18 October 2025
The crucial point that many Turkish lobbyists miss is that you need to invoke calmer argumentation when your viewpoint is the less accepted one
by Justin Paul Justin Paul is a JD Candidate at the William Mitchell College of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
We are a few weeks away from the date the Armenian Diaspora chooses to commemorate their interpretation of the events of 1915 as "genocide." This marks an especially strident peak of tension in a geo-political relationship that is (…)
A Turkish candidate standing in French local elections has been forced to withdraw her candidacy amid pressure from Armenian groups who wanted her to publicly recognize Armenian claims of genocide in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
The candidate, a member of the Greens Party, was the daughter of Professor Baskın Oran, who himself was a candidate for Parliament in Turkey’s July 22 elections, Today’s Zaman has learned. Professor Oran, a liberal, campaigns in Turkey for reconciliation (…)
by David Pryce-Jones New York : Encounter Books, 2006. 171 pp. $23.95
Reviewed by Lorenzo Vidino Investigative Project on Terrorism
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2008 Source : http://www.meforum.org/article/1835
Pryce-Jones has written a painful reminder for anyone still clinging to the notion that the West, defined by common history and values, exists and that Israel is a full-fledged member. Analyzing more than 200 years of French-Jewish relations and having scoured the archives of (…)
Denmark does not officially recognize that Ottoman massacres of Armenians during World War I constitute a "genocide", Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said Thursday.
"In the government’s opinion, this is a historical question that should be left up to the historians," Moeller wrote in a written parliamentary answer, indicating that Denmark would not follow the lead of some 20 other pro-armenian countries, including France, that have labeled the killings "genocide" despite the (…)
By Onur Burçak Belli Turkish Daily news
One measure of the pace with which ex-Soviet Azerbaijan is changing is its ranking as No.1 worldwide in terms of economic growth. Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased at a whopping 36 percent in the first eight months of 2007. According to many, if this dazzling growth, which owes much to soaring energy prices, continues, the country can well become the “Dubai of Central Asia.”
“It is like witnessing the regeneration of a country,” said Aydın (…)
Mehmet Ali Birand
The general belief was that he would grow more flexible after the election. What happened is just the opposite, however. The French president’s harsh attitude toward Turkey continues. In fact, his efforts to block Turkey’s EU membership resume their former intensity.
If this tendency doesn’t change, it will be impossible to develop the relations between Turkey and France. France couldn’t possibly keep its place in our hearts as long as Sarkozy continues to block (…)
