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AUTHENTIC OTTOMAN ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS
In this Appendix we reproduce photographs of the seventy-one original Ottoman Archival Documents published in Chapter III.
In the footnotes listing the present location of each original document, we have used the following abbreviations:
BBA = Ba?bakanl?k Ar?ivi (Prime Minister’s Archives)
GBA = Genelkurmay Ba?kanl??? Ar?ivi (Archives of the Chief-of-Staff)
The documents are published in the same order, and with the same numbers, as in Chapter III.
Translator’s note: Scholars wishing to study the authentic Ottoman documents in Appendix II, may wish to refer to the Turkish edition of this work: Ermenilerce Talat Pa?a’ya Atfedilen Telgraflar?n Gerçek Yüzü, Ankara (Türk Tarih Kurumu), 1983, pp. 185-340, where, in addition to facsimiles of the original documents, transliterations of each into modern Turkish are provided.
1. The so-called ‘premeditation’
(a) Armenian schools, churches and cemeteries
Documents Nos. I—VII
Authentic Document No. I*
Authentic Document No. II*
Authentic Document No. III*
Authentic Document No. IV*
Authentic Document No. V*
Authentic Document No. VI*
Authentic Document No. VII*
(b) Armenian officials in the Administration
Documents Nos. VIII—IX
Authentic Document No. VIII*
Authentic Document No.IX*
(c) Developments leading to the relocation of the Armenians
Documents Nos. X—XXI
Authentic Document No. X*
Authentic Document No. XI*
Authentic Document No. XII*
Authentic Document No. XIII*
Authentic Document No. XIV*
Authentic Document No. XV*
Authentic Document No. XVI*
Authentic Document No. XVII*
Authentic Document No. XVIII*
Authentic Document No. XIX*
Authentic Document No. XX*
Authentic Document No. XXI*
(d) The closing down of the Armenian revolutionary committees
Documents Nos. XXII—XXIV
Authentic Document No. XXII*
Authentic Document No. XXIII*
Authentic Document No. XXIV*
(e) The relocation decision
Document No. XXV
Authentic Document No. XXV*
(f) The implementation of the relocation decision
Documents Nos. XXVI—XXXIV
Authentic Document No. XXVI*
Authentic Document No. XXVII*
Authentic Document No. XXVIII*
Authentic Document No. XXIX*
Authentic Document No. XXX*
Authentic Document No. XXXI*
Authentic Document No. XXXII*
Authentic Document No. XXXIII*
Authentic Document No. XXXIV*
2. The so-called 'Measures of Precaution'
As the Ottoman Government never adopted a policy of trying to hide its decision to relocate a portion of its Armenian population, nor try to keep its implementation secret, as noted in Chapter III, there simply are no archival documents dealing with this subject.
3. The so-called ‘Extension of the Massacres’
Documents Nos. XXXV-XLIX
Authentic Document No. XXXV*
Authentic Document No. XXXVI*
Authentic Document No. XXXVII*
Authentic Document No. XXXVIII*
Authentic Document No. XXXIX*
Authentic Document No. XL*
Authentic Document No. XLI*
Authentic Document No. XLII*
Authentic Document No. XLIII*
Authentic Document No. XLIV*
Authentic Document No. XLV*
Authentic Document No. XLVI*
Authentic Document No. XLVII*
Authentic Document No. XLVIII*
Authentic Document No. XLIX*
* BBA: Register of Imperial Rescripts and Minutes of Offficial Meetings (?radei Seniye ve Tutanaklar Defteri). File (Dosya) No. 235/660.
* BBA: Register of Imperial Rescripts and Minutes of Offlcial Meetings, File-Volume No. 239/140.
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* GBA: Archive No. 1/1, File No. 44-207, Index Nos. 2/1 and 2/2.
* BBA: Ministry of the Interior, Cipher File No. 56/17. | 
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