If they have nothing to hide , them let them open their Archives and let the World study them.
2007-04-17 13:21:40 · 6 answers · asked by MFM L 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Unfortunately some bad things happened during that time but it was war time.Turkish side never denies what happened and opens the war archives which says somewhere between 200-300 thousand Armenians were died during the relocation.Armenian side refuses to open the archives and says 1,5 million Armenians were killed systematicly but never mention about what happened to the Armenian population in Istanbul or the other major cities of the empire.They don't want to answer how 1,5 million can be killed while whole Armenian population in the empire was 1 million.They don't want the world to know that who started the conflict or what would be the punishment of betrayel during the time period.On the other hand Ottoman empire was not alone in the 1st WW,nothing could be found in the German archives,or British or French not even in the Russian.
All we can say now is it was a sad occasion,unfortunately happened but it can not called genocide it was only one of the massacres of the 1st WW.
2007-04-22 20:01:25 · answer #1 · answered by mertev 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You refer to the turkish archives, right?
2007-04-17 20:28:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was a fact of history that there *was* a massacre of the Armenians
2007-04-25 19:35:47 · answer #3 · answered by merlyn14000uk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Turkish government has nothing to hide, then why is it trying so hard to suppress any testimony or evidence?
2007-04-17 20:26:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it did
2007-04-18 01:15:32 · answer #5 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it did
2007-04-22 08:38:23 · answer #6 · answered by ratspit72 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋