I do not doubt the Armenian Genocide for a moment; however, as I argued a couple of years ago, both it and the Shoah are sui generis; there is nothing to be gained in giving its nomenclature an official imprimatur and much to be lost. Firstly, I think the precedent of governments sanctioning official histories [...]

A protest took place today in Central London, so far as I can see, against the PKK by Turks. I only know about it because I walked past it and there were lost of people waving Turkish flags, carrying placards opposing the PKK & terrorism and chanting ‘No to terrorism, no to the PKK’. I [...]

I agree with Ewan Watt that the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Relations Committee should not have recognized the Armenian Genocide as such, but perhaps for slightly different reasons. Ewan is, in foreign policy terms, very much a realist and I do agree that the results of the Committee’s decision have already been profoundly negative [...]