Armenian Genocide Contemporary Articles

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.

Turks and Kurds Reported to Have Massacred Men, Women and Children. (NYT- 1915/3/20)

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)

Notify Porte That Government Heads Must Answer for Armenian Massacres. (NYT- 1915/5/24)

Greeks and Armenians Driven From Homes and Converted by Sword, Assert Americans. (NYT- 1915/7/12)

Lord Crewe Denounces Influence of the Germans as an “Unmitigated Curse”. (NYT- 1915/7/29)

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)

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)

Hundreds of Thousands Still in Danger from Turks, Refugees Fund Secretary Says. (NYT- 1915/8/21)

Traveler Reports Christians of Great Territory Have Been Driven From Homes – 600,000 STARVING ON ROAD… (NYT- 1915/8/27)

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)

He Protests Against the War of Extermination Now in Progress. (NYT- 1915/9/16)

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)

Washington Asked to Stop Slaughter of Christians by Turks and Kurds. (NYT- 1915/9/24)

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)

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)

Refugee Tells of the Fate of Those in Turkish Hands. (NYT- 1915/09/29)

Confirmation from Cairo of the Wholesale Atrocities That Von Bernstorff Belittles. (NYT- 1915/09/30)

State Department Makes Informal Request to Ambassador in Behalf of Armenians. (NYT- 1915/10/01)

…They are Unequaled in a Thousand Years. A Policy of Extermination Put in Effect Against a Helpless People… (NYT- 1915/10/04)

Tell Turkey That a Continuation of the Atrocities Will Jeopardize American Good Feeling. (NYT- 1915/10/05)

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)

Nobody’s business What Turkey Does to Them, Count von Reventlow Declares. (NYT- 1915/10/10)

Cherif Pasha Says Young Turks Long Planned to Exterminate the Armenian. (NYT- 1915/10/10)

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)

Call Turkish Consul’s Denial of Atrocities a Mass of Inaccuracies… (NYT- 1915/10/17)

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)

Made Representations About Armenian Massacres, But Found Officials Uninterested. (NYT- 1915/10/23)

Turks Wipe Out Entire Population in Town on the Black Sea. (NYT- 1915/10/26)

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)

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)

T.P. O’Connor Hears He Will Be Asked to Take Action to Save the Armenians… (NYT- 1915/12/9)

German Missionary Says Turks Proclaimed Extermination as Their Aim… (NYT- 1915/12/12)

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)

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