ERZURUM - ''The Armenians, who are accusing Turks of massacre and trying to convince the world with their lies, treated inhumanly Turkish captives during the World War I and burnt most of these captives to death'', Associate Professor Cemil Kutlu of History Department of Ataturk University, said on Tuesday.
Kutlu said, ''behaviors of the Armenians towards Turkish captives are embarrassing for humanity. Foreign sources include information about brutality (of the Armenians) against Turkish captives.''
Recalling the report of Russian colonel Cologriof who visited the captive camps in Caucasus in the winter of 1918 on behalf of the Danish Red Cross, Kutlu said, ''this report said that Armenian soldiers killed Turkish captives just for fun, and they carried out mass torture most of the times.''
On the other hand, touching on confessions of an Armenian officer, Kutlu said, ''this officer said: We took about 3,000 Turkish captives with us after the Russians withdrew. Most of them were burnt to death. This brutality made me sick, but I could not find the opportunity to oppose to what was being done.''