Sultan Mohammad VI acknowledged the brutalities committed upon the Armenians. expressed sorrow at what had happened and pledged. "Justice will soon be done and we will never have a repetition of these ugly events." And judicial action was taken. to a degree. For example. on April 12. 1919. Kemal Bey. the wartime minister of food. was publicly hanged in an Istanbul square after being convicted of taking a leading role in the deportations and massacre of Armenians in the Yozqhad district. he was but one of a number of Turkish officials tried beginning in February of that year. The prosecutor at that trial said it was necessary for Turkey to punish the authors of the massacre. So. we need not take only Ambassador Morgenthaus word about the reality of the genocide.
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