Except for a short period after the end of the First World War
and the ensuing armistice, Turkey has consistently denied that it
ever employed a policy of intentional destruction of Armenians. Th
e 1913-1914 census put the number of Armenians living in Turkey at
close to two million. Today only a few thousand Armenians remain in
the city Istanbul and none elsewhere in Turkey. Armenian sites in
Turkey, including churches, have been neglected, desecrated,
looted, destroyed, or requisitioned for other uses, while Armenian
place names have been erased or changed.
As with the Jewish Holocaust, Armenian properties that were
seized or stolen have not been restored. Sixty and ninety years
after these terrible events, Jewish and Armenian victims and their
heirs continue to struggle to get their properties back. Th ere has
been only partial restitution in the Jewish case and virtually no
restitution at all in the Armenian case.
No adequate reparation for the deeds committed against the
Armenians can ever be made. But resolving claims with respect to
stolen property is a symbolic gesture toward victims and their
heirs. Th is is unfinished business for Jewish heirs and survivor
of the Holocaust, as it is for Armenians. A Perfect Injustice is an
essential contribution to understanding why the issue of stolen
Armenian wealth remains unresolved after all these years--a topic
addressed for the fi rst time in this volume.
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