Browsing by Author "Vartan, Levon"

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    Majorie Housepian, "The Smyrna Affair"
    (1972) Vartan, Levon
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    Ժամանակագրութիւն Հայկական Տասնհինգի (Հատուած)
    (1972) Vartan, Levon
    The Armenian massacres, perpetrated in 1915 by the Turks, constituted only part of the pan-Turanian scheme followed up by the Young Turks. World War I provided a splendid opportunity for the allies of Germany, the Turks, to annihilate the Armenians and resolve the Armenian Question. Turkish, Armenian and other documents and studies evidence the fact that the leaders of the Young Turks had planned the massacres and the forced deportations with fastidious care and had recruited, in Constantinople and other important centers of Western Armenia, the needed manpower for their dark designs. A chronological study also reveals the double-faced diplomatic moves of the Young Turks: they reassured, on the one hand, that Armenians were committed to the utmost care of the Turkish government, and, on the other, relentlessly massacred and deported the Armenians, thus vacating Western Armenia of its native people.
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    Խտրականութիւնը Օսմանեան Կայսրութեան Մէջ
    (1970) Vartan, Levon
    Segregation in the Ottoman Empire never was a novelty nor a fact just brought to light in the nineteenth century. It was there in the Ottoman Empire since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Segregation in the empire was a government as well as a religious and social policy. It received its force from the teachings of the Sheriat and the laws promulgated especially to create a wide gap between the Moslem and the Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire. Thus, once the policy enforced, it helped to distinguish the two major classes of the Ottoman society and to render easier the confiscation and appropriation, requisitioning and carting away of the rayas’ ownings; it also furthered and helped to engross the pillaging and looting desires of the Kurds, the Circassians and other marauding elements. Moreover, it was this policy of segregation which debarred the rayas of the right of self-protection and let loose all the evil forces to kidnap or massacre the non-Moslems especially in the eastern vilayets of the Ottoman Empire. This paper examines the differences existing between clothing, headgears, shoes, rights of arm-bearing, houses, gardens, merry-making, wedding-ceremonies, ringing of bells, singing and chanting, burial ceremonies, horse-riding, etc. of the Moslem inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire on the one hand and the Christian Armenians on the other. With ample evidence and documentation, it sheds light on the prevailing differences; moreover, it tells the sad and gloomy story of the Armenian rayas’ daily life in a society which drew its right of existence from the very being of these same rayas. The paper is composed of two parts: the first deals with the everyday life of the Armenians, while the second examines the Ottoman official brutal permits which come almost from all the parts of the Ottoman Empire.
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    Հայկական Տասնհինգը եւ Թուրք Գերմանական Դաշնագիրը
    (1971) Vartan, Levon
    The paper is a rather chronological study on the Turco-German Military Treaty of August 2, 1914; however, it also deals with the post-treaty period and brings to light the secret diplomatic negotiation which at least culminated in the Turco-Russian contention on the Caucasian front. Besides shedding light on one of the most intriguing phase of the First World War, the paper tries to open up the secret rapport between the military and Pan-Turanian designs of the Young-Turk party of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Massacres of 1915 perpetrated later by the self-name party. Relaying on German and Turkish documents, the writer endeavors to find the backing and hence the silent endorsement of the German authorities in promoting the Armenian Massacres of 1915
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    Պատասխանատուները Հայոց Դէմ Գործուած Ցեղասպանութեան
    (1973) Vartan, Levon
    The Turkish perpetration of the Armenian genocide was conceived by the Central Committee of the Young Turk’s Party, in the meetings of a special organization. The Central Committee of the Party, by virtue of its being a state within the state and above the governmental and military powers, had all the means to put into effect the extirpation of Armenians. After World War I, the nationalist Turks, under the guidance of Mustafa Kemal, continued the work started by the Young Turks in their genocidal policy. The perpetrators of the Armenian genocide, instead of facing justice, attempted, through their memoirs, to pervert history, hoping to emerge innocent of their criminality. Such were the memoirs of Jemal Pasha, of Talat, of Dr. Rashed, and of many others. After World War I, the victorious powers craftily avoided the setting of a Nuremberg, thus allowing the Turkish perpetrators of the Armenian genocide to enjoy their protection. These powers considered their political and economic interests a priority, and therefore committed to oblivion the just demands of their “small ally”, the Armenians. In view of this indifference, the Armenians attempted to set up a Nuremburg in their own way. They killed some of the chief perpetrators – Talat, Said Halim, Dr. Nazem, Bahaeddin Shaker, Jevanshir, and others. But justice was not brought to consummation, and the blood of more than two million slaughtered Armenians remained without compensation.