He has visited the latter and eastern Turkey/Western Armenia. However, he repeatedly explains away the murders, never recognizes them as ‘genocide,’ doesn’t cite the voluminous evidence for that genocide, and often misrepresents Armenians and Armenia. He thinks Turkey should acknowledge these.

He has conceded that in the 1915 period - though not in the 1919-23 Ataturk period - Turkey committed massacres and atrocities against Armenians. At times Kinzer has, as its friend, criticized Turkey. Kemal Ataturk, says Kinzer, would have made a great United Nations leader today. Once termed “Turkey’s Goodwill Ambassador to the US,” he’s a Turkophile. Kinzer was NY Times bureau chief in Istanbul from 1996 to 2000, and currently writes for The Boston Globe. Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment and the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Peace Action sponsored his talk. Kinzer himself is descended from Dutch Jews who perished in the Holocaust. His previous books include Crescent & Star: Turkey between Two Worlds (2001), Reset Middle East: Old Friends and New Allies: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, and Iran (2010), and A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It (2008) about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Foreign Policy: Intervention or Restraint? What can we expect from President Trump?”, focused on his new book The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire. He spoke at the Watertown, Massachusetts Library on February 21, 2017. Throughout his career, Kinzer has not only diminished the factuality of the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey from 1915-23 but also misrepresented the Armenian people and their homeland. Some enlistees in this pro-Turkic brigade include Justin Amler, Richard Falk, Alexander Murinson, and Brenda Schaffer.Īnother such enlistee is American journalist Stephen A.

Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of writers who blatantly favor Turkey and/or Azerbaijan and are hostile to Armenians. Human rights activist, Massachusetts USA.

Sadly, though, some Jews and Jewish organizations - notably the ADL, AJC, AIPAC, and JINSA - have a self-inflicted syndrome I call Holocaust Hypocrisy. “Countless principled Jews have been in the forefront of those who have researched 1915 and acknowledged the Armenian genocide.

Crescent and Star by Stephen Kinzer