History
Turks, Armenians, and the "G-word"
Document Type
Article
Abstract
History has its long-buried minefields posted with warnings that trespassers can enter only at their peril. Given the risks, it is heartening that a new generation of Turks and Armenians are looking afresh at a major historical event that has divided them for decades - the mass killing of Armenians that occurred in the crumbling Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1920. The Turkish Republic that arose from that empire has adamantly refused almost from the start to admit responsibility for the massacres, characterizing them as the result of Armenian efforts to aid Turkey's enemies during and after the First World War. Yet historians elsewhere consider the killings the first genocide of the twentieth century; indeed, the term itself was inspired by the blood-letting in Anatolia.
Publication Title
World Policy Journal
Publication Date
1-1-2005
Volume
22
Issue
3
First Page
81
Last Page
93
ISSN
0740-2775
DOI
10.1215/07402775-2005-4009
Keywords
Armenia, Armenian genocide, Middle East, World War I, genocide
Repository Citation
Cooper, Belinda and Akcam, Taner, "Turks, Armenians, and the "G-word"" (2005). History. 31.
https://commons.clarku.edu/historyfac/31
