Armenian Issue
New Scholarship Disputes Armenian "Genocide" Narrative and H.Res. 252
The following recent articles published on Armenian-Ottoman history demonstrate the inappropriateness of legislating history, as H.Res. 252 intends to do. This history has neither been fully researched, nor authoritatively written. H.Res. 252 does injustice to the diversity of scholarship on this issue in favor of endorsing a defect and biased narrative. TCA renews its support for the establishment of an independent historical commission to examine this painful chapter in Turkish-Armenian history and invites all interested parties and particularly the United States Congress and Administration to fully support the formation of this commission.
- NORMAN STONE, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford and head of the Russian-Turkish Institute at Bilkent University, Author of The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 and World War One: A Short History.
'Bad Things Happen When Empires Fall Apart', The Times Online, March 8, 2010.
- ERMAN SAHIN, Independent Researcher, Ankara, Turkey.
'Review Essay: The Armenian Question', Middle East Policy Council Journal, Spring 2010
- EDWARD J. ERICKSON, Associate Professor of Military History, Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University.
'Captain Larkin and the Turks: The Strategic Impact of the Operations of HMS Doris in Early 1915', Middle Eastern Studies Journal, January 2010. See also: 'The Armenians and Ottoman Military Policy, 1915', War in History, 2008-15.
- JEREMY SALT, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science at Bilkent University Ankara, Author of Imperialism, Evangelism and the Ottoman Armenians 1878-1896.
'Forging the Past: OUP and the 'Armenian question', Eurasia Critic, January 2010.
- STEPHEN KINZER, Former NYT Bureau Chief to Istanbul, Author of Crescent and Star.
'Genocide Vote Harms US-Turkey Ties', The Guardian, March 5, 2010.
- ALON BEN-MEIR, Senior Fellow at NYU's Center for Global Affairs.
'Reassessing the Genocide Resolution', The Huffington Post, March 9, 2010.
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