ANKARA TO HOST SYMPOSIUM ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
02.04.2010 11:26 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On April 24-25, a symposium on the Armenian
Genocide, titled "1915 within its pre- and post-historical periods:
denial and confrontation," will be held in Ankara. Organized by the
Ankara Freedom to Thought Initiative (AFTI), the symposium will not
only address the history, but explore issues like the confiscation
of Armenian property and reparations, The Armenian Weekly reported.

Confirmed participants include Ragip Zarakolu (publisher), Recep
Marasli (author of The Armenian National Democratic Movement and 1915
Genocide), Sait Cetinoglu (activist and writer), Dr. David Gaunt
(genocide scholar, author of Massacres, Resistance, Protectors:
Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia During World War
I), Dr. Henry Theriault (professor of Philosophy, Worcester State
University), and Khatchig Mouradian (Doctoral student in Holocaust
and Genocide Studies, Clark University; editor, the Armenian Weekly).

Dedicated to the memory of Hrant Dink, the symposium will comprise of
four sessions: a) the Armenian Genocide from a historical perspective,
b) official ideological denial from the Committee of Union and Progress
(CUP) to Kemalism, c) Turkification of the Economy and the issue of the
confiscated Armenian Property, and d) what needs to be done and how?

The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
reaching 1.5 million.

The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
Genocide survivors.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress