ONCE AGAIN ON MYTHS AND REALITIES

Although the sharp deterioration in Turkish-Israeli relations is of great concern to the international community, there are certain forces that seek to use this confrontation to achieve long-held designs. Armenian ideologists are at the forefront of ill-wishers of both Turkey and Israel, which has been a natural ally of Ankara in preventing recognition of the "Armenian genocide".

Taking advantage of the situation, the Armenians, sometimes gently and sometimes aggressively, remind the Jewish lobby of "historical justice", i.e. the need for Israel itself to recognize the "Armenian genocide". It is impossible to predict with absolute accuracy how Tel Aviv and the Jewish lobby will deal with this issue. But the main goal of this article is to analyze in detail once again the essence of the question that Armenian ideologists and their supporters seek to impose on the international community under the name of "Armenian genocide". Naturally, to achieve their goal, the Armenians first need to back up the fictional genocide with arithmetical "evidence". That is why the initial data on 250,000-300,000 Armenian dead (according to the Armenians themselves) gradually increased to 1.5 million, which sober-minded people regard as a myth with little connection to reality. A reasonable question arises: "How and under what circumstances did Armenian allegations grow by at least 5-6 times?" The fact is that for a long time the Turkish government did not respond, not only to the manipulation of figures by Armenian ideologists, but also to the hysteria that they eventually began to stir up. Turkey itself, which lost hundreds of thousands of people on the battlefields of World War I, and at the hands of those same Armenian Dashnaks at the time, was not going to arrange a show across the world. In the 1920s and 1930s Turkey's ruling elite was entirely preoccupied with eliminating the severe consequences of World War I, from which Turkey emerged with huge losses as successor to the Ottoman Empire. The then geopolitical situation required Turkey to recover from the war and become a secular state as soon as possible; something Ankara managed brilliantly in a short period of time. It should be noted that, in this respect, Turkey also relied on the support of the West, without which it would have been difficult to fully implement such a task. This is evidenced by the fact that Ankara's last territorial acquisition was the incorporation of the Alexandretta sancak into Turkey in 1939; this was after the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. These circumstances did not permit the authorities of the Turkish Republic to respond appropriately to the Armenians' political speculation. And, apparently, they did not take the issue very seriously. But time showed that this was a great failing, because not all countries were interested in the restoration and strengthening of Turkey as a strong regional power. In fact they were unhappy that they had failed to dismember Turkey completely, as stipulated in a secret agreement signed between Entente countries in December 1916. The Armenians made very skilful use of these factors. Turkey reacted belatedly to the political insinuations.

Awareness of a serious threat came only after the Armenians had already inculcated the so-called "genocide" figures they needed in the minds of Western politicians. And then the West made its first serious moves on this issue. This coincided with the end of World War II, after which, strictly speaking, the term "genocide" appeared. This concept provided an opportunity to punish the organizers of "genocide" by means of the international community enforcing international humanitarian law, with all the consequences that ensue (monetary compensation to relatives of genocide victims, the return of deported people to their former homes etc.). An important aspect of the recognition of genocide is the moral aspect of the issue. The Armenians, who completed preparatory work to attack the position of Turkey following the introduction of the term "genocide" to the lexicon of international law, launched a campaign to get the international community to recognize an Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Admittedly, because of the broad application of double standards in world politics, the Armenians managed to achieve certain results, although, neither during those events, nor for a long time afterwards, did international law contain the term "genocide"; it was introduced only by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. The ideologues and supporters of the Armenians are totally uninterested in the idea that laws cannot be interpreted retrospectively, i.e. in law not being retroactive. Otherwise, international law would be plunged into chaos. They also ignore the treacherous actions of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in relation to the country of which they were citizens, and the punitive operations of Armenian Dashnaks against Turks, Azerbaijanis, Assyrians, Kurds and other ethnic groups living there. Turkey, which emerged from World War I with more casualties than all the other countries involved in this massacre, changed its political system radically. An empire straddling three continents became a small republic located mainly on the peninsula of Asia Minor. Accordingly, it is at least immoral and politically meaningless to make claims against the current government and state. Since the so-called "Armenian genocide", there have been three generations of Turks who have lived, and still live, in a different environment.

According to US President George W. Bush, Turkey "is making record efforts to promote democracy and human rights". We can add that no country in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union can be compared with Turkey in terms of democratic change. It should be noted that George W. Bush's assessment was made at a time of strained relations between Turkey and the United States. Are Turkey and Armenia comparable? The latter is known to have become a mono-ethnic state where the rights of national minorities have been grossly violated. It is the greatest absurdity, if not political stupidity, to put forward demands to the current generation of Turks, who are familiar only with democratic institutions and live by European standards. The absurdity is that political games are played to the law of the jungle, i.e. after three generations you have to answer for a far distant past that we have invented for you. Apparently, in this matter the Armenians have decided to outdo Stalin himself, who was constantly surrounded by numerous Armenian advisors. Who can deny that they were the principal ideologues of a Stalinist regime which practised the principle "the son answers for his father"? It is quite reminiscent of Armenian habits.

Now onto the "genocide" figures. The West's double standards did not appear after the Cold War. They have always existed in the political arsenal of the world's ruling powers. Therefore, resolutions by various Western "committees" (on the "Armenian genocide"), cited by the Armenians, are likely to attempt to preserve the Christian solidarity of Western Europe and to  humiliate the only Muslim country that has never been a colonial possession of the West. Winston Churchill himself had no reason to love Turkey as he also ran the Entente's Dardanelles Operation. Because of the resistance by Turkish soldiers, this operation nearly cost him his political career. Moreover, the "Armenian genocide" completely overshadowed the Turkish genocide carried out in the Balkans after the Berlin Congress of 1887. Thus the West benefited from the false "Armenian genocide", diverting attention from its own crimes. In this respect, particular importance is attached to assessments by the European political thinker Friedrich Engels about the physical extermination and ousting of the indigenous population of the Balkans - Turks and Turkish-speaking peoples - after the Berlin Congress. Why didn't the West lift a finger to stop the carnage, extermination and expulsion of the Turks from the Balkans? The answer to this question can be found in McCarthy's book "Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims", which should be translated into all European languages.

The position of present-day Germany, which has traditionally been considered to be a pro-Turkish country, deserves special criticism. Its current desire to discredit Turkey causes sincere bewilderment. Berlin's attempts to blame Ankara for the "Armenian genocide", to put it mildly, do not fit into any law, especially given the Armenian allegations that Germany was an accessory to the "genocide of Armenians". Armenian ideologists claim that Germany bears a certain degree of moral and political responsibility for the "Armenian genocide". They classify Germany's responsibility for the "Armenian genocide" into two broad patterns: official policy at the highest level of leadership and actions by public officials - military and diplomats, which were authorized post factum, either by explicit approval or by silence. Therefore, in either case, the German leadership bears responsibility. The Armenians claim that the doctrine developed by German Field Marshal Colmar von der Goltz (the main reformer of the Ottoman army) was fraught with disastrous consequences for the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. It was he who suggested that the Turks evacuate the Armenian population from the eastern provinces of the empire. The Armenians also pay special attention to the German chief of staff in the Ottoman army, General Bronsart von Schellendorf, who issued orders for the deportation of Armenians "using the most severe measures", which allegedly claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Armenians. So before condemning Turkey, it would be good for leading European powers to study the accusations the Armenians are levelling at them.

Speaking of the hundreds of thousands of Armenian dead (dead, not killed - author), it is impossible not to wonder: where do these figures, which defy all logic, come from? What is the cause of death of 1.5 million people in a short period of deportation? It's a terrible epidemiological catastrophe (typhoid, cholera, plague and other serious infectious diseases) for the area where these people perished. If you believe the "facts" promulgated by the Armenians and their supporters, life would have been extinct in these areas for at least several decades. But history does not provide any evidence of this. In Srebrenica, where about 150 mass graves (each of which contains from several to hundreds of bodies) of Bosnians have been found, bones are still "emerging" from the ground, although Karadzic's people did everything to ensure that these graves were not discovered. But the remains of eight thousand slaughtered Bosnians come to the surface (after rains, weathering etc.). A question arises: who discovered the mass graves of deported Armenians and where are they? The bones of those killed were supposed to pave a kind of "road of death" passing through Turkey, Syria and Jordan. Where is all this? Why is no-one identifying the dead? Today's technologies allow us to identify people who died even a few thousand years ago. Considering and comparing all aspects of the issue, it is reasonable to talk of about 40,000-50,000 Armenians deaths in that period. The most important point is that the vast majority of them died during the deportation due to a sharp change in climatic conditions. It must be remembered that the deportees were from the mountains and, as they passed through the low-lying regions of the Ottoman Empire, various diseases began to spread among them. We do not deny that some of these people were targeted by bandits and marauders. It should also be noted that the death of even one man is a tragedy. However, Armenian ethno-fundamentalists have turned the figures into a subject of speculation. So, even relatively "objective" statements by American missionaries about the death of at least 500,000 Armenians during those events are a real fabrication. Most of these emissaries indirectly acted on the instructions of the commissions involved in the study of the "Armenian genocide", which, in turn, followed direct instructions from Woodrow Wilson, the most pro-Armenian president in US history.

It should be noted that similar difficulties were experienced by Azerbaijanis deported in several stages from Armenia to Azerbaijan by the Soviet regime at the direct instigation of Armenians and their patrons entrenched in the Kremlin. Because of the abrupt change in geographical conditions, many of these people did not even live to see their new place of residence. Despite this, no-one is going to call these crimes against Azerbaijanis an act of genocide by the central authorities of the USSR, especially as, at the instigation of the Armenians, the Azerbaijanis deported from Armenia in 1948-49 were resettled not to mountainous areas (including those in Nagornyy Karabakh), conditions to which they had been accustomed for thousands of years, but to the Kura-Araz lowland, which was fatal for most of them. Detecting a distortion of facts by the Armenians, you remember the brilliant words of the famous British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: "There are three ways to deceive people: first, an evasive answer, second, an outright lie and third, statistics." The Armenians are making extensive use of two of the three methods, profaning the world: direct lies and statistics. This lie always has a fantastic invented figure in its arsenal. And why do the Armenians need such incredible statistics?

Well, it is an opportunity to unite all Armenians around one idea through a mythologized "genocide" and persuade the world to feel pity for them. As a result, the "genocide" was an invention of genius that has become a certain political sacrament. The emotional French sincerely believe that denial of the Armenian genocide is "tantamount to a crime". Meanwhile, the problem of the "Armenian genocide" is a speculative problem in its essence. It is being used by the Armenian ruling class in Armenia itself and in countries where a parasitic Armenian diaspora has taken shape, often living on the hard work of the indigenous population, to create enormous financial funds aimed at consolidating the Armenians in new territories of other countries. The lion's share of these funds is used to bribe officials and politicians in these countries. Cash flows are slowly distributed and Armenian billionaires are being developed. In fact, in countries where there is an Armenian diaspora, a new exploiting class is being created, permanently replacing the national elite with an Armenian one. The role of chief curator of the accumulation and distribution of these huge financial flows belongs to the spiritual and religious centre of world Armenians, Echmiadzin.

Armenians stubbornly refuse to cease being a diaspora ethnic group, as they have already created for themselves a false image as people who faithfully serve the country of which they are citizens. This replacement of elites will soon make itself felt in most Western countries and in Russia. The "genocide" issue allows the Armenians to settle in whole areas of developed and developing countries without any problem. Armenian towns and villages have been developing in Russia, France, Italy, Spain and all other European countries, including Turkey. They have not neglected even such exotic countries as Argentina or Colombia.

The issue of "genocide", according to Armenian ethno-fundamentalists, brings forward the hour of victory on the main issue - the creation of a mono-ethnic "Greater Armenia" from sea to sea. And the world is a voluntary supporter, on humanitarian grounds, of Armenian nationalists in this cause, forgetting that this time "Greater Armenia" will also consist of land from Georgia, Russia and other neighbours. Fiction? Not at all. Armenian ethno-fundamentalists have waited for better times to realize their ideas at this turn of history. Nobody knows what the next historic twist will be. But the Armenian ethno-fundamentalists are actively preparing for that time with new falsifications, harassment of other nations, profanation of the world community etc.

 Armenian ethno-fundamentalism came up with its "Greater Armenia" project at a time of wild capitalism, but managed to bring the "Armenian cause" into the era of globalization via the "genocide" when nation states in their classical form are becoming a thing of the past. The most surprising thing is that the Armenians constantly get the go-ahead for their national chauvinism from the most notorious globalists. They all agree that the concept of the "nation state" is a relic of the past. The only exception is the Armenians, who defy globalization; Armenian ideologues are making a fetish of nationalism. They know that the ethnos and the nation must be preserved until that time when other nations, struck by globalization, simply collapse into cosmopolitan societies. This will open unimaginable space and opportunities to implement the most heinous plans of the Armenians.