Armenian Genocide Contemporary Articles
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These abundant news reports are excellent documentation of the Armenian Genocide. For hard copies of these articles, get a copy of Richard Kloian's book.
WHOLE PLAIN STREWN BY ARMENIAN BODIES
- Turks and Kurds Reported to Have Massacred Men, Women and Children. (NYT- 1915/3/20)
APPEAL TO TURKEY TO STOP MASSACRES
- Ambassador Morgenthau Instructed to Make Representation on Request of Russia. (NYT- 1915/4/28)
- Reports Great Uneasiness Over Treatment of Armenians. (NYT- 1915/4/29)
- Turkish and Kurdish Atrocities at Van Rival Those of 1895. (NYT- 1915/5/18)
ALLIES TO PUNISH TURKS WHO MURDER
- Notify Porte That Government Heads Must Answer for Armenian Massacres. (NYT- 1915/5/24)
TURKS ARE EVICTING NATIVE CHRISTIANS
- Greeks and Armenians Driven From Homes and Converted by Sword, Assert Americans. (NYT- 1915/7/12)
WHOLESALE MASSACRES OF ARMENIANS BY TURKS
- Lord Crewe Denounces Influence of the Germans as an "Unmitigated Curse". (NYT- 1915/7/29)
REPORT TURKS SHOT WOMEN AND CHILDREN
- Nine Thousand Armenians Massacred and Thrown Into Tigris, Socialist Committee Hears. (NYT- 1915/8/4)
- Massacres Greater Than Under Abdul Hamid, London Paper Says. (NYT- 1915/8/6)
ARMENIANS ARE SENT TO PERISH IN DESERT
- Turks Accused of Plan to Exterminate Whole Population--People of Karahissar Massacred. (NYT- 1915/8/18)
- Turks Lock Them In a Wooden Building and Then Apply the Torch. (NYT- 1915/8/20)
ARMENIANS DYING IN PRISON CAMPS
- Hundreds of Thousands Still in Danger from Turks, Refugees Fund Secretary Says. (NYT- 1915/8/21)
TURKS DEPOPULATE TOWNS OF ARMENIA
- Traveler Reports Christians of Great Territory Have Been Driven From Homes - 600,000 STARVING ON ROAD... (NYT- 1915/8/27)
TURKS MASSACRE ARMENIANS OF ISMID
- Burn the Asia Minor Port, only 56 Miles from Constantinople. (NYT- 1915/9/3)
- Relief Committee Asks Aid for Victims of Turkish Decrees. (NYT- 1915/9/5)
- According to this information, Turkish affairs are under the control of a triumvirate with autocratic powers. (NYT- 1915/9/14)
ANSWER MORGENTHAU BY HANGING ARMENIANS
- He Protests Against the War of Extermination Now in Progress. (NYT- 1915/9/16)
MISSION TOLD OF TURKISH HORRORS
- Correspondents Confirm the Reports of the Wiping Out of Armenians. (NYT- 1915/9/17)
- Says That All the Christians in Trebizond, Numbering 10,000 Were Drowned. (NYT- 1915/9/21)
500,000 ARMENIANS SAID TO HAVE PERISHED
- Washington Asked to Stop Slaughter of Christians by Turks and Kurds. (NYT- 1915/9/24)
SAYS EXTINCTION MENACES ARMENIA
- Dr. Gabriel Tells of More Than 450,000 Killed in Recent Massacres - 600,000 DRIVEN INTO EXILE - Unless Neutral Powers Intervene, Says Nubar Pasha, Almost the Whole People is Doomed. (NYT- 1915/9/25)
TALES OF ARMENIAN HORRORS CONFIRMED
- Committee On Atrocities Says 500,000 Victims Have Suffered Already... (NYT- 1915/9/27)
- The Shocking News of the Massacre, Torture and Deportation of Armenian Christians... (Independent- 1915/9/27)
ARMENIAN WOMEN PUT UP FOR AUCTION
- Refugee Tells of the Fate of Those in Turkish Hands. (NYT- 1915/09/29)
ARMENIAN OFFICIALS MURDERED BY TURKS
- Confirmation from Cairo of the Wholesale Atrocities That Von Bernstorff Belittles. (NYT- 1915/09/30)
ASKS BERNSTORFF'S AID TO PREVENT MASSACRES
- State Department Makes Informal Request to Ambassador in Behalf of Armenians. (NYT- 1915/10/01)
TELL OF HORRORS DONE IN ARMENIA
- ...They are Unequaled in a Thousand Years. A Policy of Extermination Put in Effect Against a Helpless People... (NYT- 1915/10/04)
GOVERNMENT SENDS PLEA FOR ARMENIA
- Tell Turkey That a Continuation of the Atrocities Will Jeopardize American Good Feeling. (NYT- 1915/10/05)
800,000 ARMENIANS COUNTED DESTROYED
- Viscount Bryce Tells House of Lords That Is the Probable Number of Turks' Victims - 10,000 DROWNED AT ONCE - Peers Are Told How Entire Christian Population of Trebizond Was Wiped Out. (NYT- 1915/10/7)
- One from a Turk Laments Over Expulsions of the Armenians. (NYT- 1915/10/10)
DEFENDS REPRESSION OF THE ARMENIANS
- Nobody's business What Turkey Does to Them, Count von Reventlow Declares. (NYT- 1915/10/10)
TURKISH STATESMAN DENOUNCES ATROCITIES
- Cherif Pasha Says Young Turks Long Planned to Exterminate the Armenian. (NYT- 1915/10/10)
MASSACRES RENEWED: MORGENTHAU REPORTS
- Fresh Outrages Upon Armenians Follow Bulgaria's Stand Favoring Turkey. (NYT- 1915/10/13)
- View of State Department as to Action Regarding Armenia. (NYT- 1915/10/16)
ARMENIAN LEADERS ANSWER DJELAL BEY
- Call Turkish Consul's Denial of Atrocities a Mass of Inaccuracies... (NYT- 1915/10/17)
THOUSANDS PROTEST ARMENIAN MURDERS
- Only One Man and One Woman Dissent from Resolutions Denouncing Outrages - TURKS HAVE KILLED 500,000 - Evidence, taken from State Department, Shows Quarter of a Million Women Violated. (NYT- 1915/10/18)
- Will Not Permit America to Aid Armenian Sufferers. (NYT- 1915/10/19)
GERMANY SAYS SHE CANNOT STOP TURKS
- Made Representations About Armenian Massacres, But Found Officials Uninterested. (NYT- 1915/10/23)
SLAY ALL ARMENIANS IN CITY OF KERASUNT
- Turks Wipe Out Entire Population in Town on the Black Sea. (NYT- 1915/10/26)
AID FOR ARMENIANS BLOCKED BY TURKEY
- Attempts to Send Food to Refugees Frustrated, Says the American Committee - PUTS VICTIMS AT 1,000,000 - Careful Survey Shows 55,000 Persons Killed in the Vilayet of Van Alone. (NYT- 1915/11/1)
ARMENIANS' HEROIC STAND IN THE MOUNTAINS
- Men, Women, and Children Fought with Knives, Scythes , and Stones - ALL FINALLY EXTERMINATED - Women Who Had Plunged Knives Into Turks Afterward Killed Themselves--Bryce Gets Report. (NYT- 1915/11/27)
POPE MAY MAKE NEW PLEA TO KAISER
- T.P. O'Connor Hears He Will Be Asked to Take Action to Save the Armenians... (NYT- 1915/12/9)
WOMAN DESCRIBES ARMENIAN KILLINGS
- German Missionary Says Turks Proclaimed Extermination as Their Aim... (NYT- 1915/12/12)
MILLION ARMENIANS KILLED OR IN EXILE
- American Committee on Relief Says Victims of Turks Are Steadily Increasing - POLICY OF EXTERMINATION - More Atrocities Detailed in Support of Charge That Turkey Is Acting Deliberately. (NYT- 1915/12/15)