GENERAL STAFF SHEDS LIGHT ON ARMENIAN REALITY

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Nov 2 2007

A seventh volume of archival documents has been published by the
Turkish military to shed light on the Armenian reality in the World
War I era, with copies of original documents.

The Turkish General Staff has added another level to the efforts to
bring the realities of the Armenian genocide allegations to public
attention by publishing the seventh volume of the "Armenian Activities
in the Archive Documents (1914-1918)." The new volume, prepared through
the efforts of the Military History Archives and Strategic Studies
Institute (ATASE) and the Supervisory Directorate of the General
Staff, consists of further copies of original documents written
in Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish and their English translations,
along with relevant pictures. Without the addition of any commentary
about the documents and pictures, the book details Armenian activities
and organizations and demonstrates through official records who the
real perpetrators were of events that took place in eastern Anatolia
in 1914-1918.

Countering allegations of forced Armenian immigration with official
documents and indicating the reasons for their relocation, the book
shows how the Ottoman Empire was forced to struggle against the
Armenians, who had become the "internal economy," at a time when
the country was dragged into World War I. Contrary to the "genocide"
allegations made by the Armenian community, the book proves that the
relocated Armenian families were welcomed by Turkish families. The
documents and pictures also reveal the sufferings of human beings that
were subjected to torture, cruelty and even massacre by Armenian gangs.