Historiography in Turkish-Armenian Relations

• Historiography and Propaganda of Armenian Genocide

  Prof. Dr. Haluk Selvi

  Armenian researches in European and American universities today aim at getting the “Armenian Genocide,” that they absolutely accept, recognized by world public opinion. It is not recently that these political propaganda activities which ignore the historical realities and documents started. A long process within the events of the past century gave birth to this approach….

• American Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s Story and Realities

  Prof. Dr. Haluk Selvi

  Today, almost all sources written about the Armenian problem, defending the Armenian thesis and describing the events in 1915 as genocide often refer to the work named “Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story” which was first published in newspapers in the USA in 1916 and then issued as a book. The construction story of this story, used as…

• Ottoman Armenians According to the Observations of John Reid

  Prof. Dr. Mehmet Alaaddin Yalçınkaya

  Since the Tanzimat period many travel books and other reports (works) talk about the lives and customs of Ottoman Armenians. One of these reports is the one written by the Scottish publisher John Reid. Reid was fond of travel and he came to Turkey in 1838 for a two-year visit. Reid published his impressions of…

• The Armenian Events and Abdulhamid II According to the USA Ambassador Terell

  Prof. Dr. Vahdettin Engin

  During the reign of Abdulhamid II, Armenian terrorist organizations revolting in Anatolia started to trouble the Ottoman Empire. Armenians, who thought that the riots they broke out in Anatolia did not bring enough reflections in the European public opinion, arranged large-scale terrorist activities in Istanbul. Ultimately, they attempted a bombing assassination on Abdulhamid II. Abdulhamid…

• A Classic of Armenian Propaganda: “Blue Book”

  Prof. Dr. Enis Şahin

  The developments about the Armenian Problem taking place in the last 100 years show that Armenians establish all of their discourses on “Turkish hostility.” “Turkish hostility” and “smear campaigns,” which they try to create in world public opinion on the anniversaries of 24 April 1915, are among the significant indicators of this. Armenians’ history is…

• The View of Two Georgian Politicians on the Armenians and the Tashnaks

  Dr. Mehmet Perinçek

  It was mentioned in our previous work that in the Soviet period, Armenians themselves talked about those activities of the Tashnaks that sparked the Muslim-Armenian massacres. Gerogians were definitely among the important witnesses of the period. Filipp Maharadze (1868-1941), who was one of the important Georgian statesmen, was one of these. The lines written by…

• The Role of the Russian State Archives in the Armenian Issue Dr. Mehmet Perinçek

  Dr. Mehmet Perinçek

  The Armenian Question and the claims of Armenian Genocide in relation to this are the primary ones among the issues that have kept Turkey and the world public opinion busy. The most important witnesses of the incidents that took place between 1915 and 1923 were the Russian Empire and Soviet Russia, in addition to the…

• A General Evaluation of the American Sources on Forced Relocation

  Prof. Dr. Kemal Çiçek

  The most valuable sources regarding the topic of the forced relocation of Armenians and the causes and consequences of it are undoubtedly the correpondence of American diplomats and missionary reports after the Ottoman official documents. The German and Austrian documents are also significant. However, since they were the allies of the Ottoman Empire during the…

• The Presentation of the Turkish-Armenian Relations in the History Textbooks of Armenia

  Asst. Prof. Dr. Yıldız Deveci Bozkuş

  Overview of the Medieval Age Since the meeting of the Armenians with the Turks for the first time in the history textbooks is as a result of wars similar to the Turks meeting the Europeans and the other communities, the first paragraphs regarding these meetings generally have a negative narrative. In this negative narrative, mostly…

• The Relations of the Republic of Armenia and the Grand National Assembly Governments According to the Armenian Textbooks

  Asst. Prof. Dr. Yıldız Deveci Bozkuş

  In this study we will address the relations of the Republic of Armenia with the Grand National Assembly Governments and we will focus on how the Brest-Litovsk Agreement, The Armistice of Mudros, The Treaties of Sevrès and Gyumri are generally taught in the Armenian history textbooks. Within this framework, the Brest-Litovsk Agreement, which was one…

• Armenians in the Turkish History Books: Until the Establishment of the Ottoman Empire

  Asst. Prof. Dr. Yıldız Deveci Bozkuş

  The Armenians are mentioned for the first time in the history textbooks in Turkey in the chapter where the subjects in the 10th-13th centuries are addressed. In this chapter, where the topic of the Great Seljuks is addressed, the expression “the Armenian forces” is used for the Armenians (9. Sınıf (9th grade), 2014, p.146). In…

• Armenians in Turkish History Course Books: From the Ottoman Empire Until Today

  Asst. Prof. Dr. Yıldız Deveci Bozkuş

  The 10th grade secondary education book from the history course books studied in education institutions in Turkey in 2014-1015 has been taken as a base for this study. It is striking that the Armenian problem is given more place in this book covering the period from the Ottomans to today. The reason for this is…

• An Armenian Propaganda Journal: The Armenian Herald (1917-1919)

  Prof. Dr. Enis Şahin

  Propaganda and especially propaganda through media is one of the most effective methods used all along in order to influence people living in a certain geography and spread the desired ideas among these. Propaganda is the process of planned and continuous transmission of certain news, information, and special documents aiming to influence the opinions, beliefs,…

• An Important Armenian Source: The Trans-Caucasian Post Newspaper

  Prof. Dr. Enis Şahin

  Newspapers as historical material are regarded to be among the most significant sources of the time. A regularly published newspaper not only reflects the certain characteristics of its age, but also is an important source of information about the time and the place. Some newspapers can also be published to impose certain purposes on people…

• British Prime Minister Gladstone and the Armenian Problem According to Western Media

  Prof. Dr. Enis Şahin

  The Armenian Problem showed an intense development after the second half of the 19th century and became one of the most important international problems occupying the European and World agenda. Britain is one of the chief countries taking this problem to the World agenda. The political and economic links of Britain with the Near and…

• The Letter of a Turkish Author to an Armenian Newspaper

  Dr. Mehmet Perinçek

  The idea of Turkish-Armenian rapprochment also appeared on the agenda after the cost of the First World War and the Tashnak government, which was established in Armenia after that in the National Struggle period, became too heavy. The letter that Turkish journalist-writer Osman Sadik Bey sent to an Armenian newspaper during the years of the…