Aram Andonian

Aram Andonian was an Armenian journalist and historian. He was arrested by order of interior minister Talat Pasha of the Ottoman Empire on the eve of April 24, 1915 and joined Armenian notables deported from the Ottoman capital in 1915. Andonian served in the department of military censorship of the Ottoman Empire.^{[citation needed]} The Memoirs of Naim Bey, which was published in 1920, gained a big fame after the war for introducing what came to be known as the "Andonian Telegrams" or "Talat Pasha Telegrams". The telegrams are purported to constitute evidence that the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1917 was state policy of the Ottoman Empire. The Memoirs of Naim Bey played a role in the trial of Soghomon Tehlirian.

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Shirvanzade (biography of Alexander Shirvanzade), Constantinople 1911
Badkerazard endardzak batmutiun Balkanean baderazmin, 5 vols., Constantinople 1912 (History of the Balkan wars; a Turkish edition came out recently at Aras Yayincilik)
Ayn sev orerun (Reminiscences of the Armenian Genocide), Boston 1919
The Memoirs of Naim Bey, London 1920