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JEWISH PROFESSORS CALL TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
AZG DAILY #228
10-12-2010
Armenian Genocide
A group of Jewish professors in the United States and Israel has called
on the Jewish State to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide by
the Ottoman Turks during and just after World War I.
According to the Firat news agency, four professors from Washington's
Georgetown University and Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan sent
their request in a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,
after the clash between Israeli Naval commandos and Muslim
terrorists on the Turkish-sponsored flotilla ship, the Mavi Marmara,
israelnationalnews.com reported.
The petition included a call to grant autonomy for the millions of
Kurds who currently live in Turkey.
The Armenian massacres also included mass deportations consisting
of forced marches intended to kill the deportees. On April 24, 1915
the Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and
community leaders in Constantinople, igniting what eventually became
known as the Armenian Genocide.
The Ottoman military authorities subsequently proceeded to uproot
Armenians from their homes and forced them to march without food or
water for hundreds of miles to the desert of present-day Syria.
Some 1 to 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered between 1915 and
1923; subsequently those who fled formed the majority of Armenian
diaspora communities.
The Republic of Turkey, which later succeeded the Ottoman Empire,
refuses to validate Armenian claims that the events of their history
constituted a genocide.
However, 26 countries and 44 states of the United States of America
have recognized the massacres as a genocide, although as yet, the
State of Israel is not among them.
From: A. Papazian
AZG DAILY #228
10-12-2010
Armenian Genocide
A group of Jewish professors in the United States and Israel has called
on the Jewish State to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide by
the Ottoman Turks during and just after World War I.
According to the Firat news agency, four professors from Washington's
Georgetown University and Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan sent
their request in a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,
after the clash between Israeli Naval commandos and Muslim
terrorists on the Turkish-sponsored flotilla ship, the Mavi Marmara,
israelnationalnews.com reported.
The petition included a call to grant autonomy for the millions of
Kurds who currently live in Turkey.
The Armenian massacres also included mass deportations consisting
of forced marches intended to kill the deportees. On April 24, 1915
the Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and
community leaders in Constantinople, igniting what eventually became
known as the Armenian Genocide.
The Ottoman military authorities subsequently proceeded to uproot
Armenians from their homes and forced them to march without food or
water for hundreds of miles to the desert of present-day Syria.
Some 1 to 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered between 1915 and
1923; subsequently those who fled formed the majority of Armenian
diaspora communities.
The Republic of Turkey, which later succeeded the Ottoman Empire,
refuses to validate Armenian claims that the events of their history
constituted a genocide.
However, 26 countries and 44 states of the United States of America
have recognized the massacres as a genocide, although as yet, the
State of Israel is not among them.
From: A. Papazian