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Armenian Genocide Contemporary Articles

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)

Additional Articles

THE PERIL OF ARMENIA 1913/1 THE LIVING AGE
YOUNG TURKS’ MISRULE IN ARMENIA 1913/7/5 THE LITERARY DIGEST
MOSLEMS THREATENING WAR ON CHRISTIANS 1914/10/31 NYT
REPORT CHRISTIANS IN PERIL IN TURKEY 1914/11/12 NYT
ERZERUM FANATICS SLAY CHRISTIANS 1914/11/29 NYT
TURKISH PEOPLES MISERY 1914/12/5 NYT
HANG CHRISTIANS IN STREET 1914/12/5 NYT
TURKISH WOMAN REVOLT 1914/12/14 NYT
SAYS TURKS ADVISE CHRISTIANS TO FLEE 1915/1/11 NYT
CHRISTIANS IN GREAT PERIL 1915/1/13 NYT
HOW TURKISH EMPIRE SHOULD BE MADE AFTER THE WAR 1915/1/24 NYT
PREDICT A MASSACRE 1915/3/10 NYT
POLAND, SERBIA, ARMENIA 1915/3/25 NYT
TURKS RENEW MASSACRES 1915/3/22 NYT
PILLAGE IN SMYRNA DISTRICT 1915/4/19 NYT
TURKEY’S DREAM OF POWER 1915/4/18 NYT
KURDS DISGUST THE TURKS 1915/4/18 NYT
VON DER GOLTZ TO LEAD TURKS 1915/4/20 NYT
ENVER SAYS TURKS HAD TO FIGHT 1915/4/20 NYT
KURDS MASSACRE MORE ARMENIANS 1915/4/26 NYT
PLOT TO BLOW UP TURKISH WAR COUNCIL 1915/4/28 NYT
KURDS RENEW MASSACRES 1915/5/1 NYT
THE CRISIS IN PERSIA 1915/May MISSIONARY REVIEW
“SPIRIT OF DOOM” HANGS OVER TURKS 1915/5/5 NYT
ROUTED TURKISH ARMY PURSUED BY RUSSIAN 1915/5/6 NYT
MISSIONARIES IN DANGER 1915/5/10 NYT
PLEAS FOR ARMENIANS 1915/5/15 NYT
ARMENIANS ATTACK 2 TURKISH DIVISIONS 1915/5/17 NYT
DETAILS OF ARMENIAN PLOT 1915/5/19 NYT
TURKISH OFFICERS IN REVOLT? 1915/5/22 NYT
ARMENIANS MAY AID ALLIES – RUSSIANS SAVE ARMENIANS 1915/5/25 NYT
TURKISH DEFEAT ON DARDANELLES 1915/6/1 NYT
MORE ARMENIAN MASSACRES 1915/6/6 NYT
Guerrills Warfare in Armenia 1915/6/18 NYT
THE TURK UNVEILED 1915/6/26 THE LITERARY DIGEST
The “Jihad” Rampant in Persia 1915/Jul MISSIONARY REVIEW
A “Jihad” Appeal to Moslems 1915/Jul MISSIONARY REVIEW
REPORTED MASSACRES IN ARMENIA 1915/7/29 THE LONDON TIMES
RUSSIAN HERE FOR COTTON 1915/7/31 NYT
GERMANY AND THE BALKANS 1915/8/6 THE LONDON TIMES
FOUND TURKS CONFIDENT 1915/8/5 NYT
ARMENIANS EXPELLED 1915/8/17 THE LONDON TIMES
THE ARMENIANS IN ASIA MINOR 1915/8/18 OUTLOOK MAGAZINE
TURKS’ SOP TO ARMENIANS 1915/8/25 NYT
SAYS ENVER PLOTS MASSACRE 1915/8/31 NYT
LAUD OUR AMBASSADOR 1915/9/8 NYT
Defense Committee Corners Supplies 1915/9/13 NYT
The Menace of Djemal Pasha 1915/9/12 NYT
WOULD SEND HERE 550,000 ARMENIAS 1915/9/14 NYT
ADMIRES MORGENTHAU PLAN 1915/9/15 NYT
THE DEATH OF ARMENIA 1915/9/17 NYT
SEVERAL AMERICAN MISSIONARIES DEAD 1915/9/18 NYT
RESCUED 5,000 ARMENIANS 1915/9/23 NYT
Special Cable 1915/9/24 NYT
GERMAN MISSIONARY AIDS 1915/9/25 NYT
MISSIONS BOARD TO APPEAL 1915/9/25 NYT
NO HELP FOR ARMENIANS 1915/9/27 NYT
ARMENIAN ATROCITIES SCOUTED BY BERNSTORFF 1915/9/28 NYT
ARMENIANS’ OWN FAULT, BERNSTORFF NOW SAYS 1915/9/29 NYT
AMBASSADOR INQUIRY 1915/9/29 NYT
THE TURKISH ARTOCITIES IN ARMENIA 1915/9/29 OUTLOOK MAGAZINE
WHOLESALE MURDER IN ARMENIA 1915/9/30 THE LONDON TIMES
PRESSES ARMENIAN PLAN 1915/10/2 NYT
ANNIHILATION OF ALL ARMENIANS THREATENED 1915/10/2 SURVEY MAGAZINE
DEATH OF ARMENIAN PEOPLE 1915/10/2 THE LITERARY DIGEST
TURKS RENEW ATTACKS AGAINST CHRISTIANS 1915/10/4 NYT
RUSSIANS REPULSE TURKS 1915/10/6 NYT
THE PLIGHT OF ARMENIANS 1915/Oct MISSIONARY REVIEW
GERMAN DIRECTED THE TURKS AT VAN 1915/10/6 NYT
MORGENTHAU GIVING RELIEF 1915/10/6 NYT
ALREADY HAS $75,000 TO HELP ARMENIANS 1915/10/7 NYT
FOR ARMENIA 1915/10/7 NATION MAGAZINE
NONE IS WITHOUT SHAME 1915/10/8 NYT
CRITICISES MR. MORGENTHAU 1915/10/8 NYT
SENDS $100,000 TO AID ARMENIAN REFUGEES 1915/10/9 NYT
WHY WE AID ARMENIANS 1915/10/9 NYT
A HOPE FOR ARMENIANS 1915/10/9 NYT
EXTERMINATING THE ARMENIANS 1915/10/9 THE LITERARY DIGEST
ARMENIAN APPEAL BY BRYCE IN FULL 1915/10/10 NYT
PLEAS FOR ARMENIA BY GERMANY FUTILE 1915/10/10 NYT
TO PLEAD FOR ARMENIANS 1915/10/11 NYT
RIOTS IN CONSTANTINOPLE 1915/10/11 NYT
SPARE ARMENIANS, POPE ASKS SULTAN 1915/10/11 NYT
TURKISH HORRORS IN PERSIA 1915/10/11 NYT
TURKS FEAR ARMENIANS 1915/10/13 NYT
ARMENIAN PROTESTS CHARGED TO ALLIES 1915/10/13 NYT
TURKISH OFFICIAL DENIES ATROCITIES 1915/10/15 NYT
SAYS ONLY GERMANY CAN SAVE ARMENIANS 1915/10/16 NYT
ARMENIANS THANK WILSON 1915/10/16 NYT
AMERICAN APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR HELP 1915/10/16 SURVEY MAGAZINE
THE GREATEST OF RELIGIOUS MASSACRES 1915/10/18 INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
THE ASSASSINATION OF A RACE 1915/10/18 THE INDEPENDENT
THE KIND OF ARMENIANS A TURK KNOWS 1915/10/18 NYT
PLANS ARMENIAN CORPS TO FIGHT FOR THE ALLIES 1915/10/19 NYT
Undeleted 1915/10/19 NYT
ARMENIANS THANK POPE 1915/10/21 NYT
EAGER TO FIGHT TURKS 1915/10/21 NYT
ONLY 200,000 ARMENIANS NOW LEFT IN TURKEY 1915/10/22 NYT
ACCUSE ARMENIANS OF WRONGING TURKS 1915/10/22 NYT
Mr. Yarrow Did Not Say It 1915/10/24 NYT
CAN’T DEFEND ARMENIANS 1915/10/25 NYT
THE TOTTERING TURK 1915/10/25 INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
THE LIGHT THAT MAY GO OUT IN TURKEY 1915/10/28 NYT
TURKISH SPIES IN HOTEL 1915/10/29 NYT
TURKS OPPOSING GERMANS 1915/10/30 NYT
CITY CITY WOMEN’S CLUBS FOR TRADING STAMPS 1915/10/30 NYT
WHO CAN SAVE ARMENIA? 1915/10/30 THE LITERARY DIGEST
The Assassination of Armenia 1915/Nov MISSIONARY REVIEW
Protest of German Teachers Against Massacres of Armenians 1915/Nov NYT-CURRENT HISTORY
AMERICANS’ DEATHS LAID TO THE TURKS 1915/11/3 NYT
A MISSIONARY POISONED 1915/11/13 NYT
CHURCH PLEA FOR ARMENIA 1915/11/14 NYT
SAYS LADY PAGET WILL KEEP UP WORK 1915/11/17 NYT
DENIES BLAME IN ARMENIA 1915/11/17 NYT
REBEL TURK FOR ARMENIANS 1915/11/22 NYT
TURKEY IS UNEASY OVER GERMAN ARMY 1915/11/23 NYT
PLAN TO RECONQUER ALL MOSLEM WORLD 1915/11/28 NYT
REFUGEES FROM ADANA HERE 1915/11/27 NYT
TO AID ARMENIAN ORPHANS 1915/11/27 NYT
A RED CROSS FLAG THAT SAVED FOUR THOUSAND 1915/Dec OUTLOOK MAGAZINE
SONGS OF EXILE 1915/12/4 SURVEY MAGAZINE
THE MAN FROM CONSTANTINOPLE 1915/12/8 OUTLOOK MAGAZINE
THE GREAT WAR – The Armenian Massacres 1915/12/13 INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
THE BLACK COMPANY 1915/12/15 OUTLOOK MAGAZINE
MORE AID FOR ARMENIANS 1915/12/10 NYT
LOOKS TO GERMANY TO SET TURKEY FREE 1915/12/22 NYT
AS TO MOSLEM UNITY 1915/12/22 NYT
GERMANY PROTESTED ARMENIAN MASSACRES 1915/12/23 NYT
BULGARS AND ARMENIANS 1915/12/23 NYT
Turkey’s Past and Future 1916/1/3 NYT
500 ARMENIANS SLAIN UNDER TURKISH ORDER 1916/1/15 NYT
SAVED BY AMERICAN CONSUL 1916/1/18 NYT
SUBMARINES AND ARMENIA 1916/1/26 NYT
BRYCE ASKS AMERICA TO SUCCOR ARMENIANS 1916/1/26 NYT
THE FATE OF THE ARMENIANS 1916/02 American Review
THE MURDER OF ARMENIA 1916/2/6 THE LIVING AGE
SAW ARMENIANS GO STARVING TO EXILE 1916/2/16 NYT
TELLS OF GREAT PLAIN BLACK WITH REFUGEES 1916/2/7 NYT
AMERICAN BURNED ALIVE BY TURKS 1916/2/8 NYT
RANSOMS ARMENIAN GIRLS 1916/2/13 NYT
APPEALS FOR ARMENIANS 1916/2/18 NYT
Promising to Hang Some Turks 1916/2/22 NYT
BRYCE TRUST AMERICA 1916/2/23 NYT
THE KURDS: THEIR CHARACTER AND CUSTOMS 1916/3 American Review
DETAIL ARMENIANS’ PLIGHT 1916/3/2 NYT
PLEA FOR THE ARMENIANS 1916/3/5 NYT
RUSSIANS SLAUGHTER TURKISH THIRD ARMY 1916/3/6 NYT
ARMENIANS GET RELIEF 1916/3/8 NYT
RUSSIANS SEIZE PORT OF RIZEH 1916/3/9 NYT
MORGENTHAU SEES WILSON 1916/3/10 NYT
BEAT OFF 4,000 TURKS 1916/3/12 NYT
ARMENIA’S NEED 1916/6/17 The Literary Digest
RECENT REPORTS FROM TURKEY 1916/7 Missionary Review
TURKEY’S TREATMENT OF THE ARMENIANS 1916/7/5 Outlook Magazine
MARTYRED ARMENIA 1916/9/1 unknown
SIGNS OF DEATH IN TURKEY 1916/10 Missionary Review
ARMENIA 1916/10/4 The Outlook
LORD BRYCE ON THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES 1916/10/18 The Outlook
LORD BRYCE’S REPORT ON TURKISH ATROCITIES IN ARMENIA 1916/11 NYT
THE CALVARY OF A NATION 1916/11 Atlantic Monthly
The Total of Armenian and Syrian Dead 1916/11 NYT-Current History
WHY THE ARMENIANS WERE KILLED 1916/11/11 Literary Digest
Turkish Foreign Minister’s Defense of Armenian Massacres 1916/12 NYT -Current History
BEHIND THE TURKISH BARRIER 1916/12/20 Outlook Magazine
Massacre by Decree 1917/1/27 New Republic
Horrors of Armenian Encampments 1917/2 NYT-Current History
Armenian and Civilization 1917/2 NYT-Current History
OUR ARMENIAN ALLIES / MUST ARMENIA PERISH? 1917/6/23 Independent Magazine
The Armenian Tragedy 1917/2 NYT-Current History
WHO IS ARMENIA! 1917/9/1 Literary Digest
A CALL TO RESCUE ARMENIA 1917/9/29 Literary Digest
GERMANY’S SINS INDICTED BY A GERMAN 1917/10/6 Literary Digest
GERMAN GUILT FOR ARMENIAN BLOOD 1917/10/27 Literary Digest
Cowardice of the Policy That Permitted and Abetted the Crime 1917/11 NYT-Current History
ARMENIANS KILLED WITH AXES BY TURKS 1917/11 NYT-Current History
THE RESCUE OF ARMENIA 1917/11 Missionary Review
THE MASSACRED ARMENIANS 1917/12 American Review
SHADOWS OF WAR 1918/1/5 INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
TALLAT SAYS TURKS FIGHT FOR LIFE 1918/2/17 NYT
How Your Gift is Saving the Armenians 1918/3/9 Literary Digest
HANDFUL OF EARTH 1918/4 NYT
Persecuted Armenia 1918/9 Century Magazine
Land of the Stalking Death 1918/11 National Geographic
Heir Apparent Blames ex-Ministers 1918/11/27 NYT
MILLIONS SLAIN BY TURKS 1918/12/6 NYT
SULTAN SEARCHING OUT AUTHORS OF KILLINGS 1918/12/7 NYT
TURK CHAMBER DISSOLVED 1918/12/27 NYT
ARMENIANS ISSUE PROTEST 1918/12/30 NYT
TELLS OF TURK ATROCITIES 1919/1/3 NYT
SAW TURKISH ATROCITIES 1919/1/31 NYT
SAW ARMENIANS DROWNED IN GROUPS 1919/2/3 NYT
TURKISH TRIALS BEGIN 1919/2/12 NYT
‘RAVISHED ARMENIA’ IN FILM 1919/2/15 NYT
SHOW “RAVISHED ARMENIA” 1919/2/17 NYT
A Scapegoat Sought in Turkey 1919/2/19 NYT
ENVER’S 100,000 1919/3/11 NYT
WANTS AN ARMENIAN INQUIRY 1919/3/13 NYT
Turks Hang Kemal Bey For Armenian Massacres 1919/4/14 NYT
STILL MURDER ARMENIANS 1919/4/19 NYT
EXECUTION OF KEMAL BEY 1919/4/20 NYT
ARMENIAN GIRLS TELL OF MASSACRES 1919/6/1 NYT
REPORTS ASIA MINOR LOOKING TO AMERICA 1919/6/7 NYT
TURKEY CONDEMNS ITS WAR LEADERS 1919/7/13 NYT
Turks to Ask Allies to Let Them Extradite Enver Pasha 1919/7/20 NYT
TELLS OF ARMENIAN’S WOES 1919/7/20 NYT
ARMENIAN TELLS OF DEATH PILGRIMAGE 1919/7/27 NYT
Stories of Liberated Armenians 1919/7 Missionary Review
Germany and the Armenian Massacres 1919/11 NYT-Current History
ARMENIA’S CRY FOR JUSTICE 1920/2/21 Literary Digest
SHALL ARMENIAN PERISH? 1920/2/28 The Independent
TALAAT PASHA SLAIN IN BERLIN SUBURB 1921/3/16 NYT
ASSASSIN BOASTS OF TALAAT’S DEATH 1921/3/17 NYT
TALAAT IS MOURNED AS GERMANY’S FRIEND 1921/3/18 NYT
SAYS MOTHER’S GHOST ORDERED HIM TO KILL 1921/6/3 NYT
ARMENIAN ACQUITTED FOR KILLING TALAAT 1921/6/4 NYT
They Simply Had to Let Him Go 1921/6/6 NYT
TURKS TO REBUILD MOSQUES WITH ARMENIAN SKULLS 1921/6/25 Literary Digest
An Armenian in America 1921/6/29 NYT
WHY TALAAT’S ASSASSIN WAS ACQUITTED 1921/7 NYT-Current History
ARMENIAN’S TRAGIC FINISH 1922/2/25 Literary Digest
CRIMES OF TURKISH MISRULE 1922/10 NYT-Current History
THE MASSACRES OF ARMENIANS IN 1915 1922/10 NYT-Current History
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