The Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission was made in 2001 to help

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

and

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

be closer. The main goal was to make the governments more active. In February 2002 an independent legal opinion commissioned by the

International Center for Transitional Justice The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization dedicated to pursuing accountability for mass atrocity and human rights abuse through transitional justice mechanisms. ICTJ officially open ...

, at the request of Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission, concluded that the Ottoman Genocide of Armenians in 1915–1918 "include all of the elements of the crime of genocide as defined in the enocideConvention, and legal scholars as well as historians, politicians, journalists and other people would be justified in continuing to so describe them"."The Applicability of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to the Events Which Occurred During the Early Twentieth Century."

. *Page 2: "This memorandum was drafted by independent legal counsel based on a request made to the International Center for Transitional Justice ("ICTJ"), on the basis of the Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") entered into by The Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission ("TARC") on July 12, 2002 and presentations by members of TARC on September 10, 2002". *Page 18: ''D. Conclusion'' "... Because the other three elements identified above have been definitively established, the Events, viewed collectively, can thus be said to include all of the elements of the crime of genocide as defined in the Convention, and legal scholars as well as historians, politicians, journalists and other people would be justified in continuing to so describe them."

Members

Gündüz Aktan Gündüz Aktan (1941–2008) was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He held various diplomatic posts, including ambassador of Turkey to Greece and ambassador of Turkey to Japan. After leaving diplomatic post he joined the Nationalist Movement Par ...

(Ankara) - resigned June 2003 * Alexander Arzoumanian (Yerevan) * Üstün Ergüder (Istanbul) * Sadi Ergüvenc (Istanbul) - resigned June 2003 * David Hovhannissian (Yerevan) * Van Krikorian (New York) * Andranik Migranian (Moscow) *

Özdem Sanberk Özdem Sanberk (born 1 August 1938) is a retired Turkish diplomat. Sanberk was ambassador to the European Union from 1987 to 1991 and to the United Kingdom from 1995 to 2000. In 2010, he became director of the International Strategic Research Orga ...

(Istanbul) - resigned June 2003 *

İlter Türkmen İlter Türkmen (8 November 1927 – 6 July 2022) was a Turkish diplomat and politician. Life and career Türkmen was the son of Behçet Türkmen (1899–1968), who between 1953 and 1957 was the director of the Turkish National Security Serv ...

(Istanbul) * Vamik Volkan (Charlottesville) Newer Members (2003-2004) * Emin Mahir Balcioglu (Geneva) * Ahmet Evin (Istanbul) *

Ersin Kalaycıoğlu Mahmut Ersin Kalaycıoğlu is a Turkish political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of polit ...

(Istanbul) *

Şule Kut Şule Kut is the Rector of Okan University. Until 2010, she worked in Istanbul Bilgi University as a professor in International Relations, specifically on Turkish politics and the Balkans. She had been the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Admin ...

(Istanbul) *

İlter Turan Adil İlter Turan is a Turkish academic. He is a professor of Political Science in the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University. He was Rector of the University from 1998 to 2001. He was the Program Chair of the 21st ...

(Istanbul)

Notes

References

Turkish Armenian Reconciliation CommissionTurkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission - Armeniapedia.org
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