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Turkish ‘falsifiers’ and Armenian ‘deceivers’: historiography and the Armenian massacres

Middle Eastern Studies, 1976
Any historian who has to deal with the last years of the Ottoman Empire will sooner or later find himself wishing desperately that the air could be cleared on the subject of the Ottoman Armenians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and especially the deportations and massacres of 1915.
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The Armenian Massacres as the Murder of a Nation?

Studies in the History of Law and Justice, 2018
Starting from the claim by the Armenian community and the majority of historians that the 1915–1916 Armenian massacres and deportations constitute genocide as well as Turkey’s fierce opposition to such a qualification, this paper investigates the possibility of identifying those massacres and deportations as the destruction of a nation. On the basis of
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On the Applicability of the Genocide Convention to the Armenian Massacres

Studies in the History of Law and Justice, 2018
The paper deals with the relationship between State responsibility for acts of genocide and the Armenian events of 1915. The author explores the question of the temporal applicability of the Genocide Convention of 1948, specifically concerning the issue of State responsibility for the commission of acts of genocide. As “Metz Yeghern” happened long time
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The Armenian Massacres and the Price of Memory: Impossible to Forget, Forbidden to Remember

Studies in the History of Law and Justice, 2018
This contribution is aimed at assessing the right to truth and the right to memory of the Armenian people and of Armenians as individuals, drawing from a legal framework first developed in regional and local contexts and further elaborated at the level of the United Nations.
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