GENOCIDE CONFERENCE IN ANKARA CANCELLED
Armenian Weekly Staff
Thu, Apr 22 2010
ANKARA, Turkey (A.W.)-A symposium on the Armenian Genocide titled "1915
Within Its Pre- and Post-Historical Periods: Denial and Confrontation,"
which was to be held in Ankara, was cancelled on April 21 after facing
political and bureaucratic hurdles.
Organized by the Ankara Freedom to Thought Initiative (AFTI), the
symposium was not only going to address history, but explore issues
like the confiscation of Armenian property and reparations.
Confirmed participants included Ragip Zarakolu (publisher), Recep
Marasli (author of The Armenian National Democratic Movement and 1915
Genocide), Sait Cetinoglu (activist and writer), David Gaunt (genocide
scholar, author of Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian
Relations in Eastern Anatolia During World War I), Henry Theriault
(professor of philosophy, Worcester State University), Baskin Oran
(author, professor of political science at Ankara University; one of
the initiators of the apology campaign of Turkish intellectuals),
and Khatchig Mouradian (doctoral student in Holocaust and genocide
studies, Clark University; editor, the Armenian Weekly).
Theriault and Mouradian were scheduled to speak about Genocide
recognition and reparations.