Armenia and the Armenians from the Earliest Times Until the Great War (1914) |
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Page xviii - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development...
Page xxviii - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 125 - The Sublime Porte undertakes to carry out, without further delay, the improvements and reforms demanded by local requirements in the provinces inhabited by the Armenians, and to guarantee their security against the Circassians and Kurds. It will periodically make known the steps taken to this effect to the Powers, who will superintend their application.
Page xxii - Erzerum, and made them offers of autonomy if they would actively assist Turkey in the war. The Armenians replied that they would do their duty, individually, as Ottoman subjects, but that as a nation they could not work for the cause of Turkey and her allies. '2. On account, in part, of this courageous refusal, the Ottoman Armenians were systematically murdered by the Turkish Government in 1915. Two-thirds of the population were exterminated by the most cold-blooded and fiendish methods — more...
Page xxii - In the autumn of 1914 the Turks sent emissaries to the National Congress of the Ottoman Armenians then sitting at Erzroum and made them offers of autonomy if they would actively assist Turkey in the war. The Armenians replied that they would do their duty individually as Ottoman subjects, but that as a nation they could not work for the cause of Turkey and her Allies.
Page xii - In my opinion, the evidence which you print is as reliable as that upon which rests our belief in many of the universally admitted facts of history, and I think it establishes beyond all reasonable doubt the deliberate purpose of the Turkish authorities practically to exterminate the Armenians, and their responsibility for the hideous atrocities which have been perpetrated upon that unhappy people.
Page 13 - Ourartou who desired to maintain good relations with the neighboring peoples in order to be able to make use of them in the contest against Assyria.
Page xiv - His Imperial Majesty the Sultan promises England to introduce such reforms (to be defined at a subsequent date between the Powers) as may be necessary for an orderly administration and the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Sublime Porte; and in order that England may be in a position to assure the necessary means for the execution of her engagement, His Imperial Majesty the Sultan consents to assign unto her the island of Cyprus, to be by her occupied and administered.
Page 104 - ... struggle. Hostilities did in fact break out between Sultan Mourad III and the new Persian ruler, Schah Abbas. The latter was compelled to cede to the Ottomans Georgia, Persian Armenia and Tebris. The Turkish commander-in-chief, Lala Moustafa, carried away as slaves the young boys and girls of Erivan, and his successor, Ferhad Pasha, erected, in that city, a fortress with the material derived from the ruins of the churches demolished by him. Ten years later war was renewed, and Schah Abbas retook...
Page 126 - Sultan in defending them by force of arms. In return, His Imperial Majesty the Sultan promises to England to introduce the necessary reforms (to be agreed upon at a later time, between the two powers), aiming at good administration, and the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Sublime Porte in these territories; and in order to enable England to secure the necessary means for the execution of her engagement, His Imperial Majesty further consents to assign the Island of Cyprus to...