Հայկական տասնհինգը թրքական մատենագիտութեան մէջ
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1995
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The article published here is the first experiment in putting together most of the available Turkish material pertaining the Armenian Question, various massacres and the genocide of 1915-1923. The starting date for the various Turkish works is decided in 1909, when the Cilician massacres took place with the planning and execution of the Young-Turk authorities of the Ottoman Empire. To make things easier to grasp, the study is divided into two major parts, each one made of number of different sections.
After discussing the neglect of self-assertion through the recognition of Armenian national identity after the Armenian Holocaust of 1915-1923, the second section of part one examines various Armenian bibliographic publications which either partially bear on the Armenian Massacres or are completely dedicated to the upbringing of the Armenian Question as such and the problems of the Armenian Genocide. It is thus that with the first part of this research paper the Ottoman and Modern Turkish sources are pinpointed by minutely examining the works of Armenak Salmasian (Bibliographie de l'Arménie, Yerevan, 1969), the Center of Armenian Information (Bibliographie de la Cause Arménienne, Beyrouth, [1972]), Mekertich Nercissian (The Genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Yerevan, 1966), Hagop Terjumanian, Levon Vartan and Richard Hovhannisian (1915-1922: Archival Sources and Bibliography of Books on the Turkish Genocide of Armenians, [Beirut, 1975]), Richard Hovhannisian (The Armenian Holocaust: A Bibliography Relating to the Deportations, Massacres and Dispersion of the Armenian people. 1915-1923, Cambridge, 1978, 1980), A. S. Anasian (Massacres and Genocide of Armenians in Turkey, Los Angeles, 1977), and Armenian Question and the Genocide of Armenians in Turkey: A Brief Bibliography of Russian Materials, Los Angeles, 1977, Dikran Kevorkian (A Short Bibliography on the Great Tragedy, Cairo, 1980), Kevork Baghdjian ("Bibliographie Selective", No 1 and No 2, Montreal 1985 and 1987 respectively), Rouben Adalian (The Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923; A Handbook for Students and Teachers, Los Angeles, 1988), Hamo Vassilian (The Armenian Genocide: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Literary Resource Guide, Glendale, 1992), Vahakn H. Dadrian ("The Documentation of the World War I, Armenian Massacres in the precedings of the Turkish Military Tribunals", 1991), Mekertich Nercissian, editor (The Armenian Genocide of 1915-1916 : Bibliography, Yerevan, 1995), Vrej N. Nercessian, (Armenia, Oxford, 1993), and the two bibliographic compilations published in Armenian (The Armenian Genocide, Yerevan, 1990, and The Genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Yerevan, 1993).
The Second part of the article is completely dedicated to a bibliography compiled of the works of only Turkish authors and pertaining to the Armenian Question and genocide. Though "incomplete", as the author puts it, it is clear that care has been taken to make the Turkish Bibliography as complete as possible putting together almost all the available Turkish material. It is thus that the Turkish Bibliography includes more than 450 books published in various languages. It has intentionally discarded hundreds of articles by Turkish authors and dealing with the Armenian Question and the different Armenian massacres and genocide perpetrated by the Turkish authorities. This second part is made up of two major sections of which the first (section 3) is the Turkish Bibliography while the next (section 4) is an analysis of all the givens of the bibliography. Here care has been taken first to deal with the time element to indicate that there is no time division (1909-1915, 1916-1922, 1925-1946, 1947-1955 and 1956-1965) when more than 45 booklets are published, while the following decades after the 1965 limit to 1994 present 66 items for 1966-1975, 133 for 1976-1985, and 102 for 1986-1994.
The analysis of all the available material of the newly compiled "Turkish Bibliography" points to the fact that with the rise of the feeling of the Armenian National Identity in the Armenian Diaspora, with the vociferation of the Armenian demands for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the rights emanating therefrom, and the growth of the Armenian militant force, its activities in various capitals and cities of the civilized world, and the killing of Turkish diplomatic representatives in different western and eastern countries, the Turkish authorities and historiography have put into action a whole apparatus of publications and of denial of the genocidal acts on the parts of Turkish Young-Turk authorities of 1915-1918 and the Turkish Nationalist Movement of 1920-1926, and of rejection of responsibility of the modern Turkish Republic, which is the rightful descendant and direct successor of late lethal Ottoman Empire.
In conclusion, the author of the Turkish Bibliography asserts that "it is indispensable for us to recognize the opposite camp, to weigh their stones, and to evaluate their givens. Did we do so? Now we are not the one to answer the question, though we would like we had done so. In spite of this fact, and to be able to do so, we compiled an incomplete list of only those Turkish sources, studies, and propaganda publications who are presented in book - and booklet -, or volume - and pamphlet - form. The articles and studies in periodicals? But they present another type of endeavour and work, and require a different time and objective".
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Վարդան, Լ., «Հայկական տասնհինգը թրքական մատենագիտութեան մէջ», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1995, Պէյրութ, էջ 301-374