Robert Fisk, correspondent for the Independent, received and exuberant welcome in the Bay Area in Dec. 06. He spoke on civil war in Iraq and possibly again in Lebanon, and the ongoing denial of the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks.
Robert Fisk, foreign correspondent for the London Independent, received and exuberant welcome when he came to the Bay Area in December 2006. He spoke on civil war in Iraq and possibly again in Lebanon, and the ongoing denial of the genocide of one and a half million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in 1915. Robert Fisk's book: The Great War for Civilization was about to be published in Turkey and a controversy had erupted over a chapter on Armenia entitled: "The First Holocaust".