Evening star., 1945-07-26
Letters to The Star
Urge Russian Armenian Union
Against PAN .Turanianism


Against .Turanianism
To the Editor Of The Star:
In one OF the recent issues Of your
paper we read Constantine Brown q
article on the political relations OF
Turkey and Russia.
1t is not Turkish territory that the
Russians are demanding, but the states
of Kars and Ardahan, which were parts
OF Russian Armenia prior to 1921.
The Armenian National Council OF
America, which consists Of represent
atives Of all Armenian bodies except
those of small Fascist faction, has
put forth the claim that all the other
Armenian provinces In Turkey also
should be joined to Soviet Armenia and
that the million and a half refugee
Armenians scattered throughout the
world should be repatriated therein.
These million and half Armenians
are the survivors of the systematic
massacres and the other inhumanities
perpetrated by the Turks, who planned
to solve" the Armenian Question by
destroying the Armenian people or
deporting them from their native land
in which they have lived for thousands
of years.
1t was what Mr.. Brown calls the
liberal" and democratic" Turkish re-
public which continued this policy OF
oppression and annihilation against
Christians. especially against Arme-
mans. by plundering, deporting and
putting them to hard labor with
the intent to kill. All this under the
guise of "tax on wealth." which was
presented to the West as legal meas
ure.
Hold New Leaders Guilty.
What could have been expected from
Turkeys present leaders, beginning with
Kemal Ataturk and Ismet Inonu, the
most noted leaders of so-called modern
Turkey, who were active members of
the Ittihad party of Ottoman Turkey,
the party which schemed and put into
execution the plan of the total exter-
mination of the Armenian people?
Mr.. Brown states that: The Rus
sian newspapers, rejecting the views
of the government, are harping on the
theory that Turkey is the traditional
enemy of Russia and point out that
all the major wars Russia has fought
since the days of Peter the Great-with
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were against the Turks"
But the Russian papers do not say
just that. Rather they hold that while
Russians were not at war with Turkey,
the Turks secretly gave their full sup
port to the Nazis against Russia, and
therefore against the United Nations.
Hence, the claim OF the Turks that
their neutrality has been an impor-
tant asset in favor of the Allies and
may have saved Russia from disaster
is nothing less than a skillful political
maneuver to throw dust into the eyes
of the United Nations and In the ensu-
ing confusion push forward Turkish
political interests.
Repeat Pro-German Charge.
During this war Turkey secretly took
the side of Germany, as she did openly
during the First World War. She did 80
because her political interests and i'm
perialistic aspirations we're indissolubly
joined to those of Nazi Germany.
Mr.. Brown states that Germans are
said to have offered Turkey important
territorial concessions in Northen Iran,
from Lake Urmia to Resst, and the area
from Batum to Tif1is. We know that
Turkey, both during the latter part Of
the Ottoman period and since then.
conceived and pursued the idea of Pam
Turanianism, and cast greedy eyes on
vast territories in Russia which the
Turks claim are inhabited by peoples
related to them by blood. It was in the
hope of realizing this dream that Tur-
key put at the disposal of Nazi Germany
in the present war important resources
and other aid.
If the policy of Marshal Stalin's new
regime toward Turkey Is not different
than that of Tsarist Russia, one of the
most important reasons should be
sought in the -Turanian aspirations
of Turkey.
These aspirations also should be re-
garded as the source of the Turkish at
tempts to destroy the Armenians, since
the existence of Armenia and of the
Armenian people has been regarded as
being in the way of realization of the
Pan -Turanian dream.
HAIRY HOVNAN,
CHARLES A. VERTANES.