Համիտեան «զուլումի» քաղաքականութեան արտացոլումը արաբական արդի պատմագրութեան մէջ
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1995
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The modern Arab historiography has recently lenghtily dwelt upon the Armenian-Turkish relations in the fourth quarter of the nineteenth century, the period known as "the period of the oppressive policy of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the Red Sultan.
After his ascension to the Ottoman throne, Abdul Hamid II decided to get rid of the Armenian Question by getting rid of the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire, thus doing away the reason for European interference with the internal affairs of the Ottoman Empire.
Thus started the period of oppression just after the Conference of Berlin which by changing the clause Nᵒ XVI of the Russo-Turkish Treaty of San Stefano to clause Nᵒ LXI of the Treaty of Berlin, let the Sultan loose to deal with his Armenian subjects in the way he preferred, in spite of the promise to introduce the locally required reforms in the six Armenian provinces of Western Armenia. The result was the period of the first great massacres of Armenians in 1894-1896.
The story of the beginning of the annihilation of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire in the days of Sultan Abdul Hamid 11 is deeply dealt with by the Arab historians of modern time. In fact, by making use of the works of the Othman el-Turk, Marwan el-Medawar, Fuad Hasan Hafez, Samir Arbash, Mousa Prince and Saleh Zahr ed-Din, Dr. Topalian has drawn a picture of the Armenian Massacres of the last quarter of the nineteenth century by which to conclude that the Arab historians of the modern times present an impartial and scientific approach to the Armeno-Turkish problem and find the period under discussion a time of oppression, bloodshed, death and annihilation, just because of the fact that in a period of only about two and a half years (1894-1896) some 300.000 Armenians were massacred. It is through an honest and conscious approach that the Arab historians mentioned have been able to present not only the Sultan's policy of anti-Armenians oppression but also to point and prove the truth of the facts which the Ottoman and Turkish historiography tries to falsify and defraud. The modern Arab historians show that the real and only responsibility for the Armenian massacres of 1894-1896 fall on the Sultan himself.
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Թոփալեան, Ա., Հ., «Համիտեան «զուլումի» քաղաքականութեան արտացոլումը արաբական արդի պատմագրութեան մէջ», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1995, Պէյրութ, էջ 135-148