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RAGIP ZARAKOLU, HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPION, AND ZORYAN INSTITUTE COLLABORATE IN TURKISH PUBLICATION OF GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHIVES
ARMENPRESS
MARCH 20, 2012
TORONTO
TORONTO, MARCH 20, ARMRNPRESS: Ragip Zarakolu, a publisher in Istanbul
and a renowned champion of human rights, has collaborated with the
Zoryan Institute to lay one more building block on the foundation
of a common body of knowledge for Turks and Armenians. Zarakolu,
despite being in jail since October 2011 allegedly in connection with
the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trials, has not stopped his
efforts to bring out the historical truth about the "events of 1915"
and thereafter. On January 12, 2012, Belge Yayınları, Zarakolu's
publishing house, released Alman Belgeleri Ermeni Soykımı 1915-16:
Alman Dışişleri Bakanlığı Siaysi Arşiv Belgeleri, the Turkish edition
of The Armenian Genocide 1915-16, reports Armenpress citing Zoryan
Institute of Canada. Documents from the Political Archives of the
German Foreign Office, compiled and edited by Wolfgang Gust and
published originally in Germany. The original book was the product of
some ten years of devoted research, editing and translating overseen
by Wolfgang and Sigrid Gust. It is an extensive selection of some
218 telegrams, letters and reports from German consular officials
in the Ottoman Empire to the Foreign Office in Berlin describing the
unfolding genocide of the Armenians.
This new book is part of the long-term project, "Creating a Common Body
of Knowledge." There is a need in Turkey at this time for authoritative
information on its suppressed history. The Zoryan Institute seeks
to help provide information to fill this need through systematic
scholarly research, the publication of incontestable information on the
Armenian Genocide in Turkish and other languages, and the distribution
of it widely in Turkey and other countries. Other documentary and
analytical publications commissioned by the Zoryan Institute as part
of the "Common Body of Knowledge" include Hitler and the Armenian
Genocide (Belge Publishers) and Judgment at Istanbul (Bilgi University
Press).Ragip Zarakolu has been persecuted by the Turkish state for many
years for his public positions on freedom of speech, human rights,
and the rights of Turkey's minorities. Outside Turkey, he has given
lectures and participated in conferences--including in April 2010
in São Paulo, Brazil at a conference co-organized by Zoryan--and is
highly respected by academic and human rights organizations.
ARMENPRESS
MARCH 20, 2012
TORONTO
TORONTO, MARCH 20, ARMRNPRESS: Ragip Zarakolu, a publisher in Istanbul
and a renowned champion of human rights, has collaborated with the
Zoryan Institute to lay one more building block on the foundation
of a common body of knowledge for Turks and Armenians. Zarakolu,
despite being in jail since October 2011 allegedly in connection with
the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trials, has not stopped his
efforts to bring out the historical truth about the "events of 1915"
and thereafter. On January 12, 2012, Belge Yayınları, Zarakolu's
publishing house, released Alman Belgeleri Ermeni Soykımı 1915-16:
Alman Dışişleri Bakanlığı Siaysi Arşiv Belgeleri, the Turkish edition
of The Armenian Genocide 1915-16, reports Armenpress citing Zoryan
Institute of Canada. Documents from the Political Archives of the
German Foreign Office, compiled and edited by Wolfgang Gust and
published originally in Germany. The original book was the product of
some ten years of devoted research, editing and translating overseen
by Wolfgang and Sigrid Gust. It is an extensive selection of some
218 telegrams, letters and reports from German consular officials
in the Ottoman Empire to the Foreign Office in Berlin describing the
unfolding genocide of the Armenians.
This new book is part of the long-term project, "Creating a Common Body
of Knowledge." There is a need in Turkey at this time for authoritative
information on its suppressed history. The Zoryan Institute seeks
to help provide information to fill this need through systematic
scholarly research, the publication of incontestable information on the
Armenian Genocide in Turkish and other languages, and the distribution
of it widely in Turkey and other countries. Other documentary and
analytical publications commissioned by the Zoryan Institute as part
of the "Common Body of Knowledge" include Hitler and the Armenian
Genocide (Belge Publishers) and Judgment at Istanbul (Bilgi University
Press).Ragip Zarakolu has been persecuted by the Turkish state for many
years for his public positions on freedom of speech, human rights,
and the rights of Turkey's minorities. Outside Turkey, he has given
lectures and participated in conferences--including in April 2010
in São Paulo, Brazil at a conference co-organized by Zoryan--and is
highly respected by academic and human rights organizations.