Anadolu Agency, Turkey
Nov 17 2004

Armenians In Ottoman Era Documents

DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF STATE ARCHIVES COMPLETES FIRST STAGE OF PROJECT

ISTANBUL – The Turkish Directorate General of State Archives
completed the first stage of its project compiling Ottoman era
documents about relations of Armenians with France, Britain and
Russia.

Directorate General of State Archives Department of Ottoman Archives
Director Dr. Onder Bayir told the A.A correspondent on Tuesday that
experts compiled Ottoman era documents about relations of Armenians
with France, Britain and Russia.

”In the first stage of the project, the first two volumes of the
work titled ‘Armenian-French Relations in Ottoman Documents’ were
published in 2002, and the third volume was published in 2004. The
work objectively explains France’s policy and targets about Armenians
on the basis of Ottoman era documents,” he said.

Dr. Bayir said that the work titled ”Armenian-British Relations”
will be published soon in four volumes.

”The third stage is the work titled ‘Armenian-Russian Relations’. We
have another project aiming to publish nearly 12 thousand documents
through internet. We will start the project by putting 600 documents
to our web-page: ”. In the coming months,
all these documents will be translated into English,” he added.