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A NEW STUDY FROM THE GOMIDAS INSTITUTE: "TALAAT PASHA'S REPORT ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, 1917"
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In 2008 Murat Bardakci, the Turkish journalist and historian, published
a facsimile of a report on Ottoman Armenians from Talaat Pasha's
private archives. The report had been given to Bardakci by Talaat's
widow in 1982. In his own presentation of the untitled and undated
report, Bardakci acknowledged that the materials he was presenting
were open to interpretation. He called the report "A General Account
of the Armenian Population after the Population Transfer [Tehcir]
(possibly 1915-1916)."[1] Bardakci's work was somewhat derided by
Turkish nationalist historians and generally ignored by others.[2]
A more recent study re-examined Talaat's report using Ottoman records
for a completely different interpretation. The new study identified
sufficient evidence that Talaat's report was based on a special survey
he had ordered in February 1917 and it produced some of the reports
that appear to have been produced after the survey was ordered. These
reports, from the Turkish archives, showed identical or near identical
statistics to Talaat's report.
From: A. Papazian
http://azadalik.wordpress.com/
In 2008 Murat Bardakci, the Turkish journalist and historian, published
a facsimile of a report on Ottoman Armenians from Talaat Pasha's
private archives. The report had been given to Bardakci by Talaat's
widow in 1982. In his own presentation of the untitled and undated
report, Bardakci acknowledged that the materials he was presenting
were open to interpretation. He called the report "A General Account
of the Armenian Population after the Population Transfer [Tehcir]
(possibly 1915-1916)."[1] Bardakci's work was somewhat derided by
Turkish nationalist historians and generally ignored by others.[2]
A more recent study re-examined Talaat's report using Ottoman records
for a completely different interpretation. The new study identified
sufficient evidence that Talaat's report was based on a special survey
he had ordered in February 1917 and it produced some of the reports
that appear to have been produced after the survey was ordered. These
reports, from the Turkish archives, showed identical or near identical
statistics to Talaat's report.
From: A. Papazian