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    TURKISH PROFESSOR UNMASKS TURKEY'S CRIMINAL SECRETS, OUTLINES THE EIGHT PHASES OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    By Appo Jabarian
    Executive Publisher / Managing Editor
    USA Armenian Life Magazine

    Ankara is fast at work to counter the wave of intra-national and
    international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. But is it
    successful?

    Recently a damning Turkish documentary surfaced on Youtube.com
    unmasking the eight phases of the 1915-1923 genocide.

    Professor Ugur Umit Ungör, a lecturer at the Department of History
    at Utrecht University and at the Institute for War, Holocaust, and
    Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, revealed the Turkish-documented inner
    workings of Turkish-masterminded and executed government policies
    of mass deportations, dispossession, and annihilation against the
    Armenians then living under Ottoman yoke.

    Personally I watched it at least half a dozen times. In the documentary
    Prof. Ungor clearly outlines the damning details of Turkey's secret
    plans to exterminate the Armenians and to expropriate their real and
    personal properties as well as their ancestral homelands in Western
    Armenia.

    Professor Ungor, author of the "Confiscation and Destruction: The
    Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property (Continuum, 2011)" and the
    award-winning "The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern
    Anatolia, 1913-1950 (Oxford University Press, 2011)," elaborated on
    "how Western Armenia became part of Turkish nation state. And he went
    on to illustrate how "the confiscation of the properties of Armenians"
    was carried out. He underlined the fact that "This process hasn't
    really been studied."

    He contrasted it to other mass murders and genocides, "such as the
    Holocaust, the genocide in Bosnia and the one in Rwanda."

    He went on: "The genocide was not one process. It was not just
    deportations; just massacres. But it was a whole range of destruction
    policies and I count at least eight of them. Then I'll move on to
    discuss some of the laws such as confiscation, expropriation, and
    finally I would like to give an example of one Armenian business that
    was expropriated by Ottoman Young Turk government. .. In several cases
    (the processes) overlapping one another ... geared into each other,
    they work together to produce the intended process of destruction."

    Then he went on to list the eight phases of the Armenian Genocide.

    1) Firing of all Armenian civil servants in the Ottoman Empire
    "Starting in early winter 1914, Talaat Pasha fired all the Armenian
    civil servants in the Empire starting with the police officers, civil
    servants, firemen, teachers - primary school teachers secondary school
    teachers,. All Armenians were fired from the Turkish bureaucracy,"
    noted Prof. Ungor.

    2) Decapitation "Talaat and company then moved on to the second
    phase of the process which was decapitation, and this was of course
    the infamous arrests of April 24, 1915 paving the way to the complete
    decapitation of the Armenian elite in Istanbul and was replicated in
    the provinces," he said.

    He continued: "I'd like to say two things and I think this is extremely
    important, first of all these were extremely systematic; there were
    lists of the men to be arrested and executed and of course these
    lists were sent back to Istanbul for corroboration. Secondly this
    was extremely a fast process. Time flies especially in the Armenian
    Genocide. In matter of weeks complete elite of the Armenian community
    of the Empire - cultural intelligentsia; economic intelligentsia;
    religious intelligentsia were destroyed."

    Then he showed two photographs, the first one depicting Krikor Zohrab,
    a famous writer, an Ottoman Armenian member of the Ottoman Parliament
    headquartered in Istanbul; the second depicting Mikael Khachaturian,
    the Bishop of Malatya.

    Then he drew sharp contrasts between the two men: "It was interesting
    to study the biographies of two very different men.- Krikor Zohrab,
    very critical of the church and very liberal; and Bishop Khachaturian,
    a very pious, very spiritual and strong believer in the Christian
    faith. Both of them were arrested. Both of them were murdered. I think
    this is quite important -- two very different individuals that have
    nothing in common except for the fact that they were Armenians. And
    this is the essence of the genocide - reducing people to their ethnic
    identity."

    3) "The third phase was heralded through the deportations. On
    23 May, exactly one month after the massive arrests of the elite,
    Talaat Pasha ordered complete deportation of all Armenians into the
    Syrian desert of Deir-ez-Zor. And this is also important because this
    order was published and we found the official document in the Ottoman
    archives in which they ordered this and which in itself is a genocidal
    order for the complete deportation of the civilian population into
    the desert," he underlined.

    4) "The fourth phase was the dispossession process. Between May
    and November 1915, Talaat Pasha issued four decrees in the form of laws
    -- and of course they had nothing to do with the laws. For laws, you
    need to have a legal process; separation of powers. That was not the
    case because it was a dictatorship. He began with a deportation order
    and the first order which was about deporting all of the Armenians
    contained provision that Armenians could bring along everything
    they wanted. 'So you have a house; you have lands to sell. You can
    take the money with you and then you can go to the Deir-ez-Zor where
    you will be resettled.' That sounded promising. But then of course
    the new decrees reversed this policy. In June 1915, the government
    established Abandoned Property Commissions and these were really
    organizations to assault the Armenian economy. With one decision,
    all of the properties were officially handed over or transferred to
    the government. So they took the decision and they had to fine tune
    it so they took more decisions. One in September 1915, when they
    delegated the implementation of this huge plan to three ministries -
    the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry
    of Justice because they understood that this is a huge process. And
    who's going to organize it? These three ministries! And they of course
    had a record of all these properties and they corresponded among each
    other. And we have correspondences. They are in the Ottoman archives
    in Istanbul. I looked at them extensively," he asserted.

    5) "The fifth phase was mass murder. From the summer of 1915
    on, the special units began murdering Armenian civilians throughout
    the Empire. So far we had very little information of these men of
    the organization "Tashkilat al Mahsusa". What kind of organization
    was this? How was it set up? I found this document - a photo in the
    archives of the Ottoman government. It was interesting to see that
    all of them were dressed in the same uniforms. And secondly, even more
    important, they're standing in front of the War Ministry in Istanbul.

    So no longer can the government say that we have nothing to do with
    these - with Chechens running wild, and posing for photographs in front
    of the war ministry. The building still exists. It is now converted
    into a military museum in Istanbul. And the list goes on," he added.

    6) "The sixth phase of the genocide was forced assimilation. The
    absorption of women and children into the Turkish households. This is
    also significant in the genocidal process because it was an assault
    on cultural identity of people. By making sure that people could not
    reproduce; could not continue to perpetuate their identity. It is an
    assault on an abstract idea of culture embodied in these individuals.

    This is the essence of what genocide is. Men were separated from
    women. Children were separated from their parents breaking up the
    most essential ties in human beings," he further noted.

    7) "Then we had the seventh phase of the genocide - the famine
    crime.

    Starting in 1916 on those Armenians were forced into Deir-ez-Zor
    and were pushed into organized artificial famine zones. People were
    put into the region where (the Turkish soldiers) prohibited bread
    from reaching the victims. And this is extremely important. You can
    distinguish what makes it genocidal. The Turkish people that were
    living in Deir-ez-Zor were given bread. The Armenians were prohibited
    to buy bread. Why did they do that? Of course there is no question
    about the intention behind this policy. And I'm still not finished,"
    he emphasized.

    "The final phase of the genocide was the assault on material culture
    and architecture. Starting from 1915 on there was a policy that
    was continued well into the 1920â~@²s when the Turkish government
    continued destroying churches and monasteries. And here's only one
    example: Sourp Hovhannes (monastery) in Alashkert (he showed an old
    photo depicting the church in Alashkert on the left and also showed
    a new photo of the same location depicting a destroyed church then he
    said: "And what is left of the monastery was the foundation only. And
    you can clearly see that this is the same place. Some of my students
    have asked me, how to know if this is the same place? He responded:
    "I'll show it to you. The black stripe here in the mountain (in the
    background of the church), and these are the foundations of this
    monastery," he illustrated.

    Speaking of the entire eight processes he said: "Together and only
    together they produce a coherent process of destruction. By the end of
    the war there were approximately 2900 Armenian settlements that were
    depopulated by about a million Armenians because they were dead. I'd
    like to move on to the dispossession policy. These eight phases have
    to be studied and in fact they are studied in details."

    I must acknowledge that this article in no way is an adequate report on
    the monumental work done by Prof. Ungor. Watch the video on Youtube.com
    at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6_InAhUmmM. The
    presentation is in English with Turkish subtitles. Please share it with
    your friends. One needs to get further acquainted with Prof. Ungor's
    works in order to grasp the magnitude of his revelations.

    As well-informed members of the new Turkish generation emerge,
    denialist Turks see the walls of silence falling around them.

    http://www.armenianlife.com/2013/03/14/turkish-professor-unmasks-turkey%E2%80%99s-criminal-secrets-outlines-the-eight-phases-of-the-armenian-genocide/




    From: A. Papazian
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