HISTORY AND “CONTENT” OF THE ARMENIAN QUESTION AND ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ARCHIVE OF THE “INFORMATION BUREAU”, STORED AT THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM

Abstract

The Armenian Question and Armenian Genocide archive, totaling 11 boxes of thousands of documents in different languages, stored at the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, was digitized. Presently the preparation of the catalogue of these documents is underway by a team led by this author. The archive was compiled by the “Information Bureau”, created in 1919 under the aegis of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, archbishop Zaven Ter-Yeghiayan. The article presents the history, functions and goals of the “Information Bureau”, and the original report of Karapet Nuryan. For the first time, the archive’s “Content” is published. The archive is invaluable as a unique source of political history of the era in unveiling new details of Ottoman and Kemalist rulers’ 1912-1922 policy towards the extermination of Armenians.