Thomas Goltz

He directed and co-produced a documentary for Global Vision's Rights and Wrongs program{{Cite web |title=Rights and Wrongs Series: Europe, Chechnya: Russia's Human Rights Nightmare {{!}} Alexander Street, part of Clarivate |url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C2551129 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927124854/https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C2551129 |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=search.alexanderstreet.com}} which was a finalist in the Rory Peck Award for excellence in television journalism in 1996{{Cite web |last=Goltz |first=Thomas |date=1996-12-29 |title=U.S. Quietly Abandons the Kurds of Northern Iraq |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-29-op-13478-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927125248/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-29-op-13478-story.html |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=News Award |url=https://rorypecktrust.org/awards/past-finalists/news-award/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608182653/https://rorypecktrust.org/awards/past-finalists/news-award/ |archive-date=2023-06-08 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=The Rory Peck Trust |language=en-US}}

Goltz has written news for most leading US publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. In-depth articles have appeared in Foreign Policy magazine, The National Interest, The Washington Quarterly and other broad-based magazines. In  electronic media, he has worked on or produced video documentaries on a variety of topics for ABC/Nightline, BBC/Correspondent and CBS/60 Minutes.{{Cite web |title=Thomas Goltz: books, biography, latest update |url=https://www.amazon.com/stores/Thomas%20Goltz/author/B001ITXT7I/about |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927144235/https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001ITXT7I/about?ingress=0&visitId=f3ce05ce-5500-4e95-9933-2c43d41584c0&store_ref=ap_rdr&ref_=ap_rdr |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Amazon.com |language=en-us}}

He became known mainly as a crisis correspondent due to coverage of the first war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Karabakh, the war of secession in Abkhazia from Georgia and the separatist conflict in Chechnya.

He spent time in Samashki, Chechnya before the massacre happened there. He made video reports about the massacre immediately afterwards. Goltz made a film out of them which was in mainstream in US, UK, and even in Russia.{{Cite web |title=BOOK REVIEW |url=https://jamestown.org/program/book-review/ |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=Jamestown |language=en-US}}

On August 22, 2000, Goltz carried the symbolic “first barrel of oil” from Baku, Azerbaijan with IMZ sidecar motorcycle, to Ceyhan, Turkey with other 25 riders. They used to future Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline route at the time. The aim was to draw attention to this mega project which symbolizes both Azerbaijan's and Georgia's economic independence.{{Cite journal |date=2001 |title=Oil Odyssey 2000 |url=https://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/92_folder/92_articles/92_odyssey.html |journal=Azerbaijan International |pages=60–61}}{{Cite web |title=Oil Odyssey | website=Amazon |url=https://www.amazon.com/Oil-Odyssey-Thomas-Goltz-ebook/dp/B00ADWZ7CQ?ref_=ast_author_dp |access-date=2023-09-27}}

He lectured at most leading US universities including Columbia, Georgetown, Berkeley, Northwestern, Princeton, etc and foreign policy-related institutes in Azerbaijan, Canada, Georgia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Other than that he was also professor in Montana State University.{{Cite web |title=Thomas Goltz {{!}} Pulitzer Center |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/people/thomas-goltz |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Pulitzer Center}} In 2020, he was awarded an honorary PhD by the ADA University.{{Cite web |last=TheEditor |date=2021-06-15 |title=American author Goltz: Eccentric regional icon still at it |url=https://www.thetribune.com/culture-american-author-goltz-eccentric-regional-icon-still-at-it/ |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=The Tribune |language=en-GB}}

Thomas Goltz was born in Japan and raised in North Dakota. He graduated from New York University with an MA in Middle East studies. He married to Hicran Oge in 1984 in Istanbul, Turkey.{{Cite web |title=Thomas Caufield Goltz Obituary 2023 |url=https://www.franzen-davis.com/obituaries/thomas-goltz |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Franzen-Davis Funeral Home, Crematory and Monument Company |language=en}} Goltz spoke English, German, Turkish, and Azerbaijani fluently. He knew some Arabic, Russian and Japanese too.{{Cite journal |last=Blair |first=Betty |date=2006 |title=The Caucasus Trilogy Azerbaijan, Chechnya and Georgia |journal=Azer |issue=14 |pages=66–67}} He died on July 29, 2023, at the age of 68 after a long illness.[https://apa.az/en/literature/american-writer-thomas-goltz-who-wrote-about-khojaly-tragedy-passed-away-408637 American writer Thomas Goltz who wrote about Khojaly tragedy passed away]{{Cite web |last=Pope |first=Hugh |date=2023-08-01 |title=RIP Thomas Goltz, the journalist who knew no limits |url=https://hughpope.com/2023/08/01/rip-thomas-goltz-the-journalist-who-knew-no-limits/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927115346/https://hughpope.com/2023/08/01/rip-thomas-goltz-the-journalist-who-knew-no-limits/ |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Hugh Pope |language=en}} Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sent a condolences message to his family and described Goltz as "great friend of Azerbaijan".{{cite web |date=29 July 2023 |title=To the family of Thomas Goltz |url=https://president.az/en/articles/view/60660 |access-date=29 July 2023 |website=President.az}}

The Armenian National Committee of Canada accused Goltz of racism in March 2009 for remarks made at a lecture allegedly sponsored by Assembly of Azerbaijani-Canadian Organizations. According to the Armenian National Committee, Goltz characterized the Armenian inhabitants of Nagorno-Karabakh as "garlic-growing Armenians", and selectively mentioned instances of ethnic cleansing by Armenians against Azerbaijanis while omitting mention of cases of ethnic cleansing of Armenians by Azerbaijanis.{{cite news |title=ANCC: American professor made racist and derogatory remarks about Armenians |url=https://www.panarmenian.net/m/eng/news/29170 |work=PanARMENIAN.Net |date=10 March 2009 |access-date= |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104220018/https://www.panarmenian.net/m/eng/news/29170 |archive-date=4 January 2024}}{{cite news |title='Let the garlic-growing Armenians beg to join you [Azerbaijan]' |url=https://armenianweekly.com/2009/03/10/%E2%80%98let-the-garlic-growing-armenians-beg-to-join-you-azerbaijan%E2%80%99/ |work=Armenian Weekly |date=10 March 2009 |access-date=24 October 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024015610/https://armenianweekly.com/2009/03/10/%E2%80%98let-the-garlic-growing-armenians-beg-to-join-you-azerbaijan%E2%80%99/ |archive-date=24 October 2013}}{{Unreliable fringe source|reason=Both news publication and diaspora organization belong/affiliate to nationalistic political party - Armenian Revolutionary Party. Moreover, they actively either deny Khojaly massacre or accuse Azerbaijanis for massacring their own people.|date=December 2023}}

• Requiem for a would-be republic (1994){{Cite book |title=Requiem for a would-be republic: The rise and demise of the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan : a personal account of the years 1991-1993 |date=1994-01-01 |publisher=The Isis Press |isbn=978-975-428-068-5 |location=Istanbul |language=English}}{{Cite book |last=Goltz |first=Thomas Caufield |url=https://www.oeaw.ac.at/resources/Record/990001460820504498/Details |title=Requiem for a would-be republic : the rise and demise of the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan; a personal account of the years 1991 - 1993 |date=1994 |isbn=978-975-428-068-5 |edition=1. publ.}}
• {{cite book |last=Goltz |first=Thomas |date=1998 |title=Azerbaijan Diary: A ROGUE REPORTER'S ADVENTURES IN AN OIL-RICH, WAR-TORN POST-SOVIET REPUBLIC |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |isbn=076560244X}}{{Cite web |title=Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-rich, War-torn, Post-Soviet Republic |url=https://www.amazon.com/Azerbaijan-Diary-Reporters-Adventures-Post-Soviet-ebook/dp/B00VV3GO1E?ref_=ast_author_dp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230927122647/https://www.amazon.com/Azerbaijan-Diary-Reporters-Adventures-Post-Soviet-ebook/dp/B00VV3GO1E?ref_=ast_author_dp |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Amazon}}
• Oil Odyssey (2000){{Cite journal |last=Abdel-Hassan |first=Mohamed Aziz |date=2018-01-30 |title=Geopolitical dimensions to build the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and the Nabucco gas pipeline to Western Europe |journal=International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Current Research |volume=6 |issue=1 |doi=10.14741/ijmcr.v6i01.10909 |issn=2321-3124|doi-access=free }}{{Cite web |date=2021-02-07 |title=An Oil Odyssey |url=https://kdinkandimage.net/portfolio-2/books/oil-odyssey/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326145956/https://kdinkandimage.net/portfolio-2/books/oil-odyssey/ |archive-date=2023-03-26 |access-date=2023-09-27 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Oil Odyssey by Thomas Goltz, Judy Gunderson-Muncy |url=https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1fd8cee1-3106-4652-8f68-3b74aecd69bd |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=app.thestorygraph.com}}
• Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya (2003) {{ISBN|0312268742}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/thomas-goltz/chechnya-diary/ |title=CHECHNYA DIARY {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}{{Cite book |title=Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya |isbn=0312268742 |last1=Goltz |first1=Thomas |date=10 October 2003 |publisher=Macmillan }}
• Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus (2006) {{ISBN|0765617102}}{{Cite web |title=Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus |url=https://www.amazon.com/Georgia-Diary-Chronicle-Political-Post-Soviet-ebook/dp/B00U90LXTI?ref_=ast_author_dp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230927122704/https://www.amazon.com/Georgia-Diary-Chronicle-Political-Post-Soviet-ebook/dp/B00U90LXTI?ref_=ast_author_dp |archive-date=2023-09-27 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Amazon}}
• Assassinating Shakespeare: Confessions of a Bard in the Bush (2006) {{ISBN|0863567185}}
• Türkiye Diary ('The Bridge'): Forty Years Of Intimate Association With A Wayward US Eurasian Ally (2020){{Cite web |title=Amazon.com: Türkiye Diary ('The Bridge'): Forty Years Of Intimate Association With A Wayward US Eurasian Ally eBook : Goltz, Thomas: Kindle Store |url=https://www.amazon.com/T%C3%BCrkiye-Diary-Bridge-Intimate-Association-ebook/dp/B08KXH41DZ?ref_=ast_author_dp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927122107/https://www.amazon.com/T%C3%BCrkiye-Diary-Bridge-Intimate-Association-ebook/dp/B08KXH41DZ?ref_=ast_author_dp |archive-date=2023-09-27 |website=Amazon}}{{Cite web |last=Chaffetz |first=David |date=2020-11-30 |title="Türkiye Diary (The Bridge): Forty Years Of Intimate Association With A Wayward US Eurasian Ally" by Thomas Goltz |url=https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/turkiye-diary-the-bridge-forty-years-of-intimate-association-with-a-wayward-us-eurasian-ally-by-thomas-goltz/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125194740/https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/turkiye-diary-the-bridge-forty-years-of-intimate-association-with-a-wayward-us-eurasian-ally-by-thomas-goltz/ |archive-date=2022-11-25 |access-date=2023-09-27 |language=en-US}}
• Zakhrafa : Memories of a disappearing Middle East (2021){{Cite book |url=https://www.amazon.com/Zakhrafa-Memories-disappearing-epilogue-northern-ebook/dp/B09F8M9PRP |title=Zakhrafa : Memories of a disappearing Middle East |date=2021-09-01 |publisher=New Silk Road LLC / Publishing |language=English}}{{Cite web |date=2021-08-29 |title=Zakhrafa |url=https://kdinkandimage.net/portfolio-2/books/zakhrafa/ |access-date=2023-09-27 |language=en}}

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