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  • Armenians Want to Enjoy Their Lives, Not Struggle Eternally, Pashinyan Said

    Armenians Want to Enjoy Their Lives, Not Struggle Eternally, Pashinyan Said

    Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan last week continued to advocate for his policy of appeasement towards Azerbaijan, suggesting that Armenians rather enjoy their lives than engage in eternal struggles.

    Addressing the leaders of his political party, Civil Contract, on June 23, Pashinyan rhetorically asked: “Can we perceive the state as a means to make the well-being of and happiness of the people living here possible and not as a springboard, an outpost, for some eternal struggle? …Is the Republic of Armenia an instrument of eternal struggle or is the Republic of Armenia an instrument of living?”

    This is the rosy promise that Pashinyan made to the people to come to power in 2018. He deceived the Armenian public by pledging to bring them peace and higher income. We now see that he brought nothing but death and misery to the nation after sacrificing thousands of soldiers, the entire territory of Artsakh, and parts of the Republic of Armenia. Contradicting his own criticisms of the previous regimes for increasing the national debt, he more than doubled it by borrowing billions of dollars from international financial institutions, thus placing a huge burden on future Armenian generations. 

    Pashinyan’s only accomplishment is creating a luxurious life for his own family by living in a government mansion, being driven in expensive cars, flying around the world in a luxurious government jet, and staying in five-star hotels in various capitals. In contrast, he came to the office on a bicycle six years ago.

    In his June 23 remarks, Pashinyan fabricated two non-existent ‘challenges and threats’ that supposedly face the Armenian nations. He said:

    1) “There are large countries, international big players, who tell us: ‘ …You are not really a living people; you are a suffering people. You have to suffer, you have to migrate, be slaughtered, have to struggle, and through all that, come and beg for salvation from me, and I have to come and save you.’”

    2) Pashinyan said that the second challenge came from “Azerbaijan, especially Azerbaijan, whose words, to put it very briefly, are as follows: ‘You did not let me live for 30 years, I won’t let you live either, and I will take revenge on you.’”

    Pashinyan provided in the above two defeatist statements the best evidence that he is not a competent leader which necessitates his immediate resignation, before he destroys the homeland.

    First of all, no one in the world has said that Armenians must suffer. This is fake news. The only person that Armenians need to be saved from is Pashinyan. If Armenians want to continue their existence as a nation, they must replace Pashinyan as soon as possible with a more capable leader who could defend Armenia’s interests while ensuring the people’s proper living standards. These two goals are not mutually exclusive.

    Secondly, why is Pashinyan acting as if he is the spokesman for Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev? Each time Pashinyan opens his mouth, one has distinct the impression that Aliyev is not sitting in Baku, but in Yerevan on the Armenian Prime Minister’s chair! Azerbaijanis did not suffer for 30 years. They lived perfectly well earning billions of dollars from exporting their oil and gas around the world, building multiple sky scrapers in Baku, and hosting prestigious international events and conferences. Even more astonishingly, since Pashinyan says that Aliyev is intent on seeking revenge from Armenia, why is he then begging Azerbaijan to sign a peace treaty? Will a piece of paper deter Aliyev from his fixation on seeking revenge from Armenia?

    As if these absurd statements were not sufficient, Pashinyan spoke about “the reasons why ‘the opposition movement,’ led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, ‘has waned.’ Besides using outrageous lies to disparage the high-ranking clergyman, Pashinyan and his cohorts constantly repeat the fake notion that the opposition movement has failed. If the movement had really failed, why does Pashinyan keep talking about it? The truth is that Pashinyan and his followers are seriously worried about the Archbishop’s activities and his numerous followers. The regime’s concern is justified because for the first time in six years, one man has been able to unite the entire opposition field under one umbrella, something no one else has been able to accomplish until now!

    By making such absurd statements, Pashinyan is simply trying to discourage his party members from giving up, like rats leaving a sinking ship. It is no secret that his followers in the Parliament and government are very worried about their jobs and incomes if the opposition succeeds in toppling the government. Furthermore, Pashinyan and his supporters seriously fear that they will be arrested and charged with corruption, abuse of power, violating the laws of the Republic of Armenia, and handing over Artsakh and the territories of the Republic of Armenia to Azerbaijan.

    In recent days, Archbishop Galstanyan started to travel outside of Yerevan to gain supporters in other parts of the country. The Archbishop must form opposition groups in all villages and cities throughout Armenia to expand the movement beyond Yerevan, making it national in scope. The second benefit of spreading the protests throughout the country is to prevent Pashinyan from being able to bring thousands of policemen from all over the country to Yerevan to suppress the opposition protests. If there are simultaneous protests in all regions of Armenia on the same day, the police will be forced to remain in their local areas, thereby making it impossible for them to come to Yerevan in large numbers to attack the protesters.

    Finally, since the opposition movement is also supported by Armenians in the Diaspora, the Archbishop must appoint his movement’s representatives in various countries so it becomes a pan-Armenian worldwide movement rather than being limited to just Yerevan or Armenia.

  • Germany’s new dual citizenship law

    Germany’s new dual citizenship law

    Germany’s new dual citizenship law, passed on January 19, 2024, and enacted on June 27, 2024, allows individuals to acquire German citizenship while retaining their original nationality. This reform is the result of a 42-year effort by German-Turkish organizations and activists, including Professor Hakkı Keskin.

    Key changes under the new law include:

    • Reduced residency requirement for naturalization from 8 to 5 years, or even 3 years for those with strong German language skills.
    • Elimination of the written German language test for the first generation of immigrants arriving before 1974.
    • Automatic German citizenship for children born in Germany to at least one parent with legal residency of five years.
    • Exclusion of individuals who reject democratic principles, engage in hate speech, or advocate for Sharia law.

    The law signifies Germany’s recognition as a country of immigration and aims to promote inclusivity and social cohesion.

  • Understanding the Armenian Question

    Understanding the Armenian Question

    Preface

    Overcoming Prejudice and Hatred

    The 1915 relocation was a dreadful operation for the Ottoman Armenians. It is undeniable that they suffered a great disaster with many innocent lives lost on their relocation routes.

    The Armenian genocide lobby claims that the Ottoman government intentionally “marched Armenians to their deaths”, thus committing the first genocide in history, and that the relocation law was only a pretext for the extinction of Armenians. This allegation of genocide does not ring true. It has no historical evidence or legal framework. To term the events of 1915 as genocidze is to detach genocide from its legal definition and to use it for political or religious purposes.

    No one has ever found any dependable documentary evidence to support the claim that the Ottoman government intended to exterminate the Armenians through relocation. On the contrary, there is considerable evidence of attempts to prevent such an outcome, though these were not very successful under the extraordinary conditions of World War I.

    The 1915 relocation law introduced by the Ottoman government was a wartime security strategy and operational measure undertaken for reasons of urgent military necessity. The Ottoman Empire was fighting alongside Germany against Britain, France, and Russia. Armenians saw this as an opportunity to establish their own state and they revolted against the Ottoman Empire, of which they were citizens.

    In Eastern Anatolia, tens of thousands of Armenians, including those under arms in the Ottoman army, fled to join the Russian Caucasian Army. Serving as scouts and advance units, they supported the Russian invaders. In Southern Anatolia, thousands of Armenian volunteers joined French Legion troops and took part in the occupation of numerous Ottoman provinces.

    Those Armenians who stayed behind were also a great threat to the Ottoman war effort and to the lives of the Muslims of Eastern Anatolia. Just before the war, more than 12,000 Armenian males of fighting age had gone to Russia from Eastern Anatolia. There, they were trained in partisan and guerrilla tactics. Immediately after Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire, they returned to Anatolia. Joining with others who had never left Turkey, as well as Armenian deserters from the Ottoman army, they organized guerrilla activities on both sides of the Ottoman frontier. Henry Morgenthau, the American Ambassador in Istanbul, reported to Washington on 25 May 1915 that nobody estimated the Armenian guerrillas to be “less than 10,000, and 25,000 thousand is probably closer to the truth”.

    In the spring of 1915, when the British were at the Dardanelles, the Russians attacking in the east, and another British force apparently advancing on Baghdad, Armenian guerrilla activities had gained momentum all over Anatolia. Military supply and transport routes, and the communication channels of the Ottoman military units were sabotaged. Meanwhile the Armenian militias were attacking helpless Muslim villages in Eastern Anatolia and committing massacres against wholly innocent people. In some localities the entire Muslim population was killed. Armenian guerrillas were supported by Armenian villagers as well as by Armenians in the eastern cities that were home to leaders of their rebellion.

    For the Ottoman leaders, the Armenian uprising was the deadliest of all national security threats. On 14 November 1922, the New York Times reported that a total of 200,000 Caucasian and Ottoman Armenian volunteers fought against the Ottoman Empire in World War I. In response, at approximately the same time that the Armenians seized the City of Van, the Ottoman government ordered that the Armenian population residing in or near war zones be relocated to the southern Ottoman provinces, away from the advancing Russian army. Armenians living away from the front, if reported or suspected to be enemy collaborators, were also relocated.

    The Ottoman government took numerous measures for the care, protection and feeding of those subjected to deportation. However, under wartime conditions these measures were not fully implemented and unwanted suffering was not prevented. On the way to the south-eastern provinces, those being relocated were sometimes attacked by tribal gangs committing robbery or taking revenge for massacres of Muslims by Armenian bands, in some cases with the connivance of officials. Thousands of Armenians died in these attacks. The loss was multiplied by disease and famine.

    In reaction, the Ottoman government investigated the crimes that had been committed. Hearings were held across the eastern provinces, followed by court-martials, at which nearly 1,000 gang members and more than 600 civilian officials or military personnel were sentenced to imprisonment and, in some cases, execution for the attacks on or abuse of the Armenians.

    The Ottoman trials of 1915–1917, much before the end of war, unquestionably prove that the Ottoman government did not intend to exterminate Armenians through relocation. The number of Armenians who survived relocation also proves that there was no genocide. The well-known Armenian historian Richard Hovannisian has estimated that about 275,000 Ottoman Armenian refugees survived in post-war Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, and Iran. More than 100,000 Ottoman Armenians were in France, the United States, and elsewhere. These were survivors who had been completely in the hands of Ottoman soldiers and officials. Had the Ottomans wanted, they could have killed them all. Yet most of the relocated Armenians survived.

    Detailing the suffering and losses during the relocation, even though they were not caused by genocide, is undoubtedly a humanitarian matter. However, this should be treated without prejudice and hatred while giving due scholarly attention to history and facts. The historical fact is that during World War I the suffering of Armenians was one of the many disasters that faced all the peoples of the Ottoman Empire. Those who lived in Anatolia, including Turks, Kurds, Armenians, Greeks, and Jews, suffered and made each other suffer.

    Muslims were the dominant population in the Ottoman lands during World War I. This does not mean, however, that they were not affected by the devastation of this war. As revealed by the reports of some American missionaries, prior to the relocation ruling, Armenians also committed atrocious massacres in the villages they captured, including Van, which they occupied. In addition to the American archives, Russian, French, British, and German national archives are also full of documents recording the suffering inflicted on Muslims by rebel Armenian gangs both before and after the relocation. Moreover, the Greek occupation after World War I was also a period of extreme suffering for Muslims in Anatolia.

    The painful human tragedies of war should be perceived holistically, without any racial and/or religious discrimination. These sufferings should be shared and, when necessary, mourned together. The perception of common suffering can only be realised by understanding the experiences of all Ottoman people, Muslims, and non-Muslims, together.

    However, communicating the suffering in Anatolia during World War I faces two important obstacles today. These stem from the discriminatory and prejudiced approaches of those who try to impose the memory of relocation defined as “genocide”. The first obstacle is that the same sensitivity shown towards the suffering of Christians, especially Armenians, is not shown towards Muslims, Turks, and Kurds. The second is that the one-sided Armenian emphasis on such uffering overrides historical and legal facts and is used to support allegations of “genocide”.

    “Genocide” is a legal concept. The classification of a historical event or a process as “genocide” can only be based on legal rulings, not personal convictions. In other words, the acknowledgement of suffering cannot change the definition of historical and legal facts.

    Furthermore, the Malta Tribunal (1919-1921) which was conducted by the British Attorney General are key to establishing that the alleged Armenian genocide is a farce as it has no historical and judicial basis. The ruling of July 29,1921 corresponds to a “judgement of non-prosecution” which means, “if there is no legal evidence to support the Armenian massacre claims, there is no legal basis to file or bring a lawsuit”. As this ruling constitutes the first step to a court trial, the outcome of the Malta Tribunal is a final judicial decision consistent with the relevant description of 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention. Therefore, absolving the Ottoman Turks that “the “Armenian massacre”, or currently termed “genocide” allegations do not exist.”

    This book aims to cleanse the debate on the “Armenian genocide” of prejudice, positioning it on historical and legal facts, and therefore preventing it from becoming a vicious “hate fight”. This is because prejudice nourishes discriminatory approaches. It damages our will to live together.

    In order to overcome the prejudice surrounding the Armenian genocide and to be freed from the hatred fuelled by this prejudice, historical and legal facts must replace the “subjective-memory records” about the events of 1915, which have been transformed into some kind of “conscience fetishism”.

    Historical and legal facts reveal that life is not black and white, but that there are shades of grey in between. This perspective allows us to see not only that the legitimate reasons for the 1915 relocation do not “justify” Armenian suffering, but also that the suffering inflicted does not eliminate the legitimate reasons for the practice. Historical and legal facts give us the opportunity to meet in this grey zone, which is free from prejudices, is no longer a vicious “hate discourse”, and opens the door to mutual tolerance.

    My primary debt in writing this book is to Bilal Şimşir, a valuable researcher and diplomat who brought the events of the British H.M. Attorney General Office’s prosecution in Malta to Turkey’s agenda and opened his personal archives to me. I would also like to thank Jale (Swailes) Özer, President of the ADD (Atatürk Society UK), who provided me with the missing documents from the British archives.

    My work on this book was made possible by the support of my wife, Nazime Gürkan, and my family. Without their patience and collaboration, it could not have been completed.

    Uluç Gürkan, Ankara 2023

  • Armenian Genocide Lie, died and buried…

    Armenian Genocide Lie, died and buried…

    Oficina de Consultas al Parlamento 
    Cámara de Senadores 
    Av. de las Leyes s/n Montevideo CP 11.800

    Dear Madam-Sir;

    A few day ago Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a meeting held behind closed doors: “Turkey did not commit genocide against Armenians. The genocide claim was invented by the USSR to worsen Turkey-Armenia relations.” he said.

    Sad to say maintime On May 7, the Uruguayan Senate unanimously passed a bill declaring April 24 as “Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.”

    Please read this letter and keep it in your Parliament’s archive for the future bills about the same issue.

    Respectfully yours

    Oğuz Tolga
    Yeşerti Sokak 4B-9
    Beşiktaş İstanbul

    Armenian Genocide Lie, died and buried…

    I know you do not read the counter TRUTHS about Armenian issue but as a very close man to the god by your proffession please read this.

    As I see ,with your all ignorance you are provoking the workd people with a “Genocide lie with long tail” about the Turks..

    Please read this first and try to understand the matter clearly.Do never be funny in front of the history..

    Tell me What would USA do if they were fighting with United allies, Russia & Mexico in the fictious 3 WW to establish a NEW MEXICAN STATE tyo unify with Mexico?.

    What would USA do if American Hispanic USA citizens suddenly start to ware Mexican /French /Russian uniforms and kill women,old,children and handicapped Americans in their own homes in Texas and New Mexico when all men of the USA army were fighting in 14 fronts against the all the leding powers of the world…

    Tell me what would USA do?

    USA bombed Hirosima and Nagazaki killed 250.000Japanese people after a finished war for the revenge of PearlHarbour’s 2300 lost Americans.

    But,Turks only deported Liar-menian(armenians are LIARS) traitor betrayers to another Ottoman Turks province from Van Bitlis and Mus Cities only to another Ottoman Province in today’s Syria,Der Zor…

    Liar-menians have been insulting,spreading lies and slanders about “my People”” for 100years with a great inferiorty complex of beeing a traitor betrayer nation to their own state,Ottoman Empire in the beginning of the 20th Century with the provocations of Russians and British & French governments..

    They have collaborated with the enemies(Russians in 1878-79/1914-15-French army in 1914-15),and wore their military uniforms and killed their own neighbors who have been living with them for atleast 13 centuries in Anatolia.

    What should Turks do after those hostilities.?

    See the betrayal from USA newspapers..You can easly check them.

    ) “Armenian Insurgent Bands Attack Kurds Near Erzeroum” Daily Gazette, 17

    Nov 1899 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Residents Kill Turkish Gendarmes” Davenport Morning Tribune,

    Iowa, 9 Sep 1890 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Attack Turks” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 15 Jul 1920, Nov 02

    1895, Iowa NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Bands Attack Turks in Mush” Fort Wayne Sentinel, 22 Jan 1902

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) Armenian Army Wants Aid To Set Up New Nation, Out For Independence, Fort

    Wayne, Indiana, 14 Dec 1918 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Attack Tartar Village” Monitoba Free Press, 15 Nov 1905

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Destroy Seventeen Villages, Insurgents Are Active In Sassun

    Area” Post Standard, 19 May 1904, Syracuse, New York NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “French Attempt To Invest Asia Minor Frustrated By Turks” Armenian

    Volunteers Make Landing Possible Are Wiped Out, San Antonio Light 19 Apr

    1920 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Burn Turks, Constantinople” Tyrone Herald, Pennsylvania, Dec

    20, 1905 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Sassoun Massacre:Proof Of Assertion that Armenian Revolutionists Caused

    It” NewYorkTimes Aug 23, 1895 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “America And The Armenians” Reno Evening Gazette, Nov 14, 1915

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Begin Religious Assault:Attack Turks” ProgressReview, Nov 02

    1895, Iowa NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Destroy Village Massacre 400 Tartars” NewYorkTimes Nov 15,

    1905 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Attack Turks And Tartars” Daily Dorthwestern Oct 12, 1920

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Attack Turkish Villagers” Newport Daily Oct 25 1895

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians, Not Turks Set Smyrna Ablaze” Relief Worker Declares: San

    Antonio Express, 1923-01-22 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    “Armenian Army Approaching Erzerum” Bismark Daily Tribune, 13 Nov 1914

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Ready To Side With Russians” Elyria Evening Telegram, 13 Nov

    1914 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “General Antranik Ozanian, Famous Armenian General, Engaged In Many

    Battles Against the Turks, Dies ” Fresno Bee, 31 Aug 1927 NewsPaper’s

    Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Aiding Russians Besiege Turkish Town Van ” Manitoba Free

    Press, 7 Nov 1914 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Erzerum Taken From Turks By Armenian Corps, Aided By Detachment Of

    Armenian Volunteers” Oakland Tribune, 4 Apr 1918 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Insurgents, Uprising in Van” Post Standard Syracuse, 6 Sep

    1904 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Fresno Armenian Weekly Editor Welcomes Gen Antranik, Headed Armenian

    Volunteers Against Turks” Van Nuys News, 14 may 1920 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “Russian Troops Linked with Greek and Armenian Civillians As The

    Perpetrators” New York Times, 22 Oct 1915 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Rebels Advance” New York Times, 6 Sep 1904 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “5 Armenian Revolutionary Societies To Bring About The Ruin of The

    Ottoman Empire” New York Times, 24 Sep 1896 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot

    “170 Armenian Bombs Exhibited” New York Times, 23 Sep 1896 NewsPaper’s

    Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Bomb Factory was Discovered Near Kassim Pasha Cemetery” New

    York Times, 12 Sep 1896 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Are pardoned : Turkish Amnesty To Zeitoun” New York Times, 14

    Feb 1896 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Insurgents Massacred All The Turkish Soldiers at Zeitoun” New

    York Times, 21 Dec 1895 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians landed with Arms and Bombs” New York Times, 15 Dec 1895

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Aggression Of Armenians” New York Times, 2 Nov 1895 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) ” Mosque, School and Bazaar : Armenians Set Fire ” New York Times, 15

    Dec 1891 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Accused of Massacre. Tartar Complaints” The Times London, 19

    Mar 1920 Page 15 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “8.000+ Armenian Volunteers fighting for the Russians in Turkey”

    Armenian Red Cross To The Times Editor : The Times London 12 Jan 1915 Page

    7 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Welcomed Russians in Armenia Entered Turkey” Atlanta Constitution, 1914

    11 07 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Druse Tribe Revolt Spreads” Indiana Evening Gazette, 1925, August 13

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Volunteers in Victory Over Turks” Nevada State Journal, 1918,

    10 05 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Bands Preparing To Invade Ottoman Territory” Oakland Tribune,

    1905, May 10 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Istanbul Robert College Educated General Mesrob Azgapetian Titled For

    His War Services Against Turkey,” Republican And Times, 1922 02 0

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    “150 000 Armenian Volunteers in Russian Army Were The Only Forces

    Against Turks: Boghos Nubar, Paris” Times of London , 1919 Jan 30

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Threatening Letters From Armenian Revolutionionary Committee” Liverpool

    Courier, 1897 08-23 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Bomb Outrage in Constantinople Eight Armenians Arrested” Liverpool

    Courier, 1897 08-21 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Raiders From Turkish Territory on Turco-Persian Frontiers”

    Bristol Times And Mirror, 1897-09-29 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Reported Armenian Aggression – Terrible Barbarities” Liverpool Courier,

    1897-08-10 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Aid Russians Against Turks” Tyro Herald, 1914 12-10

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Four Hundred Cleveland Armenians Waiting to Call Back to Armenia To

    Fight Turkey” Lima Daily News, 1914 11-02 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Mahommedans Plan To Aid Co-Religionists – Barbarities By Armenians”

    NYT, 1905 June 26 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Four Villages Reduced To Ashes by Armenians” Lima Times Democrat 1906

    Sep 19 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Join Russians and Scatter Turks Near Feitun” Washington Post,

    1914 November 13 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Fight For Russia” Reno Evening Gazette London 1915 Jan 7

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) Russians Take Turks’ Fort Near Erzerum, In Pursuit of Turkish Cavalry

    Armenian Students Enthusiastic Volunteers in Petrograd” NYT, 1914 November

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Fighting Turks, Besieging Van Others Operating Turkish Army’s

    Rear” ” NYT, 1914 November 7 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Russians Win Van District” New Oxford, 1916-24-2 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    “(Armenians) From America To Fight” NYT, 1915 January 8 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Join Russians” Indianapolis Star, 1915-1-08 NewsPaper’s

    Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Aiding Russians in Campaign Against Turkey” Fort Wayne News,

    1914-11-07 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Active in European War” Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette,

    1914-11-13 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Volunteers Are To Increased to 15.000” Daily Kennebec Journal,

    1914 May 28 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    “Armenians in Revolt” Centralia Enterprise and Tribune, 1895-11-12

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 18 Oct 1915 : “Dangerous Rebel Armenians Betray Their Rulers, Take

    Refuge in Christian Missions : The Kind of Armenians A Turk Knows”

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 22 Nov 1915 : “Rebel Turk Djemal Pasha Orders 2 Turkish Band Chiefs

    Be Hanged For ill Treatment of Armenians” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 14 Nov 1920 : “Armenians Complain of French” NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 13 Nov 1914 : “Turkish Armenians Refuse To Join Turkish Army –

    Ready To Join Russian Invaders for Armed Revolt” NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 2 May 1928 : “Huncak (Agitates Against Turkish Rule) Editor S

    Sapah-Gulian Dead” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 15 Dec 1903 : “Armenian Revolt Likely” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 4 Aug 1940 “Armenian Military Hero, General Sebooh Arshak

    Nersesian, Who Fought Against The Turks In 1920, Died At 66″ NewsPaper’s

    Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 22 Jun 1935 “Armenian Patriot Miran Sevasly Dead: He Helped Raising

    10.000 Armenians To Fight Against Turkish Front In Armenian Legion “

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 8 Jan 1915 “Armenians From America, Arrived In Tiflis, To Serve

    With The Russian Army Against Turkey” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 9 Oct 1915 “Why We Aid Armenians: It’s Because We’re Bought by

    Anglo-French Gold” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT 13 May 1947 “James Chankalian, Won Honors, in Organising 300

    Armenian Volunteers To Fight Against Turkey” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot

    !

    ) NYT 29 Sep 1915: “Armenians Brought Reprisals on Themselves by Trying to

    Stir Up Rebellion Against Turkey” “ARMENIANS’ OWN FAULT-Bernstorff”

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    “Turkish Garrisons Attacked by Armenian Rebels” The Washington Post,

    1904 Aug 10 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Rebels Killed 20, Wounded 23, in Turkey” The News, 1904 May 2

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Aiding Russians In Campaign Against Turkey” Fort Wayne News,

    1914 Nov 7 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) 2532) “Armed Armenians Kill Many” Muscatine Journal 19 Dec 1905

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Rebels Attack Town, Turkish Troops Fight Insurgents” Reno

    Evening Gazette Sep 13 1904 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Kill Turks” Manitoba Free Press 1916-02-22 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Go To Europe To Fight For The Allies” Racine Journal-News

    1917-08-31 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Kill Azeri Turks (Tartars)” La Crosse Tribune, 1906-09-19

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    Armenian Rebellion: Feilding Star, 5 Sep 1905

    Turks Were Defeated By The Armenian Army: NYT 29 Jun 1918

    Armenian Priests Acted As Guides For Russian Army To Get To Van: Evening

    Post 9 Dec 1914

    Armenian Students Join Russian Army In Caucasus : Evening Post 4 Nov 1914

    “Armenia Wants US Against Hun” -Miami Metropolis 27-Mar-1919

    “Hentchakist Bands Invade Turkish Territory” NY Times 10-Nov-1903

    ” Tacitly Encouraged by Russia, Armenians Cross Turkish Frontier” NY Times

    17-May-1903

    “Boxes Of Rifles, Ammunition & Dynamite in Armenian Church”

    Feb13-31Jan1908-St.Petersburg Telegraph Agency

    “Future Glorious Armenia Should Not Be Limited To Turkish Land, But Must

    Cover Themselves & Russian Land” Nov11-29Oct-1903-Moscow-Paper

    “5000 Armenian Revolters in Adana Preparing For Aggressive Action” NY

    Times 15 Nov 1895

    “Armenians Prefer Sultan’s Rule Not Emperor Nicholas” NY Daily Tribune

    25-Aug-1907

    “Armenians Armed With Revolvers & Spiked Staves, Dragged Armenian

    Patriarch From Pulpit” NY Times 29-July-1890

    “Armenian Revolt With The Help & Encouragement From Trans-Caspian

    Armenians in Russia” NY Times 13-Oct -1903

    “Armenians Responsible For Premeditated Riots” NY Times 25-Oct-1895

    “Gen Spiridowitch Organizing Armenians In NewYork For A Revolt In Turkey”

    NY Times 20-May-1907

    “Turkish Armenians In Armed Revolt Ready To Join Russian Invaders, Having

    Drilled & Collected …” NY Times 13 Nov 1914

    “Armenian Riots” Clutha Leader – 11 Oct 1895

    “Sassoun Massacre -Proof – Armenian Revolitionists Caused It” NY Times 23

    Aug 1895

    “Armenian Bands Formed To Attack & Kill Turks or Kurds” NY Times 18 Jan 1894

    “Armenians Have Plotted To Arouse Sympathy” NY Times 4 Oct 1895

    “Turks Hang Kemal Bey For Armenian Massacres” NYT 14 Apr 1919

    “Turkish Garrisons Attacked By Armenian Rebels” Washington Post, 10th Aug

    1904

    “Fighting In Sasun -Armenian Rebels” The News, May 2 1904

    “False Info Circulated By The Armenian Agitators” NYT, Nov 3 1895

    “Armenian Question: England And America Cannot Afford To Throw Stones”

    NYT, 23rd Sep 1895

    “Armenian Rebels Taken In Hand” -Evening Bulletin, Hawaii, USA, May 16, 1903

    “26.000 ‘Christian’ Armenians In Revolt” -Guthrie Daily Leader, Oklahoma,

    Nov, 1 1895

    “Armenians In Van Rise In Arms Against Turks” -Washington Times, May 12, 1915

    ” Plot To Blow Up Foreign Consulates By Armenian Rebels’ Dastardly Plan”

    -San Francisco Call -20 Aug 1905

    ” Turks Battle With Rebels” -San Francisco Call -19 May 1904

    “Were The Armenian Stories Of Atrocities Only Fabrications? ” -Daily

    Bulletin, April 25, 1895

    After all these TRUTHS Here are some questions for you to ask to your Liar-menian friends..I know They will never answer them..But please try at least ,ones..

    1) Why was every single Ottoman official, incarcerated for war crimes during the nearly two-and-a-half years of the Malta Tribunals, finally acquitted?

    THIS IS THE QUESTION THAT WOULD PUT AN END TO THE “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE” MATTER, TO ANY LOGICAL MIND. I HAVE NOT SEEN THE MALTA TRIBUNALS REFERRED TO IN ANY OF THE ARMENIAN WEB SITES.

    2) The “Sick Man of Europe” was on her knees, financially broke and depleted of manpower (thanks to German-directed military mobilization) and needed resources. Why would the empire choose this most inopportune time to target the Armenians, who made the financial wheels turn and were clearly a vital resource to the country?

    3) The “Sick Man of Europe” was on her knees, financially broke. Why would she spend a fortune on resettling the Armenians?

    If the idea was to wipe them out, why didn’t they massacre them on the spot, as the Armenians did with the Turks?

    4) Could the Ottoman Turks have the TECHNOLOGICAL capacity to carry out a government-sponsored genocide on such a grand scale?

    5) If the idea of the resettlement program was to subject the Armenians to a slow, genocidal death, why did so many Armenians survive?

    If there was a true government sponsored policy of extermination, why leave the barely-living starved alive? In short, it all boils down to: how could the great majority…one million out of less than one and a half million… have survived?

    6) Why then, would the Turks fool around by going through the musical chairs of separating the men (remember, the Armenians claim the men were largely unarmed)?

    Also, why were there supposedly so many orphans?

    If a government has in mind to wipe out a race, why leave so many children alive?

    The Armenians didn’t intend to leave the Turkish children alive.

    7) Hitler began by targeting the Jews in Berlin. Why were the Armenians in Istanbul and other cities of the West such as Izmir, left alone for the most part?

    The Armenians say this was because these cities were under too much foreign observation. However, the Ottomans were aware, after generations of being subjected to capitulations, that foreign posts were set up even in the distant corners of the empire… as readily under foreign observation.(American consuls of these out-of-the-way distant provinces, such as Leslie Davis [the genocide-proving “big gun” highlighted in the PBS pro-Armenian programs covered at this site], were among them. In addition, the missionaries were everywhere.)

    😎 As a related point, “Talat Pasa allowed the American missionaries to do relief work among the Armenians, in spite of the fact that Turkey and the United States were on the opposing camps during the war.

    How many examples are there in history of a combatant country permitting the citizens of another country fighting in the other camp to stay, feed, cloth and educate the people it is accused of exterminating?

    9) The Armenian perspective never fails to offer the convictions Turkish courts laid out to their own officials immediately after the war, and the Sevres Treaty, which partly proclaimed a large chunk of Eastern Turkey to be part of Armenia.

    For a better proof of judging whether a genocide occurred, one must look at the Treaty of Leninakan (Gümrü) signed (December 3, 1920) by the Armenians and Turks, which closed the book on past ills, foregoing the issue of reparations.

    If the Armenians were truly outraged over the Turks’ Nazi-like evil campaign to exterminate them, how could they have agreed to such terms?

    “If the Ottoman Empire really did commit the crime of genocide from 1915-1919, as Armenians allege, then why would the newly established Armenia turn to the Ottoman Empire for help in 1918, 1919, or 1920?

    10) As yet another follow-up, why didn’t Armenian delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, Boghos Nubar Pasha, mention the “genocide” in his January 30, 1919 letter to The Times of London?

    Dear Sir,

    The Liar-menians havent decide the date and figures of the victims of the so-called genocide,yet and they haven’t got even a single original documents in the Yerevan Museum of Genocide..

    You need to ask some more questions to the Museum authorities too.

    -Did turks kill 1.500.000 of your people in 1915

    or

    -Did Turks kill 1.500.000 of your people from 1890s to 1920s?

    -If they killed your people all in 1915 how could they do it when they were fighting in 14 fronts in 1915 including Gallipoli and Dardanelles war with all the Allies.

    -Even Hitler could kill,burn and bury 1.200.000 Jews in Auchswitz in 3 years with a great technology and man power.

    -ANCA Made a discount of 500.000 on Genocide Victims recently hahahaha

    Look at their letter to Coca Cola…on 24.th of April,2013…

    “”””” Dear Members of the Coca-Cola Company’s Board of Directors:

    We are writing to express our profound concern regarding the Coca Cola Company’s association with an organization that has, for many years, orchestrated a hateful public campaign to deny the Armenian Genocide, a government sponsored campaign that killed over 1,000,000 men, women and children because of their Armenian ethnicity and Christian faith.”””

    Aram Hamparian

    Executive Director, Armenian National Committee of America”””””

    It was “Over 1.500.000 last year and this year they said Over 1.000.000.Who knows the figures of the next year’s campaign?

    -If the Turks killed Liar-menians one by one from 1890s to 1920 why at least 15.000Armenian public servants in Ottoman empire including Ministers,Ambassadors,Consuls, second Consuls and other servants did not move their even a single finger and warn USA or Europe for the GENOCIDE?

    Were Armenian Bureucrats in Ottoman Empire the collabrators of the Genocide?

    Those armenian pashas and bureaucrats worked for the ottoman empire between the years of 1900-1919…

    IMAGINE;you are an Armenian Bureaucrat and Turks kill 1.500.000 of your people one by one in 10 years and you keep working as a authorised bureaucrat…..for the EMPIRE to make their life easier.

    Particularly in the 19th century, twenty-nine Armenians were granted the highest governmental rank of Pashas.

    • There were twenty-two Armenian ministers in Ottoman Administration, including the Ministers of Foreign Affairs,

    Finance, Treasury, Trade and Post, with other Armenians holding high positions at the departments in charge of agriculture, economic development, and the census.

    • There also were thirty-three Armenian representatives appointed and elected to the Ottoman Parliament, seven ambassadors, eleven consuls-general and consuls, eleven university professors, and forty-one other officials of high rank.

    • In the beginning of the twentieth century, during the Balkan Wars, Mr. Gabriel Noradukyan, an Ottoman Armenian, served as the Foreign Minister of the Ottoman Empire.

    • Agop Kazakyan served as the Minister of Finance and Sakiz Ohannes Pasha as the Minister of Treasury.

    • lyas Çayan Efendi was the President of the Council of State.

    • Osgan Mardikyan was the Minister of Communication.

    • Ohannes Ferit Efendi (Van), Ohannes Asasyan (Elaziz, L. Ayciyan ve Ant Billoryan (Erzurum) served as the Deputy Governors in the eastern provinces of Turkey.

    THE LIST OF THE ARMENIAN BUREUCRATS AND CIVIL SERVANTS IN THE LATE OTTOMAN ERA:

    THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

    Gabriel Noradukyan (Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1912) Ohannes Kuyumcuyan (Deputy Undersecretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1909 and 1913)

    DEPUTY COUNSELLORS ON LEGAL AFFAIRS IN THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

    Edvar Bey(until 1908) Hirant Bey Abro (until 1917)

    CONSULS AND DIPLOMATS

    Hrant Düz (Messina/Italy)

    Hovsep Misakyan Efendi (The Hague/Netherlands)

    Ohannes Magakyan Efendi (Deputy Consul/Oziçe-Serbia)

    Mihran Kavafyan Efendi (Consul General/France)(in 1907 Counsellor – Plenipotentiary/ Belgium)

    Sekip Efendi (First Secretary Berlin/Germany)

    Harutyun Markaryan Efendi(First Secretary/Belgrade)

    Hovsep Azaryan Efendi (Consul General/Malta)

    Sarkis Balyan Efendi (Consul Bari/Italy)

    Dikran Hünkarbegendiyan (Deputy Consul Odessa/Russia)

    Levon Bey Yeremyan (Second Secretary/Paris)

    Diran Bey Dadyan (Second Secretary/Brussels)

    Levon Bey Yeremyan (Second Secretary/Paris)

    Minas Yeram Efendi (Deputy Consul /Zanta)

    Ohannes Nafilyan Efendi (Deputy Consul /Tbilisi)

    Hrant Bey Noradukyan (Deputy Consul /Galaç-Romania)

    Arsen Efendi (Deputy Consul/Newcastle/Britain Patras/Greece)

    MINISTRY OF TREASURY

    Sakiz Ohannes Pasha (Minister, between the years 1897 and 1908)

    MINISTRY OF FINANCE

    Agop Kazakyan (Minister).

    They have betrayed their own Empire State…

    The OTTOMAN EMPIRE was their own state too like Turks and they have backtabbed the Turks when all the Turkish men in the 14 fronts and fighting against the Allies…

    -How many Armenians have been killed?

    1.750.000 ?

    1.500.000 or 800.000 or 350.000?

    Noone knows but just telling lies..

    Why don’t you send an email and ask the Armenian Genocide Museum if they have a single original document about the genocide in the whole museum.

    Hayk Demoyan

    [email protected]

    Suren Manukyan-

    [email protected]

    British and French/Italian/Greek ,Russian and even USA armies occupied Istanbul and 4/5 of Turkey after 1WW and Armenian authorities searched and read all the archieved documents for 4 years..

    They have taken 144 people in and send them to Malta to judge as “So-called Armenian Genocide Suspects”..

    What happened then?

    Brits released them all after 3 years of investigation in Turkish Ottoman Archieves..

    Because they saw the realities and the Truths..

    The deception of the LIAR-menians ,now continues for 93 years, 2 months, and 27 days.

    The other side of the FALSIFIED GENOCIDE

    please visit http://www.tallarmeniantale.com/ to have more information.I know you will never do that but you have to know the Truth and the Genocide of the TRUTHS by LIAR-menians..

    There are thousands of Armenian web sites telling their story of inferiority agaist Turks.But there is only one website from the Turks make them mad.Why ?

    Why Armenian storytellers yelling this much .

    Let me tell you.

    If you are not familiar with this “”armenian fairy tale”” and read

    www.tallarmeniantale.com web site first other thousands zillions billions websites of “”funny armenian storytellers””look like Charlie Chaplin’s silent movies.

    A lot of actions but no sound.

    They all know that during Ottoman and Turks period of nearly 2000years in anatolia,Armenian anatolians were the number one important people to the sultans even more important than Turks.

    Because they are christians in a great community of moslems so they should be protected safely.This ended in the 1.world war.

    Armenian idiots united with Russian and French armies wore their uniforms and started killing moslems everywhere they found weak.

    Yes ottoman Turks were fighting with English,French,Italian,Greek,Russian and Arab armies in 14different fronts from Iran border to Libya,from Rumania to yemen.

    but armenians opened another front and killed Turks on their backs.

    Ottoman officials decided to deport them.On the ways they died because of that time’s misery and some small fights with dome kurdish tribes etc .

    Nobody killed them planned it is a terrible lie.

    All christian world knows this but all christian world has hypocratic face and dinayed this reality with cold blood.

    Even Armenian diaspora knows the truth but they are in a position to sell this “”so called fairy tale””for their future and never giveup.

    Poor armenian people in Armenia is very busy with this tale and forgotten all their daily needs and keep living in powerty and the government of Armenia is cheating their own people with using this instrument to rule them.

    of course armenian merchants of “”so called tale sellers””are not feeling comfortable in their seats.

    They realised that Turks left their old politics of “”silence” ” ; ;and started to show their real faces.

    They opened their all files of 2billios papers to all the historians and demanded the same thing from Armenian government.

    They refused to show even one document and they were right.

    Because if they open their files all the world historians will come and see the vodvils of the armenian story tellers and start fooling them .

    This is the all story.

    Other stories need proofs and they have none:))

    See their Case to European Court of Justice and the VERDICT of the Court below..

    C-18/04 P – Krikorian and Others [Case closed]

    Main proceedings

    Order – 29/10/2004 – Krikorian and Others

    Case C-18/04 P

    Reports of Cases

    Not published

    (Appeal Case before the General Court T-346/03)

    Proceedings for interim measures 1

    Order – 13/09/2004 – Krikorian and Others

    Case C-18/04 P

    Reports of Cases

    Not published

    (Appeal Case before the General Court T-346/03)

    http://www.topix.com/forum/world/

    armenia/TECB6U60MI5SPA8NN/p9#l astPost

    WHAT DID EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE SAY?

    WHAT WAS THE VERDICT OF THE COURT ABOUT GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS?

    “””European Court of Justice””” ” decided to reject

    Liarmenian Trial attempsts

    2 times in 2003

    and 2004

    with the reason of

    NO EVIDENTS NO PROOFS ALL POLITIC DECISIONS AND POLITICAL DECISIONS MAY BE CHANGED WITH EVERY NEW ELECTED PARLIEMENTS.

    17 December 2003.

    Trial Case nr.T-346/03

    Chancellor

    H.Jung

    President

    B.Vesterhoff

    Judge.

    P.Mengozzi

    Judge.E.Riberio

    Accuser.Name .

    Gregorie Kirkorian

    Suzanne Kirkorian

    European Union Of Armenian

    16 January 2004

    Trial Case Nr.of the Supreme Court of the European Court Of Justice was C-18/04

    If you are an puppet player and all the poor armenians are your puppets would you be happy .

  • Ignoring Armenia’s Existential Problems, Pashinyan Talks Wrongly about the Diaspora

    Ignoring Armenia’s Existential Problems, Pashinyan Talks Wrongly about the Diaspora

    Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met on June 19 with a group of Diaspora Armenians who worked as temporary staff members at various Ministries in Armenia.

    During his remarks to the group, the Prime Minister deviated from the subject matter and made senseless statements about the Diaspora. He said that “… in a large part of our history, during the history of the Third Republic, the Diaspora has often or sometimes been viewed as an auxiliary institution to the administration of the Republic of Armenia. The change that is occurring is as follows: we say that the Diaspora cannot be an auxiliary institution to the administration of the Republic of Armenia because the Republic of Armenia, like any state, is an instrument with its clear mechanisms where it is very clearly described who and how is managing that mechanism. If there is no detail or larger whole in the architecture of that mechanism, we are trying to connect that whole to that mechanism; we are inhibiting the progress of that mechanism. This is obvious. And in this logic, I think that the change that is taking place is very important and very essential. But, on the other hand, I want to look at it with reverse logic as well. In many cases, the Republic of Armenia was also perceived as an auxiliary or non-auxiliary tool for the administration of the Diaspora. I want to say that, in my understanding, this also needs to end. Why? Because in case we make the Republic of Armenia an auxiliary or non-auxiliary tool, we are placing the Republic of Armenia outside the limits of its jurisdiction and, therefore, we make the Republic of Armenia more vulnerable. Our strategy, which I have talked about, the conceptual framework of ensuring the security of the Republic of Armenia, is legitimacy which is also related to this — that we can act only where we have jurisdiction and legitimacy to act. We cannot act where we don’t have jurisdiction and legitimacy to act as a state. And because of this circumstance, social-psychological changes will inevitably take place in Armenia-Diaspora relations as well. I described what should not be as we had pictured. I mean, I understand that there is a certain gap within what I said, but I am not ready today to even attempt to fill that gap because I don’t think that’s my job or at least only my job. That requires wider discussions, and there, the Republic of Armenia or officials of the Republic of Armenia can have a say, say something, but I think that these discussions are more public and informal level discussions about how should be the new relations between Armenia and the Diaspora. They are no longer like that and will not be like that. I think that is obvious….”

    If you understood nothing from Pashinyan’s rambling words, you are not alone. The problem is that he always speaks without a prepared text causing him to stray from the subject and say things that he had not planned to say.

    In his lengthy statement, Pashinyan tried to refute a thought that did not exist in anyone’s mind — that “the Diaspora is viewed as an auxiliary institution to the management of the Republic of Armenia.” No one had said that. We have always envisaged the Diaspora’s role as providing humanitarian aid, investments and professional expertise to the homeland.

    On the positive side, I am glad Pashinyan acknowledged that Armenia has no jurisdiction to meddle in the internal affairs of the Diaspora. He has great difficulty managing the problems facing Armenia, let alone the issues of the Diaspora — something he knows nothing about.

    Pashinyan then strayed into the subject of ‘how many Armenians are there in the world.’ He said: “…There is another problem. We do not always attach big significance to arithmetic. Recently, a question arose in my head. We keep saying, ‘10 million Armenians, 10 million Armenians, 10 million Armenians.’ Is there a list of these Armenians somewhere or not? I am convinced that there isn’t. Here again is the phenomenon of sanctification. That number is sacred, do not touch it suddenly. It neither increases nor decreases. You cannot change it. It’s 10 million! If someone says that ‘it’s not 10 million, it’s 10,561,000,’ everyone will attack him and say, ‘ignorant, dilettante. How do you know that? Who counted it, etc.?’ If someone says: ‘no, it’s 9,200,000,’ they will say, ‘you scoundrel, you are belittling the global influence of Armenians. With the stroke of a pen, you wiped out 800,000 Armenians.’ This is our reality. This is about us, but we have to talk about it. If we don’t talk about it, what is the use?”

    The Prime Minister is wrong that no one knows the number of Armenians in the world. He could have checked Wikipedia under the topic of ‘Armenian population by country,’ which lists the approximate number of Armenians in each one of 107 countries. There are many other sources that give the number of Armenians in the world. Since no one has counted every single Armenian in the world, naturally, the 10 million is a rough estimate.

    If this subject really interests the Prime Minister, he should direct his High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs to conduct a worldwide survey and compile a more accurate number of Armenians in the world.

    I also suggest that the Prime Minister’s aides write his speeches, so he can read from a written text and not stray into whatever comes to his head at the moment.

  • Is it true that Iranians have positive view on Turkey?

    Is it true that Iranians have positive view on Turkey?

    Mehrdad Touraji answers the question:

    I visited Turkey about 3–4 months ago. Landed in Ataturk airport. Passport control, a long long line where most of people from different nationalities were waiting to get through. Some got rejected upon the arrival, apparently they had to pay a fee and some other issues which made me absolute nervous about what’s about to happen! European citizens been rejected for some reasons and for me, an Iraninan passport holder…our father in heaven, even though I haven’t been a good son, just this one time please.

    “Passport, please!”. Now let me get this straight that up to that time I’ve had loads of experiences on passing passport control. Most of the time, border officers take more time on checking my passport. Sometimes they go through all the pages, ask loads of questions and etc. These officers didn’t even look at my face for more than a second or two or they didn’t ask any questions whatsoever regarding to my travel plan or anything else. They stamped the passport and said: “Welcome to Turkey!”. They even answered my question regarding to which border I have to reach out to go to Gerogia and whether I need to leave the country a day before the 90 days visa or it’s alright if I leave on the last day.

    Big smile on face, ready to collect my Backpack…disaster! My Deuter backpack was ripped off thanks to AirAstana! I asked an officer to help me reach to AirAstana or relative authorities to file a report regarding to my ripped off backpack!

    My bad, I left the airport because I followed a wrong direction and when I got back, the information called for someone. A Turkish woman’s reaching to me. “Hello this is …, I’m sorry for what happened. Please, follow me.” Well, at least they’re polite, one of many things to dig to see when you enter a country. Long story, short they said even though I left the airport, they helped me file a report, and God they were polite.

    Trying to catch the train from airport and I realise I don’t have small changes at all. I see some officer, dude they looked scary I tell you that. I ask some people and they seem like they don’t understand me, so I reach out to the officers and one of them ask me to follow her. She reach out to a small kiosk where they refused to give me small change first time I asked them, but then they changed a 50 lira note to smaller notes. I thank them all and get myself a card. Later on, I realised its not that cheap to travel around the town so, waste of time changing the money.

    Next day, I arrive at my host’s house. Named Ali, a good looking lawyer in his mid 40. He invited me for dinner with his family, spent a great deal of time with them. Learnt so much about what’s really going on in Turkey from a well educated man. You then can realise what medias can do to a country, anyhow…not the main topic in here. They were absolutely lovely. Unfortunately, he had to go for a trip after my second day of stay, but he left me his keys!!! Unbelievable!! He left his house keys to a stranger from Couchsurfing. One of many things that you do not see at all.

    The other days, walking in Bazzar, it’s enough if they catch your eyes direction on tea. You can’t get away from there without drinking at least 2 cups of tea. One guy even invited me and my wife for Baghlava. Hospitality, 10 out of 10. These stories can go on and on. I once catched a wrong ferry, and a girl on board guided me on how to deal with somehow Istanbul confusing ferries routes. And, she used her card for me to get pass through the gate when I wanted to go back to where I got on board the first time. Apparently, students get some sort of discount for public transportations. Interacting with polices, I reached one of Prince Islands and two police men gave me a ride to a campsite called madam Martha when they saw I was carrying a heavy bag. They didn’t even ask me to show them my passport or anything. Brilliant!

    84 days of stay in Turkey. Istanbul, Bodrum, Antalya, Ankara, Samsun. Spent most of our -I and my wife- time with locals from different backgrounds, Turks, Syrian, and Kurds. They welcomed us to their houses, picked us up when we were pointing our fingers toward the road, and showed us the true face of Turkey and its people.

    Sure, we had bad experiences too, but we mostly had good experiences. So, answering your question, I alone and many other people from Iran, at least those who seek for a deeper understanding of the people, and it’s culture, send our love to the people of Turkey. Thank you for the amazing time.