Andonian was born in Constantinople . There he edited the Armenian journals '' Luys '' ( '' Light '' ) and '' Dzaghik '' ( '' Flower '' ) and the newspaper '' Surhandak '' ( '' Herald '' ) . Andonian then went on to serve in the department of military censorship of the Ottoman Empire . He was arrested by order of interior minister Talat Pasha of the Ottoman Empire on the eve of April 24 , 1915 and joined the large number of Armenian notables who were deported from the Ottoman capital . Andonian was deported to Chankiri , then , halfway there , returned to Ankara and was deported again to the camps in the Ra 's al - ' Ayn and Meskene . However , Andonian survived in Aleppo in the underground . When British forces occupied Aleppo , a lower-level Turkish official , Naim Bey collaborated with Aram Andonian in publishing his memoirs , an account of the deportation of the Armenians . '' The Memoirs of Naim Bey '' were published in 1920 , and are sometimes referred to as the " Andonian Telegrams " or the " Talat Pasha Telegrams . " The telegrams are purported to constitute direct evidence that the Armenian Genocide of 1915 – 1917 was state policy of the Ottoman Empire . They were introduced as evidence in the trial of Soghomon Tehlirian
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Aram Andonian