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...
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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...
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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...
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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...