Turkish propaganda leaflet during Gallipoli campaign in WW-I
Turkish propaganda leaflet during Gallipoli campaign in WW-I
Poignant tribute to Anzacs chiselled off Gallipoli memorial
KATE SHUTTLEWORTH Stuff / Fairfax New Zealand Limited The removal of a much-loved Gallipoli tribute to Anzac soldiers has sparked fears a hardline Islamist narrative is endangering Kiwis’ warm relationship with the Turkish people. This week, a Gallipoli tour guide posted a photo of the effaced Ataturk Memorial at the north end of Anzac Cove….
Australia’s Armenian story
VICKEN BABKENIAN & JUDITH CRISPIN Inside Story Extract | The wartime events of 24 April 1915 initiated more than a century of interaction On the afternoon of 24 April 1915, one of the most significant events in the military history of Australia and New Zealand began in Mudros Harbour on the Greek island of Lemnos….
Gladys Berejiklian, the Great War, Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide
Vicken Babkenian Independent Australia Gladys Berejiklian’s grandparents were among those liberated when the Allies defeated the Ottoman forces in 1918, narrowly escaping the Armenian Genocide, writes historian Vicken Babkenian. In her inauguration speech on 26 August 1925, Millicent Preston Stanley, the first female member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the NSW Parliament and representing…
The Armenians and the Warlpiri: two genocides that sparked a pilgrimage to the outback
Descendants of two disparate massacres on opposite sides of the world find common ground deep in the heart of Warlpiri country Paul Daley The Guardian History is often best understood outside of the books that record it, when it is experienced in the lands that staged it, by its actors’ descendants. And history, for all…
Erdogan has military troubles of his own, but he still defends the Ottoman army over the Armenian genocide
A new book exposes the slaughter of more than a million Armenian Christians a century ago. It’s quite a volume for the Turkish president to dip into, once he’s finished purging his broken country Robert Fisk The Independent If Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wasn’t so busy right now trying to emasculate his 600,000-strong Turkish…
Gallipoli and Armenian genocide shouldn’t mix
BY MARC CHAMPION BLOOMBERG The Japan Times LONDON – All political leaders manipulate history, but the decision by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to shift the 100th anniversary commemoration of the allied landings at Gallipoli forward 24 hours to April 24 — the same day as the anniversary of the Armenian genocide —was unusually…
In Turkey’s battle of the G-words, Gallipoli wins
Cengiz Çandar Al-Monitor At first sight it may seem a bit childish, but that is how the most serious and even incendiary political issues are handled in today’s Turkish diplomacy. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, comparing the attendance in terms of arithmetic between the centennial of the Armenian genocide in Yerevan and the centennial ceremonies of the…