October 22, 2003 - 19:30 AMT
MUSEUM OF CITY OF NEW YORK EXHIBIT DOCUMENTS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN OTTOMAN TURKEY
An exhibit called "Near East/New York: The Near East Foundation and American Philanthropy" has opened in the Museum of the City of New York. Documents and photo materials on the unprecedented American humanitarian response to the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 are presented at it. The exposition organized by the Near East Foundation will be held till December 7, reported the Armenian National Committee of America. Special guests for the exposition opening reception, amongst others, included U.S. Ambassador to Turkey in 1913-16 Henry Morgenthau's grandson. It should be reminded that the ambassador was the first American to tell the world about the mass crimes committed by the Young Turks against the Armenian people.