With such an adventurous leadership that played with the lives of their own people, such an admission should not come easy. We understand that perfectly well. But the truth needs to be told over and over again. We at the Turkish Times, will present these differing views on an occasional basis lest we forget how the Ottoman Armenian leaders betrayed their very own people as well as their government, the very same government that provided them all the opportunities in the preceding 600 years to excel at all levels of the Ottoman society in peace and security. It would be useless to argue today whether our bands of volunteers had entered the field or not.
Historical events have their irrefutable logic.
In the fall of l9l4 Armenian volunteer bands organized themselves and fought against the Turks because they could not refrain themselves from fighting. We had created a dense atmosphere of illusion in our minds. We had implanted our own desires into the minds of others. We overestimated the ability of Armenian people, its political and military power, and importance of the services our people rendered to the Russians. You see, Congressman Bonior, all your efforts and all your trials and tribulations in the past have been in vain.