Democracy Now! Reports on Turkey’s Attempt to Write Armenian Genocide Out of History

Click here to read a transcript of Amy Goodman’s interview with Ronald Suny, Political Science Professor at the University of Chicago. Suny authored an article in Encarta Encyclopedia regarding what he called the genocide of Armenians during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. This perspective is apparently widely accepted among historians. Turkey, however, calls this a mischaracterization of what actually happened and requested the article be revised. This continues the theme of the Turkish government’s attempts to control the historical perception of the Ottoman Empire.