My Turn
Sassounian: Talat’s Personal Account of the Armenian Massacres
In last week’s column, I reported that Talat Pasha, the mastermind of the Armenian Genocide, had told British intelligence officer Aubrey Herbert in 1921 that he had written “a memorandum on the Armenian massacres.”
I would like now to present brief excerpts from Talat’s lengthy account published in the November 1921 issue of Current History, the monthly magazine of the New York Times, titled, “Posthumous Memoirs of Talat Pasha,” and subtitled, “The former Grand Vizier’s own account, written shortly before his assassination, of why and how Turkey entered the war—Secret alliance that preceded the conflict—Causes of the Armenian massacres as stated by the man who ordered them.”
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“I do not tell all the truth, but all I tell is truth.” Talaat Pasha, 1921
Can there be a more cunning, deceptive beginning to a “confession”? This could have been just as easily said by Sultan Abdul-Hamid, Mustafa Kemal or Tayyip Erdogan. Typical of Turkish leadership for centuries.
Or, possibly an embellishment or even fabrication from British intelligence officer Aubrey Herbert? According to some, British Intelligence already knew of Operation Nemesis as it was happening and allowed it. lets follow the money. That will tell you what is going on. The main purpose, in my opinion, and of the seeming blatant complicity of other major actors in not only turning a blind eye, but almost colluding in the denial till this day, of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian PLANNED Genocides, by the Young Turk Regime, was theft of wealth. And, of course once gone, a repositioning of “their own” traders, merchants, bankers, architects, lawyers who had been, up until that point, mostly all Armenian for centuries. These actors had their eye on that wealth wanted it.. Talaat, as well as the other CUP were sociopaths, who had a tendency for sick perversions and pedophilia but as it turns out, were basic thieves themselves. The ONLY Turks they “punished” were those Turks or Kurds that occupied murdered Armenian homes as ‘it naturally went to the state’ and for no other reason alone. And like all sociopaths, if true, seems to justify or deflect from his sick perversions by blaming every one else, especially his victims. May he rot forever.