An Armenian Genocide Conference will be convened on Thursday and Friday at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, the university website reported. 

Among the speakers at the event is Halil Berktay, a Turkish historian and researcher at Sabancı University in Istanbul, Turkey. Berktay will deliver a presentation on the ideology and objectives of the Ittihad Party (Young Turks). 

And Halil Berktay’s colleague from Sabancı University, Ayşe Gül Altinay, will reflect on the recovery of the historical recollection of Islamized Armenians.