The Great Forces and the Meeting of Armenian Committee Delegates During the Balkan Wars in the Light of French Diplomatic Documents

During the Balkan Wars, one of the most important problems that the Ottoman Empire came across, was Armenian Issue. Between 1912 and 1913, mainly Armenian Issue and the problems which accured were accepted as the part of Eastern Question. And the decomposition and disintegration of Ottoman Empire was tried to accelerate. The Emperor’s reform efforts towards the other factors excent the Turkish and Muslim factors actually occured as an Imperialism problem and this was decided as an extension of Eastern Question by the Great Forces. Armenian Issue has a very important effect on the determination of the new force relations because of its periods characteristics. For this reason, instead of solving the problem, each of Great Forces was in the search of a realationship based on self interest. This issue was pursued carefully and wanted to be under control by Sublime Port. Altough Sublime Porte has continued to reform efforts in the fields of complaints, neither Armenian Demand nor The Intervention of Great Forces stopped. In order to evaluate the most suitable, both sides activated the Armenian Committees, on the other hand, the diplomacy mechanism is activated to be open in some time and closed in some time