Jewish roots in the organization of the Armenian genocide

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Dönme - a crypto-Jewish sect brought Ataturk to power.

One of the most destructive factors that largely determines the political state in the Middle East and Transcaucasia for 100 years is the genocide of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire, during which, according to various sources, from 664 thousand to 1.5 million people were killed. And given that the genocide of the Pontic Greeks, which began in Izmir, during which from 350 thousand to 1.2 million people were killed, and the Assyrians, in which the Kurds took part, which took away from 275 to 750 thousand people, took place almost simultaneously, this factor is already for more than 100 years, it has kept the entire region in suspense, constantly stirring up enmity between the peoples inhabiting it. Moreover, as soon as there is even a slight rapprochement between the neighbors, giving hope for their reconciliation and further peaceful coexistence, an external factor, a third party, immediately intervenes in the situation, and a bloody event occurs, further fueling mutual hatred.

For an ordinary person who has received a standard education, today it is absolutely obvious that the Armenian genocide took place and that it is Turkey that is to blame for the genocide. Russia, among more than 30 countries, recognized the fact of the Armenian genocide, which, however, has little effect on its relations with Turkey. Turkey, in the opinion of an ordinary person, is absolutely irrational and stubbornly continues to deny its responsibility not only for the genocide of Armenians, but also for the genocide of other Christian peoples - Greeks and Assyrians. According to Turkish media reports, in May 2018, Turkey opened all of its archives to investigate the events of 1915. President Recep Erdogan said that after the opening of the Turkish archives, if someone dares to declare about the "so-called Armenian genocide", then let him try to prove it based on facts:

"In the history of Turkey, there was no" genocide "against Armenians," Erdogan said.

Nobody will dare to suspect that the Turkish president is inadequate. Erdogan, the leader of a great Islamic country, the heir to one of the greatest empires, by definition cannot be like, say, the president of Ukraine. And the president of any country will not dare to take a frank and open lie. This means that Erdogan really knows something that is unknown to most people in other countries, or is carefully hidden from the world community. And such a factor really exists. It does not touch on the event of genocide itself, it touches on the one who performed this inhuman cruelty and is really responsible for it.

In February 2018, an online service was launched on the Turkish e-government portal (www.turkiye.gov.tr), where any Turkish citizen could trace his genealogy, learn about his ancestors in a few clicks. The available records were limited to the early 19th century, at the time of the Ottoman Empire. The service almost instantly became so popular that it soon collapsed due to millions of requests. The results obtained shocked a huge number of Turks. It turns out that many people who considered themselves Turks, in reality, have ancestors of Armenian, Jewish, Greek, Bulgarian and even Macedonian and Romanian origin. This fact, by default, only confirmed what everyone in Turkey knows, but no one likes to mention, especially with foreigners. It is considered bad form in Turkey to speak aloud about this, but it is this factor that now determines the entire domestic and foreign policy, the entire struggle of Erdogan for power within the country.

The Ottoman Empire, by the standards of its time, pursued a relatively tolerant policy towards national and religious minorities, preferring, again, by the standards of that time, non-violent methods of assimilation. To some extent, she repeated the methods of the Byzantine Empire she had defeated. The Armenians traditionally ruled over the financial area of the empire. Most of the bankers in Constantinople were Armenians. Many finance ministers were Armenians, it is enough to recall the brilliant Hakob Kazazyan Pasha, who was considered the best finance minister in the entire history of the Ottoman Empire. Of course, throughout history there have been interethnic and interreligious conflicts, which even led to the shedding of blood. But nothing like the genocides of the Christian population in the 20th century took place in the Empire. And suddenly such a tragedy happens. Any sane person will understand that this does not happen out of the blue. So why and who carried out these bloody genocides? The answer to this question lies in the history of the Ottoman Empire itself.

In Istanbul, on the Asian side of the city across the Bosphorus, there is the old and secluded Uskudar cemetery. Visitors to the cemetery among traditional Muslims will begin to meet and marvel at tombs that are unlike others and do not fit into Islamic traditions. Many of the tombs are covered with concrete and stone surfaces rather than earth, and have photographs of the deceased, which does not fit with tradition. When asked whose graves they are, you will be informed almost in a whisper that representatives of the Donmeh (converts or apostates - Tur.), A large and mysterious part of Turkish society, are buried here. The grave of the Supreme Court judge is located next to the grave of the ex-leader of the Communist Party, and next to them are the graves of the general and the famous educator. Dongme are Muslims, but not quite. Most of the modern denme are secular people who vote for the secular republic of Ataturk, but in every denme community there are still secret religious rites that are more Jewish than Islamic. No donme ever publicly confesses their identity. Themselves donme learn about themselves only after reaching 18 years old, when their parents reveal a secret to them. This tradition of zealous preservation of dual identities in Muslim society has been passed down through the generations.

As I wrote in the article "The Island of Antichrist: A Springhead for Armageddon", the Donmeh, or Sabbatians, are followers and disciples of the Jewish Rabbi Shabbtai Tzvi, who in 1665 was proclaimed the Jewish Messiah and made the biggest schism in Judaism in almost 2 millennia of its official existence. Avoiding execution by the sultan, together with his numerous followers Shabbtai Tzvi converted to Islam in 1666. Despite this, many Sabbatians are still members of three religions - Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Turkish donme were originally founded in Greek Thessaloniki by Jacob Kerido and his son Berahio (Baruch) Russo (Osman Baba). In the future, the donme spread throughout Turkey, where they were called, depending on the direction in Sabbatianism, Izmirlars, Karakashlar (black-browed) and Kapanjilar (owners of scales). The main place of concentration of the donme in the Asian part of the Empire was the city of Izmir. The Young Turk movement consisted largely of the Donme. Kemal Ataturk, the first president of Turkey, was a donme and a member of the Veritas Masonic Lodge, a division of the Grand Orient of France.

Throughout their history, the donmeh have repeatedly turned to the rabbis, representatives of traditional Judaism, with requests to recognize them as Jews, like the Karaites who reject the Talmud (oral Torah). However, they always received a refusal, which in most cases was of a political nature, not a religious one. Kemalist Turkey has always been an ally of Israel, for which it was politically unprofitable to admit that this state was actually ruled by Jews. For the same reasons, Israel categorically refused and still refuses to recognize the Armenian genocide. Foreign Ministry spokesman Emanuel Nachshon said recently that Israel's official position has not changed.

“We are very sensitive and responsive to the terrible tragedy of the Armenian people during the First World War. Historical debate on how to assess this tragedy is one thing, but the recognition that something terrible happened to the Armenian people is quite another, and it is much more important."

Originally in Greek Thessaloniki, then part of the Ottoman Empire, the donme community consisted of 200 families. In secret, they practiced their own form of Judaism, based on the "18 Commandments" allegedly abandoned by Shabbtai Zvi, along with the prohibition of mixed marriages with true Muslims. The Dongme never integrated into Muslim society and continued to believe that Shabbtai Zvi would one day return and lead them to redemption.

According to very conservative estimates of the denme themselves, now in Turkey their number is 15-20 thousand people. Alternative sources speak of millions of denme in Turkey. All officers and generals of the Turkish army, bankers, financiers, judges, journalists, policemen, lawyers, lawyers, preachers throughout the 20th century were dönme. But this phenomenon began in 1891 with the creation of the political organization of the Donme - the Committee "Unity and Progress", later called the "Young Turks", responsible for the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the genocide of the Christian peoples of Turkey.

In the 19th century, the international Jewish elite planned to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, but the problem was that Palestine was under Ottoman rule. The founder of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl, wanted to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire on Palestine, but failed. Therefore, the next logical step was to gain control over the Ottoman Empire itself and its destruction in order to liberate Palestine and create Israel. It was for this that the "Unity and Progress" Committee was created under the guise of a secular Turkish nationalist movement. The committee held at least two congresses (in 1902 and 1907) in Paris, at which the revolution was planned and prepared. In 1908, the Young Turks began their revolution and forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II into submission.

The notorious "evil genius of the Russian revolution" Alexander Parvus was a financial advisor to the Young Turks, and the first Bolshevik government of Russia allocated Ataturk 10 million rubles in gold, 45 thousand rifles and 300 machine guns with ammunition. One of the main, sacred, reasons for the Armenian genocide was the fact that the Jews considered the Armenians Amalekites, the descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau. Esau himself was the elder twin brother of the founder of Israel, Jacob, who took advantage of the blindness of their father, Isaac, and stole the birthright from his elder brother. Throughout history, the Amalekites were the main enemies of Israel, with whom David fought during the reign of Saul, who was killed by the Amalekite.

The head of the Young Turks was Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), who was a donmeh and a direct descendant of the Jewish messiah Shabbtai Tzvi. Jewish writer and Rabbi Joachim Prinz confirms this fact in his book The Secret Jews on page 122:

“The uprising of the Young Turks in 1908 against the authoritarian regime of Sultan Abdul Hamid began among the intelligentsia of Thessaloniki. It was there that the need for a constitutional regime arose. Among the leaders of the revolution that led to the creation of a more modern government in Turkey were Javid Bey and Mustafa Kemal. Both were ardent donme. Javid Bey became finance minister, Mustafa Kemal became the leader of the new regime and took the name Ataturk. His opponents tried to use his denme affiliation to discredit him, but without success. Too many of the Young Turks in the newly formed revolutionary cabinet prayed to Allah, but their real prophet was Shabbtai Tzvi, the Messiah of Smyrna (Izmir - author's note)."

On October 14, 1922, The Literary Digest published an article entitled "The Sort of Mustafa Kemal is", which stated:

“A Spanish Jew by birth, an Orthodox Muslim by birth, trained in a German military college, a patriot who studied the campaigns of the world's great military leaders, including Napoleon, Grant and Lee - these are said to be just a few of the outstanding personality traits of the new Man on Horseback, which appeared in the Middle East. He is a real dictator, correspondents testify, a man of the type who immediately becomes the hope and fear of nations torn to pieces by unsuccessful wars. Unity and power returned to Turkey largely thanks to the will of Mustafa Kemal Pasha. Apparently, no one has yet called him "Napoleon of the Middle East", but probably sooner or later some enterprising journalist will do it; for Kemal's path to power, his methods are autocratic and elaborate, even his military tactics are said to be reminiscent of Napoleon."

In an article entitled “When Kemal Ataturk Recited Shema Yisrael,” Jewish author Hillel Halkin quoted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk:

“I am a descendant of Shabbtai Zvi - no longer a Jew, but an ardent admirer of this prophet. I believe that every Jew in this country would do well to join his camp."

Gershom Scholem wrote in his book Kabbalah on pp. 330-331:

“Their liturgies were written in a very small format so that they could be easily hidden. All sects were so successful in hiding their internal affairs from Jews and Turks that for a long time knowledge about them was based only on rumors and reports of outsiders. The donme manuscripts, revealing the details of their Sabbatian ideas, were presented and examined only after several donme families decided to fully assimilate into Turkish society and passed on their documents to Jewish friends of Thessaloniki and Izmir. As long as the donme were centered in Thessaloniki, the institutional framework of the sects remained intact, although several members of the donme were activists of the Young Turk movement that arose in that city. The first administration, which came to power after the Young Turks revolution in 1909, included three ministers - donme, including Finance Minister Javid Beck, who was a descendant of the Baruch Russo family and was one of the leaders of his sect. One of the claims commonly made by many Jews in Thessaloniki (denied, however, by the Turkish government) was that Kemal Ataturk was of Donme origin. This view was eagerly supported by many of Ataturk's religious opponents in Anatolia.”

Rafael de Nogales, Inspector General of the Turkish Army in Armenia and Military Governor of the Egyptian Sinai during World War I, wrote in his book Four Years Beneath the Crescent on pages 26-27 that Osman Talaat, the chief architect of the Armenian Genocide, was dongme:

"He was a renegade Hebrew (dönme) from Thessaloniki, Talaat, the main organizer of massacres and deportations, who, fishing in troubled waters, succeeded in his career from a modest postal clerk to Grand Vizier of the Empire."

In one of Marcel Tinayre's articles in L'Illustration in December 1923, which was translated into English and published as Saloniki, it is written:

“Today's Free Masonry donme, educated in Western universities, often professing total atheism, have become the leaders of the Young Turk revolution. Talaat Bek, Javid Bek and many other members of the Unity and Progress committee were donme from Thessaloniki."

On July 11, 1911, The London Times wrote in the article "Jews and the Situation in Albania":

“It is well known that under the Masonic patronage the Thessaloniki Committee was formed with the help of Jews and Donme, or crypto-Jews of Turkey, whose headquarters are in Thessaloniki, and whose organization even under Sultan Abdul Hamid took a Masonic form. Jews such as Emmanuel Carasso, Salem, Sasun, Farji, Meslah and Donme, or crypto Jews such as Javid Beck and the Balji family, were influential both in organizing the Committee and in its central body in Thessaloniki. These facts, which are known to every government in Europe, are also known throughout Turkey and the Balkans, where there is a growing tendency to hold the Jews and the Donmeh responsible for the bloody blunders committed by the Committee.”

On August 9, 1911, the same newspaper published a letter to its Constantinople edition, which included comments on the situation from the chief rabbis. In particular, it was written:

“I will just note that, according to the information I received from true Freemasons, most of the lodges founded under the auspices of the Great East of Turkey since the revolution were from the very beginning the face of the Committee of Unity and Progress, and they were not then recognized by British Freemasons. … The first "Supreme Council" of Turkey, appointed in 1909, contained three Jews - Caronry, Cohen and Fari, and three denme - Djavidaso, Kibarasso and Osman Talaat (the main leader and organizer of the Armenian genocide - author's note)."

The material reason for the Armenian genocide was the oil interests of the Rothschilds and, no matter how trivial, Baku oil. The existing Rothschild-style stability in the region was greatly hampered by the strong and very influential interests of the Armenians and the financial flows and territories controlled by them. The region had to be brought into chaos, after which, removing the obstacles in the form of the Armenian people, take possession of the oil fields of the Caspian Sea and northern Syria and Iraq. To implement this plan, the Rothschilds chose the Turkish donme, promising them in return to create the state of Israel in Palestine, initially under British sovereignty. This was accomplished by sending the Balfour Declaration to Lord Rothschild, which laid the foundation for the creation of the State of Israel.

In order to clearly understand the harmony of these plans, I propose to consider the chronology of events in Turkey, which ultimately led to the Armenian genocide.

1666: Shabbtai Zvi, a Turkish Jew, proclaims himself the Jewish Messiah in Thessaloniki. Gathering thousands of followers, he led them to the Zionist exodus to Palestine. On the way to Izmir, due to death threats to the Sultan, he was forced to convert to Islam in order to avoid execution. Many of his followers saw a Divine plan in this, and also became Muslims.

1716: In Thessaloniki, a group called "donme" was formed from the followers of Shabbtai Zvi, led by his successor, Baruch Russo. By the early 1900s, the number of dönme in Turkey was in the hundreds of thousands.

1860: A Hungarian Zionist named Arminius Vambery becomes an advisor to Sultan Abdul Mekit while secretly working as an agent of Lord Palmerston of the British Foreign Office. Vambery tried to negotiate an agreement between the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl and Sultan Abdul Mekit to create Israel, but failed.

1891: In Thessaloniki, the local donme forms the Zionist political grouping Committee "Unity and Progress", later called the Young Turks. The group was led by a Jewish Freemason named Emmanuel Carrazo. The first meeting of the Committee, funded by Rothschild, was held in Geneva.

1895-1896: Sephardi from Thessaloniki, together with the Donmeh, carry out the massacre of Armenians in Istanbul.

1902 and 1907: 2 congresses of the Young Turks are held in Paris, where planning and preparation of penetration into the power and government structures of the empire and the Turkish army takes place in order to carry out a coup in 1908.

1908: revolution of the Young Turks-Donme, as a result of which Sultan Abdul-Hamid II actually came under their control.

1909: Young Donme Turks rape, torture, and kill over 100,000 Armenians in the city of Adana, also known as Kilikia.

1914: The Donme Young Turks finance unrest and unrest in Serbia, which results in the Serbian radical Gavrila Princip killing Prince Ferdinand in Sarajevo, leading to World War I.

1915: the genocide of the Armenians occurs, provoked and carried out by the ruling elite of the Young Turks-Donme, which led to almost 1.5 million victims.

1918: Donme Mustafa Kemal Ataturk becomes the leader of the country.

1920: Bolshevik Russia supplies Ataturk with 10 million gold rubles, 45,000 rifles and 300 machine guns with ammunition.

1920: Ataturk's army occupies the port of Baku and after 5 days surrenders it without a fight to the 11th Red Army. The Rothschilds are delighted. Lev Trotsky, who served as chairman of the main Concession Committee, provides the Rothschilds with oil concessions in Baku for two decades. In 1942, Stalin takes Shell's last concession in the Caspian region. In 2010, a monument to Ataturk was unveiled in Baku.

1921: an agreement on "friendship and brotherhood" was signed in Moscow, according to which a number of territories of the former Russian Empire ceded to Turkey. The Soviet government ceded to Turkey the regions of Kars, Ardahan, Artvin and others. Armenia lost almost half of its territory, including Mount Ararat.

1921: A group of Communist Party leaders attacked by the Kemalists in eastern Turkey. Fleeing from persecution on January 28, 1921. 15 prominent communists were forced to sail to the Black Sea in a small ship. On the night of January 29, all of them were stabbed to death by the captain and crew of the ship, which was named "Slaughterhouse of Fifteen".

1922: Kemalists organize the burning of Smyrna (Izmir) resulting in "ethnic cleansing". More than 100,000 Armenian and Greek Christians were killed, burned, raped.

The main leaders of the new Turkish republic are:

- Emmanuel Carrazo: The official representative of the B'nai Brit lodge, Grand Master of Macedonia, established a Masonic lodge in Thessaloniki. In 1890 he created a "secret" Committee "Unity and Progress" in Thessaloniki.

- Talaat Pasha (1874-1921): considered himself a Turk, but in fact he was a donme. Minister of the Interior of Turkey during the First World War, member of the Masonic lodge of Carasso and the great master of Scottish stonemasons in Turkey, chief architect and organizer of the Armenian genocide and director of the Deportations. He wrote: "By deporting Armenians to their places of destination during a severe cold, we ensure their eternal peace."

- Javid Bey: Donmeh, Minister of Finance, financial flows from Rothschild for the revolution in Turkey passed through him, executed on charges of attempted assassination of Ataturk.

- Massimo Russo: Assistant to Javid Bey.

- Refik Bey, pseudonym - Refik Saydam Bey: editor of the newspapers "Mladoturok", "Revolutionary Press", became the Prime Minister of Turkey in 1939.

- Emanuel Kwasou: Donme, Young Turk propagandist. The head of the delegation that announced his overthrow to Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

- Vladimir Jabotinsky: Russian Zionist who moved to Turkey in 1908. Supported by B'nai Britt from London and Dutch Zionist millionaire Jacob Kann, editor of the newspaper Mladoturok. Later he organized the terrorist political party Irgun in Israel.

- Alexander Gelfand, pseudonym - Parvus: financier, the main liaison between Rothschild and the Young Turkish revolutionaries, editor of The Turkish Homeland.

- Mustafa Kemal "Ataturk" (1881-1938): a Jew of Sephardic (Spanish) origin, dönme. Atatürk attended a Jewish primary school known as the Semsi Effendi School, run by Simon Zvi. Over 12,000 Jews welcomed Ataturk to Turkey in 1933.

But the Young Turks, who have been controlling the Turkish government since 1908, only organized and directed the process of genocide of Christian peoples. Quite different people were directly involved in the killings and deportations. At a time when the regular Turkish army was distracted by the war on several fronts at the same time, punitive operations were carried out by irregular units, auxiliary troops - the so-called Kurdish "Hamidiye Alaylari" (Hamidi battalions) and local Kurdish bandit formations, also consisting of Arab, Circassian and Turkoman tribes … Irregular units were formed from some Kurdish tribes and criminals in Turkish prisons, who were promised amnesty for serving in Hamidi's battalions. Local Kurds were mainly driven by mercantile interests. The seizure of Armenian and Assyrian property, values, houses, businesses, territories were the main reasons that prompted the Kurds to genocide.

All the way from Aleppo to the province of Van and from Mosul to the Black Sea coast, Armenians and Assyrians were attacked by Kurdish troops. After the genocide, Kurds settled in all the territories inhabited by Armenians and Assyrians, and it was they who became the main beneficiaries of the genocide. For the sake of fairness, it must be said that as there was no unity among the Kurds then, so there is no now. Not all Kurdish tribes and clans took part in the killings, attacks and expulsion. On the contrary, many Kurds saved the Armenians and Assyrians, sheltered them, provided food and shelter. The battalions of Hamidi were officially guided by the slogans of religious wars, calling for the destruction of the Armenians and Assyrians as Christians.

There has never been unity among the Kurdish clans. Kurds differ greatly among themselves, both ethnically and religiously. Even now, some Kurds in their struggle are guided by political motives, ideologically professing Marxist and communist ideas, others - national liberation, and others - radically religious. The ethnic composition of the Kurdish tribes is also heterogeneous. Suffice it to say that Israel is now home to 200,000 Jewish immigrants of Kurdish origin, and the Barzani clan is considered Jewish by origin. According to the Israeli general, Barzani's army was trained by Israeli specialists, and Mustafa Barzani himself and his son are MOSSAD officers.

Today, it is the Barzani clan that occupies the territory of northern Iraq and controls the oil fields, where Great Britain promised to create an Assyrian state. At the Paris Conference of 1919, the British promised the Assyrians an independent Assyria if they supported their plans to control the oil fields.

Map of independent Assyria prepared for the Paris Conference by the British. From the archives of the Vatican

The Assyrians created their army under the leadership of Aga Petros D'Baz and opposed the Turkish army and Kurdish troops. As a result, the army was defeated, and the Assyrians themselves were partially exterminated, partially expelled, and their territories were occupied by the Kurds. The British betrayed the Assyrians, the map was never presented at the conference and the question of an independent Assyria was not raised.

Ugur Umit Ungor, associate professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and expert on the Armenian genocide stated:

“If now there are many Armenians living in the Middle East, it is because the Kurds guarded them in some territories …

The leader of the Nurku movement, Saidi Nursi, or Saidi Kurdi, as the Kurds call him, probably participated in the rescue of hundreds of Armenian children, bringing them to the Russians …

Those of the Kurds who took part in the killings did so for economic and geopolitical reasons …

The Kurdish tribes were used by the Turkish government against the Armenians, as the Kurds claimed the same territory as the Armenians in Eastern Anatolia. At the same time, the tribes wanted to get economic benefits by killing Armenians …

The main responsibility for the massacres lies with the Ottoman State and its three leaders, Enver, Talaat and Jemal Pasha."

Most Kurdish leaders now recognize the Armenian genocide. Kurdish politician in Turkey Ahmed Turk said that the Kurds also have their share of "the blame for the genocide" and apologized to the Armenians.

“Our fathers and grandfathers were used against the Assyrians and Yezidis, as well as against the Armenians. They persecuted these people; their hands are stained with blood. We, as descendants, apologize."

In April 1997, the exiled Kurdish parliament recognized the genocide against the Armenians and Assyrians, but at the same time stated that the ethnic Kurds recruited into Hamidi's battalions were jointly responsible with the Young Turk government. Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned Chairman of the Kurdish Workers 'Party (Workers' Party of Kurdistan), on April 10, 1998 sent a letter of congratulation to Robert Kocharian in connection with his victory in the presidential elections in Armenia, in which he raised the issue of genocide. He welcomed the resolution of the Belgian Senate, which calls on the Turkish government to recognize the Armenian genocide. At the same time, Ocalan stressed the need for a comprehensive discussion and analysis of the background of the crime.

Back in 1982, the PKK party newspaper called the extermination of Armenians genocide (Serxwebun No. 2, Fepuary 1982, p. 10):

“During the period when the peoples of the Ottoman Empire were striving to liberate themselves, the bourgeois-nationalist movement of the Young Turks made the ideas of the Committee of Unity and Progress the basis of its program. Thus, they positioned themselves against the democratic right of the oppressed peoples to self-determination … As soon as the Young Turks came to power, the oppression of the subordinate peoples under their rule acquired a much worse proportions than before. They tried to suppress the right to self-determination with the use of violence and even carried out a barbaric genocide against the Armenians."

Of course, the position of the Armenian diaspora in the Ottoman Empire also contributed to the Armenian genocide to a certain extent. During the collapse of the Empire, it was very difficult to resist the temptation to turn financial power into political power. Yes, and the nationalist Armenian parties created their own paramilitary formations, which, under the cover of the Russian army, also committed acts of vandalism, sometimes cutting out entire villages, which is reflected in the reports of the officers of the Russian army. However, these atrocities were not of a mass nature and fit into the framework of the war and the specifics of revenge in the East. And hatred of the Russian Orthodox among the "revolutionary Caucasian peoples" reached such a level that during the so-called Shamkhor massacre, on the orders of the Georgian Mensheviks of not always titular nationality, the local Turks simultaneously massacred more than 2 thousand Russian soldiers returning home from the Turkish front to Russia. But this is a topic for another study.

During the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Armenians were not an object of geopolitics, but its subject. The Armenian elite, as well as today, very much counted on the help of the European powers in the restoration of Great Armenia. Many treaties were signed with various countries on the division of Turkey. According to one of them, almost all of northeastern Turkey with access to the Black Sea was given to Armenia. But the Great Armenia project was just a map in the geopolitical game of the great powers. Western promises turned out to be empty, and Armenia shrank to its current limits, much less than even during its stay in the Russian Empire. The Armenian people received a millionth genocide, and in the current realities no one sees options for expanding Armenia at the expense of Turkey.

The Armenian Genocide was organized by the government of the Young Turks, consisting of the Donme and the Jews, and carried out by the forces of Kurdish, Circassian and Arab tribes pursuing economic and geopolitical goals. The Armenians and Assyrians, whose elites believed the promises of Western countries, lost not only millions of their people, but huge territories. And the Assyrians, having lost all their territories and homeland, are now in dispersion.