Academic background
Drs. Armand Sag was born in the year 1984 in the Dutch city Utrecht. In 2004, while attending the University of Utrecht, he finished his Teacher college: History and State Apparatus propaedeutics 'with great honor'. In 2008 he graduated from the University of Utrecht with a bachelor History 'with honor' and a minor Turkology 'with highest honor'. His bachelor thesis was about the Janissaries in the Ottoman Empire from 1425 until 1550. In 2009 he received his master's degree in International Relations with the international 'upper class'-grade average at the University of Utrecht. His master thesis dealt with the emerging international relations between the Netherlands and Turkey' from 1612 onwards, thus making his specialization Turkish History. He is currently earning his Ph.D. in the field of the Balkans (1908-1923), more specifically the Balkan Wars of 1911-1913.

Career in science
From 2008 to 2010 Armand Sag was working as a historian at a Turkish History Museum; Museum Turkey - The Netherlands in Hoorn. In addition he also worked (and still does) as a researcher, writer and translator for various organizations. Due to his academic career ambitions, Armand Sag regularly gave classes at the University of Utrecht during his master's study. Besides this, Armand Sag also participated in various projects, like the creation of a new Turkish-Dutch dictionary by the University of Utrecht, and supports research journalists in their quest for Turkish sources. He organizes debates, lectures, discussions and conferences concerning historical issues on a regularly basis. Apart from this, he also gets invitations to act as a key note speaker at academic conferences organized by others. Finally, Armand Sag is executive editor of multiple media institutions.

Well-known
Drs. Armand Sag has especially received attention due to the following statements in his articles:
1. his plea for an unified Europe by giving more responsibilities to the European Union and to also have one common language allong with a central policy and structure with a governmental system;
2. his support to abolish the Dutch royal house;
3. his straightforward criticism on democracy, while noting that the system of democracy is in fact still the only system that protects minorities and the individual rights of men and women worldwide;
4. his support for Edward Said's views on ‘orientalism’ but extended with his own added examples of anti-Turkish sentiments in the christian parts of the western world;
5. his conclusion that the forthcoming transformation of the current territorial nationalism to a future cultural nationalism will cause the wordly economy to be ruled apart from the cultural aspects of life;
6. his claim that the Turkish-Dutch international relations started with a de facto and de jure recognition of the Netherlands by the Ottoman Turks, accordingly the Turks were the first to recognize the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands;
7. his conclusion that the Ottoman happenings of 1915 do not constitute the term genocide from a socio-historical and juridical-international law point of view.

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