WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI #177: The Armenian suicide (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

The extinction of Nagorno Karabakh as an Armenian institutional entity

constitutes the last act of the progressive genocide of the Armenian
populations which began with the Turkization of the Anatolian area, the
deportation and extermination of the Armenian ethnic group, present in
the territory that was once Ottoman Empire since the 7th century BC The
genocide, preceded by the pogroms of 1894-96, ordered by Sultan Abdul
Hamid II and by other massacres, in particular that of 1909 in Cilicia,
in the aftermath of the Young Turk revolution (1908) - in the country
where the Armenians lived integrated, but not comparable.
The Ottoman Empire was made up of a mosaic of ethnic groups and
religions: Armenians, Greeks, Kurds, Bulgarians, Assyrians, Jews. In an
era in which national states arose, the Turkish component of the Empire
conceived the pan-Turkist ideology and with it the project of making a
single nation of the immense territory that goes from the Mediterranean
to the Turanian plateau, reforming the state on a mono-ethnic,
linguistically and culturally homogeneous base.
To achieve this objective, the Ottomans had to erase the Armenian
community as a historical, cultural, economic and above all political
subject, appropriating their assets and their lands and this happened
with ferocity and determination. This operation served as an economic
basis for the future Kemalist Republic which was able to redistribute
these goods to the Turkish populations who, as a result of the wars with
the Bulgarians who had insurgent in the meantime and with Greece, which
had become independent, returned to Turkey, while the country got rid of
the Greek population and Bulgaria by expelling her.
Furthermore, the Armenian population was the largest, it was Christian,
and had absorbed the ideals of the Western-style rule of law, and
therefore with its demands for equality, it constituted the greatest
obstacle to the realization of the pan-Turkist project, while Assyrians
and Jews posed less of a problem due to their small
number. The other major ethnic group to be targeted was the Kurds,
against whom the young Turks who had taken power in the country
organized a genocide which had different methods than the Armenian one,
and for this reason it is certainly less known. Taking advantage of the
First World War and the disintegration of the Empire in 1914, what went
down in history as the first of the genocides of the modern era began
and served as a model for subsequent ones.

Genocides by the Turks

The operations relating to the Armenian genocide began with the creation
of a paramilitary structure under the Ministry of War, which took the
name Special Organization (OS) directed by two doctors Nazim and Chakir.
This structure, wanted by the Central Committee of the Union and
Progress Party (CUP), which later belonged to Kemal Pasha, implemented
the genocide, with the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior and
the collaboration of the Ministry of Justice. The planning took place
between December 1914 and February 1915, with the help of German
advisors, given that Germany was Turkey's ally, and reached its peak on
the night of April 24, 1915, when the Armenian elite of Constantinople
was arrested, deported and eliminated.
We then proceeded with the disarmament and massacre of the Armenian
soldiers, who were forced to do forced labor on the Berlin-Baghdad
railway line, and in the spring the systematic deportation of the
Armenian population towards the desert of Der es Zor on railway
carriages began: a few they arrived alive.
The majority of deportees died during actual death marches, while their
assets were confiscated. The names of the political leaders are known
and are those of Talaat, Enver, Djemal, the triumvirs of the single
party in power who issued the decrees abolishing the reforms, deporting
and confiscating the assets of the Armenians - decrees never ratified by
Parliament - causing the destruction of the Armenian people, as one and
a half million people lost their lives: two-thirds of the Armenians of
the Ottoman Empire. Many children were Islamized and women sent to harems.
Placement of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, concentration camps and
places of deportation.

Placement of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, concentration camps and
places of deportation.

Official Turkish historiography denies that there was a plan to
exterminate the Armenians and considers the massacres a consequence of
the war that affected both the Armenian population and the Turkish
population, to the point that even today talking about the genocide of
the Armenians in Turkey can cost prison and even the recognition of the
genocide by a third country arouses protests from Ankara. And the First
World War is used to disguise the intentionality of the extermination plan.
The solution given to the Kurdish question followed a different path:
the defeat of Turkey led to the signing of the Treaty of Sevres (1920)
which divided what had been the Ottoman Empire into zones of influence
between the various Western countries. Kemal Pasha continued to fight
and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) was signed and the Turkish Republic
was founded. The territories inhabited by the Kurds were entrusted to
France (Syria) and England (Palestine, Jordan and Iraq) while a part of
the Kurds continued to be arrested under Turkish jurisdiction, spreading
throughout the country and particularly in the south-east of 'Anatolia,
where they currently still reside. However, this does not spare the
Kurds from transfers from their residences, confiscation of assets,
death marches, abandonments in the desert and every other possible form
of repression, to reaffirm the supremacy of the Turkish component in the
new State.

The Armenians and Russia

Tsarist Russia has always claimed its role as great protector of
Orthodox Christians residing in the Ottoman Empire, so much so that it
negotiated with the Porte (Ottoman government) special guarantees for
Orthodox pilgrims who visited the holy places. This protection soon
transformed into political protection of Armenian irredentism and of the
Armenians' need to create their own homeland, so much so that Soviet
Russia also supported the formation of the Trans Caucasian Republic,
which incorporated the territories of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
which was subsequently divided into three Soviet republics, all
federated to the USSR.
This meant that, when the USSR dissolved in 1991, each of these
Republics took the path to independence. Today's Republic of Armenia was
born, with an autonomous oblast within the territory of Azerbaijan,
Nagorno Karabakh. This fact marked the beginning of the dispute which
seems to have momentarily ended last month with the definitive invasion
of Nagorno Karabakh by the Azerbaijani army which not only defeated the
military resistance that lasted thirty years.
All this was possible due to a particular contingency and errors in the
Armenian political leadership which, taking advantage of Russia's
commitment in the Ukrainian war, believed it appropriate to change
sides, abandoning Russian protection, represented by the sending of a
military corps with shipping function between the two sides, deployed on
the borders of Nagorno Karabakh, to seek Western and NATO protection.

SCPX (South Caucasus Pipeline Espansion), TANAP (Trans-Anatolian
Pipeline),TAP (Trans-Adriatic Pipeline)

SCPX (South Caucasus Pipeline Expansion), TANAP (Trans-Anatolian
Pipeline), TAP (Trans-Adriatic Pipeline) Azerbaijan, on the other hand,
strong in Turkish support, is today ready to please Russia as a transit
point for goods banned by sanctions , and taking advantage of the
favorable contingency, proceeded to provide a
definitive military solution to the issue, especially since Western
countries, due to the oil and methane crisis due to the interruption of
Russian supplies, found an alternative energy supplier in the country,
which using the SCPX (South Caucasus Pipeline Expansion), TANAP
(Trans-Anatolian Pipeline), TAP (Trans-Adriatic Pipeline) oil pipelines
which starting from the Baku oil fields, passing through Turkey, now
provides for part of their needs, to the great satisfaction of Turkey,
which is happy to collect the rights of passage.
On the other hand, today Armenia no longer has its great protector,
Charles Aznavour, also Armenian, the architect of the official
recognition of the genocide, first by France and then by the United
Nations itself.
Another reason for the Russian abandonment of support for Armenia can be
found in the conflict that is tearing the Orthodox world apart, also as
a result of the Ukrainian war, of which the clash between the
Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Moscow, which
ends hegemony in the Orthodox world is not a secondary aspect. The fact
is that the
Armenian Apostolic Church, an ancient Orthodox church which saw its
autocephaly renewed by the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and sided
with the latter in the conflict between the two great Orthodox
Patriarchates; therefore, as such, it became
a bitter enemy of the Moscow Patriarchate which, for its part, opened
its own cathedral church in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. to reaffirm
the close relations that bind the Orthodox Church of Azerbaijan to the
Moscow one.

And Patriarch Kyrill is a vengeful man: his enemies know it well!

Thus the alliance between throne and altar in Russia has found a new way
of manifesting itself, demonstrating when the internal inter-Orthodox
conflict is today part of that for multilateralism, the ongoing world
conflicts, the new geopolitical balances.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2023/10/21/il-suicidio-armeno/
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