Zarakolu faced 7 lawsuits but they were not suspended
28/02/2006
AZG Armenian Daily
By Hakob Chakrian
PROF HOVHANNISIAN’S ‘ARMENIAN GENOCIDE’ HAS ITS UNIQUE PLACE AMONG BOOKS PUBLISHED IN TURKEY
Famous Turkish publicist, human rights advocate and publisher Ragep Zarakolu is well known as a challenger of the official Turkish thesis on the Armenian Genocide issue. His humanistic activity and competence are known not only in Armenia and Diaspora but also in the West. Yet, he never attracted the attention of westerners as, for instance, Orhan Pamuk and Hrant Dink did. Meanwhile, Zarakolu faced 7 lawsuits but they were not suspended as in case of Pamuk and Dink.
The publishing of books about the Armenian Genocide not only aims at informing the Turkish society but is also a sign of honoring the victims.
Among the books covering the Armenian Genocide and published in Turkey one should single out the book of Prof Nikolay Hovhannisian, head of the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, as the author studies the causes, purposes and consequences of the Genocide. The book titled "Armenian Genocide: Armenocide, Causes, Purposes, Consequence" consists of a prologue, epilogue and 4 chapters where the author conducts a survey into the Armenian history, presents the Ottoman conquest of Western Armenia and the stages of development of the Armenian Cause and the Genocide.
The author himself wrote a prologue for the Turkish edition where he emphasizes that the Armenian Genocide was perpetrated in the Western Armenian and was masterminded by the state, meanwhile saying that the book is designed for all honest Turks for them to get a correct understanding of an important period in their history and know the causes of the Armenian Genocide as well as those responsible for it.
Prof Hovhannisian writes that Armenia expects the Turkish government to recognize the fact of the Genocide in 1915 and express regret. The author shows that the argument that American and European scholars recognize the Genocide out of Christian solidarity does not hold water as scholars in Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq also study these events.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
AZG Armenian Daily
By Hakob Chakrian
PROF HOVHANNISIAN’S ‘ARMENIAN GENOCIDE’ HAS ITS UNIQUE PLACE AMONG BOOKS PUBLISHED IN TURKEY
Famous Turkish publicist, human rights advocate and publisher Ragep Zarakolu is well known as a challenger of the official Turkish thesis on the Armenian Genocide issue. His humanistic activity and competence are known not only in Armenia and Diaspora but also in the West. Yet, he never attracted the attention of westerners as, for instance, Orhan Pamuk and Hrant Dink did. Meanwhile, Zarakolu faced 7 lawsuits but they were not suspended as in case of Pamuk and Dink.
The publishing of books about the Armenian Genocide not only aims at informing the Turkish society but is also a sign of honoring the victims.
Among the books covering the Armenian Genocide and published in Turkey one should single out the book of Prof Nikolay Hovhannisian, head of the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, as the author studies the causes, purposes and consequences of the Genocide. The book titled "Armenian Genocide: Armenocide, Causes, Purposes, Consequence" consists of a prologue, epilogue and 4 chapters where the author conducts a survey into the Armenian history, presents the Ottoman conquest of Western Armenia and the stages of development of the Armenian Cause and the Genocide.
The author himself wrote a prologue for the Turkish edition where he emphasizes that the Armenian Genocide was perpetrated in the Western Armenian and was masterminded by the state, meanwhile saying that the book is designed for all honest Turks for them to get a correct understanding of an important period in their history and know the causes of the Armenian Genocide as well as those responsible for it.
Prof Hovhannisian writes that Armenia expects the Turkish government to recognize the fact of the Genocide in 1915 and express regret. The author shows that the argument that American and European scholars recognize the Genocide out of Christian solidarity does not hold water as scholars in Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq also study these events.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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