Publishing Since 1983
A Crime of Silence
Author: Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
Year: 1985
A Crime of Silence
Author: Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
Year: 1985
The 1984 Paris Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal provided the first international, legal forum to publicly detail and document the guilt of the Young Turk government in perpetuating the genocide of the Armenian people between 1915 to 1917. The evidence-based landmark ruling transpired into the seminal book which serves to bring this imprescriptible crime to the world’s attention.
A Crime of Silence, which brings together the contributions of specialists, among whom Yves Ternon, Richard Hovannisian, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, and Zoryan Institute’s Director of Research Vahakn N. Dadrian, presents the facts and their interpretation, including the Turkish theories. At a time when universal human rights are being rigorously tested, A Crime of Silence is an essential work to comprehend the first genocide of the 20th Century.
The Karabagh File
Author: Jiraryr Libaridian
Year: 1988
The Karabagh File
Author: Jiraryr Libaridian
Year: 1988
In late February 1988, the world was shocked by a week-long series of demonstrations in Yerevan, capital of the Armenian S.S.R., one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union. Although peaceful, the place, size, length, and apparent suddenness of the demonstrations brought to world consciousness names of people and places as intractable as the issues they embody. The sights and sounds of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators seeking to influence policy makers in the central government of the U.S.S.R. and bring about changes in internal boundaries highlighted the promise and challenge of glasnost and perestroika.
The question of Mountainous Karabagh also raised the thorny issue of Soviet nationalities policy. Through the extensive use of original documents, maps, statistical data, a chronology, and photographs covering the last eighty years, the Zoryan Institute and its staff provide the reader not only the necessary information but also the context within which it is possible to analyze the problems.
What Is To Be Asked
Author: The Zoryan Institute
Year: 1984
What Is To Be Asked
Author: The Zoryan Institute
Year: 1984
The purpose of the colloquia initiated by the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation, Inc. is to provide a forum to scholars, intellectuals, and community members to discuss fundamental issues, to raise substantial questions, and to help develop new perspectives relevant to the modern history and culture of the Armenian people.
The Board of Directors of the Institute hopes that these colloquia will encourage speculative thinking and scholarly research in areas critical to contemporary Armenian studies.
The first colloquium convened on two consecutive days in January 1984 at Tufts University, Medford, Mass. and at the Zoryan Institute headquarters. The format was simple. The first session consisted of three presentations and three comments. The remaining time was devoted to open discussion.
By releasing the transcript of the proceedings, we hope to enlarge the circle of participants in the discussions and to make the process a continuing one.
A Shameful Act
Author: Taner Akçam
Year: 2006
A Shameful Act
Author: Taner Akçam
Year: 2006
Beginning in 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one million Armenians were killed through starvation, forced marches, and mass acts of slaughter. Although Armenians and the judgment of history have long held the Ottoman powers responsible for genocide, modern Turkey has rejected any such claim. Now, in a pioneering work of excavation, Turkish historian Taner Akçam has made unprecedented use of Ottoman and other sources―military and court records, parliamentary minutes, letters, and eyewitness reports―to produce a scrupulous account of Ottoman culpability.
Tracing the causes of the mass destruction, Akçam reconstructs its planning and implementation by the departments of state, the military, and the ruling political parties, and he probes the multiple failures to bring the perpetrators to justice. The translation and editing of this book into English was provided by the Zoryan Institute.
Dialogue Across an International Divide: Essays Towards a Turkish-Armenian Dialogue
Author: Taner Akçam
Year: 2001
Dialogue Across an International Divide: Essays Towards a Turkish-Armenian Dialogue
Author: Taner Akçam
Year: 2001
For nearly 30 years, Taner Akçam has been one of the foremost proponents and a key intellectual of dialogue between Armenians and Turks. A Dialogue Across An International Divide: Essays Towards A Turkish-Armenian Dialogue offers a rich and accessible introduction to the five fundamental taboos on which the Turkish Republic was founded. Thoughtfully meticulous, Akçam unfolds an expansive history that touches on the lack of historical consciousness in Turkey, and more, its contribution to the persistent and pervasive denial of the first genocide of the twentieth century, the Armenian Genocide.
Inspired by the questions that transpired following the International Conference on the Problems of Genocide organized by the Zoryan Institute in 1995 in Yerevan, Akçam sought to examine the obstacles, the problems, and the possibilities for overcoming denial narratives. In the process, it attempts to make a contribution to the process of dialogue between Turks and Armenians.
Key Elements in the Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide: A Case Study of Distortion and Falsification
Author: Vahakn N. Dadrian
Year: 1999
Key Elements in the Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide: A Case Study of Distortion and Falsification
Author: Vahakn N. Dadrian
Year: 1999
The initiative for this book came from an invitation by a congressional group to respond to the denial efforts of the Turkish Ambassador in Washington in 1999. A detailed, major rebuttal was prepared by the staff and board members at the Zoryan Institute within a short time and provided to every member of Congress. In 2005, an expanded version of this report was published and translated into Armenian by the Director of the Zoryan Institute, Vahakn N. Dadrian.
The extended book is an impressive display of meticulous scholarship. Using incisive and cogent argumentation, as well as primary documentary evidence, especially from Turkish and German sources, Dadrian deals with and sets the record straight on such issues as: The Allegation of Inter-Communal Clashes; The Fallacy of the Argument of Armenian Rebellion; the Nuremberg Trials and the Armenian Genocide; The Crusade Against American Ambassador Morgenthau, and many other topics. This is a compact work intended to confront and expose the fallacy of all the principal features of the Turkish denial syndrome. As such, it is bound to remain a potent weapon in the fight for truth and justice for a very long time.
The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916
Author: Wolfgang Gust
Year: 2014
The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916
Author: Wolfgang Gust
Year: 2014
One of the Institute’s most groundbreaking achievements to date is supporting the editing, translation, and publication, in addition to financial sponsorship, of the book, “The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916.”
Wolfgang Gust, through his tireless efforts, painstakingly collected, restored, and published documents from the German Foreign Office Archive with the assistance of his wife, Ingrid Gust.
This extensive selection contains some 218 telegrams, letters and reports from German consular officials in the Ottoman Empire to the Foreign Office in Berlin describing the unfolding genocide of the Armenians.
The material is unimpeachable by those who would deny the Armenian Genocide, as it is from Turkey’s own wartime ally. It provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the actions and the motives of the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
The German edition of the book played a major role in the German Parliament’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide on June 2, 2016. In fact, the Co-Chair of the Green Alliance Party, Cem Ozdemir, stated in a recent visit to the Institute in 2017:
“Wolfgang Gust’s work and that of the Zoryan Institute was very crucial, because it was the first time that we saw the documents of the German Foreign Ministry, and these documents are probably the best saved archive in the world on the Armenian Genocide.”
The Institute’s staff assisted with the publishing of the book in German (2005) and Turkish (2012) and the translation, editing and publication of the book in English (2014).
Alman Belgeleri Ermeni Soykırimı 1915-16: Alman Dışişleri Bakanlığı Siaysi Arşiv Belgeleri
Author: Wolfgang Gust, Belge Yayınları
Year: 2012
Alman Belgeleri Ermeni Soykırimı 1915-16: Alman Dışişleri Bakanlığı Siaysi Arşiv Belgeleri
Author: Wolfgang Gust, Belge Yayınları
Year: 2012
One of the Institute’s most groundbreaking achievements to date is supporting the editing, translation, and publication, in addition to financial sponsorship, of the book, “The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916.
Wolfgang Gust, through his tireless efforts, painstakingly collected, restored, and published documents from the German Foreign Office Archive with the assistance of his wife, Ingrid Gust.
This extensive selection contains some 218 telegrams, letters and reports from German consular officials in the Ottoman Empire to the Foreign Office in Berlin describing the unfolding genocide of the Armenians.
The material is unimpeachable by those who would deny the Armenian Genocide, as it is from Turkey’s own wartime ally. It provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the actions and the motives of the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
The German edition of the book played a major role in the German Parliament’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide on June 2, 2016. In fact, the Co-Chair of the Green Alliance Party, Cem Ozdemir, stated in a recent visit to the Institute in 2017:
“Wolfgang Gust’s work and that of the Zoryan Institute was very crucial, because it was the first time that we saw the documents of the German Foreign Ministry, and these documents are probably the best saved archive in the world on the Armenian Genocide.”
The Institute’s staff assisted with the publishing of the book in German (2005) and Turkish (2012) and the translation, editing and publication of the book in English (2014).
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923
Author: George N. Shirinian
Year: 2017
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923
Author: George N. Shirinian
Year: 2017
The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide in pursuit of political ends while largely escaping accountability. While this brutal history is most widely known in the case of the Armenian genocide, few appreciate the extent to which the Empire’s Assyrian and Greek subjects suffered and died under similar policies. This comprehensive volume is the first to broadly examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion, analyzing the similarities and differences among them and giving crucial context to present-day calls for recognition.
An American Physician in Turkey: A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War
Author: Clarence D. Ussher
Year: 1990
An American Physician in Turkey: A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War
Author: Clarence D. Ussher
Year: 1990
Originally published in 1917, this is the memoir of Dr. Clarence D. Ussher, who served as a doctor and missionary in Marsovan, Harput and Van from 1898 to 1915. It contains eyewitness information about the massacres of Van in 1915. This book is utilized in Atom Egoyan’s film Ararat as the basis for the story of “the film within a film.”
Ararat: The Shooting Script
Author: Atom Egoyan
Year: 2002
Ararat: The Shooting Script
Author: Atom Egoyan
Year: 2002
Egoyan’s Ararat is a contemporary story of two estranged families and their search for reconciliation and truth. A film-within-a-film, it is also a historical re-enactment being made by a famous Armenian director, Edward Saroyan, whose production is based on Clarence D. Ussher’s book, An American Physician in Turkey, which depicts the siege of Van and the Armenian Genocide of 1915. In the style of The Sweet Hereafter and his other works, Egoyan shifts seamlessly through time, exploring the quest for personal, sexual and cultural identity through the intimate moments shared by lovers, families, enemies and strangers.
In addition to the script, there is an introduction by Egoyan, and an essay by Timothy Taylor, who spent a year observing and talking with Egoyan during production and post. He takes readers behind the scenes to show how Egoyan collaborated with producer Robert Lantos, director of photography Paul Sarossy, composer Mychael Danna, and his actors, including his wife, Arsinée Khanjian.
Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials
Author: Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam
Year: 2011
Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials
Author: Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam
Year: 2011
This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evidence and authentic Turkish eyewitness testimony of the intent and the crime of genocide against the Armenians. After a long and painstaking effort, the authors, one an Armenian, the other a Turk, generally recognized as the foremost experts on the Armenian Genocide, have prepared a new, authoritative translation and detailed analysis of the Takvim-i Vekâyi, the official Ottoman Government record of the Turkish Military Tribunals concerning the crimes committed against the Armenians during World War I. The authors have compiled the documentation of the trial proceedings for the first time in English and situated them within their historical and legal context. These documents show that Wartime Cabinet ministers, Young Turk party leaders, and a number of others inculpated in these crimes were court-martialed by the Turkish Military Tribunals in the years immediately following World War I. Most were found guilty and received sentences ranging from prison with hard labor to death. In remarkable contrast to Nuremberg, the Turkish Military Tribunals were conducted solely on the basis of existing Ottoman domestic penal codes. This substitution of a national for an international criminal court stands in history as a unique initiative of national self-condemnation. This compilation is significantly enhanced by an extensive analysis of the historical background, political nature and legal implications of the criminal prosecution of the twentieth century’s first state-sponsored crime of genocide.
Model Citizens of the State
Author: Rifat N. Bali
Year: 2012
Model Citizens of the State
Author: Rifat N. Bali
Year: 2012
This book provides an exposé of the treatment of the Jewish community in Turkey from 1950 to the present, their fight against anti-Semitism, the struggle for their constitutional rights, and the attitude of the Turkish state and society towards these problems.
In 2013, Zoryan launched the English translation of this seminal text. Turkish journalist, Ayse Gunaysu, described the book as:
“groundbreaking…a first-hand account that unmistakably illustrates how the Turkish establishment blackmailed the leaders of the Jewish community – and through them Jewish organizations in the United States. This was to secure their support of the Turkish position against the Armenians’ campaign for genocide recognition, indicating that if the Jewish lobby failed to prevent Armenian initiatives abroad – Turkey might not be able to guarantee the security of Turkish Jews...”
The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Ottoman Greek Genocide: Essays on Asia Minor, Pontos, and Eastern Thrace, 1912-1923
Author: George N. Shirinian
Year: 2012
The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Ottoman Greek Genocide: Essays on Asia Minor, Pontos, and Eastern Thrace, 1912-1923
Author: George N. Shirinian
Year: 2012
The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Ottoman Greek Genocide: Essays on Asia Minor, Pontos, and Eastern Thrace, 1913-1923 edited by George N. Shirinian, Executive Director of the Zoryan Institute, is a compilation of innovative papers given by distinguished scholars at two academic conferences organized by the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center in Chicago.
The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide
Author: Yair Auron
Year: 2003
The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide
Author: Yair Auron
Year: 2003
This book examines the current attitudes of the State of Israel and its leading institutions toward the Armenian Genocide. While numerous Jewish scholars in and outside Israel affirm the Armenian Genocide without reservation, the book explores both passive, indifferent attitudes of Israeli institutions and government, as well as active measures to undermine attempts at safeguarding the memory of the Armenian Genocide.
The Banality of Indifference
Author: Yair Auron
Year: 2003
The Banality of Indifference
Author: Yair Auron
Year: 2003
Israeli historian, Dr. Yair Auron, raises theoretical, philosophical, and moral questions about concepts of genocide and the uniqueness of the Jewish Holocaust. After a brief historical introduction, Auron discusses the reaction to the Genocide within the Yishuv in terms of practical assistance for and identification with the Armenians.
The Jewish position was unquestionably difficult during the period of the First World War; Palestine was under Ottoman control, and Germany, a Turkish ally, was looked to by some Zionists as a potential source of support. Consequently, the official Yishuv reaction was muted and largely self-interested: there was no condemnation in journals, internal protocols, or letters.
Auron does record instances of Jewish support, however: the Nili group, an underground intelligence organization, actively sought to aid the Armenian victims; Chaim Weizman and Nahum Sokolov publicly condemned the killings; and other Zionist writers and journalists expressed outraged identification with the Armenians and tried to arouse the conscience of the world. In attempting to analyze and interpret these disparate reactions, Auron maintains a fair-minded balance in assessing claims of altruism and self-interest, expressed in universal, not only Jewish, terms.
This book seeks both to examine the passive Israeli attitude towards the Armenian Genocide, and to explore active Israeli manures to undermine attempts at safeguarding the memory of the Armenian victims of the Turkish persecution.
Der Volkermord an den Armeniern 1915/16: Dokumente aus dem Politishcen Archiv des deutschen Auswrtigen Amts
Author: Wolfgang Gust
Year: 2005
Der Volkermord an den Armeniern 1915/16: Dokumente aus dem Politishcen Archiv des deutschen Auswrtigen Amts
Author: Wolfgang Gust
Year: 2005
One of the Institute’s most groundbreaking achievements to date is supporting the editing, translation, and publication, in addition to financial sponsorship, of the book, “The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916.
Wolfgang Gust, through his tireless efforts, painstakingly collected, restored, and published documents from the German Foreign Office Archive with the assistance of his wife, Ingrid Gust.
This extensive selection contains some 218 telegrams, letters and reports from German consular officials in the Ottoman Empire to the Foreign Office in Berlin describing the unfolding genocide of the Armenians.
The material is unimpeachable by those who would deny the Armenian Genocide, as it is from Turkey’s own wartime ally. It provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the actions and the motives of the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
The German edition of the book played a major role in the German Parliament’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide on June 2, 2016. In fact, the Co-Chair of the Green Alliance Party, Cem Ozdemir, stated in a recent visit to the Institute in 2017:
“Wolfgang Gust’s work and that of the Zoryan Institute was very crucial, because it was the first time that we saw the documents of the German Foreign Ministry, and these documents are probably the best saved archive in the world on the Armenian Genocide.”
The Institute’s staff assisted with the publishing of the book in German (2005) and Turkish (2012) and the translation, editing and publication of the book in English (2014).
Georgetown Boys
Author: Jack Apramian
Edited: Lorne Shirinian
Year: 2009
Georgetown Boys
Author: Jack Apramian
Edited: Lorne Shirinian
Year: 2009
This is the story of the Georgetown Boys told by one of the boys, himself. Having lost everything, the most precious thing remaining to them was the memory of their families and their heritage. Based on original documentary research, interviews, and first-hand experience, Jack Apramian gives detailed insight into the daily lives of the boys, the challenges they faced adapting to their new country, and how they fared. Their story is told with a sense of humour, humanity, and history. An account of the dark and light moments that made up these rescued boys’ reality and the resilience of children, this book is essential to our understanding of multiculturalism’s best intentions.
Prof. Lorne Shirinian has edited and revised the late Jack Apramian’s classic book and provided a new introduction, setting the story in its historical context, both Armenian and Canadian. He has included previously unpublished documents and photos, enhanced the photographs, and added appendices of a list of the Georgetown Girls and information sources on the Georgetown Boys.
The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh: From Secession to Republic
Author: Levon Chorbajian
Year: 2001
The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh: From Secession to Republic
Author: Levon Chorbajian
Year: 2001
The first major territorial struggle in the late Soviet period involved Nagorno-Karabagh, an Armenian-inhabited territory that had been assigned to the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in the early 1920s. Armenian protests calling for reunification with Armenia in 1988 led to Azerbaijani pogroms against Armenians and later to armed conflict that claimed over 20,000 lives. The struggle remains unresolved. A distinguished group of historians and social scientists analyze the Karabagh struggle in this unique volume, which covers one of the world’s strategic, oil-rich regions.
A striking feature of the Karabagh conflict is the failure of the many OSCE, UN, and regional power mediation efforts to find a solution to the crisis. One of the major contributions of this volume is to provide a cogent analysis of these failures, which have to do with the inability to satisfy the legitimate security needs of the parties to the conflict.
The papers in this collection were delivered at a conference, “The Karabagh Movement: Ten Years After,” held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in May 1998. This conference, sponsored by the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation and the Zoryan Institute of Canada, assembled some of the leading analysts of the region to assess the Karabagh Question in the decade since the eruption of the historic protests that saw hundreds of thousands of Armenians march in support of Karabagh.
Contents:
The Sumgait Tragedy: Pogroms against Armenians in Soviet Azerbaijian – Volume I: Eyewitness Accounts
Author: Samvel Shahmuratian
Year: 1990
The Sumgait Tragedy: Pogroms against Armenians in Soviet Azerbaijian – Volume I: Eyewitness Accounts
Author: Samvel Shahmuratian
Year: 1990
For three days in February, 1988, the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait became the arena of pogroms against the Armenians of the city. The Sumgait tragedy was a brutal, organized attempt to block a political solution to the peaceful demands of the Armenians of Mountainous Karabagh for self-determination. These events marked the beginning of a premeditated plan to depopulate Azerbaijan of Armenians, and eventually of Russians and Jews.
The Sumgait Tragedy: Pogroms Against Armenians in Soviet Azerbaijan (Volume I, Eyewitness Accounts) is a compilation of 36 interviews conducted by Armenian journalist Samvel Shahmuratian with 45 of the Sumgait survivors. These testimonies give painful answers to critical questions? What happened in Sumgait? Why was the impending slaughter not averted? Why did measures to halt the massacres come too late? Why did the events not receive complete analysis and coverage by the mass media, the government, and judicial bodies? The answers to these questions come from the victims themselves, in halting painful narratives. Maps included.
From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide
Author: Taner Akçam
Year: 2004
From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide
Author: Taner Akçam
Year: 2004
The Zoryan Institute and Zed books of London, England are pleased to announce the publication of a groundbreaking new book by Turkish scholar Taner Akçam, entitled From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide.
This extraordinary book examines the relationship between Turkey’s transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic, the Armenian Genocide, and the process of democratization in Turkey today. From Empire to Republic is a significant step towards addressing the taboo in Turkey regarding the Armenian Genocide and creating a meaningful, historical dialogue.
The first three chapters provide the reader with a framework for understanding Turkish nationalism, its origins, and its ongoing relationship to the Armenian Genocide. In chapters four and five, Akçam follows the changes in Ottoman Turkey’s political climate that led to the decision for genocide and the implementation of Genocide itself. He then tracks the impact of this history into the Republic.
In this book, Akçam convincingly makes the case that debate about the Armenian Genocide is not only a measure of Turkey’s democratization, but a necessary ingredient of the process itself.
Hitler and the Armenian Genocide
Author: Kevork Bardakjian
Year: 1985
Hitler and the Armenian Genocide
Author: Kevork Bardakjian
Year: 1985
In August 1939, Hitler justified his plan to destroy Poland and create a new order by asking, “Who remembers now the extermination of the Armenians?” Hitler’s rhetorical question acquired an ominous significance with the extermination of Jews and Gypsies during the Second World War. Many scholars have argued that the absence of justice in the case of the Young Turk government, guilty of crimes against the Armenian people during the First World War, led Hitler to believe he would not be held responsible for his own crime against humanity. This link between the two major genocides of the century has led scholars to focus more on the historical and political significance of the Armenian or “forgotten” genocide.
Studies in Comparative Genocide
Author: Levon Chorbajian
George N. Shirinian
Year: 1999
Studies in Comparative Genocide
Author: Levon Chorbajian
George N. Shirinian
Year: 1999
Many of the world’s leading authorities in history, sociology, political science and psychology shed new light on the major genocides of the 20th century in this book from Macmillan Press of London. The volume covers the genocides of the Armenians, Bosnians, Gypsies, Jews, Rwandans, and Ukrainians, and also topics of genocide denial and prevention. Many of the world’s leading authorities in history, sociology, political science and psychology shed new light on the major genocides of the 20th century in this book from Macmillan Press of London. The volume covers the genocides of the Armenians, Bosnians, Gypsies, Jews, Rwandans, and Ukrainians, and also topics of genocide denial and prevention.
Chorbajian is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Zoryan Institute. “These fourteen papers originated in a conference held in Yerevan in April 1995, which the Zoryan Institute co-sponsored with the Republic of Armenia’s National Commission on the 80th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. The authors have had a chance to revise and update their papers and now present them to the scholarly world.”
Journal of Political and Military Sociology: Volume 22 No. 1
Author: Vahakn N. Dadrian
Year: 1994
Journal of Political and Military Sociology: Volume 22 No. 1
Author: Vahakn N. Dadrian
Year: 1994
The Armenian Genocide in Official Turkish Records: Collected Essays by Vahakn N. Dadrian. A Special Issue of The Journal of Political and Military Sociology. Vol. 22, no. 1 (Summer 1994).
In the 1970s Prof. Vahakn Dadrian helped to create the field of the comparative study of genocide, bringing to his work an interdisciplinary perspective that joined sociology, history, and law, enriched further by his ability to drawn upon half a dozen languages. The archival work that he has done on three continents is the basis for the studies that appear in this special issue, studies that focus on documentation of the Armenian Genocide in Turkish sources and in those of Turkey’s World War I allies, Germany and Austria. The latter confirm that the Genocide took place, that it was centrally planned, and that a prominent motive for Turkey’s entry into the war was the cover war could provide for a final solution to the Armenian Question. Most of the documents are Turkish, and these too bear out the premeditated and intentional destruction of the Armenians. But the Turkish materials also allow Prof. Dadrian to describe in great detail, and with new insight, the organization and implementation of the Genocide. Almost all of the materials were uncovered by Prof. Dadrian and first made public by him. Most of the documents included in the article, “The Complicity of the Party, the Government, and the Military” are published here for the first time.
The contents of this special issue are as follows:
Foreword by Richard Falk
Introduction by Roger Smith
Articles by Vahakn Dadrian:
• A Review of the Main Features of the Genocide
• The Complicity of the Party, the Government, and the Military: Select Parliamentary and Judicial Documents
• The Documentation of the World War I Armenian Massacres in the Proceedings of the Turkish Military Tribunal
• A Textual Analysis of the Key Indictment of the Turkish Military Tribunal Investigating the Armenian Genocide
• The Secret Young Turk Ittihadist Conference and the Decision for the World War I Genocide of the Armenians
The Armenian Genocide Within A Framework of Compelling Evidence
Author: Vahakn Dadrian
Year: 2002
The Armenian Genocide Within A Framework of Compelling Evidence
Author: Vahakn Dadrian
Year: 2002
The book contains the printed text of a lecture by noted genocide specialist Prof. Vahakn Dadrian given at Harvard. It incorporates an introduction by Prof. James Russell of Harvard University, a brief biography of Prof. Dadrian, and an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of the noted scholar’s writings. The lecture, titled “The Armenian Genocide and the Principle of Compelling Evidence,” was delivered before a packed audience of some 500 people, including faculty and students of Harvard University at a commemoration of the 86th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
In the lecture, Dadrian begins by explaining the key points of the denial by the perpetrator camp and the need of an appropriate methodology suited to counter and overwhelm this culture of persistent denial. In Dadrian’s definition, this is called the methodology of “compelling evidence,” that revolves around the principles of reliability, explicitness, incontestability, verifiability. Dadrian then proceeds to reconstruct the Armenian Genocide in terms of its four major components: premeditation, genocidal intention, the organization of the genocide, and the implementation of the genocide.
The Zoryan Institute is also offering as part of this package Dadrian’s most recent article, which appeared earlier this year in The International Journal of Middle East Studies. Titled “The Armenian Question and the Wartime Fate of the Armenians as Documented by the Officials of the Ottoman Empire’s World War I Allies: Germany and Austro-Hungary,” this major article is the product of some two dozen trips to such archival centers as Bonn, Potsdam, Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany, and Vienna, Austria over the last twenty years. Supported and corroborated by 115 endnotes, it is the result of extensive research and is one of the most definitive analyses exposing the premeditated genocide of the Armenians. It should further be noted that this journal, published by Cambridge University Press, is the official organ of the Middle East Studies Association, to which dozens of Turkish historians, and experts on the Middle East, Ottoman Empire, as well as modern Turkey belong.
Needle, Thread and Button
Author: John Yervant Kouyoumjian
Year: 1988
Needle, Thread and Button
Author: John Yervant Kouyoumjian
Year: 1988
Born in Garin (Erzerum), the heartland of historic Armenia, young Yervant Kouyoumjian lived through the horrors of the deportations and massacres of Armenians under Ottoman rules during the First World War. John Yervant witnessed the disintegration of his family and people as the deportations led him from Erzerum to Erzingan, Egin, Arapgir, and Malatia on their way to the slaughter houses in Northern Syria. Young Yervant was able to escape death with his mother and reach Aleppo. From there he went to Istanbul, then to the newly established Republic of Armenia, to Greece, Sicily, France and, finally, to America.
Yervant Kouyoumjian, who later used his father’s name and is also known as John Yervant, narrates here the story of his survival, apprenticeship in various trades, and successes as a performer and restauranteur.
Currently retired and living in Washington, D.C., John Yervant Kouyoumjian recorded his memoirs in the 1960s. The current volume is based on the transcriptions of those tapes and additional information obtained during interviews in 1985 and 1986 with the author. The style remains conversational and unpretentious; it communicates the experience of the survivor with immediacy and a sense of humor.
Out Of Darkness
Author: Ramela Martin
Year: 1989
Out Of Darkness
Author: Ramela Martin
Year: 1989
Out of Darkness is the story of Ramela Der Pilibosian Martin who was born in Malatia, Western or Ottoman Armenia, just before the Genocide of 1915-1917. Her father had died before she was born. After the disappearance of her brother and the deportation of her grandfather by the Turks, Ramela Martin and her mother were forced to join the death marches, but not before her mother arranged to leave Ramela’s older sister with a Turkish family. Escaping from the death marches, the women tried to return to their home but her mother died on the way, leaving Ramela alone. She was eventually rescued by the Near East Relief and placed in an orphanage. From the interior of Anatolia, Ramela Martin, together with other orphans, was moved to Aleppo, Beirut, Istanbul, and finally a refugee camp in Corinth, Greece.
Ramela Martin’s description of the camp is graphic and moving, as is her account of the development of her interest in the profession of nursing which she pursued at the American Women’s Hospital’s Training School in Kokinia, Greece. Having established contact with relatives, Ramela Martin left Greece to Havana where she secured a visa to immigrate to the United States.
Ramela Martin tells her story of dislocation, immigration, struggle, and survival with passion and courage. In the end, there emerges the portrait of a woman wounded by history but capable of endurance and wholeness.
Ramela Martin trained as a nurse at the American Women’s Hospital in Kokinia, Greece. After immigrating to the United States, she took the Connecticut State Board examination for nurses and received her R.N. She continued practicing and teaching her profession for twenty-seven years. In 1968, she traveled to Soviet Armenia where she was reunited with the sister whom she had lost during the Genocide. She retired in 1975, and in 1979 she and her husband, Jim Martin, moved to Florida where she now resides.
In keeping with the objectives of the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies to raise awareness by being a bridge between academia and civil society, as well as policy-makers, Genocide Studies International (GSI) is a journal devoted to innovative research, analysis and information. GSI is a forum for the academic study and understanding of the phenomena of genocide and the gross violation of human rights and various approaches to preventing them. It strives to raise awareness of the necessity of genocide prevention and the promotion of universal human rights. It serves as a critical voice for analyzing governmental and supra-governmental efforts in the prevention of genocide. This peer-reviewed journal is interdisciplinary and comparative in nature. It welcomes submissions on individual case studies, thematic approaches, and policy analyses that relate to the history, causes, impact, aftermath, and all other aspects of genocide.”
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