In Toronto, Armenian Genocide Curriculum Survives Turkish Challenge   By Tessa Manuello Rudaw, AINA   July 28, 2014   MONTREAL, Canada -- An effort by Canadian Turks to abolish curriculum on the Armenian genocide in Toronto schools has failed, with education officials telling Rudaw that the genocide will continue to be taught for years to come. Canadian Turks earlier this year submitted over 2,200 signatures from an online petition

Turkish religious affairs head calls Muslim world to 'common sense' By World Bulletin / News Desk June 18, 2014 Attempts to base conflicts in the Middle East on Islamic sects have reached serious dimensions that are threatening not only Iraq and Syria, but the whole Islamic world, Turkey's President of Religious Affairs Mehmet Gormez said in a message addressed to the Muslim world on Wednesday. "The chaotic environment that is being experienced in

Turkey Becomes a Rogue State By Rejecting European Court’s Verdict By Harut Sassounian, USA Armenian Life Magazine 22 May 2014   The European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) issued on May 12 its largest judgment ever against any country, ruling that Turkey had to pay $123 million as compensation to relatives of missing Greek Cypriots and residents of a Greek enclave in Northern Cyprus.  The Cyprus vs. Turkey lawsuit was filed in 1999, twenty five

Resolution International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), 2007 WHEREAS the denial of genocide is widely recognized as the final stage of genocide, enshrining impunity for the perpetrators of genocide, and demonstrably paving the way for future genocides;   WHEREAS the Ottoman genocide against minority populations during and following the First World War is usually depicted as a genocide against Armenians alone, with little recognition

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS EXECUTIVE BOARD: President Israel W. Charny Institute on Holocaust & Genocide POB 10311 91102 Jerusalem, Israel encygeno@mail.com First Vice-President Gregory Stanton Genocide Watch POB 809 Washington, DC 20044, USA IAGSVP@aol.com Second Vice-President Linda Melvern London, England, UK linda@melvern.co.uk Secretary-Treasurer Steven Leonard Jacobs University of Alabama Dept. of Religious Studies 212

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS EXECUTIVE BOARD: President Israel W. Charny Institute on Holocaust & Genocide POB 10311 91102 Jerusalem, Israel encygeno@mail.com First Vice-President Gregory Stanton Genocide Watch POB 809 Washington, DC 20044, USA IAGSVP@aol.com Second Vice-President Linda Melvern London, England, UK linda@melvern.co.uk Secretary-Treasurer Steven Leonard Jacobs University of Alabama Dept. of Religious Studies 212

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS President Israel Charny (Israel) Vice-President Gregory H. Stanton (USA) Secretary-T reasurer Steven Jacobs (USA) June 13, 2005 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan TC Easbakanlik Bakanlikir Ankara, Turkey FAX: 90 312 417 0476 Dear Prime Minister Erdogan: We are writing you this open letter in response to your call for an “impartial study by historians” concerning the fate of the Armenian people in

Association of Genocide Scholars Resolution on the Armenian Genocide, 1997   Executive Board Roger W. Smith, President Frank Chalk, Vice President Jack Nusen Porter, Vice President Steven L. Jacobs, Treasurer   The Armenian Genocide Resolution was unanimously passed at the Association of Genocide Scholars’ conference in Montreal on June 13, 1997.   Resolution That this assembly of the Association of Genocide Scholars in its conference

Turks and Armenians The New York Times April 28, 2014 The Opinion Pages Letters to the Editor To the Editor: In “Turkey Offers Condolences to Armenians Over Killings” (news article, April 24), Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is noted as having made for the first time a conciliatory gesture toward the Armenian people on the anniversary of the Ottoman government’s mass killing of the Armenians in 1915. While this is a change in Turkey’s