Թուրքական ժխտողականութիւնը Կովկասում (1917-1918)
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2019
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The paper focuses on the denialist policies the Turkish state adopted between 1917 and 1918, when, due to the Bolshevik revolution, the war between the Ottoman Empire and tsarist Russia stopped, Russia withdrew from WWl and signed the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty. This in turn led to the departure of Russian soldiers from the Turkish front and the return of the Russian-occupied Western Armenian territory to Turkey.
The author argues that this change of course was a golden opportunity for the Turks to proceed with their plans of Armenian extermination. In fact, they continued their genocidal plans with new methods by enforcing their terms on the peace negotiations with the Caucasian authorities and at the same time advancing their armies and occupying further lands on the Armenian frontier, proclaiming that their aim was to save the local Turkish population from Armenian atrocities. The author concludes that the Turkish denialist policy enabled the Turkish state to negotiate using war tactics, flattering, threaten its opponents while using nice words, devise diplomatic scenarios, claim to be the defendant of peace and human rights norms, blame the Armenians for massacres never committed, play the Caucasian nations' against each other thus dividing them and weakening their resistance, etc.
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Ալեքսանեան, Կ., «Թուրքական ժխտողականութիւնը Կովկասում (1917-1918)», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2019, Պէյրութ, էջ 289-312