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The second issue of the biannual and Turkish-language Historia 1923 journal is out. The journal gives space to academic articles, interviews, and columns regarding cultural and historical issues.

The special file for the second issue has been designated as “Ermeni Sorunu – Tarihi Parlamentolar mı Yazacak?” (En. The Armenian Question – Is History Going to be Written by Parliaments?”). Within the framework of this special file, authors known for their works on the 1915 events and the related discussions (Türkkaya Ataöv, Pulat Tacar, Doğru Perinçek, Mehmet Cengiz, Sina Akşin, Uluç Gürkan) have also contributed to the second issue of the journal.

The second issue also contains articles by Honorary President of AVİM (R) Ambassador Ömer Engin Lütem and Director of AVİM (R) Ambassador Alev Kılıç.

In his article titled “1918’en Günümüze Türkiye-Ermenistan İlişkileri” (En. “Turkey-Armenia Relations from 1918 to Present”), Ömer Engin Lütem analyzes the Ottoman Empire’s and the Ankara Government’s relations with the First Republic of Armenia, and Turkey’s relations with Soviet Armenia and subsequently with Armenia that gained its independence in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s dissolution.

In his article titled “Türk-Ermeni Uzlaşmazlığının Çözümü Önündeki Engeller” (En. “The Obstacles In the Way of the Resolution of Turkish-Armenian Controversy”), Alev Kılıç indicates that the story of the hardships and suffering experienced by Armenian people during the Armenian relocation of 1915, in time, took on a distorted and mythological quality and was turned into a genocide narrative. Kılıç, in his article, analyzes the political, historical, legal, and religious dimensions of this distorted and mythological genocide narrative.