The Great Crime: A Podcast History of the Armenian Genocide

In 1921, after months of careful planning, Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talât Paşa, architect of the Armenian Genocid... Read more

Amid the chaos and decay of Ottoman life, a new Sultan came to power. And when appeals to the Great Powers failed, Armen... Read more

Between 1894 and 1896, an unprecedented wave of violence bloodied the Armenians - a significant prelude to the Genocide.... Read more

In July 1908, the chains of Hamidian oppression were shattered by revolution. A new constitution was inaugurated, and a ... Read more

Opposition to the Sultan's dictatorship takes many forms at the turn of the century. One group grows dominant, and toget... Read more

Liberty, equality, and pluralism have failed. All that’s left is paranoia and a siege mentality. As a new ideology rises... Read more

The Guns of August are heard around the world. When the Ottomans finally enter the First World War, Enver Pasha’s arroga... Read more

April 1909. A moment of fracture and violence. As the forces of reaction move against the Committee of Union and Progres... Read more

The world sleepwalks to war. And as Russia presses for an Armenian reform plan, the CUP begins its brutal Turkification ... Read more

A string of coups, counter-coups, subverted elections, and disastrous foreign defeats chip away at the Ottoman Empire, s... Read more

To this day, the border between Turkey and Armenia remains closed – a legacy of Soviet Union, the war over Karabakh, and... Read more

Denial of the Armenian Genocide is about guarding the Turkish state, and protecting the myths Turks tell themselves abou... Read more

In 1965, fifty years of pain and silence exploded into a movement – a push to see the Armenian Genocide recognised by th... Read more

In the bloody wake of the The Great Crime, at the horrifying height of the Holocaust, Raphael Lemkin introduced a new wo... Read more

Turkey was governed by a brutal dictatorship for a generation - an authoritarian regime that built a nation from scratch... Read more

Today, the Ottoman Empire falls. In the closing months of 1922, it was brought to its knees, not by foreign powers as ha... Read more

Under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, a new Nationalist movement rises from the ashes of the CUP – a challenge to the o... Read more

In the wake of the catastrophe, an astonishing global humanitarian movement was created to bring relief to a starving po... Read more

The extraordinary military tribunals of 1919 brought executioner and victim face to face once again. Could justice be do... Read more

As the Allies began drawing up plans to partition the Ottoman Empire, furious debates raged in parliament about what had... Read more