Admiral Bristol served as the Commander of the U.S. Naval Detachment in Turkish waters and as the U.S. High Commissioner to Turkey in the years 1919-1927. He witnessed firsthand the Turkish War of Independence, the formation of the First Turkish Republic, and the early years of its...
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Episode 31 – Admiral Bristol – An American Hero Who Detested Armenian Lies
Bristol summarized his attitude towards the peoples of Anatolia in a letter of December 27, 1920 to Mr. Walter George Smith, in the following terms: I quote: “I have often said to you, these races in the Near East are all very much the same, and if you put them all in a bag and...
Episode 30 – Armin Theophil Wegner – The Photographer with Blinders and Bias
Wegner, born in 1886 in Elberfeld, Germany, pursued study in Zürich, Breslau, and Berlin. Upon completing his doctoral studies in law, he joined the German armed forces. After a brief tour in Poland, he rose to the rank of second lieutenant in the German Sanitary Corps, which was...
Journalist Hans Barth dubbed Lepsius, “a vest-pocket Torquemada” in the book entitled “Turk, Defend Yourself!”, Leipzig, 1898, adding that the efforts of those like Lepsius amounted to a “crusade.” Torquemada was a Castilian Dominican friar and first Grand Inquisitor in...
Episode 28 – Malta Tribunal 3 – Lack of Evidence, Not Prisoner Exchange
In Episode 27, we learned that some 144 prominent Turks, accused of the persecution of the Armenians, were arrested and deported to Malta, purely on the basis of hearsay and horror stories fabricated by the Armenians themselves without any preliminary investigation by the British...