Istanbul Remembered: An Armenian Childhood
Suzan Meryem Rosita, "Istanbul Remembered: An Armenian Childhood." Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 8 no. 1, 2021, p. 155-166.
Sometimes an essay begins with a conversation. With two women talking. Liji Pulcu Çizmeciyan was the upstairs neighbour of my auntie on Büyükada. “I am ninety years old,” she told me looking down from her balcony. She sounded stern but the twinkle in her eye betrayed her. “If you want to talk about my book, hurry and come upstairs for tea and kurabiye. ....
Hrant Dink, "Why have I been targeted?"
Hrant Dink, "Why have I been targeted?"
Agos, 12 January 2007
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Imagining the Turkish Nation through 'othering' Armenians
David Miller - A History of the 'Blue Book'
The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: A History of the 'Blue Book'
By David Miller
The British Parliamentary ‘Blue Book’ on The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (Misc 31 Cmnd 8325, HMSO 1916) is the largest single source of information on what happened to the Turkish Armenians in 1915-16. As such, it provides a focus of controversy between those who claim that it provides evidence of genocide, and those who maintain that because the Blue Book was wartime propaganda, its contents are not to be trusted. Ninety years after publication, the Blue Book is key to the question of whether the massacre and deportation of the Armenians was the result of a deliberate policy of extermination, or the unintended consequence of measures taken against the threat of foreign invasion and civil unrest.
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see also Turkish National Assembly's letter to the British Parliament regarding the Blue Book, 2005
Deportations of Armenians 1934
U.S. Embassy Report by Robert P. Skinner on Deportations of Armenians in Turkey, 1934
Ankara, March 2, 1934: "I have the honor to bring to the Department's attention such details as have reached the Embassy from several sources concerning the recent deportations of Armenians from the interior of Anatolia to Istanbul."
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1916 - The Times (London)
“The Extermination of the Armenians”, The Times History of the War. London, 1916. (includes rare photos from the period).