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Armenian Intellectuals, Leaders Reflect on Obama’s Visit to Turkey

On April 5, U.S. President Barack Obama will arrive in Turkey, making it the first Muslim country he visits after taking office. Analysts say his trip will aim at strengthening ties with Ankara, and point to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as possibly the most challenging for the president to deal with during his talks with Turkish officials. On several occasions during his campaign for president, Obama had promised to properly recognize the massacres and deportations of the Armenians in t

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Dr. Khatchig Mouradian

Khatchig Mouradian is the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress and a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He also serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the project on Armenian Genocide Denial at the Global Institute for Advanced Studies, New York University. Mouradian is the author of The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918, published in 2021. The book has received the Syrian Studies Association “Honourable Mention 2021.” In 2020, Mouradian was awarded a Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant from Columbia University. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on late-Ottoman history, and the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review.

One Comment

  1. “Yeah, lets ignore the middle east peace process, lets turkey invade iraq again and again, let them make more and more ties with iran, let them ally with russia more and more, and enjoy further threats against israel – just to label an event done more than 100 years ago “genocide” – while there is still an academic debate going on on whether it actually was a genocide or not”

    Sorry dear caucasian microstate, but you are not THAT important

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