PROFESSOR LEWY BLOWS SO-CALLED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS
By Anadolu News Agency

Zaman Online, Turkey
Aug 29 2005

The famous US Political Scientist Professor, Guenter Lewy, announced
that documents and interpretations related to the three main plots
forming the base of the so-called Armenian genocide allegations were
at least suspicious and the allegations never proved that Armenian
murders from the beginning of the last century were pre-planned.

Professor Lewy, who studies at the Massachusetts University, wrote in
his article titled “revisiting the Armenian Genocide” that has been
published in the fall edition of the Middle East Quarterly: “Most
of those who maintain that Armenian deaths were premeditated and so
constitute genocide base their argument on three pillars: the actions
of Turkish military courts of 1919-20, which convicted officials
of the Young Turk government of organizing massacres of Armenians,
the role of the so-called “Special Organization” accused of carrying
out the massacres, and the Memoirs of Naim Bey which contain alleged
telegrams of Interior Minister Talât Pasha conveying the orders for
the destruction of the Armenians.” Lewy emphasized that when examined
in detail, those allegations were far from proving genocide claims.
Initially, dealing with the military courts that were established
during the last Ottoman government when Istanbul was under English
occupation, Lewy accused Talat Pasha, Enver Pasha and Cemal Pasha,
who took over the country during World War I, for the deaths of
Armenians. Professor Lewy wrote that even the British High Commissar
Calthorpe wrote in a message sent to London that those courts,
like a rough comedy, harmed their prestige. The Famous political
scientist also referring to the memories of Naim Bey, recalled that
Dutch historian Erik Zurcher, proved that those documents that spread
across the world by an Armenian called Aram Andonyan were false.

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