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Genocide Reparations Topic of Armenian Review Special Issue

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WATERTOWN, Mass.—The Armenian Review, the leading journal of Armenian Studies, is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue about “The New Global Reparations Movement,” the growing movement to require reparations for cases of mass human rights violation.

The articles in the issue examine the necessity for reparations for the Armenian Genocide, both as a matter of international law and in contrast to the limited dialogue and acknowledgment models currently ongoing. The current issue of the journal, places the Armenian case within a broader context by describing reparations models and movements including South Africa, Argentina, Japan, and for African-Americans.

Professor Henry Theriault of Worcester State University is the guest editor of the special issue and also contributes his analysis of the moral imperative requiring reparations for the Armenian Genocide. International law expert Dr. Alfred de Zayas brilliantly argues the case that the U.N. Genocide Convention is both applicable to the Armenian Genocide and requires that reparations be made.

For many years, reparations had not been a central element in political, legal, or ethical engagements with past group harms. Since the 1988 decision by the United States to compensate Japanese-Americans interned during World War II, however, reparations have been raised by victim groups as a key requirement for justice and have become intertwined with truth and reconciliation processes.

Thus the articles in the special issue present many of the other key reparations movements. Jermaine McCalpin and M.P. Giyose discuss the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and connect it to other cases: McCalpin to African-American and Native American reparations and Giyose to the legacy of former colonies burdened by the huge state debts incurred by their former rulers. Patrick Sargent analyzes South Africa, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Haiti as four cases of such “odious debt.” Kibibi Tyehimba analyzes the need for reparations for the historical legacy of sustained violence against African-Americans and Haruko Shibasaki presents the legal movement in Japan for reparations for the “Comfort Women” who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during World War II. A group of authors present the issue of reparations for indigenous peoples who were dispossessed by Argentina’s military during the country’s “Campaign to the Desert” in the 19th Century.

The special issue of the Armenian Review, Volume 53, no. 1-4, may be ordered by itself or as part of a subscription to the academic journal from its website, www.armenianreview.org. All subscription, order, and renewal inquiries should be addressed to the publisher by writing to the Armenian Review, Inc., 80 Bigelow Avenue, Watertown, MA 02472-2012; by emailing orders@armenianreview.org; or by calling  (617) 926-4037 .

Tactics of Islam: Conquering America from Within (Turkish Imam Gulenest Movement) Book

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Book Description

DR. Aland D. Mizell (Author)

Publication Date: January 15, 2010
In the past, the Ottoman Empire could not defeat the West by the sword, so now Fethullah Gulen’s community systematically employs very different tactics to bring the West under Islamic rule. For profoundly anti-democratic goals they use America’s democratic values-freedom of speech, political correctness, tolerance, and multiculturalism-as tools for disseminating Gulen’s ideology. “You move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers…until the conditions are ripe… If you do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads. The time is not yet right. You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey… The work to be done is in confronting the world. Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all-in confidence…trusting your loyalty and secrecy.” Fethullah Gulen to his followers “Aland Mizell has gathered valuable material to prove that Islam is not only active in its missionary activities but actually ahead of schedule. This book is a must read.” Dr. William Wagner, author of How Islam Plans to Change the World. “Aland Mizell’s book unveils the hidden truth about Gulen’s strategies for the Islamization of the world and he especially targets America.” Dr. Rebwar Fatah, a journalist and Director and Co-Founder of the London-based KurdishMedia.com Aland D. Mizell earned master’s degrees in political science and public administration and a doctorate in political science with an emphasis on politics and religion. He reads and speaks several languages, adding to the breadth of his three-decades of research on Islam with a focus on the Gulen movement.

Cemal Pasha Grandson publishes a book about Armenian Genocide

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13:15, 7 September, 2012

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS:   Hasam Cemal, the grandson of one of Armenian Genocide perpetrators Cemal Pasha is publishing a book in coming week entitled ”1915. Armenian genocide”.  As Armenpress reports citing Istanbul based ”Agos” Armenian weekly newspaper, the author stated ”We cannot move forward without confronting and taking into consideration the events of past. We cannot keep an eye on the anguish of the past. Moreover the pain of  1915 is not a story, it is current day issue” .

The first chapter of the book runs how Hasan comes to know 1915 events. Then the author dwells on how he became to be called ”parricide” after coming forth with his obtained   information and statements  in the course of Hrant Dink assassination  hearings in 2006. The second chapter of the book tells the author’s way of thinking before reveal of  1915 events  and reportedly how  it  changed in the course of the time.The most interesting part of the book is the third chapter entitled ”Pasha Grandfather or Cemal Pasha family”. This chapter tells about  1915 Armenian Genocide  organizer Cemal Pasha and his  family. Hasan Cemal has repeatedly stated he recognizes 1915 events Genocide. He visted Tsitsernakeberd and laid a wreath at the Genocide Memorial in 2008

The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity:

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The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire:

By, Taner Akçam, the first scholar of Turkish origin to publicly acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, holds the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. His many books include A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books).

http://www.amazon.com/Young-Turks-Against-Humanity-ebook/dp/B007BP3BIU

Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along with expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam’s most authoritative work to date goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Although the deportation and killing of Armenians was internationally condemned in 1915 as a “crime against humanity and civilization,” the Ottoman government initiated a policy of denial that is still maintained by the Turkish Republic. The case for Turkey’s “official history” rests on documents from the Ottoman imperial archives, to which access has been heavily restricted until recently. It is this very source that Akçam now uses to overturn the official narrative.

The documents presented here attest to a late-Ottoman policy of Turkification, the goal of which was no less than the radical demographic transformation of Anatolia. To that end, about one-third of Anatolia’s 15 million people were displaced, deported, expelled, or massacred, destroying the ethno-religious diversity of an ancient cultural crossroads of East and West, and paving the way for the Turkish Republic.

By uncovering the central roles played by demographic engineering and assimilation in the Armenian Genocide, this book will fundamentally change how this crime is understood and show that physical destruction is not the only aspect of the genocidal process.

Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story!

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In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblowers movement she spearheaded. Having lived under Middle East dictatorships, Edmonds knows firsthand what can happen when government is allowed to operate in secret. Hers is a sobering perspective that combines painful experience with a rallying cry for the public’s right to know and to hold the lawbreakers accountable. With U.S. citizens increasingly stripped of their rights in a calibrated media blackout, Edmonds’ story is a wake-up call for all Americans who, willingly or unwillingly, traded liberty for illusive security in the wake of 9/11.

You can visit the Classified Woman website here: http://classifiedwoman.com

Steve Jobs had asked the Turks: “You subjected 1.5 million Armenians to genocide. How did it happen?”

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December 21, 2011 | 11:04

What Turkish tour guide Asil Tuncer said, with respect to Apple Inc.’s founder, the late Steve Jobs’ visit to Turkey, caused great uproar in the country. The guide claimed that Jobs considered the Turks as enemies, and he did not even shake hands when bidding farewell to the tour guide.

Tuncer noted that when they had approached the Hagia Sophia, in Istanbul, and he had told that it was a church at first but then it was turned into a mosque, Steve Jobs had asked: “You, Muslims, what did you do to so many Christians? You subjected 1.5 million Armenians to genocide. Tell us, how did it happen?” [Read more…]