France has made it a crime to deny the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. Ties between France and Turkey, strategic allies and trading partners, abruptly unraveled Thursday after French legislators passed a bill making it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constitute genocide.… Read More Turkey attack France on Armenia genocide bill
The British ethnographer, William Ramsay, writing in the late 1890s after having visited the Ottoman Empire, described the conditions of the Armenians: “Turkish rule…meant unutterable contempt… The Armenians (and Greeks) were dogs and pigs…to be spat upon, if their shadow darkened a Turk, to be outraged, to be the mats on which he wiped the… Read More “The Armenians were treated like dogs and pigs”
It is not the job of a travel guide to be an arbiter of history. Lonely Planet’s Turkish guide has no reference to the Armenian genocide, denied by Prime Minister Erdogan. It came as a great surprise when reading Lonely Planet’s Turkish guide to see that reference to the Armenian genocide, in fact almost any… Read More Lonely Planet deletes Turkish genocide of Armenians
