FORGERIES VS. HISTORICAL RESEARCH ARAM ANDONIAN’S “MEMOIRS OF NAIM BEY” AND THE CONTEMPORARY ATTEMPTS TO DEFEND THEIR “AUTHENTICTY”

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Publication Date : 2011-05-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This article analyses the attempts made, since 1986, to maintain that the“documents” published in 1920 by Aram Andonian are probably, if not almostcertainly, “authentic”. A systematic checking of the assertions defendingAndonian’s work proves that these attempts are not less misleading than the bookwhich they support. Andonian’s forgeries served for dec
Keywords : Aram Andonian, Armenian forced displacement, ASALA, Vahakn N Dadrian, JCAG ARA, Boghos Nubar, propaganda, Ramkavar, Yves Ternon, terrorism