Embrace and Farewell: Remembering 29 May 1453 (By Rehan Nishanian)

Embrace and Farewell: Remembering 29 May 1453 (By Rehan Nishanian)

On May 29, the 564th anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul will be celebrated in Turkey with pride and fanfare, while others will remember the same historical event with sadness.  A Greek-Canadian co-worker of mine had said on a May 29th: “We never

The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Armenian Amira Class (By Bedros Torossian)

The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Armenian Amira Class (By Bedros Torossian)

Introduction The Armenians were one of the millets of the Ottoman Empire. Identifying their exact number is difficult, but according to records from the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, there were approximately 3,000,000 Armenians living within the Empire in 1872.[1]By the end of the