Did You Know That…?
The Tigris River inspired the American-Armenian novelist Peter Balakian to name his book “The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response.” The book presents a narrative of the massacres of the Armenians during the 1890s and the Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman government. Using archival documents and first-person accounts, Peter Balakiandepicts the involvement of the Young Turks in the Armenian Genocide. The book received the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times national best seller.
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