Guest Posted August 8, 2000 Report Share Posted August 8, 2000 Yerb Menk Qnats enk / yerb Menk Hayers Portsum enk amen kerp lavatsnel Hay-turkakan haraberutyuner@ - turker@ nor Patmutyun en grum voch miyayn irents iyl Nayev Mez Hayeris HAmar !!! ushadir kardatsek tesek te srank inch en asum >>> http://www.ataa.org/ Perpetuating the Genocide Myth A Publication of the Federation of Canadian Turkish Associations INTRODUCTION It is a fact that approximately 700,000 Armenians were killed or died of starvation and disease during the First World War in eastern Anatolia. It is also a fact that more than2 million Turks and Muslims were massacred by the Armenians at the turn of the century or died during the First World War in eastern Anatolia, fighting Armenians and Russians. These were tragic events from which lessons should be learned, so that similar incidents of ultra-nationalism that result in the total uprooting and devastation of communities are not allowed to occur again. The Turkish community in Canada and the U.S, as well as the Turks in Turkey recognize the Armenian deaths and suffering during this period. What they deeply object is the propaganda and distortion of facts by Armenian activists who are misleading the public in order to further their political agenda by crying "genocide", while ignoring the death and suffering of more than twice as many Turks and portraying a completely one-sided version of the events of more than 85 years ago. Armenians, in their attempts to convince the world opinion about the existence of a genocide perpetrated against them during the First World War, resort to forgeries and falsifications. A few of such forgeries and falsifications frequently referred to in Armenian publications are exposed in this booklet. The Armenian propaganda and allegations have not been countered in North America until the late 1980's. There were no recognizable population of Turks in Canada and the United States until then. Armenian activists were unopposed for decades in their one-sided depiction of history to the North American public, who were not expected to be knowledgeable about the events of long time ago in a far away country. Now that the Canadian and U.S. citizens are becoming aware of the Armenian massacres of the Turkish and Muslim population, the Armenian activists are changing tactics and talking about things like "psychology of genocide denial and deniers" or "rewriting of history", in order to discredit anyone who opposes their propaganda. It is absurd for Armenian spokespeople to talk about "genocide deniers" when they completely ignore the 2 million Turkish deaths in the same period and in the same geographical area. No Armenian publication, propaganda literature, conference or seminar ever mentions the Armenian massacres of the Turkish and Muslim population by the armed revolutionary committees at the beginning of the 20th century. Otherwise, they would not be able to claim a so-called Armenian genocide. In the kind of genocide Armenians claim, the alleged perpetrators ended up having more dead than the victims! The history of the Ottoman empire -"the sick man of Europe"- during the First World War, when it was defending its own lands at three separate fronts against the allied forces and its dismal economic condition are well documented. The existence of Armenian terrorist organizations and revolutionary committees (Armenakan, Hunchak Dashnaktsutiun, etc.) since late 19th century and their armed rebellions resulting in the massacres of the Turkish population in the eastern provinces, as well as the Armenian cooperation with the Russians whom the Ottomans were fighting against, are also well documented by historians. It is ironic that Armenians accuse anyone who opposes their allegations of a so-called genocide by exposing the historical facts, as "rewriting history". Yet Armenians are rewriting history more than 80 years later, in Parliaments of western countries and in the Legislatures of several states and provinces in the U.S. and Canada where they have a considerable population, by lobbying, donating to election campaigns and influencing politicians. Comparison of Armenian Claims with the Jewish Holocaust Armenians want to cash in on the worldwide sentiment regarding Jewish Holocaust by claiming that they were the ones who were subjected to the first genocide of the 20th century and that if the world paid more attention to their suffering, there would not have been a Holocaust. In publications and conferences they frequently attempt to draw a parallel with the Jewish Holocaust, hoping that public reaction to the terrible suffering of the Jews would also associate it with the Armenians. For anyone who is familiar with the European and Ottoman history of the 20th century, such comparisons are absurd and an insult to the Jews. The following are some facts to consider: Jews who were law-abiding citizens and innocent civilians, were subjected to the Holocaust by systematic actions and policies of the Nazi government during peace time. Jews posed no threat to the State.Armenians had formed several revolutionary committees who were attacking Ottoman villages and massacring Turks, as well as actively assisting the Russians with whom the Ottoman Empire was at war. The only government policy was to relocate the Armenians in the eastern provinces where they were close to the Russians. Nazis had superior economic and military resources and power which they used towards eradicating the Jews in the lands they occupied in Europe.Ottomans were in a state of decline both economically and militarily and were so frail as to be referred to as "the sick man of Europe". In 1914 and 1915, they were defending their own lands in the south, against the British in the middle east; in the west, against the Allied Forces at the Dardanelles and Gallipoli and in the east, against the Russians whom the Armenians were siding with. No one was punished by Nazis for inhuman treatment of the Jews.The Ottoman administration executed 62 persons for inhuman treatment of Armenians during the relocations. After the First World War the Ottoman capital was under Allied occupation and all State archives were under the control of the British Authorities in Istanbul. As a result of constant propaganda and accusations by Armenian agitators, the British finally decided to transport more than 140 Ottoman high officials, officers and cabinet members to Malta for a trial, almost like an anticipation of the Nuremberg Trials. The prisoners were held in Malta for 30 months while the British, French and the Americans searched feverishly for evidence. If there were any credible witness or evidence regarding the alleged Armenian massacres, they could have been found easily. No evidence could be found in Paris, Istanbul or in Anatolia to support the charge that the Ottomans had planned a mass slaughter of the Armenians. The British High Commission was unable to forward any legal evidence to London. There was nothing in the British archives that corroborated the wild accusations of the Armenians. In America, there were already powerful Armenian lobbies. In America, certain Protestant circles had been carrying on an anti-Turkish smear campaign for decades. Surely in America there would be something to unearth, evidence to be found. OnJune 2, 1921 Sir Aucland Geddes, the British Ambassador in Washington, replied to Lord Curzon informing him that the State Department could not produce any evidence against the prisoners in Malta either. The meticulous search conducted by the British for more than two years with utmost zeal to vindicate the Armenian allegations, produced nothing. The main source of information of the British High Commisssion in the capital city of Istanbul was a massive Armenian propaganda machinery orchestrated by the Armenian Patriarchate. From a political standpoint, it was highly desirable for the British Government that at least some of the Turkish deportees to Malta should be brought to trial. The Brirtish Foreign Office left no stone unturned in order to prove that the so-called "Armenian massacres" actually took place. Yet all efforts and zeal in this regard ended-up with a complete failure. There was no evidence, no reliable witness, no proof and no case. On October 25, 1921 after 30 months of imprisonment, the accused Ottomans left the British colony of Malta as free men. Now 80 years later, Armenians are attempting to rewrite history through organized campaigns to influence politicians who put forward motions of genocide recognition in different legislatures. The term "genocide" was specifically coined after the Second World War to describe the Nazi atrocities towards Jews. Armenian opportunism tries to link the Holocaust with their claim of a so-called genocide, so that they can tap into the world sentiment, influence public opinion and obtain recognition for their propaganda. There is no parallel between the Jewish Holocaust and the tragic events in eastern Anatolia where more than 2 million Turks and 700,000 Armenians died. Uprising and Massacres of Turks by the Armenians: Armenians established the Hunchak Committee in Geneva in 1887 and the Dashnak Committee at Tiflis in 1890, both of which declared their basic goal to be "the liberation from Ottoman rule of the territories of Eastern Anatolia and the Ottoman Armenians". According to Louise Nalbandian, a leading Armenian researcher, the Hunchak program stated the following: "Agitation and terror were needed to elevate the spirit of the people. The party aimed at terrorizing the Ottoman Government, thus contributing toward lowering the prestige of that regime and working toward its complete disintegration. The Hunchaks wanted to annihilate the most dangerous of the Armenian and Turkish individuals who were then working for the government as well as to destroy all spies and informers. To assist them in carrying out all of these terrorist acts, the party was to organize an exclusive branch specifically devoted to performing acts of terrorism. The most opportune time to institute the general rebellion for carrying out the immediate objectives was when Turkey was engaged in war". [Nalbandian, Louise, Armenian Revolutionary Movement, University of California Press, 1963] K.S. Papazyan wrote as follows of the Dashnak Society: "The purpose of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnak) is to achieve political and economic freedom in Turkish Armenia by means of rebellion. Terrorism has, from the beginning, been adopted by the Dashnak Committee of the Caucasus, as a policy or a method for achieving its ends. Under the heading "means" in their program adopted in 1892, Method No. 8 is as follows: "To wage fight and to subject to terrorism the government officials, the traitors…". Method No 11 is: "To subject the government institutions to destruction and pillage". [Papazian, K.S., Patriotism Perverted, Boston Baker Press, 1934] The Armenian Hunchak and Dashnak Committees organized numerous uprisings and rebellions in various parts of the Ottoman Empire, from the time they were founded in 1890 until the end of the First World War, massacring Turks and other Muslims. A chronological list of the Armenian uprisings and rebellions where countless atrocities were perpetrated against Turks, are shown on Table 1. Captain Emory Niles and Mr. Arthur Sutherland were Americans ordered by the United States Government in 1919, to investigate the situation in eastern Anatolia. Their report was to be used as the basis for granting relief aid to the Armenians by the American Committee for Near East Relief. The following is an excerpt from their report: "In the entire region from Bitlis through Van to Bayezit we were informed that the damage and destruction had been done by the Armenians, who, after the Russians retired, remained in occupation of the country and who, when the Turkish army advanced, destroyed everything belonging to the Musulmans. Moreover, the Armenians are accused of having committed murder, rape arson and horrible atrocities of every description upon the Musulman population. At first we were most incredulous of these stories, but we finally came to believe them, since the testimony was absolutely unanimous and was corroborated by material evidence. For instance, the only quarters left at all intact in the cities of Bitlis and Van are the Armenian quarters, as was evidenced by churches and inscriptions on the houses, while the Musulman quarters were completely destroyed. Villages said to have been Armenian were still standing whereas Musulman villages were completely destroyed" [u.S. 867.00/1005]. Table 1: Turkish Massacres by the Armenians Date Location 1890 Erzurum 1892 Merzifon 1893 Kayseri 1895 Zeytun 1895 Istanbul 1896 Van 1896 Istanbul, Ottoman Bank 1904 Sasun 1905 Istanbul, Yildiz 1909 Adana 1915 Van 1915 Zeytun 1918 Erzurum 1918 Erzincan Conclusion: In terms of civilian and military losses, the wars fought in the east between 1914 and 1920 were among the worst in history. The result of Ottoman weakness, Russian imperialism, European meddling and Armenian revolutionary nationalism was widespread devastation. After the wars, cities such as Van, Bitlis, Bayezit and Erzincan were largely rubble. Thousands of villages were destroyed. Approximately 2 million Turks and 700,000 Armenians were dead. The Armenians, who revolted to gain a nation, were left with a Soviet Republic in which they were not their own masters. The Turks, who ultimately won the wars, were left with a country in ruins. (Prof. Justin McCarthy, Death and Exile; The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821 to 1922) In the definition of the "crime of genocide" approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1948, the essential element is that there has to be an intent of destroying a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Such an intent is clearly absent in the tragic events during the First World War in eastern Anatolia. All sources, including the most ardent advocates of the Armenian cause, accept that none of the relocation measures imposed by the Ottoman government were applied to the Armenians in the areas distant to the war fronts or to the Armenians who had settled in big cities such as Istanbul and Izmir. All civil servants of Armenian descent maintained their positions during the conflict. The aims of the still active Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Hai Heghapokhagan Dashnaktsutiune) are well known: To force Turkey to accept the so-called "Armenian genocide" To force Turkey to apologize from the Armenians To force Turkey to pay retribution To annex eastern Turkey into Armenia. The Dashnaktsutiun Committee (A.R.F.) is now attempting to obtain what they couldn't obtain by armed rebellion in eastern Anatolia during the First World War, by influencing politicians and the public opinion in western countries to believe that an Armenian genocide existed. At the Treaty of Sevres in 1920 after the First World War, Armenians were given a large part of Eastern Anatolia by the Allied Powers, to form their own independent country. However, this treaty was never put in force. It was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne on July 24, 1923 after the Turkish War of Independence, which drew the boarders of the modern Republic of Turkey. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation could not accept this fact and is trying to obtain today, through devious means, what they were promised at Sevres by the British, French, the U.S. etc. The atrocities Armenians perpetrated against the Turks at the beginning of the 20th century and their recent acts of terrorism in the 1970's and 1980's, during which they murdered 42 Turkish diplomats and civil servants around the world, are now transformed into political activism using falsifications and propaganda. As recently as in October 1999, the President of the Armenian National Committee of America, Murad Topalian, was arrested in the U.S. and charged with five different counts of terrorism and weapons related offences. He was also known to be a member of ASALA, an Armenian terrorist organization. Together with another Armenian Terrorist Organization JCAG (Justice Commandos for the Armenian Genocide), ASALA was responsible for the vast majority of the 191 acts of terrorism against Turkish Diplomats and their families as well as Turkish businesses around the world, between January 1973 and November 1986. Mr. Topalian, as the President of the ANC, had many high level contacts at the White House and contributed substantially to the U.S. presidential election campaigns. A list of the Turkish diplomatic personnel and other citizens murdered by the Armenian terrorists in an organized campaign around the world, is shown in Table 2. This list does not include the additional 16 Turkish Diplomats and numerous Turkish and other citizens wounded in the Armenian terrorists' attacks. A full chronological list of the Armenian Terrorism during the 1970's and 1980's, is shown in Appendix C of this booklet. The confessions of the 19 year old Armenian terrorist Hampig Sassounian, who murdered the Turkish consul-general in Los Angeles on January 28, 1982 and the 20 year old Levon Ekmekjian, who was the surviving Armenian terrorist in the attack in Ankara's Esenboga Airport on August 7, 1982, where they massacred 9 Turkish citizens and wounded 82 others, clearly illustrate how young Armenian minds are indoctrinated by false teachings and pushed into terrorism by diabolical men who have their own political agenda. When Armenian terrorist organizations can openly and proudly murder so many Turkish citizens all around the world and in front of the world's modern electronic media in the 1970's and 1980's, one can easily understand the extent of the massacres the Armenian revolutionary committees inflicted on the Turkish population during the first 20 years of the 20th century, in a far away land and with the encouragement of the Russian and other western allied forces. The majority of the Canadians and Americans of Turkish origin are still the first generation immigrants with old established Turkish cultural roots and traditions. "Blowing your own horn" is not looked upon favourably in the Turkish culture. The expectation ingrained in the Turkish psyche is that the facts would speak for themselves, decent people would see the truth and silence would be rewarded. There are old proverbs people grow up with, such as "if words are silver, silence is golden". The well-known French writer and member of the Academie Francaise, Pierre Loti wrote the following words about Turks in 1928 in his book "Fantome d'Orient": "One should be blind to history not to understand the Turks. The dignified silence of the Turks against the mounting unjustified attacks and mean slanders can only be explained by their pity for the blind. How beautifully this attitude of theirs answers the undignified calumnies". The Turkish community in North America realizes that the time has come to expose the truth in order to respond to the decades of propaganda and misinformation by Armenian activists. Such activists are now pressuring different Boards of Education in Canada and the U.S., into including in their curricula, the so-called Armenian genocide. Under the disguise of some noble objectives, they are attempting to poison the young minds of children, into believing that the Armenians were the innocent victims of the first genocide of the 20th century. Armenian activists are also planting the seeds of hatred among different ethnic groups, which should not be tolerated within the Canadian multicultural mosaic. Several articles are reproduced in this booklet, all written by non-Turkish writers and observers, as well as some historical documents included in the Appendix. They illustrate objectively and factually, the Armenian campaign against the Turkish population and the tragic conditions in eastern Anatolia during and after the First World War. They demonstrate clearly that Armenians were not the innocent victims of a "genocide", however, did suffer the tragic consequences of the activities of their armed revolutionary committees, just as did more than twice as many Turks. Prof. Justin McCarthy's words in his article about Armenian Terrorism, reprinted in this booklet, sums up the feeling of the Turks in North America; " The lesson is obvious - silence does not work. Historical lies, unless they are countered, will perpetuate themselves". TABLE 2: TURKISH AND OTHER CITIZENS MURDERED BY ARMENIANS Date Location Name Position/Location January 27, 1973 Santa Barbara Mehmet Baydar Turkish Consul General January 27, 1973 Santa Barbara Bahadir Demir Turkish Consul October 22, 1975 Vienna Danis Tunaligil Turkish Ambassador October 24, 1975 Paris Ismail Erez Turkish Ambassador October 24, 1975 Paris Talip Yener Turkish Ambassador's chauffeur February 16, 1976 Beirut Oktar Cirit First Secretary in Turkish Embassy June 9, 1977 Rome Taha Carim Turkish Ambassador June 2, 1978 Madrid Necla Kuneralp Turkish Ambassador's wife June 2, 1978 Madrid Besir Balcioglu Retired Turkish Ambassador June 2, 1978 Madrid Antonio Torres Spanish chauffeur October 12, 1979 The Hague Ahmet Benler Turkish Ambassador's son December 22, 1979 Paris Yilmaz Colpan Turkish Tourism Attache March 10, 1980 Rome 1. Italian citizen Turkish Tourism Bureau March 10, 1980 Rome 2. Italian citizen Turkish Tourism Bureau July 31, 1980 Athens Galip Ozmen Turkish Admimistrative Attache July 31, 1980 Athens Neslihan Ozmen Turkish Administrative Attache's daughter August 5, 1980 Lyon 1. French citizen Turkish Consulate August 5, 1980 Lyon 2. French citizen Turkish Consulate December 17, 1980 Sydney Sarik Ariyak Turkish Consul General December 17, 1980 Sydney Engin Sever Turkish Consul General's bodyguard March 4, 1981 Paris Resat Morali Turkish Labour Attache March 4, 1981 Paris Tecelli Ari Religious Affairs Officer in Turkish Embassy March 12, 1981 Teheran 1. Guard Turkish Embassy March 12, 1981 Teheran 2. Guard Turkish Embassy June 9, 1981 Geneva Mehmet Yerguz Secretary in the Turkish Embassy September 24, 1981 Paris Cemal Ozen Security Guard in the Turkish Embassy January 28, 1982 Los Angeles Kemal Arikan Turkish Consul General March 26, 1982 Beirut 1. Lebanese citizen Turkish movie theatre March 26, 1982 Beirut 2. Lebanese citizen Turkish movie theatre May 4, 1982 Cambridge, Massachusetts Orhan Gunduz Turkish Honorary Consul June 7, 1982 Lisbon Erkut Akbay Administrative Attache in Turkish Embassy June 7, 1982 Lisbon Nadide Akbay Administrative Attache's wife July 1, 1982 Rotterdam Kemalettin Demirer Turkish Consul General August 27, 1982 Ottawa Atilla Altikat Turkish Military Attache September 9, 1982 Burgaz, Bulgaria Bora Suelkan Administrative Attache in Turkish Embassy February 28, 1983 Paris Renee Morin French Secretary at Turkish Travel Agency March 9, 1983 Belgrade Galip Balkar Turkish Ambassador July 14, 1983 Brussels Dursun Aksoy Administrative Attache in Turkish Embassy July 27, 1983 Lisbon Cahide Mihcioglu Deputy Turkish Consul General's wife April 28, 1984 Teheran Isik Yonder Turkish Embassy employee's husband June 20, 1984 Vienna Erdogan Ozen Assistant Labour and Social Affairs Counsellor in Turkish Embassy November 19, 1984 Vienna Enver Ergun Deputy Director, Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs March 12, 1985 Ottawa Canadian citizen RCMP officer at the Turkish Embassy Armenian Forgeries and Falsifications assembly of Turkish American Associations1526 18th St, NW,Washington, D.C. 20036Phone: (202) 483-9090 Fax: (202) 483-9092 [This message has been edited by JanFedayi (edited August 08, 2000).] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2000 Report Share Posted August 8, 2000 What is ATAA? The Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), a membership organization, unites the Turkish American community and friends of Turkey through 54 Turkish-American associations and individual members from the United States, Canada, and Turkey. The Republic of Turkey, a member of NATO and an ally of the United States, is of great geostrategic importance to the US. At the crossroads of East and West, Turkey is a secular democracy in a volatile region of the world. Recognizing the importance of enhanced US-Turkish relations to regional peace and security, ATAA works on creating a better understanding about the US-Turkish partnership and the potential and challenges Turkey faces, with programs directed at decision makers, opinion leaders and the general public. ATAA regularly disseminates information on Turkey and various aspects of US-Turkish relations to members of the US Congress, the administration, non-governmental organizations, and the general public. ATAA also leads community education programs to formulate and voice the Turkish-American community's positions on issues concerning Turkish-Americans. Founded in 1979 and located in Washington, DC, ATAA is a non-profit, tax exempt corporation. Mission of ATAA Increase awareness on the importance of the US-Turkish alliance and partnership in both countries. Increase communication between the Turkish-American population and friends of Turkey in the US. Promote Turkey through educational programs on the history, culture, political and economic structure of the country. Counter biased, defamatory or distorted information against Turkey and Turks in the media. ATAA sponsors an annual meeting which brings together experts on Turkey and the US-Turkish partnership, decision makers, scholars, policy makers, Turkish-Americans and friends of Turkey. ATAA sponsors teachers workshops to help better inform our educators about Turkey. ATAA offers leadership/grassroots workshops to increase awareness and participation by Turkish-Americans in public advocacy efforts. The Assembly offers seed money grants to organizations for educational and promotional projects on Turkey. ATAA leads delegations to confer with government officials and decision-makers in Turkey, and in third countries. The Assembly publishes a bi-weekly newspaper, the only Turkish-American newspaper published in the United States, The Turkish Times, as well as other publications. ATAA's central office works as an information clearinghouse on issues concerning Turkey and US-Turkish relations. ATAA Activities ATAA, regarding the U.S.-Turkish alliance as a pillar of the national security of both countries, develops and implements programs to diversify this partnership in the areas of scientific and educational cooperation, cultural exchange and commerce. Among the activities that serve this goal are teacher's workshops, cultural and business seminars, regional, and national conventions sponsored or supported by ATAA. ATAA Publications ATAA is one of the major Turkish-American organizations that regularly disseminates information on Turkey and various aspects of U.S.-Turkish relations to members of the U.S. Congress, the administration, non-governmental organizations, and the general public and leads grassroots efforts to voice the interest and preferences of the Turkish-American community. In November 1995, ATAA started to publish a weekly newsletter called Turkish Panorama which is sent via fax to all members of Congress, key officials in the Turkish and U.S. governments, and NGO's working on issues related to Turkey. The Assembly also publishes The Turkish Times, a bi-weekly newspaper in print since 1989. The Turkish Times covers a variety of issues ranging from domestic and international issues concerning Turkey, Turkish history, culture and art, sports, tourism and business to news related to the Turkish-American community Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2000 Report Share Posted August 8, 2000 this was @ http://www.ataa.org/ataa/ref/arm2_fcta.html yerb menk qnum enk turker@ nor patmutyun en grum voch miyayn irents iyl nayev mez Hayeris Hamar !!!!!!! Armenian Forgeries and Falsifications A Publication of the Federation of Canadian Turkish Associations The truth behind some well-known and often-repeated forgeries by Armenian activists who are attempting to sway the world opinion regarding the existence of a "genocide" in 1915, are exposed in the following paragraphs. 1. Hitler's quotation regarding the Armenians - A myth Every year Armenian activists lobby politicians in Canada and the U.S. to proclaim a "genocide remembrance week" in April recognizing the so-called Armenian genocide. Every politician who speaks in favour of such a motion inevitably refers to the following statement, given to them by the Armenian activists who claim it was made by Hitler; "Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians". This so-called Hitler statement is accepted as a "historical fact" and has been quoted by numerous politicians who support the Armenian cause, in parliamentary debates in North America. It also appears routinely in Armenian propaganda publications. The Armenians want to play on the sentiments of the Jewish Holocaust and purport that Adolf Hitler made this quotation in a speech regarding his planned annihilation of the European Jews. One of the most frequently utilized falsifications by Armenian spokesmen is that Hitler felt justified in going forward with his plan to exterminate European Jewry during the Second World War, because he was encouraged that the world had not reacted to alleged Ottoman mistreatment of its Armenian population during the First World War. The problem with this linkage is that there is no proof that Hitler ever made such a statement. It is claimed that he referred to the Armenians in the manner cited above, while delivering a secret talk to members of his General Staff, a week prior to his attack on Poland. However, there is no reference to the Armenians in the original texts of the two Hitler speeches delivered on August 22, 1939, published as the official texts in the reliable Nuremberg documents. It is natural to assume that Hitler spoke to his generals on that day in his and their native tongue, German. The Nuremberg documents are the only authoritative and authentic sources. However, a few English translations that appeared in New York Times and London Times in 1945 carried an additional sentence in Hitler's speech that does not occur in the authorized German texts. At the Nuremberg tribunal there were three authentic versions of the records of the Hitler's meeting with his generals, although no official minutes exist. All three versions are similar in content. William L. Shirer in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" states as follows: "At Nuremberg there was some doubt about a fourth account of Hitler's speech listed as N.D. C-3., and though it was referred to in the proceedings, the prosecution did not submit it in evidence. While it undoubtedly rings true, it may have been embellished a little by persons who were not present at the meeting at the Berghof". In several publications Armenian activists refer to the fabricated Hitler statement about Armenians and quote it as "exhibit US-28 of the Nuremberg Tribunal" to mislead the unsuspecting public as if it were authentic and credible. They obviously fail to indicate that exhibit US-28 was not introduced as evidence by the prosecution because of lack of proof of its authenticity and was not preserved in the records of the trials. This is the record Shirer refers to as being "embellished by persons who were not present at the meeting at the Berghof". Neither of the two versions of the records introduced as evidence in Nuremberg nor the notes kept by General Franz Halder who was present at the meeting, contain any reference to Armenians. This quotation, and indeed an entire text of a Hitler speech purportedly made at Obersalzberg on August 22, 1939, was first published in 1942 in a book entitled "What About Germany?" authored by Louis Lochner. Lochner cited an unnamed informant as his source for a document called "Contents of Speech to the Supreme Commanders, and Commanding Generals, Obersalzberg, August 22, 1939". He further stated that he obtained a copy of this speech one week prior to Hitler's 1939 invasion of Poland. This "document," the origin of which has never been disclosed, investigated, and much less established, is the sole source of Hitler's purported remark regarding the Armenians. It is interesting to note that, in Lochner's unnamed informant's documents, there is not a single direct or implied reference to the Jewish people. The statement referred to Hitler's impending invasion of Poland and to the fate he envisioned for its citizenry; it had absolutely nothing to do with his plans for the Jews of Europe. The Nuremberg transcripts, however, clearly demonstrate that the tribunal rejected Lochner's version of Hitler's Obersalzberg speech in favor of two more official versions found in confiscated German military records. These two records are, respectively, the detailed notes of the August 22, 1939 meeting taken down by Admiral Hermann Boehm, Chief of the High Seas Fleet, who was in attendance (Document No. 798-PS) and a memorandum in two parts which provides a detailed account of Hitler's August 22, 1939, remarks at Obersalzberg (Document No. 1014-PS). This second document originated in the Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces files and was captured by American troops at Saalfelden in Austria. This was the chief document introduced by the prosecution at Nuremberg as evidence in the course of the session concerned with the invasion of Poland. These two versions are in fact preserved in the transcripts of the Nuremberg Tribunal and are internally consistent with each other regarding the wording of Hitler's Obersalzberg speech. It is important to note that none of these eyewitness versions contain any reference whatsoever to Armenians. In addition, a third eyewitness account of the Obersalzberg meetings is found in the detailed diary kept by General Franz Halder. His notes, which were not submitted as evidence at the Nuremberg Tribunal, also do not contain any reference to Armenians. A story in the Times of London on November 24, 1945 based on a "leaked document" on the assumption that it would be introduced as evidence by the time the story broke, made reference to the Armenians in Hitler's statement. The document which was provided to the prosecution by "an American newspaperman", is the source of the alleged Hitler statement on Armenians. However, this document was not introduced as evidence, after the original minutes of the Obersalzberg meeting were found. The results of the erroneous Times of London story were far reaching. The world has been misled by Armenians since then, into thinking that the Nuremberg transcripts contained the quote attributed to Hitler; "Who still speaks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians"? Armenian spokesmen have been free to argue that Adolf Hitler justified his planned annihilation of the Jews on the world's failure to react to the alleged Ottoman genocide of the Armenians during the First World War. In truth, no document containing the purported Hitler statement on the Armenians was introduced or accepted as evidence in the course of the Nuremberg trials. The Nuremberg transcripts through their preservation of Document Numbers 798-PS and 1014-PS and the notes of Admiral Boehm, demonstrate that the alleged statement is conspicuously absent from Hitler's remarks. The assertion that Hitler made a reference to the Armenians in any context whatsoever is completely without foundation. Yet Prof. Richard Hovannisian and a host of other Armenian spokesmen have been planting this statement into the minds of Canadian and U.S politicians during the last two decades. A significant portion of Armenian propaganda efforts has been devoted to establishing a linkage between their own historical experiences and those of European Jewry during the Second World War. The cornerstone in their case has long been the spurious Hitler quote, "Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?" For a detailed analysis of the Nuremberg Trials records regarding this false statement that is attributed to Hitler, please refer to "The U.S. Congress and Adolf Hitler on the Armenians" by Prof. Heath W. Lowry, Political Communication and Persuasion, Volume 3, Number 2, 1985. 2. Talat ***** Telegrams - A forgery The Ottoman Empire fought, in the First World War on the side of the Central Powers against the Entente Powers- England, France, Russia and their allies. During the War, as part of standard war propaganda, Ottomans were being accused of massacres against the Armenians who were assisting the Russians, the same way as their wartime ally the Germans were being accused of atrocities against the Belgians. After the Treaty of Lauseanne in 1923, the Armenians realized that an independent Armenia promised to them by their allies for their efforts against the Ottomans during the First World War, was now a failed dream. They started a large propaganda campaign against the newly formed Republic of Turkey and after the Second World War they cashed-in on the word "genocide". The intention was to draw a parallel between the fate of the Armenians in the First World War and Hitler's extermination policies towards the Jewish people. The Armenian propaganda claiming genocide, required proof that a decision to exterminate the Armenians was made by the Ottoman Government as a policy. The reason for this was that, the definition of the word "genocide" approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1948, required that there had to be an intent of destroying a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. For this purpose Armenians produced a number of telegrams attributed to Talat *****, the Minister of Interior of the Ottoman Government, supposedly found by the British forces under the command of General Allenby, when they captured Aleppo in 1918. The basis of the accusations against the Ottomans was a book written by an Armenian, Aram Andonian in 1920, "The Memoirs of Naim Bey: Turkish Official Documents Relating to the Deportations and Massacres of Armenians". Mr. Andonian published his book simultaneously in London, Paris and Boston - in English, French and Armenian. Ever since then, these "documents" have formed the backbone and the basis of all Armenian accusations against the Ottomans and later against the Turks. It has been proven by scholars for quite some time now that these "documents" were fabricated. The originals of the papers copied by Andonian were never seen. When the British Foreign Office enquired about them at the War Office and with General Allenby himself, it was discovered that they had not been found by the British Army, but rather had been produced by an Armenian Group in Paris. Not a single one of these "important" documents reproduced by Andonian in his book, can be found today. Andonian made so many mistakes in preparing the papers, however, that it is possible to prove with absolute certainty that they were forgeries, even without the originals. Scholars and historians demonstrated that they did not resemble the Ottoman administrative documents neither in form, reference numbers, script nor phraseology. The simplest, absolutely irrefutable proof of the forgery involves Andonian's incorrect use of calendar information. Naturally, for his forgeries Andonian used the Rumi calendar which was in use in the Ottoman Empire at the time. Because this calendar's starting point is the year 622 A.D. and uses the lunar years, there are some complicated technicalities in converting between the Gregorian and the Rumi calendars. The analysis of the "documents" reveal that the forger simply knew too little about the Ottoman calendar and overlooked the tricky details in converting. As a result, the forger reaches some impossible and humorous conclusions. In one of his forged documents, Mr. Andonian dates a note and signature attributed to Mustafa Abdulhalik Bey, purported to be the Governor of Aleppo. A comparison with authentic correspondence between the Governor of Aleppo and the Ministry of the Interior in Istanbul, on the date in question, reveals that the Governor of Aleppo on that date was Bekir Sami Bey. In his attempt to prove massacres, Mr. Andonian, due to his lack of knowledge of the tricky technicalities in the conversion between the two calendars, was having Mustafa Abdulhalik Bey signing documents as the Governor of Aleppo while he was still in Istanbul, before he was even appointed to the position. Erich Feigl, in his book entitled "A Myth of Terror - Armenian Extremism: Its Causes and Its Historical Context", published in 1986, outlines in great technical detail all the crude forgeries concocted by Mr. Andonian and his associates, on the so-called "Talat ***** Telegrams". For decades, Armenian activists referred to these fabricated "documents" as evidence, in their attempt to persuade the politicians and the public opinion in the west regarding their claim of an Armenian genocide. After the First World War the Ottoman Capital was under Allied occupation and all State Archives were easily accessible to the British Authorities in Istanbul. If there were any witnesses or any kind of evidence regarding the Ottoman Government's involvement in any alleged Armenian massacres, they could have been easily found. The British High Commission was unable to forward to London any legal evidence. The meticulous search conducted by the British for 30 months with an utmost zeal to vindicate the Armenian allegations produced nothing. From a political standpoint, it was highly desirable for the British Government that at least some of the Turkish deportees to Malta should have been brought to trial. The British Foreign Office left no stone unturned in order to prove that the so-called Armenian massacres actually took place. Yet all efforts and zeal in this regard ended with a complete failure. There was no evidence, no reliable witness, no proof and no case! 3. Photographs of Human Skulls - A Distortion For several decades various Armenian publications have featured a photograph of a pyramid of human skulls which they alleged belonged to Armenian victims of Turkish massacres during the First World War. In most cases the date of 1915 - 1917 was explicitly stated in the legend underneath. It has been published on the cover of a book with the Ottoman Minister of the Interior Talat *****'s photograph inserted on the upper left corner, announcing in the inner pages that the cover photograph shows "Turkish barbarism". The same photograph was enlarged and shown to the Canadian public in the 1970's, in the Yerevan Pavillion at the annual Metro International Caravan festivities in Toronto, as proof of "Armenian genocide". In reality, this was a photograph of a painting entitled "The Apotheosis of War", created in 1872 by a Russian master called Vassili Vereshchagin (1842-1904), which hangs in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The canvas, the subject of which has got nothing to do with the Armenians, was painted 43 years before the alleged massacres. It was used fraudulently and freely by the Armenians, as a tool to deceive and convince the public into believing their unfounded allegations about a "so-called genocide". The purpose of this deceitful manipulation was to create a false impression in the minds of those who observe the photo arrangements. It was designed to insult the Turkish people while serving the political objectives of Armenian activists. Photographs…………….. 4. H. Morgenthau and Admiral Mark L. Bristol Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol served as the Commander of the U.S. Naval Detachment in Turkish waters and as the U.S. High Commissioner to Turkey during the years 1919-1927. In this capacity he witnessed first hand; the Turkish War of Independence, the formation of the First Turkish Republic and the early years of its existence. His papers, which are housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, reveal in great detail the character of political, military, social, and economic conditions in Anatolia during the turbulent period of post World War I. The following is an excerpt from Bristol's letter dated March 28, 1921 to Dr. James L. Barton, the Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: "I see that reports are being freely circulated in the United States that the Turks massacred thousands of Armenians in the Caucasus. Such reports are repeated so many times it makes my blood boil. The Near East Relief have the reports from Yarrow and our own American people which show that such Armenian reports are absolutely false. The circulation of such false reports in the United States, without refutation, is an outrage and is certainly doing the Armenians more harm than good. I feel that we should discourage the Armenians in this kind of work, not only because it is wrong, but because they are injuring themselves. In addition to the reports from our own American Relief workers that were in Kars and Alexandrople, and reports from such men as Yarrow, I have reports from my own Intelligence Officer and know that the Armenian reports are not true. Is there not something that you and the Near East Relief Committee can do to stop the circulation of such false reports? I was surprised to see Dr. McCallum send through a report along this line from Constantinople. When I called attention to the report, it was stated that it came from the Armenians, but the telegram did not state this, nor did it state that the Armenian reports were not confirmed by our own reports. I may be all wrong; but I can't help feeling that I am not, because so many people out here who know the conditions agree with me that the Armenians and ourselves who lend ourselves to such exaggerated reports are doing the worst thing we possibly can for the Armenians." The letter continues: "While the Dashnaks were in power they did everything in the world to keep the pot boiling by attacking Kurds, Turks and Tartars; by committing outrages against the Moslems; by giving no representation whatever to the Molokans which are a large factor in the population of the Caucasus Armenia; by massacring the Moslems; and robbing and destroying their homes; and finally by starting an attack against the Turks which resulted in a counter attack by the Turks…The acts of the Armenian army at Kars absolutely disgusted our Americans, including Yarrow". Because of his objective observations and remarks, Admiral Mark Bristol was frequently attacked and discredited by Armenian and Greek spokesman as "anti-Armenian", "anti-Greek," and "pro-Turkish". For this reason, it is very rare to find any mention of Admiral Bristol in any Armenian publication. Instead they are full of quotations by Mr. Henry Morgenthau who was his predecessor in Istanbul. Prof. Heath W. Lowry, in his article entitled "American Observers in Anatolia CA. 1920: The Bristol Papers" states as follows: "Morgenthau was a confirmed 'Turcophobe' whose hatred for the Turks was matched only by his unabashed support for the Christian minorities under Ottoman rule. To anyone sharing Morgenthau's prejudices (including the minorities themselves), Bristol's evenhanded objectivity could only be interpreted as 'pro-Turkish'…Bristol's insistence on the equality of Christian and Moslem alike, marked a drastic change from Morgenthau's championing of the Christian element. It is this fact which accounts for his being incorrectly labeled as 'pro-Turkish' and 'anti-minority'." Armenian spokesmen consistently refer to H. Morgenthau's statements as proof, in their pursuit to convince the politicians that a so-called genocide occurred. In his tenure, Mr Morgenthau has never left Istanbul and his only source of information was the Armenian Patriarchate. Peter Michael Buzanski is the author of a full-length study on Bristol’s tenure in Turkey, entitled: "Admiral Mark L. Bristol and Turkish-American Relations, 1919-1922". He presents an analysis of Bristol devoid of rhetoric and argues convincingly that Bristol should not be judged from the "standpoint of the American Committee for Armenian Independence". Buzanski concludes that Bristol must be evaluated in terms of the manner in which he represented the interests of the nation which he served. On this account he gives Bristol high marks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2000 Report Share Posted August 8, 2000 Jan jan! Finally something we can (maybe) agree on. This is nothing new. I have heard about this absurd claim of Armenians massacring Turks for a while now. It is pure, baseless propaganda. There is estimated to have been about 1.5 million Armenians living in Turkey, so boy, they all must have been busy day and night slaughtering Turks! Now I am sure there were some random vengeance massacres by Armenians of Turks, just as there was in The Karabagh conflict(Khojali) but to talk of a genocide of Turks is incredible! Why do we only now hear of it? Also the quote by Hitler is a fact, and was found in any number of Nazi party literature. The best way to fight this crap is to have Turks examine their family trees. If they do they are bound to find an Armenian in it, if they don't then there is probably a Greek. There are no real Turks in Turkey. I am more of a Turk than they are via my Native American(Indian) ancestry!(The whole Mongolia,Bering Strait thing). I say Armenians just ignore this stupid propaganda and keep on fighting for recognition. We have the truth on our side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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