Admiral Bristol served as the Commander of the U.S. Naval Detachment in Turkish waters and as the U.S. High Commissioner to Turkey in the years 1919-1927. He witnessed...
Episode 31 – Admiral Bristol – An American Hero Who Detested Armenian Lies
Bristol summarized his attitude towards the peoples of Anatolia in a letter of December 27, 1920 to Mr. Walter George Smith, in the following terms: I quote: “I...
Episode 30 – Armin Theophil Wegner – The Photographer with Blinders and Bias
Wegner, born in 1886 in Elberfeld, Germany, pursued study in Zürich, Breslau, and Berlin. Upon completing his doctoral studies in law, he joined the German armed forces...
Journalist Hans Barth dubbed Lepsius, “a vest-pocket Torquemada” in the book entitled “Turk, Defend Yourself!”, Leipzig, 1898, adding that the efforts of those...
Episode 28 – Malta Tribunal 3 – Lack of Evidence, Not Prisoner Exchange
In Episode 27, we learned that some 144 prominent Turks, accused of the persecution of the Armenians, were arrested and deported to Malta, purely on the basis of hearsay...
Episode 27 – Malta Tribunals 2 – The Reason Why the UK Rejects Armenian Genocide Claim
The Armistice between Turkey and Britain was signed at Mudros on October 30, 1918. On March 16, 1920, Allied military officially occupied Istanbul and many prominent...
Bilâl Şimşir, a Turkish researcher born in 1933, is a prolific writer, a career diplomat, an academician, and a historian. He wrote 57 books and 160 essays. His research...
Albert Einstein says: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” When it comes to the Turkish-Armenian conflict, everyone seems to know all there is to know...
Turks and Armenians have lived in peaceful co-habitation in Anatolia for about a millennium. The dispute we recently hear about refers to the events of the last 160...
Episode 23 – Viscount Bryce Part 2: Master of Wartime Disinformation and Mass Deception
Professor Justin McCarthy’s book, Turks in America, documents that prejudice against Turks had already existed in Europe and America for centuries. Some date it back to...