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New Evidence of the Armenian Genocide

April 29, 2017 By administrator

For over a century, Turkey has denied any involvement in the organization of the Armenian massacre in what historians have long accepted as a genocide that began in 1915, while World War I spread to continents. The Turkish discourse of negation revolves around the argument that the original documents concerning the courts after the war, which condemned the instigators of the genocide, could not be found.

At present, Taner Akçam, a Turkish historian at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, who has been studying genocide for decades by compiling documents from around the world to establish the state’s complicity in the massacres, says he has Discovered an original telegram relating to the trials, in the archives held by the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

“Until recently, the smoking gun was missing,” says Akçam, “It’s the smoking gun”. He described his discovery as an “earthquake in our domain,” and said he hoped to remove the last stone from the wall of Holocaust denial.

The story begins in 1915 in an office in the Turkish city of Erzéroum, when a high-ranking official of the Ottoman Empire wrote a coded telegram to a colleague on the ground, asking for details on deportations and executions. Armenia, in eastern Anatolia, the most eastern part of contemporary Turkey.

Later, a deciphered copy of the telegram helped condemn the leader Behaeddin Shakir for planning, an act that researchers have long referred to and which Turkey has long denied: the planned massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the leaders Of an Ottoman empire on the decline, an atrocity widely recognized as the first genocide of the 20th century.

And afterwards, without knowing how, most of the original documents and testimonies under oaths of trials disappeared, forcing researchers to rely only on the abstracts available in Turkish official journals.

Mr. Akçam said he had little hope that his new discovery would immediately change things, given Turkey’s fossilized policy of negation, at a time of political unrest, while its President Recep Erdogan leans Even more towards the nationalist. But Mr. Akçam’s whole life’s work consisted in denouncing, after fact, document by document, the negations of Turkey.

“My firm belief as a Turk is that democracy and human rights in Turkey can only be established by confronting history and acknowledging its misdeeds,” he said.

The shaken and abandoned interior of an Armenian monastery, north of Dyarbakir, Turkey, which, according to the inhabitants, is now used as a stable. Credit Bryan Denton for the New York Times

He developed his thesis that most of the chaos that seizes the Middle East today results from a mistrust between communities born of historical misdeeds, which no one wants to confront.

“The past is not the past in the Middle East,” he said. “This is the biggest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.”

Eric D. Weitz, a history professor at City College in New York and an Armenian Genocide expert, called Mr. Akçam “the Sherlock Holmes of the Armenian Genocide.”

“He has accumulated evidence on evidence,” Professor Weitz added.

Where was the telegram for all these years, and how Mr. Akçam found it, is a story in itself. With the Turkish nationalists about to take power in 1922, Armenian leaders in Istanbul sent 24 boxes of hearings to England for their preservation.

The recordings were kept there by a bishop, then taken over in France and later in Jerusalem. They remained there until the 1930s, in the midst of an enormous amount of archives, mostly inaccessible to researchers, for reasons that are not entirely clear. Mr. Akçam said that he had tried for years to access these archives, but without succeeding. Instead, he found a photographic record of the archives from Jerusalem to New York; Held by the nephew of a now deceased Armenian monk who had survived the genocide. While investigating the genocide in Cairo in the 1940s, monk Krikor Guerguerian met a former Ottoman judge who presided over the post-war trials. The judge told him that many of these boxes had failed in Jerusalem, and so Mr. Guerguerian went there and took photographs of everything.

The telegram was written under the Ottoman heading and coded in Arabic characters: the groups of four-digit numbers were the words. When Mr. Akçam compared it with the known codes of the then Ministry of the Interior, found in an official archive in Istanbul, he realized that they corresponded, reinforcing the likelihood that many other telegrams Post-war trials can be verified in the same way.

For historians, trials were only one piece of evidence that emerged over the years – including the reports in several languages ​​of diplomats, missionaries and journalists who witnessed the events under their care Eyes – this establishes the historical fact of the massacres and called it genocide. Turkey has long resisted the word genocide, saying that the sufferings of the Armenians had taken place in the chaos of a world war, a war in which Turkish Muslims also underwent trials.

Tripods erected for hanging during the Armenian Genocide which began in 1915. Credit Culture club. Getty Images

Turkey also maintained that the Armenians were traitors, and had plans to ally themselves with Russia, an enemy of the Ottoman Empire.

This position is deeply entrenched in Turkish culture – it is a norm in school courts – and polls have shown that a majority of Turks share the government’s position.

“My approach is that whatever evidence you put before Holocaust deniers, Holocaust deniers will remain Holocaust deniers,” Bedros Der Matossian, a historian at the University of Nebraska and author of “Shattered dreams of Revolution; From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire [Fragmented Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence at the End of the Ottoman Empire] “.

The genocide is commemorated every year on 24 April, the day of 1915 when a group of Armenian notables from Istanbul were regrouped and deported.

This was the beginning of an enormous massacre, which involved forced marches in the Syrian deserts, summary executions and rape.

Two years ago, Pope Francis spoke of the massacre as a genocide and had to face a storm of criticism from inside Turkey. Many countries, including France, Germany, and Greece, have recognized the genocide, causing the breakdown of diplomatic relations with Turkey every time.

The United States avoided the use of the word “genocide” in an effort not to alienate Turkey, an ally of NATO and a partner in the fight against terrorism in the Middle East. Barak Obama had pronounced this word as a candidate for the presidency, but he did not do so during his term of office.

This year, dozens of leaders at the congress signed a letter urging President Trump to recognize the genocide.

But he is unlikely to do so, as Trump recently congratulated Erdogan on his victory in a referendum that critics say is fraudulent. Mr. Shakir, the Ottoman leader who wrote the incriminating telegram discovered by Mr. Akçam, had fled the country when the military court found him guilty and sentenced him to death in absentia.

A few years later, he was shot down in the streets of Berlin by two Armenian killers described in an article in The New York Times as “thin men, stretched thin and swarthy, carpet in a porch.”

By Tim Arango

The New York Times

22 April 2017

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: armenian genocide, evidence, new

Karabakh: Stepanakert holds evidence of the involvement in the fighting Daech

April 11, 2016 By administrator

arton124636-260x180Stepanakert, capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, has evidence that the representatives of other nations fought alongside Azerbaijan during the recent aggression against this country Karabakh. This is David Babyan, spokesman of the President of NKR, who said in an interview with the Public Television of Armenia.

In this context, the Armenian delegation to PACE will address the issue of the participation of mercenaries and militants of various terrorist organizations, including that of the “Islamic state” in Azerbaijan’s aggression against Nagorno Karabakh.

“The soldiers who fought the enemy on the battlefield have observed that among the attackers were people speaking in Arabic and Turkish mature. They were mercenaries. We have reason to believe that some of them were members of terrorist groups, particularly of the “Islamic State of ” Grey Wolves” and others, “Babayan said.

He said that the Azerbaijani side committed atrocities in Karabakh, as beheadings and mutilations of combatants and civilians, have signed crimes Daech style.

Monday, April 11, 2016,
Jean Eckian © armenews.com

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Azerbaijan, daech, evidence, fighting

Turkish Opposition MP Set to Reveal Evidence Linking Erdogan to (ISIS) Daesh Oil & “Erbil connection”

December 3, 2015 By administrator

1030064195Eren Erdem, a lawmaker from the Republican People’s Party, Turkey’s largest opposition party, says that he may have found the evidence linking President Recep Erdogan’s son-in-law to the dirty oil trade with Daesh.

Commenting on the sensational allegations put forth by Russia on Wednesday that Turkish President Recep Erdogan and his family are directly connected to the trade of dirty oil, Erdem revealed that he is ready to publicize information next week linking Berat Albayrak, President Erdogan’s son-in-law and the Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, to the Daesh oil trade.

In the course of his press conference, covered by Sputnik Turkey, Erdem explained that on the basis of his investigation, which is still in progress, “I have been able to establish that there is a very high probability that Berat Albayrak is linked to the supply of oil by the Daesh terrorists.”

The lawmaker told media that “there is one company, headquartered in Erbil, which in 2012 acquired oil tankers, and which is currently being bombarded by Russian aircraft. I am now studying this company’s records. It has partners in Turkey, and I am checking them for links to Albayrak.”

Erdem noted that he will conclude his investigation next week, after which he will hold a press conference bringing the information before the public. “This investigation is aimed at trying to figure out which illegal operations are taking place in our country’s oil trade,” he emphasized.

Moreover, he noted that since he began discussing the possible linkage between Albayarak and Daesh oil, he has been subjected to an all-out informational attack by pro-government media.

“Today, the Takvim newspaper called me an American puppet, an Israeli agent, a supporter of the [Kurdish] PKK, and the instigator of a coup…all in the same sentence. I am inclined to view this attack on me as an attempt to belittle my significance, to attack my reputation in the eyes in the public, given that my investigation is a real threat to the government. Such a sharply negative reaction suggests that my assumptions are fair, and I am moving in the right direction to find the truth.”

Ultimately, the lawmaker noted that the state-connected media’s reaction “have only convinced me further on the need to carry this investigation through to the end.”

Source:sputniknews

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Erdogan, evidence, ISIS, MP, oil, opposition

Breaking News: Putin Says Russian authorities have evidence that the aircraft was shot down to protect oil delivers

November 30, 2015 By administrator

Breaking-News(sputniknews) Report Discussing the matter with world leaders during the Paris climate talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that most colleagues agree there was no need to attack the Su-24 bomber, as it was not threatening Turkey.

President Putin also said that Russian authorities have evidence that the aircraft was shot down to protect oil delivers of the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group, and that oil from IS-controlled fields is being exported to Turkey on an industrial scale.

Putin also said that the Syria conflict was to be a main topic of bilateral meetings during the summit, with hopes  that anti-terror cooperation with France, in particular, will “go further” than with other countries.

Speaking with US President Barack Obama, Putin stressed that there is a general agreement on Syria’s future, and that new elections are necessary.

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: 25 governors replaced across Turkey, evidence, Putin, Russian, Turkey

Turkey paid Muslim Brotherhood to burn Genocide docs: Egyptian sheikh

February 23, 2015 By administrator

Sheikh Nabil Na’eem,

Sheikh Nabil Na’eem,

Turkey paid Muslim Brotherhood to burn documentary evidence on the Armenian Genocide, Tert.am reports citing Turkish Demokrat Haber.

According to Democrat Jihad founder Sheikh Nabil Na’eem, Turkey paid around $1 million to get the documents burned in Egypt.

“Some of the Muslim brotherhood memebers should be held responsible for it,” Na’eem said.

As Cairo-based newspaper Veto reported, several of the burnt documents would put Turkey in a bind in international courts. Sheik Na’eem said that Egypt should penalize Turkey on this issue.

A protester stands in front of the burning Institut d'Égypte in Cairo on Saturday, December 17, 2011

A protester stands in front of the burning Institut d’Égypte in Cairo on Saturday, December 17, 2011

A number of government buildings were burnt down amid the chaos sparked by protest marches against Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

According to latest news, on December 17, 2011 the Egyptian institute archives were burnt down, with the majority of manuscripts and documents stored in the institute reduced to ashes over the fire brigade’s delay.

Photo: Welingelichtekringen.nl
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Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: armenian genocide, document, evidence, muslim brotherhood, Turkey

‘Compelling evidence’ for Kosovo Liberation Army crimes

July 29, 2014 By administrator

The EU’s Special Investigative Task Force said it has evidence to file an indictment against former senior officials of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army. They are accused of violating international humanitarian law.

0,,17817249_303,00 In a statement made on Tuesday (29.07.2014), the European Union Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) announced its findings on the alleged crimes committed by members of ethnic-Albanian rebel organization Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which sought Kosovo’s separation from Serb territories in the 1990s. According to the SITF’s chief prosecutor, Clint Williamson (pictured), some of the KLA’s senior officials committed crimes against humanity and war crimes following the end of the Kosovo War in 1999.

The SITF says it found evidence “that certain elements of the KLA intentionally targeted the minority populations with acts of persecution that included unlawful killings, abductions, enforced disappearances, illegal detentions in camps in Kosovo and Albania, sexual violence, other forms of inhumane treatment, forced displacements of individuals from their homes and communities, and desecration and destruction of churches and other religious sites.”

Williamson underlined that the victims of these crimes were mainly Serbs, Roma and other minorities, but also Kosovo Albanians who were labeled as either collaborators with the Serbs or political opponents of the KLA leadership.

‘Intense’ investigation

The SITF was set up by the European Union in September 2011 to conduct a full-scale criminal investigation into the allegations contained in the report of Council of Europe Rapporteur Dick Marty, who claimed he had information about former KLA officials harvesting and trafficking human organs.

 “Over the past two and a half years, the SITF has conducted an intense, detailed investigation into the allegations in the Marty Report,” wrote Williamson the statement. “This investigation has involved interviews of hundreds of witnesses in countries throughout Europe and elsewhere. It has involved the review of thousands of pages of documents compiled by numerous organizations and individuals that were engaged in Kosovo during and after the period of our investigative focus.”

He added that the investigation has been a “challenging exercise” but was nevertheless convinced that it has been “the most comprehensive investigation ever done of crimes perpetrated in the period after the war ended in Kosovo in June 1999.”

Planned indictments

KLAIn its press release, the SITF claims it can file an indictment against KLA individuals once “an appropriate judicial mechanism is established to host a fully independent, impartial and transparent trial that ensures the highest standards of security for witnesses and for criminal proceedings.”

No names of the alleged perpetrators have been released at this stage. According to the SITF spokesman, the organization is not yet in a position to file an indictment and no individuals will be named before then.

The SITF is optimistic about the outcome of the planned judicial proceedings as it believes it holds strong evidence, the spokesman told DW. Also, based on the level of cooperation displayed by Kosovo so far, the organization is confident that anyone who is indicted will surrender voluntarily and submit to the judicial process.

Williamson thanked the European Union, its member states and international partners for their ongoing efforts in setting up a court for the proceedings.

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Crime, evidence, Kosovo

Turkey Main opposition CHP to share evidence of trucks carrying arms to Syria

June 24, 2014 By administrator

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has claimed that the government sent trucks full of arms to Islamic State of 187024_newsdetailIraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants fighting the Syrian regime, stating that the CHP will soon share the details of the government’s transfer of these arms through certain documents.

Speaking at his party’s parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday, Kılıçdaroğlu harshly criticized the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government for its alleged support for ISIL militants and several other opposition groups fighting the Syrian regime. Blaming the government for ISIL’s kidnapping of Turkish people in Mosul two weeks ago, Kılıçdaroğlu said: “We have been telling them, even up until now, to stop transferring arms to the region [the Middle East]. Hundreds of trucks went there. All of them were full of arms. In the coming days, our friends will share a file on this issue. You will see how they are transferring the arms. We will share all the details regarding this transfer with the public.”

Pointing to the ongoing turmoil that erupted in Iraq after ISIL militants started to take over northern Iraqi cities one by one in early June, Kılıçdaroğlu said: “Any unrest that erupts in the region will also affect Turkey negatively. The source of this unease is [Prime Minister] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,” adding that Erdoğan had destroyed Turkey’s prestige in the world with the failed foreign policy that his government has been deploying in the Middle East. Stating that Erdoğan will not even call ISIL a terrorist organization, Kılıçdaroğlu asked how a person can sympathize with a group that kills and tortures people. Recalling that nearly 100 Turkish people have been held hostage by ISIL for over two weeks, Kılıçdaroğlu said that about 300,000 Turkmen have had to leave their residential areas to escape the ISIL militants in Iraq, but Turkey and Erdoğan have not done anything to rescue the captives or support the Turkmen.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: arms, evidence, Syria, trucks, Turkey

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