{"id":8665,"date":"2009-01-24T16:32:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T13:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:38:17","slug":"london-conferenceturkish-armenian-relations-30jan-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/01\/24\/london-conferenceturkish-armenian-relations-30jan-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"London Conference:Turkish\u2013Armenian Relations: 30Jan 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You Are Kindly Invited To Attend An Evening Conference Entitled :<\/small><\/div>\n

\n\u2018TURKISH \u2013 ARMENIAN RELATIONS\u2019
\nFriday, 30th January 2009, 6 pm for 6.45pm*<\/small><\/div>\n
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Refreshments available from 6 pm in the Senior Dining Room
\n(Located in the Old Building, 5th Floor, opposite the East Building)<\/small><\/p>\n

New Theatre, E171 East Building
\nLondon School of Economics
\nHoughton Street, London WC2A 2AE<\/small><\/p>\n

GUEST SPEAKERS<\/strong> . . <\/small> <\/small><\/span><\/p>\n

Prof. Jeremy Salt<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n

The \u2018Armenian Question\u2019 1878-1918: a Counter-Narrative<\/small><\/p>\n

\u2018Somewhere between three and four million Ottoman civilians are thought to have died during the First World War. The causes of death of both Muslims and Christians – massacre, malnutrition, exposure and disease – were the same for all but while the suffering of Christians, and especially the Armenians, has been firmly embedded in the western historical, political and cultural mainstream, the fate of the Muslims, nearly a century later, remains invisible and unexamined. The need is long overdue for deconstruction and recontextualisation of the \u2018Armenian question\u2019. This talk will look at some of the issues involved\u2019.<\/small><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ottoman archives remain largely unconsulted. When so much is missing from the fundamental source material, no historical narrative can be called complete and no conclusions can be called balanced.\u201d Jeremy Salt<\/small><\/p>\n

S\u00fckr\u00fc Server Aya<\/strong>
\nGlobalization of Ethical and Humane Values<\/small><\/p>\n

The theme of the speaker is the huge distortion of information distributed by press and TV media, causing misjudgements for many incidents of the past and present. The speaker gives a few examples from the past and present and stresses the importance of a \u2018global understanding and agreement of the same humane and ethical values\u2019 for a happier peaceful future!<\/small><\/p>\n

\u201cThis study may be interpreted as a token for humane values, common to all, such as decency, not lying – cheating – swindling – stealing – slandering etc. and promotes the need for trust, compassion, respect for other humans, disregarding their ethnicity, nationality or faiths, beyond their control or personal preferences!\u201d Sukru S. Aya<\/small><\/p>\n

Chaired By
\nProf. Belma Baskett<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n

The Way Forward
\nThis conference has been organised in the memory of 34 Turkish diplomats and other innocent victims who were murdered by various Armenian terrorist groups, while serving abroad between 1973 and 1994 and whose only crime was being born \u2018Turkish\u2019.
\nMost of the perpetrators have never been brought to justice, of the few that were,
\nonly some were imprisoned and given very light sentences.<\/small><\/p>\n

Non \u2013 Members Welcome<\/small><\/p>\n

Attendance is free but by registration only. Please register by 28th January at turkishfederationuk@yahoo.co.uk
\nor telephone 07788 908 803<\/small><\/p>\n

*6.00 pm Refreshments (Senior Dining Room, Old Building, 5th Floor, opposite the East Building)
\n6.45 pm Conference (New Theatre – E171 East Building)<\/small><\/p>\n

Organised by THE FEDERATION OF TURKISH ASSOCIATIONS UK
\nwww.turkishfederationuk.com<\/small><\/p>\n

LSE CONFERENCE GUEST SPEAKERS
\nProf Jeremy Salt<\/strong>: Jeremy Salt runs courses on the modern Middle East and media and propaganda in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University, Ankara. He has taught at the University of Melbourne, where he took his PhD in Middle Eastern studies, and Bo\u011fazici (Bosphorus) University in Istanbul. His publications include Imperialism, Evangelism and the Ottoman Armenians 1878-1896 (Frank Cass, London, 1993), a study of the involvement of foreign governments and missionary organizations in the development of the \u2018Armenian question\u2019 in the late 19th century. He also writes on the politics of the modern Middle East, with an emphasis on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Unmaking of the Middle East. A History of Western Disorder in Arab LandsHe (University of California Press, July 2008) studies the involvement of the \u2018West\u2019 in the Middle East over the past two centuries. Journals in which his articles have appeared include The Muslim World, Current History, Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Palestine Studies, Third World Quarterly and the International Journal of Turkish Studies.<\/small><\/p>\n

S\u00fckr\u00fc Server Aya<\/strong>: Born in 1930, he has been living in Istanbul since 1939. He is a graduate of the reputed Robert College founded in 1863 by Protestant Missionaries, now Bogazici University. After two years in engineering school, he had to quit and work abroad to support his family, he returned after two years of work with a Dutch and Swiss Company, and graduated in 1953 with a BA in Literature instead of Mechanical Engineering. By profession, he was an importer-distributor of engine rebuilding machinery and shop equipment and has been a globetrotter on business and pleasure visiting nearly all industrial countries. He had and has many friends of Armenian ethnicity and after 1985, being a fair history reader, started to read on the Turkish \u2013 Armenian history, in which his graduating school was instrumental in the past. In 2004, after a biased article was published in National Geographic Magazine, he started to put together various excerpts from mainly anti-Turkish English readings. His book \u201cThe Genocide of Truth\u201d was presented in Istanbul in April 2008 as a publication of Istanbul Commerce University and has been distributed for free, mostly overseas. A shortened Turkish version of the same book was just presented in Istanbul in mid January 2009 under the title \u201cGenocide Traders and Truth\u201d.<\/small><\/p>\n

Chair: Prof. Belma \u00d6t\u00fc\u015f Baskett <\/strong>: Born in Istanbul and educated at Robert College, Istanbul; Faculty of Languages, Ankara University; University of California, Berkeley, has degrees in B.S., Honors Diploma, MA, PhD. Lecturer for 23 years at Middle East Technical University, Ankara; Michigan University(12 years), Visiting Prof. at University of Pittsburgh, Kansai Gakuin University and Kobe College, Japan; Bilkent University, Ankara; University of Surrey at Roehampton for 2 years. She has written and translated many books as well as monographs; Editor of Ufuk magazine and Turkish Area Studies Review, has more than 60 articles published in Turkey, USA, UK, Austria and Spain. President of International Society for Contemporary Literature and Theatre.<\/acronym><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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