RUSSIAN OFFICER’S JOURNAL EXPOSING ARMENIAN ATROCITIES COMES OUT IN TURKEY
Turkish General Staff has made public the journal “What I witnessed and heard” kept by Russian military officer Tverdokhlebov, who was the Commander of the 2nd Armenian-Russian Fortress Artillery Regiment in the province of Erzurum in late 1917 and early 1918. The journal describes atrocities and massacres committed by Armenians at that time. It reads that Armenians are “incapable, parasite and greedy nation that can live only at another nation’s expense,” and “Armenian soldiers are considered to be from the most vulgar and inferior class of the society. They always make effort to serve in the rear service area and they even escape from the fronts.”
The journal is stored in the archive of the General Staff Military History and Strategic Studies Institute, and is available in Turkish, English, French and in its original language, Russian, at the official website of the Turkish General Staff.
