Recognitions and Resolutions

A Legal Examination of the Events during WWI

ICTJ's Legal Analysis of the Events, 2002:

In 2002 an attempt was made to attempt a reconciliation between Turks and Armenians, which appointed a commission to investigate the events during WWI in Ottoman Turkey. The Commission, which was named Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission, TARC asked an independent organization, International Center for Transitional Justice, ICTJ, to examine the events in accordance with current United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
The International Center for Transitional Justice conducted an independent analysis, whose results were published in an eighteen page report. The report was summarized by the following conclusion: "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."



The complete analyze is available at http://ictj.org/sites/default/files/ICTJ-Turkey-Armenian-Reconciliation-2002-English.pdf