FCTA Presents a Lecture by Professor Türkkaya Ataöv
The Armenian Revolt:
Boghus Nubar vs. Hovannes Katchaznouni
The Shattered Fantasy of a Greater Armenia
Armenian Revolutionary Federation rebels, 1915
When: Saturday, April 07, 2012, 1:30pm
Where: University of Toronto
Address: Music Room, 7 Hart House Circle Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Rebel Leader Nubar at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919:
“Armenians deserve eastern Turkey because hundreds of
thousands fought against the Ottoman Empire.”
Armenian Prime Minister Katchaznouni in Yerevan, 1923:
“The Great Catastrophe (Meds Yeghern) is the fault of Armenian nationalists
who took up arms against, rather than talk with the Turks.”
Professor Türkkaya Ataöv compares and contrasts the aggressive approach of Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) leader Boghus Nubar with the conservative approach of the first Prime Minister of Armenia, Hovannes Katchaznouni, the depth, expanse and complexity of the Armenian Revolt (1885-1919), that left over one million Ottoman Muslims and Jews dead or displaced, and how the ARF’s dream of creating an ethnically and religiously homogenous Armenian Orthodox state failed.
“Supported by Turkish Students at various Universities and Colleges in Canada”
Biographical Sketch of Prof. Türkkaya Ataöv:
Türkkaya Ataöv is Professor Emeritus in International Relations at Ankara University, Turkey. He did his graduate work in the United States, where he received two M.A.s (NYU & Syracuse Univ.) and a Ph.D. (1959, Syracuse U., NY). He taught at Ankara Univ. for more than for decades and lectured in several American, British, Russian, German, Dutch, Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, African and Australian universities.
He is the author of close to 140 books (most of which have been in foreign languages and printed in Europe or in the Americas), a few hundred academic treatises, and a few thousand newspaper articles. His writings have been translated into 20 languages and appeared in 17 European, 13 Asian, 5 African, and 3 American states and Australia. He was elected to central executive positions of UN-related international organizations, dealing with racial discrimination, human rights, terrorism, nuclear war, and exchange of prisoners of war.
Professor Ataöv published 80 books or booklets on the Armenian issue, was invited (as “witness of authority”) by the Paris court to the two (1984 & 1985) trials of Armenian terrorists, participated in the UN (1985) Geneva meetings of the Human Rights Commission on the Genocide Convention, and partook in several meetings of the European Parliament that dealt with the Armenian issue.
Professor Ataöv received 17 academic awards or medals in recognition of his published works and activities. They include two (Italian and Federal Yugoslavian) presidential medals, two UN-affiliated awards, and several honorary doctorates and academic citations.