I strongly condemn The US Administration, especially President Biden, due to their decision to recognize Armenian allegations.
President Biden’s decision:
** Collaborates with the Government of Armenia which formally declared Turkey as an enemy;
** Hurts Turkish nation, particularly our martyrs who lost their lives while saving an American Division’s soldiers’ lives from sure destruction in the Korean War;
** Collaborates with the enemies of Turkey who has been defending the values of the western civilization for decades;
*Disregards true historical information, archival documents and violates international laws and ethical principles;
** Forgets that many acts of genocide and atrocities have been committed against millions of human beings all over the world for centuries by their own state. This includes millions of American Indians killed, atrocities against Black Americans, using of nuclear weapons against Japan, and millions killed in Vietnam, Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq and Afghanistan with conventional weapons of war.
This politically inexperienced decision was a huge blow to Turkish-American relations. It significantly reduced the value of the Unite States in the eyes of Turks.
Here, I would like to remind a saying of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, (by adapting from army to state) which would hold true for any state: “The value of a state is measured by the value of those who run that state.” Unfortunately, due to this unfair decision, members of the US Administration have undermined the value of their own state by listening to the lies of the Armenian side, violating historical realities, legal and ethical rules, forgetting their own genocides, massacres and atrocities, and putting themselves in a judgmental position and exceeding their limits, even though they are just politicians.
I would like to remind those who made this terribly unwise decision that they are doing significant harm to their own state.
While I strongly condemn the US administratiion once again, I sincerely ask the Turkish Government to react swiftly, adequately and decisively against this hostile decision.
On the 106th anniversary of the vicious slaughter of 22,900 innocent Muslims at the provincial center of the City of Van on April 21, 1915 by mutinous Armenian gangs (Hunchak, Dashnak and alike), We, The Turkish People around the world, would like to commemorate our martyrs with compassion and love, bowing down in front of their honorable, loving memory with respect.
The VAN massacre originates from the mutinous attitude fanatical Armenian gangs acquaired in the depths of history. Similar massacres committed by Armenians were witnessed throughout the Ottoman-Russian Wars of 1828 and 1877-78, due Armenians’ cooperation with the enemy, as well as other major massacres Armenians committed on their own.
During the early phases of these Russian invasions, aiming the realization of Russia’s historical ambitions, some Armenians who knew the region very well as Ottoman citizens and whose second language was Turkish, led the Russian forces into Turkish territories, causing them to raid Turkish forces and massacre many Muslims. Armenians have repeated similar practices in the VAN MASSACRE.
Due to the fact that Turkish men were engaged in the war efforts against invading enemy armies on six different battle-fronts during WWI, and that this situation created a vulnerability in the security forces of the region, Armenians who wanted to take advantage of this situation committed wide-scale massacres in Eastern villages and towns of Turkey, against the Muslim population. Armenians’ true intent was to reduce the numbers of the local Muslims, and thereby increase the ratio of the Christian population in the region, against Muslims.
Once the Tsarist Russian Army entered Eastern Anatolia, taking advantage of this weakest time of the Ottoman State, Armenians increased their terror activities in the City of Van with the purpose of gaining majority in the population of the city, while once more helping the invading Russian Army. Their massacres in the region peaked on April 21, 1915, at the centre of Van.
During these massacres where 22,900 Muslims perished, extremely cruel and inhumane acts of murder took place on the Akdamar Island where a historic Armenian Church is located; Armenian gangs also committed all sorts of immoral acts against Muslim women and girls. Many girls and women ended up having to commit suicide by jumping into the Lake of Van in order to protect themselves, their honor and dignity against the Armenians’ sexual violence.
Perhaps the best response to the groundless Armenian claims came from the Armenian Republic’s First Prime Minister, Hovhannes Katchaznouni, in his 1923 manifesto to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s (Dashnaktsutyun) Party Conference, in Bucharest. This manifesto of Katchaznouni, which has been removed from the libraries of the civilized(!) Western World by Armenian propagandists, blamed not the Turks but the Armenians as “the responsible party for the suffering of the Armenians”. He states that “the Armenians rebelled against their own state and committed treason by cooperating with the imperialist countries that occupied the Ottoman Empire”.
Based on such Armenian confessions and the research of expert historian and demographer Prof. Justin McCarthy, we now know that 1,189,332 Muslims lost their lives in Anatolia during those years, mainly in the hands of rebellious Armenians.
Considering Johanness Lepsius’ pre-WWI population numbers and numerous archival reports showing the number of Armenians surviving the war, we come to the conclusion that only around 83,000 Armenians lost their lives during the forced relocations of 1915.
Despite such true archival information, Armenian propaganda machine resorts to all kinds of intrigue and deceit, telling world public the biggest lie of all times – that 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the hands of Turks! They pursue policies similar to that of Hitler’s Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Every year, they engage in political activities to force the politicians around the world to pass meaningless, unbinding resolutions declaring April 24th as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
On the other hand, we wish the sane, impartial and fair people of the world would at least ask themselves the very question that French historian Prof Yves Bérnard asked himself once, when he gave the following title to one of his books: “Génocide Arménien: Et si on nous avait menti? (Armenian Genocide: What if they have lied to us?)”.
According to the researches of Prof. McCarthy, apart from the human casualties they caused, the Armenian insurgents also destroyed all 3,400 buildings, except 3, in the province of Van, belonging to the Muslims, and left the region.
Dr Pat Walsh is a political analyst and historian. He has written a number of books on the Great War of 1914 and the Armenian question. His latest book, ‘Britain against Russia in the Caucasus: Ottoman Turks, Armenians and Azerbaijanis caught up in Geopolitics, War and Revolution’ will be published shortly by Manzara Verlag. In the following piece Dr Walsh reviews Prof. Hans Keiser’s recent book on Talaat Pasha.
Washington soykırım müzesi Hitler’e ait olduğu iddia edilen söz
By: Cengiz Özakinci – History Writer, Researcher and Editor
(Translated from Turkish “Bütün Dünya” March 2018 , Monthly Magazine of Baskent University)
FORGED HITLER QUOTE ACCUSING TURKEY IN US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
The Second World War began on September 1, 1939, with the invasion of Poland by the German Military. Hitler, in fact, gave his invasion orders ten days before this date in a secret meeting he held on August 22, 1939 where he addressed his top generals with a lengthy speech. The world war that started with Hitler Germany’s invasion of Poland would last six years, claiming millions of lives and causing significant tangible and intangible destruction. In 1945, US, England and Russia had already beaten Germany and had started the process of gathering any and all available evidence to try German officers in Nuremberg International Tribunals. Among the evidential documents seized by the US Military in Saalfelden, Austria, in 1945, there were notes taken on the day of August 22, 1939 at the meeting where Hitler ordered the invasion of Poland. Later in 1942, Louis P. Lochner, the Berlin Correspondent of Associated Press, published a book titled “What About Germany”. In that book, Lochner included a text of this speech of Hitler’s, attributing it to “a source”. However, there were significant differences between the speech version Lochner quoted and those seized in Saafelden, in 1945. For instance, Lochner claimed in his book that Hitler said: “Our strength lies in our quickness and in our brutality; Genghis Khan has sent millions of women and children into death knowingly and with a light heart. History sees in him only the great founder of States. It’s a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me. I have issued the command – and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad – that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations on readiness – for the present time only in the East – with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus, shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
Hitler, with Generals of the German Army However, the other versions of Hitler’s speech that were found among the Nazi archival documents or in other documents presented by the defense, there was not a single line of speech that spoke of the Armenians.
The words attributed to Hitler in Lochner’s book, published in 1942. The Military Prosecution found that the text offered in Lochner’s book was based on a dubious source and therefore did not use this text as evidence in the trial process. Interpreter Carlos Porter later reviewed the three pages of speech text that Lochner claimed to have “received from a source and immediately forwarded a copy to the US Embassy in 1939”. Porter determined that not only this text was typed with a typewriter that did not have a German keyboard but also that the text was written with a bad German. Some 30 years following the Nuremberg Trials, there has been an effort to establish a Holocaust Memorial Museum in The United States to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. In those years where Turkish diplomats were being assassinated by ASALA terror organization, an Armenian-American man named Set Momjian who made his way to the Museum administration promised a donation of $1,000,000 in exchange for the Museum to provide a display to remember the events of 1915. When the news reached to Turkey that Holocaust Memorial Museum would provide a space for Armenian genocide propaganda, it was met with disappointment; The Ministry of Foreign Affairs have made attempts to prevent this move while our press began to mold a public opinion against the Armenian propaganda. In the beginning of 1980s, prominent Armenian scholars in The United States proposed the Museum to display the quote “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”According to these folks, the first genocide of the century was perpetrated against the Armenians in 1915. Not only that, they claimed that in planning his genocide against Jews, Hitler was inspired by the fact that what has been done to Armenians had been forgotten and had gone unpunished. For that matter, it was important to them that Hitler’s Armenian quote to be displayed at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Propaganda Posters claiming that the Holocaust was based on 1915 Armenian relocation. As all this propaganda continued in The United States, in a booklet he prepared in two languages (English and French) titled: “Hitler and the Armenian Question / Hitler et la Question Armenienne”, Prof. Turkkaya Ataov showed us that this forged Hitler quote was used by many US Senators and Congressmen in their addresses to the House and Senate and proved based on the Nuremberg trial documents, that this quote did not belong to Hitler. A year after Ataov’s revelation, in 1985, Prof. Heath W. Lowry wrote an article titled: “The U.S. Congress and Adolf Hitler on the Armenians” in which he proved that this so-called Hitler quote that was being intended to be displayed at the Museum was forged or “spurious”. Armenian propagandists did not take even one step backwards on their intent to display this Hitler quote at the Holocaust Museum despite all the evidence to suggest that the quote was a forgery. Jews who lived in The United States got divided into two camps: A majority with a Pro-Israel stance saying “The Jewish Holocaust is an unprecedented event and it may not be marginalized by getting mixed up with other genocide claims” and a minority thinking that it is unwise to oppose the opinions of US Presidents (such as Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton) who favored providing a space in the Holocaust Museum for Armenians as a continuation of the formal US policy. The Memorial Museum Council declared in December of 1987 that the “Armenian genocide will be included in all of the Museum’s current studies for being the first genocide of the 20th century” and Museum Council’s President Harvey Meyerhoff declared later at the Museum’s Foundation Laying Ceremony – which was attended by Ronald Reagan himself- that the decision to include Armenian genocide claims in the Museum was final.
Taking five years to build, the Museum was opened to public on April 26, 1993 following an opening ceremony held on April 22, 1993. However, due to strong diplomatic reaction from Turkey, Museum administration decided not to display the Armenian genocide propaganda and the forged Hitler quote. However, from a picture taken during Armenian President Serge Sarkisian’s visit on May 6, 2015, we found out that the forgery Hitler quote that has long been used as an Armenian propaganda tool was being displayed at the Museum despite the decision made in the 1993 opening.
Armenian President Serge Sarkisian, Armenian Patriarch and CatholicosKarekin II, Foreign Minister of Armenia and Minister of Diaspora, Archbishop KhajagBarsamian, The Metropolite of Diocese of Armenian Church of America (Eastern) and others, under guidance of Arthur Berger, Senior Advisor, standing in front of the forged Hitler quote at The US Holocaust Memorial Museum (May 6, 2015 – Photo: US Holocaust Memorial Museum) Researcher Sukru Server Aya, who literally took every Armenian claim one by one and repudiated them in his books with solid evidences, has also proven that this quote attributed to Hitler was indeed a forgery. (For reference, see “Genocide of Truth”, Istanbul University of Commerce, 2008, p.366, “Genocide Traders”, Derin Publishing, Jan. 2009, pgs. 205-206, “Genocide of Truth Continues”, Derin Publishing, Dec 2010, pgs 249-270)
A few books of Sukru Server Aya (pic. above), proving the falsehood of the Armenian propaganda lies. In response to this forged Hitler quote appearing on The Wall Street Journal, in an article penned by Robert M. Morgenthau on January 25, 2018, S.S. Aya wrote the following to the Editors of The Wall Street Journal, The Administrators of The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Office of the Presidency (the Museum Administrators report to): “Esteemed Gentlemen, As private researchers and writers on the WW-1 and WW-2 History and events related to the “mythomania of genocide” (Erich Feigl) we are profoundly disturbed by the domineering tone of the author and feel compelled to refute the contents of this article from A to Z, since almost everything written by former New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau is untrue, not evidenced, and flawed with colossal deficiency of knowledge on past and present history. The “alleged Hitler Quote” still standing on the wall of the Museum is a complete forgery, which undoubtedly has been known to the Museum from the very early days for more than twenty years. Regrettably, despite written applications and provided documentary as evidence, the Museum preferred, or was probably told to, “remain quiet, hide and falsify history” to the public. The Museum has become instrumental in propagating the “genocide palaver”, despite all judicial requirements and verdicts of various authorized courts in Europe. (…) The US archives are full of official documents bearing references of the US Congress and Senate contradicting his article and yet, Mr. Morgenthau, a celebrity in law and justice, has either ignored or defied by “acting as a persecutor, without hearing any defense, no evidence, and no obedience to nor respect for the laws of this land and as a judge or deity for eternity”. We submit that this cannot be accepted, and we respectfully request a statement from Wall Street Journal whether or not it subscribes to Mr. Robert M. Morgenthau’s claims of Armenian Genocide.” *** “A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes”, says Mark Twain. However, the propaganda lies of powerful lobbies seem to be capable of traveling one thousand times around the globe. In my previous article, I have exposed and repudiated the popular propaganda idea claiming: “Hitler and the Nazi Party were inspired by Kemalism, Ataturk and the Turkish War of Independence”. In this article, we repudiated with proof, the idea that “Hitler’s genocide on Jews was inspired by 1915 relocation of the Armenians”. It would appear that The West tries hard to prove that the ideology behind Hitler’s fascism and genocidal behavior -which stained their history- emanated from Turks, and not from them. I submit that it is important that we see such lies and slanders being mounted against us as a ground work, preparatory to future invasions and attacks on Turkish soil. Thus, combating such lies and slanderous allegations is a prerequisite for “peace at home, peace in the world”. A world that is dominated by lies will only lead to more wars. * < By: Cengiz Özakinci – History Writer, Researcher and Editor> [email protected] (Translated by Emre Serbest)
REMEMBRANCE & DEVELOPMENTS “The Wall Street Journal” dated 25.1.2018 had published a letter written by the retired New York District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau, who was Jew and the grandson of Henry Morgenthau Sr. USA’s Istanbul Ambassador in the 1915s. https://www.wsj.com/articles/will-trump-tell-the-truth-about-the-armenian-genocide-1516925489. Robert Morgenthau was asking President Trump, to declare April 24, the day of “Armenian genocide”, the same way he had declared Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel. As evidence he referred to the quote on the walls of the Washington Holocaust Museum, a sentence that Hitler (allegedly) said in 1939. The inscription on the wall was wrong and was a lie and the Museum was aware of this fact from the very early years but they kept it there likely to comply with the wishes f Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama as the high authority of the Museum Administration. The complaints of some Turks (Melih Berk, Turkkaya Ataov, Sevgin Oktay, Sukru S. Aya…) were all from “individuals and not from an official”. None of them were replied to, despite additional documentary evidences.
On 13.2.2018 a Research Paper and Cover letter co-signed by Sukru S. Aya, Ata Atun and Yurdagül Atun was e-mailed to the Washington Holocaust Museum, the White House and about a hundred senators and congress members. These document which were previously shared, can be sent again on request. These original documents in English were translated into Turkish for Turkish offices and sent by express cargo to the Office of Prime minister, President and Foreign Affairs office, by adding a Turkish informative page, having included as document my book “Buyuk Yalan”. Another package was sent to the US Embassy Press Attaché in Ankara. Furthermore, Mr. Arslan Bulut in his column on “Yenicag” Newspaper dated 15.2.2018 wrote a descriptive article explaining the importance of this subject under the heading: “USA opens the third front”. I did not expect any reply from the USA since (the lie is clear and cannot be denied). But more sorrowful is the fact that none of our administrators could see the “importance of this chance” and there was no response whatsoever.
Mr. Cengiz Özakinci, as writer of several books and being reputed for his meticulous researches, is also the editor of “Bütün Dünya” (The Whole World) monthly Cultural Publication of the Baskent University. In the March 2018 issue of the magazine, Ozakıncı goes into the details with evidential documents of this “Hitler Lie” and relation to the State Administered Holocaust Museum and he shows that this cannot be denied by official historical documents and presents all this to the knowledge of READERS and THOSE WHO SHOULD BE INTERESTED. The Turkish photocopy of the article is attached along with the English translation. I do pray with my exhausted patience, that a responsive reader will finally see and understand the documentary value of this Armenian-USA lie and the inexplicable bigotry, which otherwise lead to a new slander from President Trump,.
Comment on the Wall Street Journal Article, title ; “Will Trump Tell the Truth About the Armenian Genocide?” By Robert M. Morgenthau Jan. 25, 2018 7:11 p.m. ET
(Prepared by; Dr. Yurdagul Atun / Sukru Server Aya/ Prof. Ata Atun
WSJ & Museum OPEN COVER LETTER (Feb.11, 2018) To: a- The Wall Street Journal – Editors b- The Washington Holocaust Museum Memorial Council Members and Management c- The Office of the U.S.A. President (as supervisors of this state establishment)
c.c: The U.S.A. Embassy, Ankara, Turkey (Press Attaché) The Turkish Embassy, Washington Turkish Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ankara Press & Academia
Esteemed Gentlemen, February 13, 2018
Re: WSJ Article of Jan. 25, 2018https://www.wsj.com/articles/will-trump-tell-the-truth-about-the-armenian-genocide-1516925489
As private researchers and writers on the WW-1 and WW-2
The Washington Holocaust Museum
History and events related to the “mythomania of genocide” (Erich Feigl) we are profoundly disturbed by the domineering tone of the author and feel compelled to refute the contents of this article from A to Z, since almost everything written by former New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau is untrue, not evidenced, and flawed with colossal deficiency of knowledge on past and present history. The “alleged Hitler Quote” still standing on the wall of the Museum is a complete forgery, which undoubtedly has been known to the Museum from the very early days for more than twenty years. Regrettably, despite written applications and provided documentary as evidence, the Museum preferred or was probably told to “remain quiet, hide and falsify history” to the public. The Museum has become instrumental in propagating the “genocide palaver”, despite all judicial requirements and verdicts of various authorized courts in Europe.
We attach our “research refuting the article” and the patronizing remarks of Mr. Morgenthau, who is presumably unaware of WW-2 Nazi Armenian Legion being complicit in rounding up Jews to be sent to death camps, or the books and articles on internet corroborating how Turkish diplomats saved over ten thousand Jews in Vichy France and Rhodes from Nazi persecution and arranging their transfer to Palestine by special chartered trains. This of course, is no surprise given the history of the Armenians and the Turks living in peace and harmony down the street from each other for centuries. We would like to invite Mr. Morgenthau to take time in his retirement to familiarize himself with the history of the Ottoman Empire which lasted over 600 years because of its policy of “live and let live” and mutual tolerance of its people reaching at one time more than thirty ethnic groups stretching from Europe to Indonesia. We attach as a reminder footnote, two excerpts from history for the treat of Jews by the Ottoman Turks which should be self-explanatory to Mr. Morgenthau.
We believe we have answered the hearsay or prejudiced grandma stories in the attached research paper and hereby cordially ask you to tell the public if the “quote on the Museum wall true?” also keeping in mind to respect the U.N.’s judicial requirements before saying so. If so, then the “Nuremberg Court decision of 1948 deleting this forgery, or the full definition of this alleged quote and meeting of 22.08.1939as narrated in William L. Shirer’s book must be wrong”, as well as the recent confirmation of the very same contents in the Documents of US Military.”
Gentlemen, you are ethically obligated to clarify the status and rectify the many “empty, dominative and assertive allegations for which not even a page of legally valid document” has ever been submitted to any competent tribunal, let alone any confirming verdict from the same. The US archives are full of official documents bearing references of the US Congress and Senate contradicting his article and yet, Mr. Morgenthau, a celebrity in law and justice, has either ignored or defied by “acting as a persecutor, without hearing any defense, no evidence, and no obedience to nor respect for the laws of this land and as a judge or deity for eternity”.
We submit that this cannot be accepted, and we respectfully request a statement from Wall Street Journal whether or not it subscribes to Mr. Robert M. Morgenthau’s claims of “Armenian Genocide.” Thank you.
Cordially yours,
Dr. Yurdagül Atun (Researcher) – International Aydin University ([email protected])
Prof. Ata Atun (Rector) International Aydin University ([email protected])
“Jewish communities in Anatolia flourished and continued to prosper throughout the Turkish rule. When the Ottomans captured Bursa in 1326 and made it their capital, Jews welcomed the Ottomans as saviors. Sultan Orhan gave them permission to build the Etz ha-Hayyim (Tree of Life) Synagogue, which remained in service until the 1940s.”
The Chief Rabbi of Edirne between 1454-69, Isaac Sarfati wrote his famous “Edirne Letter” during this same period. It concerns several German Jewish families, which had immigrated to the Ottoman Empire.
“I have heard of the afflictions, more bitter than death, that have befallen our brethren in Germany, of the tyrannical laws, the compulsory baptism and the banishment, which are of daily occurrence. …Brothers and teachers, friends and acquaintances! I, Isaac Sarfati… I proclaim to you that Turkey is a land wherein nothing is lacking, and where, if you will, all shall yet be well with you… Here every man may dwell at peace under his own vine and fig tree… Here you are allowed to wear the most precious garments”.. # 1 . Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics & Politics, George Allen-Unwin Ltd. London 1954, pg.218. # 2. Courtesy, Museum of Turkish Jews, The Quincentennial Foundation, Istanbul pg.76-77 “Bernard Lewis, Jews of Islam”
