Young Turks

Turkey demands a ‘proper removal of the bones’ according to the Ottoman ritual

The Gallipoli war also holds a special place in the hearts of the Turkish people who fought to defend the homeland. In the last days of the Ottoman Empire young Turks were able to stop the superpowers of the time, British and French armies, with their determination.

Cosmos Philly, a web-site with Greek-American news from Philadelphia, published a small but important analysis that sheds light to the Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor by the Ottoman Turks.

It compares it with the Jewish Genocide and it attempts to answer the question, why it is that so few know of the Genocide of the Greeks of Anatolia.

'In the Ruins: The 1909 Massacres of Armenians in Adana' by Zabel Yessayan (AIWA, $20, 262 pages)

'State and Intellectuals in Turkey: The Life and Times of Niyazi Berkes, 1908-1988' by ?akir Dinç?ahin (Rowman, $80, 186 pages)

The personal belongings of Ottoman soldier and politician Enver Pa?a have been sold at an auction in the southern province of Antalya. 

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.

The personal belongings of Ottoman soldier and politician Enver Pa?a, which were provided by his family and put up for auction by Istanbul Müzayede on April 5, were bought by the Turkish Ministry of National Defense.

For centuries, ideologues and politicians in the West have positioned themselves regarding Islam in a defensive way.