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Advocates Talat Enver Djemal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIYXn7oFlLA I constantly believe that there is no real difference how we will call the huge crime against humanity committed by Young Turks. Surely. Some call it "war concomitant losses," "need to protect state unity," "mass deportation" -- the matter will remain as it is: There were over 1.5 million people dead. A well-known French scientist Jacques de Morgan wrote in 1917: "The deportations of Western Armenians are nothing but concealed race extermination. There is no language rich enough to describe the horrors of it." So, anyone is now free to understand these words as he wishes and one can easily compare this with the statements in U.N. Genocide convention (1948). The main point is -- we should recognize and condemn it once and for all, then try to move ahead with open borders, open and cooperating societies and true common economic interests within BSEC or any other organization. Today most Turks, or even some Armenians find it very convenient to forget history after the 1909-16s. I want to remind us of the following fact: In 1918-19 the revolutionary war tribunals in Istanbul sentenced (in absentia) Talat, Enver, Cemal, Nazım and other Young Turk leaders to death and the tribunal statement defined their crime as follows: 1.The mass deportation of Armenians was illegal; 2.They organized "deep state," illegal organization to punish Ottoman citizens; 3.Young Turks party dragged the Ottoman state into meaningless war (WW I).Talaat's attitude toward the Armenians was summed up in the proud boast which he made to his friends: "I have accomplished more toward solving the Armenian problem in three months than Abdul Hamid accomplished in thirty years!"
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