Turkish Historical Society Chairman Says He Can Provide Documents On How Armenians Massacred More Than 519,000 Turks

12/17/2004
Turkish Press
Anadolu Agency

ANKARA (AA) - Turkish Historical Society (TTK) Chairman Prof. Dr. Yusuf Halacoglu has stated that there is no document that could lead to accusation of Turkey with the so-called Armenian genocide. ''However, I can easily provide documents how 519,000 Turks were massacred by Armenians along with the names of villages these Turks lived in,'' said Halacoglu.

Halacoglu remarked that the issue of the so-called Armenian genocide must be discussed extensively and in details by a committee of scholars from Turkey, Armenia, Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia and the United States who will convene to study Russian, British, American, French and Armenian confidential and classified documents. ''Those who continuously talk about genocide should reveal what they had in their own archives. Lets see what they have in Hinchak archives. We will possibly see in that archive how the Armenians massacred Turks, and how they planned such brutal acts, and why they massacred Turks,'' told Halacoglu.

Halacoglu said that they opened Ottoman archives and they even put it into internet. Halacoglu further expressed that based on their studies in the archives worldwide, they have not come across even with a single document that may prove Armenian claims of a genocide. ''Did the Armenians suffer difficulty which could be termed as a tragedy? Yes. Yet the Turks suffered more than the Armenians. The Muslims suffered a true tragedy. Armenians constantly claim that there was a genocide committed by Turks. We must note that the Armenians can not refer to any document which may prove that there was indeed a genocide. The bottom line is that the Armenians are lying.''

''The meeting between Turkish and Armenian delegations were planned to be held in Vienna in 2005 after two processes of document exchange. But this meeting seems not certain. If they do not show up in this meeting, we will make public the documents we have.''

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