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"They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else" Explaining the Armenian Genocide a Hundred Years Later
Ronald Suny, William H. Sewall, Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History
Please join us for a lecture by Distinguished University Professor Ronald Suny. A reception will follow.
Lecture Abstract:
Sometimes called "the forgotten genocide," the mass deportations and massacres of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 have re-emerged in recent decades in public memory and writings of historians and journalists. Challenging official efforts by the Turkish government to deny that a genocide occurred, this talk attempts to explain why the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire came to believe that their Armenian and Assyrian subjects were existential threats to their security and needed to be eliminated.
Lecture Abstract:
Sometimes called "the forgotten genocide," the mass deportations and massacres of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 have re-emerged in recent decades in public memory and writings of historians and journalists. Challenging official efforts by the Turkish government to deny that a genocide occurred, this talk attempts to explain why the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire came to believe that their Armenian and Assyrian subjects were existential threats to their security and needed to be eliminated.
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