The plan to exterminate Armenians was discussed for the first time in 1890. and carried out for 30 years

“Classes” in the program historian, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor of YSU “Armenian History” chair Hovik Grigoryan also referred to the Turkish plan for the implementation of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, its causes and consequences, and the loss of the historical homeland, Western Armenia.

“The Armenian Genocide was a comprehensive period, and the Great Genocide was a brutal but only one part of it. The Ottoman Empire, which was in its last period, had the task of maintaining the empire, and the method for this was the homogeneity of the state. The plan to exterminate Armenians was discussed for the first time in 1890. after the famous Gum-Gapu demonstration in the Gum Gapu district of Constantinople on July 15, when the issue of the elimination of Armenians was raised in the Sultan’s palace. After that, Sultan Hamid created his model of Abdulhamid pan-Islamism, which was based on the plan to destroy Christian Armenians: 300,000 victims, 100,000 assimilated Armenians, 300,000 exiles… This was the first stage. The next stage was the massacres of Cilicia, in which 30,000 Armenians became victims. Of course, there was the intervention of the Turkish state,” he said.

Let’s remind that the Gum Gapu demonstration (July 15, 1890) was the first mass protest organized by the Social-Democratic Honchakyan Party in K. Pols. The goal was to draw the attention of the European powers to the Armenian issue and demand the implementation of Article 61 of the Berlin Treaty. The demonstration was brutally suppressed by the Turkish authorities. The Armenian Patriarchate was located in that district.

The latter also spoke about the historical evidence that the Young Turkish government carried out the most brutal phase of the Armenian Genocide.

“Hakob Papikyan was an Armenian deputy of the Turkish Mejlis, an Ittihatian who was more pro-Turkish than the Turks themselves. After the massacres in Cilicia, when there was great discontent, a committee of the Turkish Mejlis was sent to Cilicia to investigate the events. There were 4 people. two Armenians, Hakob Papikyan and Hovhannes Mostishyan, and two Muslims. When they arrived in Cilicia, he was found honest and upon his return, he revealed the truth, saying that members of the Ittihat local organization had participated in those incidents, confirming the direct involvement of the Young Turks. On the eve of presenting the 1909 Adana pogrom bulletin in the Mejlis, Hakob Papikyan died under incomprehensible circumstances, but the bulletin is still there. This is the 2nd stage of the Armenian Genocide. The 3rd stage is the Great Genocide, the heaviest stage, in which 1.5 million Armenians died,” said Hovik Grigoryan.

The latter emphasized again that the plan for the destruction of Armenians was clearly outlined already in 1910-12.

“At that time, Ittihat made a very quick transition to pan-Turkism, pan-Turkism. There are many testimonies that the problem of destroying the Armenian element was clearly discussed in the meetings of Thessaloniki. The first stage was the massacre of the Armenians of Western Armenia, the next would be Oghuzism, which includes the extermination of Eastern Armenians, and the last would be Pan-Turkism. Armenia is still an obstacle today, and various plans are being developed to eliminate this obstacle. Nothing has changed in Turkey’s plans,” said the historian.

(Pan-Turkism is the national, racial ideology of the Turkic-speaking peoples. The goal of that ideology was the unification of the Turkic-speaking peoples from the Adriatic Sea to China in one state unit. 

Pantukism should be practiced in 3 stages. 

1st stage. The ideology of pan-Turkism could only be realized through a strong Turkey, to achieve which it was necessary to Turkify or destroy the other non-Turkic peoples of the empire (later the state). 

2nd stage. Utility. Turkey, Azerbaijan and the northern regions of Iran should be united in one state. 

3rd stage. After successfully completing the above tasks, only Turkey should start the creation of Greater Turan (Panturanism). It should extend from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, from China to the North Caucasus).

«That’s not all. We have the 4th stage of the Armenian Genocide, which includes 1918-1920. the destruction of Eastern Armenians, when the Turkish army invaded Eastern Armenia, which killed hundreds and thousands of Armenians. This phase is related to the Kemalites, the founders of today’s Republican Turkey. The fathers of today’s Turkey continue the Armenian Genocide.

Erdogan continues the line of Mustafa Kemal, and Mustafa Kemal, in addition to 1.5 million, eliminated another 200-300,000 Armenians. There is also the massacre of the Armenians of Smyrna, the destruction of the Poles Armenians and the Armenians of Cilicia by the hands of the same Kemalites. The Armenian Genocide was carried out in the Ottoman Empire for more than 30 years. We often discuss the 3rd stage of the Genocide, the key Mets Ekhern period, when Armenians were deprived of their homeland, but on the Armenian Genocide Memorial Day, we remember the victims of all 4 stages,” said Hovik Grigoryan.

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