Historical Archives and the Historians&#039; Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events Of 1915

Yücel Güçlü

doi:10.5771/9780761865674

Summary

Historical Archives and the Historians' Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915 demonstrates the vital importance of Ottoman and other relevant archives in Turkey for the study of the Armenian question. Historians, assisted by newly discovered or recently published materials, must continually reassess events of the past in order to achieve a rounder view. The Armenian events of 1915 are certainly no exception. This study encourages further engagement between the policy-making and the scholarly communities by indicating the continued importance of past records and documents for today’s pressing debates. In order to give a fuller picture, this survey also looks at some major relevant archival sources outside Turkey, including the state of archives of the First Republic of Armenia and those of the Dashnak Party. Yücel Güçlü’s inquiry sheds light on some of the British records relating to the First World War and its immediate aftermath locked at the National Archives in Kew, London, and he examines the special relevance of repositories in Moscow and St. Petersburg in understanding the Turkish-Armenian conflict. Güçlü assesses Turkey’s proposal to establish an international historians’ commission to investigate the Armenian events of 1915 and reviews in-depth the meanings and implications of the protocols of cooperation signed between Turkey and Armenia on 10 October 2009. By turning a modern eye on historical events, this study gives great and necessary attention to discovering the precise chronology, meaning, and development of the continuing negotiations between Turkey and Armenia.

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Copyright year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-6566-7
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-6567-4
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 343
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface and Acknowledgments No access
1. Why the Present Study? No access
2. Subject Matter No access
3. Sources and Methodology No access
4. Notes No access
1. Origins of the Ottoman Archives No access
2. Ottoman Paleography and Diplomatics No access
3. Conservation and Classification in the BOA No access
4. Introductions and Guides to the BOA No access
5. Notes No access
1. The First Modern Archives No access
2. Archival and Library Resources in İstanbul No access
3. The Prime Minister’s Office Ottoman Archive No access
4. The Structure of Ottoman Government Orders No access
5. Format No access
6. Tax Registers No access
7. Registers of Ottoman Non-Muslims No access
8. Yıldız Palace Archive No access
9. The State of Ottoman Records and Papers No access
10. Notes No access
1. Turgut Özal and the Archives No access
2. Notes No access
1. Developments since Opening the Archives No access
2. THE MILESTONE CASE OF PERİNÇEK V. SWITZERLAND No access
3. The Importance of Studying Ottoman Documents No access
4. Notes No access
1. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archive from the Twentieth Century No access
2. The Ottoman Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archive No access
3. Records of the Sublime Porte No access
4. Archives Not Consulted because Unavailable to Scholars No access
5. Application Formalities and Working Conditions Greatly Eased No access
6. Recruitment and Training of New Archivists No access
7. Provenance and Maintenance of Order No access
8. Bernard Lewis’s Work in the Ottoman Archives No access
9. Stanford Shaw’s Work in the Ottoman Archives No access
10. Some Distinguished Turkish Historians No access
11. Views of International Scholars on the Ottoman Archival Services Today No access
12. Mustafa Budak No access
13. Notes No access
1. The Centenary of 1915 No access
2. Website of the Directorate General of State Archives No access
3. Publications of the Directorate General of State Archives No access
4. The Sublime Porte and the Armenians in Documents No access
5. Ottoman Materials in English No access
6. İSMET BİNARK No access
7. Legislation on State Archives No access
8. BOA Moved to a New Site No access
9. Notes No access
1. The Turkish General Staff Military History and Strategic Studies Directorate’s Archive No access
2. Holdings of the ATASE No access
3. Scholars in the ATASE No access
4. Publications of the ATASE No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Turkish Historical Society No access
2. The THS Journals No access
3. The THS Archive No access
4. Enver Pasha Collection No access
5. Kazım Orbay Collection No access
6. The National Library No access
7. Notes No access
1. Muslim Court Records No access
2. Armenians in Muslim Court Records No access
3. Scholars and Muslim Court Records No access
4. Manuscripts and Special Collections: Maps, Photographs, and Engravings No access
5. The Republican Archive No access
6. Other Archive Collections No access
7. Notes No access
1. Armenian Depositories No access
2. Applications by Non-Armenian Scholars to Use the Armenian Archives No access
3. The Türkyılmaz Case: A Turkish Scholar Harassed in Yerevan No access
4. Calls to Open the Armenian Archives to Scholars No access
5. The Armenian Resource Materials No access
6. Armenian National Archives No access
7. Notes No access
1. Major British Depository No access
2. Britain’s Unopened Archives and the Eastern Mediterranean Special Intelligence Bureau No access
3. British Military Intelligence Documents of the First World War No access
4. EMSIB Records Must Be Opened No access
5. The Malta Deportations and Early Attempts at Prosecution No access
6. Absence of Evidence No access
7. Notes No access
1. Russian Depositories before Perestroika No access
2. Opening of the Russian Archives No access
3. Guides to the Russian Archival Sources No access
4. Release and Organization of the Russian Archival Materials No access
5. Importance of the Russian Archives to Turkish History No access
6. Notes No access
1. A Task for Historians No access
2. Turkey’s Proposal to Establish an International Historians’ Commission No access
3. Notes No access
1. Armenians and the Turkish-Russian Conflict in the First World War No access
2. Documents Key to History No access
3. Notes No access
1. Debates in the British and European Parliaments No access
2. Turkey and the European Union No access
3. Turkey and the United Nations Convention on Genocide No access
4. Notes No access
1. TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYİP ERDOĞAN CALLS FOR UNBIASED INVESTIGATION INTO ARMENIAN CLAIMS No access
2. Turkey’s Parliament Gives Its Backing No access
3. Armenian Responses to the Turkish Proposal No access
4. Notes No access
1. Relations between Turkey and Armenia No access
2. International Responses No access
3. Definition of Genocide and Retroactive Application of the UNCG No access
4. Practical Outcome of a Genocide Declaration No access
5. Notes No access
1. Road Map to Normalize Turkish-Armenian Relations No access
2. Turkish-Armenian Protocols of Cooperation Signed on 10 October 2009 No access
3. Notes No access
1. Reaction to the Protocols in Armenia and in the Armenian Diaspora No access
2. International Reaction No access
3. American Responses No access
4. American Scholars and the Debate No access
5. Support for the Turkish-Armenian Protocols in the British and Australian Parliaments No access
6. Notes No access
1. Turkish-Armenian Protocols and the American Public No access
2. A Joint Commission—the Key to Normalization No access
3. Armenian Obstacles No access
4. Possible Prospects for Turkish-Armenian Cooperation No access
5. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 261 - 266
1. Criminal Conviction for Denial that the Atrocities Perpetrated against the Armenian People in 1915 and Years after Constituted Genocide Was Unjustified (Press Release Issued by the Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights. ECHR 370 (2013), 17 December 2013) No access
2. Principal Facts No access
3. Complaints, Procedure and Composition of the Court No access
4. Decision of the Court No access
5. Article 10 No access
6. Just Satisfaction (Article 41) No access
7. Separate Opinions No access
8. Notes No access
1. THE TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYİP ERDOĞAN’S OFFICIAL LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARIAN OF 10 APRIL 2005 (ANATOLIAN NEWS AGENCY, 10 APRIL 2005) No access
1. ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARIAN’S OFFICIAL RESPONSE OF 25 APRIL 2005 TO THE LETTER OF THE TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYİP ERDOĞAN (ANATOLIAN NEWS AGENCY, 25 APRIL 2005) No access
1. Protocol on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between The Republic of Turkey and The Republic of Armenia (Anatolian News Agency, 10 October 2009) No access
1. Protocol on Development of Relations between The Republic of Turkey and The Republic of Armenia (Anatolian News Agency, 10 October 2009) No access
1. The Statement That Was To Be Made by the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoğlu after the Signing Ceremony of the Turkish-Armenian Protocols of 10 October 2009 (Anatolian News Agency, 10 October 2009) No access
1. Attention Members of the U.S. House of Representatives (The Washington Post and The New York Times, 19 May 1985) No access
1. TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYİP ERDOĞAN’S MESSAGE ON THE ARMENIAN EVENTS OF 1915 ON 23 APRIL 2014 (ANATOLIAN NEWS AGENCY, 23 APRIL 2014) No access
1. I. Unpublished Primary Sources No access
2. II. Published Primary Sources No access
3. III. Newspapers No access
4. IV. Secondary Sources No access
Index No access Pages 319 - 342
About the Author No access Pages 343 - 343