393) Professor Lewy Blows So-Called Armenian Genocide Allegations

 

The famous US Political Scientist Professor, Guenter Lewy, announced that documents and interpretations related to the three main plots forming the base of the so-called Armenian genocide allegations were at least suspicious and the allegations never proved that Armenian murders from the beginning of the last century were pre-planned.

 

Professor Lewy, who studies at the Massachusetts University, wrote in his article titled “revisiting the Armenian Genocide� that has been published in the fall edition of the Middle East Quarterly: “Most of those who maintain that Armenian deaths were premeditated and so constitute genocide base their argument on three pillars: the actions of Turkish military courts of 1919-20, which convicted officials of the Young Turk government of organizing massacres of Armenians, the role of the so-called "Special Organization" accused of carrying out the massacres, and the Memoirs of Naim Bey which contain alleged telegrams of Interior Minister Talât Pasha conveying the orders for the destruction of the Armenians.� Lewy emphasized that when examined in detail, those allegations were far from proving genocide claims. Initially, dealing with the military courts that were established during the last Ottoman government when Istanbul was under English occupation, Lewy accused Talat Pasha, Enver Pasha and Cemal Pasha, who took over the country during World War I, for the deaths of Armenians. Professor Lewy wrote that even the British High Commissar Calthorpe wrote in a message sent to London that those courts, like a rough comedy, harmed their prestige. The Famous political scientist also referring to the memories of Naim Bey, recalled that Dutch historian Erik Zurcher, proved that those documents that spread across the world by an Armenian called Aram Andonyan were false.

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By Anadolu News Agency (aa)
Published: Monday, August 29, 2005
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