)

This book is a study of the World War I Armenian Genocide as
documented through the Ottoman Special Military Tribunal’s criminal
prosecution of the perpetrators involved. The aim of these post-World
War I Ottoman courts-martial was the exposure and punishment of the
organizers of the crime. As the courts-martial unfolded over nearly
three years (1919-22), the near-omnipotent role played in the
organization of the genocide by the top leaders of a militarized
political party, the Young Turk junta’along with their governmental
subordinates’became all too evident. That party was the Ittihad ve
Terakki, or the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP).

A scene from the courtroom on April 3, 1919
This study is almost entirely anchored on original and authenticated
documents. The evidence these documents yield is by no means ordinary
in nature, but is rather a kind of evidence that is legally
characterized as `evidence-in-chief.’

Most importantly, the documentation for the trials was rendered both
incontestable and verifiable by a distinct legal procedure the
tribunal adopted: When on the witness stand, the principal defendants
were invited to examine and confirm the authenticity of the many
secret and top secret documents bearing their own signatures. Most of
these documents had been secured and authenticated during the pretrial
investigations by officials from the ministries of the interior and
justice. The authentication formula used was, `It conforms to the
original.’

The book represents firsts in many ways.

1.This is the first time the complete known documentation of the trial
proceedings are being provided in English. This study is based on
authentic Turkish documentation, which the Ottoman government was
forced to release during the trials. It includes the personal,
eyewitness testimony of high-ranking Ottoman officials, given under
oath, on the magnitude of the crimes against the Armenians. The
indictments, evidence, and verdicts clearly prove the centralized
planning and the genocidal intent of the Young Turk government against
its Armenian citizens.
2.This is the first time information from the Ottoman newspapers of
the era’whose collection, digitization, editing, transliteration, and
translation were commissioned by the Zoryan Institute as part of the
long-term project known as `Creating a Common Body of Knowledge”has
been utilized to reconstruct the trials. While the official government
record lists only 12 trials, the newspapers provide details on 63.
Between 2001 and 2004, researchers went to libraries in different
cities in Turkey to locate and digitize all the articles in 17 Ottoman
newspapers from 1919-21 on the trials. It was important not to alert
officials about the intent of the project, or access might well have
been blocked. In the end, Zoryan had a nearly complete collection of
hundreds of articles on the trials from Ottoman newspapers. These
articles have been transliterated into modern Turkish, and the titles
of the articles translated into English. Digital images of these
newspapers are now in Zoryan’s archives.
1.This is the first time a national court successfully prosecuted such
a case of mass atrocity against its own citizens. The legal principle
of `crimes against humanity’ that arose in this case had a
far-reaching influence and is echoed in the Nuremberg Charter, the
Tokyo Charter, and the UN Genocide Convention.
2.This is the first joint publication by the two most internationally
renowned scholars on the Armenian Genocide’Professors Vahakn Dadrian,
an Armenian, and Taner Akcam, a Turk.
Wartime Cabinet ministers, Young Turk party leaders, and a number of
other accessories were court-martialed for orchestrating Turkey’s
entry into World War I and for the annihilation of the Armenians. Most
were found guilty and received sentences ranging from prison with hard
labor to death. Talat, Enver, Cemal, and Dr. Nazım were condemned to
death in absentia.

On Jan. 13, 1921, the courts-martial were abolished altogether, with
jurisdiction reverting to regular military courts. Nearly all of the
key figures of the CUP managed to escape Turkey before being brought
to trial. Scores of lesser CUP leaders were condemned to death in
absentia or sentenced to prison terms. However, many of these
eventually escaped or were set free, as the Allied Powers were very
slow in implementing the trials, constantly undermined each other, and
removed their forces from occupying Turkey, while at the same time
freeing tens of thousands of prisoners of war, who readily joined the
Kemalist insurgency. The July 24, 1923 Treaty of Lausanne was framed
in such a way as to avoid the subject of war crimes and massacres.
With Declaration VIII of Amnesty and the Protocol attached to this
treaty, and as Kemalism gained the upper hand and eventually ended the
Ottoman Empire, the pursuit of justice for the Armenians was
abandoned.

The Armenian Genocide represents the first case of genocide (as
described by Raphael Lemkin, the legal scholar who coined the term
`genocide’), in which a government tried to eliminate an identifiable
ethnic or religious group of its own citizens, and is recognized as
the prototype for what specialists refer to as `modern genocide.’ It
serves as a classic example of how impunity for one crime can lead to
another crime, as Adolf Hitler infamously justified his plans by
asking his generals in 1939, `Who remembers now the extermination of
the Armenians?’

Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials adds a new
perspective to the historical and moral studies of the genocide, and
serves as a legal case study. It holds great relevance today, with the
current interest internationally regarding the Armenian Genocide and
its denial.

See the Table of Contents attached for an outline of the book.

About the Authors

Vahakn N. Dadrian’s field of specialization is genocide, in general,
and the Armenian Genocide, in particular. For several years he was
engaged as director of a large Genocide Study Project sponsored by the
H. F. Guggenheim Foundation. The project’s first major achievement was
the publication, now in its fifth printing expanded, of an extensive
volume titled The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict
from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus (Oxford & Providence,
R.I., 1995). This work has appeared in French (Paris, second printing)
and in Greek (Athens). Dadrian’s other major work, German
Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical
Evidence of German Complicity, was published in 1996 (Cambridge,
Mass.) and is now in its third edition. His third volume, Warrant for
Genocide: The Key Elements of the Turko-Armenian Conflict, appeared in
1999 (London and New Brunswick, N.J.). His latest book is titled The
Key Elements of the Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide
(Cambridge, Mass., and Toronto, 1999). This book was translated into
Spanish in Buenos Aires (2002). In addition to these monographs,
Dadrian has published numerous articles in scholarly journals around
the world. His extensive list of publications includes several
articles on the Jewish Holocaust and the victimization of the American
Indians. In 2005, he received four separate awards for his lifetime
contribution to genocide studies. Dadrian is currently the director of
genocide research at the Zoryan Institute.

Taner Akcam was born in the province of Ardahan in northeast Turkey
and became interested in Turkish politics at an early age. As the
editor-in-chief of a political journal, he was arrested in 1976 and
sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. One year later, he escaped and
fled to Germany as a political refugee. His books include Dialogue
Across an International Divide: Essays Towards a Turkish-Armenian
Dialogue (2001) and From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and
the Armenian Genocide (2004). A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide
and the Question of Turkish Responsibility was published in November
2006 and has since been translated into Dutch, French, Italian,
Polish, and Spanish. He is the first Turkish scholar to have drawn
attention to the historicity of the Armenian Genocide and has, as a
result, been persecuted by the Turkish state. In April 2006, the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts presented him with a distinguished award
for outstanding work in human rights and fighting genocide denial. He
is currently an associate professor of history and the
Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at the Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.

Table of Contents

Ottoman-Turkish Words and Names xi

Introduction 1
Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akcam

PART I. The Conditions Surrounding the Trials

Chapter 1. History of the Turko-Armenian Con�ict 13

Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 2. Military Defeat and the Victors’ Drive for Punitive Justice 19

Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 3. The Preparations for Courts-Martial 78

Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 4. The Initiation of Courts-Martial 93

Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 5. Emergent Kemalism and the Courts-Martial 101

Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 6. The Series of Major Trials and the Related Verdicts:
Falsiï¬?cation of the Arguments of `Relocation,’ `Civil War,’ and
`Intercommunal Clashes’ 108

Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 7. Legal Proceedings as a Conceptual Framework 126

Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 8. A Summary of the Conditions Surrounding the Trials 154

Vahakn N. Dadrian

Chapter 9. The Judicial Liquidation of Some of the Arch Perpetrators
by Both CUP and Kemalist Authorities, and the Demise of Other
Accomplices 177

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PART II. The Trials and Beyond

Chapter 10. Death Sentences Handed Down by the Military Tribunal in Istanbul 195

Taner Akcam

Chapter 11. Coverage of the Trials by the Istanbul Turkish Press 200

Taner Akcam

Chapter 12. Formation and Operation of the Ottoman Military Tribunals 251

Taner Akcam

Chapter 13. The Full Texts in English of the Indictments and Verdicts 271

Appendix 333

Glossary of Terms 335

Archival, Judicial, and Parliamentary Documents 337

I. The Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic 337

II. Imperial Germany and German O�cial Records 342

III. Imperial Austria-Hungary 344

IV. Great Britain 345

V. T e United States 346

VI. United Nations 346

VII. France and French Archives 346

VIII. Armenian Archival Documents 346

Select Bibliographic Secondary Sources 348

Books 348

Turkish 348

English 350

German 351

French 351

Armenian 351

Articles 352

Turkish 352

English 352

German 353

Armenian 353

Newspapers 354

Turkish 354

French 354

American 354

British 355

Canadian 355

Australian 355

Armenian 355

Index 356

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