1. Confessions of Hovannes Kachaznuni, the first Prime Minister of the Armenian State founded in 1918... This report, dated 1923, is banned in Armenia, and the copies in Western libraries are destroyed. A copy of it in Russian was recovered by historian Mehmet Perincek, while he was doing research on the issue in Russian Federation. Click here for the original document (in Russian, 7.38 mb) and here for its translation. (February 16, 2008)

    Here are some of Kachaznuni's observations:

    • "The decision of the deportation of Armenians was a rightful measure taken by Turks to serve their purpose."
    • "Turkey had acted with an instinct of self-defence."
    • "They [Armenians] had acted in pursuit of the imperialist demand,”From Sea to Sea” and had been provoked with this."
    • "They [Armenians] massacred the Muslim population."
    • "The Armenian terrorist acts were directed at winning over the Western public opinion."
    • "The fault was not to be found outside the Dashnagzoutiun Party."

  2. Cyrus Hamlin, an American Congregational missionary in Istanbul reports a conversation he had with an Armenian in "The Congregationalinst" on December 28, 1893. That "very intelligent Armenian gentleman" reveals their plans to Mr. Hamlin. According to the plan, Armenian bands would revolt, kill Turks and Kurds and burn their villages. This would enrage Turks and Kurds, who would then retailate. Russia would come in and take control. Click here to read Cyrus Hamlin's letter titled "A Dangerous Movement Among The Armenians", which is itself enough to destroy the myth that "The Armenians living in Ottoman Empire were innocent and unarmed". (January 2007)

  3. The New York Times was neutral once; in their November 15, 1895 issue, on the fifth page, they report how the Armenian revolters set fire to mosques, bazaars, schools and killed Muslims and even the Christians. Click here for the original article and here for a transcription for easy reading. (March 2007)

    And here are some other articles from the New York Times, published from August 23, 1895 to December 20, 1905. All are original documents, taken from www.nyt.com. (March 20, 2007)

    • "Proof of the Assertion that Armenian Revolutionists Caused It" (go)
    • "... it is by deeds similar to the above that Armenian Revolutionists, according to their own admission, expect again to bring about very serious troubles in Asiatic Turkey. In addition to the above, it may perhaps be of interest to give also the following facts, taken out of many, and showing the criminal work of the Armenian revolutionary committees..." (go)
    • "... A private letter ... puts on the Armenians themselves the blame for the harsh treatment they have received from Turkey. This letter reads..." (go)
    • "They [Armenians] receive orders from a secret central committee. They are responsible for the recent disturbances..." (go)
    • "...The latest dispatch received from Tiflis says that 300 houses in the Mussulman quarter were set on fire by armed Armenians, who prevented the inmates from leaving and fired on the fireman who attempted to distinguish the flames..." (go)

  4. Apparently, the Ottomans were not very successful in "ethnically cleansing" the Armenians. "unarmed and innocent" Armenians' actions continued even after they were all massacred by the Ottoman army! The Russian Commander of the 2nd Armenian-Russian Fortress Artillery Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Tverdohlebov is one of the first hand witnesses of the Armenian atrocities of 1917-1918. He writes:

    "...More than 800 unarmed innocent Turks were massacred. Only an Armenian was killed while the massacred were trying to defend themselves. They slaughtered the people as if they were sheep. They had the people whom they sentenced to death dig large ditches. They took the people to edges of those ditches in groups and after having butchered them like beasts they dumped them into those ditches. One of the Armenians was counting the corpses thrown into ditches and upon his saying, "Is there only 80 people? It can take 10 more! Slaughter another 10!" disdainfully ten more people were slaughtered, thrown into the ditch and the corpses were covered with earth. This Armenian contractor is said to have ordered the taking out innocent Turks from a building one by one. And he, just for fun, chopped the heads of some 80 people one by one as they were coming out of the door." (pp. 51-52)

    "A contractor working at the Alaca Logistics Support Command, told us about a despicable event that took place in Alaca on February 27. The Armenians nailed a Turkish woman upon a wall alive; took her heart out and placed it on her head." (p 53)

    "... We were unable of anything to stop the Armenian massacres. We never did want the atrocities committed by the Armenians veiled by our names." (p 63)

    "Now I am most grateful to God for not letting me leave the city with the Armenians - about whom the ancient Roman historian Petroni declared "The Armenians are certainly human, but at home they go all on fours;" and again about whom the Russian poet Lermontov justly said "Thou art a slave, thou art a coward, and thou art an Armenian!" - after witnessing what they did in Erzurum before their leave, and learning the number of the unarmed elderly people, women, and children whom they massacred" (p 89)

    The Office of the General Staff translated Lt. Col. Tverdohlebov's personal notes from Russian to Turkish (go), English (go) and French (go). You can also download the merged document by clicking here (6.56 mb). For the Russian version (images scanned from the originals) click here.
    All documents are taken from www.tsk.mil.tr. (March 24, 2007)

  5. Armenian revolutionaries are also known for committing the first urban terrorist act in history, according to their own Professor Gerard Libaridian. On August 26, 1896, Armenian terrorists raided the Ottoman Bank throwing incendiary bombs, killed many people and held hostages. As a first example of many terrorist acts to follow in the same image in the 20th century, they presented a list of demands, threatening to kill all hostages should their demands not be met. Upon the intervention of the ambassadors of the Great Powers, they were granted safe passage out of the bank and out of the country, and were transported to Europe on board of the British Ambassador's personal yacht. Click here for the details and here to read how the raiders escaped. (March 21, 2007)

  6. This British Foreign Archive map illustrates the agreements of 1916 between Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy, regarding Asia Minor. Armenians were promised a big slice of the Anatolian pie. (January 2007)

  7. Boghos Nubar Pasha was the head of the Armenian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1918. In his letter to the conference, he confesses that "the Armenians were de facto belligerents". Click here for the original letter and its translation. (January 2007)

  8. Click here to see the letter of Boghos Nubar to M. Gout from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dated December 11, 1918.
    The general is admitting that 6 to 700,000 souls have been deported, of which 390,000 have been accounted for in Allied held territories post bellum. This effectively limits to 210,000 to 310,000, the number of the dead due to deportations (a far cry from the 1.5 million, as claimed by today's Diaspora) (January 2007)

  9. This is another map is taken from British Foreign Archives. It shows the total number of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and the overwhelming majority of Muslims over Greeks and Armenians combined. As is seen clearly, there was no Armenian majority in the land ante bellum, and the total Armenian population was significantly less than the 1.5 million souls claimed to have been killed. (January 2007)

  10. Another document on the numbers. The source is the British Envoy and the Armenian Patriarchate. (January 2007)

  11. Yet another source on the population figures, from German Embassy. Limits the number of the Armenians to less than 1/2 million. (January 2007)

  12. This link will take you to the gigantic work of the Turkish Military, "Armenian Activities in the Archive Documents"; a total of 6 volumes, almost 4000 pages, English and Turkish. Includes original archival documents and their transcriptions and translations. (May 29, 2007)