| Author(s) | Talat Pasha (Murat Bardakçı) |
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| Original title | Talat Paşa'nın Evrak-ı Metrukesi |
| Country | Turkey |
| Language | Turkish |
| Subject(s) | History |
| Publisher | Everest Yayınları |
| Publication date | 2008 |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9789752895607 |
| OCLC Number | 318327565 |
Talat Pasha's Black Book (printed as "Talat Paşa'nın Evrak-ı Metrukesi") refers to the handwritten notes printed in a personal notebook form by the Ottoman Minister of Interior (later grand vizier) on the relocations of both Turkish-Muslim and Armenian Ottoman citizens during the World War I.
It is disclosed in 2005 by the Turkish journalist Murat Bardakçı.[1] The book was handed over to him by Talat Pasha's widow, Hayriye Talat Bafralı. Along with a batch of other documents comprising letters he had sent her and telegrammes exchanged between Committee of Union and Progress members. In April 2006, Bardakçı re-edited the black book in full, adding parts that were missing in the first publication with the name "Talat Paşa'nın Evrak-ı Metrukesi".
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The 1915-1916 resettlements cited in Talat Pasha Black Book of 702,905 Turks from regions under threat of occupation by Russian forces and of 924,158 Armenians. The cited figures do not fall in discordance with a 29 February 1916 letter sent to the US Secretary of State from the embassy in İstanbul reporting upon the number of Armenian immigrants (for Syria only)[2].
In accordance with 27 May 1915 Tehcir Law is qualified as exposing the genocide by one Armenian source which goes on to recall the clauses of the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide [3].