{"id":627807,"date":"2018-03-07T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/?p=627807"},"modified":"2018-03-07T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:22:38","slug":"state-identity-continuity-and-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2018\/03\/07\/state-identity-continuity-and-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"State Identity, Continuity, and Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>State Identity, Continuity, and\u00a0Responsibility: The Ottoman\u00a0Empire, the Republic of Turkey\u00a0and the Armenian Genocide:\u00a0A Reply to Vahagn Avedian<\/h4>\n<p>by Pulat Tacar* and Maxime Gauin**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have been asked by the European Journal of International Law to write a reply to an article entitled \u2018State Identity, Continuity and Responsibility: The Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey and the Armenian Genocide\u2019. The article accuses Turkey of \u2018practising a denialist policy\u2019 with regard to \u2018the act of genocide committed during 1915\u20131916\u2019, demanding that it \u2018make itself responsible for its own internationally wrongful acts committed against Armenians and other Christian minorities\u2019, and also accuses it of \u2018expanding the massacres beyond its borders into the Caucasus and the territories of the independent Republic of Armenia\u2019. According to the same article, there is a state succession and continuation of responsibility from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic, and the Republic must assume full responsibility for and should also repair the injury caused by the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian question is especially sensitive, among other reasons because of the long accumulation of prejudices against Turks,1 Armenian terrorism in 1973 \u2013 1991,2 the Armenian invasion and occupation of western Azerbaijan since 1992,3<\/p>\n<p>* Pulat Tacar has been Co-Chairperson of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO (1995\u20132006);\u00a0he was Ambassador of Turkey to UNESCO (1989\u20131995), Ambassador of Turkey to the European\u00a0Communities (1984\u20131987) and to Jakarta (1981\u20131984). He is the author of many books and articles.<br \/>\nEmail: tacarps@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>** Maxime Gauin is a researcher at the International Strategic Research Organization (USAK, Ankara) and a PhD candidate at the Middle East Technical University. Email: gauin.maxime@wanadoo.fr.<\/p>\n<p>Download as pdf :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StateIdentity.pdf\">StateIdentity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StateIdentity.pdf<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_627809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627809\" style=\"width: 839px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-627809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pulat-tacar.png\" alt=\"Pulat Tacar seminer\" width=\"839\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pulat-tacar.png 839w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pulat-tacar-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pulat-tacar-768x450.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-627809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">E. B\u00fcy\u00fckel\u00e7i Say\u0131n Pulat Tacar ve Dr. Say\u0131n Maxime Gauin\u2019 in Vahagn Avedian\u2019 \u0131n \u201cState Identity, Continuity, and Responsibility: The Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey and the Armenian Genocide\u201d ba\u015fl\u0131kl\u0131 yaz\u0131s\u0131na cevaben birlikte haz\u0131rlad\u0131klar\u0131 ar\u015fivlik bilimsel bir yaz\u0131<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Identity, Continuity, and\u00a0Responsibility: The Ottoman\u00a0Empire, the Republic of Turkey\u00a0and the Armenian Genocide:\u00a0A Reply to Vahagn Avedian by Pulat Tacar* and Maxime Gauin** Introduction We have been asked by the European Journal of International Law to write a reply to an article entitled \u2018State Identity, Continuity and Responsibility: The Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":627809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[9721,10396,4675],"class_list":["post-627807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-armenian-question","tag-maxime-gauin","tag-pulat-tacar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}