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    Vartkes Yeghiayan
    The Case of Misak Torlakian

    Wednesday, January 17, 7 pm

    Glendale Public Library
    222 East Harvard Street
    Glendale, CA 91205

    FREE event cosponsored by the Friends of the Glendale Public Library, the
    Glendale Bar Assn and the Armenian Bar Assn.

    Refreshments.

    ³The defendant is acquitted at the expense of the state treasury. In
    accordance with the decision of the jury, the defendant is not guilty of the
    punishable act with which he has been charged.²

    The charge was murder. The defendent, Misak Torlakian, shot Bibhub Khan
    Javanshir outside the Per Palace Hotel in Constantinople (Istanbul) on July
    18, 1921, yet he was found not guilty. The Case of Misak Torlakian, a new
    book by Attorney Vartkes Yeghiayan and Ara Arabyan, reveals the trial
    transcript concerning the Armenian Ottoman subject who was tried and
    aquitted by a British Military Court on the charge of murdering the
    Ex-Minister of the Interior of Azerbaijan.

    The book provides an examination of the legal process of a British Military
    Court after the Armenian genocide. History, theology, philosophy,
    physiology, psychology and politics were used by the attorneys during the
    trial. As a result, the landmark legal case became not just a murder trial,
    but also a study of the political, social and economic strategies in the
    Middle East and a discussion of the rivalries between Armenians, Azeris,
    Turks, the British and Bolsheviks for control of oil.

    The author, Glendale attorney Vartkes Yeghiayan, recently reached a $20
    million settlement between new York Life Insurance and the heirs of Armenian
    genocide victims and Armenian charitable organizations.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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