Iesus autem dixit ei Iuda osculo Filium hominis tradis
(But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?)
Despite Armenians, being Millet-i Sidika (Loyal Nation) of Ottoman Empire, had the most valuable government posts without having to convert to Islam and they (together with other non-Moslems) were dominant with landslide in trade and arts and despite many British, Russian (both Tsarist and Soviet) documents clearly indicate there is no hostility between Armenians and ethnic Turks but with Kurds, who were (and mostly still are) landless, nomadic tribes, who live on animal breeding and if opportunity shows, by robbing sedentary people (mostly like Armenians and sometimes Turks, who have their own land) the Armenian clergy, (who are mostly of Russian origin) though pretending to have a divinity, were continuously intriguing against the people who granted the Armenians of Ottoman Empire the most juicy posts and trades of the entire empire.
The following British Document clearly indicates the Armenian clergy's double talks and double plays, in line with the Armenian revolutionaries from Russia.
While Moslems (Turks, or Mussulmans as they call it) were living mostly in poverty, they were getting the lion's share from the empire's economic and political resources but also intriguing against and undermining the Empire, just like, Judas Iscariot, who while eating on the table of Jesus Christ, was betraying Him.
While his Beatutide Narses was trying to brownnose Mr. Layard, he was caught in flagrante delicto of His double talk. Since he previously sent some letters accusing British Consular Functionaries of reluctance to help Armenians and Mussulmans, He was clearly confronted by a British Consular Functionary, who was offended by these double talks.
Most important of all, Mr. Layard, clearly warns Armenian Patriarch not to get involved in any intrigues which shall finally bring disaster to them by saying “But, I added, his Beatitude must not expect me to take part in any intrigues for upsetting the present political condition of Western Asia, and for undermining the authority of the Sultan. I warned him that such intrigues could only tend to bring misfortune upon the Armenians themselves”.
Anyway read yourself and let the truth be told.
No More Discrimination.
No. 213
Sir A. H. Layard to the Marquis of Salisbury.
No. 535.
My Lord, | THERAPIA, June 21, 1879. (Received June 30.) |
THE Armenian Patriarch, Archbishop Nerses, told me yesterday, when I was calling upon him, that, at a meeting held that day by the Commission of Notables charged with the administration of the affairs of the Armenian community, a unanimous vote of thanks had been passed to me for the services I had rendered to the Armenians, through my representations in their favour to the Porte. I availed myself of the occasion to ask his Beatitude what he meant by stating in his letter to Mr. Malet, of which a copy was forwarded to your Lordship in his despatch No. 370 of the 3rd ultimo, that “the Armenians had rarely had the happiness to see in the East Representatives of the English Government animated with a sincere desire to use their influence for the amelioration of the lot of the Christian and Mussulman populations of the Empire.” I considered such a statement, I said, a most unjust and unfounded reflection upon Her Majesty’s Representatives, and I should be glad to hear to whom he particularly alluded. I had never heard, I observed, of an English Representative in the East who was indifferent to the happiness and welfare of the Christian and Mussulman subjects of the Sultan. On the contrary, the influence of England had always been exercised in their behalf, and I had no hesitation in saying that the Christians of Turkey, without distinction of creed, owed more to it than to that of any other nation. His Beatitude, I added, would always find me ready to do all in my power to obtain justice and good government for the Armenians, as well as for all other Christians in the Turkish Empire, and to use my utmost endeavours to that end. In doing so, I was not only acting upon my own convictions, but carrying out the policy of Her Majesty’s Government. But, I added, his Beatitude must not expect me to take part in any intrigues for upsetting the present political condition of Western Asia, and for undermining the authority of the Sultan. I warned him that such intrigues could only tend to bring misfortune upon the Armenians themselves, and that, if he really desired the happiness and welfare of the community, he should use all legitimate means to obtain good and just government for the Armenians, in which he would have my entire support, instead of endeavouring to carry out wild and impracticable schemes.
His Beatitude observed that he had meant nothing by the expression in his letter to Mr. Malet, to which I had referred, that the Armenians would be for ever grateful to England for what she had done for them, and that he had no cause to complain of indifference on the part of Her Majesty’s Representatives to the interests of his community.
I thought it as well to speak thus plainly to his Beatitude, as I have every reason to believe that there are persons, having influence over him, who are endeavouring to draw him into intrigues, which are certainly not calculated to promote the true interests of the Armenians, but which may, on the contrary, have the effect of retarding, instead of promoting, the reforms and the just and good administration that is the desire and object of Her Majesty’s Government to see introduced into the Asiatic dominions of the Sultan.
I have, &c.
(Signed) A. H. LAYARD.
F. 0. 424/84, p. 387 - 388, No. 486