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    IMPACT OF RUSSO-TURKISH RELATIONS ON ARMENIANS IN OTTOMAN EMPIRE TO BE PROBED

    Targeted News Service
    September 9, 2013 Monday 4:35 AM EST

    MAHWAH, N.J.

    Ramapo College issued the following news release:

    Russo-Turkish Relations and the Armenian Community of the Ottoman
    Empire" will be the title of a talk to be given by George A.

    Bournoutian at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Tuesday, September 24
    from 1 to 2 p.m. in the York Room of the Birch Mansion. Since 1986,
    he has been on the faculty of Iona College, New Rochelle, New York,
    where he is the senior professor of History. Bournoutian will examine
    the impact of Russo-Turkish conflict since the mid-nineteenth century
    on the fate of the Armenian community of the Ottoman Empire. The
    program will be sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide
    Studies and the History Club of Ramapo College.

    Far from being a zero sum game, for Tsarist Russia the diplomatic and
    political problems posed by the decay of the Ottoman Empire constituted
    an opportunity to gain influence and territory on Turkey's eastern
    and western frontiers. As a Christian minority primarily residing in
    the eastern reaches of Ottoman territory, the Armenians were almost
    automatically involved the long decades of struggle that only ended
    with the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide.

    As Russia extended its border southwards, it became increasingly
    involved with Ottoman affairs. Not only because Russia gained control
    of a swathe of Armenian territory, but also its support of Serbian
    and Romanian independence Armenians increasingly viewed Russia as its
    champion vis-a-vis the Ottomans. It is this volatile and potentially
    incendiary development that Bournoutian will explore in his talk.

    Born in Ishfahan, Iran, Bournoutian is the author of more than two
    dozen books and numerous articles on the history of Armenia, Georgia,
    Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Iran, and Azerbaijan. His book, "A Concise
    History of the Armenian People," published by Mazda Publishers and
    already in its 6th edition (some 20,000 copies sold), is the basic
    text for most Armenian courses offered in the United States. It has
    been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, and Armenian, with
    editions in Japanese, Persian and Russian forthcoming.

    In addition to his post at Iona College, he has held visiting
    appointments at Columbia University, Tufts University, New York
    University, Rutgers University, the University of Connecticut,
    California State University at Fresno, and Ramapo College. Bournoutian
    resides in Haworth. He is an avid world traveler and is fluent in
    eight languages. He holds B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from the
    University of California at Los Angeles.

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