According to the Italian newspaper “La Stampa” a book recently published in Britain, “In the front line: a doctor between War and Peace” written as a private for his children by Dr Alec Glen memo provides novel evidence and testimony about the genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities – especially Greek and Syriac – by the Turks in 1915.

According to the journalist Marco Tosatti Alec Glen was a doctor in the British Army, and in 1918 he walked in northern Iran to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, where he witnessed the plight of Armenians who had attempted to escape deportation and massacres of 1915. Indo-British troops had joined Glen met thousands of Armenian refugees every day.

“It was a tragic and surprising vision … we passed a person who died on the way, or someone who is already dead and half eaten by dogs and jackals … we’ve collected some- one of the youngest, who was lucky to survive. We put on the backs of mules and we’d take in the closest “villages.

“Craig Salisbury (another doctor, author’s note UK) told me later that he had taken care of an old refugee on the road, and, before dying, gave a leather belt full of coins, asking him to spend it to help the refugees. “