Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
March 29 2005
Documents on Ottoman Empire developments to be sent to UN
Baku, March 28, AssA-Irada
Historical documents on the developments in the Ottoman Empire in
1915-1919 will be presented to the United Nations shortly to condemn
Armenians’ claims on the fake `genocide’ through historical evidence,
says chairman of the Turkish History Committee Yusif Hallac.
Hallac said that the number of Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire
and exiled during World War I, as well as that of Armenians and Turks
killed in armed clashes, are based on the documents of the Empire and
the Armenian Church.
`The official documents prove again that the claims on the false
`Armenian genocide’ are not based on any historic facts and are much
ado about nothing,’ said Hallac.
On Monday, Turkey uncovered about one million unknown archive
documents of the Ottoman Empire, which are currently kept at the
Turkish Senior Department on State Archives.
The archive materials include official documents of the `Yildiz
Sarayi’ (the chancellery of Ottoman sultans), as well as those of
State Council, Interior and Foreign Ministries. Archive materials of
the Ottoman Empire, England, Germany, France and USA are among the
disclosed documents that will be available for employees of history
institutes, analytical centers and scientists.
According to historic facts, about 100,000 Armenians were killed in
armed clashes and died of various diseases in the Ottoman Empire in
1915.
519,000 Turks were killed by Armenian armed groups in the territory
of the Ottoman Empire from 1915 till 1919.
644,900 Armenians, who were exiled during World War I, returned to
Turkey in 1921, while most of them went to Syria, France, USA,
Greece, Russia and Iran.*