![]() Armenians think of it as historic Armenia-a mountain plateau, which was occupied by Armenians from the 5th century B.C. Suny: The area where the genocide largely took place was eastern Anatolia or eastern Turkey today. Q: Who were the Armenians and how did they end up living together with the Turks? ![]() ![]() Suny met with Global Michigan to discuss the genocide and his new book, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide.” Here are edited excerpts from the discussion: He has also played a key role in getting Turkish and Armenian scholars to begin discussing the genocide among themselves. Suny, a professor of social and political history at the University of Michigan, has spent much of his career researching the genocide. At least 1 million people died.īut the Turkish authorities will likely come under new pressure to change their position when the centenary of the genocide is marked on April 24. Part of the problem is that Turkey continues to deny the state-sanctioned murder, rape and mass deportation of Armenians. Few might be aware of what happened to the Armenians during World War I in the country now known as Turkey. ![]() When people think of genocide, what often comes to mind is the Holocaust, Rwanda and the killing fields of Cambodia.
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