In 1914, during the first world war, the Turkish army suffered great losses in Transcaucasian front. This was aggravated by confrontation on the part of internal opponent, Russias ally -Turkish Armenians. A document is available to indicate that Russian Emperor Nicholas II promised that Turkish Armenians would be able to create an Armenian state in Eastern Anatolia with subsequent joining of Erivan province. In February 1914, Armenians of Zeytun province, incited by emissaries of Armenian nationalistic Dashnaktsutun Party, came out against call-up to the Ottoman army. After the war broke out, Armenian armed detachments began committing outrages all over Eastern Anatolia. Chiefs of Dashnaks believed that Armenians uprising at the height of combat operations would facilitate Russias conquest of Eastern Anatolia. Turkish villages of the province turned out defenseless, and Armenian gangs, totaling 100000, made destructive raids, exploded bridges, acting like regular Russian army units. The Turkish Government had to remove its division from the Russian-Turkish front to thus prevent the Armenian threat at the rear. In March 1915, an Armenian uprising broke out in Van province of Turkey. Armenian terrorist gangs seized the town of Van, exterminating 3000 Turks. The same fate befell Bitlis province. In 1916, the Russian army in cooperation with Armenian gangs, calling themselves insurgent detachments, occupied a greater portion of Eastern Anatolia, including provinces of Trabzon, Erzerum, Bitlis, etc., following which approx. 1 million Turks became refugees. ..... Following the seizure of Van by Armenian detachments in April 1915, the Turkish Government decided to resettle the Armenian population from Russian army of Armenian support. In 1917, a revolution took place in Russia. The Russian army, except for Armenian military units, began abandoning Eastern Anatolia. By April 1918, liberated had been Erzindjan, Trabzon, Erzurun, Kars and Van. The time between the withdrawal of the Russian troops and entry of the Turkish ones was used by Armenian detachments for mass extermination of Moslem population. Note that Armenians took possession of Russian army, buying it up for a song from Russian soldiers. First ever in the history, Armenian political leaders succeeded in establishing on lands of Eastern Anatolia, forsaken by Russian troops, the so called Armenian state (republic), which included the Erivan province of Russia as well. With the offensive of the Turkish army, Armenian armed gangs started escaping to Transcaucasia, incidentally plundering Turkish and Azerbaijanian villages and towns. Suffice it to say that 8,000 Turks were killed in Erzurum. The facts we refer to are adduced from Turks and Armenians (Baku, 1996) by US researchers J.McCarthy and C.McCarthy, based exclusively on historical materials. The researchers pointed out: Was there a genocide? To judge by Ottomans actions, it is difficult to imagine that there was a genocide order. Why, were not then exterminated tens of thousands of Armenians-residents of Istanbul, Izmir? In Eastern Anatolia, there was no genocide, committed by the Turkish Government (p. 73). Many historians, researchers conclude: during the civil war, from 600000 to 700000 Armenians were deported from the zone of military operations in Eastern Anatolia, of then 300-350000 perished; in the meanwhile, nearly 2,5 million Turks, Kurds and Azerbaijanian Turks were lost. Noteworthy is the fact that these data agree with data shown in a letter of the head of Armenian delegation to Paris Pogos Nubar addressed to the French Foreign Minister (see J.Malevill. The Armenian tragedy of 1915, Baku, 1990, p. 64). Gangs of Armenian nationalists, fleeing from Eastern Anatolia, kept on committing bloody massacres in Azerbaijan. Suffice it to mention Zangezur region of Azerbaijan, bordered by Erivan province: 115 villages were destroyed, 3257 men, 3276 women and 2196 children killed (Central State Archives of Azerbaijan, f.970, c, 161, sh. 1-9). 2,5 MILLION TURKS WERE KILLED, BUTCHERED BY ARMENIANS IN 1914-1920 This figure is not a fantasy, but a generally known fact, established by many authoritative and independent foreign historians. However, nobody in Europe, Western hemisphere grieves about these human losses of the Turkish people. Nobody makes a request to the West or Russia for money compensations. European peoples suffered horror of fascism, their own tragedies, perhaps, even more terrible and dramatic, therefore their indifference to the past historical (!) problems of other peoples, specifically Turkish, is understandable. These documents are kept at Turkish archives, even better, they are published. And Europe is silent! ...more....
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