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close to Van, to the east and northeast of Aleppo and to
the east of Syria. While Armenians sere settling to the
locations, it was taken into consideration that the
population’s not exceeding %10 and all of their needs
were met by Ottoman government. The immigration
was harsh, and during the immigration there had been
the ones who dead by illnesses and the condition of
difficult road and weather conditions. The Ottoman
soldiers and civil authorities who had delinquency were
sentenced various punishments by Martial Law Courts.
During deportation the number of the ones who lost
their lives reached 2.000.000 from 300.000. While the
number of alive people was met natural, the rise of the
number of the ones who lost their lives was not be
explainable scientifically. People’s losing their lives in
war is an inevitable situation. In this comtext, the
population of Muslim Turkish people who lost their
lives found 1.000.000; but the fact that the number of
the ones who lost their lives at the hinterland as a result
of the attacks of Armenians and Greeks or illnesses and
starvation reached 2.000.000 was ignored by everyone
and within this connection there is no need to think too
much about why the Armenian genocide accusation
against Ottoman has been keeping on the agenda from
the past to our day. Being aware of the things that were
happened in the past would
be enough to remember that
Imperial Powers played with the history of Ottoman
non-Muslims to reach their own desires.
It would be useful to remember that at the end
of World War I there had been an investigation
conducted about 145 Unionists who were accused of
slaughtering Armenians at Malta Island and the
investigation was carried out by British Crown
Prosecution Service. Additionally, a commission was
established at League of Nations about how trial would
be proceeded but at 29 July 1921 the Crown
Prosecution Service, as a result of researches because
no evidences were founded, decided that no
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focus on financial, political, cultural and social issues over
time. It has become an influential actor in the region which
has helped settle many disputes among its members. Two
significant countries of the Eurasia geography, India and
Pakistan, will become full members of the organization in
2017.
Being a Eurasian country, Turkey has been showing
interest in SCO especially in recent years in order to become
a regional actor and an energy base. Having strong
economic, political, diplomatic, military and cultural ties
with the West as well as being a NATO and European
Council member and a candidate country for the European
Union (EU), Turkey has maintained strong economic ties
with the East. China and Russia are Turkey’s biggest foreign
trade partners following Germany. Turkey is depended on
natural gas from Russia. Iran, Iraq and Azerbaijan are the
other large energy providers. Turkey will not be able to
become a regional power unless it establishes the balance
between politics and economy, security and energy, west
and east and the Atlantic and Eurasia by solving the
dilemma between these two opposites. In this respect, it is
obliged to adopt a region-centered foreign policy, strengthen
ties with Eurasian countries and develop relations with SCO
countries.
Key Words: Turkey, Shanghai Cooperation
Organization, Eurasia, Energy,
Competition
Introduction
SCO is mentioned more and more in daily political
and diplomatic discussions in Turkey in recent years. It
comes forward as an alternative occasionally depending on
developments in domestic and foreign politics, especially
when Turkey experiences political tension with the USA and
the EU. However, Turkey is taking any concrete, holistic
and detailed steps towards this direction. Furthermore,
circumstances do not seem to have developed for such a
partnership. First of all, Turkey’s NATO membership and
candidacy for the EU, despite how impossible it seems now,
are obstacles to Turkey’s membership to the SCO. In
addition, Turkey has been greatly influenced by the West in
terms of politics, finance, diplomacy, military, society,
culture, science and technology. Turkey does not have a