CONFESSION FROM WRITER OF “BLUE BOOK”
Turkish Press
March 21 2005
HURRIYET- British historian Arnold Toynbee, the writer of the “Blue
Book” shown as an evidence of Armenian allegations, confessed in his
memoirs that they wouldn’t have written the book if they had known
that it was being prepared for propaganda. In his “Recollections”
written in 1966 and translated into Turkish, Toynbee, who died in
1975, confessed, “the Armenians were after their political ideals
since Turkish-Russian War of 1877-78. They hoped that they could
establish a state like the Greek. The political intentions of the
Greek and Armenians did not have any legitimacy because both groups
were minorities. They aimed to divide the empire. Turks discovered
that the local Armenians could work as ‘fifth wing’ for the Russians.
So, Turks decided to send away the Armenians from the war zone. This
can be considered as a security measure. Some other governments made
similar decisions under similar circumstances. For example, when the
Japanese attacked the United States in Pearl Harbor, the United States
forced citizens of Japanese origin to migrate.”