Archival documents

Dashnaktsutyun Has Nothing to do Anymore

info@turkishpac.org (Hovannes Kachaznuni) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:13:03 +0000

Confessions of Hovannes Kachaznuni, the first Prime Minister of the Armenian State founded in 1918... This report, dated 1923, is banned in Armenia, and the copies in Western libraries are destroyed. A copy of it in Russian was first discovered and published by historian Türkkaya Ataöv in 1985. Click here for the original document (in Russian, 7.38 mb) and here for its translation.

Here are some of Kachaznuni's observations:

"The decision of the relocation of Armenians was a rightful measure taken by Turks to serve their purpose."
"Turkey had acted with an instinct of self-defense."
"They [Armenians] had acted in pursuit of the imperialist demand,”From Sea to Sea” and had been provoked with this."
"They [Armenians] massacred the Muslim population."
"The Armenian terrorist acts were directed at winning over the Western public opinion."
"The fault was not to be found outside the Dashnaktsutyun Party."

New York Times Articles

info@turkishpac.org (New York Times) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:57:46 +0000

The New York Times was neutral once; in their November 15, 1895 issue, on the fifth page, they report how the Armenian revolters set fire to mosques, bazaars, schools and killed Muslims and even the Christians. Click here for the original article and here for a transcription for easy reading.

Armenian Population in Anatolia

info@turkishpac.org (British Foreign Archives) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:13:53 +0000

This is another map is taken from British Foreign Archives. It shows the total number of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and the overwhelming majority of Muslims over Greeks and Armenians combined. As is seen clearly, there was no Armenian majority in the land ante bellum, and the total Armenian population was significantly less than the 1.5 million souls claimed to have been killed.

I Witnessed and Lived Through

info@turkishpac.org (Lt.Col. Tverdohlebov) — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Apparently, the Ottomans were not very successful in "ethnically cleansing" the Armenians. "unarmed and innocent" Armenians' actions continued even after they were all massacred by the Ottoman army! The Russian Commander of the 2nd Armenian-Russian Fortress Artillery Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Tverdohlebov is one of the first hand witnesses of the Armenian atrocities of 1917-1918. He writes:

"...More than 800 unarmed innocent Turks were massacred. Only an Armenian was killed while the massacred were trying to defend themselves. They slaughtered the people as if they were sheep. They had the people whom they sentenced to death dig large ditches. They took the people to edges of those ditches in groups and after having butchered them like beasts they dumped them into those ditches. One of the Armenians was counting the corpses thrown into ditches and upon his saying, "Is there only 80 people? It can take 10 more! Slaughter another 10!" disdainfully ten more people were slaughtered, thrown into the ditch and the corpses were covered with earth. This Armenian contractor is said to have ordered the taking out innocent Turks from a building one by one. And he, just for fun, chopped the heads of some 80 people one by one as they were coming out of the door." (pp. 51-52)

"A contractor working at the Alaca Logistics Support Command, told us about a despicable event that took place in Alaca on February 27. The Armenians nailed a Turkish woman upon a wall alive; took her heart out and placed it on her head." (p 53)

"... We were unable of anything to stop the Armenian massacres. We never did want the atrocities committed by the Armenians veiled by our names." (p 63)

"Now I am most grateful to God for not letting me leave the city with the Armenians - about whom the ancient Roman historian Petroni declared "The Armenians are certainly human, but at home they go all on fours;" and again about whom the Russian poet Lermontov justly said "Thou art a slave, thou art a coward, and thou art an Armenian!" - after witnessing what they did in Erzurum before their leave, and learning the number of the unarmed elderly people, women, and children whom they massacred" (p 89)

The Office of the General Staff translated Lt. Col. Tverdohlebov's personal notes from Russian to Turkish (go), English (go) and French (go). You can also download the merged document by clicking here (6.56 mb). For the Russian version (images scanned from the originals) click here.
All documents are taken from www.tsk.mil.tr.

Sharing The Anatolian Pie

info@turkishpac.org (British Foreign Archives) — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

This British Foreign Archive map illustrates the agreements of 1916 between Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy, regarding Asia Minor. Armenians were promised a big slice of the Anatolian pie.

Letter to Paris Peace Conference

info@turkishpac.org (Boghos Nubar Pasha) — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Boghos Nubar Pasha was the head of the Armenian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1918. In his letter to the conference, he confesses that "the Armenians were de facto belligerents". Click here for the original letter and its translation.

Letter to French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

info@turkishpac.org (Boghos Nubar Pasha) — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:12:50 +0000

Click here to see the letter of Boghos Nubar to M. Gout from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dated December 11, 1918.
The general is admitting that 6 to 700,000 souls have been relocated, of which 390,000 have been accounted for in Allied held territories post bellum. This effectively limits to 210,000 to 310,000, the number of the dead due to relocations (a far cry from the 1.5 million, as claimed by today's Diaspora)

Armenian Activities in the Archive Documents

info@turkishpac.org (Turkish Military Archives) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:17:54 +0000

This link will take you to the gigantic work of the Turkish Military, "Armenian Activities in the Archive Documents"; a total of 7 volumes, almost 5000 pages, English and Turkish. Includes original archival documents and their transcriptions and translations.

Armenian Population III

info@turkishpac.org (German Embassy) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:16:53 +0000

Yet another source on the population figures, from German Embassy. Limits the number of the Armenians to less than 1/2 million.

Armenian Population II

info@turkishpac.org (British Envoy & Armenian Patriarchate) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:14:45 +0000

Another document on the numbers. The source is the British Envoy and the Armenian Patriarchate.