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Dr. Hilmar Kaiser

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Dr. Glendale-Hilmar Kaiser (usually referred to as Dr. Hilmar Kaiser) is a German-American historian who completed his Ph. D. in European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His educational focus is Ottoman Social and Economical history, and Ottoman-German relations. Most people regard him as a genocide scholar for his work dealing with the disputed Armenian Genocide. Kaiser has conducted research in more than 60 archives including the Turkish-Ottoman Archives in Istanbul.


Hrant Dink

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Hrant Dink, was a Turkish-Armenian editor, journalist and columnist. He was assassinated by a 17 year old Turkish psychopath. After his death thousands of mourners marched the streets with slogans such as "We are all Armenians", "We are all Hrant Dink", because of the possibility that he was killed because he was Armenian or because of his statements.


Dr. Justin McCarthy

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Justin A. McCarthy is an American demographer, Ottoman Empire expert, and Balkan history expert and history professor at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Best known for rejecting the Armenian Genocide theory and has written books, about the Balkans, Balkan history, the Middle East, and Ottoman Empire history.


Andrew Mango

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Andrew Mango (born 1926) is a British author who was born in Istanbul,Turkey, one of three sons of a prosperous Anglo-Russian family. He is the brother of the distinguished Oxford historian and Byzantinist, Professor Cyril Mango. Mango's early years were passed in Istanbul but in the mid-1940s he left for Ankara and a job as a press officer in the British Embassy. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1947 and has lived in London ever since. He holds degrees from London University, including a doctorate on Persian literature. He joined BBC's Turkish section while still a student and spent his entire career in the External Services, rising to be Turkish Programme Organiser and then Head of the South European Service. He retired in 1986.


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