Controversies – Page 11 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 16, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘Killing Fields of the Young Turks’ by Justin Marozzi

An article in the UK's Spectator magazine challenges the legacy of the "Armenian genocide" in both Armenian and Turkish history.

April 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

European Parliament urges Turkey to recognise 1915 Armenian ‘genocide’

The European Parliament has entered the latest diplomatic row over the mass killings of Armenians during the First World War, calling on Turkey to recognise them as genocide.

April 20, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: Germaine Greer assesses Gallipoli and the ‘myth of Australian nationhood’

Germain Greer explores three recent publications on the Gallipoli campaign to asses whether Australia was "born on the battlefield".

April 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Commemoration event marks anniversary of mass killings of Armenians

The event has been held in the Armenian capital Yerevan. The Armenians describe the killings as genocide. The Turkish government rejects the use of the term.

April 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘Ireland: Easter Rising or Great War?’

John Gibney explores the complicated relationship between Ireland's First World War contribution and it's independence movement.

April 25, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Allied troops land at Gallipoli

One of the most controversial campaigns of the First World War began on April 25th 1915, when the Allied powers invaded the Gallipoli peninsula with the aim of knocking Turkey out of the war.

April 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: Centenary of the historic 1915 Congress of Women

An article in The Guardian explores the Women's Congress of 1915, when over 1000 female activists convened at the Hague to push for peace and women's rights.

May 10, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of Aubers Ridge – and a UK political crisis

Britain launched a new offensive at Aubers Ridge on May 9th 1915, triggering a political crisis, the formation of a coalition government and a new munitions ministry under David Lloyd George.

May 15, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Thousands who refused to take up arms remembered online by IWM

The names of 16,500 conscientious objectors were added to the Imperial War Museum’s Centenary memorial website today (May 15th 2015) – International Conscientious Objectors Day.

May 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Thousands who refused to take up arms remembered online by IWM

The names of 16,500 conscientious objectors have been added to the Imperial War Museum's 'Lives of the First World War' memorial website.