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Armenian Mythomania Armenian Mythomania Mythomania A compulsion to embroider the truth, exaggerate or to tell lies. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Mitos A fair tale, a lie Langenschaidts Wörterbuch Mania Craziness, passion, rage, fury, mania Langenschaidts Wörterbuch The book is dedicated to our dear friend Erich Feigl whom we lost during the publication process of this book. © 2007 Erich Feigl All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced without prior arrangement with the author. ISBN 3-85002-583-7 ab 1.1.2007: ISBN 978-3-85002-583-6 An Illustrated Exposé by Erich Feigl ARMENIAN MYTHOMANIA Armenian Extremism: Its Causes and Historical Context EDITION ZEITGESCHICHTE • FREILASSING - SALZBURG ERICH FEIGL 4 DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY FRIEND ERDO⁄AN ÖZEN Anatomy of a senseless crime: On Wednesday, June 20, 1984, the labor and social affairs attaché of the Turkish Embassy arrives at work at 8:45. He parks his car beside the embassy building, greets the policeman on duty . and then a remote-control bomb explodes. The car is thrown into the air and lands upside down. Erdo¤an Özen is dead . his body charred beyond recognition. The 62-year-old policeman, Leopold Smetacek, is caught in the flash of fire from the explosion ... He will wrestle with death for months, his face totally burned. A number of passers-by are injured. The "Armenian Revolutionary Army" - ARA - once again claims "responsibility". The assassin is undoubtedly convinced of the "justice" of his deed. He probably has no idea of the true story behind the tragedy of his people in the First World War. All he knows is the lessons he has had drilled into him about the "Terrible Turk". History – misunderstood history - as the motive for inhuman behavior - that is unique to the world of terrorism. ARMENIAN MYTHOMANIA 5 (Photo: Neue Kronenzeitung) ARMENIAN ISSUE ALLEGATIONS-FACTS 6 Turkish Diplomats Killed by Armenian Terrorists Date City / Title Name - Surname 27.01.1973 Santa Babara / Consul Mehmet BAYDAR Consul General Bahad›r DEM‹R 22.10.1975 Vienna / Ambassador Danifl TUNALIG‹L 24.10.1975 Paris / Ambassador ‹smail EREZ Driver Talip YENER 16.02.1976 Beirut / First Secretary Oktar C‹R‹T 09.06.1977 Vatican / Ambassador Taha CARIM 02.06.1978 Madrid / Ambassador’s Wife Necla KUNERALP Retired Ambassador Beflir BALCIO⁄LU 12.10.1979 The Hague/ Ambassador’s Son Ahmet BENLER 22.12.1979 Paris / Tourism Counselor Y›lmaz ÇOLPAN 31.07.1980 Athens / Administrative Attaché Galip ÖZMEN Administrative Attaché's daughter Neslihan ÖZMEN 17.12.1980 Sydney / Consul fiar›k ARIYAK Security Attaché Engin SEVER 04.3.1981 Paris / Counselor for Labor Affairs Reflat MORALI Counselor for Religious Affairs Tecelli ARI 09.06.1981 Geneva / Secretary M. Savafl YERGÜZ 24.09.1981 Paris / Security Attaché Cemal ÖZEN 28.01.1982 Los Angeles / Consul General Kemal ARIKAN 08.04.1982 Ottawa / Counselor for Commercial Affairs Kani GÜNGÖR 04.05.1982 Boston / Honorary Consul General Orhan GÜNDÜZ 07.06.1982 Lisbon / Administrative Officer Erkut AKBAY 27.08.1982 Ottawa / Military Attaché Atilla ALKIKAT 09.09.1982 Bourgas / Administrative Attaché Bora SUELKAN 08.01.1983 Lisbon / Administrative Officer's Wife Nadide AKBAY 09.03.1983 Belgrad / Ambassador Galip BALKAR 14.07.1983 Brussels / Administrative Attaché Dursun AKSOY 27.07.1983 Lisbon / Wife of the Counselor Cahide MIHÇIO⁄LU 28.04.1984 Tehran / Wife of Secretary Ifl›k YÖNDER 20.06.1984 Vienna / Labor and Social Affairs Attaché Erdo¤an ÖZEN 19.11.1984 Vienna / UN Official Enver ERGÜN 07.10.1991 Athens / Press Affairs Attaché Çetin GÖRGÜ 11.12.1993 Baghdad / Administrative Attaché Ça¤lar YÜCEL 04.07.1994 Athens / Consul Haluk S‹PAH‹O⁄LU ARMENIAN MYTHOMANIA 7 A Personal Foreword "Have you gone crazy?" - "Are you tired of living?" These were the comments of friends and acquaintances when they heard that I was working on a book about the causes and historical context of Armenian terrorism. Why should be the one to take on such a dangerous subject?. Shouldn't it be a matter for the Turks and Armenians to work out among themselves? All of my friends considered my project dangerous, even threaten ing, and I realized that it must be these concerns, these fears, that have until now prevented unbiased accounts of the historical reality behind Armenian terrorism from appearing. People are obviously afraid of reprisals and therefore leave the whole issue to the advocates of reckless violence, who control virtually all the literature on the subject. In virtually every publication that discusses the Armenian question or Armenian terrorism, the authors plead for "understanding" toward terror. This is just as re- markable as when terrorist organizations claim "responsibility" after an attack. With this "responsibility" - or rather with the perversion of this noble concept - they pretend to have "power" by creating the illusion of "justice", and with this legitimation they play fate, shoot down the reluctant and black -mail the hesitant. It is not only human beings who have fates, however, but films and publications as well. HA- BENT SUA FATALIBELLI, "books have fates", wrote Terentianus Maurus around 200 A.D., and in the preceding verse he says resolutely, "PRO CAPTU LECTORIS", "according to the grasp of the reader". I had two key experiences in this connection following the appearance of the German edition of this book. The first was with a very high official of the Armenian Orthodox (Gregorian) Church of Central Europe who, in the course of a meeting with the (Catholic) Mekhitarists (who truly have nothing to do with this statement), said to my face, "How dare you set the worthless Turks off against the dead Armenians in your book!" When I asked in horror if I had understood correctly, he repeated even more vehemently, "Yes, I said the worthless Turks!" The Armenian view of history is for the most part shared by the public at large. That is no sur- prise, and it should not be taken as a reproach. While doing the background research for this book and for my films, I took great pains to col- lect information from a broad spectrum of sources. In so doing, I met many people to whom I owe the deepest respect: His Beatitude the Armenian Apostolic Patriarch Snork Kalutsyan of Is- tanbul, for example, and the doctors and nurses of the Armenian hospital in the same city. I mention these people here in lieu of the many, many noble Armenians whom I know - from scholars and intellectuals to the Armenian farmers and their families who live on Musa Dagh, made famous by Franz Werfel. I did, of course, also meet other people in the course of my rese- arch work. I especially recall Dr. Gerard Libaridian, the head of the Armenian Zorian Institute. ERICH FEIGL 8 I spent several hours with Dr. Libaridian in his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts and had an extremely interesting conversation with him. Dr. Libaridian is a brilliant man, bubbling with vi- tality, knowledge, talent, and self-confidence. One could write a very compelling play based on my conversation with him. I kept notes of my host's most provocative statements in this fascinating discussion. Several ti- mes he mentioned the so-called "Andonian papers". Since it seemed reasonable to assume that Dr. Libaridian knew that the papers were forgeries, I did not want to waste a single word on the subject. There were so many other, more interesting things to talk about. But remarkably enough, he stuck with Aram Andonian's book and its "documents". Finally, I had to say, "But Doctor Libaridian, you know as well as I that these 'Andonian papers' are forgeries!" I will never forget Dr. Libaridian's answer or his facial expression as he replied simply and bri- efly to my reproach: "AND?" KHOJALI GENOCIDE committed by Armenia in 26 February 1992. "A N D ?" ARMENIAN MYTHOMANIA 9 Armenian attack on a mosque ERICH FEIGL 10 INTRODUCTION By Afif Erzen, Istanbul It is hard to imagine anything that could be as detri- mental to the search for historical truth as mixing stories with history - or worse yet, confusing one for the other. A similar error involves the confusion of politics with the use of violence. All too often, such confusions are the result of interest groups (seldom of peoples, who al ways want peace) laying claim to their "historical home land". Such "historical de- The foundation inscription of Sardurihinili was discovered in in- mands" have always meant war, or at least terro- credibly good condition by Afif Erzen. It was written in Urartian, rism, an ugly variation on war. The right to sovere- an Asian, agglutinative language showing strong similarities to the ignty and independence can only be seen as legitima- Ural-Altaic language family and in particular to Turkish. The ins- cription has been translated by Emin Bilgiç (sumerologist at Anka- te when it is bound up with the rights of a majority. ra University): Anything else would contradict our commonly re- cognized democratic principles. Even the Armenian apologists for an "Armenian state" on Turkish terri- tory clearly share this way of thinking. This is demonstrated by their support of the Greek Cypriots over the Turkish minority. Many people try to give a superficial glimmer of "legitimacy" to the contempo- rary Armenian claims to Turkish lands in eastern Anatolia. These people are simply ignoring the fact that those demands violate the law of nations and international law since virtually no Armenians what – so ever live in the regions claimed. The standard counter-argument that Armenians once lived in these areas is indeed correct, but it fails to consider one important fact: Even before 1915, the Armenians only made up a small minority (roughly a sixth) of the population in the land claimed by them.
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