Atatürk Interview
Subtitle: Armenian Tall Tales of an Inconvenient Truth?
Publisher: Gomidas Institute
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9781909382435
Subjects: Presidents; Turkey, biography; Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
Description: "This work examines the provenance of an interview conducted with Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by Karl Emil Hildebrand, published in the US in 1926. The interview's significance is twofold. Firstly, Mustafa Kemal's acknowledgment of Turkish culpability in Armenian massacres and secondly his assertion that a last-minute confession by a prominent female conspirator thwarted the 1926 Izmir assassination attempt on his life. Leading Turking scholar, Professor Turkkaya Ataöv, asserts that the interview is an Armenian fabrication made in support of false claims of genocide"--Back cover.