Smyrna burning during the Fire of Smyrna. Thousands of Greeks and Armenians were killed in the fire and accompanying massacres by the Turks. Submitted in support of a resolution recognizing the Armenian, Assyrian, and Pontic and Anatolian Greek genocides of 1914-23, presented to the membership of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), 2007.   Ottoman Genocide against Christian Minorities: […]

The Armenian Genocide documentary premiered nationwide in the U.S. on PBS (Photo @ Wikipedia.org) Obama and the denial of Genocide by Stephen Zunes The Obama administration, citing its relations with Turkey, has pledged to block the passage in the full House of Representatives of a resolution passed this past Thursday by the Foreign Relations Committee acknowledging the 1915 genocide by […]

The attempted satelization of FYROM by Turkey   Jul 25, 2009 By Ioannis Michaletos | Turkey’s geopolitical objectives aim to control small countries such as FYROM that have been formerly dominated by the Turkish Islamic Ottoman Empire. “We write less than we say We say less than we know We know less than we can find out” (A modified version […]

Obama’s nominee refuses to call 1915 events as genocide WASHINGTON – Phil Gordon, nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, Thursday declined to qualify World War I-era killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as “genocide” during his confirmation hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senate must confirm all […]