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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