Հայոց եղեռնի դատապարտման իրավական հիմքերը

Abstract

The article considers the issues of legal significance of the judgments of Turkey of 1919- 1921 concerning the events of the Armenian Genocide, their legitimacy, the legal relevance in the sense of condemnation of the Armenian Genocide and such other issues. The author substantiates that the accusations reflected in the mentioned judgments unequivocally witness that during the First World War the Ottoman Empire carried out the destruction of specific nations on exclusively ethnic grounds. The term “genocide” is not used in these judicial acts. Nevertheless, this is not due to the purpose of denying this fact, but due to the simple reason that the given term was not yet in the official application and was reflected in international documents in no way.

The legal significance of the judgments of Turkey is in the circumstance that they quite adequately disclose the fact of the Armenian Genocide, approve the direct involvement of the authorities of the mentioned state in the exercise of this and fulfilment of clearly programmed actions.

The article also reveals the reasons of national and international importance that determined the initiation of trials and sentencing some officials to symbolic punishments.

A thesis is presented in the final part, according to which the acting Turkish authorities and the international community have an obligation to respect judgments, which have entered into force, and their official actions must flow from them.