Cyprus that is located in Eastern Mediterranean has a great strategic importance for European countries as much as other North Africa and Middle East have. Sovereign states made big wars especially to keep the artery of commerce under control and the island was occupied by so many forces throughout the history. Cyprus that consistently passed [...]

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Turkey Confronts a Disputed Period in Its History

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 5 Issue: 240
December 17, 2008
By: Saban Kardas

A group of Turkish intellectuals have taken a bold step to open a public debate on the disputed events of 1915, when the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were forced to relocate, leading to the death [...]

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Turkish Armed Forces published archive documents about Armenian activities between 1914 and 1918. You can download those documents below. (In English, Turkish and original documents in Ottoman)
Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5 | Volume 6

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Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University
International Committee of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (CIEPO)
Interim Symposium
On the Central Asiatic Roots of the Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Culture
August 24-29, 2009, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
First Circular
We are pleased to announce that the CIEPO Symposium on the Central
Asiatic Roots of the pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Culture will be held at
Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, 24-29 August, 2009.
The Organizing [...]

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Norman Stone
Published 06 November 2008
Between Russia and the Middle East, the Caucasus is one of the world’s most diverse regions - and as recent fighting in South Ossetia and Abkhazia showed, still boiling with ethnic tensions. Norman Stone reviews a history which makes sense of this complexity
The Ghost of Freedom: a History of the Caucasus
Charles [...]

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 Sabrina Tavernise’s article with the title In Turkey, Bitter Feud Has Roots in History in the June 22, 2008 issue of New York Times immediately fueled the existing debate in Turkey over the country’s political future. From the whole article alone the quote from Dengir Mir Firat, the Vice-President of the ruling AKP that ‘the [...]

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Tuesday, 30 September 2008
TÜM dünyayı sözde soykırım yalanına inandırmak için her yolu deneyen Ermenilerin vahşetlere tarihin sayfalarında belgeleriyle yerini alıyor. Arabistan cephesinde İngilizlere esir düşen 150 bin Türk askerinden 15 bini, Mısır’da kurulan esir kamplarında, Ermeni doktorlarca ’fenni temizlik’ bahanesiyle su tanklarında zorla banyo yaptırılarak kör edildi. İnsanlık dışı olayı İngiliz arşivinde de belgeleyen tarihçi [...]

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From: Carel Bertram <carel@california.com>
List Editor: Mark Stein <stein@MUHLENBERG.EDU>
Editor’s Subject: H-TURK: New book [C Bertram]
Author’s Subject: H-TURK: New book [C Bertram]
Date Written: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:19:52 -0400
Date Posted: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:19:52 -0400
Dear Colleagues,
My book on the Turkish House has just been published by UT press:
Imagining the Turkish House
[...]

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Sep 25th 2008 | ANKARA AND YEREVAN
From The Economist print edition
Rising hopes of better relations between two historic enemies
 
KEMAL ATATURK , father of modern Turkey, rescued hundreds of Armenian women and children from mass slaughter by Ottoman forces during and after the first world war. This untold story, which is sure to surprise many of [...]

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Sep 25th 2008 | ANKARA AND YEREVAN
From The Economist print edition
Rising hopes of better relations between two historic enemies
KEMAL ATATURK, father of modern Turkey, rescued hundreds of Armenian women and children from mass slaughter by Ottoman forces during and after the first world war. This untold story, which is sure to surprise many of today’s [...]

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