Batzaria also noted that Turkification alienated the Aromanians , who were thus divided and forced to cooperate with larger ethnic groups within their '' millet '' just before the First Balkan War , and that cooperation between them and the Bulgarians was already unfeasible before the Second War . According to Betzaria 's anecdotal account , he and the Ottoman Armenian politician Gabriel Noradunkyan rescued Istanbul from a Bulgarian siege , by spreading false rumors about a cholera epidemic in the city . His explanation of World War I depicts the Central Powers alliance as a gamble by the most daring of the Young Turks . Deploring the repeated acts of violence perpetrated by the Ottomans against members of the Armenian community ( Noradunkyan included ) , Batzaria also maintains that the Armenian Genocide was primarily perpetrated by rogue Ottoman Army units , Hamidieh regiments and other Kurds . He claims to have unsuccessfully asked the Ottoman Senate to provide Armenians with weaponry against the " bandits carrying a '' firman '' "
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Nicolae Constantin Batzaria