When the First World War ended, the American Protestant missionaries in the Ottoman Empire waged a massive campaign to influence American policy towards an American mandate over Anatolia. The American Committee for the Independence of Armenia soon turned into a lobbying group for the...
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Episode 46 – Niles & Sutherland Report 4 – Missionaries Ignore Calls For Relief For Muslims
In Episode 43, we have learned that Professor Justin McCarthy had discovered in the US National Archives in 1990, a survey of eastern Anatolia conducted in the summer of 1919 by two Americans, Captain Emory H. Niles, and Mr. Arthur E. Sutherland Jr. Some 20 years after that momentous...
Episode 45 – Niles & Sutherland Report 3 – A rare account of Muslim devastation in post – WWI Anatolia
In Episode 43, we have learned that Professor Justin McCarthy had discovered in the US National Archives in 1990, a survey of eastern Anatolia conducted in the summer of 1919 by two Americans, Captain Emory H. Niles, and Mr. Arthur E. Sutherland Jr. Their account is one of the first...
Episode 44 – Niles & Sutherland Report 2: “Armenians Massacred Muslims with Refined Cruelty”
Niles & Sutherland Report 2 : “Armenians Massacred Muslims with Refined Cruelty” In Episode 43, we have learned that Prof Justin McCarthy had discovered in the US National Archives in 1990, a survey of eastern Anatolia conducted in the summer of 1919 by two Americans, Captain Emory H...
Episode 43 – Niles & Sutherland Report 1: Ignored Out of Bias, Buried, Then Forgotten
Niles & Sutherland Report 1: Ignored Out of Bias, Buried, Then Forgotten At the end of WWI, the political scenery concerning the Ottoman Empire’s geography was complex. Prof S. Shaw described it well in his book History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Volume II, (see pages...