11.12.2025


The AGMI collection has been enriched with a new valuable donation. Original issues from 1912, 1913, and 1914 of the French journals Correspondance d’Orient and Mecheroutiette, published in Paris, have already been included in the scientific funds of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

The donor is a good friend of the Museum-Institute, Dr. Dirk Roodzant (Netherlands), a long-time researcher of the history of the Armenian Genocide. During his scientific work, he acquired significant materials related to the topic, a part of which he decided to donate to the AGMI scientific funds.

The journals have a political, historical-political, civic, and economic orientation. Mecheroutiette is also a radical newspaper of the Ottoman Empire regarding Ottoman political and economic interests, legal relations, and their public presentation.

These journals possess scientific and historical-political value as they reflect the ideological and historical environment of the time.

From the perspective of genocide studies, they also open an important research dimension: the journals contain materials regarding Armenians, political positions of the Ottoman authorities, primary source publications presenting the views and activities of Young Turk leaders (e.g., “Reforms and Armenians”, “Talaat Bey and Armenians”, etc.), as well as correspondence from key figures of the period.

This donation greatly enriches the AGMI scientific funds, creating new opportunities for researchers and scholars.