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Start Of The Armenian Genocide!
On May 27, 1915, the Minister of the Interior and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed Talaat Bey, better known as Talât Pasha...
... in the Ottoman Parliament and under the eyes of Sultan Mehmet V, who was deposed by him. ...
... a law to vote...:
What the parliamentarians are to decide on is called in German “Provisional law on the measures to be followed by the military against persons who act contrary to government measures in time of war”.
Here is a facsimile...:
On the same day, the "Provisional Law" is adopted by a majority of the members of Talât Pasha's "Committee for Unity and Progress" party!
This document, which today is usually only briefly referred to as the "Tehcir Law", forms the basis, cast in articles, for the genocide of the Armenians that is now beginning!
Officially, the (Christian) Armenians are actually being deported or "relocated", as it is euphemistically called.
De facto, however, they - men, women and children - are simply sent on death marches through areas that are as inhospitable as possible towards the Syrian desert...:
Those who have previously been massacred, beaten to death, stabbed, hanged...
... is shot, buried alive or killed in some other way is still "lucky":
The other Armenians peg out (there cannot other word used fo this!) on the death marches of hunger, thirst, illness or exhaustion...:
Anyone who cannot keep up with the marching speed of the columns and falls behind is usually killed with a bayonet or saber by the escorts; it was ordered to save ammunition, because the Ottoman Empire is at war!
Between 600,000 and 1.6 million Armenians fell victim to this genocide - the numbers can only be roughly estimated!
However, one number is certain:
Before the First World War, 40 percent of the people living in the Turkish heartland of the Ottoman Empire were Christians (mostly Armenians).
After the war it was still two percent, according to a census.
To this day, the Turkish government is not willing to call the child by its name or the genocide "genocide".
For this case, Article 301 was added to the Turkish penal code, which stipulates a prison sentence of two years (three years until 2008!) for "insulting Turkishness".
For what I have written here, I would be in Turkey - especially today in Erdogan's autocracy! - be arrested and imprisoned immediately!
Turkish officials continue to uphold the legend of an "orderly resettlement" - which has since been refuted thousands of times - and are at best willing to admit that "bad officials, in whose hands the execution of these orders [deportation] was placed, [themselves] in carrying out their duty to unreasonable excesses."
Talât Pasha was clearer! This quote from him from 1917 has been handed down:
"La question arménienne n'existe plus." = "The Armenian question no longer exists."
At least Talât Pasha didn't get off scot-free!
In autumn 1918, shortly before the end of the war, he was evacuated from Istanbul by a German submarine and taken first to Odessa.
From there he traveled on to Berlin, where he lived under the false name Ali Sai, first in a hotel on Alexanderplatz and later - together with his wife Hayriye Hanım - in an apartment on Hardenbergstrasse in Charlottenburg...:
There he was accidentally met by the exiled Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian...
... who only survived the "resettlement" because he was studying in Berlin, recognized on the street.
On March 15, 1921, Tehlirian shot and killed Talât Pascha on Hardenbergstrasse near his home...:
In court, Tehlirian justified his actions by saying:
"I judged the murderer of my wife and grandparents."
German officers belonging to the German military mission in what was then the Ottoman Empire were interrogated and made allegations against the Ottoman Empire's military leadership, with the prosecutor refusing to investigate Talât's responsibility for the massacres. The court merely checked whether Tehlirian was convinced of Talât's guilt.
Soghomon Tehlirian has been acquitted!
Talât's mortal remains were transferred from Berlin to Istanbul on February 25, 1943 by the Hitler regime with military honors in a veritable state act...
... and buried there at the Abide-i Hürriyet, the memorial of the Young Turk revolution of 1908, to the great sympathy of the population...:
On May 27, 1915, the Minister of the Interior and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed Talaat Bey, better known as Talât Pasha...
... in the Ottoman Parliament and under the eyes of Sultan Mehmet V, who was deposed by him. ...
... a law to vote...:
What the parliamentarians are to decide on is called in German “Provisional law on the measures to be followed by the military against persons who act contrary to government measures in time of war”.
Here is a facsimile...:
On the same day, the "Provisional Law" is adopted by a majority of the members of Talât Pasha's "Committee for Unity and Progress" party!
This document, which today is usually only briefly referred to as the "Tehcir Law", forms the basis, cast in articles, for the genocide of the Armenians that is now beginning!
Officially, the (Christian) Armenians are actually being deported or "relocated", as it is euphemistically called.
De facto, however, they - men, women and children - are simply sent on death marches through areas that are as inhospitable as possible towards the Syrian desert...:
Those who have previously been massacred, beaten to death, stabbed, hanged...
... is shot, buried alive or killed in some other way is still "lucky":
The other Armenians peg out (there cannot other word used fo this!) on the death marches of hunger, thirst, illness or exhaustion...:
Anyone who cannot keep up with the marching speed of the columns and falls behind is usually killed with a bayonet or saber by the escorts; it was ordered to save ammunition, because the Ottoman Empire is at war!
Between 600,000 and 1.6 million Armenians fell victim to this genocide - the numbers can only be roughly estimated!
However, one number is certain:
Before the First World War, 40 percent of the people living in the Turkish heartland of the Ottoman Empire were Christians (mostly Armenians).
After the war it was still two percent, according to a census.
To this day, the Turkish government is not willing to call the child by its name or the genocide "genocide".
For this case, Article 301 was added to the Turkish penal code, which stipulates a prison sentence of two years (three years until 2008!) for "insulting Turkishness".
For what I have written here, I would be in Turkey - especially today in Erdogan's autocracy! - be arrested and imprisoned immediately!
Turkish officials continue to uphold the legend of an "orderly resettlement" - which has since been refuted thousands of times - and are at best willing to admit that "bad officials, in whose hands the execution of these orders [deportation] was placed, [themselves] in carrying out their duty to unreasonable excesses."
Talât Pasha was clearer! This quote from him from 1917 has been handed down:
"La question arménienne n'existe plus." = "The Armenian question no longer exists."
At least Talât Pasha didn't get off scot-free!
In autumn 1918, shortly before the end of the war, he was evacuated from Istanbul by a German submarine and taken first to Odessa.
From there he traveled on to Berlin, where he lived under the false name Ali Sai, first in a hotel on Alexanderplatz and later - together with his wife Hayriye Hanım - in an apartment on Hardenbergstrasse in Charlottenburg...:
There he was accidentally met by the exiled Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian...
... who only survived the "resettlement" because he was studying in Berlin, recognized on the street.
On March 15, 1921, Tehlirian shot and killed Talât Pascha on Hardenbergstrasse near his home...:
In court, Tehlirian justified his actions by saying:
"I judged the murderer of my wife and grandparents."
German officers belonging to the German military mission in what was then the Ottoman Empire were interrogated and made allegations against the Ottoman Empire's military leadership, with the prosecutor refusing to investigate Talât's responsibility for the massacres. The court merely checked whether Tehlirian was convinced of Talât's guilt.
Soghomon Tehlirian has been acquitted!
Talât's mortal remains were transferred from Berlin to Istanbul on February 25, 1943 by the Hitler regime with military honors in a veritable state act...
... and buried there at the Abide-i Hürriyet, the memorial of the Young Turk revolution of 1908, to the great sympathy of the population...:
