Baku, Azerbaijan, April 22
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's recent statement over the so-called Armenian genocide, in fact, does not change the position of Ankara on this issue. Davutoglu's statement says that Turkey mourns only for the Armenian civilians, who suffered during the events of 1915 as the representatives of other nations. It should be noted that Turkey does not mourn for those Armenians who betrayed the country and killed its Muslim population "in the name of the idea of creating Greater Armenia".
"While Turkey is calling for forgetting about the common pain of Turks and Armenians for the sake of future, the Armenian diaspora promotes hostility towards Turkey," Davutoglu said.
He said that the essence of the Armenian diaspora is a hostile attitude towards Turkey.
Armenians have been seeking the perpetrators of 1915 events for 100 years and groundlessly accuse Turks, to be more precisely, the Ottoman Empire in this issue.
Although Turkey admits that the 1915 events were the tragedy for the representatives of all the nations, including Armenians, Armenia in everyway refuses to open its historical archives to investigate these events.
It is possible to refer only to the archives of the Ottoman Empire, since the Armenian archives are unavailable.
Mehmed Talaat Pasha (one of the triumvirate known as the Three Pashas that de facto ruled the Ottoman Empire during the First World War) sent a telegram to the Diyarbakir governor in 1915.
The telegram said: "Recently, Armenians who were deported from the city had their throats cut like a sheep at night. We have information that the death toll reaches 2,000 people. We demand to be made aware of the situation there. For present, we do not know who stands behind this - Turks, Kurds, Arabs or Alawites (a religious group)." (Literal translation from Turkish).
Following this telegram, 1,397 death penalties were pronounced in Diyarbakir. It was found that over 600 people, who attacked the Armenians were (attention here please!) ... the Armenian deserters.
The Armenians, who compare the 1915 events with mass extermination of Jews in Germany, should think about that telegram.
If the Turks would at that time wish to exterminate the Armenians, why did Mehmet Talaat Pasha send the telegram?
And here is another fact, which proves that there can be no talk about any "Islamic racism" in the Ottoman Empire of that period.
The laws of the Ottoman Empire were based on the Sharia and the Koran, and if there was "Islamic racism" in the empire, the Turks wouldn't allow Armenians to hold their religious ceremonies.
All the religious minorities living then in the Ottoman Empire at the time, were granted the right to freedom of religion.
It is necessary to mention a number of facts that prove that the Armenians, starting from 1885, held vigorous activity for the collapse of the Ottoman Empire from the inside.
It was namely in 1885 when an Armenian Mkrtich Portukalyan from Van created in France "Armenakan" party, one of the purposes of which was to raise the Armenians to the fight against the Ottoman Empire. Invocation of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire coincided exactly with the period after the establishment of the party.
One can mention hundreds of facts from the archives of the Ottoman Empire about the treachery of the Armenians against the Turks and the empire itself.
While in the Turkish history the so-called Armenian genocide was out of question, the history of the Armenians is full of betrayal facts.
That is why one can say that the date of April 24 is nothing more than a centennial of the Armenian treachery.
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Rufiz Hafizoglu is the head of Trend Agency's Arabic news service, follow him on Twitter: @rhafizoglu
