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...grandson of survivors of the Armenian genocide, I was intrigued to read Samantha Power's compelling Commentary "Honesty Is the Best Policy" [Oct. 29]. I've been alarmed by opposition to the resolution to hold Turkey responsible for the mass killing of Armenians during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. Political expediency should play no role in this debate; the facts overwhelmingly support what many in the world recognize as the 20th century's first genocide. If Turkey is to be the model moderate Islamic country, it should come to terms with its past...
...power, the Doge's Palace, until Nov. 25. Chronicling nearly a thousand years of exchanges with Egypt, the Levant (roughly present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Western Syria), the Ottoman and Persian empires and beyond, the collection is as eclectic as the history it charts: ceramics colored with Armenian dyes, embroidered silks and enameled glass, carpets and flowing tapestries, maps and ancient texts, elegant portraits of aristocrats and ambassadors, and daggers and scimitars laden with jewel-encrusted malice...
...room...to write every day. If I do that, I’m okay. If I don’t do that, I’m upset,” he said. Pamuk was asked by an audience member for his thoughts on the proposed condemnation of the Armenian Genocide by the United States Congress. “You know, I was expecting this question. Don’t worry, I will get out of it!” he quipped. Charges against Pamuk of “insulting Turkish identity” for remarks he made to a Swiss...
...Congress was slow to recognize the great crimes perpetrated nearly a century ago, one would hardly blame them: the Armenian genocide was scarcely acknowledged for 50 years. Another one of history’s great criminals, Adolf Hitler, used the mass killing’s anonymity to justify his own violence towards the Poles in 1939, saying: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians...
...past. If President Bush can claim that acts of genocide will never occur “on his watch,” surely he should not shy away from recognizing one for the sake of political expedience. We are also disappointed that leadership of the recognition of the Armenian genocide has largely been left to politicians by academics. Academia aspires to question all orthodoxies in the name of the truth; the Armenian genocide is one area in which it has fallen woefully short...