"The Andonian 'Documents' Attributed to Talat Pasha Are Forgeries!
By Prof. Dr. Turkkaya Ataov
A most recent (1983) publication by the Turkish Historical Society and written by Sinasi Orel and Süreyya Yuca, as a scholarly evaluation of the so-called 'Talat Pasha telegrams' is most important for the proper assessment of the 'Armenian issue'. This momentous book of unusually competent erudition critically examines all of the documents produced in the English and French editions of the Aram Andonian book, which hitherto served as the basis of many arguments of some Armenians and like-minded foreign writers. This impressive new Turkish volume sheds light on a most important aspect of the topic in question. No commentator can now stand on solid grounds without reading it and giving it due attention. I do not think that previous arguments, set forth by a group of Armenian publicists for the last sixty-three years, can be repeated. One judges it as a moral obligation to inform all concerned that it will no longer be possible to continue appraising the 'Talat Pasha telegrams' in the same manner that they have been assessed before, without first seeing weighty evidence offered in this volume of 344 pages."
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