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Turkish histor y and culture, where their role in the policy of denial will be
ver y big.
For example, the documents ordering the annihilation of the Jews have not been
preserved, and Holocaust deniers consider this to be proof that the genocide of
the Jews was not planned in advance. The same mechanism is being applied
in the case of the Armenian Genocide. Turkey insists that there is no written
documentation of the order or program to annihilate the Armenians.
One may cast doubt on the publication by Aram Antonyan in London in 1920
of the secret papers issued by Talaat, Minister of the Interior in the Young
Turk Government, ordering the deportation and elimination of the Armenian
population of the Ottoman Empire. These documents had been given to Antonyan
by Nayim Bey, the General Secretary of the Committee for Deportation of the

Suren Manukyan
Candidate of Historical
Sciences, Deputy Director
of the RA NAS Armenian
Genocide Museum, 2013

Armenians in Aleppo. Even without this evidence, the fact that the Armenian

Fulbright Scholar at

Genocide was planned and programmed can be seen through a massive body of

author of academic articles

Rutgers University, USA,
on the genocide studies.

proof that is undeniable.
These include the official documents kept in the archives of Germany and
Austria-Hungary, both allies of Turkey during the First World War, as well
as the reports sent by the ambassadors and consuls of these countries,
the telegrams written by the US Ambassador in Constantinople Henry

Title: [Armenian monks and boys with throne of King Senekerim-Hovhannes
of Vaspurakan, at Varagavank Monastery, Van, Turkey]
Date Created/Published: [between 1880 and 1892]
Medium: 1 photographic print: albumen.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-04450 (digital file from original)

Title: [Armenian monastery of Surb Karapet (the Holy
Precursor, St. John the Baptist) in Mush (Mus Ili), Turkey]
Date Created/Published: c1923.
Medium: 1 photographic print.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-86871 (b&w film copy neg.)