PRESS RELEASE
HAMAZKAYIN – BOSTON
Contact: Ara Nazarian
Phone: 617.924.8849
Email: info@hamazkayin-boston.org

The Armenian Genocide: Current Turkish Historiography with Respect to
Marsovan in 1915

Lecture by Dr. Hilmar Kaiser

The Armenian Student Organization of Harvard University is hosting a
lecture by Dr. Hilmar Kaiser. The lecture is scheduled for Wednesday,
October 25, 2006 at 7:30 PM, to be held at Room P-02 of Hilles Hall [59
Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA – right off Garden Street]. The lecture
offers a re-examination of the current and older publications on the
town of Marsovan during the summer of 1915. Although Marsovan was an
Ottoman provincial town of minor importance, it has nevertheless
attracted attention from historians due to the relatively dense
documentation of the deportations and massacres of 1915. Mostly American
missionaries left behind a series of accounts on their experiences in
the form of reports, affidavits, memoirs, letters, and a diary. Together
with US consular reports, this documentation allows a rather detailed
reconstruction of the deportation policies at Marsovan, including the
murder of prisoners and deportees by Ottoman security forces.

The findings from this paper were discussed at relevant conferences in
Istanbul and Ankara in 2006.

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