AFAJA – NAZARPEK & AGBU Young have an interview with historian Taner Akçam on the occasion of the release of his book “Judgment at Istanbul,” co-written with Vahakn N. Dadrian.
Published in English and translated for the first time in French by Juliette Thin. Preface and Afterword Chaliand Alexandre and Stéphane Couyoumdjian Mirdikian.
On Thursday, May 28 at 20 pm at the Alex Manoogian Cultural Center AGBU: 118 rue de Courcelles 75017 PARIS (Metro Courcelles)
Translation ensured maintenance – Sales and dedication of the book. Free admission and Cocktail.
Judgment at Istanbul, originally published in English, is first translated into French.
This book – capital item of evidence of what is referred to as the Armenian genocide – recounts the trial of Young Turk leaders held in 1919-1920, when most of them had fled. In this remarkable work the authors, one Turkish, one Armenian, worked together on the archives and documents of the Ottoman era and restore the ambiguity of this pivotal period from 1919 to the victory of Mustafa Kemal.
In this year of commemoration of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the French Association of Armenian Lawyers and Jurists (AFAJA), co-chaired by Alexandre Couyoumdjian and the Belgian association of lawyers and jurists Armenians (Abaja), chaired by Stéphane Mirdikian, took the initiative to translate this book.
This book will include support for numerous conferences scheduled in France, Belgium and Switzerland, on the theme of the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust denial and justice. In May 2015, the Turkish sociologist Taner Akcam will come in France at the first symposium organized within this framework. It will be held at the Maison du Barreau, Place Dauphine, under the aegis of the Bar Association of the Bar of Paris on 27 and 28 May.
Jean Eckian © armenews.com