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IS THERE ACCESS TO THE OTTOMAN ARCHIVES? ARE DOCUMENTS
RELATED RELOCATION CONCEALED?
Documents on all matters dealing
with the relocation are accessible to all. The Ottoman Archives
in where these documents are kept are available for the examination
of all researchers since 1925 at the Prime Ministry’s State
Archives. From 1925 to date, a total of 3.817 scholars, broken
down into 605 from the United States, 168 from Germany, 150
from France, 98 from Saudi Arabia, 84 from Iran, 74 from the
United Kingdom, 70 from Israel, 63 from Libya, 58 from Hungary,
52 from Argentina, 47 from Bulgaria, 47 from Egypt, 39 from
the Netherlands, 36 from Romania, 35 from Tunisia, 35 from
Algeria and 28 from Canada, to whom should be added 190 Turkish
citizens of Armenian origin, studied the existing documents
and carried out scientific work.
Aside from the free examination
by thousands of foreigners, these documents were also published
in Turkish and English and made available to the researchers.
It should also be mentioned that the archives of the Turkish
General Staff are being published in the Military history
Documents Magazine in facsimile and modern Turkish, and being
sold.
Similarly, there is another
publication prepared from which the Prime Ministry’s Yildiz
Palace archives was published in three volumes in the Ottoman
Turkish, English and modern Turkish.
Despite all these facts, several
Turkish and foreign organisations and nationals still claim,
either intentionally or because for lack of information that
the Republic of Turkey is being incriminated for “deliberately
avoiding to make the archives available for examination”
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