A new achieve about Armenian Genocide comprising numerous documents and evidences collected by Krikor Guerguerian, a priest and genocide survivor is now on a digital repository and available for scholars. The documents have been processed and compiled by a group of Armenia and Turkish researchers led by Taner Akcam, Professor in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University.
Ermenihaber reports that Professor Akcam was granted access to the unpublished collection in 2015 by Dr. Edmund Guerguerian, nephew of Fr. Guerguerian, and he has worked diligently to ensure that other scholars of the Armenian Genocide have access to the materials.
The Krikor Guerguerian Archive comprises thousands of original Ottoman documents and Guerguerian’s extensive, unpublished writings. It includes the long-missing handwritten memoirs of Naim Bey, an Ottoman bureaucrat stationed in Aleppo who actively participated in the deportation and massacres of Armenians; documents from the Jerusalem Armenian Patriarchate containing first-hand information about the Armenian genocide; and critical papers from the Istanbul perpetrator trials held from 1919 to 1922 that were long assumed vanished.
According to the source, among the most noteworthy materials are ciphered telegrams that the Ottoman Interior Minister Talat Pasha, army commanders, and the chief of the government’s paramilitary sent to governors throughout the Empire. Some of these telegrams, written on government letterhead stamped with the official Ottoman seal, clearly outline the Ottoman government’s planning and execution of the genocide.
https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2019/01/22/Armenian-Genocide/2061915
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