Türk - Ermeni ihtilafı belgeler = Turkish - Armenian conflict documents

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Kemal Ataturk and Depriving Armenians of Property

YEREVAN (ArmenianGenocide100.org) — Numerous documents published by Turkish researches reveal that not only Young Turks but also founders of the Turkish republic have committed major crimes against Armenians.

Turkologist, senior researcher at Armenia’s National Academy of Sciences Anush Hovhannisyan presents an article, titled “Kemal Ataturk and depriving Armenians of property: coverage of Turkish documents and publications.”

In 2005, Turkey’s Cadastral Office found some Ottoman documents and passed them to the country’s National Security Service. According to one of the top officials of the NSS, the papers could lead to “unfounded claims on Genocide” and similar unwanted speculations. The materials were thus kept secret, with only a limited number of people granted opportunity to study them [«Osmanli arsivleri açilirsa resmi tez zayiflar». Bolsohays News, Bianet.org].

Dickran Kouymjian was the first to address the issue of returning the Armenians’ properties at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, where he delivered a report titled “Confiscation of Armenian Property and the Destruction of Armenian Historical Monuments as a Manifestation of the Genocidal Process.” According to him, the Turkish government had confiscated some 30.000 kg of gold from the Armenians’ bank accounts which would now amount to over $320 million.

Besides the bank accounts, the Ottoman authorities have gathered detailed data of the Armenians’ activities in American insurance companies and a number of other organizations. (Henry Morgenthau, Memoires, Paris, 1919, p. 292; Kévork K. Baghdjian, La confiscation par le gouvernement turc, des biens arméniens dits “abandonnés”, Montréal, 1987, pp. 270-280).
But if some data concerning community property can be found, it is near to impossible to find information on personal property registration. (Raymond H. Kévorkian et Paul B. Baboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire ottoman à la veille du Génocide, Paris: Arhis, 1992, pp. 57-60).
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At the Paris peace conference, heads of the Armenian delegation Avetis Aharonian and Boghos Nubar pasha presented a report, estimating the losses at 14.5 billion francs that would in 1990 amount to $100 billion.

It is noteworthy that the Turks had planned the confiscation of the Armenian and Greek property long before that. According to the Ottoman Ministry of Finance, Turkey’s debt exceeded 1/3 of the state budget in 1908-1909. Besides, once the Balkan wars were over, Turkey was bereft of many of its taxpayers. Following the final revolution in 1913, the Young Turks decided to seize all economic levers from non-Turkish nationals, with the war serving as an opportune moment for implementing their plans.

As a result, the Ottoman Empire’s budget, despite severe wartime conditions, registered an unprecedented growth.
The Armistice of Mudros on October 30, 1918 marked the Ottoman Empire’s defeat in the First World War. Turkey thus made a decision to return the Armenians’ properties in case they came back and applied for their belongings.
Photo: Document of a decision made by Ankara government, banning the Armenians’ return (Mustafa Kemal’s signature is encircled)

Source : https://massispost.com/2015/12/kemal-ataturk-and-depriving-armenians-of-property/

Order of Operation of the Armenian Genocide

Order of Operation of the Armenian Genocide :

In 1918 member of the Turkish State Council, lawyer and founder of the Anglophile Association Said Molla started to publish the “Turkish Istanbul” newspaper. On March 25, 1919 the newspaper published a letter from the central cabinet of the party “Unity and Progress” entitled “Letter with instructions to the Special Committee”. It concerned the Armenian Genocide during WWI.

The newspaper called it “Terrible and tragic document“, noting that it was published without any changes. The letter with instructions consisted of 10 articles, which step by step described all those actions that were to be committed in the process of Armenians deportation. These actions were described by scientists Taner Akcam, Donald Bloxham and Ukur Umit Ungior as a part of the deportation process.

“Turkish Istanbul” does not indicate the source of the letter, moreover, it is known that the archives of the committee of “Unity and Progress” disappeared after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I.

Despite all this, it is noteworthy that there were Ottoman Turkish publishers such as “Turkish Istanbul”, “Alemdar”, “Peem”, which discussed and criticized the party of “Unity and Progress” after the World War I. Below are the points of the document:

1. Applying Articles 3 and 4 of the “Law about companies”, close down all Armenian companies, arrest members of their leadership who oppose the government of the committee of “Unity and Progress”, send them to the outskirts, such as Mosul and Baghdad, and kill them on the way there.

2. Take away all weapons from Armenians.

3. Influence the opinion of the Muslim public, using appropriate methods, organize a number of incidents (as Russia did in Baku) in Van, Erzurum, Adana, where Armenians as a result of their actions received hatred from Muslims.

4. Leave the implementation of actions in the cities of Erzurum, Van, Mamuret-ul-Aziz, Bitlis to the population. Use troops and armed forces as if they prevent slaughter. In the zones of military operations, cities of Adana, Sebastia, Bursa, Ismit and Izmir, on the contrary, help the Muslims.

5. Take measures to destroy school teachers, especially men younger than 50. Do not touch women and children to convert them to Islam later.

6. Destroy the families of people who managed to escape, take all measures to stop all their connections with their native cities.

7. Remove all Armenian officials from government offices and branches by accusing them of espionage.

8. Destroy men in the army with appropriate methods.

9. Immediately begin all those actions so there will not be time for the application of protective methods.

10. Keep this letter with instructions in secret, hand it to one or two persons for storage.
On March 25, 1919 “Turkish Istanbul” wrote: “In accordance to the instructions described in the letter, the exiled Armenians were subsequently killed and destroyed. The letter was published without changes. ”



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