Hidden in a pile of documents given to the Turkish writer Murat Bardakçi by the widow of Talat Pasha, one of the architects of the Armenian genocide in 1915, is a piece of paper whose stark human accounting should lay to rest the debate over the destruction of the Ottoman Armenian community.

Armenian historians and activists, and a few brave Turkish academics such as Taner Akçam, author of A Shameful Act, have already set out a convincing case that a premeditated genocide took place. Turkish officials argue that the deaths were regrettable, but were the inevitable result of war and

Literary Review

Apr 2009

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Adam LeBor

The Decline and Fall of a Friendship

A Nice Little Earner

Blood Lines

Not All it Seems

The Swedish Schindler

Seeds of Discord

The Dark Side

Lord of the Fortunate Conjunction

Hunting the Stern Group

Aftershocks of the Risorgimento

The Other Naqba

Divided City

Black Vs White

Touching the Void

Change by the Sea

Atrocity in Europe

Drunk Again, Khayyam?

The Ottoman Question

1967 & All That

The Battle for Budapest

A Gigantic ‘Balagan’

Report from Sarajevo

If These Pages Could Talk

What a State to Be In