FORGERIES VS. HISTORICAL RESEARCH ARAM ANDONIAN’S “MEMOIRS OF NAIM BEY” AND THE CONTEMPORARY ATTEMPTS TO DEFEND THEIR “AUTHENTICTY”

Abstract

This article analyses the attempts made, since 1986, to maintain that the“documents” published in 1920 by Aram Andonian are probably, if not almostcertainly, “authentic”. A systematic checking of the assertions defendingAndonian’s work proves that these attempts are not less misleading than the bookwhich they support. Andonian’s forgeries served for dec