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Talk by John Marshall Evans "Honesty in Diplomacy"

John Marshall Evans was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 25, 2004 and was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia on August 11, 2004 where he served until May 24, 2006. A native of Williamsburg, Virginia, Evans earned a BA in Russian history at Yale University and pursued doctoral studies at Columbia University before joining the U.S. Foreign Service. In the first part of his career, he served in Tehran, Prague, and Moscow as well as serving at the Executive Secretariat and Office of the Secretary of State, the U.S. Mission to NATO, and as Deputy Director of the Soviet Desk. His role in coordinating the American response to the Armenian earthquake of 1988 earned him a medal and statement of appreciation from the Armenian government of that time. On his return to Washington in 1999, Evans assumed direction of the State Department's Office of Analysis for Russia and Eurasia, winning a Meritorious Honor Award and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director's Exceptional Performance Award.

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A protester carried a sign Saturday in Istanbul that read "In the 80s, We Were small, but Now You Are Small," referring to the role of the military in several coups. (Johan Spanner for The New York Times)

Updates

24 January 2012 "French Bill on Genocide is Denounced by Turkey", by Sednem Arsu and Scott Sayare, The New York Times

25 October 2011 "Human Rights Court Rules Turkey Cannot Criminalize Genocide Recognition," by Contributor, Asbarez Armenian News

6 November 2010 "11-month prison sentence for 'Gul is Armenian' comment," by Armenian Weekly

11 June 2010 "And what about human rights violations and state terrorism in Turkey, Mr. Erdogan?," by Armenian National Committee of Canada

4 June 2010 "Hrant Dink lawyer found hanged (Updated)," by Asbarez News

17 May 2010 "Iran to ship uranium to Turkey in nuclear deal with Brazil," by The Associated Press

13 May 2010 "'It is my decision' to disrespect genocide victims, says Turkey's Carvusoglu," by Asbarez News

24 April 2010 "Mouradian: Ankara Conference looks Beyond Genocide, Debates Reparations," by Khatchig Mouradian, The Armenian Weekly

17 April 2010 "Groups Protest Genocide Denial at Northwestern University," by The Armenian Weekly

26 March 2010 "Deportation threats bring up memories of 1915," by Armenian National Committee of Canada

25 March 2010 "Genocide education for prevention at Ryerson University," by Armen Karo Student Association

24 March 2010 "'Auschwitz is the Der Zor of the Jews,' says President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sarkisian," by Asbarez News

11 March 2010 "Swedish Parliament Recognizes Genocide," by Asbarez News

10 February 2010 "Hrant Dink: A Victim of the Turkish Deep State," by Armenian National Committee of Canada

1 February 2010 "Open letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown," by Peace in Kurdistan Campaign

February 2010 "Book Review: Le Genocide des Armeniens," by Julien Zarifian, Institut Francais de Geopolitique, Universite Paris8

28 January 2010 "Clinton meets with Armenian, Turkish Foreign Ministers over Protocols Impasse," by Asbarez Staff

29 January 2010 "Turkey leading human rights violator, says European court," by Agence France-Presse

 

29 January 2010 "ACPE Report: Turkey's homework on minority rights," by BIA News Center

27 January 2010 "Yaman from DTP: 800 Kurdish politicians arrested in one year," by BIA News Center

26 January 2010 "Human Rights Watch: New constitution as a priority for Turkey," by BIA News Center

25 January 2010 "When the Turkish military becomes a threat," by Prof. Dr. Ihsan Dagi, Today's Zaman

25 January 2010 "Secret orders are issued to arrest Turkish Kurds," by MESOP

19 January 2010 "Hrant Dink Day in the UK Parliament," by the Hrant Dink Society

18 January 2010 "Turkey's Internet Law Needs to be Reformed or Abolished, says OSCE Media Freedom Representative" OSCE Press Release

16 January 2010 "Turkey Cires 'Preconditions' in response to court rulings," by Asbarez Staff

 

25 December 2009 "80 Arrests in Turkish operation against Pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party BDP," by Kurd Net

 

24 December 2009 "Turks, Armenians share similar genes, say scientists," by Cansu CAMLIBEL, Hurriyet

20 December 2009 "Turkey's Lack of Religious Liberty," by Father John Flynn, LC (zenit.org)

18 December 2009 "Turkey Ban Draws Kurdish Ire," by Heming Lihony, Institute for War & Peace Reporting11 December 2009 "Kurdish Party Banned," by Human Rights Watch

 

6 December 2009 "Obama Hails Turkey - Armenia Protocols as Turkey Issues Ultimatum," by Azbarez Post 2 December 2009 "EU draft motion urges Turkey to ensure Kurdish rights," by Rudaw News

29 November 2009 "Turkey looks to ease minority tensions with one eye on EU," by Agence France-Presse

23 November 2009 "Greek Cyprus church sues Turkey over worship in north," by The Associated Press

 

 

21 October 2009 "The Politics of Genocide and the Turkey-Armenia Protocols," by Roger W. Smith, Chair, Zoryan Institute19 October 2009 "Yerevan picks historians for commission," by Vercihan Ziflioglu, Hurriyet Daily News

 

9 October 2009 "Was There an Armenian Genocide?," by Geoffrey Robertson QC's Opinion

3 September 2009 "Armenian Border Doubts," by Davit Muradian, Institute for War & Peace Reporting

2 September 2009 "Kurds rally for their rights," by Al Jazeera

 

2 September 2009 "Turkey border with Armenia will open to trade," by Sebnem Arsu, The New York Times

 

1 September 2009 "The EU-Turkey-Cyprus Triangle: "Turkey and Armenia vow to heal past wounds"," by Hugh Pope, International Crisis Group

1 September 2009 "Turkey and Armenia to Establish Diplomatic Ties," by Sebnem Arsu, The New York Times

29 August 2009 "Turkey and the Kurds," by The Economist

 

27 June 2009 "Turkish translation of 'Blue Book' out despite controversy" by Hurriyet

25 May 2009 "Prime Minister Erdogan Finally Admits Turkey Practiced Ethnic Cleansing" by Harut Sassounian, The California Courier

22 May 2009 "At Turkish Border, Amenians are Wary of a Thaw" by Clifford J. Levy, The New York Times

 

22 May 2009 "Erdogan Criticizes Turkey's Past and Accuses the Kemalists of Ethnic Cleansing" by Roupen Kouyoumjian, Armenian National Committee of Canada

 

24 April 2009 "Skirting Thorniest Issues, Turkey and Armenia Move to Ease Tensions" by Sabrina Tavernise & Sebnem Arsu, The New York Times

 

 

 

4 April 2009 "Mr. Obama and Turkey" by The New York Times

 

 

 

21 March 2009 "Turkish children drawn into Armenia row" by Sarah Rainsford, BBC News

 

 

 

16 March 2009 "London Symposium on "Remembering Adana 1909" is Rescheduled for Istanbul Turkey" by The Gomidas Institute

 

 

 

 

 

 

9 March 2009 "Nearly a Million Genocide Victims, Covered in a Cloak of Amnesia" by Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times

 

 

 

 

 

9 January 2009 "Turkey: Militant casualty figures rejected by PKK," by Mount Qindil, AKI

 

 

 

9 January 2009 "Prosecutor Looks into Charging Turks who Apologized to Armenia," by Earthtimes.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

27 December 2008 "The Genie Is out of the Bottle," by Khatchig Mouradian, Znet

 

 

 

 

18 December 2008 "Turkish PM dismisses apology for alleged Armenian genocide," by Robert Tait, The Guardian

 

 

16 December 2008 "Apology for Armenian Killings," by The Associated Press

6 December 2008 "Nationalists react to intellectuals' courageous apology," by Today's Zaman 5 December 2008 "Turkish intellectuals give personal apology for 1915 events," by Today's Zaman

 

4 December 2008 "Turkish-American Relations Could Chill Come January," by The Washington Post

 

31 October 2008 "Eight University Students Face Article 301 Charge," by Bianet

 

 

September 2008 "Turkey's Middle East Policies Between Neo-Ottomanism and Kemalism," by Omer Taspinar, Carnegie Endowment

 

 

22 June 2008 "In Turkey, Bitter Feud Has Roots in History," by Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times

 

 

17 June 2008 "Publisher Sentenced Under Article 301," by International PEN

 

 

Summer 2008 "State of Denial," by David Holthouse, The Southern Poverty Law Center

 

 

13 June 2008 "Genocide course sparks controversy in Toronto," by Natalie Alcoba, National Post

 

 

6 June 2008 "Turkey's High Court Overturns Headscarf Rule," by Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times

 

 

22 May 2008 "Homophobic Violence Points to Rights Crisis," by Human Rights Watch

 

 

1 May 2008 "Turkish Law Easing Curbs on Speech Wins Praise," by The Associated Press

 

30 April 2008 "Article 301 Changes Disappointing," by International PEN

 

April 2008 "Turkish Police Attack Kurdish Festival," by Kurdische Gemeinde Bayern Bergmannstrasse

 

 

11 March 2008 "A Patchwork Land Confronts a Lie of Whole Cloth," by Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Updates

5 March 2008 "Street theater scares children, shocks nation, by Turkish Daily News


22 January 2008 "The Hatred against Christians has Escalated in Turkey," by EasternStar News Agency  


18 January 2008 "Turkish Ultranationalists Try to Silence Prominent Canadians," by Armenian National Committee of Canada

31 December 2007 "Turkish Police Foil Plot to Kill Priest," by Gareth Jones, Reuters

21 December 2007 "Swiss Federal Court condemns denier or the Armenian genocide"

20 December 2007 "U.S. Congressman Schiff responds to mischaracterization of meeting with Turkish delegation"

12 November 2007 "Bernard Lewis, Abe Foxman, Genocide, and 'Genocide,'" by Daniel Koffler, Jewcy.com.

12 November 2007 "Taner Akcam: I can show very easily genocidal intent of Ottoman Turkey," PanArmenian.net.

3 November 2007 "Pressed by Turks, Rice Seeks to Solve Kurdish Rebel Threat While Urging Restraint," by Helene Cooper and Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times.

19 October 2007 "Armenian Issue Presents a Dilemma for U.S. Jews," by Neela Banerjee, New York Times.

17 October 2007 "An Ex-Leader in Congress Is Now Turkey's Man in the Lobbies of Capitol Hill," by Marilyn Thompson, New York Times.

17 October 2007 "Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote." by Carl Hulse, New York Times.

15 October 2007 "Turk Warns Against House Genocide Motion." by Sebnem Arsu, New York Times.

11 October 2007 "Turkey Recalls Ambassador Over Genocide Resolution," by CNN

8 October 2007 "Six Reprisals Are On The Way If The Bill Passes," by Sabah- English Edition.

22 February 2007 "Ambassador Evans Predicted his Dismissal, Newly-Discovered Video Reveals." by Harut Sassounian, California Courier


10 February 2007 "Agos Newspaper Receives 250 Death Threats."

4 February 2007 "The Terminated." by Christopher de Bellaigue

26 January 2007 "Re: "Editor Who Spoke for Turkey's Ethnic Armenians Is Slain" (news article, Jan. 20)." by The New York Times

25 January 2007 "Official Ready to Re-examine Law Shielding Turks' Identity." by Sebnem Arsu, The New York Times

24 January 2007 "Armenian-Turkish Unity at Slain Editor's Funeral," by Sebnem Arsu and Susanne Fowler, The New York Times


23 January 2007 "Armenian Editor's Death Leads to Conciliation," by Susanne Fowler and Sebnem Arsu, The New York Times

22 January 2007 "Turkish Gunman Said to Confess to Killing Armenian Editor." by Sebnem Arsu and Susanne Fowler, The New York Times

21 January 2007 "Turkish Police Arrest Teenage Suspect in Editor's Killing." by Sebnem Arsu, The New York Times


21 January 2007 "Armenian in Istanbul," by Lorraine Adams, The New York Times

20 January 2007 "Armenian Anger at Turkish Murder," by BBC News

20 January 2007 "Award-winning writer shot by assassin in Istanbul street," by Robert Fisk, The Independent (UK)

10 January 2007 "Hrant Dink’s Last Column, before he was murdered: Like a nervous pigeon: my unsettled state of mind," by Hrant Dink in Agos

5 December 2006 "Where Traditional and Modern Meet and Sashay Along," by Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times

3 December 2006 "Armenia Genocide in Brave Detail," by Paul Bessemer, Philadelphia Inquirer

30 November 2006 "Pope Recalls Genocide during Turkey Visit."

29 November 2006 "'Mass Grave Discovery' in Turkey as Pope Continues Tense Trip," by Stefan J. Bos

29 November 2006 "Sweden to Investigate Finding of Assyrian Mass Graves in Turkey," by Afram Barryakoub, AINA


28 November 2006 "Awaiting Pope, Turkey Is Unsure About Ties to West," by Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times

23 November 2006 "The Council of Edinburgh City Reaffirms Its Recognition of the Armenian Genocide," by Campaign for Recognition of the Armenian Genocide (CRAG)

23 November 2006 "Turks Protest Against Pope's Visit."

8 November 2006 "Turkey and Europe: Why Strained Friendship Is Fraying," by Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times

4 November 2006 "Turkish PM Regrets EU 'Obstacles'," by BBC News

18 October 2006 "AINA: Turkey's European Dagger." by Priyadarsi Dutta

14 October 2006 "Suddenly, Those Armenian Mass Graves Opened Up Before My Own Eyes." by Robert Fisk, The Independent

14 October 2006 "Turkish Laureate Criticizes French Legislation." by Sebnem Arsu, The New York Times

13 October 2006 "The Opposition against Turkey in the EU has begun to present an Ugly Face." by Cengiz Candar, BBC News

6 October 2006 "Turkish Writers Say Efforts to Stifle Speech May Backfire." by Ian Fisher, The New York Times Company

22 September 2006 "Istanbul Court Clears Author of Insulting Turkish Identity." by Sebnem Arsu, The New York Times

22 September 2006 "Turkish Fiction." by The Globe and Mail

14 September 2006 "Talking With Turks and Armenians about the Genocide." by Line Abrahamian, Reader's Digest

13 September 2006 "Genocide Issue Blocks Naming Of U.S. Ambassador to Armenia," by The Associated Press

10 September 2006 "'Bastard' Pits Turkey against Itself," byThe Associated Press

14 August 2006 "May Freedom of Expression Triumph." By Sofia Kontogeorge Kostos


13 August 2006 "Writers on Trial." By Maureen Freely, The New York Times

20 June 2006 "British MP Raises the Issue of the Genocide of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christians in the UK House of Commons," for http://www.stevepound.org.uk/archivenews.html.

16 May 2006 "Turkey, Armenia and Denial," by the New York Times

25 April 2006 "Genocide as History, Legal Flashpoint." by Elizabeth Mehren, Los Angeles Times


17 April 2006 "A PBS Documentary Makes Its Case for the Armenian Genocide, With or Without a Debate." by The New York Times

11 April 2006 "Case Against 4 Turkish Journalists Dropped," by Associated Press

3 April 2006 "Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried Spells Out U.S. Policy on the Armenian Genocide." by Armenian National Institute

22 March 2006 "It Was Genocide," by The Los Angeles Times

17 March 2006 "AN OPEN LETTER TO PBS STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES,"  International Association of Genocide Scholars


16 March 2006 "Turkish Denialists Anger Germany." The Forum Against Genocide

9 March 2006 "PBS perverse genocide debate," by Aris Janigian in the Los Angeles Times

March 2006 "An Open Letter to KCET, Los Angeles," by Israel Charny and Gregory Stanton

25 February 2006 "Armenian Furor Over PBS Plan for Debate." By Randal C. Archibold, The New York Times

9 February 2006 "Trial of Journalists Begins." The New York Times

February 2006 "Letters on PBS Video on Armenian Genocide"

23 January 2006 "Court Drops Charges Against Author for 'Insulting' Turkey." By Sebnem Arsu, The New York Times

26 December 2005 "Turkey Brings Another Case Against an Ethnic Armenian," The New York Times


21 December 2005 "Turkey on Trial, Part 1," by the New York Times

16 December 2005 "Popular Turkish Novelist on Trial for Speaking of Armenian Genocide," by Reuters

4 December 2005 "Massachusetts and Genocide," by Peter Balakian and Gregory Stanton, The Boston Globe

27 October 2005 "Genocide, or not?," By Denise Lavoie, The Boston Globe

23 October 2005 "In Turkey, the Novelist as Lightning Rod." By Stephen Kinzer, The New York Times

5 October 2005 "E.U. Bid Keeps Turkey on Path of Reform," By Karl Vick, Washington Post

4 October 2005 "European Union Formally Opens Talks on Turkey's Joining." By Craig Smith, The New York Times

3 October 2005 "European Talks on Turkey Stall as Austria Insists on Lesser Role," By Graham Bowley, International Herald Tribune

29 September 2005 "Abuse of Electroshock Found in Turkish Mental Hospitals." By Craig Smith, The New York Times

26 September 2005 "Despite Late Challenge, Scholars Finally Hold Meeting in Turkey on Armenian Genocide." By Aisha Labi, The Chronicle of Higher Education

25 September 2005 "Turkey: Armenian Forum Goes Ahead." Reuters

25 September 2005 "Conference on Ottoman Armenians Continues In Istanbul." Turkish Press.com


25 September 2005 "Turkey: Armenian Forum goes Ahead." Reuters

25 September 2005 "In Istanbul, a Crack In the Wall of Denial," by Elif Shafak, Washington Post

24 September 2005 'Seminar on 1915 Massacre of Armenians to Go Ahead," by Sebnem Arsu in the New York Times

23 September 2005 "Turkish forum on Armenians halted, Issue seen as key to membership process for EU." By Amberin Zaman, Los Angeles Times

1 August 2005 "Arrested Trukish Scholar Denies Smuggling Charges," by Karine Kalantarian and Emil Danielyan, RFE/RL Armenia Report

17 July 2005 "Erdogan's Adviser Bagis Sends Letter to U.S. Legislators." Turkish Press

18 June 2005 "What's the Turkish for Genocide?" The Times and The Sunday Times


13 June 2005 "Letter to Prime Minister Erdogan from the American Historical Association." By James J. Sheehan, Stanford University

9 June 2005 "American Foreign Service Association Withdraws Award to U.S. Envoy For Referring to the Armenian Genocide as Genocide," by Glenn Kessler, Washington Post

25 May 2005 "Chancellor’s Statement on Cancellation of Conference." Sabanci University

9 May 2005 "Genocide…" by Ahmet Altan, Gazetem (Istanbul)

20 January 2004 "Movie on Armenians Rekindles Flame Over Turkish Past," by Stephen Kinzer, New York Times

25 February 2004 "Turkey's Human Rights Record Is Taken to Task." By Nora Boustany

24 November 2002 "At What Point Is Killing 'Genocide'?," by Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

24 November 2002 "With 'Ararat,' Filmmaker Takes On Disputed Turkish Atrocities," by Stephen Hunter, The Washington Post.

Fall 2002 "The World Was Silent, A study of the Armenian Genocide raises troubling questions of remembrance and responsibility," by Sara Cohan, Teaching Tolerance



Other Resources

For more information see: Armenia

History of the Armenian Genocide "Worldwide Armenian Genocide Commemoration Events," by GenocideEvents.com

"Opinion on Massachusetts Lawsuit by Deniers of the Armenian Genocide." By Dr. Gregory H. Stanton
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