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Recommended Readings

Report by renowned Australian international jurist, Geoffrey Robertson Q.C., on the Armenian Genocide. Robertson QC,

Geoffrey, Was there an Armenian Genocide? Doughty Street Chambers, U.K, 2009. http://www.geoffreyrobertson.com/pdf/ArmenianGenocideGRQC.pdf

Turkey threatens to ban MPs from Gallipoli Centenary over genocide vote, ABC 21 August 2013.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-21/turkey-threatens-nsw-parliament-over-armenian-genocide-vote/4903444

Article by one of Australia's most prominent military historian, Prof. Peter Stanley. Australia's misplaced friendship with Turkey, Eureka Street, 25 August 2013. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=37100#.Uhx8rvt--R4

Major Conference at Monash University, Melbourne, on Holocaust and Genocide including the Armenian Genocide, 6-7 August, 2013. http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/aftermath/files/2013/07/Aftermath-Program.pdf

Article by Australian Historian Dr John Williams on the Greek Genocide in one of Australia's leading general intellectual journals of historical and political debates - Quadrant Magazine.Williams, John, 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Greeks from Gallipoli April 1915', Quadrant Online, April 2013.
http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2013/4/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-greeks-from-gallipoli-april-1915

Margaret Brearley uncovers the little-explored links between the Armenian massacres, antisemitism and the Holocaust.Brearly, Margaret, 'The Forgotten Genocide', The Jewish Quarterly, 2006.
http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/articlec05b.html?articleid=196

Article by prominent Australian historian and academic, Robert Manne, on Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide.Manne, Robert, 'A Turkish Tale: Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide', The Monthly, February 2007. http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2007/february/1327543545/robert-manne/turkish-tale-gallipoli-and-armenian-genocide

Recent articles on the Armenian Genocide in Australian mediaRowlands,

David T, '"Gallipoli, Inc" helps the denial of genocide', Green Left Weekly, 23 April 2013, http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/53885

Keys, Stephen, 'Armenian Genocide and Anzac Day', Scoop Independent News, 26 April 2012.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1204/S00158/armenian-genocide-and-anzac-day.htm

Cosgrove, Katerina, 'Turkey Must Lift Veil on "First Holocaust"', The Australian, 10 September 2010. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/turkey-must-lift-veil-on-first-holocaust/story-e6frg6ux-1225916670398Tatz,

Colin, 'Denial of an ugly past is holding Turkey back', The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 November 2010. http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/denial-of-an-ugly-past-is-holding-turkey-back-20101108-17k8f.html

Robinson, Natasha, 'Recognising the Armenian genocide is the final frontier', The Australian, 24 April 2010. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/recognising-the-armenian-genocide-is-the-final-frontier/story-e6frgd26-1225857638394

Toscano, Nick, 'Gallipoli Diggers and the "forgotten" holocaust', Eureka Street, 20 April 2009. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=12475

Polain, Marcela Kathleen, 'Writing with an Ear to the Ground: The Armenian Genocide's "Stubborn Murmur"', M/C Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 2013. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/591

Recent articles in the international media.

Alfroy, Philippe, 'World War 1 Root of Mideast conflict, Armenian Genocide', Yahoo News, 22 February 2014. http://news.yahoo.com/world-war-root-mideast-conflict-armenian-genocide-155200167.html 

Cengiz, Orhan Kemal, 'Turkey's Secret 'Ancestry Codes' Track Non Muslim-Minorities', Al Monitor, 8 August, 2013. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/08/turkish-ancestry-codes.html

Abtan, Benjamin, 'Its time for Turkey to recognise the historical fact of the Armenian genocide', New Statesman, 20 April 2013. http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2013/04/it-time-turkey-recognise-historical-fact-armenian-genocide

Sanders, Carol, 'CMHR won't flip on Armenian genocide: Will stick with designation despite Turkish objections', Winnipeg Free Press, 8 April 2013, http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/cmhr-wont-flip-on-armenian-genocide-201884641.html

Isaacs, Mike, Holocaust Museum shines light on Armenian Genocide, Skokie Review, 23 April 2013, http://skokie.suntimes.com/news/19628049-418/holocaust-museum-shines-light-on-armenian-genocide.html

Baydar, Yavuz, 'Turkey Should Acknowledge The Armenian Genocide', Al Monitor, 25 April 2013,
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/armenian-genocide-1915-turkey-defiant.html

Gunaysu, Ayse, 'Names of Lost Armenian Villages Read in Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square', Armenian Weekly, 25 April 2013, http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/04/25/names-of-lost-armenian-villages-read-in-istanbuls-sultanahmet-square/

Lade, Diane C, 'Armenian billboards put touchy topic on the road', SunSentinel, 21 April 2013.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-armenian-genocide-billboards-20130419,0,593402.story

Cengiz, Orhan Kemal, 'Is Turkey Overcoming the Armenian Taboo', Al Monitor, 22 April 2013.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/armenian-genocide-taboo-turkey-anniversary.html

Fisk, Robert, 'Photograph links Germans to 1915 Armenian Genocide', The Independent, 21 October 2012. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/photograph-links-germans-to-1915-armenia-genocide-8219537.html

Fisk, Robert, 'Living proof of the Armenian genocide', The Independent, 9 March 2010. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-living-proof-of-the-armenian-genocide-1918367.html

Fisk, Robert, 'New light on an old horror - and still there is no justice', The Independent, 10 September 2011. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-new-light-on-an-old-horror-ndash-and-still-there-is-no-justice-2352249.html

Bila, Sibel Utku, 'Turkey's Islamized Armenians Grapple with Tragic Roots', Al Monitor, 27 March 2013.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/turkey-islamicized-armenians-speak-out-embrace-roots.html

Cengiz, Orhan Kemal, 'Will Non-Muslims Return to Turkey?, Al Monitor, 1 April 2013.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/minorities-turkey-discrimination.html

Arrango, Tim, 'Attacks on Elderly Armenian Women in Turkey Awaken Fears', New York Times, 3 April 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/world/europe/attacks-on-elderly-armenian-turks-awaken-fears.html?_r=0Altintas,

Samet, 'Historian Taner Akcam says Armenian border should be opened for normalisation of relations', Zaman Turkish Daily, 19 April 2013, http://www.todayszaman.com/news-313150-historian-taner-akcam-says-armenian-border-should-be-opened-for-normalization-of-relations.html

Bohjalian, Chris, 'In a Turkish town that had 10,000 Armenians, now there is only one', Washington Post, 7 June 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-a-turkish-town-that-had-10000-armenians-now-there-is-only-one/2013/06/06/d893197a-c93e-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story.html

Rwembeho, Stephen, 'Rwanda: Genocide - Why remembering is Important', All Africa, 7 April 2013. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304070090.html

Archival and Eyewitness Accounts

• Balakian, Grigoris, Balakian Peter, and Sevag, Aris G., Armenian Golgotha (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)

• Bryce, Viscount, preface, Arnold Toynbee, editor, The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916: Documents presented to Viscount Grey of Falladon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (London: Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, Limited, 1916)

• Davis, Leslie A., The Slaughterhouse Province: An American Diplomat’s Report on the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917 (New York: Aristide D. Caratzas, 1988)

• Kerr, Stanley, Lions of Marash: Personal Experiences with American Near East Relief (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1973)

• Miller, Donald E., and Miller, Lorna Touryan, Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1993)

• Morgenthau, Henry, Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1918). Available to download online: http://www.manybooks.net/titles/morgenthauhother09ambassador_morgenthaus_story.html

• Sarafian, Ara, United Strates Official Documents on the Armenian Genocide (Watertown: Armenian Review, 1995)

• Ussher, Clarence D., An American Physician in Turkey (Astoria: J.C. and A.L, Fawcett, Inc., 1990, Originally published in 1917 by Riverside Press in Cambridge)

• Wegner, Armin T., Armin T. Wegner and the Armenians in Anatolia, 1915: Images and Testimonies (Milan: Guerini E Associati, 1996)

• White, Thomas W., Guests of the Unspeakable: The Odyssey of an Australian Airman – Being a record of Captivity and Escape in Turkey (London: J. Hamilton Ltd, 1928) (Australian Source)