ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CONNECTED FIRST OF ALL WITH IDEOLOGY: RUSSIAN HISTORIAN
May 23, 2006
ArmInfo
The attempts of a number of Turkish historians to justify the Genocide of Armenians with the pro-Russian sentiments of Armenians are absolutely baseless like the statements that "the Armenians and Turks had normal relations before Russia's coming to the Caucasus." Head of the 19th Century Section, State Historical Museum, Victor Bezotosny told ArmInfo.
He stressed that for centuries the Turkish state government machine repeatedly organized ethnic purges accompanied with pogroms of the Christian nations in the Ottoman Empire: Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians, and Armenians. The history of Russian-Turkish wars shows that every time after war Russia [...] undertook the protection of Christian peoples in the Ottoman Empire, the historian said. After the Russian-Turkish war of 1887-1878, Russia insisted on its military presence in Western Armenia as a guarantor of security of western Armenians before the Sultan would carry out reforms. West-European super powers headed by great Britain were against these plans for the fear of the future expansion of the Russian Empire. And Alexander II yielded to Europe for the results of the Crimea war were fresh in the memory of the Russian public.
Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey as well as the annihilation of Jews in Germany under Hitler were connected with domestic political matters and first of all with ideology, he said. He underlined that historical documents leave no doubts that Genocide was committed against the Armenian people in Ottoman Turkey.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
ArmInfo
The attempts of a number of Turkish historians to justify the Genocide of Armenians with the pro-Russian sentiments of Armenians are absolutely baseless like the statements that "the Armenians and Turks had normal relations before Russia's coming to the Caucasus." Head of the 19th Century Section, State Historical Museum, Victor Bezotosny told ArmInfo.
He stressed that for centuries the Turkish state government machine repeatedly organized ethnic purges accompanied with pogroms of the Christian nations in the Ottoman Empire: Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians, and Armenians. The history of Russian-Turkish wars shows that every time after war Russia [...] undertook the protection of Christian peoples in the Ottoman Empire, the historian said. After the Russian-Turkish war of 1887-1878, Russia insisted on its military presence in Western Armenia as a guarantor of security of western Armenians before the Sultan would carry out reforms. West-European super powers headed by great Britain were against these plans for the fear of the future expansion of the Russian Empire. And Alexander II yielded to Europe for the results of the Crimea war were fresh in the memory of the Russian public.
Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey as well as the annihilation of Jews in Germany under Hitler were connected with domestic political matters and first of all with ideology, he said. He underlined that historical documents leave no doubts that Genocide was committed against the Armenian people in Ottoman Turkey.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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