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    YOUNG TURKS PLANNED TO ANNIHILATE THE ENTIRE ARMENIAN POPULATION, TURKISH HISTORIAN SAYS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    01.04.2010 15:44 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ A prominent Turkish historian told Taraf newspaper
    in an interview published Wednesday that "the Young Turks planned to
    annihilate the entire Armenian population."

    Historian Selim Deringil said that there was also a distinction between
    the aims of the Young Turks and their predecessor Sultan Abdul Hamid
    at the turn of the 19th century. "The difference between Sultan
    Abdul Hamid and the Young Turks was that the Young Turks wanted to
    completely destroy and annihilate the Armenians, while Sultan Abdul
    Hamid sought to get rid of a certain element of Armenians, to diminish
    their economic dominance and to create and Islamic bourgeoisie,"
    he said. "There were Armenians [living] everywhere [in Turkey]. The
    massacre of Armenians took place in different cities. Today, the
    official history states that in all the areas where people were
    killed there were Armenians revolts; however, the majority of those
    were not rebellions."

    The historian said that 300 000 Armenian were massacred under Sultan
    Adbul Hamid between 1841 and 1897 and 800 000 were murdered during
    the Armenian Genocide.

    He also referred to Turkish policy failures after the establishment
    of the modern-day Republic. "At the onset of the Republic an estimated
    300 000 Armenians lived in Turkey, while today that number has dwindled
    to 70 000," he said.

    "Annihilation does not only happen through killings," Derengil
    claimed. "If you make life unbearable [for people] they will pick up
    and leave."

    Derengil also criticized Turkish historians, who "spend all of their
    time trying to rationalize Turkey's official denialist position on
    the Genocide." "They work only to prove that Armenian assertions
    are baseless."

    "After World War I, there was plenty of evidence that demonstrated the
    crimes, kidnapping and rape of Armenian women in Anatolia beginning
    in 1915," Derengil concluded, Asbarez.com reported.

    The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
    destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
    and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
    deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
    lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
    reaching 1.5 million.

    The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
    Genocide survivors.
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