The Armenian propaganda uses a certain number of images to support their claims that the Ottoman Empire perpetrated a genocide against the Armenian people. Yet a close scrutiny reveals that many of those images are either forgeries, like the infamous “Turkish official teasing Armenian starved children by showing bread”, which was proven to be a primitive collage,1 or are deliberately misattributed, i.e. they show the real events, which however happened at different times and in different places, but present them as the evidence of the Ottoman persecution of the Armenians. One of the most ubiquitous images is this one:
This photograph is usually described as “Armenians slaughtered by Ottoman soldiers. Turkish soldiers proudly posing with bodies of their Armenian victims”. However, on a closer look at the soldiers in the picture it becomes evident that they are wearing imperial Russian, and not Ottoman uniforms. It makes one wonder what exactly this picture is representing.
I did my own investigation on this mysterious picture, and found out the story behind this image. Continue reading
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