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Adnan Harun Yahya

Armenians living in the Van province rioted and attacked Muslim villages and

the fortress. The Turkish unit in the fortress lost 300 soldiers and days-long
street fighting resulted in the loss of the city to the rebels. On May 17, 1915,

Russians occupied Van, Armenians switched to enemy side and began slaugh-
tering Muslims. At the moment, 80,000 Muslims are fleeing in the direction
of Bitlis. 236

The British Deep State Brought the

Biggest Destruction to Armenians

Before we begin examining the mass Armenian relocation that took place

after these riots, let's briefly remember what happened in the century before:

When the Greek riot broke out in 1826, the Sublime Porte assigned Ar-
menian politicians, military officers and bureaucrats to positions vacated by

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the Greeks. So much so that by the 19 century, nineteen Armenian minis-
ters were in the Ottoman government, and twenty-nine Ottoman Armeni-

ans served as pashas, which was the highest rank in bureaucracy. Thirty-three
Armenians were elected as Parliament Members, while seven Armenian am-

bassadors and eleven Armenians consuls represented the Ottoman Sultan in
various parts of the world. Hundreds of Armenian bureaucrats occupied key

positions in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Foreign Affairs, the Chamber of
Accounts, the Mint and the Post Office. They were Christians who lived in

the Ottoman lands, freely known and recognized as Armenians. They enjoyed
comfortable lives without any oppression, pressure or assimilation threats,

and were able to ascend through the ranks to the highest positions in the ad-
ministration. Most of the time, the Turkish troops were entrusted to Ar-

menian pashas.

During those years, the Armenian Church in the Ottoman Empire had
vast power. Their schools and immovable properties were under state pro-

tection. However, Armenians that lived in Russia during the same time did-
n't enjoy such rights. On the contrary, Tsarist Russia had shut down 320 Ar-

menian schools, while the Russian government seized all the properties of the
Armenian Church. In 1909, up to 4,000 Armenians were languishing in tsarist

prisons on political charges, and some 3,000 more were exiled. 237