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This work examines the provenance of an interview conducted with Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by Karl Emil Hildebrand, published in the US in 1926. The interview's significance is twofold. Firstly, Mustafa Kemal's acknowledgement of Turkish culpability in Armenian massacres and secondly his assertion that a last-minute confession by a prominent female conspirator thwarted the 1926 Izmir assassination attempt on his life. Leading Turkish scholar, Professor Turkkaya Ataöv, asserts that the interview is an Armenian fabrication made in support of false claims of genocide. New evidence, revealed here, establishes the provenance of the interview. Mustafa Kemal's acknowledgement of Ottoman guilt is confirmed. It is also contended that the Izmir plot conspirator who alerted Mustafa Kemal was Turkey's leading feminist and PRP member, Halide Edib. This revelation challenges the prevailing narrative that Mustafa Kemal exploited the attempted assassination to silence innocent PRP members who had no knowledge of the plot.

This work is the most detailed report on what happened to Armenians in the Ottoman province of Van in 1915. It was published in Yerevan in 1917 and remains a critical source in its own right. A-Do [Hovhannes Ter Martirosian] personally investigated the events in question and described many incidents in their harrowing details. He pinpointed April 16, 1915 as the beginning of genocidal attacks against Armenians. These attacks were not entirely unexpected and many Armenians fought back and defended their communities, most notably in the city of Van. A-Do's report also covered the establishment of a provisional Armenian government during the first Russian occupation of this region, as well as the great exodus of Armenians to the Caucasus when the Russians withdrew.

A geographic and demographic gazetteer showing the demographic profile of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

Mavi Kitap'ı oluşturan belgeleri toplamak ve karşılaştırmalarını yapmak aylarımı aldı. Yayımlandıktan sonra da kitapta anlatılanlar uzun süre aklımdan çıkmadı. Hiç durmaksızın düşüncelerimi meşgul eden yalnızca kurbanların çektiği acılar ve canilerin işlediği suçlar değil, aynı zamanda insanların, bu soykırım faillerinin yaptıklarını nasıl yapabildiği sorusuydu. [Ermeni Soykırımı] üzerinde yaptığım çalısma ... Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nda Nazilerin çok daha geniş çapta ve çok daha büyük bir soğukkanlılıkla işlediği soykırım suçunun bile silemediği izler bıraktı belleğimde.Özel ya da kamusal alanda olsun, kişisel ya da kişisel olmayan nitelikte olsun, işlenmiş her büyük suç, milliyetle sınırlandırılamayacak bir sorunu ortaya koyar. Bu, bizi insan doğasının derinliklerine götüren bir sorundur. 1915 yılında Türkiye'de yapılan soykırım bana 'Ilk Günah' gerçeğini yeniden hatırlattı -Arnold Toynbee, Acquaintances (Oxford, 1967)

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"Lawrence of Arabia" was one of the most famous figures to emerge from World War I. His Venezuelan contemporary, Rafael De Nogales, remains almost completely unknown outside of his native country. One fought with the Arabs against the Turks; the other fought with the Turks against Arabs, Armenians, Australians, British and Russian forces. Comparing and contrasting the careers of the two men helps clarify differences and similarities in historical narrative and analysis of a formative period of world affairs.

Armenians in Turkey have faced decades of officially-sanctioned discrimination and forced assimilation as Muslims. Only recently has there been efforts to oppose such a traumatic process, with the emergence of a new category of "hidden" and "not hidden" Armenians in Turkey. This process has been in parallel with Turkey's democraticisation, especially between 2005 and 2015. This book gives a vivid account of the fate of such Armenians.