On August 7th Turkey officially requested to join the International Court of Justice (ICJ) genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel. By filing its 53 page declaration in the Hague, Turkey joined approximately a dozen other countries that have either already submitted such petitions or announced their intention to do so. But what does …
Last week, the U.S. House voted to recognize the Ottoman Empire’s 1915 massacre and displacement of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide. This angered the government of Turkey, which has consistently denied that genocide occurred. The vote in the house was a bipartisan and overwhelming 405-11. Of the dissenters, by far the most attention has been …
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