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    GERMANY INITIATED DEPORTATION OF ARMENIANS IN OTTOMAN TURKEY

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    01.04.2006 21:46 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Germany initiated deportation of Armenians in
    Ottoman Turkey in WWI, specialist on Turkic peoples, Director of
    the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University
    Professor Mikhail Mayer stated in an interview with a PanARMENIAN.Net
    reporter. In his words, it was done to divert Entente's attention
    from the Western front, where Germany was being defeated.

    "The situation in 1915 did not favor the Armenian population in
    eastern vilayets of Turkey. On the one hand - Kurds and Circassians,
    who forced Armenians away from villages, on the other - the policy
    of the Young Turkish Government, which encouraged the banishment
    and accused Armenians in pro-Russian orientation. All this resulted
    in mass deportation and annihilation of half of the population of
    Western Armenia," Mayer said. At that he remarked that "if Young
    Turks had desired, to fully exterminate the Armenian nation, they
    would not have left a single Armenian in Istanbul, Izmir and other
    cities of Western Anatolia." "However, Armenians remained there,
    except the intelligentsia, which was killed," Mayer said.

    "Judging from archive documents, accusations of Armenians in
    pro-Russian orientation are, to put it mildly, exaggerated. Most of the
    Armenian population lived in villages and was rather law-abiding. There
    was no much participation of Armenian retinues as part of the Russian
    army at the Caucasian front - according to my calculations there were
    some 3 thousand Armenians. This is not a figure that can account for
    Rusofilia," Mayer said.

    Nevertheless, Professor Mayer agrees that the events in 1915 were
    Armenian Genocide. "There was no term "genocide" in early 20th century,
    however it was genocide undoubtedly. The matter lies not in figures,
    but in the fact itself. If you remember, in 1919 a trial started in
    Istanbul against the Young Turkish Government that was organized by
    the Entente.

    Accusations in deporting and exterminating a whole nation were
    voiced there for the first time. However, secondary functionaries,
    mere executors were punished," Mikhail Mayer underscored.
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