ARMENIANS CONVERTED NOT ONLY TO KURDS OR ALEVIS, BUT ALSO TO ARABS
Turkey's official chief historian Yusuf Halacoglu announced at the August 18 conference titled "The Avsharis in the history and culture of Turks" that Kurds are "Turkmen" by origin in reality, and the Kurdish-Alevis have "Armenian" origin.
That announcement had got a wide resonance in the Turkish media and he was forced to give a more precise definition to his announcement: "I don't reject the existence of the Kurds in Turkey, but in reality 30 per cent of the Kurds are Turkmen by origin.
In order to avoid the exile, some of the Armenians presented themselves as Kurdish-Alevis and adopted Islam in 1915. The apostate Armenians were about 100.000 in Turkey in 1920. From 1936 to 1937 the Government of Turkey had revealed the apostate Armenians house by house. I have the list of those Armenians and I will publish it, if the authorities let me do it".
The above-mentioned announcements of Halacoglu were the basis for the accusations against him that he was making political preconditions for the speculation of "apostasy".
It is evident that for the counter-attackers of Halacoglu the main issue is not the apostate Armenians (the existence of those they don't deny), but the application of the apostasy as a means of blackmail.
It's worth to mention that about the apostate Armenians mentioned also Pr. of History of the Inyoyu University in Malatia Salim Gyohgen at an interview to "Aksiyon"magazine: "There are about 80.000-100.000 hidden Armenians in Turkey. They mainly hid themselves among Kurds and Alevis".
"Aksion" has published the interview with Pr. Salim Gyohgen and the article about the apostate Armenians, which is of a great interest and we want to present it partially:
"Pr. Salim Gyohgen supports a thesis, which says: "There are also thousands of Armenians, who converted to Arabs. There is nothing new in the announcement of Yusuf Halacoglu. It was evident to everybody, but nobody wanted to speak of it. American representatives of that time mentioned of the hidden Armenians in their reports, i.e. Kurds hid 500.000 Armenians in Erzerum, Alavis helped 50.000 Armenians in Tungeli (Dersim). The same happened also in Vardo (region of Van), Khnus and other places.
There are many Armenians in Hata, Sgherd, Urfa, Mardin and other places, who are converted to Arabs: they speak Arabian and present themselves as Arabs at present"
Some of the Armenians converted to Assyrians, according to Pr. Gyohgen.
"Aksion" magazine published the number and the "official" originality of the Armenians. According to it, 1000 Armenian families (converted to Kurds, Assyrians and Alevis) live in Diarbekir, 3655 families (as Alevi-Kurds) - in Malatia, 5000 Turks (hidden Armenians) - in Cesaria, 1000 families (as Kurds and Alevis) - in Eliazig, 4000 families (as Kurds) - in Van, 3500 families (as Kurds and Arabs) - in Urfa, 1200 families (as Arabs, and a little part as Kurds) - in Sgherd, 1100 families (as Arabs) - in Hata, 200 families (as Kurds) - in Bitlis, 3000 families (as Kurds, Alevis and a little part as Turks) - in Erzerum, 1300 families (as Alevis and Kurds ) - in Erznka, 1500 families (as Arabs) - in Mardin, 3000 families (as Kurds and Alevis) - in Marash, 1600 families (as Kurds) - in Adiyaman, 2000 families (as Kurdish-Alevis) - in Tungeli and 2000 families (as Kurds, Alevis and Arabs) - in Adana.
At the end of the article "Aksion" added: "The data come from the researches of different institutions and works of different researchers that continue till today. The indexes can be changed according to new revelations".
- By Hakob Chakrian
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