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Project and Director Suat Turgut Story - Screenplay Suat Turgut Illustrator Oğan Kandemiroğlu History Consultants Prof. Dr. Ahmet Taşağıl Prof. Dr. İbrahim Yılmazçelik Graphic Design Velican Tunçer Prepared for Publication Suat Yılmaz

Dear reader, Maybe you are 10 years old…. Maybe you are 70! Let’s think; Just as people from centuries ago are a dream to us, for people in centuries to come that’s exactly what we will be. We are here to leave a permanent mark in this transitory life! One day a friend of mine from azerbaijan told me about someone who was undergoing treatment in Turkey. He said ‘his name is Ibad Huseynov… he is our national hero!’. I said ‘how can your national hero be any different from ours? In that case he is a national hero of the Turkic World, i mean of all of us’. So, i too visited this hero, ibad at the hospital where he was being treated. Despite my interest in the azerbaijan and karabakh issues, i didn’t recognise him and i was a bit embarrassed by this. Ibad is a hero who was severely wounded in the war with armenian gangs in Karabakh 23 years ago. He was in a coma for months and is alive only by a miracle. To this day he still bears the scars of those serious injuries. As a tribute, i presented to him our graphic novels ‘the epic of the dardanelles’ and ‘women heroes’. He also gave me a book that had been written about him called ‘special operations’. When i found time to sit and read Ibad’s life story, i was really affected by it. We only understand the value of our heroes after we lose them. Our heroes are the brave voices of our national conscious. I began to think that we don’t know enough about our heroes who are still with us and we certainly don’t give them enough credit while they are still alive. I felt obliged to explain this to the turkish nation. So, ı wrote the story and scenarıo of a graphıc novel and placed ıt ın front of our dear ıllustrator oğan.

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He too was affected by the story. So we set to work!

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When we heard the Hero Ibad was visiting turkey again, we organised a surprise and showed it to him. First of all, our aim was to complete the book then meet up with him. However, we didn’t want a single bit of it to be contrary to the facts. So, we confirmed the events with our hero and had him put our mistakes and omissions right...

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And thus this unique work came to be. Dear reader, A tree cannot have branches if it doesn’t have roots! Those who don’t know their past cannot have a future. Let’s take into account the Words of the founder of our republic; Atatürk: “Nations who don’t find their national identities are doomed to be the prey of other nations.”

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History is the cry of the past to the future. If we don’t hear that cry and if we don’t learn lessons from history, we will be forced to live through the same pain. In order to lay claim to our future and for the new generation to be what we have created, before the fake and imaginary heroes, let’s get to know the real heroes to whom we owe our existence and honour. Our dream for the future: to create a cartoon and film about Ibad, hero of not only Azerbaijan, but of the entire Turkic World. From now on, we salute the martyrs, the delicate hearts, beloved Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani Flag that awaits the day it will fly in Karabakh.

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A 100 YEAR OLD LIE,

THE ALLEGED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE. “IN 1915, THE TURKS COMMITTED GENOCIDE AGAINST US”. THEY DECEIVE THE WORLD WITH THIS LIE. MANY WESTERN STATES KNOW THIS IS A LIE. BUT THEY ARE PLAYING ALONG AND PRETENDING TO BE UNAWARE! IN THIS BOOK WE HAVE DECIDED TO INCLUDE SOME DOCUMENTS THAT OPPOSE THESE CLAIMS MADE BY THE ARMENIANS.

JUST LIKE YESTERDAY! THE INHUMANE MASSACRES THAT THEY CARRIED OUT IN KARABAKH, RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES IN PHOTOS AND FILMS… WE DID NOT HAVE THE HEART TO PUT THE IMAGES FROM THE BARBAROUS HOCALI MASSACRE HERE. THE TRAGEDY OF ONE MİLLİON REFUGEES İN FRONT OF OUR EYES...A FİFTH OF AZERBAİJANİ TERRİTORY UNDER OCCUPATİON... HOWEVER, ACTİNG AS THOUGH THEY WERE NOT THE ONES WHO CARRIED OUT THIS MASSACRE OR OCCUPATION, THE PERPETRATORS ARE STILL PLAYING THE VICTIM. THE TURKS, ON THE OTHER HAND, ARE IN A POSITION WHERE THEY MUST DEFEND THEMSELVES. THE CLAIM OF GENOCIDE PASSED THROUGH PARLIAMENT IN MORE THAN 20 COUNTRIES. IT’S AS IF THEY AREN’T PART OF PARLIAMENT BUT HISTORY PROFESSORS! IT’S CLEAR THAT THEY CAME TOGETHER TO REWRITE HISTORY… THEY SAY THOSE WHO SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND NOT THEIR MIND ARE BLIND AND THOSE WHO LISTEN WITH THEIR EARS AND NOT THEIR MIND ARE DEAF. TO SEE AND TO HEAR IS TO COMPREHEND. UPON SEEING PEOPLE WHO HAVE ABANDONED THEIR INTELLIGENCE, WISDOM AND CONSCIENCE, DENYING THE THINGS THEY HAVE SEEN WITH THEIR OWN EYES AND HEARD WITH THEIR OWN EARS WE NO LONGER HAVE THE STRENGTH TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING TO THESE BEINGS. THE DOCUMENTS THAT WE HAVE INCLUDED HERE WERE SPECIFICALLY CHOSEN FROM FOREIGN SOURCES. EVEN IF YOU DIDN’T SEE THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED JUST A SHORT TIME AGO IN KARABAKH LOOK AT THE ARMENIANS’ OWN CONFESSIONS! IF YOU DO NOT SEE THEN WE DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO INSULT YOU! GO AND BE ONE OF THOSE WHO REFUSES TO SEE! IN 2015, THE ARMENIANS WILL EXPAND THEIR HUGE WEB OF LIES! AND THE BUBBLE THAT THEY HAVE CREATED WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO CONTAIN ITSELF…

IT WILL BURST! KARABAKH WILL BE REUNITED WITH ITS TRUE OWNER!

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR DOCUMENTS?! THE OTTOMAN ARCHIVES ARE OPEN. BUT THERE IS NO NEED TO EVEN USE THESE ARCHIVES! THE REPORTS OF THE LEADERS OF THE ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT AT THE TIME, THE REPORTS WRITTEN BY ARMENIAN COMMANDERS TO THEIR SUPERIORS, THE DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED BY THE ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER QAJAZNUNI AND HONOURABLE HISTORIANS SUCH AS BORYAN AND LALAYAN ARE ENOUGH FOR THE TRUTH TO COME TO LIGHT… ALL OF THESE ARE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS…

DOCUMENT 1 – QAJAZNUNI’S CONFESSIONS THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF THE ARMENIAN REPUBLIC WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED IN MAY 1918 WAS HOVHANNES QAJAZNUNI. HIS TERM AS PRIME MINISTER LASTED UNTIL AUGUST 1919. HE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS AND LEADERS OF THE ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARY FEDERATION PARTY (DASHNAKTSUTYUN). QAJAZNUNI’S 128 PAGE REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE BUCHAREST DASHNAKTSUTYUN GENERAL CONVENTION IN THE PRESENCE OF THE EUROPEAN AND SOVIET DELEGATIONS WAS IN THE FORM OF A SETTLING OF ACCOUNTS AND SELF-CRITICISM OF THE PARTY’S PAST. IT WAS PRINTED AS BOOK FIRST IN ARMENIAN, THEN IN 1927 IN RUSSIAN AND IN 1955 IN ENGLISH. IT WAS BANNED IN ARMENIA AND RECALLED FROM EUROPEAN LIBRARIES. THE RUSSIAN BOOK WAS FOUND IN THE LENIN LIBRARY IN MOSCOW BY DR. MEHMET PERINÇEK AND WAS TRANSLATED INTO TURKISH BY ARID ACAOGLU.

A SUMMARY OF QAJAZNUNI’S 128 PAGE REPORT: 1) WE CREATED VOLUNTARY ARMED UNITS. 2) IN SPRING 1914, BEFORE TURKEY HAD CHOSEN WHICH SIDE TO JOIN IN THE WAR,

WE JOINED MILITARY OPERATIONS WITH THE ARMED UNITS FORMED IN THE LEADERSHIP OF THE ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARY DASHNAKTSUTYUN PARTY…

3) WE SABOTAGED THE PEACE… WE REBELLED AGAINST THE TURKS. WE EVEN FOUGHT TO SABOTAGE THE PEACE. WE WERE NOW IN THE CAMP OF THE TURKS’ ENEMY, THE ENTENTE POWERS. WE DEMANDED FROM TURKEY “ARMENIA FROM ONE SHORE TO THE OTHER”. WE SENT THE ARMIES OF THE ENTENTE POWERS TO TURKEY AND OFFICIALLY CALLED ON EUROPE AND AMERICA TO ENSURE OUR SOVEREIGNTY. FINALLY, AT THAT TIME WE ALSO FOUGHT CONTINUOUSLY WITH THE TURKS.

4) THE TREATY OF SEVRES HAD BLİNDED US ALL. THE FOUNDATİON OF OUR REBELLİON WAS THE DREAM OF A GREAT ARMENİA PROMİSED BY THE ALLİES. BUT WE COULD NEVER BE A STATE. WE COULDN’T SEE THE TRUTH THAT A STATE CALLED TURKİSH ARMENİA HAD NEVER BEEN ANYTHİNG MORE THAN A DREAM.

5) IN TURKEY, NATİONAL COSCİOUSNESS AND AN İNSTİNCT TO PROTECT İTSELF HAD

BEEN AWOKEN. A NEW, YOUNG GENERATION WITH PATRIOTIC FEELINGS EMERGED AND STARTED ONCE MORE ORGANISE ITS OWN ARMY IN ANATOLIA. THE TURKS WHO HAD BEEN DEFEATED IN THE WAR AGAINST THE IMPERIALISTS IN 1918, CAME TO THEMSELVES THROUGH STRONG RESISTANCE WITHIN JUST 2 YEARS. BEFORE LONG, WHEN MILITARY OPERATIONS BEGAN ON OUR BORDERS, THE TURKS PROPOSED COMING TOGETHER AND STARTING TALKS. HOWEVER, WE DECLINED THEIR OFFER.

6) FOR THEM TO AT LEAST OBTAIN SOME INDEPENDENCE IN ASIA MINOR, THEY WERE OBLIGED TO OPPOSE THE TREATY OF SEVRES WITH MILITARY FORCE. OUR REJECTION OF PEACE AT THIS TIME AND TAKING UP OUR WEAPONS WAS A HUGE MISTAKE.

7) IN THE SUMMER/AUTUMN OF 1915, THE TURKS SUBJECTED THE ARMENİANS TO

A MANDATORY DEPORTATİON. THE DEPORTATİON WAS RİGHT AND NECESSARY. WE COULDN’T SEE THE TRUTH, WE WERE THE REASON FOR THESE EVENTS. THE TURKS KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOİNG AND TODAY İT İS NOT A MATTER THAT REQUİRES FEELİNGS OF REGRET. THİS PROCEDURE WAS THE MOST ACCURATE AND APPROPRİATE ONE.

8) WE ARMENIANS WHO WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN ANGER AND FEAR WERE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ‘RESPONSIBLE’ AND WE SINGLED OUT THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AND ITS DISHONOURABLE POLITICS AS GUILTY.

9) WE WERE RECKLESSLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY ORIENTED TOWARDS RUSSIA.

WITHOUT THERE BEING ANY JUSTIFICATION FOR IT, WE GOT CARRIED AWAY WITH THE THOUGHT OF VICTORY. WE WERE SURE THAT BECAUSE OF OUR LOYALTY, HARD WORK AND ASSISTANCE, THE TSARIST GOVERNMENT WOULD GIVE US ARMENIA’S INDEPENDENCE AS A GIFT.

10) OUR ACCUSATIONS ARE AS BLIND AND UNFOUNDED TODAY AS OUR BELIEF IN THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT WAS YESTERDAY. AS A POLITICAL PARTY (DASHNAKTSUTYUN), WE HAD FORGOTTEN THAT THE ISSUE DID NOT CONCERN THE RUSSIANS AND THAT WHEN NECESSARY THEY COULD TRAMPLE OVER OUR CORPSES AND MOVE ON 11) IT IS A TRAGIC STATE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT FATE AND SEARCH ELSEWHERE FOR REASONS FOR OUR MISFORTUNE. THIS IS A CHARACTERISTIC TRAIT OF OUR (AILING) NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY. THE THİNGS THAT QAJAZNUNİ – THE FOUNDER AND LEADER OF THE DASHNAKTSUTYUN PARTY – SAİD AT THE END OF HİS REPORT ARE STRİKİNG: “THERE İS NOTHİNG THAT THE DASHNAK PARTY CAN DO NOW… YES I AM SUGGESTING ITS SELF-DESTRUCTION: THE PARTY SHOULD DISSOLVE ITSELF.”

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“THE ARMENIANS KILLED 2 MILLION OTTOMANS” BRUCE FEIN

FORMER US PRESIDENT REAGAN’S ADVISOR FEIN SAID: “THE WHITE HOUSE CARRIED OUT RESEARCH. IT HAS EMERGED THAT THE ARMENIANS MURDERED 2 MILLION OTTOMANS. THE ARMENIANS WILL NOT OPEN THEIR OWN ARCHIVES BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT THIS TRUTH TO BE HEARD….” BRUCE FEIN, WHO WAS THE LEGAL ADVISOR FOR THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, EVALUATED CLAIMS OF AN ARMENIAN GENOCIDE. FEIN WHO IDENTIFIED THAT THAT THESE CLAIMS BY THE ARMENIAN’S WERE EXTREMELY UNFOUNDED, SAID IN 1981 DURING REAGAN’S PRESIDENCY THAT THIS SUBJECT WOULD BE RESEARCHED BY THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE FACT THAT THE CLAIMS WERE UNWARRANTED WOULD BE DOCUMENTED. HERE ARE FEIN’S STATEMENTS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE SUPPOSED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: “ONE SHOULDN’T FORGET THAT OTTOMANS TREATED MINORITIES WITH A LEVEL OF CARE THAT MIGHT BE CONSIDERED “WONDERFUL”. MINORITIES IN OTTOMAN EMPIRE LIVED THEIR LIVES AND PRACTICED THEIR RELIGIONS FREELY. DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, ARMENIAN TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS COOPERATED WITH FRANCE AND RUSSIA AND THEY MASSACRED OTTOMANS. IT IS A FACT THAT THE NUMBER OF OTTOMAN LOSSES IS ABOUT 2 MILLION. ARMENIANS LOSSES, HOWEVER, HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO BE BETWEEN 300 AND 500 THOUSAND. WHAT IS IMPORTANT HERE IS BETRAYAL BY THE ARMENIANS. THE OTTOMANS DEFENDED THEMSELVES. ARMENIANS IN UNITED STATES IN PARTICULAR HAVE MADE ENORMOUS PROFITS OVER CLAIMS OF GENOCIDE. THE US ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T WANT TO OPPOSE THE ARMENIANS BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN BRIBED. THE ARMENIANS DO NOT WANT TO OPEN THEIR ARCHIVES, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT THIS TRUTH TO BE REVEALED. THEY DO NOT WANT TO LOSE THE BENEFITS OF GENOCIDE LIE. THE TRUTH WILL BE REVEALED AS SOON AS THE AS ARCHIVES ARE OPENED”.

PROFESSOR STANFORD SHAW (AMERICAN HISTORIAN) I HAVE CONDUCTED A LOT OF RESEARCH ON OTTOMAN HISTORY AND THE TOPIC IN QUESTION, THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE. THE TRUTH THAT HAS EMERGED IS THAT THESE CLAIMS ARE GROUNDLESS. IN 1977, THE ARMENIANS BURNED DOWN MY HOME BECAUSE I SPOKE THE TRUTH. I WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT HAVE A SOUND FOUNDATION. NOR WILL HISTORY ACCEPT IT.

PROFESSOR JUSTIN MCCARTHY (AMERICAN HISTORIAN) A HUGE PART OF ARMENIAN HISTORY WAS FABRICATED LATER. DESPITE BEING THERE IN 1915 AND BEING AWARE OF THE INNOCENCE OF THE OTTOMANS, FRENCH AND ENGLISH DIPLOMATS DID NOT REVEAL THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH CAME OUT IN THEIR DIARIES. THOSE WHO SEE THE TRUTH BUT DO NOT SPEAK OF IT ARE ENEMIES OF THE TRUTH. NO ONE CAN MAKE REFERENCE TO A GENOCIDE.

PROFESSOR DR. NORMAN STONE (AMERICAN HISTORIAN) IN 1915 THERE WAS NO GENOCIDE. THE ARMENIANS PREPARED SOME DOCUMENTS HOWEVER, IT IS EVIDENT THAT THESE DOCUMENTS ARE FAKE. SIMPLE MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE DATES AND SIGNATURES. THIS SHOWS THAT THE CLAIMS OF GENOCIDE ARE FALSE.

DOCUMENT 3 ON THE BLUE BOOK THAT HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE A SOURCE OF CONFESSION HISTORY PROFESSOR JUSTIN MCCARTHY

THE WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN HISTORY AND OTTOMAN SPECIALIST PROFESSOR JUSTIN MCCARTHY A SHORT TIME AGO SAID THE FOLLOWING IN A CONFERENCE GIVEN AT THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES IN LONDON: “WHEN THE FIRST WORLD WAR BROKE OUT THERE WAS A SECRET PROPAGANDA UNIT CREATED IN WELLINGTON HOUSE. (12 SEPTEMBER 1914). THE AIM OF THIS UNIT WAS TO DARKEN THE IMAGE OF THE BRITISH ENEMIES AND TO ENSURE SUPPORT OF THE ENGLISH VIEW IN AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION. IT ALSO KEPT MORALE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM HIGH DURING THE WAR. AT THE HEAD OF THIS UNIT IN WELLINGTON HOUSE WAS THE LIBERAL DEPUTY CHARLES MASTERMAN AND THE ENEMY OF THE TURKS, LLOYD GEORGE. AMONG THOSE WORKING IN THIS OFFICE WAS AN INTELLECTUAL NAMED VISCOUNT BRYCE, WHO HAD BEEN TO AMERICA NUMEROUS TIMES AND HAD WORKED THERE AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY. ONE OF HIS ADVISORS WAS ARNOLD TOYNBEE, A YOUNG HISTORIAN. AFTER THE WAR THE RECORDS FROM WELLINGTON HOUSE WERE DESTROYED AND THE EXISTENCE OF THIS UNIT WAS EVEN HIDDEN RIGHT UP UNTIL 1935. HOWEVER, THANKS TO THE FACT THAT THEY FORGOT TO DESTROY ONE NOTEBOOK RELATED TO THE SOURCES, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LEARN OF THE SOURCES USED BY THIS UNIT AND THE WORK THAT IT DID. MOREOVER, WE HAVE BROUGHT TO LIGHT WHAT THE PUBLICATIONS THAT WERE BASED UPON THE LIES CREATED HERE WERE AND THE EXISTENCE OF 7 MILLION DOCUMENTS THAT WERE DISPATCHED TO AMERICA WITH EFFORT THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE, GIVEN THAT TECHNOLOGY OF THAT PERIOD.. “

THE CONFESSION OF TOYNBEE, THE AUTHOR OF THE BLUE BOOK. A LETTER PUBLISHED IN THE BOOK “ARNOLD TOYNBEE’S OPINION ON THE ARMENIAN ISSUE”, WRITTEN BY THE FORMER HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ARMENIAN STUDIES IN THE TURKISH HISTORY INSTITUTION PROFESSOR DR. HIKMET OZDEMIR, IS EVIDENCE OF THIS CONFESSION… THE LETTER WRITTEN BY TOYNBEE ON THE 23RD JUNE 1916 TO PROFESSOR MARGOLIOUTH OF OXFORD UNIVERSIY, SAID THE FOLLOWING: “DEAR PROFESSOR MARGOLIOUTH, I AM SENDING HEREWITH THE INTRODUCTION THAT I HAVE WRITTEN FOR AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION THAT HAS BEEN CREATED FROM THE DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE TREATMENT THE ARMENIANS RECEIVED IN 1915. IF YOU HAVE TIME TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND IF THERE ARE ANY MISTAKEN STATEMENTS OR FALSE POINTS I WOULD LIKE YOU TO POINT THEM OUT. MOST OF THE INFORMATION I HAVE ABOUT THIS TOPIC IS NOT VERY ROBUST AND HAS COME ABOUT FROM SECOND-HAND ACCOUNTS. I DO NOT WISH TO DISTURB YOU WITH THIS REQUEST, BUT THE DOCUMENTS WILL BE PUBLISHED AS A “STATE BLUE BOOK”. THEREFORE IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT, WHEN IT IS PUBLISHED, WE ARE SURE IT CARRIES THE TRUTH.”

IN SUMMARY: THE BLUE BOOK WAS A SLANDEROUS BOOK THAT WAS PREPARED ON ORDER AS WAR PROPAGANDA, TO PROVOKE AND DISTORT WITH FABRICATED STORIES.. THE COLOUR OF THIS BOOK IS NOT BLUE! THIS BOOK IS THE DARKEST BOOK OF THE ERA…. THIS BOOK IS NOT OF TRUTH, IT IS A DOCUMENT OF A CENTURY WORTH OF LIES!!

DOCUMENT 4

“EVEN IF IT IS TOO LATE, I DO NOT SEE IT TO BE FIT TO KEEP TO MYSELF BEFORE GOD THE THINGS I SAW AND EXPERIENCED IN VAN” KATHE EHRHOLD WE KNOW THAT BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR ANATOLIA SUFFERED AN INVASION OF MISSIONARIES. THERE WERE TWO DIFFERENT AIMS OF TWO DIFFERENT STATES WHILE SUPPORTING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MISSIONARIES. THEY WANTED TO LINK THE ANATOLIAN ARMENIANS, WHO WERE MEMBERS OF THE GREGORIAN CHRISTIAN SECT, TO THE FRENCH CATHOLIC AND AMERICAN PROTESTANT CHURCHES AND, IN THIS WAY, TO INFLUENCE THE POLITICAL REALM. EACH MISSION, ALONGSIDE THIS AIM, SOUGHT TO CONVINCE THE KıZıLBAŞ ALEVIS THAT THEY WERE ORIGINALLY ARMENIAN AND THAT IN THE PREVIOUS CENTURIES THEY HAD BEEN FORCED BY THE TURKS TO CHANGE THEIR RELIGION.

A PASSAGE HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM THE BOOK MEMORIES FROM THE WAR PERIOD IN VAN, PUBLISHED IN DRESDEN AND WRITTEN BY KATHE EHRHOLD, A CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY SISTER POSTED TO ASIAN TURKEY. “…20 THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE LIVING IN VAN. WITH THE RUSSIANS APPROACHING, (20 APRIL 1915) THE ARMENIANS TOOK OUT THEIR HIDDEN WEAPONS AND STARTED FIGHTING. A HUGE CIVIL WAR IN THE CITY, A WAR AMONGST BROTHERS BEGAN. THERE WAS FIGHTING IN THE STREETS FOR DAYS. WHEN THE RUSSIANS CAME VERY CLOSE TO THE CITY, THE TURKS TOOK THE DECISION TO LEAVE THE CITY AND IN ONE NIGHT CIVILIANS AND SOLDIERS WERE OBLIGED TO DESERT THE CITY. ONLY WOMEN, THE ELDERLY AND THE SICK TURKS WERE LEFT BEHIND.”

THE NEXT DAY THOSE WOMEN, ELDERLY AND ILL TURKS WHO HAD FALLEN INTO THE HANDS OF

THE ARMENIAN GANGS OF THE CITY AND THE RUSSIANS, THOSE WHO HAD BEEN UNABLE TO FLEE FROM THE ARMENIANS, WERE MURDERED. AS RELIGIOUS CHRISTIANS THEY SHOULD HAVE FIRST OF ALL THANKED GOD FOR ALLOWING THEM THIS DAY. HOWEVER, THEY DID NOT DO THIS… I SEE THE MURDERS THAT THEY CARRIED OUT ON THEIR FIRST DAY OF INDEPENDENCE AS A HUGE ACT OF SIN. UPON SEEING THE LIES WRITTEN BY THE WAR CORRESPONDENTS FOLLOWING THE ARRIVAL OF THE RUSSIANS, I NO LONGER HAD ANY TRUST IN WHAT THESE JOURNALISTS WROTE. THE ARMENIANS STARTED TO USE THE POSSESSIONS AND PROPERTY THAT HAD BEEN LEFT BEHIND BY THE TURKS AS IF IT WAS THEIR OWN. NOW RATHER THAN ARMENIAN VILLAGERS, TURKISH WOMEN FROM NEARBY VILLAGES WERE STARTING TO COME TO MY ORPHANAGE. WE TOOK THESE WOMEN THAT HAD BEEN FOUND IN THE AREA AND COLLECT BY THE RUSSIANS INTO OUR ORPHANAGE IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEM. OTHERWISE THESE POOR WOMEN WOULD HAVE REMAINED IN THE HANDS OF THEIR CAPTORS. WE COULDN’T REALLY HELP THESE WOMEN MUCH AS THEY HAD BEEN TREATED SO BADLY BY THE GANGSTERS. THESE WOMEN WHOSE PURITY HAD BEEN VIOLATED WERE TREMBLING WITH FEAR. THE ASSAULTS AND VIOLATIONS CARRIED OUT CONSCIOUSLY AND DELIBERATELY BY THE GANGS ON THESE REMAINING HOPELESS WOMEN OF THE DEFEATED TURKISH NATION WERE THE DARKEST AND MOST UPSETTING MOMENTS THAT I EXPERIENCED DURING MY STAY IN VAN. SEEING THE TURKISH UNITS DRAWING CLOSE TO THE CITY OF VAN, THE RUSSIAN GENERAL DECIDED TO LEAVE THE CITY WITHOUT FIGHTING ON THE 3RD AUGUST 1915. AFTER CLEARING OUT OF THE CITY THEY DECIDED TO BURN IT. THE DISAPPOINTED ARMENIAN PEOPLE ALONG WITH THE RETREATING RUSSIAN ARMY (IN TOTAL AROUND 10 THOUSAND PEOPLE) BEGAN TO LEAVE THE CITY AND MIGRATE TO RUSSIA. ONLY A SMALL NUMBER OF THESE MIGRANTS WERE ABLE TO REACH RUSSIA. THESE REFUGEES WHO HAD WALKED FOR DAYS ALONG ROADS DIED OF TIREDNESS, ILLNESS AND EPIDEMICS. THOSE WHO REACHED THE BORDER HOWEVER, WERE NOT TAKEN INTO THE COUNTRY BY THE RUSSIANS AND WERE FORCED TO WAIT IN REFUGEE CAMPS AT THE BORDER. THE RUSSIANS, WHO HAD COME AS THEIR SUPPOSED SAVIOUR, SAID TO THIS COMMUNITY THAT HAD COME WITH THEM WHEN RETREATING, “WE HAVE ENOUGH POOR PEOPLE HERE” AND DID NOT ALLOW THEM INSIDE. THESE POOR PEOPLE DIED OF HUNGER AND THIRST IN DESPERATION. AFTER THE RUSSIANS BURNT THE CITY, AS THEY WERE LEAVING THEY SAID THE CHILDREN IN THE ORPHANAGE COULD NOT COME WITH THEM AND FOR THIS REASON THEY WANTED THE CHILDREN TO BE LEFT IN THIS BURNT CITY. AS FAR AS I KNOW THEY WANTED THESE ARMENIAN CHILDREN TO STAY HERE AND DIE FROM STARVATION AND THIRST. THE ARMENIANS AND RUSSIANS WHO WERE LEAVING COMPLETELY BURNT DOWN THE VILLAGE. AS HE WAS LEAVING, THE HEAD OF THE ORPHANAGE, SWISS MISSIONARY BROTHER SPORRI GAVE ME SOME MONEY. THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS LOADED THE BOAT, PROMISING TO GUIDE THE CHILDREN FROM THE ORPHANAGE AND ME AND TO TAKE US TO THE BORDER. WE GOT AS FAR AS VAN LAKE WHEN, BEFORE EVEN REACHING THE BORDER THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS LEFT US IN THE LURCH ON THE TURKISH SHORE AND RAN OFF. WE WERE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR ZONE AND THERE WAS NO OTHER OPTION BUT TO RETURN TO VAN. WE WERE FORCED TO WALK STARVING AND THIRSTY FOR DAYS AND RETURN TO THE CITY OF VAN. A LITTLE LATER THE TURKISH SOLDIERS ENTERED THE TOWN AS A SMALL UNIT. THEY FOUND A BURNED OUT, EMPTY CITY. THEY HELPED THE HOPELESS, ORPHANED ARMENIAN CHILDREN THAT I HAD BROUGHT BACK WITH ME AND THEY REPAIRED OUR BUILDING. IT’S AS THOUGH GOD HAS SEND THE TURKISH SOLDIERS TO HELP US…”

DR. METE SOYTURK

DOCUMENT 5

ARTIN PENIK 1921-1982 WE REMEMBER THE MURDERS CARRIED OUT BY ASALA, THE ARMENIAN TERRORIST ORGANISATION THAT IS A BRANCH OF THE TERRORIST DASHNAKTSUTYUN PARTY. ASALA WAS FORMED IN THE 1970’S IN LEBANON. FROM BEGINNING IN 1973 TO 1983 THEY KILLED A TOTAL OF 41 OF OUR CITIZENS WITH MALICIOUS TRAPS, INCLUDING 34 DIPLOMATS. IN 1983, THE BOMB THAT THEY SET OFF OUTSIDE THE TURKISH AIRLINES OFFICE IN ORLY AIRPORT KILLED 8 PEOPLE AND INJURED 63. ONE OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS WAS THE CHILD MURDER OF THE KARABAKH VILLAGE MONTE MELKONIAN, NICKNAMED “AVO”! IN ORDER FOR HIM TO CARRY OUT THE MASSACRE IN KARABAKH THE IMPERIALISTS GAVE HIM FREE REIGN WHILE HE WAS IN PRISON. THE LEADERS OF ASALA, AS A RESULT OF THE PATIENCE OF THE TURKISH NATION, WERE ANNIHILATED IN THEIR OWN LAIR. THE REMAINING MURDERER FROM ASALA WAS TAKEN CARE OF BY A HERO OF THE TURKIC NATION, IBAD. THE TURKS WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES TO RESPOND TO THE MURDERS CARRIED OUT BY ASALA. ONE OF OUR REMORSEFUL ARMENIAN CITIZENS, BORN IN 1921 IN ISTANBUL, COMMITTED SUICIDE BY BURNING HIMSELF IN THE MIDDLE OF TAKSIM SQUARE IN 1982 IN ORDER TO PROTEST THESE MURDERS. ARTIN PENIK’S LETTER AND THE WORDS HE SAID AS HE WAS DYING HOLD A PROMINENT PLACE IN HISTORY. THOSE WHO WISH TO CAN TYPE HIS NAME INTO A SEARCH ENGINE AND EASILY FIND AND WATCH HIS VIDEO. AS HE WAS BURNING AND IN PAIN, THE WORDS THAT HE SAID WITH HIS LAST BREATH ARE AN IMPORTANT LESSON! ARTIN PENIK, IN HIS LAST SPEECH IN HIS HOSPITAL BED SAID THAT ASALA’S TERROR WAS A GAME CONTROLLED BY THE IMPERIALISTS: THEIR AIM WAS TO DISRUPT THE ARMENIANS AND CAUSE A WAR WITH TURKEY, MAKING TURKEY LOOK EVIL TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. ARTIN PENIK, EXPLAINING THAT HE WOULD COMMIT SUICIDE AGAIN IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE IN REACTION TO THESE TERRORISTS, SAID THAT IF THE WESTERN STATES HAD PUNISHED ADEQUATELY THESE RUFFIANS, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE ARRIVED AT THIS STATE. HE CHANGED HIS MIND IN A SECOND WHILE ATTEMPTING TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN FRONT OF THE FRENCH CONSULATE. RATHER, HE DECIDED TO GO TO THE STATUE OF ATATURK IN TAKSIM SQUARE, IN ORDER TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN THE PRESENCE OF ATATURK, WHOM HE SO ADMIRED, AND FOR HIS SAKE. HE SAID HE COULD DO THE SAME THING AGAIN AND THAT “I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR THE SAKE OF MY HOMELAND.” MOREOVER, ARTIN PENIK SAYING HE WOULD DO THIS ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND TIMES FOR HIS HOMELAND AND NATION, EXPRESSED THE FACT THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO LIVE TOGETHER AS A NATION OF BROTHERS. THE LETTER HE WROTE BEFORE HE DIED IS PRINTED HERE VERBATIM: YOU, ASALA MURDERERS! NOTHING CAN BE ACHIEVED BY KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE. YOU ARE DECEIVED BY THE IMPERIALISTS. HISTORY HAS BEEN RECOUNTED TO YOU VERY INCORRECTLY. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DISAPPEARED AS A RESULT OF THE IMPERIALISTS’ GAME. USE YOUR MIND! THEY ARE MISLEADING YOU. NOW, THERE ARE SOME THOUSANDS OF ARMENIANS LIVING HERE AND THERE. DO YOU INTEND TO PUNISH THEM, TOO? BUT YOU WILL NEVER MANAGE TO DO THAT. WE WANT TO CONTINUE OUR FRATERNAL WAY OF LIFE WITH THE TURKS. BUT IF YOU CONTINUE TO MERCILESSLY KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE, I SWEAR TO GOD YOU WILL BE ANNIHILATED. AS FAR AS I KNOW ARMENIANS ARE BRAVE PEOPLE WHO WOULD NOT SECRETLY KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE. WE DO NOT SEE YOU AS ARMENIANS. WE CURSE YOU. YOU, THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF FRANCE GISCARD ESTAING, WE ARMENIANS ARE CURSING YOU. IF YOU HAD NOT DISREGARDED THEIR ACTIONS TO GAIN THEIR VOTES, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SO ARROGANT. I HAVE MANY MORE THINGS TO WRITE, BUT I FIND NO REASON TO DO IT. WHEN NECESSARY, THE TURKISH NATION WILL PUNISH YOU.”

CONSCIENCE IS THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF HUMANITY! WE PAY OUR RESPECTS AND MOURN THE DEAR ARTIN PENIK, WHO RAISED HIS VOICE AGAINST THE MASSACRING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE.

FEAR KILLS HERO.

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