Ah, yes, the "everyone else are the ones lying" argument. It couldn't be that the world knows it happened because numerous countries witnessed it and documented it and were told directly by Turkic leaders how the Armenians would be "solved".
There are numerous documents that exist outlining
all of the orders put against the Armenians and any who might help them. Documentation from both Turkey and figures who had wrote what was happening there, as ambassadors or foreign military and journalists. Here are a few:
Everyone was writing about the atrocities and recording it, from Talaat's mouth himself to photos and journalistic recordings. A dozen different people talked with Mehmed and all were told the same thing about Armenians and Christians and Kurds.
Now, if you go read
The Memoirs of Naim Bey or
The Remaining Documents of Mehmed Talaat (just so you know, the documents here were given to the journalist Murat Bardakçı by Talaat's ex-wife,
Hayriye)
, you will be presented with even more documents. It includes
telegram evidence (which the countries that got them verify as being real) that the Ottoman Empire set it all up. That Talaat ordered it and proudly admitted it to anyone who listened, and justified the genocide by saying that even if the Armenians were innocent, they probably wouldn't have been innocent tomorrow. Then, when speaking with the U.S ambassador Henry Morgenthau, he said:
He then added to Morgenthau, "
that our Armenian policy is absolutely fixed and that nothing can change it. We will not have the Armenians anywhere in Anatolia. They can live in the desert but nowhere else". Not hard to believe Talaat's word about how many were already destroyed when Lake Hazar and the surrounding gorges were reported by a dozen different world representatives to have been "
choked with the Armenian dead".
If that is not enough to convince you, Bahattin Şakir (operator of Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa) wrote in a letter in March 15 1915:
Still not enough? Mehmed Talaat wrote and spoke numerous times about wiping out the Armenians, to the point that the word "Armenia" would be forgotten. I should not have to explain who Mehmed was, but just in case I do, Mehmed Talaat was the de-facto political leader of the Ottoman Empire. When Talaat spoke with Mordtmann (a German Embassy Representative) he spoke at great length, and proudly too, about his plans to destroy the Christians within Turkey and knew he could do so in a way that he could not be intervened:
Then, when the German ambassador tried to save the Armenians, Talaat ordered his removal via letter to Berlin and reconfirmed his intentions by stating "
the work must be done now, after the war it will be too late". Then when Johann von Bernstorff (another ambassador from Germany) kept asking him questions about the Armenians in particular, it is reported Talaat smiled and said, "
What on earth do you want? The question is settled, there are no more Armenians". Talaat then made a similar remark to a Swedish military attaché, whom report to have said, "
The way the Armenian problem was solved was hair-raising. I can still see in front of me Talaat's cynical expression, when he emphasized that the Armenian question was solved". Turkey also wrote law that would execute Arabs, Kurds
* or Turks for sheltering Armenians too, and would execute them the same way as the Armenians for daring to provide aide.
So far, not a lick of evidence to prove it hasn't happened has been provided by anyone here. The only argument the opposition has on it is that Turkish officials say "it didn't happen" and that everyone else is just lying, but somehow that's evidence enough? Mind boggling, really. ?
*Kurds, another victim of the Turkish country