{"id":6963,"date":"2010-06-16T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T08:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2010-09-21T18:47:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T15:47:16","slug":"mass-graves-found-in-erzurum-turkey-of-armenian-massacre-88874554","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/mass-graves-found-in-erzurum-turkey-of-armenian-massacre-88874554\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass graves found in Erzurum, Turkey of Armenian massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists in Turkey have unearthed two mass graves in the city of Erzurum which they alleged to be the resting ground of hundreds maybe thousands of Muslim Turks massacred by the Armenians.<\/h1>\n

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Scientists at one of the dig site in Erzurum where skeletons of massacred Muslim Turks were found.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mass graves which were located in the city of Erzurum were being dug in the past few weeks by Turkish scientists while being observed by the Atat\u00fcrk \u00dcniversitesi Turkish \u2013 Armenian relations research centre, the Erzurum Museum board directors and Archeology department.<\/h2>\n

Around 95 skeletons were found in the Yesilyayla village, 300 skeletons in the Timar village and 268 skeletons in the Alaca villiage, all from the World War I era.<\/p>\n

Director of Ataturk University’s Research Center for Turkish-Armenian Relations, Dr. Erol Kurkcuoglu has said that some of the bones were found just 3 feet (1 metre) beneath ground.<\/p>\n

The dig in the village of Tepekoy in Erzurum started on the 15th by the Atat\u00fcrk \u00dcniversitesi Turkish \u2013 Armenian relations research centre, the Erzurum Museum board directors and Archeology department and is still continuing.<\/p>\n

According to some eye witnesses at the site of the mass grave, bones of women, children and the elderly were found, many with burnt effects indicating that the victims had been burnt during or after the massacre.<\/p>\n

It had been estimated that over 9500 people in the city of Erzurum were slaughtered by Armenian gangs during World War I, when the city was left defenseless as most of the men of the villages had gone to war.<\/p>\n

Erol K\u00fcrk\u00e7\u00fco\u011flu, director of A\u00dc\u2019s Turkish-Armenian Relations Research Center, said \u201cThere are two places where two significant massacres took place here.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne is the place where women and children of the village were massacred. The other place is an area where around 60 people were massacred.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a completely defenseless village at the time, as the men of the village capable of fighting had gone to World War I fronts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the Tashnak Armenian gangs attacked they massacred the women on the pasture lands owned<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of those who were killed were women, about 90 of them. They were buried in the village cemetery in 1958 by the people of the village.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the diggers at the site of the mass grave who spoke to NationalTurk said \u201cWe found two skeletons, an adult and a child interlocking their arms, I believe both or at least one of them were alive when they were being buried.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of the villagers at the site of the burial have their own story\u2019s regarding the alleged massacre by Armenian gangs.<\/p>\n

One elderly man said that his mother had told him of how she was only 13-year-old when the massacres at the village of Tepek\u00f6y had taken place. He said \u201cthe men of the village were first bonded together with ropes and then burnt, during the massacre my mother\u2019s grandparents and my grandparents were all killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials from the Tepek\u00f6y village also spoke of many other skeletons being found from the World War I era while the ground was being dug to build to homes, especially during 1970.<\/p>\n

There are around 185 mass graves which have been found in Anatolian Turkey whit experts saying that there are many more un-located graves in Turkey such as the ones un-earthed in Erzurum.<\/p>\n

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