Missionaries and near east relief society in the u.s. foreign policy towards the armenian question, 1915-1923

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This study will attempt to analyze the American Foreign Policy towards Turkey around three basic issues, namely the missionary activities, the Armenian question and the Near East Relief Society (NERS). Therefore, the focus of the study is the interaction of the politics and the religion in the United States case and the influence of this interaction on the American policy towards the Near East before and after the First World War.

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P. Özbek, “Missionaries and near east relief society in the u.s. foreign policy towards the armenian question, 1915-1923,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2009.