The Orientalists and Christian missionaries have been parroting for some time the farcical notion that the Ottomon Caliphate was responsible for what is now known as the “Armenian Genocide” of the early 1900’s. We present here some history behind the incident that disproves the idea that the Ottoman Caliphate had anything to do with the Armenian Genocide. This was a time period in which the Young Turks were ruling Turkey and had worked towards secularizing Turkey. They themselves were of a heterodox Jewish background of the Donme cult of the false Messiah, Tzabbatai Tzveh of Salonica.
The following is an excerpt from “A Myth of Terror Armenian Extremism: Its Causes and Its Historical Context” by Erich Feigl.
Armenakan, Hunchaks and Dashnaktsutiun: Revolutionary Parties; Terror as Metho. Nationalism Spreads From the Church to Secular Organizations
The first political party of the Armenian minority to attain any significance was the “Armenakan- Party. Founded in Van in the autumn of 1885, the party was organized along European lines and had its own publication.
The mastermind behind this thoroughly revolutionary organization was the son of a tremendously wealthy banker from Constantinople. His name was Mekertich Portukalian. After running into many difficulties with schools that he had established in Van, he emigrated to Marseilles, and from then on he directed his party from there. He also published a periodical in Marseilles, called “Armenia”. His objective was to rouse enthusiasm for an Armenian state among the Armenians who were scattered across Europe. The response came in the form of an “Armenian Patriotic Society”, which raised money and bought arms and munitions.
Their aim was to “win for the Armenians the right to rule over themselves, through revolution.” The members of the Armenakan in Van and the surrounding area were equipped with the most modem weapons and trained in the art of guerilla warfare and in “preparing the people for a general movement” with due consideration given to the support “of friendly great powers”. Soon, the Armenakan had revolutionary cells in Trabzon and Constantinople, as well its cadres in Russia, Persia, and the United States.
According to the pro-Armenian historian Christopher Walker, the “enlightenment developed by Portukalian” was soon lost in the “sterile brutality” of the Armenian terrorist scene.
In 1887, Armenians in Geneva founded the first Armenian party emphasizing Marxist principles. Their symbol was the bell ( “hnshak” = bell). The Hunchaks drew their membership almost entirely from Russian Armenians, who gave the party the militant-revolutionary spirit that comes from the Caucasus (the young Dzhugashvili, commonly known as Stalin, also came from the world.) The party organ was called Hunchak, and in 1890 the group adopted the name “Hunchakian Revolutionary Party”, or “Hunchaks” for short. Their leader was the fanatical revolutionary Avetis Nazarbekian. He was reportedly “dark, slender, very handsome in an oriental style, and played the violin excellently”. He also saw “revolutionary terror” as the natural consequence of rejecting “capitalist” legislation.
Finally, the “Federation of Armenian Revolutionaries”, the “Hai Hegapokhakanneri Dashnaktsutiun”, appeared as a result of the need for an umbrella organization for all the little terrorist groups and revolutionary cells. The goal of the organization was (and is) to win Armenian independence by means of a people’s war. Many groups shunned this common umbrella from the start, however, so the Dashnaks changed their name to “Hai Hegapokhakan Dashnaktsutiun” – “Armenian Revolutionary Federation”. This name is still used by the Dashnaks today.
In the nineteenth century, some Protestant-Armenian pastors had fought bitterly with the Gregorian priests over who the best nationalist shepherds were. Now, two political groups, the Dashnaks and the Hunchaks were competing for the favor of the Armenians in the same way. The Hunchaks stressed their socialist convictions where as the Dasknaks put more emphasis on their nationalist views. Together, they produce exactly the same fanatically distorted, national-socialist worldview as other organizations with the same ideological persuasions.
The Dashnaks in particular used brutal terrorism again and again as a political means to accomplish their ends. They have been responsible for numerous attacks, including some very recent ones. Their activities are financed largely by means of intimidation and extortion.
One of the ugliest attacks of the Dashnak organization was the assassination attempt on Sultan Abdul Hamid. The Armenian politician K. Papazian, author of the book Patriotism Perverted (Boston, 1934), writes that “the attempt of the life of Abdul Hamid in 1905 constitutes the last episode of the revolutionary attempts of the A. R. Federation” to achieve political goals by means of assassinations. Since the attempt failed, its consequences were merely unpleasant. The bombs went off too soon because the Sultan spent too much time talking to Sheik ul Islam after his visit to the Yildiz Mosque. The Sultan’s pardon of assailants was futile. The troublemakers just turned to plotting flashy uprising in order to attract European attention.
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