Well-known US historian and publicist Peter Balakian and winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, writer Samantha Power have criticized New York Times for equivocal and ambiguous statements over the historical authenticity of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey. In the January 20 review of Atom Egoyan’s “Ararat” film the newspaper wrote that “Armenian and Turkish historians evaluate the events of 1915 in totally different ways.” In a joint letter to the New York Times editor-in-chief, later published in the newspaper, Balakian and Power emphasized that the massacre of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in early last century is qualified by history experts of the world just as genocide. “The consecutive extermination of Armenians professing Christianity by the government of the Ottoman Empire took 1 million lives,” the letter says. Another one million Armenians went through deportation. At the same time the letter authors note that within 1915 the same New York Times referred to the subject of extermination of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey 145 times, qualifying the events as “consecutive ethnic destruction, planned by the government of the country.”
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