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Armenian History and the Question of Genocide (Hardcover)
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Armenian History and the Question of Genocide (Hardcover)
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This book presents the Turkish position regarding the Armenian
claims of genocide during World War I and the continuing debate
over this issue. The author illustrates that although genocide is a
useful concept to describe such evil events as the Jewish Holocaust
in World War II and Rwanda in the 1990s, the term has also been
overused, misused, and therefore trivialized by many different
groups seeking to demonize their antagonists and win sympathetic
approbation for them. This book includes the Armenians in this
category because, although as many as 600,000 of them died during
World War I, it was neither a premeditated policy perpetrated by
the Ottoman Turkish government nor an event unilaterally
implemented without cause. Of course, in no way does this excuse
the horrible excesses that were committed. To illustrate this
point, this book uses the recent work of the noted French scholar
Jacques Semelin, and such long-suppressed Armenian personalities as
Hovhannes Katchaznouni (the first prime minister of Armenia after
WWI) and K.S. Papazian (an historian), among others. This book also
illustrates how today Armenians have sought to politicize and
legislate their version of history in parliamentary and other
governmental bodies around the world, damning their opponents as
genocide deniers and perpetrators of hate speech. The case of the
renowned scholar Bernard Lewis is a prime example of this Armenian
misuse and distortion of their politicized version of history. This
book also analyzes the hypermobilized Armenian lobbying tactics
that have achieved considerable success in politicizing their
version of history. Among many other issues, this book also
analyzes the recent "soccer diplomacy" between Turkey and Armenia,
which has led to their signing treaties that will establish
diplomatic relations between them and an historical commission to
analyze their different versions of history
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