ABSTRACT

Justice will be done for the martyred people, British prime minister Lloyd George and French leaders Georges Clemenceau and Aristide Briand said several times in July and November 1916, echoing the warning addressed to the Sublime Porte by the Entente powers. An imperial order pronounced the dissolution of the Assembly in order to enable Tevfik Pasha's cabinet to carry out the arrest of Unionist deputies, former ministers, and two thousands officials in accordance with a list of war criminals provided by the British occupation authorities. The Turkish authorities had handed over to the British military authorities 67 prisoners, in accordance with your telegram no. 233. By the winter of 1920–1921, the Turkish revolution had already put an end to the short-lived season of the judges, the first stage in the denial of the genocide of the Armenians.