The War Diplomacy of Great Britain and the Genocide of Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916
By Dr. Tigran N. Sarukhanyan

The proposed presentation aims to analyse in deep the question of
facilitation if not complicity of British War Diplomacy in the
implementation of the Armenian Genocide. Based on historical accounts, two
alternative plans of naval expeditions against Turkey are considered,
first of which, campaign against the Dardanelles, provided the
administration of the Young Turks with free hands in realisation of their
long before designed plan, the extermination of the Armenian race. The
campaign against the Dardanelles had an unprecedented result in history of
England; the English undefeated fleet was defeated. According to the
second alternative plan of a demonstration against Turkey, was outlined a
landing at the Bay of Alexandria. This was consonant with the ideas and
designs of many of the Armenian public and political leaders. As a matter
of fact, if it were fulfilled, it could have had a decisive, if not a
preventive meaning in stopping the Genocide. However, top strata of
British political leadership preferred the plan of L. George-W. Churchill,
declining the second one, the plan of the head of the War Office H.
Kitcheners designs on landing at the Bay of Alexandria. Moreover, during
the whole period of World War I, the war diplomacy of Great Britain didnt
even support Armenians in establishing their voluntary troops, but also
interfered with it. This has been proved by newly discovered English
archival documents, one more establishing the fact, that never in history,
the Armenian national aspirations have nothing to do with all those
political self-interests pursued by Great Britain. They were always
contrary to each other, which facilitated the realisation of the tragedy
of Armenians during World War I-the Genocide of Armenians. We deeply
believe the same policy of Great Britain became one of the determinants in
the Jewish Holocaust, in World War II.