ARMENIAN DEMANDS ON TURKISH TERRITORY (ARMENIAN SSR, USSR; TURKEY)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 24, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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ft3,es AR*NILN 1~9 ON T_t 1 T XTORY (Arnwien SSR, USSR;
Sources Arn ~xdya i Turtri7a (Aru onis and Turkey'), A31r Leoture
BMir ~ Couad ttee tNi' phi .,Mwu QA1,~w1 r f ~ Publehing
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Roui*e, Moeoerr91916~ Rueeien po4h3 et.
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Nitb the !iid of the lint World Wars at'tto~ Oer~O' sM
signed the gender ooaditioar, the riota?OU$ povere agw-id t
e Arminian gtteeettaa. Partioip*te of the Ards
their nitration to th
Pena Ocf19i9, inoludLP w~)lron and others, .xporeeeed
e~oe in
doubt ae to ?atlcirrh eonre~,~t7 over the Areea3&a r+-gio~u, +aad Lloyd
're
fleore deed r,tion tOT Turkieh Aria'e "pSOUliar natiatvil
oondtttoar" of exietenoe.
Zboee ~rpadble fOr the poetvar peaoe treaty did not at all
Ui. diurndr of the Armeaianr for their native
dotht thi 3uetiw of
dye TreatY of 1920, ahiOb r~ae
roil. This ws ~lleoted is the
sM Turku. In aooordaaoe with Para-
eigned by the riotoriotu pope
aloug with the allied powers reoogni'ed
g_' g~ of the trit'tT, Tin'
Armenia ae ? die ad indPendeat etatA. Aooord5f6 to PIragrtf d9,
e
the d.Iterailaation of the botmd*r7 line betvren Turkey gad Arrenis
e to be eaboitted to the president of the United States for arbitration.
Areenia was aeeur,-d as outlet to the Black Ss and TIIrkII war required
frontis? 4th Armenia. On 22 November 1920,
to deoailiturixe its
vilron, ae arbita'tart Proposed that the border of 1 ` rwi throw
the rileieto of vaa, Uitiie, Eriur' and Trebeon?
deoieiofl$ of the Sevre$ trea-t7 were ae flimsy as
li', the
9svrer efit? ThsY not pit into etfeot petarily beoau$S the
a w~
not so *uoh oonoerned 4th the Asian na tioa
Ent-ente powers mre
as they with AWthS?tfl heir oa taIVSri*lietio interests.
a oossoluded not only withoat Soviet sei'?
The Sevres treaty
rttei tioo but eD opposed to her intereite.
i'le negotiatio$ betveen the V,etOriOUS pO A?$
In the *.antt,
west on. ir.i A ~r aiUtary Tara and not o~ re~Md
mated
vas under ag ttation in the 8evrer treaty,
to ?ear the territor! vhioh
! Aueei** M'? Raerlo-a M' was at
but crossed the borders o
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that t3ai the rul. of ArM'd$A nation$rt oeuntef'*T?11xtt? '~
1 of the $tentSi thle desk go
o atlbdole with t Is/1! *M Nt1 DOti scDmvn?d
4th tt. ntioaa] Itr of Ail$. Tt r took edWnt$o of this.
of oae of the sort rei-atiooa~7 Tm'ki~
?ukiSh toI1 wider th. ocimaod
r.11, Karl l*ribekir. iced Araeiii* virttisUT without opporir
tion, u, M Alexead~opol (nov Lenis~~-o).
da'! oodupied r l
ati tea the DaSbMkA aIairut the Tyr did
Thy Aot.n'Ee whlOb had !n
!*I5m XUebe'kir lamed the Ialhnak ~o sr
nothing to b.1p Atissia
asnt to urn a very mere p~aoe treaty.
Aooordin$ to th terms of this P.605 treetYr singed in A1ea~ PO1
e
00 2 Dr 1920, 12'S1i& '-otuelly beoime a proteotora to of Turkey
end '*5 depriYed o the 'j t to maintain ea arm2r. 'he *shi*k govern-
f
ment f~
uendered the tortito?- of Kara and ArdaMn, 9ur~mala t1yeld
eu
retail the territory of 8hiran and Ieohw
and &'iYnn lhtb~rnia r and
yaiadsin xyPe$a with a population of 400,000. At the 1a~ time, the
en~aeiik overnae7tt of Goorgi* gave up the ktvmi region to Turkey.
In the days When aortal danger threatened the Armenian pe0plep
reeoue. At a joint eelriof of the Gauouiaf
get R121et& Dame to their
Buru and the ~ I'1fli Parity of Alerba7C3Zhan 4th I. V. 9taUfl e1
et
ee- ~
' at any price.
Stalin stated thet "Armenia meet be laved
ah-airmauR
In Armen tional upRrtrin~e against the oowflterrevolu'
~-~ powex~l~1 rta
The uorkerl of I-rmenia led by the Armeni*c-
tionarY da1hn-k1 broke out.
the dalhnak goiernt 4th the help of the
8allhevike overtthrew
Need Are' and eetabliehed Soviet rule.
On 29 No,-emaber 1920, Armenia van eovietiled. Stalin, veloo4n'~
the workers of urmsaiap wrote s "Arsernia, tor, eXdaaalted and led
tfriSMlJh$$
iaa ~'bion and p~ bher ~atent"e
,
to deetrU0t
nov tamped to libSrtT and the t power. Only Soviet rule oan bring
oe end -t c.r$ i. reltoretioaa to Armeni*.
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Sine the omo?eided treaty of A]. a opol are mat recognised
the met govsrnsenta the negottatiooa between the I t apd T u'k*y
t~hieh were *i'rlad on in Moeoow aria brau~ht up the rt~b3eet of 'risrkiah
and Ar er to relations. The rieteratMttoo or the borders wan a '
dtfftaui1t afteir. It wwe noosaeary to toe the loot that a
part of Armrnia 'I a1raa4y in Turkish hende, although not as large
to aria aw enrieaPed bar ! he Alex ndropol treaty. Aleo to be oonaidered
wu the oawp1te*ted interT$$tional eit~tatic~n which exteted in 192O92
aM whiob required that the Soviet geovernaeat watntain peaoe
j and not tnvolve ttaelf in a war with Turkry a the powers
of the ttente deeired? On the baaie of them considerations, a
Soviet - T'urkieh treaty was eigned on 16 March 1921 in Moeoow. Order
it, the Turkish Bare enr~ Ara Mu regions as well ae 9 1u Ujesd
and trtan (uberniya ire given up by Armenia.
On 1 otober 1921, a Aindler treaty were oonelnded in Earn between
the three Cauoaaian republioe with the participation of the R,i.
Both treaties eoro~ht to eetabsieh a friendly policy on the aide of
Turkey to *rde the USSR. During 25 yeare of Soviet rule Arasnia was
tranetormed frm a poverty etriekea hinterland to a ooumtry of developing
a!riaalture, and atil.tnre, The Aoade~- of Soisnoee of t . Armenian gst
were eatabliehed; more than ten higher edueatioi*1 betitution- wars
opened; and a whole aeries of aehoole, theatrea end other oultural
and ednoatioi*1 inetitutione were founded. AS a part of the powerful
Soviet government, bra*nta carries its ebare of the work of induatry,
ogrioultuxe, aulture and eotence of the Soviet Union.
More than a million foreign Armenian refugee from all over the
world look to Soviet Armenia. Rees!ntly hundreds or thoueand a of Aiaaeniane
f ra n various eomttriee ease there. The f fatherland weleamed its eons,
and a reoeut decree of the Soviet goverment offioiall4r authorized the
ia*tgration of foreign ?ri niane. However, the intolerable territorial
oonetrnotian of the repnblie limits imigretion, while at the aims time
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tho fertile arena of sirs, drdrl~n'nd Iiu' 1ti *ieh w s annexed by
Tm' ire rh' ep?l7 popo]ated. she to t o ettrsetion to
the father3 nd I*ioh is obMrved saes Mneatane liWZI acid min
rats th. question o! rmAttta1 the Arwaniran tm'ritory rbiab hoed to
bo iaai*n with IoW*t . The /rte psop1 pe.siISate37 desire
t!m roetoiitioo of their tiarritory mdsr the 80r1et banner.
aetian vould on],7 t the aiid rrgairenatts of the Arneoiae people.
Tbe dasbSr of *rasaisae eho live obrood ie about the samr as thou
Uvt i at the present tine in diet Anaemia. Rrra 4th the rstt
to Uto bordens of 1924, Amin will not bo able to reosiw ?11 Arnenisns
'o vish to settle on hrlr nitiy. soil. Theretore the thoughts of
Adana oonstent27 tuna to *t'd tim restoration of their territoru1
integrity. Tbry desire to bavr ineluded in Soviet Armni-s, in addition
to the territory which wee esisd fray her in 1920, the regions of Van,
8itlia wd mss.
Ia the naas o t the oonei~o1 Auab]y of the United Nations, of the
gav;rnaent of th* USSR and the go'vsi' memt of Armenian fit, of the
reesntiy el oted Gatholiooe, George VI, of Ar~wnian oolonive in ell
ooa r of the World= the hope is .zpreesed tIt, nltiav t. y ail
native M' SflIan land and all Armeflian p.opsA, eos-tteored eU over the
world, wi11 be limited under the banner of the Armenian Barnet Ropablio.
The Jdatios or thee. clo nda cannot be qu.etioned. The Arniazi people
have the right and the possibility of utilising the wealth of their
n-tiv. soil for the WeU being of ? regenerate national state.
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