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Tatikyan, Sossi, 2024
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 62–95 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0051
Tests the terminology used to describe Azerbaijan's 2020–2023 depopulation of Nagorno-Karabakh's indigenous Armenians ('genocide,' 'ethnic cleansing,' 'forced displacement,' 'voluntary exodus') against international law. Reviews the hard and hybrid coercive methods Azerbaijan used and concludes the de-Armenization constitutes ethnic cleansing and legally meets most genocide criteria, while noting a formal genocide claim is politically fraught. The author is a PhD researcher at Sorbonne Nouvelle.
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Der Matossian, Bedross, 2023
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 5–50 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0038
Studies a rare, unpublished destan (lamentation poem) on the 1909 Adana Massacres written in Armeno-Turkish by survivor Garabed Artinian, who lost his wife and child. The 57-stanza poem is read as simultaneously a work of art, a testimony, and a near-real-time historical record. Engaging trauma studies and theories of representing catastrophe, the author argues the destan holds both literary and historical value as a uniquely informative source. The author is Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and President of the Society for Armenian Studies.
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Galustyan, Regina, 2022
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1 (AGMI, Yerevan)
Traces the intellectual roots of the racial nationalism that drove the Committee of Union and Progress (Young Turks) toward genocide. Shows how European thinkers (Gobineau, Le Bon, Vambery, Cahun, von der Goltz) shaped CUP ideologists seeking to convert a multi-ethnic empire into a Turkish nation-state. Draws on Ottoman, Armenian, and European sources to map how social Darwinism and pan-Turkism entered CUP thinking.
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Hovhannisyan, Gayane S., 2022
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2022), special issue on Artsakh (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0034
This article analyzes the February 1988 massacres of Armenians in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, focusing on how the violence was characterized and defined by different actors at the time and since. Hovhannisyan works from specialist literature, archival materials, witness statements, and the contemporary periodical press, applying comparative analysis across these source bases. She finds that Armenian assessments linked the massacres to the historical experience of genocide, while the Soviet leadership deliberately framed the events as mass unrest and hooliganism. Azerbaijani narratives, she shows, relied on euphemistic language that minimized the organized character of the violence, and international observers foregrounded an ethnic-conflict frame. The article argues that these competing definitions carried real legal and political consequences for how the pogroms were prosecuted and remembered. Published in the IJAGS special issue on Artsakh, it grounds the modern Artsakh struggle in the foundational trauma of 1988.
