In 1911 the Ottomans entered eleven years of war that destroyed the Ottoman Empire. The series of wars started in Libya in 1911 where the Ottomans fought encroachment by Italians. Then came the First Balkan War in 1912 and the Second Balkan War in 1913. They were followed by World War 1...
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the U.N.General Assembly on 9 December 1948 but entered into force on January 12, 1951 after sufficient number of members states ratified it. They recognized that genocide has inflicted great losses on...
Armenian demands for reparations have been around for a century. Many Armenians still dream of a restoration of the Turkish-Armenian border as drawn by former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres. After the signing of this stillborn and never-ratified treaty on...
The issue of Armenian demands for reparations has been around for a century. Demands range from monetary payments to return of estates to individuals and groups. Armenian demands for vast territories from the Ottoman Empire culminated in the never-ratified Treaty of Sevres. Those hostile...
Episode 15 – Lemkin’s Genocide: How Armenians Hijacked and Abused the Term. ►Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1943 and introduced it in his 1944 book entitled Axis Rule in Occupied Europe where he did not mention Armenians at all. Lemkin was born in 1900 in the Russian...
