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Below is plenty of information. You can read and make up your own mind."Why did Egypt try to provoke Turkey by recognizing the Armenian "genocide"?"I wrote many aspects. Which one do you need? Here are references to “genocide” by Armenians to Turks and Kurds. Normally, they are rejected by Armenians and their believers. But none of us has ever seen the truth.ermeni mezalimi - Google SearchIf you wish to know about the assassinations of Turkish diplomats by Armenians, there will be thousands of sources. I have some knowledge about one of the guys who were trained to kill the terrorists. He was a school friend of mine and had been prepared for that job at least 10 years. After the mission, he has disappeared with a new name and identity. I am one of the few people who could identify him because his voice is the same if he is still alive. He was not the only former friend I have lost because of the late revenge of Armenians. But also some of our Armenian friends became militant enemies of their former scholl friends.Here is the issue with the Armenian agent who killed a Turkish minister (Talat Pasha) in Berlin. The article describes him as an Armenian hero.Soghomon Tehlirian - WikipediaMore you can find in books about the history of German justice. It seems to be a solitary event, clearing a murderer because the person killed by him had political responsibility for alleged atrocities against his people. Normally, a murder is a murder for a regular court regardless of the motivation behind it. Atrocities in other countries do not justify killing someone in another state.BTW, Morgenthau was the US Ambassador of that time. He hated Turks, but does not blame Talaat Pasha for genocide. Morgenthau said that he was most preoccupied by the Armenian Question. Morgenthau said that he was most preoccupied by the Armenian Question. He did not use the word genocide. And he was present when the atrocities happened. And he had the best information through American consuls.This nice guy was married to Josephine Sykes, the father of whom was one of the two planners of destroying the Ottoman Empire. The other one was François Georges-Picot. What a holy alliance. The son of Morgenthau and Josephine Sykes, Henry Morgenthau jun. wanted to destroy even more. To strip off all German industry, subdivide Germany into small countries with farmlands.Narratives preserved by families and in local culture that focus on violent acts committed by Armenians against Muslims (known as Ermeni mezalimi) generally have been ignored.In this link it mentions Armenian gangs under Russian military committed crimes against Muslims.1915-1918Ermeni mezalimi - Yeni AkitLooks like revenge for the Armenian GenocideAmbassador Henry MorgenthauAs ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Morgenthau has come to be identified as the most prominent American to speak about the Armenian Genocide.[1]He used the phrase:"A campaign of race extermination."https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgenthau_Sr.Hamidian massacres 1894-6Hamidian massacres - WikipediaAdana Massacre 1909Adana massacre of 1909 - WikipediaAmerican Islamists Remain Silent on Armenian Genocide | The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsArmenian genocideGregory Aram commented on your answer to: "Why is the state of Israel indirectly denying genocide over Armenians in 1915?"There is solid consensus amongst genocide scholars and over 100 testimonies that attest to the genocide occurring. Also 1.5 million + 300,000 > 100,000, so there is no comparison with atrocities committed by Armenians versus genocide after genocide by Turks.Examples of testimonies:Henry Morgenthau Sr, the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913-1916, wrote in a telegram sent to the United States Department of State said, “The real purpose of the deportation was robbery and destruction; it really represented a new method of massacre. When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact.” [Morgenthau, Sr., Henry (1918). Ambassador Morgenthau's Story. Doubleday, Page & Company. pg. 309] “Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eyewitnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion.” [Confidential telegram, Ambassador Morgenthau to Secretary of State, Constantinople, 16 July 1915, United States Official records on the Armenian Genocide 1915–1917, pp. 55, document NA/RG59/867.4016/76] Morgenthau also wrote about his opinion on the horror and terror of the Armenian Genocide, writing: “I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.” [Khater, Akram Fouad (8 January 2010). Sources in the history of the modern Middle East (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. p. 148]Faiz-El Ghusein, who was previously discussed before (an Arab from Syria and 20th century official of Turkey), wrote in a book called Martyred Armenia (a book about the horrors of the Armenian genocide) about how he witnessed the massacres of men, women, and children. “As to their preparations, the flags, bombs and the like, even assuming there to be some truth in the statement, it does not justify the annihilation of the whole people, men and women, old men and children, in a way which revolts all humanity and more especially Islam and the whole body of Moslems, as those unacquainted with the true facts might impute these deeds to Mohammedan fanaticism.” [El-Ghusein, Fâ'iz (1918). Martyred Armenia.] He also wrote in a foreword to the book, saying: “The war must need to come to an end after a while, and it will then be plain to readers of this book that all I have written is the truth, and that it contains only a small part of the atrocities committed by the Turks against the hapless Armenian people.” This implies that the Armenian Genocide, which he described in gruesome detail was only a fraction of what happened in reality implies that this could be one of the worst genocides on the history of the planet.Reşid Akif Paşa, cabinet minister of the Ottoman Empire, provided critical testimony during a meeting of the Ottoman Parliament on November 21st of 1918. “During my few days of service in this government, I've learned of a few secrets and have come across something interesting. The deportation order was issued through official channels by the minister of the interior and sent to the provinces. Following this order, the [CUP] Central Committee circulated its own ominous order to all parties to allow the gangs to carry out their wretched task. Thus the gangs were in the field, ready for their atrocious slaughter.” He was also quoted as saying: “The 'mission' in the circular was: to attack the convoys and massacre the population ... I am ashamed as a Muslim, I am ashamed as an Ottoman statesman. What a stain on the reputation of the Ottoman Empire, these criminal people…” [Akcam, Taner (2007). A shameful act: the Armenian genocide and the question of Turkish responsibility (1st Holt pbk. ed.). New York, NY: Metropolitan Books/Holt.] Is this not outright proof? If an Ottoman minister around the time of the Armenian Genocide admits that this terrible event occurred, then that could be considered definitive proof. Turkish denialists can no longer use the argument that it is just a fiction made by Armenians, German authors, French priests, and whatever other stupid and arbitrary titles they can come up with. Hear it straight from the horse’s mouth.Maria Jacobsen, a Danish missionary, was sent to work at an American hospital in Kharpert. She witnessed the brutal Armenian Genocide and wrote about it in a diary called Diaries of a Danish Missionary: Harpoot, 1907–1919. “It is quite obvious that the purpose of their departure is the extermination of the Armenian people.” She also ended up heroically saving the lives of thousands of Armenians, especially orphaned children from the genocide.Giacomo Gorrini, the Italian consul of Trabzon and eyewitness of the Armenian Genocide, wrote about the horrors of what the Ottoman Muslims were doing to the Armenians. “The local authorities, and indeed the Moslem population in general, tried to resist, to mitigate it, to make omissions, to hush it up. But the orders of the Central Government were categorically confirmed, and all were compelled to resign themselves and obey. It was a real extermination and slaughter of the innocents, an unheard-of thing, a black page stained with the flagrant violation of the most sacred rights of humanity ... There were about 14,000 Armenians at Trebizond — Gregorians, Catholics, and Protestants. They had never caused disorders or given occasion for collective measures of police. When I left Trebizond, not a hundred of them remained.”Walter Macintosh Geddes, an American businessman, had taken a trip to Aleppo where he witnessed the starvation and killings of many Armenians. "Several Turks[,] whom I interviewed, told me that the motive of this exile was to exterminate the race." [Winter 2003, p. 183.] This testimony would prove intent for the Armenian Genocide, as he says that the Turks who interviewed him admitted to wanting to exterminate the Armenian race. This experience, unfortunately, led to his ultimate suicide on November 7th, 1915. [Winter 2003, pp. 180–181.]Martin Niepage, a German schoolteacher in Aleppo, wrote about the horrors of the Armenian Genocide. He told the German authorities “to put a stop to the brutality with which the wives and children of slaughtered Armenians are being treated here.” [The Theosophical Quarterly. 15 (57): 275. July 1917.] He is also quoted as saying: “I was told, to cover the extermination of the Armenian nation with a political cloak, military reasons were being put forward ... After I had informed myself about the facts and had made enquiries on all sides, I came to the conclusion that all these accusations against the Armenians were, in fact, based on trifling provocations, which were taken as an excuse for slaughtering 10,000 innocents for one guilty person, for the most savage outrages against women and children, and for a campaign of starvation against the exiles which was intended to exterminate the whole nation.” He ended up also publishing a book called The Horrors of Aleppo. For this, the Turkish government sent Niepage to death for his publication of the truth. [Goçek, Fatma Müge; Naimark, Norman M. (2011). Suny, Ronald Grigor (ed.). A question of genocide Armenians and Turks at the end of the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 214.]Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim, the German Ambassador of the Ottoman Empire (from 1912-1915) wrote: “The manner in which the matter of relocation is being handled demonstrate that the government is in fact pursuing the goal of annihilating the Armenian race in Turkey." [Charney 1994, p. 99.] That is clear intent von Wangenheim is describing, and would constitute genocide.Ahmet Refik, a Turkish historian and poet wrote about the Armenian Genocide and the Turkish intent to exterminate the race. “In a situation such as this, a just government which is confident of its force would have punished those who rebelled against the government. But the Ittihadists, wanted to annihilate the Armenians and in this manner eliminate the Eastern Question." "It was said that the most distressing tragedies occurred in Bursa and Ankara; houses were ransacked, hundreds of Armenian families were put into cars and hurled into streams. Many women went insane in the face of such awful murders. Houses of wealthy Armenians were bought, but the payments were recovered by fiat upon transfer of title. This conduct was a murder against humanity. No government, in any age, had brought about a murder this cruel." [Refik, Ahmet (1999). İki komite, iki kıtâl (in Turkish). Bedir Yayınevi.] Can you really reject a Turkish historian and poet who lived in the Ottoman Empire, at the time, and writes about the cruelty of these murders?George E. White, head of the Anatolia College in Merzifon during and before the Armenian Genocide happened, witnessed the vile and horrifying events happening in Anatolia. “The situation for Armenia, became excessively acute in the Spring of 1915, when the Turks determined to eliminate the Armenian question by eliminating the Armenians. The Armenians questions arise from political and religious causes… On the pretext of searching for deserting soldiers, concealing bombs, weapons, seditious literature or revolutionists, the Turkish officers arrested about 1,200 Armenian men at Marsovan, accompanying their investigations by horrible brutalities. There was no revolutionary activity in our region whatever. The men were sent out in lots of one or two hundred in night 'deportations' to the mountains, where trenches had been prepared. Coarse peasants, who were employed to do what was done, said it was a 'pity to waste bullets,' and they used axes...Girls and young women were snatched away at every turn on the journey. The girls sold at Marsovan for from $2 to $4 each. I know, because I heard the conversation on men engaged in the traffic. I know because I was able to ransom three girls at the price of $4.40...Then the Turks turned on the women and children, the old men and little boys. Scores of oxcarts were gathered, and in the early dawn as they passed the squeaking of their wheels left memories that make the blood freeze even now. Thousands of women and children were swept away. Where? Nowhere. No destination was stated or intended. Why? Simply because they were Armenians and Christians and were in the hands of the Turks.” ["Armenians Killed with Axes by Turks". New York Times Current History Edition: "The European War". 13. 1917.] So, to summarize this up, not only did the Ottoman Empire conceal bombs, arrest mass amounts of Armenian men, commit deportations, and attack the elderly, the young, and women, they sold girls in Marsovan for money. This is horrific and disgusting, and the fact that this is still denied is beyond appealing. George E. White is also a hero as he attempted to save the lives of Armenians, which was also written in the same article source I just talked about.Prince Ernst Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was disgusted and horrified by the Armenian Genocide, and said this: “The systematic butchery of the uprooted and deported Armenians have assumed such a scope ... it was not only tolerated but openly promoted by the government. It meant the extermination of the Armenians. Despite government assurances to the contrary, everything points to the goal of the destruction of the Armenian people...Turkey wants to annex the Caucasus entirely and exterminate the Armenians (ausrouen) with all means available; massacres and bloodbaths are the order of the day.” [Charney 1994]Johann von Bernstroff, the German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1917-18, wrote in a memoir about himself: “When I kept on pestering him about the Armenian question, he once said with a smile: 'What on earth do you want? The question is settled, there are no more Armenians'" “In Armenia the Turks had been systematically trying to exterminate the Christian population.” [A., Bernstorff (2011). Memoirs of Count Bernstorff. Kessinger Publishing.] He wrote about this as Ambassador to the United States in 1915, but soon conceded his position when assuming position as The Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1917. Hmm….Weird.Aage Meyer Benedictsen, a Christian missionary and historian, wrote in a 1925 book called Armenia: A People's Life and Struggle for Two Millennia about the Armenian Genocide. He also wrote separately about the Armenian Genocide calling it a “shattering crime, probably the largest in the history of the world: The attempt, planned and executed in cold blood, to murder a whole people, the Armenian, during the World War.” BJØRNLUND, MATTHIAS (2008). "Karen Jeppe, Aage Meyer Benedictsen, and the Ottoman Armenians: National survival in imperial and colonial settings"Frederick G. Coan, a Presbyterian missionary, who lived in Persia and witnessed the Armenian Genocide served eyewitness accounts writing: “Then, through deportation, they determined to complete what had already been begun by the sword. The Turkish soldiers, in many cases offered by Germans, drove the Armenians across the plains, perpetrating upon them brutalities that were enough to break anyone's heart. I found on day a great mass of human bones, thirty feet high, and I said to my Turkish guide: "How do you account for this?" He replied: "We got tired of driving them, we got tired of hearing their moans and cries, and took them up that precipice one day and flung them down to get rid of the job”… There was a trench full of human bones, and I was told of the brave fight that 2,000 Armenians, standing for their homes and for the honor of their wives and daughters, had waged with their flintlock rifles against the Turkish troops.” [Coan, Frederick G. (1918). "We Need The Armenians"]Mohammad Ali-Jamalzadeh, a Persian writer in the 20th century took a trip to Constantinople, where he witnessed the massacres of Armenians and wrote 2 books about them: “Qatl-e Amm-e Armanian,” “Qatl o ḡārat-e Arāmaneh dar Torkiya.” He wrote in those two books: “We moved from Baghdad and Aleppo towards Istanbul by hand-cart and wagon. From the first days of our journey, we met many groups of Armenians. The Turkish armed guards and gendarmes drove them (on foot) towards death and perdition. First, it made us very surprised, but little by little we got used to it and we even did not look at them, and indeed it was hard to look at them. By the hit of lashes and weapons, they drove forward hundreds of weeping weak and on foot Armenian women and men with their children. Young men weren't seen among the people, because all the young men were sent to the battlefields or were killed for precaution… So step by step, we saw Armenian men and women who were fallen near the road since they were either dead or were giving life or agony of death. Later we understood that some of the young residents of that area had not kept honor of some Armenian girls who were dying or had died in order to satisfy their lust. Our way was in the direction of Western Bank of Euphrates, and every day we saw the corpses in the river, which the river carries them with it.”Eitan Belkind was a Nili member who infiltrated the Ottoman Empire and saw first-hand the burning of 5,000 Armenians. Lt. Hasan Maruf of the Ottoman army describes how a population of a village were taken all together and then burned. The Commander of the Third Army Vehib's 12-page affidavit, which was dated 5 December 1918, was presented in the Trebizond (Trabzon) trial series (29 March 1919) included in the Key Indictment, reporting such a mass burning of the population of an entire village near Muş: "The shortest method for disposing of the women and children concentrated in the various camps was to burn them.” Further, it was reported that "Turkish prisoners who had apparently witnessed some of these scenes were horrified and maddened at remembering the sight. They told the Russians that the stench of the burning human flesh permeated the air for many days after.” “In my trips in the south of Syria and Iraq I saw with my own eyes the extermination of the Armenian nation, I watched the atrocious murders, and saw children's heads cut off and watched the burning of innocent people whose only wrongdoing was to be Armenian… After a three day ride I reached the heart of Mesopotamia where I was a witness to a terrible tragedy...The Circassian soldiers ordered the Armenians to gather thorns and thistles and to pile them into a tall pyramid...afterwards they tied all the Armenians who were there, almost five thousand souls, hand to hand, encircled them like a ring around the pile of thistles and set it afire in a blaze which rose up to heaven together with the screams of the wretched people who were burned to death by the fire...Two days later I returned to this place and saw the charred bodies of thousands of human beings.” ["So It Was": the Story of a NILI Member (Tel Aviv, Ministry of Defense, 1977) pp.111- 112 (in Hebrew). Israeli Ministry of Defense Publishers. 1977.]Şerif Pasha, Ottoman Statesman and Ambassador to Sweden condemned the genocide of Armenians and talked about the Ottoman intentions for a long time. “To be sure, the state of mind of the Unionists was not revealed to the civilized world until they had openly taken sides with Germany; but for more than six years I have been at exposing them in the Mecheroutiette (his newspaper, published first in Constantinople and then in Paris) and indifferent journals and reviews, warning France and England of the plot against them and against certain nationalities within the Ottoman borders, notably the Armenians, that was being hatched… Alas! at the thought that a people so gifted, which has served as the fructifying soil for the renovation of the Ottoman Empire, is on the point of disappearing from history-not enslaved, as were the Jews by the Assyrians, but annihilated-even the most hardened heart must bleed: and I desire, through the medium of your estimable journal, to express to this race which is being a assassinated my anger toward the butchers and my immense pity for the victim's” ["TURKISH STATESMAN DENOUNCES ATROCITIES: Cherif Pasha Says Young Turks Long Planned to Exterminate the Armenian" (PDF). New York Times. 10 October 1915. II-19:3,4] This is the cherry on the cake, the final proof of this monstrosity. When a Pasha himself talks about it and condemns it, then that’s solid historical grounds to say that genocide occurred.But, enough personal testimonies, let’s read articles from telegrams in 1915 about the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Genocide:"Assyrians Burned in Church". The Sun (Lowell, Massachusetts). 1915"Assyrians Massacred in Urmia". The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Texas). 1915"Assyrians Massacred in Urmiah". The Salt Lake Trib une. 1915"Chaldean Victims of the Turks". The Times. 22 November 1919. p. 11"Christian Massacres in Urmiah". The Argus (Australia), 1915"Extermination of the Armenian Race", The Manchester Guardian. 1915"Massacres in Armenia", The Irish Times. 1915[49]"Help for Serbians and Armenians", The Irish Times. 1915[50]"Many Assyrian Perish", The Winnipeg Free Press. 1915"Massacred by Kurds; Christians Unable to Flee from Urmia Put to Death". The Washington Post. 14 March 1915, p. 10"Massacres of Nestorians in Urmia", The New York Times. 1915"Massacres Kept Up". The Washington Post. 26 March 1915, p. 1"Native Christians Massacred; Frightful Atrocities in Persia". The Los Angeles Times. 2 April 1915, p I-1"Nestorian Christians Flee Urmia". The New York Times, 1915"Syrian Tells of Atrocities", The Los Angeles Times. Dec. 15, 1918, at I–1."The Assyrian Massacres", The Manchester Guardian. Dec. 5, 1918, at 4"The Suffering Serbs and Armenians", The Manchester Guardian. 1915, p5"Turkish Horrors in Persia", The New York Times. 11 October 1915"Turks Kill Christians in Assyria", Muscatine Journal (Mu scatine, Iowa). 1915"Turkish Troops Massacring Assyrians”, The Newark Advocate. 1915"Turkish Horrors in Persia", The New York Times. 1915"The Total of Armenian and Syrian Dead", Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, November 1916, 337–38"Wholesale Massacres Of Armenians By Turks" July 29, 1915. New York Times."Armenian Massacres", January 30, 1915, Goulburn Evening Penny Post"Whole Plain Strewn by Armenian Bodies" New York Times. March 20, 1915"Kurds' Christian Massacre Grows. Village of 800 Armenians Is Wiped Out; Ten Others Attacked." April 26, 1915. The Cleveland Leader."Armenian Atrocities: Shocking Carnage in Armenia" May 25, 1915. Northern Star.“Turks Slay 100 Greeks.” New York Times. June 17, 1914."Armenians are sent to perish in desert; Turks accused of plan to exterminate whole population; people of Karahissar massacred". The New York Times. 18 August 1915."Exiled Armenians starve in the desert; Turks drive them like slaves, American committee hears ;- Treatment raises death rate". The New York Times. 8 August 1916."Report Turks Shot Women and Children, Nine Thousand Armenians Massacred and Thrown Into Tigris, Socialist Committee Hears" August 4, 1915. New York Times."Armenian Horrors Grow: Massacre Greater Than Under Abdul Hamid, London Paper Says" August 6, 1915, New York Times"Slay All Armenians In City Of Kerasunt. Turks Wipe Out Entire Population in Town on the Black Sea"[5] August 10, 1915, New York Times,"Armenians Expelled" August 17, 1915. The Times."Armenians are Sent to Perish in Desert: Turks Accused of Plan to Exterminate Whole Population-People of Karahissar Massacred." August 18, 1915. New York Times."Burn 1,000 Armenians: Turks lock them in Wooden Building and Then Apply the Torch." August 20, 1915. New York Times.

Because there is evidence to support that it happened:Henry Morgenthau Sr, the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913-1916, wrote in a telegram sent to the United States Department of State said, “The real purpose of the deportation was robbery and destruction; it really represented a new method of massacre. When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact.” [Morgenthau, Sr., Henry (1918). Ambassador Morgenthau's Story. Doubleday, Page & Company. pg. 309] “Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eyewitnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion.” [Confidential telegram, Ambassador Morgenthau to Secretary of State, Constantinople, 16 July 1915, United States Official records on the Armenian Genocide 1915–1917, pp. 55, document NA/RG59/867.4016/76] Morgenthau also wrote about his opinion on the horror and terror of the Armenian Genocide, writing: “I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.” [Khater, Akram Fouad (8 January 2010). Sources in the history of the modern Middle East (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. p. 148]Faiz-El Ghusein, who was previously discussed before (an Arab from Syria and 20th century official of Turkey), wrote in a book called Martyred Armenia (a book about the horrors of the Armenian genocide) about how he witnessed the massacres of men, women, and children. “As to their preparations, the flags, bombs and the like, even assuming there to be some truth in the statement, it does not justify the annihilation of the whole people, men and women, old men and children, in a way which revolts all humanity and more especially Islam and the whole body of Moslems, as those unacquainted with the true facts might impute these deeds to Mohammedan fanaticism.” [El-Ghusein, Fâ'iz (1918). Martyred Armenia.] He also wrote in a foreword to the book, saying: “The war must need to come to an end after a while, and it will then be plain to readers of this book that all I have written is the truth, and that it contains only a small part of the atrocities committed by the Turks against the hapless Armenian people.” This implies that the Armenian Genocide, which he described in gruesome detail was only a fraction of what happened in reality implies that this could be one of the worst genocides on the history of the planet.Reşid Akif Paşa, cabinet minister of the Ottoman Empire, provided critical testimony during a meeting of the Ottoman Parliament on November 21st of 1918. “During my few days of service in this government, I've learned of a few secrets and have come across something interesting. The deportation order was issued through official channels by the minister of the interior and sent to the provinces. Following this order, the [CUP] Central Committee circulated its own ominous order to all parties to allow the gangs to carry out their wretched task. Thus the gangs were in the field, ready for their atrocious slaughter.” He was also quoted as saying: “The 'mission' in the circular was: to attack the convoys and massacre the population ... I am ashamed as a Muslim, I am ashamed as an Ottoman statesman. What a stain on the reputation of the Ottoman Empire, these criminal people…” [Akcam, Taner (2007). A shameful act: the Armenian genocide and the question of Turkish responsibility (1st Holt pbk. ed.). New York, NY: Metropolitan Books/Holt.] Is this not outright proof? If an Ottoman minister around the time of the Armenian Genocide admits that this terrible event occurred, then that could be considered definitive proof. Turkish denialists can no longer use the argument that it is just a fiction made by Armenians, German authors, French priests, and whatever other stupid and arbitrary titles they can come up with. Hear it straight from the horse’s mouth.Maria Jacobsen, a Danish missionary, was sent to work at an American hospital in Kharpert. She witnessed the brutal Armenian Genocide and wrote about it in a diary called Diaries of a Danish Missionary: Harpoot, 1907–1919. “It is quite obvious that the purpose of their departure is the extermination of the Armenian people.” She also ended up heroically saving the lives of thousands of Armenians, especially orphaned children from the genocide.Giacomo Gorrini, the Italian consul of Trabzon and eyewitness of the Armenian Genocide, wrote about the horrors of what the Ottoman Muslims were doing to the Armenians. “The local authorities, and indeed the Moslem population in general, tried to resist, to mitigate it, to make omissions, to hush it up. But the orders of the Central Government were categorically confirmed, and all were compelled to resign themselves and obey. It was a real extermination and slaughter of the innocents, an unheard-of thing, a black page stained with the flagrant violation of the most sacred rights of humanity ... There were about 14,000 Armenians at Trebizond — Gregorians, Catholics, and Protestants. They had never caused disorders or given occasion for collective measures of police. When I left Trebizond, not a hundred of them remained.”Walter Macintosh Geddes, an American businessman, had taken a trip to Aleppo where he witnessed the starvation and killings of many Armenians. "Several Turks[,] whom I interviewed, told me that the motive of this exile was to exterminate the race." [Winter 2003, p. 183.] This testimony would prove intent for the Armenian Genocide, as he says that the Turks who interviewed him admitted to wanting to exterminate the Armenian race. This experience, unfortunately, led to his ultimate suicide on November 7th, 1915. [Winter 2003, pp. 180–181.]Martin Niepage, a German schoolteacher in Aleppo, wrote about the horrors of the Armenian Genocide. He told the German authorities “to put a stop to the brutality with which the wives and children of slaughtered Armenians are being treated here.” [The Theosophical Quarterly. 15 (57): 275. July 1917.] He is also quoted as saying: “I was told, to cover the extermination of the Armenian nation with a political cloak, military reasons were being put forward ... After I had informed myself about the facts and had made enquiries on all sides, I came to the conclusion that all these accusations against the Armenians were, in fact, based on trifling provocations, which were taken as an excuse for slaughtering 10,000 innocents for one guilty person, for the most savage outrages against women and children, and for a campaign of starvation against the exiles which was intended to exterminate the whole nation.” He ended up also publishing a book called The Horrors of Aleppo. For this, the Turkish government sent Niepage to death for his publication of the truth. [Goçek, Fatma Müge; Naimark, Norman M. (2011). Suny, Ronald Grigor (ed.). A question of genocide Armenians and Turks at the end of the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 214.]Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim, the German Ambassador of the Ottoman Empire (from 1912-1915) wrote: “The manner in which the matter of relocation is being handled demonstrate that the government is in fact pursuing the goal of annihilating the Armenian race in Turkey." [Charney 1994, p. 99.] That is clear intent von Wangenheim is describing, and would constitute genocide.Ahmet Refik, a Turkish historian and poet wrote about the Armenian Genocide and the Turkish intent to exterminate the race. “In a situation such as this, a just government which is confident of its force would have punished those who rebelled against the government. But the Ittihadists, wanted to annihilate the Armenians and in this manner eliminate the Eastern Question." "It was said that the most distressing tragedies occurred in Bursa and Ankara; houses were ransacked, hundreds of Armenian families were put into cars and hurled into streams. Many women went insane in the face of such awful murders. Houses of wealthy Armenians were bought, but the payments were recovered by fiat upon transfer of title. This conduct was a murder against humanity. No government, in any age, had brought about a murder this cruel." [Refik, Ahmet (1999). İki komite, iki kıtâl (in Turkish). Bedir Yayınevi.] Can you really reject a Turkish historian and poet who lived in the Ottoman Empire, at the time, and writes about the cruelty of these murders?George E. White, head of the Anatolia College in Merzifon during and before the Armenian Genocide happened, witnessed the vile and horrifying events happening in Anatolia. “The situation for Armenia, became excessively acute in the Spring of 1915, when the Turks determined to eliminate the Armenian question by eliminating the Armenians. The Armenians questions arise from political and religious causes… On the pretext of searching for deserting soldiers, concealing bombs, weapons, seditious literature or revolutionists, the Turkish officers arrested about 1,200 Armenian men at Marsovan, accompanying their investigations by horrible brutalities. There was no revolutionary activity in our region whatever. The men were sent out in lots of one or two hundred in night 'deportations' to the mountains, where trenches had been prepared. Coarse peasants, who were employed to do what was done, said it was a 'pity to waste bullets,' and they used axes...Girls and young women were snatched away at every turn on the journey. The girls sold at Marsovan for from $2 to $4 each. I know, because I heard the conversation on men engaged in the traffic. I know because I was able to ransom three girls at the price of $4.40...Then the Turks turned on the women and children, the old men and little boys. Scores of oxcarts were gathered, and in the early dawn as they passed the squeaking of their wheels left memories that make the blood freeze even now. Thousands of women and children were swept away. Where? Nowhere. No destination was stated or intended. Why? Simply because they were Armenians and Christians and were in the hands of the Turks.” ["Armenians Killed with Axes by Turks". New York Times Current History Edition: "The European War". 13. 1917.] So, to summarize this up, not only did the Ottoman Empire conceal bombs, arrest mass amounts of Armenian men, commit deportations, and attack the elderly, the young, and women, they sold girls in Marsovan for money. This is horrific and disgusting, and the fact that this is still denied is beyond appealing. George E. White is also a hero as he attempted to save the lives of Armenians, which was also written in the same article source I just talked about.Prince Ernst Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was disgusted and horrified by the Armenian Genocide, and said this: “The systematic butchery of the uprooted and deported Armenians have assumed such a scope ... it was not only tolerated but openly promoted by the government. It meant the extermination of the Armenians. Despite government assurances to the contrary, everything points to the goal of the destruction of the Armenian people...Turkey wants to annex the Caucasus entirely and exterminate the Armenians (ausrouen) with all means available; massacres and bloodbaths are the order of the day.” [Charney 1994]Johann von Bernstroff, the German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1917-18, wrote in a memoir about himself: “When I kept on pestering him about the Armenian question, he once said with a smile: 'What on earth do you want? The question is settled, there are no more Armenians'" “In Armenia the Turks had been systematically trying to exterminate the Christian population.” [A., Bernstorff (2011). Memoirs of Count Bernstorff. Kessinger Publishing.] He wrote about this as Ambassador to the United States in 1915, but soon conceded his position when assuming position as The Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1917. Hmm….Weird.Aage Meyer Benedictsen, a Christian missionary and historian, wrote in a 1925 book called Armenia: A People's Life and Struggle for Two Millennia about the Armenian Genocide. He also wrote separately about the Armenian Genocide calling it a “shattering crime, probably the largest in the history of the world: The attempt, planned and executed in cold blood, to murder a whole people, the Armenian, during the World War.” BJØRNLUND, MATTHIAS (2008). "Karen Jeppe, Aage Meyer Benedictsen, and the Ottoman Armenians: National survival in imperial and colonial settings"Frederick G. Coan, a Presbyterian missionary, who lived in Persia and witnessed the Armenian Genocide served eyewitness accounts writing: “Then, through deportation, they determined to complete what had already been begun by the sword. The Turkish soldiers, in many cases offered by Germans, drove the Armenians across the plains, perpetrating upon them brutalities that were enough to break anyone's heart. I found on day a great mass of human bones, thirty feet high, and I said to my Turkish guide: "How do you account for this?" He replied: "We got tired of driving them, we got tired of hearing their moans and cries, and took them up that precipice one day and flung them down to get rid of the job”… There was a trench full of human bones, and I was told of the brave fight that 2,000 Armenians, standing for their homes and for the honor of their wives and daughters, had waged with their flintlock rifles against the Turkish troops.” [Coan, Frederick G. (1918). "We Need The Armenians"]Mohammad Ali-Jamalzadeh, a Persian writer in the 20th century took a trip to Constantinople, where he witnessed the massacres of Armenians and wrote 2 books about them: “Qatl-e Amm-e Armanian,” “Qatl o ḡārat-e Arāmaneh dar Torkiya.” He wrote in those two books: “We moved from Baghdad and Aleppo towards Istanbul by hand-cart and wagon. From the first days of our journey, we met many groups of Armenians. The Turkish armed guards and gendarmes drove them (on foot) towards death and perdition. First, it made us very surprised, but little by little we got used to it and we even did not look at them, and indeed it was hard to look at them. By the hit of lashes and weapons, they drove forward hundreds of weeping weak and on foot Armenian women and men with their children. Young men weren't seen among the people, because all the young men were sent to the battlefields or were killed for precaution… So step by step, we saw Armenian men and women who were fallen near the road since they were either dead or were giving life or agony of death. Later we understood that some of the young residents of that area had not kept honor of some Armenian girls who were dying or had died in order to satisfy their lust. Our way was in the direction of Western Bank of Euphrates, and every day we saw the corpses in the river, which the river carries them with it.”Eitan Belkind was a Nili member who infiltrated the Ottoman Empire and saw first-hand the burning of 5,000 Armenians. Lt. Hasan Maruf of the Ottoman army describes how a population of a village were taken all together and then burned. The Commander of the Third Army Vehib's 12-page affidavit, which was dated 5 December 1918, was presented in the Trebizond (Trabzon) trial series (29 March 1919) included in the Key Indictment, reporting such a mass burning of the population of an entire village near Muş: "The shortest method for disposing of the women and children concentrated in the various camps was to burn them.” Further, it was reported that "Turkish prisoners who had apparently witnessed some of these scenes were horrified and maddened at remembering the sight. They told the Russians that the stench of the burning human flesh permeated the air for many days after.” “In my trips in the south of Syria and Iraq I saw with my own eyes the extermination of the Armenian nation, I watched the atrocious murders, and saw children's heads cut off and watched the burning of innocent people whose only wrongdoing was to be Armenian… After a three day ride I reached the heart of Mesopotamia where I was a witness to a terrible tragedy...The Circassian soldiers ordered the Armenians to gather thorns and thistles and to pile them into a tall pyramid...afterwards they tied all the Armenians who were there, almost five thousand souls, hand to hand, encircled them like a ring around the pile of thistles and set it afire in a blaze which rose up to heaven together with the screams of the wretched people who were burned to death by the fire...Two days later I returned to this place and saw the charred bodies of thousands of human beings.” ["So It Was": the Story of a NILI Member (Tel Aviv, Ministry of Defense, 1977) pp.111- 112 (in Hebrew). Israeli Ministry of Defense Publishers. 1977.]Şerif Pasha, Ottoman Statesman and Ambassador to Sweden condemned the genocide of Armenians and talked about the Ottoman intentions for a long time. “To be sure, the state of mind of the Unionists was not revealed to the civilized world until they had openly taken sides with Germany; but for more than six years I have been at exposing them in the Mecheroutiette (his newspaper, published first in Constantinople and then in Paris) and indifferent journals and reviews, warning France and England of the plot against them and against certain nationalities within the Ottoman borders, notably the Armenians, that was being hatched… Alas! at the thought that a people so gifted, which has served as the fructifying soil for the renovation of the Ottoman Empire, is on the point of disappearing from history-not enslaved, as were the Jews by the Assyrians, but annihilated-even the most hardened heart must bleed: and I desire, through the medium of your estimable journal, to express to this race which is being a assassinated my anger toward the butchers and my immense pity for the victim's” ["TURKISH STATESMAN DENOUNCES ATROCITIES: Cherif Pasha Says Young Turks Long Planned to Exterminate the Armenian" (PDF). New York Times. 10 October 1915. II-19:3,4] This is the cherry on the cake, the final proof of this monstrosity. When a Pasha himself talks about it and condemns it, then that’s solid historical grounds to say that genocide occurred.But, enough personal testimonies, let’s read articles from telegrams in 1915 about the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Genocide:"Assyrians Burned in Church". The Sun (Lowell, Massachusetts). 1915"Assyrians Massacred in Urmia". The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Texas). 1915"Assyrians Massacred in Urmiah". The Salt Lake Trib une. 1915"Chaldean Victims of the Turks". The Times. 22 November 1919. p. 11"Christian Massacres in Urmiah". The Argus (Australia), 1915"Extermination of the Armenian Race", The Manchester Guardian. 1915"Massacres in Armenia", The Irish Times. 1915[49]"Help for Serbians and Armenians", The Irish Times. 1915[50]"Many Assyrian Perish", The Winnipeg Free Press. 1915"Massacred by Kurds; Christians Unable to Flee from Urmia Put to Death". The Washington Post. 14 March 1915, p. 10"Massacres of Nestorians in Urmia", The New York Times. 1915"Massacres Kept Up". The Washington Post. 26 March 1915, p. 1"Native Christians Massacred; Frightful Atrocities in Persia". The Los Angeles Times. 2 April 1915, p I-1"Nestorian Christians Flee Urmia". The New York Times, 1915"Syrian Tells of Atrocities", The Los Angeles Times. Dec. 15, 1918, at I–1."The Assyrian Massacres", The Manchester Guardian. Dec. 5, 1918, at 4"The Suffering Serbs and Armenians", The Manchester Guardian. 1915, p5"Turkish Horrors in Persia", The New York Times. 11 October 1915"Turks Kill Christians in Assyria", Muscatine Journal (Mu scatine, Iowa). 1915"Turkish Troops Massacring Assyrians”, The Newark Advocate. 1915"Turkish Horrors in Persia", The New York Times. 1915"The Total of Armenian and Syrian Dead", Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, November 1916, 337–38"Wholesale Massacres Of Armenians By Turks" July 29, 1915. New York Times."Armenian Massacres", January 30, 1915, Goulburn Evening Penny Post"Whole Plain Strewn by Armenian Bodies" New York Times. March 20, 1915"Kurds' Christian Massacre Grows. Village of 800 Armenians Is Wiped Out; Ten Others Attacked." April 26, 1915. The Cleveland Leader."Armenian Atrocities: Shocking Carnage in Armenia" May 25, 1915. Northern Star.“Turks Slay 100 Greeks.” New York Times. June 17, 1914."Armenians are sent to perish in desert; Turks accused of plan to exterminate whole population; people of Karahissar massacred". The New York Times. 18 August 1915."Exiled Armenians starve in the desert; Turks drive them like slaves, American committee hears ;- Treatment raises death rate". The New York Times. 8 August 1916."Report Turks Shot Women and Children, Nine Thousand Armenians Massacred and Thrown Into Tigris, Socialist Committee Hears" August 4, 1915. New York Times."Armenian Horrors Grow: Massacre Greater Than Under Abdul Hamid, London Paper Says" August 6, 1915, New York Times"Slay All Armenians In City Of Kerasunt. Turks Wipe Out Entire Population in Town on the Black Sea"[5] August 10, 1915, New York Times,"Armenians Expelled" August 17, 1915. The Times."Armenians are Sent to Perish in Desert: Turks Accused of Plan to Exterminate Whole Population-People of Karahissar Massacred." August 18, 1915. New York Times."Burn 1,000 Armenians: Turks lock them in Wooden Building and Then Apply the Torch." August 20, 1915. New York Times.These are original sources, which claim that the Armenian Genocide occurred. Are we going to suddenly start denying all of these news sources and claim that they are all illegitimate, and not reporting the facts? If we do that, we are no longer doing scholarship, but, rather, metaphysics.We’re not shutting down people who don’t believe in it; we have debated them and beaten them many times. It’s the same way that Jews treat the Holocaust. The voices of my great-grandparents who died a brutal death in the Armenian Genocide will not go unnoticed.