Եղեռնաշարին առնչուող քանի մը պատառիկ (հայոց դէմ գործադրուած ցեղասպանութեան 100ամեակին առիթով)

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dc.contributor.authorՎաչէ Ղազարեան
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-13T07:41:39Z
dc.date.available2026-02-13T07:41:39Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe Armistice, signed on October 30, 1918, in Mudros, found the defeated Turks and victorious Armenians facing one another under the new post-WWI reality. Though defeated, the Turks resisted the dismemberment of the Ottoman territories planned by the Allies, denied the Armenians the right to autonomy or independence on their historic lands, and took up arms to retain their dominance over Cilicia and the Armenian provinces. The rise of the Turkish nationalist movement under Mustafa Kemal and his supporters emboldened the Turks. The Armenians, on the other hand, had helped Britain and France win the war. Thanks to the contributions of Armenian volunteers, and with the blood they had shed for the Allied cause, they rightfully hoped to have won the right to autonomy and eventual independence. The conflict of interests, however, was not limited solely to Armenians and Turks. The French, while trying to tighten their grip on Cilicia to the detriment of Armenian aspirations, competed with the British for political-economic gains and for favorable relations with the Turks. With these conflicting interests in view, France began to disarm the Armenian volunteers and avoid taking decisive actions to curb the rising ambitions of Turks, despite the loss of numerous French soldiers in Turkish attacks. The French policy culminated in the abandonment of Cilicia to Mustafa Kemal and his followers who, according to the Armenians, were no different than the Young Turks. The events that took place during late 1919 through mid-1920 in Cilicia, which are touched upon in these documents, shed some light on the relations between Armenians, Turks, and the French, and while illustrating the hopes, aspirations, disappointments, anxieties, and political thoughts of Armenians and their leading individuals and organizations, reveal, at the same time, that Turkish leaders continued to pursue the policy of the annihilation of Armenians for the purpose of perpetuating control over the Armenian provinces and Cilicia. The continued killing of Armenians in 1919 and 1920 in Cilicia, in town after town, was the final major link in a chain of Armenian massacres committed across Armenian territories—a chain whose first link was forged by Sultan Abdul Hamid II with the massacres of 1895–1896, which claimed the lives of almost 300,000 Armenians, and which paved the way for the killing of some 30,000 Armenians in Adana in 1909, to be followed by the Armenian genocide during WWI. The Cilician massacres shattered Armenians’ hopes for autonomy or independence in Cilicia where, after the return of deported and surviving Armenians to their homeland, they outnumbered all other ethnic groups.
dc.identifier.citationՂազարեան, Վ., «Եղեռնաշարին առնչուող քանի մը պատառիկ (հայոց դէմ գործադրուած ցեղասպանութեան 100ամեակին առիթով)», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2015, Պէյրութ, էջ 725-764
dc.identifier.urihttps://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/1191
dc.titleԵղեռնաշարին առնչուող քանի մը պատառիկ (հայոց դէմ գործադրուած ցեղասպանութեան 100ամեակին առիթով)
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