Turks And Armenians. A Manual On The Armenian Question
McCarthy Justin, McCarthy Carolyn.
In the nineteenth century, European and American newspapers wrote of something they called The Armenian Question. At the time, the issues of the treatment of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and whether Armenians would gain an independent state were important to Western politicians and writers. They have remained important today, both to Armenians and to Turks. Armenians blame Turks for atrocities and press their claim for an Armenian Homeland in Eastern Turkey. Turks blame Armenians for similar atrocities and deny that Armenians ever had a claim to Eastern Turkey. Politicians in the United States, Canada, and Western European countries have taken sides in the controversy. Much has been said of a polemic nature, many slogans shouted, and many strange assertions made. (Adolf Hitler’s opinion on the Armenian issue has even been quoted in the U.S. Congress, although he is not known to have been an expert on the subject.) In all the noise of a political issue it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the events under consideration took place seventy or more years ago.
In fact, the Armenian Question is a historical question. Even though the fact has often been ignored, troubles between Armenians and Turks began not in 1915 or 1890, but a hundred years before. The same rules of analysis should apply to the Armenian Question as to other historical issues. To be understood properly, the relations of the Turks and the Armenians must be considered in their geographical, cultural, historical, and political context. The investigation begins with geography
الفئات:
عام:
1989
الناشر:
Committee on Education Assembly of Turkish American Associations
اللغة:
english
ملف:
PDF, 1.69 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1989