Genocide Lies

Earlier this week, Elekdag told his fellow parliamentarians how Turkey can best fight the genocide allegations. In sum, he said, ‘The facts show clearly that the Ottoman Empire neither planned nor carried out a genocide. A book entitled ‘The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916’ is often used as a source to assert the opposite. This book, which is also known as the blue book, describes Turks as people lacking honor, conscience and mercy, and as fundamentally tending towards evil, bloodthirsty acts. However, this blue book is a tissue of lies and fabricated documents. Professor Justin McCarthy definitively demonstrated this through using archives located in Britain. Moreover, if the documents in the book had been real, then Britain, which invaded Istanbul in 1920, would have showed these documents when they arrested Turks and expelled them to Malta. However, Britain instead set these Turks free.’

Elekdag also suggested that officials publicize their case to the world. Armenians will soon open an ‘Armenian Genocide Museum’ in Washington. This museum would be in essence a factory to crank anti-Turkish propaganda. ‘We cannot prevent this unfortunate development,’ said Elekdag, ‘but we can all work to establish a museum of Anatolian culture and civilizations in the same area’.

SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER, DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF PRESS AND INFORMATION