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I plan to collect historical documents and articles by various authors in this blog, usually without comments. Opinions expressed within the articles belong to the authors and do not always coincide with those of mine.

Friday, March 25, 2016

Murat Bardakçı on Armenian Relocations

This is what Murat Bardakçı wrote (in his article titled "İşte tehcirin uygulanmasını ve Doğu’daki bütün Ermeniler’in sürülmesini başlatan mektup!" and dated April 19, 2015):

"1915’te büyük acıların yaşandığını, tehcirin Ermeniler tarafından unutulmasının imkânsızlığını ama tehcirin “soykırım” değil, devletin o günlerdeki mecburiyeti ve daha da önemlisi “nefis müdafaası” olduğunu senelerden buyana yazıp söylüyorum."

My translation:

I have been saying and writing for years that it is impossible for Armenians to forget the relocations and that great pains were experienced in 1915, but the relocation of Armenians was not a genocide but was a necessity and even more importantly was a self-defense for the [Ottoman] state in those days.