Talat Pasha's associate (can't remember his name) reported he had burned the documents. In this similar vein, when Mithat Sukru and Ziya Gokalp both testified that Dr. Nazim took all the Central Committee's documents.
Mithat Sukru said, "What I understand is that Dr. Nazim Bey took them, or so the staff said."
Ziya Gokalp said, "Dr. Nazim asked for documents on the Committee's history, saying 'I brought them from Europe and I shall keep them safe...' But I later learned that the documents weren't separated from any others. He took them [all] away in boxes."
[This comes from A Shameful Act, by Taner Akcam, who cites "Second session, Takvim-i Vekayi, no. 3543 (4 Mayis 1335/4 May 1919)."]
You might also find interesting this.
"The deportation law issued by the Ottoman government must have owed something to the Allies' declaration of 24 May 1915, when the governments of Britain, France and Russia jointly issued a note stating 'In light of the crimes against humanity and civilisation committed by Turkey, the allied powers warn the Sublime Porte that members of the Ottoman government involved in the mass murder will be held personally responsible for these crimes.' [Akcam cites, Willis, Prologue to Nuremburg, p. 26] The Interior Ministry's efforts to give the expulsions a semblance of legality began two days after this note was issued. Talat Pasa demanded a decree from the government to give official cover to his actions. [Akcam cites, Bayur, Turk Inkilabi Tarihi, p. 39]"
I've read that the Dashnaks did not do so many oppressive actions, but the Russian Armenians did (especially in Van province), and they targeted Christian as well as Muslim villages. They also numbered 4,000.
The fact that there were massacres on "both sides" (The Russian Armenians acted without approval of any Armenian patriachates, and some Armenians teamed up with Turks to defend themselves against them), however, doesn't take away from the intent of genocide on one side. Too often, most (not all) Turks just want to stop right there and say it was a civil war.
If the Ottoman Turks really did want to settle the Armenians in Syria to get them away from the front lines, why were they moved to yet another front (the southern front against the British)? Why weren't there any preparations made for the deportations, not at the beginning or the end of the war?
"Officially, the Armenians, who constituted a danger to the army, were distanced from the war zone. In fact, they were deported from areas far removed from the war zone directly into the theater of operations, from inner Anatolia to the front where the Fourth and Sixth Armies were fighting the British. [Akcam cites, Cerkez Hasan, "Peki Yuzbinlerce Ermeniyi Kim Oldurdu?," Alemdar, 5 Nisan (April) 1919] Furthermore, at no point during the deportation--not at the start, nor on the road, nor at the final destinations--were any preparations made fro the mass movement of people. This alone was enough to demonstrate that the campaign's aim was deliberate extermination." [A Shameful Act, Taner Akcam]
lairdofgarscaddon
taliking shitt..
xx1071xx 1 week ago
I lost 10 minutes.
123ertug 3 weeks ago
@TurkFutbol10 PLEASE STOP YOUR UNEDUCATED KNOWLEDGE AND CHECK THE ARCHIVES OF BIBLICAL MAP , WHERE IS THE WORD TURKEY? THEN FIND OUT WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE LAND TURKEY HAD TAKEN OVER AND READ IT IF YOU DONT WISH TO DO THE HOMEWORK ILL TELL U, IT WAS CALLED ARMENIA. THE WORST THING THAT GOD HATES IS TO SEE HIS CREATION MALFUNCTION AND DO AND SAY WRONGTHINGS, IF THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL FOR U THEN PLEASE STUDY & TALK WITH FACTS , HISTORY CAN NOT BE CHANGED , IT WAS AND IS AND WILL BE JUST THAT !!
vicusa1 1 month ago
WHEN THERE IS A TRAGEDY PEOPLE ARE VERY UNDERSTANDING OF THE VICTIM OF ANY CRIME, SHOW YOUR KIND SUPPORT FOR 450,000 ARMENIANS THAT WERE BURNED INSIDE A HOLE IN THE GROUND IN SYRIAN DESERTS CALLED DER-ZOR , HAND FEW THAT LIVED THROUGH WERE ABLE TO SHARE THAT BARBARIC ACT, ONE OF THE HORROR STORIES WERE THE SURVIVORS COULD NOT EASILY FIND A WAY OUT AND SOME THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO EAT THE FLESH OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE TO LIVE .... WOULD YOU PLEASE VISUALIZE THAT FOR A MOMENT WITH YOU BEING THEM ?
vicusa1 1 month ago
TRUE STORIES COME FROM VICTIMS NO DIFFERENT THAN IF AN EYE WITNESS IN COURT TESTIFIES AGAINST THE MURDERER ITS CONSIDERED DONE DEAL !
OUR GRANDPARENTS WERE KILLED FOR NO REASON, DOCTORS AND TOP OFFICIALS WERE SHOT BLANK POINT, INNOCENT KIDS AND YOUNG GIRLS WERE RAPED AND KILLED, ALL OUR IMPORTANT BOOKS AND BIBLES TORCHED, OUR VALUABLES STOLEN & OUR LAND CONFISCATED AN ACT OF MASSACRE AGAINST ALL UNITED NATION RESOLUTIONS PROTECTING COUNTRIES FROM ETHNIC CLEANSING OF ANY KIND. GOD BLESS US ALL.
vicusa1 1 month ago
Ok where is the proof ? i clicked on this video to see proof but i see some nerd talking shit
bugiej 1 month ago
@Gregory10000000000 Who killed Armenians? Turks or Westerners and Russians? Ask this, find this and come back here.Thank you. Turks deny nothing.
sevsen4 3 months ago
It takes guts to admit the Genocide. Only a coward would say it did not happen.
Varangian1915 8 months ago