97 Years Later, on the Road to Ayash…

Pinar Ogunc

The following article was published in the Turkish daily "Radikal" on 24 April 2012. The author accompanied historian Ara Sarafian on a trip to Ayash, on the trail of around 85 Armenian political prisoners who were sent there following the arrests in Constantinople on 24 April 1915. According to Sarafian, 70 of these prisoners were killed in the following few months. His trip was part of a broader project examining these arrests and the ultimate fate of the prisoners concerned.

Turkish Discourse and Backfire

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan has threatened to deport 100,000 illegal migrants from Armenia as part of the mounting Turkish anxiety over recent resolutions in the United States, the autonomous region of Catalonia (Spain) and Sweden which have labeled the Armenia Genocide as such.