Assyrian Genocide

How did the Ottomans really enter WWI?

Exactly 101 years ago, a series of breath-taking developments in European and Turkish seas put the Ottoman Empire into a war that would destroy it. Recently revealed documents correct some misconceptions about how the Turks entered World War I "Enver [Pasha] had wanted to stand back and let the Great Powers destroy one another.

My requiem for Armenians

Exactly a century ago, a dark episode began in the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Around 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested in Istanbul and deported to Anatolia, never to return. The real catastrophe began a month later.