ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN: Certified Genocide Exile of Malta (SOYKIRIM SERTİFİKALI MALTA SÜRGÜNLERİ)

September 21, 2013 By administrator

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By: ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN

Documents not only the people of Malta, the story of the tragedy of the peoples. There is no shortage of blood and tears, geography, imperial interests, meet single-type notions of human rights, is the tragic story of the victim.

In fact, Malta Documentation fish, which have a sense of reality to reveal the roots of the republic. When we look at the traces of the people mentioned in Documentation, Malta, dating back to the present government always takes place in a chain.Relocation is applied under the name of the massacres, the staff in charge of conscience of those who in some areas, relocation (genocide) has claimed the lives of onaylamamaları. This virtuous people are always on a white page has been called on the Armenian genocide.As an example, Mardin / Derik mayor of Lice in Diyarbakir Governor Mr. Nasim, deputy governor Ali Hard Es-Süveydiye BeĢiri, the relocation of their lives at the expense of the disapproving paid the price. Some of the duties of officers were taken just lucky. Jalal governor of Konya, Kütahya Governor azledilenler between Faik Ali Bey.
Saving the lives of citizens and help their transition to Lesvos Aegean Greek origin Governor Ahmet Ferit Foca azledildiği the register for assistance are Rum’lara. Mardin Governor Mustafa Hilmi, Akşehir delivery CommissionerAli Fehmi Bey Muhajir and the Department of Housing and killed in the cause of the absence of registries are being killed.

Work in these areas genocide contaminants / searches, the first national struggle took place between the participants. Blood on them, also participated in the national struggle in a haste to wash the blood.

Mazhar Müfit governor of Bitlis (Gansu), and the Governor of Van Heydar Hilmi (Vaner), Halis Turgut, Deli Halit Pasha, General Pertev Demirhan, Yellow Edip Efe, Ardahan deputy ödüllendirilenlerden for genocide, e tc. are just some of Hilmi. Interestingly, this is a record about people that do not after.

The Surname Law of 1934, it has provided a great convenience for people like lurk. Mehmet the Pharmacist (Eczacıbaşı Holding this day) to turn into a business men seized the enrichment of profit as just one example of < span class=”hps”>non-Muslims.Accused of genocide in areas of salary budget showing the tidiness of serving the motherland Ç reward examples we can see the timeline.

Here are some of the names on the timeline in the budget of 1955, General Navy Minister Ahmet Cemal, and Talat, the former governor of Diyarbakir minor Ziya Gokalp, Gaziantep deputy Ali Cenani, Istanbul deputy Numan Masters, Mus deputy Ilyas Sami, Mazhar Müfit Gansu Governor of Bitlis, Van Governor and Deputy Heydar Vaner, Fevzi Pirinçcioğlu Secret of Solomon İçöz, Orbay Rauf, Haji Badr sürgünlerindendir genocide suspects and Malta.

According to the historian Murat Bardakçı’ya, Talat Pasha’s wife is the chief architects of the genocide and treason service pension with the highest salary isawarded areas.

An important center of the members of the General Members of the Special Organization wives and wives not only themselves but also the homeland of service connected pension, family size, so also wives and children were rewarded. Enver Pasha, the daughter of the lady taking the highest salary Mahpeyker.

The massacre of the plurality of Malta Sürgünleri’nin rewards, depending on scarcity, and which diversified career.Some, as the Deputy of the head, to some deputies’ hood, chief of staff to some, to some governors, management, etc. to some shares fell another. As can be seen from this table that the many massacres took the most awards.

Rauf Orbay Okyar shoots and Prime Ministers such as Malta, Fevzi Pirinçcioğlu Şükrü Kaya Abdülhalik Renda, M.Şeref Aykut, Ali Syed, Ali Cenani, such as Ali Cetinkaya, ministers, governors, generals, educators have.Bloody genocide infected mobs in common, that is very interesting, or school friend, or relative, or through the bond of citizenship of relating each other.Aksu’larla Diyarbakir, Göksular related. Badr’s Assembly, the grandson of Haji Agha.

Enver Pasha’s cousin, the son of Hasan Tahsin Uzer Uzer Cela, 28 after the 1960 military coup HÜKÜMET’TE has been the Minister of Development and Housing. Enver Pasha’s brother-in-Kazim Bey (Orbay) Chief of General Staff in 1944-46,(1942-1944 applied to the Chief of Staff of the Economic and Cultural genocide, chairman of the parliament after the coup in 1960) Fuad Bulca, deputy commander of the Special Organization General Honorary Özdilek and senator introduced on May 27 and is one of the coup plotters.

The establishment of the Republic, Malta exiles extensions thereof, such as mortar, which extends until today.

Talat Pasha, the Grand Vizierate, the Ministry of War, Enver Pasha resigned on October 13 Izzet Pasha, Prime Minister and Minister of War was to replace the armistice (30 October 1918 Armistice Mondoros) appointed a commission to parley.In February1919 the Ministry of War in accordance with instructions received from the client the British Foreign Ministry, the British commissioner in Istanbul demanded the delivery of the Turks in the following categories guilty of violations.

1-Failure to comply with the terms of the armistice.
2 – prevent the fulfillment of these conditions.

3-British commanders and officers to act disrespectfully.
4-prisoners ill-treatment.

5 – Turkey and Transcaucasia to the persecution of Armenians and other nationalities.
6 – to fall to participate, such as property damage, etc..

7-war, to violate the laws and rules in any other way.

On top of that the French authorities the British High Commissioner says:
These criminals to be tried and punished under the supervision of allied military forces provided by the Turkish authorities have argued that an issue.

On top of that the British kept limited only to demand the arrest of criminals. They did not do him any pressure to deliver.

Turkish government officials committed a crime in the areas outside the zones occupied by the Allies in Istanbul arrested and held in custody.Turkish prison authorities, TC. 41 detainees released without the knowledge of pressure from the prime minister.. May 1919 under the auspices of the allied prisoners were taken and some were delivered to the British military custody. 12 September of the same year was transferred from there to Malta.Mondoros’a sent, 55 were directly sent to the island of Malta.

Istanbul in June 1919, is still the overall political crimes, cruel treatment and collective massacres Armenians in prison as a prisoner had more than a hundred Turks.The British high commissioner in Istanbul in January 1920, the British Foreig n Secretaryto the arrest of another addition to the Turks requested the preparation of a list.There were 173 names on this list and were divided according to the crimes they were accused of.
crime;

1 – British cruel treatment of prisoners-18 name
2 – Indigenous Christians cruel treatment-147 name
3 – Armistice ihlal’den – 8 names

Imprisoned in Malta until the end of 1920 there were 150 Turkish prisoners of war. The British government, in the hands of the Turks by the British in Malta British prisoners exchange of prisoners held in the Turkish Kemalist regime has already started negotiating.4 August 1921, is in the hands of the Turks, the list of 29 British prisoners rights reserved.Her Majesty is prepared to release a list of 64 Turkish mahpusunun Bekir Sami, representing the Turkish nationalists signed a treaty on the issue of exchange of prisoners of war.13.04.1921 at 40 Turk by the ministry of war in Malta başkomutana England job immediately be sent to Italy in order verdirildi sledding.14/06/1921 ‘all prisoners would be released in the UK on all nationalist newspapers YAYINLAYINCA announcement, the Bolsheviks of the Soviet – violate d the treaty, arguing that the Kemalist Ankara protested.

Istanbul’s Grand Vizier agreement on the exchange of prisoners of war, not tied to a conclusion by the representatives of the government in Ankara Bekir Sami Bey brokered.30 August 1921 16 Turkish detainees in Malta do not comply with the rules of parole< /span> and fled. When 16 people who escaped, only 59 people were left to get the settlement and trial.

At the end of September of 1921, the British agreed to the exchange of all British prisoners of all the Turkish prisoners.Sixteen Turkish war criminals from Malta on 31 October 1921 and 32 Turkish ship carrying ships carrying war criminals arrived at the same time İnebolu. So that the prisoners were transferred.

Turkey war criminals file 1 – Ali Ihsan Pasha (Sabis), accused the Mosul region, Vans, .12.3.1921 Iran in Baghdad, Colonel Wilson, Commander in Chief of the Army Aga Petros Ali Ihsan Pasha Urmia Assyrians Urmiye’deki in his persecution of the Assyrians, and other places sent a report on the long-During the war this report gives details of the ferocity of the Assyrians, and made lots of Russians.31/07/1918 ‘in Syria, 600 people (Nestorians), along with the village of Castle Seyne Urmiyeli’nin mass murder of 10,000 hospitals, the killing of Christians wounded, taken prisoner in Castle Seyne murder of British officer, Captain Nickel, etc. Events such as.

Ali Ihsan Pasha, but also to regulate the mass murder of the British and anti-Christian and Van person. Enver Halil Bey with his uncle, Ali Ihsan, 51, and 52 All Armenians on base, doctors, pharmacists, officers and others were massacred. Ali Ihsan Pasha, all lands occupied” dictator” ‘roll. Colonel Ibrahim Haji Ali Ihsan Pasha that promotes the killer.Removing an order addressed to the army in April 1918 after the War of Dilman Armenian women, old men and children, left to right, even the one who gives the order.Vl. As commander of the army settled in Mosul, Mosul district commander Divas Bey (Bey Nevzade), along with the age of 70 until the age of 14, and all of them worked battalion consisted of men did the Armenian deportees.Christian refugees fleeing Urmia, reaching 18 and 19 June 1200 was the Hoy’dan. 3300 when they Hoy’dan people.2100had disappeared,Ismail Aga outlaw selected 287 young men (Simko) was killed by the remaining northwe stern Iran, Ali Ihsan Pasha’s forces occupied the Turks and Iranians were killed.Highlander Syriacs massacred. In the second year of the war who had escaped from Turkey adamıydılar Patriarch Mor Şamun’nun.

1915, the beginning ofthe Armenian-Assyrian-Pontus Greeks, but not for thehuman catastrophefinallyethnic cleansing. There is notime-outcrimes against humanity. Those who commitcrimes against humanityand trieduntilyoucome in peacenordemocracy inthis country.Ruled the country for98years,this isthe historyunquestioningmanagement, continuityis essenti al thatsayscrimes against humanity.Impunity forcrimesof genocide, awarding the crimes ofgenocide,issueda newinvitationbloody.1915until today,the geography ofthe Middle East andMesopotamia(Egyptand Syria, Tunisia, etc.) sharingbattles, the interests ofimperialism, unfortunately,has preventedthe suffering ofthe people.Inthe unfortunatepeople ofArmeniangenocidein 1915were faced withthe instigation ofone hand,andthe promotion ofGermanimperialism, on the other hand,the interests ofthe imperialists, by rewardingthe perpetrators ofgenocide, such as the painexperienceddouble.

Changed the fate ofnearly 2million people, the war criminalsin this country(Maltashoots) leavefor the sake ofthe interests ofa fairtrialonthe imperialTurkey, but rather rewardedlaterpioneeredmassacres.

ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN

References: Vahakn N. Dadrian, Ermeni Soykırımında Kurumsal Roller, Toplu Makaleler, Kitap 1, Çeviren: Atilla Tuygan, Belge Yayınları, 2004, Vartkes Yeghiayan, Malta Belgeleri, İngiltere Dışişleri Bakanlığı Türk Savaş Suçluları Dosyası, (Türkçeye Çeviren: Jülide Değirmenciler), Belge Yayınları,Ağustos 2007,

In Turkish

SOYKIRIM SERTİFİKALI MALTA SÜRGÜNLERİ

Malta belgeleri sadece bir halkın değil, halkların trajedisinin öyküsüdür. Kan ve gözyaşının hiç eksik olmadığı coğrafyada, tek tipçi anlayışların emperyal çıkarlarla buluşup, insan haklarının kurban edilmesinin elim öyküsüdür.

Aslında, Malta Belgeleri’ni araştırmak, bir anlamda cumhuriyetin köklerinde var olan gerçeklikleri ortaya çıkarmaktır. Malta Belgeleri’nde adı geçen kişilerin izlerine baktığımızda, günümüze kadar uzanan yönetim zincirinde hep yer aldığını görürüz. Tehcir adı altında uygulanan katliamlarda, bazı bölgelerde görevli personelden vicdan sahibi olanların, tehciri ( soykırımı ) onaylamamaları yaşamlarına mal olmuştur. Bu erdemli insanlar Ermeni soykırım tarihinde her zaman beyaz sayfada anılmıştır. Örnek verecek olursak, Mardin / Derik kaymakamı, Diyarbakır Lice kaymakamı Nesim Bey, Beşiri’de kaymakam yardımcısı Ali Sabit Es-Süveydi, tehciri onaylamamasının bedelini yaşamları pahasına ödemiştir. Şanslı olan bazı görevliler ise sadece görevlerinden alınmışlardır. Konya valisi Celal, Kütahya Mutasarrıfı Faik Ali Bey azledilenler arasındadır.

Ege’de Rum kökenli yurttaşların Midilli’ye geçmelerine yardımcı olup yaşamlarını kurtaran Foça Kaymakamı Ahmet Ferit’in Rum’lara yardımdan dolayı azledildiği sicilinde kayıtlıdır. Mardin Mutasarrıfı , Mustafa Hilmi, Akşehir’de Muhacırın ve İskan Müdürlüğü’nde Sevkiyat Komisyon Üyesi Ali Fehmi Bey’in sicillerinde öldürülme nedeninin ve öldürülenlerin bulunmadığı kayıtlıdır.

Bu bölgelerde çalışıp soykırıma bulaşanlar/arananlar, milli mücadeleye ilk katılanlar arasında yer almıştır. Üzerlerindeki kanı, başka bir kanla yıkamanın telaşıyla milli mücadeleye katılmışlardır.

Bitlis valisi Mazhar Müfit (Kansu ) ve Van Valisi Haydar Hilmi (Vaner ), Halis Turgut, Deli Halit paşa, General Pertev Demirhan, Sarı Edip Efe, Ardahan Mebusu Hilmi v.b gibiler soykırımdan ötürü ödüllendirilenlerden sadece bazılarıdır. İlginçtir ki bu kişilerle ilgili kayıtlar bir tarihten sonra yoktur.

1934’de çıkan Soyadı Yasası, bu gibilerin gizlenebilmesi için büyük bir kolaylık sağlamıştır. Eczacı Mehmet’in de (Bu günün Eczacıbaşı Holdingi) bir iş adamına dönüşmesi gayrımüslimlerin servetlerine el konularak zenginleşmesinin sadece bir örneğidir. Soykırımdan suçlananların ödüllendirilmelerinin örneklerini vatana hizmet tertibinden maaş alanları gösteren bütçenin Ç cetvelinde de görebiliyoruz.

1955 yılı cetvelinde bütçede yer alan isimlerden bazıları şunlardır, General Bahriye Nazırı Ahmet Cemal, Talat, Eski Diyarbekir Valisi Reşit, Ziya Gökalp, Gaziantep milletvekili Ali Cenani, İstanbul Milletvekili Numan Ustalar, Muş milletvekili İlyas Sami, Bitlis Valisi Mazhar Müfit Kansu, Van Valisi ve Milletvekili Haydar Vaner, Fevzi Pirinçcioğlu, Süleyman Sırrı İçöz, Rauf Orbay, Hacı Bedir soykırım zanlıları ve Malta sürgünlerindendir.

Tarihçi Murat Bardakçı’ya göre; Soykırımın baş mimarlarından olan Talat Paşa’nin karısı en yüksek maaş alanlardan ve vatana hizmet aylığı ile ödüllendirilendir.

Merkezi Umumi Üyeleri’nin eşleri ve Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa’nın önemli mensuplarının hanımları da vatana hizmet aylığı bağlanarak sadece kendileri değil aile boyu yani eşler ve çocuklar da ödüllendirilmiştir. En yüksek maaşı da Enver Paşanın kızı Mahpeyker Hanım alıyordu.

Malta Sürgünleri’nin ödülleri ise katliamın çokluğuna, azlığına ve hangi kariyerde olduğuna bağlı olarak çeşitlendirilmiştir. Kimine başvekillilik, kimine mebusluk, kimine genel kurmay başkanlığı, kimine valilik, kimine de başka yöneticilik v.s paylarına düşmüştür. Bu tablodan anlaşılacağı üzere en çok katliam yapan en çok ödül almıştır.

Malta sürgünlerinden Fethi Okyar ve Rauf Orbay gibi Başbakanlar, Fevzi Pirinçcioğlu, Şükrü Kaya, Abdülhalik Renda, M.Şeref Aykut, Ali Seyit, Ali Cenani, Ali Çetinkaya gibi Bakanlar, valiler, generaller, eğitimciler çıkmıştır. Soykırıma bulaşmış eli kanlı çetelerin ortak yönleri, çok ilginçtir ki, ya okul arkadaşı, ya akraba, ya hemşehrilik bağı ile birbiriyle ilişkilenmişlerdir. Diyarbakır’da Aksu’larla, Göksular akrabadır. Hacı Bedir Ağa’nın torunu bu günkü meclistedir.

Enver Paşa’nın kuzeni Hasan Tahsin Uzer’in oğlu Celalettin Uzer; 1960 darbesi sonrası 28. Hükümet’te İmar ve İskân Bakanı olmuştur. Enver Paşanın eniştesi Kazım Bey ( Orbay ) 1944-46 yıllarında Genel Kurmay Başkanı, ( 1942-1944 Ekonomik ve Kültürel soykırım uygulandığında Genel Kurmay Başkanı, 1960 darbe sonrası meclis başkanıdır) Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa komutanı Fuat Bulca’nın yardımcısı General Fahri Özdilek, 27 Mayıs darbecilerinden olup ve senatörlüğe getirilen biridir.

Cumhuriyetin kuruluşunda, Malta sürgünlerinin harcı bulunduğu gibi bunların uzantıları günümüze değin uzanmaktadır.

Talat Paşa, Sadrazamlıktan, Enver Paşa ise Savaş Bakanlığı’ndan 13 Ekim’de istifa edince yerine geçen İzzet Paşa Başbakan ve Savaş Bakanı oldu ve mütareke (30 Ekim 1918 Mondoros Mütarekesi) müzarekeleri için bir komisyon görevlendirdi. 1919 Şubat’ında Savaş Bakanlığına danışan İngiliz Dışişleri Bakanlığından alınan talimatlar uyarınca, İstanbul’daki İngiliz komiseri aşağıdaki kategorilere giren ihlallerden suçlu Türklerin teslimini talep etti.

1-Mütareke koşullarına uymamak.

2- Bu koşulların yerine getirilmesini engellemek.

3-İngiliz komutanlarına ve subaylarına saygısızca davranmak.

4-Esirlere kötü muamelede bulunmak.

5-Türkiye’de ve Transkafkasya’daki Ermenilere ve diğer uyruklara zulüm yapmak.

6-Yağmaya katılmak, mülkiyete zarar vermek v.b gibi.

7-Savaş, kanun ve kurallarını başka herhangi bir şekilde ihlal etmek.

Bunun üzerine Fransız yetkilileri İngiliz Yüksek Komiserliğine şöyle der: Bu suçluların yargılanıp cezalandırılmasının müttefik askeri kuvvetlerinin gözetim ve denetimi altında olmak kaydıyla Türk yetkililerine ait bir mesele olduğunu savundular. Bunun üzerine İngilizler, sadece suçluların tutuklanması talebiyle sınırlı tuttu. Onların kendisine teslim konusunda hiç baskı yapmadı.

Türk hükümeti ise müttefiklerin işgali altındaki bölgelerin dışındaki yerlerde suç işlemiş görevlileri tutuklayıp İstanbul’da gözaltında tutuyordu. Türk cezaevi yetkilileri, TC. baskıları sonucu Başvezirin bilgisi dışında 41 tutukluyu serbest bıraktılar. Mayıs 1919’da tutuklular müttefik nezareti altında alındılar ve bir kısmı İngiliz askeri gözetimine teslim edildi. 12’si aynı yılın Eylül ayında oradan Malta’ya nakledildi. Mondoros’a yollandı, 55’i ise doğrudan Malta’ya gönderildi.

Haziran 1919’da İstanbul’da hala genel siyasi suçlardan, Ermenilere zalimce muameleden ve toplu katliamlardan tutuklu olarak hapiste bulunan yüzden fazla Türk vardı. Ocak 1920’de İngiltere Dışişleri Bakanı İstanbul’daki İngiliz yüksek komiserinden tutuklanması gereken başka Türklere ait ek bir liste hazırlanmasını talep etti. Bu listede 173 isim vardı ve itham edildikleri suçlara göre ayrılmışlardı.

Suçlar;

1- İngiliz esirlere zalimce muamele- 18 isim

2- Yerli Hıristiyanlara zalimce muamele- 147 isim

3- Mütarekeyi ihlal’den – 8 isim

1920’nin sonuna kadar Malta’da hapsedilmiş 150 Türk savaş esiri bulunmaktaydı. İngiliz hükümeti, İngilizler tarafından Malta’da tutulan Türk mahpuslarla Türklerin elindeki İngiliz mahpusların takas edilmesi konusunda Kemalist rejimle çoktan pazarlığı başlatmıştır.4 Ağustos 1921’de Türklerin elinde olduğu, liste 29 İngiliz mahpuslara aittir. Majestelerinin serbest bırakmaya hazırlandığı 64 Türk mahpusunun listesi ile Türk milliyetçilerini temsil eden Bekir Sami arasında savaş esirlerinin takas edilmesine dair bir antlaşma imzalanmıştır.13.04.1921’de Malta’daki başkomutana İngiltere savaş bakanlığı tarafından 40 Türk’ün derhal İtalya’ya yollanması işini halletme emri verdirildi.14.06.1921’de t&uum l;m milliyetçi gazeteler İngiliz mahpusların tümünün serbest bırakılacağını ilişkin duyuruyu yayınlayınca, Bolşevikler, Sovyet – Kemalist antlaşmaya aykırı olduğunu savunarak Ankara’yı şiddetle protesto ettiler.

Savaş esirlerinin değişimiyle ilgili antlaşma İstanbul’daki Sadrazamla değil, temsilcileri Bekir Sami Bey aracılığında Ankara hükümeti ile sonuca bağlanmıştı. 30 Ağustos 1921’de şartlı tahliye kurallarına uymayan 16 Türk tutuklu Malta’dan kaçtı. Kaçan 16 kişi çıktığında, elde takas ve yargılama için sadece 59 kişi kalmıştı.

1921 yılının Eylül sonunda İngilizler, tüm İngiliz esirlerinin tüm Türk esirleriyle takasını kabul etti. 31 Ekim 1921 günü Malta’dan gelen onaltı Türk savaş suçlusunu taşıyan gemi ile 32 Türk savaş suçlusunu taşıyan gemiler aynı anda İnebolu’ya vardılar. Tutuklular böylece transfer edildi.

Türkiye savaş suçluları dosyasında 1- Ali İhsan Paşa ( Sabis ), suçlandığı bölge Musul, Van, İran’dır.12.3.1921’de Bağdat’dan Albay Wilson, Urmiye’deki Asuri Ordusu Başkomutanı Aga Petros’un Ali İhsan Paşa’nın Urmiye’de ve diğer yerlerdeki Asurilere yaptığı mezalime dair uzun bir rapor göndermiştir. Bu raporda savaş sırasında Asurilere ve Ruslara yapılan çok sayıda gaddarlığı ayrıntılarıyla vermektedir. 31.07.1918’de Urmiye’de, 600 kişiyle ( Nasturiler ) birlikte, köy ile Seyn Kale arasında 10.000 Urmiyeli’nin toplu katliamı, hastanelerde yaralı Hıristiyanların öldürülmesi, Seyn Kale’de esir alınan İngiliz subay Yüzbaşı Nickel’in öldürülmesi v.b. gibi olaylar.

Ali İhsan Paşa, aynı zamanda İngiliz ve Hıristiyan karşıtı olup Van’daki toplu katliamı düzenleyen kişidir. Enver’in amcası Halil Bey ile birlikte Ali İhsan, 51 ve 52. bölükte tüm Ermenileri, doktorları, eczacıları, subayları ve diğerlerini katlettiler. Ali İhsan Paşa, ”işgal edilmiş tüm toprakların‘‘ diktatörü’dür. Katil Hacı İbrahim’i Albaylığa terfi ettiren de Ali İhsan paşadır. 1918 Nisan’da Dilman Savaşı’nın ardından orduya hitaben bir emir çıkararak Ermeni kadınlarının, yaşlı erkeklerin ve çocukların bile sağ bırakılmaması emrini verendir. Vl. Ordunun komutanı olarak Musul’a yerleştiğinde, Musul bölge kumandanı Divas Bey (Nevzade Bey) ile birlikte, 14 yaşından 70 yaşına kadar büt&u uml;n erkek Ermeni sürgünlerini topladı ve onlardan bir amele taburu oluşturmuştur.18 ve 19 Haziran’da Hoy’dan kaçarak Urmiye’ye ulaşan Hıristiyan mülteciler 1200 kişiydi. Hoy’dan çıktıklarında 3300 kişilerdi. 2100’ü ortadan yok olmuştu, seçilen 287 genç adam kanun kaçağı İsmail Ağa ( Sımko ) tarafından öldürüldü, kalan Kuzeybatı İran, Ali İhsan paşa’nın kuvvetleri işgal ettiği zaman Türkler ve İranlılarca katledilmiştir. Katledilenler dağlı Süryani’ler’di. Savaşın ikinci yılında Türkiye’den kaçmış olan patrik Mor Şamun’nun adamıydılar.

1915, Ermeni- Süryani- Pontus Rumlar için insanlık felaketinin başlangıcı olmasa da etnik temizliğin nihayetidir. İnsanlık suçlarında zaman aşımı yoktur. İnsanlık suçu işleyenler yargılanana dek bu ülkeye ne barış gelir ne de demokrasi. 98 yıldır bu ülkeyi yöneten, geçmişini sorgulamayan bir yönetim, insanlık suçlarında devamlılık esastır demektedir. Soykırım suçlarının cezasızlıkla ödüllendirilmesi, yeni soykırım suçlarına çıkarılan kanlı bir davetiyedir. 1915’den günümüze değin özellikle Ortadoğu ve Mezopotamya coğrafyasındaki ( Mısır- Suriye- Tunus v.b. gibi ) paylaşım savaşlarında, emperyalizmin çıkarları, ne yazık ki halkların acılarının önüne geçmişt ir. Talihsiz Ermeni halkı ise 1915’de bir yandan Alman emperyalizmin teşviki ve kışkırtmasıyla soykırıma uğrarken, diğer yandan emperyalistlerin çıkarları gereği, soykırım faillerinin ödüllendirilmesi gibi çifte acılar yaşamıştır.

Yaklaşık 2 milyon insanın kaderini değiştiren, bu ülkedeki savaş suçluları ( Malta Sürgünleri) emperyallerin Türkiye üzerindeki çıkarları uğruna bırakınız adil yargılanmayı, bilakis ödüllendirilerek daha sonraki katliamlara öncülük etmişlerdir.

ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN

Kaynakça : Vahakn N. Dadrian, Ermeni Soykırımında Kurumsal Roller, Toplu Makaleler, Kitap 1, Çeviren: Atilla Tuygan, Belge Yayınları, 2004, Vartkes Yeghiayan, Malta Belgeleri, İngiltere Dışişleri Bakanlığı Türk Savaş Suçluları Dosyası, (Türkçeye Çeviren: Jülide Değirmenciler), Belge Yayınları,Ağustos 2007,

Zirve case key to Armenian-Turkish journalist Dink, Father Santoro cases: Lawyer

September 20, 2013 By administrator

ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News
By:Vercihan Ziflioğlu
Once the Zirve Publishing House trial is enlightened, many other murders from the past 60 years including journalist Hrant Dink’s and Father Andrea Santoro’s will also be solved, according to Zirve’s lawyer The solving of the murders in Turkey’s recent past will shed light on key points of the deep state, according to Erdal Doğan, the lawyer for the Malatya Zirve Publishing House and Hrant Dink cases.

Doğan, who until recently was also an attorney for the Dink case, told the Hürriyet Daily News that the Zirve Publishing House trial was a key case that would unravel the last 60 years of Turkey’s deep state.

“Once the Zirve Publishing House trial is solved, a picture of Turkey’s past 60 years will appear. It will be clear how governments have been brought down, how ethnic structures have been played with, and how psychological propaganda has been made,” he said.

Three missionaries, a German, Tillman Geske, and two Turks, Necati Aydın and Uğur Yüksel, were tied up and tortured before their throats were slit at the Zirve Publishing House, a Christian publisher in Malatya, on April 18, 2007. Prior to that incident, Father Andrea Santoro was shot dead on Feb. 5, 2006 as he prayed in his church in the Black Sea city of Trabzon. In addition, Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot on Jan. 19, 2007 in front of the building of the Armenian-Turkish Daily Agos, where he was the editor-in-chief.

Doğan said that the latest indictment in the Zirve trial openly showed the cell structure of the Ergenekon coup plot group, adding that Christians – especially Armenians – were targeted. “The structure that committed the Zirve murders is the same structure that committed the Dink and Santoro murders. The government is targeted, and chaos is aimed for,” he said.

Doğan claimed that all of these cases had ties with the Special Warfare Department, which also helped organize the anti-Greek riots in Istanbul of Sept. 6-7, 1955.

“The structure of 1955 was developed in the 1990s, and a structure under the Special Forces Command was formed. We talk about a structure named Turkey’s National Strategies and Warfare Department (TUSHAD), which came up clearly with documents in the Zirve murders trial,” said Doğan.

‘Black and white’ forces

He also claimed that the Turkish General Staff had approved of the existence of this structure of “black and white” forces. “The whites are established as civilians and they point out targets by disinformation,” he stated.
Retired General Hurşit Tolon and former Malatya Gendarmerie Regiment Commander Mehmet Ülger, who both were convicted in the recent Ergenekon coup case verdict, have also been added as suspects in the Zirve murders’ case. In addition, the court that is considering the case has also demanded the court files of the Ergenekon, Balyoz, JITEM and Musa Anter cases.

Upon being asked whether the government could be held responsible for these murders, Doğan said that as the government had signed the National Security Council decision of 2003, which perceived missionary works as a threat, it could be held responsible.

He said sufficient speed could not be given to the Dink case thus far as there had been considerable levels of disinformation. Doğan claimed that the 14th High Criminal Court looking at the case had reached its verdict by ruling at the very beginning of the trial that there was no organization behind the murder. He also stated that the 9th penal chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals had “signed Dink’s death decree” by notoriously putting him on trial for breaching Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. “Therefore, neither of the courts are objective or independent,” said Doğan.

Egyptian journalist: Turkey terrified that Egypt can recognize Armenian Genocide

September 20, 2013 By administrator

Turkey is terrified that Egypt can recognize the Armenian Genocide, Alaa El Din, visiting Egyptian journalist for cultural and diplomatic affairs, told a news conference in Yerevan.

“When Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan announced that what took place in Egypt was not a revolution but a coup, Egypt hinted that it can recognize the Armenian Genocide. Currently, it is also the wish of the Egyptian people. Erdogan calmed down after that. However, before this statement was made, the Egyptians did not know about the Armenian Genocide. Now there is a general view in the Egyptian public that the Armenian Genocide should be recognized at the state level. This will also be a step against Turkey,” the journalist said.

Egyptian journalist, international studies expert Hazem El-Mallah noted that there are friendly ties between Armenia and Egypt and the Egyptian people now know about the Armenian Genocide.

“I think pressures should increase for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide,” the Egyptian journalist said.

Source: Panorama.am

Expert’s Final Words on Turkey’s Legal Responsibility for Genocide

September 18, 2013 By administrator

BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN

With the approaching Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, there has been growing public interest in taking legal action against Turkey in international courts.

One of the leading experts in this field was Dr. Yuri Barseghov, Professor of International Law, who wrote scores of pioneering books and articles on Armenian claims. Shortly before his death in 2008, Prof. Barseghov of Moscow outlined the basis for legal action against Turkey in an article titled: “Ways and Means of Assigning Responsibility for the Armenian Genocide.”

Dr. Barseghov maintained that in 1920, “the Ottoman Empire admitted its responsibility for committing this crime” by signing the Treaty of Sevres, which unfortunately was not ratified due to the reluctance of the Allied Powers to pressure Turkey. Since then, despite the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by dozens of countries and international organizations, Prof. Barseghov believed that such acknowledgments “will not solve the problem of [Turkish] responsibility.”

Prof. Barseghov contended that “since Turkey stubbornly continues to refuse recognizing that it committed this crime, it is still necessary to solve the question of responsibility for the Armenian Genocide through competent international bodies by making such decisions mandatory for both parties [Armenia and Turkey].”

Dr. Barseghov did not believe that the United Nations is a practical vehicle for the resolution of the Armenian Genocide issue, since it is a highly politicized body. “Decisions of the General Assembly are not mandatory,” while the major powers, such as the United States and Great Britain, enjoy the privilege of veto power in the Security Council blocking any action against Turkey.

The problem of initiating litigation under the statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is that both Armenia and Turkey have to agree in advance to abide by the decisions of the Court. Neither country has so far “recognized the obligatory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice.” Since Turkey most probably would not agree to submit itself to such jurisdiction, Dr. Barseghov suggested that the Republic of Armenia as a sovereign state take advantage of “the unique opportunity” of filing a unilateral case against Turkey on its responsibility for the Armenian Genocide, “under Article IX of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”

Dr. Barseghov expressed regret that no response was received from the Armenian government after the Armenian Institute of International Law and Political Science of the Union of Armenians of Russia – which he directed – several years ago submitted a study on this subject to Pres. Robert Kocharian and Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian.

Dr. Barseghov explained that “in order to start a case by this judicial procedure [Article IX], the Government of Armenia has to formulate its position on the questions of interpretation, application or implementation of the Convention on this basis on the question of responsibility of the Turkish state for the committed crime.”

Prof. Barseghov warned Armenian officials that “there exists a provision in International Law which is confirmed by the International Court of Justice in other cases: if a state has the opportunity to submit a dispute but does not take such action, it would mean that the state accepts the existing situation.”

Dr. Barseghov allayed possible Armenian concerns that the ICJ may object to filing such a case due to questions regarding the retroactivity of the Genocide Convention. He expressed his firm belief that the Convention applies to the Armenian Genocide even though it preceded the Convention. He noted that the ICJ in its Advisory Opinion of 1951 stated: “the principles inherited by the Convention on Genocide, unlike the treaty obligations established in it, were already part of common international law by the time these awful crimes were committed.”

Prof. Barseghov pointed out that arguments supporting the Convention’s retroactivity were put forward by the ICJ which has “twice given competent, exhaustive explanations on the fundamental basic questions of the applicability of the Convention including also its retroactivity.” Based on these rulings, Prof. Barseghov concluded: “the Convention applies also to crimes committed in the past whose consequences have not been eliminated.”

As announced during a recent conference in Yerevan, the Armenian government has formed a task force to prepare the legal file for a case to be brought against Turkey in international courts. The expert advice of Prof. Barseghov and other specialists should ensure that the lawsuit is properly prepared and presented to obtain long overdue justice for Armenian Genocide victims.

Arrest warrant issued for key suspect in restarted Dink case

September 18, 2013 By administrator

ISTANBUL

One of the most controversial cases of recent Turkish history, murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, restarts. Dink family denies to attend trials of ‘crime coalition’s game’ as court issues an arrest warrant for the key suspect Erhan Tuncel An Istanbul court has issued an arrest warrant for Erhan Tuncel, a former police informant and suspect in the resumed murder case of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink.

Tuncel had been released with the first verdict, which has now been overturned. Dink’s family protested the trial and refused to attend, saying “they are not a part of this game.”

“As the Dink family, we will no more be tools to the state mechanisms that have been mocking us and we will not attend the hearings of the retrial,” Dink’s family said in a letter published on the website of the Armenian-Turkish daily Agos.

“The crime coalition that is called the state recommitted the murder in every hearing, every day while it presented itself as if seeking justice. That coalition is the crime gang itself that planned the murder and then covered it up.”

Tuncel is a key suspect

Tuncel is seen as a key in linking the murder to the state institutions as members of the Police Department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, the suspects’ hometown, have been accused of failing to relay intelligence provided by Tuncel to the Trabzon Gendarmerie Command in a report prepared by Turkey’s State Supervisory Council (DDK).

Dink, the renowned editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot in front of his office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007, after being repeatedly prosecuted for “insulting Turkishness.”

The triggerman, Ogün Samast, who was 17 years old at the time of the murder, and Yasin Hayal, who was charged with being the instigator of the assassination, were convicted of the murder.

However, a high criminal court dismissed charges related to “armed terrorist organization.” The Supreme Court of Appeals verdict defined the acts of all suspects in the case under “an organization formed to commit crime” according to the Turkish Penal Code Article 220. Hayal yesterday denied that he was involved in any criminal organization involved in the murder.

Around 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Istanbul court where eight defendants were being retried after an appeals court deemed they were part of a criminal conspiracy. Crowds accused authorities of covering up a conspiracy by nationalist elements in the state apparatus.

The crowd chanted “the murderer state will give account” and “we are all Hrant, we are all Armenians,” holding up banners in Turkish, Armenian and Kurdish. They see Dink as the victim of a shadowy “deep state” network of nationalist militants accused of killings of prominent liberals and Kurdish nationalists.

“This show must end, the real perpetrators must be brought to justice,” Gulten Kaya, the widow of well-known Kurdish singer Ahmet Kaya, told reporters outside the court.

Dink’s family and his supporters reject the premise of the retrial that the defendants were part of a criminal conspiracy and argue that the state was involved in what amounted to a terrorist conspiracy.

The case was adjourned to December 3.

New Dink murder trial begins in Turkey

September 17, 2013 By administrator

September 17, 2013 | 15:36

ISTANBUL. – The Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court on Tuesday began the trial into the killing of Hrant Dink after a decision by the Supreme Court of Appeals overturned the Istanbul court’s first ruling on the murder.

Several MPs from main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and pro-Kurdish “Peace and Democracy Party” (BDP), public activists, and human rights advocates also attended the first session of the trial, reports OdaTV website of Turkey.

During the session, the prosecution motioned the court to arrest Erhan Tuncel, a prompter of Dink’s murder, who was released after the issuance of the initial ruling on the murder case.

The court granted the prosecution’s request and, subsequently, the court was adjourned.

To note, on January 17, 2012 the Turkish court found Yasin Hayal guilty of planning and organizing the murder of Hrant Dink—founder and chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian bilingual weekly, who was gunned down in 2007 in front of his office building—, and sentenced him to life in prison. Erhan Tuncel, on the other hand, was found not guilty of prompting Dink’s murder, and, instead, he was sentenced to ten years and six months for an explosion in a McDonald’s restaurant. But taking into account that Tuncel was already incarcerated for that amount of time, the court ruled his release. The court also found the nineteen other defendants not guilty of being members of a terrorist organization.

When the Supreme Court of Appeals overturned in May the Istanbul court’s first ruling on the murder, the case was sent to the Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court.

Hrant Dink Foundation award goes to Turkey’s Saturday Mothers

September 16, 2013 By administrator

ISTANBUL – Doğan News Agency

Hanım Tosun, İkbal Eren and Emine Ocak, who were among the pioneers of the demonstrations, received the prize during the ceremony on behalf of all Saturday Mothers on Sept. 15. DHA photo

Turkey’s “Saturday mothers,” who have gathered every Saturday in Istanbul for nearly 15 years to draw attention to their missing family members, received the fifth International Hrant Dink Award on Sept. 15, which is named in honor of assassinated Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Serbian human rights activist Natasa Kandic, known for her documentation of her country’s war crimes, was also awarded by this year’s jury.

The Saturday Mothers have become familiar faces to those passing down İstiklal Avenue on Saturday mornings, as they have gathered for more than 400 consecutive weeks at Galatasaray Square with pictures of family members who went missing after being detained by security forces or who died in unsolved murders, especially in the dark days of the 1990s.

Every week, two or three relatives read a message or a poem for their loved ones, while anybody who wishes can take part in the demonstrations by holding a picture of one of the missing.

Hanım Tosun, İkbal Eren and Emine Ocak, who were among the pioneers of the demonstrations, received the prize during the ceremony on behalf of all Saturday Mothers. The three expressed hope that similar deaths or disappearances will not occur again.

For her part, Kandic said she was proud to receive such a meaningful prize in the memory of Dink. “Without empathy, there can be no peace, with our past and with others. The only condition of peace is empathy,” she said.

This year’s jury included past laureates such as sociologist İsmail Beşikçi and Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho, as well as British historian Timothy Garton Ash.

Costa-Gavras, a French filmmaker of Greek origin who came last year to support demonstrations against the demolition of the iconic Emek Movie Theater, was also part of this year’s jury.

September/16/2013

ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN – IZMIR, TURKEY The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is still going on she Exposes Turkish crime against Humanity

September 14, 2013 By administrator

BU ÜLKEDE EN BÜYÜK KIYAMET

By: ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN – IZMIR, TURKEY ( Exposes Turkish crime against Humanity)

Translation in Both Turkish and English

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, içindeki canavarı ehlileştirmeyip, insanlık suçu işlemektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is not to domesticate the monsters in ourselves and to commit crimes against humanity.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, yüzyıl önce hatta daha öncesi biz seyirci kaldığımız için koptu/kopmaya da devam ediyor.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is still going on, as we just watched it happening without intervention 100 years ago.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1842- 1844de Hakkâride Botan miri Kürt Bedirhan tarafından 10.000 Nasturi’nin katliama uğramasıdır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is the massacre of 10,000 Nestorians in Hakkari committed by Kurdish Mir Badr Khan.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1894- 1896 Hamidiye alaylarının 200.000 İnsanı katledip, zorla Müslümanlaştırıldığında sessiz kalmaktır.

The biggest crime in this country was committed by Hamidiye Regiments in 1894-1896 by massacring 200,000 people and forcing them to convert into Islam.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1909 da Jön Türklerin iktidara geçer geçmez, Adana/Kilikyada 30.000 Ermeni katledilirken görmemezlikten gelmektir.

The biggest crime in this country was to close eyes to the massacre of 30,000 Armenians in Adana/Cilicia that happened right after Jeunes Turcs took power.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1914’ün ikinci yarısında Ege’de 250.000 Rum’u sürgün ederek mallarını talan etmektir.

The biggest crime in this country was the deportation of 250,000 Greeks and the confiscation of their properties during the scond half of 1914.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1915 de İttihat ve Terakki tarafından yaklaşık 1,5 Milyon insanı (Ermeni -Süryani-Pontus Rum ) salt Türk ve Müslüman olmadığı için öldürmektir.

The biggest crime in this country was that Union and Progress Party motivated to kill 1,5 million people (Armenian-Assyrian-Pontic Greek) just because they were not Turkish and Muslim.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1922de İzmir’de İTC çetelerinin Ermeni ve Rum kilise, manastır ve gayrı menkullerini yakıp, kadim Rum halkını denize döktükten sonra bunu her 9 Eylülde törenlerle kutlamaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is that the massacre, confiscation and arsonry that happened during 1922 against Armenian and Greek monasteries, churches and properties and that the deportation of ever present autochtonus Greeks are celebrated every year on September 9th.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, kan ve gözyaşıyla kurulan cumhuriyetin, 1924de Hakkâride yaklaşık 20.000 Süryani/Nasturi’yi katletmektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is the massacre of 20,000 Assyrians and Nestorians in Hakkari in 1924 by the republic that was formed with blood and tears.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, ilkokullarda her sabah Türk olmayan kadim halklara ( Ermeni, Süryani, Kürt, Rum, Pomak, Laz, Boşnak, Arap v.s. ) Ne mutlu Türküm diyene andını zorla okutup, körpecik beyinleri ırkçılıkla zehirlemektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to posion young minds at elementary schools with racism every morning by forcing them to shout “ How happy is the one who says “I am a Turk”” even though these kids belong to autochtonous people of Anatalia (such as Armenains, Assyrians, Kurds, Greeks, Pomaks, Lazs, Arabs, etc.).

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1930’da Ağrı/Zilanda Ermeni-Süryani-Rumların işini bitirdikten sonra 15.000 Kürt’ü katletmektir.

The biggest crime in this country was to annihilate 15,000 Kurds in Agiri/Zilan in 1930 right after being “done” with Armenains, Assyrians and Greeks.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1934de Türkçe konuş vatandaş kampanyasıyla Türk olmayan unsurlara, Türkçeyi ana dil olarak dayatmaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to force Turkish as the native language for non-Turks via the campaign of “Citizen, speak Turkish!”.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1934 de Trakya bölgesinde yaşayan 13- 15000 civarındaki Yahudileri baskılarla, şiddet ve tecavüz-talan kültürü ile zorla göç ettirip, mallarına el koymaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to force 15,000 Jews of Thrace in 1934 leave the country and confiscate their properties via a campaign of oppression, violence and plunder-rape culture.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1937-1938’de ise Dersim’de, 30.000 Kızılbaş Kürdü, salt Alevi olduğu için imha etmektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is is to kill 30,000 Qizilbash Kurds in 1937-1938 in Dersim just because they were Alawites.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, Çorum, Maraş, Sivas, Gazi, Armutluda, Aleviler katledilirken üç maymunu oynamaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to play three monkeys while Alawites were being exterminated in Çorum, Maraş, Sivas, Gazi, Armutlu.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1942- 1944’de bu ülkenin kadim halklarına ekonomik genosit uygulayıp, sermayeyi millileştirmektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to implement an economic genocide against the ever present peoples of this land and confiscate their properties between 1942-1944.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1955’de 5-6 Eylül olayları ile son kalan Hıristiyanların mallarına el koyup, sermayeyi tamamen Türkleştirmektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to consifcate the remaining Christians’ properties during the September 5th and 6th incidents in 1955 to Turkify the national capital.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1974 Kıbrıs savaşı sırasında bu ülkenin son kalan Hıristiyan halklarını korkutup, kaçırmaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to intimidate the remaining Christians of this country during the 1974 Cyprus war and force them to leave their land.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1980’de Faşist darbe yapıp, başta Diyarbakır, Metris, Bayrampaşa, Pozantı cezaevleri olmak üzere, cezaevlerini; işkencehaneye ve tecavüzhaneye dönüştürmektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to make a fascist coup d’état in 1980 and turn prisons into torture and rape houses, especially the ones in Diyarbekir, Metris, Bayrampasa and Pozanti.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, tek tipçi, fırsat eşitliği olmayan, anti demokratik darbe anayasalarıyla hala ülkeyi yönetmektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to still rule the country with an anti-democratic and uniformist constitution that does not promote equality of opportunities.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1980den günümüze değin faili meçhul cinayetler işlemektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to commit unresolved political killings since 1980.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, Van depreminde Van halkına biber gazı, polis dayağı ve kar-kışta yurttaşlarını aç-çıplak bırakıp, yardım elini uzatmamaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to have the police forces beat Van residents, attack them with pepper gas, leave them hungry and homeless in the middle of a snowy winter after an earthquake hit them.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, Roboskide 34 masum insanı katledip hesap vermemektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to kill 34 innocent civilians at Roboski and not to be held accountable.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, Rojavada çoluk-çocuk- kadın demeden Suriye’ nin içişlerine karışıp, El Kaide’ye bağlı çetelere destek verip, kimyasal silahlarla Kürt katliamı yapmaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to support al-Qaida affiliated terrorists and meddle into the internal affairs of Syria and to massacre Kurds with chemical weapons without discriminating between kids, men or women.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, Suriye/Laskiyede Arap Alevilerini katletmektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to massacre the Arab Alawites of Latakia.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 1915 Soykırımından sağ kalan son Hıristiyanları, İslami terör örgütleri tarafından Suriyede etnik ve dini temizlik yapmaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to be a part of the crime of Islamist terrorists who are doing ethnic cleansing against the survivors and remnants of 1915 Christian genocide in Syria.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, bu ülkenin kadim halklarına sürekli küfürle hitabet etmektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to address autochtonous people of this country with cuss words.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, ülkede ve dışarıda savaş çığırtkanlığı yapanlara dur dememektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is not to say STOP to war mongers inside and outside the country.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, 2013 Taksim/ Gezi direnişinden günümüze değin süregelen direnişlerde, orantısız güç kullanmaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to apply disproportionate power against the 2013 Taksim/Gezi protesters.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, insanlık suçu işleyenlerin ödüllendirilip, halen yargılamamaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to award the ones that commit crimes against humanity and not put them through judicial process.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, zalimin zulmüne karşı, mazlum halklara katliam yapanlar karşısında, susmaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to keep quiet against the oppression of the oppressor and the massacres done against victim peoples.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, geçmişimizle birey ve ülke olarak hala yüzleşememektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is not to be able to face our past as individuals and as a country.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, Her gün yediğimiz lokmanın biraz daha azaltılıp, sadaka kültürüne alıştırılmasıdır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to lose some piece of our bread every day and to be forced into begging culture.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, İslam adına cihat edenlerin Ortadoğu’yu kana bulamasıdır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to have the ones that do Jihad in the name of Islam create a bloodbath in the Middle East.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, imha, sürgün ve inkâr etmektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to exterminate or to send to exile and then to deny.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, Sömürgeci militarizmin ‘’topraksız ulus sorunu olmaz’’ düşüncesiyle bu ülkenin en kadim halklarını topraksızlaştırmaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is that colonial militarism rendered all autochtonous nations landless thinking that a “ landles nation won’t cause problems”.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, yüzyıllardır kandan kına yakanlara karşı dilsiz olmaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to be losing our tongue against the ones that use blood as henna ornaments.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, etnik, dinsel, cinsel, coğrafik, demografik Soykırım yapıldığında bu suça ortak olmaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to be a part of the crime when an ethnical, sexual, geographical, demographical genocide is committed.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, TC’nin desteğiyle orta doğuda insanlar katledilirken vicdanları körleştirmek, vicdan yasası yerine cüzdan yasasını görünür kılmaktır.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to render people blind while Middle Eastern people are being massacred with the support of the Republic of Turkey and instead to apply the law of wallet/money.

Bu ülkede en büyük kıyamet, gözlerimizin önünde her gün gencecik fidanlar vurulurken, kuzuların sessizliğine bürünmektir.

The biggest apocalypse we witnessed in this country is to keep quiet like lambs while young people are being killed every day in front of our eyes.

Ve bu ülkede hala kıyamet (!) kopmadıysa bu, kötü insanların şerrinden değil; barıştan, özgürlükten, insanca yaşamdan yana olan ve hala güzel yarınları birlikte örmenin inancını, yitirmeyenlerin verdiği mücadeledendir.

And if the apocalypse (!) has not happened yet in this country, it is not because of the evil committed by bad people; it is because of the struggleof pro-peace, pro-freedom, pro-humanism people that still did not lose the hope and belief to build a bright future together.

Bindik bir kıyamete, gidiyoruz yüzyıldır hep birlikte!

We are sitting on an apocalypse and we are all going through it for hundred years all together.

BY: ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN – IZMIR, TURKEY

Memorial to Armenian, Assyrian genocide victims unveiled in Diyarbakir

September 13, 2013 By administrator

September 13, 2013 – 14:10 AMT

The Sur Municipality of Diyarbakir held the official inauguration of the Monument of Common Conscience on September 12, with mayor Abdullah Demirbaş apologizing in the name of Kurds for the Armenian and Assyrian “massacre and deportations,” The Armenian Weekly said.

“We Kurds, in the name of our ancestors, apologize for the massacres and deportations of the Armenians and Assyrians in 1915,” Demirbaş declared in his opening speech. “We will continue our struggle to secure atonement and compensation for them.”

The mayor called upon the Turkish authorities to issue an apology and do whatever needed to atone for the genocide. “We invite them to take steps in this direction,” he said.

The inscription on the monument at the Anzele Park, near a recently restored historic fountain, reads, in six languages including Armenian: We share the pain so that it is not repeated.

“This memorial is dedicated to all peoples and religious groups who were subjected to massacres in these lands,” Demirbaş said. “The Monument of Common Conscience was erected to remember and demand accountability for all the massacres that took place since 1915.”

Demirbaş noted that the monument remembers all the Armenians, Assyrians, Jews, Yezidis, Alevis who were subjected to massacres, as well as all the Sunni who “stood against the system.” Representatives of the Armenian, Assyrian, Alevi, and Sunni communities also spoke at the opening event. Diyarbakir Armenian writer Mgrditch Margosyan welcomed the opening of the memorial, noting that he awaits the steps that would follow.

Zahit Çiftkuran, head of the Diyarbakir association of the clergy, recounted the story of a man who, while walking by a restaurant, notices the following sign: “You eat, your grandchildren pay the bill.” Enthused by the promise of free lunch, the man goes in and orders food. Soon, they bring him an expensive bill. “But I was not supposed to pay! Where did this bill come from?” the man asks. The owner of the restaurant responds: “This is not your bill. It is your grandfather’s!”

Çiftkuran concluded, “Today, we have to pay for what our grandparents have done.”

Hellenic Caucus Co-Chairs Seek Adoption of Genocide Bill

September 12, 2013 By administrator

Reps. Bilirakis and Maloney Join Bipartisan Legislative Group of H.Res.227 Co-Sponsors

WASHINGTON—In yet another demonstration of the enduring and increasingly energized Armenian-Hellenic partnership, U.S. Representatives Michael Bilirakis (R-FL) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the Co-Chairs of the Congressional Hellenic Caucus, are backing the adoption of the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution (H.Res.227), reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

“We join Armenian Americans across the country and with all of our Hellenic American coalition partners in thanking Congressman Bilirakis and Congresswoman Maloney for their leadership in support of a truthful and just international resolution of Turkey’s crime of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and other Christian nations,” said Aram Hamparian, ANCA Executive Director.

“Greeks, Armenians, and all our fellow U.S. citizens who seek to advance American ideals look forward to the day when our White House will, at long last, end its complicity in Ankara’s genocide denials and begin the process of moving the Turkish society and state toward the acceptance of their full moral and material responsibilities for this crime.”

Representatives Maloney and Bilirakis join as cosponsors with a broad range of senior Congressional leaders, including many serving on key foreign policy and appropriations panels, who have already lent their support to this groundbreaking human rights measure. The bipartisan resolution seeks improved Armenian-Turkish ties based upon Turkey’s acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide and a just international resolution of this still unpunished crime.

Introduced and spearheaded by Congressmen David Valadao (R-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) in May of this year, the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution reflects and reinforces previous U.S. affirmation of the Armenian Genocide as a crime of genocide, citing the U.S. Government’s May 28, 1951 written statement to the International Court of Justice regarding the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, President Ronald Reagan’s April 22, 1981 Proclamation and Congressional adoption of Armenian Genocide legislation in 1975 and 1984. H.Res.227 calls on “the President to work toward equitable, constructive, stable, and durable Armenian-Turkish relations based upon the Republic of Turkey’s full acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences of the Armenian Genocide, and a fair, just, and comprehensive international resolution of this crime against humanity.”

The resolution specifically references that “the Republic of Turkey, rather than acknowledging and reckoning with painful elements of the past, has escalated its international campaign of Armenian Genocide denial, maintained its blockade of Armenia, and increased its pressure on the small but growing Turkish civil society movement acknowledging the Armenian Genocide and seeking justice for this systematic campaign of destruction of millions of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Pontians, Syriacs, and other Christians upon their biblical-era homelands.”

Armenian and Hellenic Americans across the country are reaching out to their U.S. Representatives to educate and advocate in support of H.Res.227. To send a free ANCA Webmail, visit: www.anca.org/justice.

For a full listing of H.Res.227 cosponsors, visit: www.anca.org/justice

For information about Armenian and Hellenic American cooperation on U.S.-Turkey trade issues, visit here.