ARMENIAN - Erevangala500

This treaty - still valid - closes with the sentence: Le
Gouvernement d'Erivan
s"engage a considerer et declarer nul le Traite de
Sevres...
The Government o f Yerevan declares the Treaty o f Sevres
for null and void.
Some time later, on March 16, 1921, the Turks signed the
Treaty o f Moscow. Armenia had made before an agreement
on October 11, 1920 with the Soviet-Russian representative
Legrand, saying that "Armenia accepts the meditation
o f Russia in solving its territorial problems".
The Treaty o f Gumru established the borders between
Turkey and Armenia, including, o f course, the border
north-east o f Mount Ararat. Ararat is the highest peak of
Turkey.
Nevertheless Armenia still includes Mout Ararat in its
coat o f arms. This is a similar absurdity as if Serbia would
show the Greek Mount Athos in its flag, because there
exists a Serbian monastery there.
The final act was a meeting at Kars, in order to definitely
ratify the Treaty o f Moscow. It "sealed" the Turkish-
Armenian border o f today, October 13, 1921. The
Armenians did everything to get Ani. In vain. Since that
day they denounce Turks to have destroyed this place,
which is not true but one o f the innumeral Armenian allegations.
Typical for these circumstances Armenia had
meanwhile occupied Zangezur, an old an integral part o f
Azerbaijan, inhabited mainly by Azeris, but at least
Karabagh and Nakhichevan could be saved.
Anyhow, Armenian and Russian forces occupied May
1992 in a dirty war o f aggression Karabagh and Lachin -
but definitely not for ever.
The End of the Armenian-Greek Invasion
When the devastating Armenian uprisings in eastern
Anatolia (especially in Van) forced the Ottoman govern­
ment to order the relocation o f the Anatolian Armenians
to the safe southern provinces, the Armenian populations
o f Istanbul and Izmir were explicitly excluded, because
there did not appear to be any danger in those areas. In the
spring o f 1919, it became clear how much better it would
have been for everyone concerned if the Armenians o f
Izmir had also been moved sooner, since they did every­
thing they could to harm their Turkish compatriots in the
course o f the Greek invasion. Certain Armenians truly
distinguished themselves in the first days o f the Greek
occupation o f Izmir with acts o f violence against the
Turks.
When the terror in Izmir got totally out o f hand, the
Greeks were finally forced to take action against their
own supporters in order to stop the murdering and looting.
Two Armenian agitators were among those condemned
to death.
The report o f the Bristol Commission, which can be
found in the Library o f Congress in Washington, contains
an assessment o f the situation by an Allied officer. He
speaks explicitly o f Armenian gangs pillaging the Turkish
villages in the area between Izmir and Istanbul, particularly
around Yalova and Gemlik. These gangs also
"cleaned" the area o f Turks, since it was to be ruled only
by Greeks and Armenians in the future.
The horrific end o f the Greek war o f aggression with the Turks:
A flood o f refugees flee the burning city o f Izmir. Many people
lost their adopted homes, both in Greece and in Anatolia, in the
wake o f these events. The calculations o f the Greek aggressors
were ju st as far o ff the mark as those o f the Armenian terrorists.
119