Embassy Magazine, Canada
www.embassymag.ca
Jan 11 2006
Living Proof of Massacre
(Re: "A Question of Genocide in Turkey" Embassy Dec. 21, 2005). I am
quoting from a paragraph towards the end: "and Armenians living in
Istanbul and other Turkish cities far from the war zone were left
undisturbed." My grandfather and grandmother were massacred in
Adapazari, that is maybe 100 miles away from Istanbul. Besides my
grandfather and grandmother, 46,000 (near Istanbul?) Armenian souls lost their lives
under the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) -- Ittihad ve
Terraqqi Jemiyyeti -- whose members were Enver Pasha,Talat Pasha,
Chemal Pasha and others who were found guilty by an Ottoman-Turkish
court in their absence. Gwynne Dyer should have investigated this
further before writing the above. Entire Armenian populations were
massacred and the UN was the first to term it as a genocide of
Ottoman-Turks against Armenian old people, children and women. And I
am one of the grandsons of this terrible human tragedy by
Ottoman-Turks.
My best regards
Vagharshak Sevulyan
