Ben Cohen
In 1915, when stories of the systematic extermination of the Armenian
minority in Anatolia by the Ottoman authorities started to surface in
the Western press, Turkish diplomats were rapidly mobilized to deny the
reports. “All those who have been killed were of that rebellious
element,” the Turkish consul in New York, Djelal Munif Bey, told the New York Times,
“who were caught red-handed or while otherwise committing traitorous
acts against the Turkish Government, and not women and children, as some
of these fabricated reports would have the Americans believe.”
