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TURKISH PROFESSOR UNMASKS TURKEY'S CRIMINAL SECRETS, OUTLINES THE EIGHT PHASES OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

 

By Appo Jabarian

Executive Publisher / Managing Editor

USA Armenian Life Magazine

 

Ankara is fast at work to counter the wave of intra-national and

international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. But is it

successful?

 

Recently a damning Turkish documentary surfaced on Youtube.com

unmasking the eight phases of the 1915-1923 genocide.

 

Professor Ugur Umit Ungör, a lecturer at the Department of History

at Utrecht University and at the Institute for War, Holocaust, and

Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, revealed the Turkish-documented inner

workings of Turkish-masterminded and executed government policies

of mass deportations, dispossession, and annihilation against the

Armenians then living under Ottoman yoke.

 

Personally I watched it at least half a dozen times. In the documentary

Prof. Ungor clearly outlines the damning details of Turkey's secret

plans to exterminate the Armenians and to expropriate their real and

personal properties as well as their ancestral homelands in Western

Armenia.

 

Professor Ungor, author of the "Confiscation and Destruction: The

Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property (Continuum, 2011)" and the

award-winning "The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern

Anatolia, 1913-1950 (Oxford University Press, 2011)," elaborated on

"how Western Armenia became part of Turkish nation state. And he went

on to illustrate how "the confiscation of the properties of Armenians"

was carried out. He underlined the fact that "This process hasn't

really been studied."

 

He contrasted it to other mass murders and genocides, "such as the

Holocaust, the genocide in Bosnia and the one in Rwanda."

 

He went on: "The genocide was not one process. It was not just

deportations; just massacres. But it was a whole range of destruction

policies and I count at least eight of them. Then I'll move on to

discuss some of the laws such as confiscation, expropriation, and

finally I would like to give an example of one Armenian business that

was expropriated by Ottoman Young Turk government. .. In several cases

(the processes) overlapping one another ... geared into each other,

they work together to produce the intended process of destruction."

 

Then he went on to list the eight phases of the Armenian Genocide.

 

1) Firing of all Armenian civil servants in the Ottoman Empire

"Starting in early winter 1914, Talaat ***** fired all the Armenian

civil servants in the Empire starting with the police officers, civil

servants, firemen, teachers - primary school teachers secondary school

teachers,. All Armenians were fired from the Turkish bureaucracy,"

noted Prof. Ungor.

 

2) Decapitation "Talaat and company then moved on to the second

phase of the process which was decapitation, and this was of course

the infamous arrests of April 24, 1915 paving the way to the complete

decapitation of the Armenian elite in Istanbul and was replicated in

the provinces," he said.

 

He continued: "I'd like to say two things and I think this is extremely

important, first of all these were extremely systematic; there were

lists of the men to be arrested and executed and of course these

lists were sent back to Istanbul for corroboration. Secondly this

was extremely a fast process. Time flies especially in the Armenian

Genocide. In matter of weeks complete elite of the Armenian community

of the Empire - cultural intelligentsia; economic intelligentsia;

religious intelligentsia were destroyed."

 

Then he showed two photographs, the first one depicting Krikor Zohrab,

a famous writer, an Ottoman Armenian member of the Ottoman Parliament

headquartered in Istanbul; the second depicting Mikael Khachaturian,

the Bishop of Malatya.

 

Then he drew sharp contrasts between the two men: "It was interesting

to study the biographies of two very different men.- Krikor Zohrab,

very critical of the church and very liberal; and Bishop Khachaturian,

a very pious, very spiritual and strong believer in the Christian

faith. Both of them were arrested. Both of them were murdered. I think

this is quite important -- two very different individuals that have

nothing in common except for the fact that they were Armenians. And

this is the essence of the genocide - reducing people to their ethnic

identity."

 

3) "The third phase was heralded through the deportations. On

23 May, exactly one month after the massive arrests of the elite,

Talaat ***** ordered complete deportation of all Armenians into the

Syrian desert of Deir-ez-Zor. And this is also important because this

order was published and we found the official document in the Ottoman

archives in which they ordered this and which in itself is a genocidal

order for the complete deportation of the civilian population into

the desert," he underlined.

 

4) "The fourth phase was the dispossession process. Between May

and November 1915, Talaat ***** issued four decrees in the form of laws

-- and of course they had nothing to do with the laws. For laws, you

need to have a legal process; separation of powers. That was not the

case because it was a dictatorship. He began with a deportation order

and the first order which was about deporting all of the Armenians

contained provision that Armenians could bring along everything

they wanted. 'So you have a house; you have lands to sell. You can

take the money with you and then you can go to the Deir-ez-Zor where

you will be resettled.' That sounded promising. But then of course

the new decrees reversed this policy. In June 1915, the government

established Abandoned Property Commissions and these were really

organizations to assault the Armenian economy. With one decision,

all of the properties were officially handed over or transferred to

the government. So they took the decision and they had to fine tune

it so they took more decisions. One in September 1915, when they

delegated the implementation of this huge plan to three ministries -

the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry

of Justice because they understood that this is a huge process. And

who's going to organize it? These three ministries! And they of course

had a record of all these properties and they corresponded among each

other. And we have correspondences. They are in the Ottoman archives

in Istanbul. I looked at them extensively," he asserted.

 

5) "The fifth phase was mass murder. From the summer of 1915

on, the special units began murdering Armenian civilians throughout

the Empire. So far we had very little information of these men of

the organization "Tashkilat al Mahsusa". What kind of organization

was this? How was it set up? I found this document - a photo in the

archives of the Ottoman government. It was interesting to see that

all of them were dressed in the same uniforms. And secondly, even more

important, they're standing in front of the War Ministry in Istanbul.

 

So no longer can the government say that we have nothing to do with

these - with Chechens running wild, and posing for photographs in front

of the war ministry. The building still exists. It is now converted

into a military museum in Istanbul. And the list goes on," he added.

 

6) "The sixth phase of the genocide was forced assimilation. The

absorption of women and children into the Turkish households. This is

also significant in the genocidal process because it was an assault

on cultural identity of people. By making sure that people could not

reproduce; could not continue to perpetuate their identity. It is an

assault on an abstract idea of culture embodied in these individuals.

 

This is the essence of what genocide is. Men were separated from

women. Children were separated from their parents breaking up the

most essential ties in human beings," he further noted.

 

7) "Then we had the seventh phase of the genocide - the famine

crime.

 

Starting in 1916 on those Armenians were forced into Deir-ez-Zor

and were pushed into organized artificial famine zones. People were

put into the region where (the Turkish soldiers) prohibited bread

from reaching the victims. And this is extremely important. You can

distinguish what makes it genocidal. The Turkish people that were

living in Deir-ez-Zor were given bread. The Armenians were prohibited

to buy bread. Why did they do that? Of course there is no question

about the intention behind this policy. And I'm still not finished,"

he emphasized.

 

"The final phase of the genocide was the assault on material culture

and architecture. Starting from 1915 on there was a policy that

was continued well into the 1920â~@²s when the Turkish government

continued destroying churches and monasteries. And here's only one

example: Sourp Hovhannes (monastery) in Alashkert (he showed an old

photo depicting the church in Alashkert on the left and also showed

a new photo of the same location depicting a destroyed church then he

said: "And what is left of the monastery was the foundation only. And

you can clearly see that this is the same place. Some of my students

have asked me, how to know if this is the same place? He responded:

"I'll show it to you. The black stripe here in the mountain (in the

background of the church), and these are the foundations of this

monastery," he illustrated.

 

Speaking of the entire eight processes he said: "Together and only

together they produce a coherent process of destruction. By the end of

the war there were approximately 2900 Armenian settlements that were

depopulated by about a million Armenians because they were dead. I'd

like to move on to the dispossession policy. These eight phases have

to be studied and in fact they are studied in details."

 

I must acknowledge that this article in no way is an adequate report on

the monumental work done by Prof. Ungor. Watch the video on Youtube.com

at the following link:

. The

presentation is in English with Turkish subtitles. Please share it with

your friends. One needs to get further acquainted with Prof. Ungor's

works in order to grasp the magnitude of his revelations.

 

As well-informed members of the new Turkish generation emerge,

denialist Turks see the walls of silence falling around them.

 

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