Trials and International Law

• What Happened on 24 April 1915?

  Prof. Dr. Yusuf Sarınay

  Armenians fairly created a virtual memory and an artificial history by declaring 24 April the “genocide day.” What actually happened on 24 April 1915, which not only Armenians, but also parliaments of many countries, primarily America and European countries, recognize as the “genocide commemoration day?” The commencement of the First World War and the Ottoman…

• Trials of Officers Abusing the Armenian Dıspatchment Decision in Martial Court

  Prof. Dr. Yusuf Sarınay

  While the Ottoman government was carrying out Armenian deportations in the negative conditions of war, it made great efforts to ensure the protection of the corteges. Primarily the dispatchment and settlement decision taken in the Assembly of Ministers and the instructions sent to local governors by the Internal Affairs Ministry emphasized on the security of…

• The Yozgat Deportation Case and Kemal Bey

  Asst. Prof. Dr. Nejdet Bilgi

  The first case held for Armenian deportation during the armistice period is the Yozgat deportation case. Therefore, the first administrator who was tried was Mehmet Kemal Bey who was the governor of Boğazlıyan during the deportation and was also the lieutenant governor by proxy. Kemal Bey had to quell the riots while administrating the deportations….

• The Murder of Talat Pasha and the Judgment Process of the Murderer

  Prof. Dr. Hasan Babacan

  After the First World War ended for the Ottoman Empire and its allies, Prime Minister Talat Pasha resigned from his position at the beginning of October 1918. Then, he had decided with his friends for the elimination of the party by making the last congress of Union and Progress Party on 1 November 1918. In…

• The 1919-1920 Trials for the Forced Relocation of Armenians

  Ass. Prof. Dr. Ferudun Ata

  The Turkish-Armenian relations, which have had a common past for hundreds of years, entered into a very troubled process starting with the last quarter of the 19th century. In parallel to the weakening of the Ottoman State, the Armenians attempted to revolt based on the dream of an independent Armenia, committed many massacres until 1914,…

• The 1915 Events in National and International Courts and Freedom of Expression

  Asst. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Serdar Palabıyık

  The crime of genocide is a legal concept and processes related to both its definition and the trial and punishment of its perpetrators have been determined by an international agreement (The 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide) which is a legal text. Until now, there is no national…

• The European Union’s Communication Strategy on the Armenian Problem: The Example of the 1987 Reference EP Resolution

  Ass. Prof. Dr. Emel Poyraz

  The European Union (EU), mainly the European Parliament (EP), declared the 1915-1917 events as genocide as finding it applicable to the “genocide” definition in United Nations’ decision on 9 December 1948 since the 1980s. Having constructed its communication strategy with this preliminary acceptance, the European Parliament asked Turkey to also accept this decision and declared…