The CUP’s genocidal wartime policies towards the…

“The CUP’s genocidal wartime policies towards the Armenians and Kemal’s ruthless expulsion of Christian Ottomans featured prominently in the Nazi imagination. They became a…

Robert Gerwarth

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“the Armenian genocide of the First World War years, which represented an escalation in intensity, rather than a departure from previous tolerance. Although the regime in power at the time of the actual massacres was the nationalist Young Turks, the actual violence had many resemblances to the Hamidian killings of twenty years earlier. As before, Turkish forces attacked a community…

Philip Jenkins

“And I realized more and more that the Armenian story was not so much one of massacre and persecution, as survival.”

Philip Marsden

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It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the…

Jimmy Carter

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“This was indeed the case in the following two and a half decades, ending in the later 1940s, when the forced expulsion of millions of ethnic Germans from east-central Europe was completed.73 Few politicians observed the developments in Anatolia between 1918 and 1923 with greater interest than Adolf Hitler, who would later profess that in the aftermath of the Great…

Robert Gerwarth

We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?

Adolf Hitler

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... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the…

Theodore Roosevelt

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“Not only were the young Turks unaware of their past, but the Turkish Government was “buying history” at American universities by giving them large endowments to keep its barbaric past from the American university agenda—a past filled with such atrocities that it had inspired Hitler. “Who remembers the Armenians?” Hitler had asked to justify his slaughter of the Jews and…

Thea Halo

“History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now”

Colin McEvedy

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“Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correct a nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion and urgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven…

Scott Anderson