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17 unusual facts about Armenian Genocide


Armenian Library and Museum of America

The library has one of the largest collections of important books on oriental rugs, and a very substantial collection, which continues to be expanded, on the Armenian Genocide.

Avi Mizrahi

Mizrahi noted that Turkey had no right to criticize Israel's action as Turkey itself stationed troops in Northern Cyprus, oppressed its Kurdish minority, and massacred Armenians during World War I. Israeli ambassador was summoned to Turkey's foreign ministry to explain these remarks, while IDF Spokesperson's Unit issued a statement saying Mizrahi's words do not represent any official position.

Daniel Decker

Named after the city where one of the first massacres of the Armenian people took place, “Adana” tells the story of the Armenian Genocide, during which soldiers of the Ottoman Empire forced 1.5 million Armenians into starvation, torture and extermination because they would not renounce their Christian faith.

Daniel Fried

Fried opposed the recognition of the Armenian Genocide during the U. S. Congressional hearings in March 2007.

Hasmig Belleli

During her time on council, she fought for a memorial to the Armenian Genocide to be constructed in Montreal.

Horizon Weekly

Between 2000 and 2006, more than 50 thematic supplements have been published, covering a wide array of topics, such as, Artsakh, Shoushi, Javakhk, The Armenian Genocide, the first Republic of Armenia, the 1700th anniversary of Armenian Christianity, Nakhichevan's Khachkars and so forth.

Jakob Künzler

Jakob Künzler (March 8, 1871 – January 15, 1949) was a Swiss who resided in an oriental mission in Urfa and who witnessed the Armenian Genocide.

Jeff Atmajian

Recently he scored the 90-minute documentary about the Armenian Genocide called Screamers.

La Masseria Delle Allodole

La masseria delle allodole ("The Lark Farm") is a 2007 Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani about the Armenian Genocide.

Parunak Ferukhan

During the Armenian Genocide, he belonged to the second convoy with only two survivors that left Çankırı on 19 August 1915.

Permanent Peoples' Tribunal

The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal examined the cases of Tibet, Western Sahara, Argentina, Eritrea, Philippine, El Salvador, Afghanistan, East Timor, Zaïre, Guatemala, the Armenian Genocide or recently the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka, the intervention of the United States in Nicaragua, Brazilian Amazon, etc.

Richard E. Hoagland

His predecessor John Marshall Evans was recalled from his position in May 2006 after publicly speaking about the Armenian Genocide.

Saint Karapet Monastery

Saint Karapet Monastery was also one of the three most important sites for Armenian Christian pilgrimage, and among the richest, most ancient institutions in Ottoman Armenia, until it was destroyed to its foundations by Turks after the Armenian Genocide.

After the extermination and expulsion of the Armenians in the Armenian Genocide, Surp Karapet ceased to exist not only as a spiritual center, but also as an architectural monument.

Samuel Weems

He was best known for his advocacy of, and contribution to, the denial of the Armenian Genocide.

Sarkis Dkhrouni

His father was killed during the Armenian Genocide, Dkhrouni and his mother survived, and returned to Cilicia.

Sétif and Guelma massacre

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in response to France passing a bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide, accused France of committing genocide in Algeria.


Armenian casualties of deportations

Armenian casualties of deportations, part of World War I casualties, only cover a subset of Ottoman Armenian casualties during the Tehcir (deportation) activities of the Ottoman Empire under the Tehcir Law May 27, 1915, February 8-1916 what is known as Armenian genocide.

Christopher de Bellaigue

He wrote "Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten People", an account of the three years he lived in Varto, after publishing an essay in the New York Review of Books about the Turkish "deportations and massacres" of Armenians in 1915 and being told by Professor James R. Russell that he was engaging in genocide denial and scolded by editor Robert Silvers for acting as an "apologist" for the Turks.

Egemen Bağış

Swiss prosecutors are investigating Bağış for denying the Armenian Genocide at a meeting of the 2012 World Economic Forum in Davos.

French law on colonialism

In a tribune Liberty for history, 19 historians (including Elisabeth Badinter, Alain Decaux and Marc Ferro) demanded the repeal of all "historic laws": not only the February 23, 2005 Act, but also the 1990 Gayssot Act against "racism, xenophobia and historical revisionism", the Taubira Act on the recognition of slavery as a "crime against humanity" and the law recognizing the Armenian genocide.

Hripsime Khurshudyan

Her ancestors moved to Aparan first, and then to Kassakh, from Mush during the Armenian Genocide.

Jean-Claude Kebabdjian

Nine years later, Armenia was an independent country, and a democratic movement was emerging in Turkey, with freedom fighters such as Taner Akçam or the Zarakolu teaching the history of the Armenian Genocide and the Armenians to their society.

Nor Kyurin

It was named after the city of Gürün, which is known as Gurin or Gyurin to Armenians (TAO: Կիւրին, RAO: Կյուրին) and had a significant Armenian population up until the Armenian genocide.

Yusuf Akbulut

A native of Anıtlı (Hah), a village in Midyat district, Father Yusuf Akbulut was approached in October 2000 by reporters from the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet and questioned as to his views regarding the Armenian Genocide.