TURKEY DOUBLES EFFORTS OF DISTORTING THE HISTORIC FACTS AHEAD OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Alisa Gevorgyan
“Radiolur”
08.11.2011 15:49
Turkey has doubled its efforts of distorting the historic facts ahead
of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Young Turkish
historian Mehmed Perincek has published his recurrent masterpiece,
where he presents his views on the Armenian Genocide.
In” The Armenian Cause in 120 archive documents of Russian state
archives” book published in Moscow the author tries to persuade
that massacred have been perpetrated by both sides, and blames the
imperialistic powers and Russia for this.
The Turkish historian tries to prove the authenticity of his doctrine,
saying it is based on 120 Russian archive documents. “When you look
through the book, it becomes clear that the author has used only 63
documents, the rest are different soviet-era publications against the
Armenian Revolutionary Federation,” Director of the Armenian National
Archive Amatuni Virabyan told a press conference today.
According to him, the Genocide-related materials kept in Russia
archives are rather modest. There are more documents in the archives of
the countries, which had diplomatic representatives in Turkey at the
turn of the century. In particular, the German, American, Austrian,
and even Spanish diplomats were reporting their respective governments
about the brutalities against Armenians of Turkey.
Director of the National Archive has prepared an article to be
translated into Russian in the near future. This is a response to
Mehmer Perencek’s book, where Amatuni Virabyan has enlisted all of
the above-mentioned documents.
Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide the National
Archive is preparing to publish “Vshtapatum” (The Story of Sorrow)
the 1 500-page work, which presents the Armenian Genocide by the Eyes
of Eyewitnesses will be published in Armenian, English and Russian,
and possible French.
In the near future the National Archive will publish about 1 200
documents on the massacre of the Armenian population of Kars in
1918-1920. The documents were collected by commission set up by
Hovhannes Tumanyan in 1919 and were to be presented at the Paris
Peace Conference.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
