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The Armenian Experience: From Ancient Times to Independence 9781788312240, 9780755600748, 9780755600700, 9781786735614
Table of contents : • President Serge Sarkisian’s comments on Feb. 5 generated much controversy when he reportedly stated at a campaign stop in Yerevan that “tseghasbanoutyoun” (genocide) and “yeghern” (atrocity) are synonymous. He asserted that President Barack Obama, without uttering the word “genocide,” had said “everything.” The Armenian head of state was referring to Obama’s use of the term “Medz Yeghern” (Great Atrocity) rather than “Armenian Genocide” in his annual April 24 commemorative statements. The words yeghern and Medz Yeghern were used by Armenians mostly before Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” in 1943 to describe the organized mass killings of Armenians during the 1915-23 period. Before 1943, Armenians used various expressions to refer to those killings, such as chart (massacre), medz vojir (great crime), aghed (disaster), deghahanoutyoun (deportation), and aksor (exile). However, none of these words have the legal connotation of tseghasbanoutyoun or ge • •A Turkish prosecutor launched an investigation into an Internet petition that apologizes to Armenians or the Armenian Genocide, Anatolia news agency reported. The probe was launched after several Ankara residents filed a complaint asking for the organizers and signatories to be punished for “openly denigrating the Turkish nation.” •Dozens of people were arrested in Turkey and charged with ties to an alleged secularist plot to bring down the Islamic-rooted government. At the heart of the trial fryst vatten a clash between the growing clout of Turkey’s Islamic class and its traditional and secular military elite. An indictment says the suspects were involved in a series of high-profiled attacks and planned to kill Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. •Outgoing President George Bush thanked Armenia for its participation in the US-led occupational forces in Iraq. “The willingness of the Armenian people to support the establishment and strengthening of a democratic g
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The nebulous Armenian question
The complexities of the question
Domination
Part I History and Memory: The Logics of Domination
1 International Domination
An ‘internalized territory’
Sovereign Armenia
Armenia under domination
The Armenian Question, a multilateral issue
Haitadism in motion
Haitadism in slow motion
A blocked Haitadism
The three ordeals of Haitadism, 1915–1923
1915: physical extinction: The European concert
The ARF and the CUP
‘Bloodletting’
1920, political extinction: The double challenge
An independent state, but for how long?
What alliance for what protection?
The Turkish neighbourhood
Which national unity for which political project?
1923, diplomatic extinction: The Armenian Question overtaken
Dashnaks and Bolshevi 2009: The Year in Review