From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history,soc.culture.croatia
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Subject: Re: What Kazim really wanted from "Gav*0" was not a broken nose but...
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 23:50:17 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1ghajaINNcr2@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> pavlovic-milan@yale.edu (Milan Pavlovic) writes:

>>I really miss "mutlu".

>  Well, you know Serdar, so do I.  Hasan was such a funny guy, always coming 
>up with the best one liners, keeping up the momentum on the groups...His 
>posts could really get my spirits up in a time of despair.  And he also 
>knew how to spell "Turkiye", unlike you.  

Yup. I still have his laughter in my mind, and I hear it at hard times.
And best of all, I have the recipe for his "truth" sauce. In the Armenian 
National Congress held in February 1915 in Tiflis, the Dashnak representative 
gave the following report:

 "As is well known, the Russian government contributed 242,900 roubles
  at the beginning of the War for the provision of arms and training to
  the Turkish Armenians as well as for organizing revolts in Turkish 
  Armenia. It is expected that our volunteer bands will penetrate the
  Turkish lines, joining up with the insurrectionists and, if possible, 
  by creating panic in the rear of the Turkish army, help the advance 
  of the Russian troops and facilitate their invasion of Turkish 
  Armenia."

The Russian government had given Armenian politicians and activists free
rein to pursue their policies and to express their thoughts on one 
condition alone: that they fulfilled their obligations to the Russians
by organizing a rebellion in Turkish Armenia within the specified time.

In accordance with the strategic plans and the orders of the Russian
military command, the Dashnaks took the following decision:

 "As soon as the Armenian volunteer units commanded by Antranik approach
  Van, the Dashnak fighters in the area will take to the mountains and
  unfurl the flag of revolt. The plans for the rebellion will be 
  implemented in April 1915. The Catholicos has informed us that 10,000
  armed fighters are ready to join the action."

In this way, the Dashnaks would be able to show that they had fulfilled
their obligations to the Tsar and to imperialist Russia. It is self-evident 
that when tens of thousands of people take up arms in revolt against the
state immediately behind its lines of battle, that country's very existence
is at stake and the suppression of the rebellion becomes a matter of life
and death.

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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