AN ANSWER TO THE ARMENIAN ALLEGATION OF GENOCIDE
During the 1st World War while the Ottoman Army was fighting against the Russians in the Eastern Anatolia, it was loosing blood due to the attacks of Armenian guerillas inside, behind the fronts. The Russian Tsar, who desired to conquer the Eastern Anatolia to gain a corridor towards Mediterranean, had provided all kinds of support Armenian rebellions. The Armenian guerillas attacked the Turkish and Kurdish Muslims, killed them and forced them to leave their homelands. During these attacks about 600 thousand Muslims died while escaping from Armenian rebellions.
All warnings of the Ottoman Administration to Armenians to quit the rebellion were fruitless and at April 24, 1915 Ottoman Administrators started to close Armenian Associations and arrested their leaders. Even these measures could not able to settle down the rebellions, the Empire set a new law to move the Eastern Armenians to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon which were within the territories of the Ottoman Empire.
Armenian Government and Diaspora claim that 1.5 million of Armenians were under Genocide. Whereas according to the census at the beginning of 1914, the total Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire was 1.260.000 all over the country including the Western Anatolia and Istanbul.
During the migration, it is the fact that thousands of Armenians had lost their lives because of difficulties of transportation, starvation and illness; just as the Muslims who had to leave their homes to escape from the Armenian massacre. But there was no Genocide. The Turkish Republic has opened the Ottoman Archives for the researches to present the realities in the global arena. We expect Armenia, England, France, Russia and USA to open their own archives to the world too.
The 82 years old young Turkish Republic was founded on the grounds of these treaties below:
December 2/3,1920 Gümrü Treaty with Armenia,
March 16, 1921 Moscow Treaty with Soviet Union,
October 13, 1921 Kars Treaty with Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
October 20, 1921 Ankara Treaty with France,
July 24, 1923 Lausanne Treaty with all the interested countries ( including England, France, Italy, Japan, Greece and Bulgaria)
There were no Genocide allegations in these Treaties. From the perspective of Turkish Republic, these allegations are evaluated as a shameful claim in order to agitate prestige of her and to pluck political concessions from Turkey.
The Statements existing in the Constitution of Armenia, Turkeys eastern neighbor, threatening the territorial integrity Turkish Republic; fostering Turkish Enmity in schools, ,in churches and in diplomacy through provocations; the fact that the neighbor Azerbaijani lands are under Armenian occupation since the last 12 years; the fact that more than one million Azeri citizens struggle to live in status of refugee who had to escape from the Armenian occupation have a negative impact on Regional and Global peace and stability. These international problems have to be resolved instead of relying on Armenian slanders.
Reported to the USA Congress and the EU Parliament with Respect.
***SINCE 1453***
During the 1st World War while the Ottoman Army was fighting against the Russians in the Eastern Anatolia, it was loosing blood due to the attacks of Armenian guerillas inside, behind the fronts. The Russian Tsar, who desired to conquer the Eastern Anatolia to gain a corridor towards Mediterranean, had provided all kinds of support Armenian rebellions. The Armenian guerillas attacked the Turkish and Kurdish Muslims, killed them and forced them to leave their homelands. During these attacks about 600 thousand Muslims died while escaping from Armenian rebellions.
All warnings of the Ottoman Administration to Armenians to quit the rebellion were fruitless and at April 24, 1915 Ottoman Administrators started to close Armenian Associations and arrested their leaders. Even these measures could not able to settle down the rebellions, the Empire set a new law to move the Eastern Armenians to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon which were within the territories of the Ottoman Empire.
Armenian Government and Diaspora claim that 1.5 million of Armenians were under Genocide. Whereas according to the census at the beginning of 1914, the total Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire was 1.260.000 all over the country including the Western Anatolia and Istanbul.
During the migration, it is the fact that thousands of Armenians had lost their lives because of difficulties of transportation, starvation and illness; just as the Muslims who had to leave their homes to escape from the Armenian massacre. But there was no Genocide. The Turkish Republic has opened the Ottoman Archives for the researches to present the realities in the global arena. We expect Armenia, England, France, Russia and USA to open their own archives to the world too.
The 82 years old young Turkish Republic was founded on the grounds of these treaties below:
December 2/3,1920 Gümrü Treaty with Armenia,
March 16, 1921 Moscow Treaty with Soviet Union,
October 13, 1921 Kars Treaty with Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
October 20, 1921 Ankara Treaty with France,
July 24, 1923 Lausanne Treaty with all the interested countries ( including England, France, Italy, Japan, Greece and Bulgaria)
There were no Genocide allegations in these Treaties. From the perspective of Turkish Republic, these allegations are evaluated as a shameful claim in order to agitate prestige of her and to pluck political concessions from Turkey.
The Statements existing in the Constitution of Armenia, Turkeys eastern neighbor, threatening the territorial integrity Turkish Republic; fostering Turkish Enmity in schools, ,in churches and in diplomacy through provocations; the fact that the neighbor Azerbaijani lands are under Armenian occupation since the last 12 years; the fact that more than one million Azeri citizens struggle to live in status of refugee who had to escape from the Armenian occupation have a negative impact on Regional and Global peace and stability. These international problems have to be resolved instead of relying on Armenian slanders.
Reported to the USA Congress and the EU Parliament with Respect.
***SINCE 1453***
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