Sharing The Anatolian Pie
This British Foreign Archive map illustrates the agreements of 1916 between Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy, regarding Asia Minor. Armenians were promised a big slice of the Anatolian pie.
This British Foreign Archive map illustrates the agreements of 1916 between Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy, regarding Asia Minor. Armenians were promised a big slice of the Anatolian pie.
Click here to see the letter of Boghos Nubar to M. Gout from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dated December 11, 1918. The general is admitting that 6 to 700,000 souls have been relocated, of which 390,000 have been accounted for in Allied held territories post bellum. This effectively limits to 210,000 to 310,000, … Read more
This link will take you to the gigantic work of the Turkish Military, "Armenian Activities in the Archive Documents"; a total of 7 volumes, almost 5000 pages, English and Turkish. Includes original archival documents and their transcriptions and translations.
Yet another source on the population figures, from German Embassy. Limits the number of the Armenians to less than 1/2 million.
Another document on the numbers. The source is the British Envoy and the Armenian Patriarchate.
Cyrus Hamlin, an American Congregational missionary in Istanbul reports a conversation he had with an Armenian in "The Congregationalist" on December 28, 1893. That "very intelligent Armenian gentleman" reveals their plans to Mr. Hamlin. According to the plan, Armenian bands would revolt, kill Turks and Kurds and burn their villages. This would enrage Turks and … Read more