There is no hard historical evidence that #Kemal ever uttered the affectionate words to the #Anzac mothers that are the foundation of the Special relationship between #Turkey and #Australia. In 1953, one of #Kemal’s fellow war criminals, one Sükrü Kaya, alleged to a state Turkish newspaper that #Kemal passed a version of these words on […]
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President Biden Acknowledges the Armenian Genocide
At last. #PresidentBiden has turned his back on a century of denial. He charts a new way forward. It is worth noting that Joe Biden has been in government for 36 years. He has borne witness as a government official to the great events of history since the mid-eighties. Now, he is doing something that […]
Launches in Adelaide
Most of #Australia ignored a genuine outrage last year, the assault by #Turkish-backed #Azerbaijan on the independent, largely #Armenian-populated Republic of #Artsakh, which began on September 27 and concluded only on November 10 with a Russian-brokered ceasefire, which gave the opportunistic Vladimir Putin his long-coveted Russian boots on Southern Caucasus ground in the form of […]
To Sacrifice Gallipoli
Many #Australians uncritically hail the sacrifice at #Gallipoli as the blooding of a nation. Mainstream media enhances the narrative with digital sound and fury to elevate the Homeric myth in hearts – as war poet Wilfred Owen observed – ‘ardent for some desperate glory’. And somehow, our sons are their sons, lying in #Turkish soil. […]
#Australia has mostly forgotten the #ArmenianGenocide.
When Australians went to war for the first time in 1915, they laid over in Egypt for training while waiting to be deployed to Gallipoli, and later the Western Front. Some of them came into contact with the #Armenian colony in Cairo, but a number of #Armenian prisoners at Gallipoli were put to work as […]