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1. If possible I would like to have a free copy of ‘The Armenian Genocide. News Accounts From The American Press ( 1915-1922.) edition printed in 1985. +.rd. edition. If possible please mail it to my address:
   Hermon Mihranian
   Bem Josef Str.9.
   1027.Budapest
   Hungary.

2. Thank you Professor Whitehorn for this excellent list of available publications.
   I have searched the Ottawa Public library for 2 of the Canadian titles you listed, and they showed “No direct matches were found”.
   I therefore started by requesting (in a first stage) an inter-library loan for free.
   It is very easy to do and I suggest to all our readers to look for the catalogue of your city’s library and search it (on the net) and then request for the book to be brought to your local branch. It is a free service.
   In my case I searched: http://biblioottawalibrary.ca/
   They boast on their first page:”If it’s out there, It’s in here” lol!

3. Scattered around these pieces of news were the Armenian revolts, violent rebellions, ethnic cleanings of Muslim villages, terrorist acts, even assassination attempt at Ottoman Sultan by Armenians. Naturally their victims being Muslims or Turks, all this did not warrant a mention here.

   • interesting comment and viable…now try to find news reports in major newspapers of the time to support your claim.

4. This is a very timely article, Dr. Whitehorn. I was especially interested in your comments about having carefully read the entire 1915 Toronto Globe and Mail.

   You are right that non Armenians are seeking to “better understand the complex events of a century ago.” Karen Ashford, who has no Armenian ancestry whatsoever, is also very interested in those 1915 Globe and Mail newspapers you read so avidly. She successfully defended her Master’s thesis on the Armenian Genocide and the Canadian media at the University of Windsor, Ontario, in 2012. Dr. John Edward Deukmedjian was her external reader.

   Karen compared the 1915 Globe and Mail articles with those that were written in the same newspaper from 2004 to 2006. She writes: “The events of the genocide do not change, but the changing political relationships affect the amount and quality of coverage, in this case adversely. ”

   Here are just some of the Globe and Mail articles of 1915 she lists. These are likely the ones that kept Dr. Whitehorn reading as well.

   “The deliberateness of the massacres is fore grounded throughout the articles in The Globe. An example of this is found in the article “Armenia: The Unspeakable Tragedy” (1915), which begins: “There is not in all history anything to match the deliberate, systematic, and utterly unthinkable fiendishness of the campaign waged by the Turkish Government against the whole Armenian race.” Moreover, the article “Leave No Armenian Alive, Turk Policy” (1918) states that the Turks have a “deliberate purpose to wipe out the native population.” In “Terrible Massacres of the Armenians” (1915), the events are described as “worse than anything ever before,” while in “Unspeakable Cruelty Practiced by Turks” (1915), they are depicted as “methods employed by the Turks in their policy of exterminating Armenians.” Even further, the Armenian massacres are explained as a “plan for extirpating Christianity by killing off Christians of the Armenian race” (“Cup of Turkey’s Iniquity Full,” 1915). Headlines include the following: “Million Armenians Wiped Out by Turks” (1915), “Only 200,000 Armenian Inhabitants of Turkey Now Remain in Country” (1915), and “Only 16 Living Instead of 40,000” (1916). The intent of Turkish government officials to eradicate the entire Armenian race is repeatedly illustrated in the 83 articles in the first set of news coverage.

   “In almost half of the newspaper articles between 1915 and 1918, the fact that Armenians are Christians is discussed. For example, “Massacre by Turks is Spreading Fast” (1915)reads “Christians being killed in Armenia and on the Persian border,” and in the August 3, 1915 War Summary, the actions of British troops aimed at “saving some part of the Christians of Armenia from their bloodthirsty foes” are discussed (“War Summary: It Is About Time that Turkish Misrule Came to an End,” 1915). Seven articles claim that the Turkish massacres of the Armenian people are directly related to their religious affiliations. In “The Cup of Turkey’s Iniquity Full” (1915), the slaughter of Christian Armenians is discussed in detail. “And so a people of worthy history, a nation whose records cover thirty countries, whose Christian civilization runs back to A.D. 301, the first nation to adopt Christianity as its national religion – this race and nation are being exterminated out of their ancestral home under conditions for which barbarism has no precedent.The newspaper articles categorize the massacres as systematic and preplanned.”

   These are just a few quotes from Karen Ashford’s well- researched, highly illuminating thesis. I have her permission to submit them.

   The Globe and Mail recently printed an article by Doug Saunders that generated almost 250 responses, many critical of his position on the Armenian Genocide. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/genocide-is-it-a-question-worth-answering/article14914529/ The Globe and Mail would do well to read Karen Ashford’s thesis and ask why their narrative has changed when the primary evidence has not.

5. What a blessing to have scholars dig into the multi-layered past – and put into print – the years leading up to and following the Armenian Genocide. Deepest appreciation.

6. Don excellent job having documental materials published in period of
   1915-1922 granted to Armenian Genocide.

7. Hermon Mihranian: are you subscribed to katia Peltekian’s daily Groong news report? You will get an email every day with Armenian reports from newspapers around the world. Don’t miss out on this very valuable, free of charge resource. owner-GROONG@usc.edu; on behalf of; GROONG@usc.edu

8. Sadly, it must be noted that my dear brother, Richard Kloian, passed away in May 2010. His book, “The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts From the American Press (1915-1922)”, is available by contacting The Genocide Education Project (www.genocideeducation.org) Or write to Raffi Momjian (raffim@genocideeducation.org), Roxanne Makasdjian (makas@pacbell.net). If I can be of any assistance, please contact me at (papadadiv@hotmail.com) Thank you, Bernard Kloian

9. A list of digitalized book on armenian genocide :
   http://www.imprescriptible.fr/archives/usa/index-us.htm

10. After 700 years of subjugation and abuse at the hands of a barbarian race, whatever that may have happened to turks and moslems was certainly deserved and warranted.

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