Historian Cezmi Yurtsever stated that photos that he found in Armenian archives show that Armenian convoy that was consisting of people that were being displaced from Adana to Aleppo in 1915 were being welcomed by a music band in Aleppo.
Yurtsever said, "The people that arrive to Aleppo are being welcomed by a band and then they are being placed in tent camps or in the buildings that belong to barracks of Ottoman army."
Resolutions that recognize Armenian allegations over 1915 incidents are passed from Foreign Affairs Committee of U.S. House of Representatives and Swedish Parliament recently. Historian Cezmi Yurtsever said that Armenian organization AGBU, which was established by Armenian origin Egyptian diplomat Bogos Nubar Pasha, has partially opened historical photographs in its archives to the researchers.
New York based Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) that coordinates educational, cultural and humanitarian programs among diaspora Armenians opened a part of its photograph archives to the researchers in 2008. The photos that historian Cezmi Yurtsever reached in this archives show the camps that Armenians coming from Anatolia resided in Syria in 1915.
Yurtsever said, "The photo that shows Ottomans welcoming Armenian convoys with bands reflects a historical truth. The people that arrive to Aleppo are being welcomed by band and then they are being placed in tent camps or in the buildings that belong to barracks of Ottoman army. Even the photos in the archives of AGBU shows that the Ottoman policy of forced displacement of Armenians was not a genocide."
Stressing that U.S. Consulate General to Aleppo in 1915 also had stated that displacement of ethnic Armenians was not a genocide policy, Yurtsever said that he presents copies of the photos that show Armenians in Aleppo in 1915 in his website www.cezmiyurtsever.com.
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