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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide , for general info and resources.
As for Turkish propaganda from the Genocide period, there was no denial of the Armenian Genocide at that time by Turks, in fact 8 consequent governments from 1918-1923 all recognized the crimes against Armenians, the Turkish Military Tribunalis 1919-1920 did the same...
After that, some sources argue, that Mark Bristol (US high commisioner) was one of the first people who tried to deny the Armenian Genocide, of course in favour of economic relations with the NEW FOUNDED republic ... But of course Admiral Mark Bristol was NOT an eyewitness, HE WAS NOT EVEN THERE in the ottoman empire when the Genocide happened.. he was posted in Turkey at 1919 (3 years after the Armenians' pershing, & 1 year after WWI). That's why what he wrote in denying the Armenian Genocide means nothing.
I'll try to find more info for you, but maybe if you can find a book or two about "Genocide denial" you'll find more examples.. I'll find you some names, it might help
As for Turkish propaganda from the Genocide period, there was no denial of the Armenian Genocide at that time by Turks, in fact 8 consequent governments from 1918-1923 all recognized the crimes against Armenians, the Turkish Military Tribunalis 1919-1920 did the same...
After that, some sources argue, that Mark Bristol (US high commisioner) was one of the first people who tried to deny the Armenian Genocide, of course in favour of economic relations with the NEW FOUNDED republic ... But of course Admiral Mark Bristol was NOT an eyewitness, HE WAS NOT EVEN THERE in the ottoman empire when the Genocide happened.. he was posted in Turkey at 1919 (3 years after the Armenians' pershing, & 1 year after WWI). That's why what he wrote in denying the Armenian Genocide means nothing.
I'll try to find more info for you, but maybe if you can find a book or two about "Genocide denial" you'll find more examples.. I'll find you some names, it might help
Bristol's bigotry
In his Sunday letter "Short on substance," Ali F. Sevin attempts to
refute the strong factual evidence put forward by Stella Jatras
("Genocide as policy," Letters, Wednesday) by citing the discredited
Adm. Mark Bristol.
Adm. Bristol was a notorious racist and bigot whose hatred of Greeks
and Armenians, as well as his anti-Semitism, have been documented in
well-researched historical works.
Adm. Bristol has been criticized by many of his American
contemporaries, including Consul General George Horton and Edward Hale
Bierstadt of the Near East Relief Committee for his questionable
reporting and analysis of the realities that were transpiring in the
Near East. Both these Americans and others fully back Ambassador Henry
Morgenthau's irrefutable proof of the Turkish genocide that victimized
Greek and Armenian Christians.
Adm. Bristol referred to Greeks as "the worst race in the Near East."
Such a vile comment directed at an entire group of people, especially
when they were the victims of deportations, forced death marches and
mass murder, makes Adm. Bristol a stooge of the Turkish nationalist
criminals and discredits his biased reporting.
THEODORE G. KARAKOSTAS
Boston
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