Armenian relocation and facts / Prof. Dr. Yusuf Halaçoğlu
Armenians who were considered nation-I sadıka by the Ottoman Empire for centuries, as a result of the policies of the European states that found fame as a matter of Orient, XIX. since the second half of the century, they began to pose a serious problem against the weakening Ottoman administration. Igniting the fuse of the French Revolution, nationalism weakened the Ottoman Empire with a draft of the eye of the European powers into the territory of the Christian minorities who put their own ambitions to exploit the desires to achieve, supported by the Armenian Church encouraged Armenian nationalism; Bourgeois and elitist, which initial
The American historian Guenter Lewy, who turned his research on the events of 1915 into a book, stated that the Armenian claims did not reflect the truth, declared him an establishment Turkish agent. The organization later apologized to Lewy.
The civil rights advocacy organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in the United States, apologized to the famous American historian Guenter Lewy, whom it accused of being a "Turkish agent" for his views on the events of 1915, and recanted his word.
Lewy, 87, a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, had filed an $ 8 million damages lawsuit against the SPLC, accusing him 2 years ago of being a "Turkish agent" and