04/24/2026
111-th anniversary of the Armenian Genoside by Criminal Turkish authorities
Secret meeting of Young Turks in Salonika for the complete extermination of Armenians
Dated August 10, 1910
Article 1- Based on the third and fourth articles of the Young Turks party constitution, suspend the activities of all Armenian com-panies and associations and arrest and send people who are against the government of Etihad and Targhi to Mosul and Baghdad prov-inces and kill them on the way or in other places. deliver
Article 2- Collecting any kind of weapons from among Armeni-ans
Article 3- By resorting to appropriate and specific methods, Is-lam should be imposed in places such as Van, Arzanjan and Adabazar, places where Armenians have won the trust of Muslims, and preparations should be made similar to the events that Russia carried out in Baku (in the sense of killing). Armenians of Baku in 1905).
Article 4- The work of destruction in Erzurum, Van, Al-Aziz, Bitlis provinces should be entrusted to the people and the army and police forces should be used apparently to stop the killings. But in places like Adana, Brusa, Nicomedia and Izmir, give military help to Muslims.
Article 5- Extermination work should be applied especially to men who are less than 50 years old and teachers. Girls and children should become Muslims.
Article 6- The families of people who try to escape should be completely destroyed and measures should be taken to completely cut off their connection with the country.
Article 7- On the pretext of espionage, all Armenian government employees should be dismissed from their positions.
Article 8- Complete destruction of those who serve in the army. (Armenians)
Article 9- The work of destruction should be started simultane-ously on all fronts so that there is no chance for defense.
Article 10- This ruling must be kept completely secret and kept only between one or two people.
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This brutal plan was revealed to René Pinon. He had published an article in Paris in 1913 under the title L'Europe et la jeune Turque (Europe and the Young Turks). This document was translated and published in "Azdak" newspaper on June 11, 1965.
It is not clear why the Armenians had no knowledge of this se-cret meeting and verdict. Probably the leaders of the Dashnak party, who had cooperated with the Young Turks (1909), were still confi-dent in this agreement.
"Conditionality" had just been established. The ink and seal of the agreement between the Dashnaks and the Young Turks had not dried yet that they would promote the progress of the Ottoman coun-try with the united forces, and the phrase that the Dashnaks should not talk about independence had not yet been forgotten.
The Dashnak Party adhered to the articles of its agreement with the Young Turks until 1914 and trusted it, despite the fact that in 1908 pressure and brutality had been applied in the Ottoman Parlia-ment and in the meetings of the Armenian National Council. As it is known, Grigor Zohrab, the representative of Armenians in the Turk-ish Parliament, raised the issue of disarmament, but the Turks always denied their handouts.
This document, among many other documents, is considered a decisive and decisive answer to the Turks' refusal to accept the mas-sacre of Armenians .
Armenian massacre centers in 1915-1922
During its centuries-long history, the Armenian people have gone through a harsh path of survival, social and national liberation, and struggle for a good future, and they have experienced terrible moments. He was subjected to a particularly severe test, he experi-enced the greatest tragedy during the harsh years of the First World Imperialist War.
Armenians, as an ethnic group, arose as a result of the split of the common Indo-European language. If until recently the homeland of the Indo-European language family was considered to be central Eu-rope, then according to the latest studies, it is placed in the Armenian highlands, the adjacent Northern Mesopotamia, the eastern parts of Asia Minor and the northwestern parts of the Iranian plateau. In those settlements, the new stone
(Neolithic-dark 7th-5th millennium) era, tribes speaking Indo-European languages were split into separate dialects and then related languages. According to anthropological studies, since that period the Armenian highlands have been inhabited by tribes belonging to the Armenoid type. The carrier of that typical type is currently the Armenian people. During the transition from the Neolithic era to the Eneolithic (copper stone) (including the 5th-4th millennium BC), a part of the Indo-European tribes moved from the Armenian high-lands and Asia Minor and spread to Europe, Middle Asia and India, the other part (including Hittite, Armenian and Iranian tribes) re-mained in the territory of the homeland. All these testify to the indig-enousness of Armenians.
The chronological starting point of the process of the origin of the Turkish race, which ultimately led to the formation of the Turkish people, can be safely considered the end of the 11th century, when the mass migration of the Turkish tribes, especially the Oghuz and Turkmen, to Asia Minor began. Therefore, the origin of the Turks, the formation of the Turkish people took place in the late Middle Ages (12th-15th centuries), which is relatively well covered in oral sources. Therefore, the formation of the Turkish nationality ended in the 15th century. They were formed by people who migrated from Middle Asia to Asia Minor in the 11th-13th centuries. from a mixture of Turkish nomadic cattle-breeding tribes and local people. Part of the Turks (Uzers, Pechenegs) penetrated Asia Minor from the Bal-kans, assimilated a number of local peoples, accepted and assimilat-ed the elements of their material and spiritual culture. In the 13th century, fleeing from the Mongol invasions, many Turkic (mainly Turkmen) and other tribes entered Anatolia from Central Asia and Iran. 15th century the Turks occupied Asia Minor and united the Turkish tribes, some of the local inhabitants (Armenians, Greeks, Arabs) were destroyed, the rest were assimilated. 15-16th centuries. the Turks did not have a common tribal name, it was replaced by the denominational Muslim name.
Still in the 19th century. 30's In addition to 7 million Turks, more than 2 million Armenians lived in Turkey, about 2 million Kurds, 1-1.5 million. Greeks, as well as Ajars, Jews, Albanians, Bosnians, Croats, who made up 45% of the population. The amalgamation of Hamshensi (mostly Armenians converted to Islam) continues to this day. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Turkish nation was formed. Throughout their ethnic history, their culture and language incorporated linguistic and cultural elements of Greek, Armenian, Georgian, and Balkan peoples. In order to form the Turkish nation, other nationalities had to be destroyed.
After the establishment of the Ottoman state, Armenians came under its yoke among other nations and had their own unique role in various arenas of that empire.
The high-ranking authorities of the Ottoman state were Armeni-ans. Among them, we can mention Amir Seghbos, Amir Shnoorki (founded several Armenian schools in Constantinople in 1720), Amir Apraham (founded the first printing house in Turkey in 1824), Hovhannes Dozya and Mkrtich Jazayerlya (customs was completely handed over to them).
Since 1795, the management of the ammunition depot belonged to the Tatyan family from generation to generation.
Printing of banknotes belonged to the Dozyans and (Harutyun) Bezechyans.
When in 1828 the Russian army approached K. At the gates of Istanbul and demanded a b***y of 15 million rubles, Sultan Mahmud incompetently turned to Amir Bezechyan, because the state was not able to pay, so he took care of that money. On the occasion of his death, the Sultan, deeply moved, participates in his funeral, dressed in black as a royal outfit.
Hovhannes Tatyan was appointed director of paper, silk and ex-plosives factories by the High Door. (1856) later also director of a leather, cloth and metal foundry.
The construction and architectural works of the ancient empire were entrusted to the Sarvaryans, and then to the Balyans.
However, the Turkish government did not want to hand over all the affairs to the Armenians, so it appointed Turkish administrators for them, especially in the army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The position of state treasury was always given to Armenians, for example, Hakob Kazaghyan, Mikayel Portugalyan and Hovhan-nes Sakirz Pasha were treasury ministers.
Grigor Effendi was appointed the Minister of Post, Telegraph and Construction in 1864.
Medical and other universities trusted Armenians (for example, Nikogayos Rusinyan, Andranik Khandumyan, Stepan Aslanyan, Trezyan, Mihran Garagash, Hakob Boyachyan).
The founders of accounting were Karapet Khdryan and Goyum-chyan.
The founders of the trade were the Armenian merchants of Jugha.
Harutyun Pasha Tatyan was a foreign ministry clerk for a long time.
Crafts and trade mostly belonged to Armenians, for example, K. The jewelry market in Istanbul was entirely in the hands of Armeni-ans. The imports of the country were the monopoly of the Greeks, and the exports were the monopoly of the Armenians.
Armenian faces were shining in various fields of fine art, men-tioning them requires a lot of patience.
However, the Turks did not really trust the Armenian elements, for example, when in 1826 Armenians are going to K. with twenty ships to celebrate the constitution with a special ceremony. In the presence of the governor of Istanbul, Ali Pasha, the latter expressed to his relatives: "I am afraid of Armenians, they carry out secret work and have a close relationship with the popular masses, and I do not see the moment when they join the Turkish elements and revolt against the Ottoman state."
The destruction of the Armenian element especially began in the 15th century, however, when the Armenian liberation struggle was put on a new organized basis and the Armenian people experienced a national awakening, the Armenian massacres gained new momen-tum in an organized and planned manner, especially from the second half of the 19th century.
The points of the massacre, the size of the circles indicate the dimensions of the killings
No. date place number (person)
1 1860 Lebanon 12,000
2 1876 Bulgaria 14,000
3 1877 Bayazet 1,400
4 1879 Alashkert 1,250
5 1881 Alexandria 2,000
6 1892 internal Turk. 3,500
7 1894 Sassoon 12,000
8 1895 Western Armenia 300,000
9 1896 Constantinople 9,570
10 1896 Van 8000
11 1903 Macedonia 14,667
11 1904 Sassoon 5,640
12 1909 Cilicia 30,000
13 1915 Turkey and Western Armenia 1,500,000
14 1918 Kars-Ardanan 50,000
15 1918 Baku and surroundings 30,000
16 1919 Armenians of Konvichlar 10000
16 1919 Cilicia (Adana) 50,000
17 1921 Hatchen 20,000
18 1922 Smyrna 10,000
Total (1860-1922) 2,084,027
The number of other Christians killed by the Turks is as follows:
1822 Greeks in Chios 50,000
1823 Greeks of Missolinka 8000
1826 Foreign soldiers under the Ottoman rule in Istanbul 25,000
1850 Assyrians of Mosul 10,000
1922 Armenians and Greeks in Izmir 200,000
Total 293,000
Grand total of the massacred: 2,377,027
According to many sources and evidence, the main figure of the dead was much higher than this .
The Armenian Genocide
The Turkish tyranny developed its monstrous plans for the phys-ical annihilation of Western Armenians at the end of the last century. However, this policy was implemented on a wider scale during the years of the Young Turks' rule.
Back in 1914 in autumn and 1915 At the beginning, the Turkish authorities began to partially destroy the Armenians drafted into the army, and also the men aged 15-20 and 45-60 who were conscripted under the pretext of working on the roads.
A distructed Armenian district in Arsanjan
Taking advantage of the war situation, the Ittihatians in 1915 in the secret meeting of their party's central committee held at the be-ginning, they decided the specific methods of extermination and de-portation of Western Armenians.
In the secret session convened by Talaat's chairmanship, in which Enver, Nazem, Behaeddin Shakir and others participated, act-ing as the secretary of the main reporting committee, Nazem called not to be satisfied with partial massacres like the Adana massacre. "The Armenian nation must be uprooted, not a single individual should remain on our land, the Armenian name should be forgotten. Now we are in a war, there will not be a suitable opportunity, the in-tervention of big states and the voice of protest in the newspapers will not be noticeable, the problem of being a paragon will become an accomplished reality and will be closed, this time the action will be an act of extermination, and extermination if not a single Armeni-an individual remains. it is necessary":
Thus, on April 15, a secret order signed by Talaat, Enver, and Nazim was sent to the local authorities, where it was said that taking advantage of the opportunity provided by the war, it is necessary to finally exterminate the Armenians by driving them to the deserts of Arabia.
The executioners first of all retaliated against prominent Arme-nian figures and intellectuals, including Armenian deputies of the Mejlis. Only K. On the night of April 24-25, the police arrested 235 prominent Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul. The number of those arrested soon reached around 800, who were driven deep into Ana-tolia and brutally killed on the way to exile. Among the martyred Armenian intellectuals of K. Pols were G. Zohrap, Daniel Varuzhan, Siamanto, R. Zardaryan, R. Sevak, Hovh. Tlkatintsi, Hrand, Yerukhan and many, many others. Genius Komitas, having acci-dentally escaped death and witnessing the greatest tragedy of the Armenian people, lost his mind.
The government of the Young Turks in 1915 on June 15, Sultan K. Pols hanged 20 leaders of the Honchak Party (Paramaz, Dr. Pene, Vanik, A. Achkpashyan, etc.) in Bayazit Square.
A secret order signed by Taliat was sent to the authorities of the vilayets, where it was said that it was necessary to exterminate the entire Armenian population of Western Armenia and Cilicia. "The government takes full responsibility and orders not to spare even the babies in the crib."
Transfer of orphaned children from Igdir to Sanahin orphanage – 1916
The local authorities carried out all Talaat's orders with the greatest precision. Thus in 1915 in April-May, the Armenians of Ci-licia were deported, in June-July - the Armenians of Karin, Trabzon, Van, Bitlis, Kharberd and Swazi, in August-September - the Armeni-ans of Ankara, Adabazar, Brusa, Jebel Musa, Urfa and Aintap.
The deportation of Armenians to the Totakez desert surrounding the city of Deir ez-Zor (distorted Ter Zor) and the mass massacre were carried out in the same way and at the same time in more than 50 places in Turkey.
Astrakhan Armenian Association orphanage - 1916
Before the exile, men were separated from their families and de-stroyed. Beautiful women and girls were forcibly separated to send to the harams of wealthy Turks. Then the starving masses were driv-en through the mountains of Anatolia, under the rays of the scorch-ing sun, to the deserts of Mesopotamia. Thousands of Armenians died of hunger, thirst, and exhaustion on the way. Those who could no longer move forward were immediately bayoneted.
Very few of these exiles reached the place. for example, out of 18,000 Armenians exiled from Sebastia and Kharberd, 150 women and children reached the place of exile. Of the 20,000 Armenians who were deported from Aleppo to Res-yul Ain and the Mersen road, 5,000 people remained alive. Of the 215,000 Armenian popu-lation of Karin vilayet, only 2,000 survived, and 120 of the 18,000 Armenians of Karin city survived.
Armenian massacres did not only take place against Armenians living in Armenian vilayets and Thrace and other places.
Armenians were not exiled in general from only two cities, K. From Constantinople and Smyrna.
Thus, during 1915-1918, as a result of anti-Armenian actions taken by the Young Turkish government, about two million Armeni-ans were exiled, of which more than one and a half million were killed or died of famine and epidemic in the deserts of Mesopotamia. Around 200,000 Armenians, mostly women and children, were for-cibly Turkified.
The March Turks "solved" the Armenian issue in a brutal way. After the Great Genocide, the bloodthirsty Talaat Pasha officially de-clared: "There is no more Armenian question, because there are no Armenians either."
1916 The proposal of the chairman of the Armenian national delegation, Poghos Nubar Pasha, to create an Eastern Legion from the Armenian deportees freed from the massacres, was approved by France (Georges Picot) and England (Michael Sykes).
1916 On November 28, the French government decided to form that legion from Armenian exiles. The total number of that legion in 1918 in May, there were 5,662 soldiers, of which 400 were Syrians, the rest were Armenians. For the first time, they participated in war operations only in 1918. on September 19 on the Palestine front.
The leaders of the Hnchakians, Ramkavars, and Pandakh-tsaks, relying on the deceptive speeches of the statesmen of imperialist France, on August 3, 1920, near Adana, each of them separately de-clared the "Republic of Mesopotamia", and on August 4 in Adana, the National Supreme Council chaired by Mihran Tamatyan declared "French patronage" proclaimed an autonomous Armenia under Two of those republics were eliminated on the first day, and the third on the third day, by French military units.
In the conditions of the Anglo-French contradictions, France leaned towards Turkey. 1921 On October 20, a treaty was signed be-tween France and Kemal Turkey in Ankara, by which France with-drew its troops from Cilicia. Thus, what the Ittiahats failed to do in the days of the Great Genocide, the Kemals managed to do after five years. That second genocide, in which more than 30,000 Armenians of Cilicia fell victim, was carried out this time with the permission of the great powers. Cilicia was also emptied of Armenians.
The real responsibles of the Armenian massacres are the follow-ing.
1-German, Austro-Hungarian, English, French and Tsarist states.
2- The global secret organizations in whose clutches the imperi-alist states are.
3-Ottoman, Ittihat and Kemal states.
1919 on March 8, by the special order of Sultan Mehmed 6th Vahideddin (1918-1922), the Young Turk party leaders and minis-ters are submitted to the examination of the military emergency court of K. Pols. During these trials, 10 high-ranking party and state offi-cials are accused in absentia and 20 present at the trial.
The defendants tried in absentia were:
1- Taleat Pasha - internal affairs. minister, grand vizier (1917-1918).
2- Enver Pasha - military minister
3- Jemal Pasha - Marine
4-Behaeddin Shakir Bey - member of the CC of the Young Turks party, chairman of "Teshkilat Makhsuse"
5-Dr. Nazim Bey - party member. CC member, Minister of Pub-lic Education.
6- Javid Bey - Minister of Finance.
7- Suleiman Bey of Elbistan - Minister of Agriculture and Trade (1915-1917).
8-MustaFa ShereF Bey - Minister of Agriculture and Trade.
9-Oscan Efendi - Minister of Post and Telegraph (1914-1917).
10-Dr. Ruzuhi Efendi - party member. CC member.
11-Aziz Efendi - Minister of Public Security.
