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TCA Releases an Annotated Map of Forced Migration and Mortality in the Ottoman Empire

General AnnouncementsJanuary 11, 2011178Views 0Likes 0Comments

Turkish Coalition of America published an annotated map of forced migration and mortality in the Ottoman Empire. Prepared by the eminent historian and demographer Justin McCarthy, the map displays the trails of 5 million Ottoman Muslims who perished in the wars that were fought to dismantle the Ottoman Empire between 1864-1922. Click here…

US Federal Court Rejects Armenian Reparations

General AnnouncementsAugust 31, 2009172Views 0Likes 0Comments

9th Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated the 2000 Poochigian Law, in Movsesian v. Victoria Versicherung, et al.

In 2000 California enacted a law sponsored by state Senator Chuck Poochigian that sought to force insurance companies that had sold life insurance in the Ottoman Empire to Ottoman Armenians in effect to pay reparations to Armenian claimants under the disputed theory that they died from acts of genocide.

Turkey and the Jews of Europe During World War II

History & ArchivesFebruary 16, 2009183Views 0Likes 0Comments

By Stanford J. Shaw* "While six millions Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, the rescue of some 15,000 Turkish Jews from France, and even of some 100,000 Jews from Eastern Europe might well be considered as relatively insignificant in comparison. It was, however, very significant to the people who were rescued, and above all…