The #AdanaMassacre was one of many events on the road to the #ArmenianGenocide. Beginning in 1909 on #ThisDayInHistory, Turkish #nationalists butchered up to 25,000 Armenians and torched their homes in & around #Adana, an area that was once part of the Armenian state of #Cilicia.

"I argue that early Zionist thinkers were really aware of what the Ottoman state was doing to the #Armenians and that they saw in that a kind of available set of laws and ideas that they could then translate into their setting."

Keith David Watenpaugh discusses his essay in the Journal of #Genocide Research, "The Pomegranate and the Orange," which examines the parallels between the #ArmenianGenocide and the #Nakba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk-dkMnXyqM
#Palestine #genocideStudies #colonialViolence

The Pomegranate & Orange: Genocide Against the Armenians and Palestinians (Keith David Watenpaugh)

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An important trial on the #ArmenianGenocide that helped inspire the international legal definition of #genocide came about because on #ThisDayInHistory in 1921 the Ottoman war criminal #TalaatPasha was assassinated in Berlin by Armenian #SoghomonTehlirian. The jury acquitted him.

Enslaved Armenian woman carrying thistles after the Armenian Genocide, Syria?, sometime after 1915

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1834867/enslaved-armenian-woman-carrying-thistles-after-the-armenian-genocide-syria-sometime-af

In the late fifteenth century, the royal Ottoman mosque complex of Bayezid II was built in Amasya, an important city in Ottoman Anatolia, directly beside a small medieval Armenian church, St. Nicholas. For centuries that followed, and until 1915, these two spaces coexisted, serving Amasya’s multi-confessional population. Today, the royal complex dominates both the cityscape and the architectural histories of the city. The Armenian church, by contrast, has disappeared: physically destroyed during the Armenian Genocide, it was soon erased from urban memory and excluded from subsequent scholarship on Amasya’s history and architecture.

On Feb 19, focusing on the case of St. Nicholas, the IFI's Dr. Polina Ivanova will give a talk at CEU examining what it means to construct the memory of an absence. It's accessible as a hybrid event: do join us for it!

https://events.ceu.edu/2026-02-19/writing-void-methods-and-ethics-constructing-memory-absent-armenian-heritage-within

#Armenia #ArmenianGenocide #Anatolia #Turkey #History

Writing the Void: On the Methods and Ethics of Constructing the Memory of Absent Armenian Heritage within Ottoman Architectural and Social Histories: The Case of Early Ottoman Amasya

Central European University
White House deletes JD Vance’s social media post referring to Armenian genocide

US vice-president’s post marks first time Trump administration used the word to describe the massacres

The Guardian
Why Vance's deleted social media post about Armenian genocide matters

U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s team posted and then deleted a message on social media about the Republican’s visit to a memorial paying tribute to early 20th century Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire. The issue was the post using the term “Armenian genocide,” a designation the U.S. government historically has not used for what happened. The White House blamed a staff mistake.

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