Turkish archives may shed light on history of 30 countries

[danielmaco]

Turkish archives may shed light on history of 30 countries
The General Directorate of State Archives and the Turkish Historical Society (TTK) have conducted joint work to classify the Ottoman archives.

This classification showed that Ottoman archives contained records and documents that contain important information about the history of 30 countries, established after the disintegration of the Ottoman State. Upon request, these documents and records will be provided to the respective countries. Translation of the archives into English, German and French has already started. The classification work has been under progress for many years and it is about to be finalized to a great extent. During this work, important documents and records have been unearthed which will shed light on the history of not only Turkey, but also of 30 countries in the Balkans, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

In particular, it was discovered that the Ottoman archives contained very important documents and records pertaining to Armenia, about which Turkey offered to open all archives to international researchers in connection with the so-called Armenian genocide.

The records in the Ottoman archives cover 400-500 years of the history of these countries, which include Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Romania, Moldova, Macedonia, Greece, Albania, Georgia, Armenia and Cyprus. Officials from the General Directorate of State Archives note that the number of countries that make use of the Ottoman archives had been low, adding that individual researchers will now be given access to the archives.

National archives bill

The bill on national archives, prepared after the conclusion of research and classification work in the Ottoman archives, is expected to be enacted after the opening of the Turkish Parliament on Oct. 1. During the previous parliamentary term, the bill had been negotiated at the parliamentary Plan and Budget Commission, which referred it to a sub-commission. The government is preparing to enact this bill as soon as Parliament reconvenes. This bill will ensure that the archives are handled in accordance with scientific methods.

Since access to the state archives became forbidden or restricted, many archived documents were either damaged or lost. The bill contains tight measures against such acts. Any person who steals, destroys or removes documents from the state archives may be sentenced to one to six years in prison and fined up to YTL 5,000.

The bill empowers the General Directorate of State Archives for the determination of archive documents and documents capable of being archived, their protection, their usage in line with national and public interests and their elimination and destruction when necessary.

Documents produced by public organizations and institutions except those of the Presidency, the Parliament, the General Staff, the Defense Ministry and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) will be archived by the General Directorate of State Archives. The records of the Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay) and the Turkish Aviation Association (THK) will also be archived.

Archived documents will not be taken out of the archive buildings or the places where they are kept. Permission of the general director will be required for their display at exhibitions or other scientific or cultural activities.

The documents archived at the General Directorate or other archive buildings will be opened for access 30 years after their first processing and classification. Real or corporate persons will not be allowed to keep archive documents other than those relating to their correspondence with public authorities, nor sell, purchase, reproduce, destroy or make them accessible to third parties.


TODAY'S ZAMAN

Tick tock, tick tock
Your good friends the Turks, will expose the myth of the greek state
Your politicians and phoney historians must be sweating bricks

[Tsontos]

Its only sections of Ottoman archives which arent available yet. All the censuses of the 19th century, none of which mention the existence of a "Macedonian ethnicity", characterise the IMARO as the most militantly Bulgarian organisation in European Turkey have been available for years.

Enver Pasha's memoires are one of many non-government Ottoman source which show the Bulgarianism of todays FYRoManians.

will expose the myth of the greek state

You mean the Greek state doesnt exist?

[Makedonia22]

Nice, this just means more documents that prove the Bulgarian origins of FYROM.

[danielmaco]

All will be revealed shortly, just sit back and buckle up

[Makedonia22]

Ottoman archives have already proven a lot, such as there where no "ethnic Macedonians" in the ottoman parliament, no need to wait.

[lokatzi]

Hey 'Maco'

Tick tock, tick tock....

the Albanians are itching right up your Koulo!!

[Istor]

hahahahahahaha !!

Abre Daniel, why do you look to the future for your existence? Is the past empty of you ?? How many deputies did you have in Ottoman Parliament at 1908?? More than Vlachs (who had ONE!) or less??

hahahahahahahahahaha!!

Hey, we want ALL archives OPEN and free for all. In the mean time, Bulgarian archives are open. There is a telegram there sent by Gruev to Sofia, a month after Ilinden irpising! Have you read it?
hahahahahahahahaha!!

Abre bezeveng!!

[lokatzi]

Originally Posted by lokatzi

Hey 'Maco'

Tick tock, tick tock....

the Albanians are itching right up your Koulo!!

read below.

ADN KRONOS INTERNATIONAL (ITALY)

FyroMacedonia: Pro-'Greater Albania' professor probed

Tetovo, Macedonia, 21 Sept. (AKI) - Macedonian authorities may bring charges
against a professor who at an ethnic Albanian rally in the northeastern town
of Tetovo, called for the creation of a 'Greater Albanian nation' consisting
of Albania, Kosovo and parts of Macedonia.

"It is our universal right to live in one country," the professor, Miljaim
Fejziu, said at the gathering held on Thursday to launch the Macedonian
branch of the Unity of World Albanians (UWA) movement.

Macedonia's State Prosecutor's office said that if Fejziu, who teaches at a
university in Tetovo - which has a population of 80,000 of which 70 percent
are Albanian - was found to have promoted the secession of parts of
Macedonia, he would face prosecution.

On Friday the Macedonian media condemned the gathering saying it aimed to
stoke separatist tendencies amongst the country's ethnic Albanian population
at a time when the international community could be on the verge of granting
indepedence to Kosovo, the UN-administred, mostly Albanian province of
Serbia.

Fejziu in his speech, did indeed appear to be calling for Albanian
communities living in the Balkans to seek territorial unity.

"The institutions that exist in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia are to achieve
close relations and cooperation on cultural, scientific, economic and every
other level. The cooperation should be later polarised towards the tendency
of forming one body with all-national character," Fejziu told the Tetovo
gathering.

"We refer to Macedonia as the third Albanian country in Balkans," Fajziu
added.

Some 25 percent of Macedonia's population of two million is Albanian.

The Macedonian Unity of Albanians branch will be led by a body of 15 members
including the Tetovo's Muslim mufti Alifekri Esati. Another UWA congress is
scheduled to be held at the end of November in Albania's capital, Tirana.

[Ptolemy]

I hope so!!! Unfortunately for the Slavic inhabitants of FYROM, Ottoman archives contain documents like the following:

Appendix No 18. A photocopy by the telegram, written to the Turkish Embassy in Bulgaria, May, 9, 1903. It contains the phrase:

„On April, 22 (May, 5), in the village of Banitsa one of the leaders of the Bulgarian Committees, with name Delchev, was killed“.

Appendix No 21 has the following acknowledgement: „Since the Bulgarians were the most important and the most energetic element, the Macedonian question, with all its gravity, was a Bulgarian question" (page 434).


CONCLUSION

It is more than obvious that the Turkish statistics and documents explicitly referred to the Slavonic population in Macedonia as Bulgarian. Both bureaucracy nomenclature and personal testimony of prominent figures witness on Bulgarians in Macedonia; there is no mention of some „Macedonian ethnic nation“ whatsoever. Such ethnicity was unknown to the all non-Slave living in Macedonia. The Turks ruled the region of Macedonia for over five centuries, hence, they were well aware on the ethnic character of the population.

The publication of the Turkish documents on the Macedonia is very important at present time. The Serbo-Macedonist neo-Communist powers in Skopje continue pro-Serb Macedonist policy, formulated by the Serbian Stoyan Novakovich in 1887: „Since the Bulgarian idea, as it is well-known, is deeply rooted in Macedonia, I think it is almost impossible to shake it completely by opposing it merely with the Serbian idea. This idea, we fear, would be incapable, as opposition pure and simple, of suppressing the Bulgarian idea. That is why the Serbian idea will need an ally that could stand in direct opposition to Bulgarianism and would contain in itself the elements which could attract the people and their feelings and thus sever them from Bulgarianism. This ally I see in Macedonism“.

Although the formal independence was proclaimed, the pro-Serb Macedonist power-holders in Skopje continue to assist Yugoslavia: they supplied Belgrade with food, raw materials and petrol during the world embargo against Serbia. Meanwhile the authorities go ahead with its half-a century-old policy aimed at the construction and 'affirmation’ of a separate Macedonian ethnic nation. However, the prospects of their success are doubtful: the extremist nationalist re-writing of history (a basic instrument for nation-invention) is always bound to be undermined by the original historical sources like the Enver Bey’s memoirs or the official Ottoman statistics. Prepared for publication:

Spas Tashev
President of IIM

http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/for...macedonia.html

[Spartan]

Daniel laugh now because once ALL the archives are released you won't be laughing!