The John Batchelor Show

Saturday 25 June 2016

Air Date: 
June 25, 2016

Photo, left:  Decapitated heads of Armenians placed on stakes by Ottomans.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
Note that the current despot of Turkey is credibly accused of giving massive support to ISIS as it shipped thousands of tanker trucks filled with Iraqi oil from Erbil, worth about $500 million a year, in to easternmost Turkey.  Berat Albayrak, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law and also oil minister, is internationally seen as the bagman. Erdogan’s son Bilal Erdogan heads Calik Holding, a government-friendly conglomerate with an interest in energy and oil.  A century ago, Ottomans almost invented genocide and beheaded Armenians, Assyrian Christians, Ottoman Greeks, Maronite Christians and many indigenous peoples; today, Erdogan’s business partners, ISIS, practice the same. 
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The Armenian Genocide (ArmenianՀայոց ցեղասպանություն, Hayots tseghaspanutyun; Turkish: Ermeni Soykırımı), also known as the Armenian Holocaust and the Armenian Massacres, was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of up to 1.5 million of its minority Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland, which lies within the present-day Republic of Turkey. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians, the Ottoman Greeks and the Maronite Christians were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy. Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
Raphael Lemkin was explicitly moved by the Armenian annihilation to define systematic and premeditated exterminations within legal parameters and to coin the word genocide in 1943. The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides, because scholars point to the organized manner in which the killings were carried out in order to eliminate the Armenians, and it is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust.
Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide as an accurate term for the mass killings of Armenians that began under Ottoman rule in 1915. It has in recent years been faced with repeated calls to recognize them as genocide. To date, 29 countries have officially recognized the mass killings as genocide, as have most genocide scholars and historians.
From Wikipedia: The paintings of the Armenian-American Arshile Gorky, a seminal figure of Abstract Expressionism, are considered to have been influenced by the suffering and loss of the period. In 1915, at the age of ten, Gorky fled his native Van and escaped to Russian-Armenia with his mother and three sisters, only to have his mother die of starvation in Yerevan in 1919. His two The Artist and His Mother paintings are based on a photograph with his mother taken in Van. Painting at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide  (Hello, Նատաշա)
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity, by Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate  (1 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 1, Block B:  Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity, by Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate  (2 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 1, Block C: Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity, by Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate  (3 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 1, Block D:  Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity, by Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate  (4 of 4)
 
Hour Two
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 2, Block A:  The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid MacKeen (1 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 2, Block B:  The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid MacKeen (2 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 2, Block C:   The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid MacKeen (3 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 2, Block D:  The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid MacKeen (4 of 4)
 
Hour Three
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 3, Block A:  The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim , by Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet  (1 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 3, Block B:   The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim , by Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet  (2 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 3, Block C:  The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim , by Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet  (3 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 3, Block D: The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim , by Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet  (4 of 4)
 
Hour Four
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 4, Block A:  Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity, by Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate  (1 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 4, Block B:  Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity, by Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate  (2 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 4, Block C:  Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity, by Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate  (3 of 4)
Saturday 25 June 2016 / Hour 4, Block D:   Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity, by Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate  (4 of 4)
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