From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history,soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.yugoslavia
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Armenian genocide of the Muslim people in Erzurum and Erzincan.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 19:45:18 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <Bzp266.8q1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ptg2351@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Panos Tamamidis ) writes:

>  You can certainly start talking to yourself you know.  However, the network
>  is a place where people are supposed to express their ideas, talk and
>  rationalize about their opinions.  Are you jealous of Mutlu/Argid?

The truth is sometimes hard to swallow, 'tamtam.' The genocide 
of 2.5 million Muslims by the Armenians should and will be exposed 
over and over again so that the future generations would live in peace.

Millions of Turks and Kurds lost grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts  
and uncles at the hands of Armenian dictators, genocide squads, 
terrorists and insurgents trying to establish an independent state 
in an area where the Armenians were in the overwhelming minority. 

When the Ottoman soldiers entered the city of Erzincan they found all
public and Islamic buildings and more than 1,000 houses demolished
by the Armenians.

Hundreds of bodies of Erzincan's Turks were found in the streets,
hundreds more in wells or shallow graves. In other cities the scenes
awaiting the Ottoman soldiers were similar. 400 buildings in Bayburt
had been burned down and hundreds of bodies were in the streets.
Tercan had been completely destroyed by dynamite. In Erzurum, the
greatest city of the east, Ottoman officials estimated that 8,000
Turks had been killed in the city alone. The figure may have been
exaggerated, but the soldiers did count and record each body buried
by them and 2,127 male bodies were buried in the first 8 days.
Out of a sense of decency, the soldiers did not count the female 
bodies buried or report what had happened to them.

The atrocities in the cities were repeated in the villages. On the
Armenian line of retreat the Muslims who could not flee were killed.
Very few houses and no complete villages remained. An Austrian
newspaper reporter, who could not be accused of liking the Russians,
Austria's enemy, stated that the Russians had treated the people of
the region relatively well, but that when Russia collapsed Armenian 
gangs destroyed the Turks. Dr. Stephan Eshnanic traveled the region
and wrote

"I have been observing the evidence of the cruelties of the Armenians
 at almost every step. All the villages from Trabzon to Erzincan and
 from Erzincan to Erzurum are destroyed."[1]  

Turkish refugees, the remainder of the original population, who had
been able to remain during the Russian occupation, choked the roads.

[1] Reported to the "Nues Wiener Tagblatt, Prester Lloyd, etc."

Serdar Argic

                     'This war quickly developed into one of extermination. 
                      We closed the roads and mountain passes that might 
                      serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and 
                      then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)

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