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Justin A. McCarthy is an American demographer, Ottoman Empire expert, and Balkan history expert and history professor at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Best known for denying the Armenian Genocide, he has written books, about the Balkans, Balkan history, the Middle East, and Middle Eastern history.
Background
McCarthy served in the Peace Corps from 1967-1969. He also taught at the Middle East Technical University and Ankara University in Ankara, Turkey during this time. McCarthy got his Ph.D. at University Of California, Los Angeles in 1978. He got his Honorary Doctorate at Süleyman Demirel University in Turkey.
Views
McCarthy is known for his controversial challenge of the view that the massacres of Ottoman Armenians during the empire's decline constituted a genocide. He was also one of four scholars who participated in a debate hosted by PBS over the veracity of the genocide. Justin McCarthy also states that there cannot be an Armenian genocide since the Ottoman government never declared, ordered, or encouraged anyone to exterminate or attack Armenians. Justin McCarthy doesn't deny that thousands of Armenians died but notes that Ottoman Muslims were also killed in the hundreds of thousands by Armenians prior to any genocide claims.
Criticism of his work
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McCarthy's work have been the subject of criticism from book reviewers and Armenian-Americans like Peter Balakian, because of the controversial nature of the subject he studies. Among other criticisms, he has been accused of "mishandling Ottoman Armenian statistics" and is claimed to be following a Turkish nationalistic.. McCarthy has recieved grants from the Institute of Turkish Studies, which calls into question his credibility as an unbaised source.
His credentials and knowledge of the subject about which he has written and published have been questioned by others who disagree with differing views on the context of the massacres.
Works
- Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922 Darwin Press, Incorporated (March 1996), ISBN 0-87850-094-4
- The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire ("Historical Endings" series) (April 2001)
- The Ottoman Turks : An Introductory History to 1923 (March 1997)
- The Armenian Rebellion at Van (Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Studies) (September 2006)
- Muslims and Minorities: The Population of Ottoman Anatolia and the End of the Empire (December 1983, ISBN 0-8147-5390-6 hardcover)
- Who Are the Turks?: A Manual for Teachers (January 2003) Who Are the Turks? PDF
- The Population of Palestine (1990)
Awards
- Order of Merit of Turkey in 1998
See also
- Armenian resistance (1914-1918)
- Van Resistance
- Armenian national movement
- Russian Armenia
- Armenian national awakening in the Ottoman Empire
Notes and References
- David Wilson on Justin McCarthy
- http://php.louisville.edu/advancement/ocm/expertsource/expertdetails.php?fname=Justin&lname=McCarthy
- Mustafa Aydın(2004)Turkish-American Relations: Past, Present, and Future
- Template:Nl icon Zwaan, Ton (June 14, 2005). "McCarthy is beroepsontkenner". de Volkskrant.
- "A PBS Documentary Makes Its Case for the Armenian Genocide, With or Without a Debate". The New York Times. April 17, 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-02.
- McCarthy, Justin Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922 Darwin Press, Incorporated (March 1996), ISBN 0-87850-094-4
- Akarli, Engin(1983) Book Review: A Handbook of Historical Statistics, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 15 No. 4.
- Armenian Genocide Resources
- ^ Imber, Colin (1999)Book Review, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 26, No. 2.
- Edward Tabor Linenthal (2001)Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum