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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.
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.