New book on Armenian Genocide published in US
A new book titled ‘Genocide In The Ottoman Empire – Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923’, edited by George Shirinian, has been published by Berghahn Books, the Assyrian International News Agency reported.
The book is a result of an academic conference held on May 10-11, 2013 and hosted by the prestigious Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois.
Editor Shirinian noted: “One sees what is happening in Turkey right now, how Turkey is dealing with its own minorities, the type of language that the President of Turkey is using in regards to non-Muslim Europe, it all reflects the same narrow, ethno-religious nationalism that prevailed there 100 years ago.
It is being used today by the President of Turkey to mobilize masses to fulfill his political objectives. In fact, the non-Muslim groups combined, including Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, and Jews, now make up only around 100,000 of Turkey’s population, as opposed to 4.5 million in Ottoman Turkey before the Genocide.”
