From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.history,soc.culture.turkish
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Subject: A genocide in 1914: only 1,500 Turks remained.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 22:29:11 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <199301050331.AA28750@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:

>Hasan has finally figured out how to properly capitalise Delco. Not

Our "Hasan"? Left over from the breed that conquered the "delco". I 
think of you in simpler terms: lazy. Well, anyway, leading the first 
Armenian units who crossed the Ottoman border in the company of the 
Russian invaders was the former Ottoman Parliamentary representative 
for Erzurum, Karekin Pastirmaciyan, who now assumed the revolutionary 
name Armen Garo. Another former Ottoman parliamentarian, Hamparsum 
Boyaciyan, led the Armenian guerrilla forces who ravaged Turkish 
villages behind the lines under the nickname "Murad", especially
ordering that 

 "Turkish children also should be killed as they form a danger to the 
  Armenian nation." 

Another former Member of Parliament, Papazyan, led the Armenian 
guerrilla forces that ravaged the areas of Van, Bitlis and Mush.

In March 1915, the Russian forces began to move toward Van. Immediately,
in April 11, 1915 the Armenians of Van began a revolt, massacring all 
the Turks in the vicinity so as to make possible its quick and easy 
conquest by Russians. Little wonder that Czar Nicholas II sent a 
telegram of thanks to the Armenian Revolutionary Committee of Van in 
April 21, 1915, "thanking it for its services to Russia." The Armenian 
newspaper Gochnak, published in the United States, also proudly 
reported in May 24, 1915 that 

"only 1,500 Turks remained in Van the rest having been slaughtered."

Source: Documents: Volume I (1919).
        "Document No: 15," Archive No: 1/2, Cabin No: 113, Drawer 
        No: 3, File No: 520, Section No: 2024, Contents No: 11-1; 11-3.
        (19 Feb 330 '4 March 1915', District Governor Kemal)

"List of male inhabitants of Mergehu Village murdered or annihilated 
 with the utmost savagery by local Armenians who joined Armenian gangs
 strengthening the Russian Forces:

 Names				Method of Annihilation
 -----				----------------------
Haci Ibrahim, son of Abdi	Bullets and bayonet
Abdi, son of Haci Ibrahim	Bullets and bayonet
Reso, son of Abdi		Beaten and cut into pieces
Sado, son of Omer		Beaten and cut into pieces
Aso, son of Reso		Beaten and cut into pieces
Kulu, son of Canko		Stabbed in the eye with a bayonet
Musa, son of Canko		Bayonet in his eye
Emin, son of Molla Hamit	Bayonet in his eye
Molla Abdullah, son of Hamit	Bayonet in his eye
Ibo, son of Haci		Bayonet in his eye
Sado, son of Haci		Bayonet in his eye
Abdullah, son of Canko		Slaughtered
Ibo, son of Ahmet		Abdomen ripped open
Ismail, son of Ibo		Burnt in fire
Musto, son of Ozu		Bullets
Mahmut, son of Seyyo		Slaughtered
Kocak, son of Birro		Bullets
Musto, son of Husnu		Bullets
Uso, son of Alo			Bullets
Maksut, son of Peri		Bullets
Haci, son of Peri		Bullets
Mehmet, son of Hasanali		Bayonet 
Ibo, son of Hasanali	 	Bayonet
Abdo, son of Mehmed		Bayonet
Molla Suleyman			Burnt in oven
Mazgi, son of Abdullah		Stabbed in abdomen by bayonet
Sulis, son of Hasan		Bullets
Mahmo, son of Mehmet		Stabbed with a dagger
Murat, son of Hasan		Stabbed with a dagger
Uso, son of Avci		Blinded with a bayonet
Lesko, son of Mehmet		Stabbed with a dagger
Abdullah, son of Kasim		Bullets
Coban Abdullah			Bullets
Seymo, son of Mumin		Bullets 
Muammer, son of Reso		Bullets
Paso, son of Merzi		Bullets
Gulu, son of Bitor		Bullets
Murat, son of Yusuf		Bullets and bayonet
Cedo, son of Haci Ibrahim	Bullets and bayonet
Faki Mehmet			Bullets and bayonet
Silo, son of Abdulcebbar	Bullets and bayonet

 List of massacred females from the same village:

Kasi, daughter of Huso and 
wife of Haci Ibrahim		Bullets
Fati, daughter of Isa,
wife of Aduz			Bullets
Zeresan, daughter of Amat,
wife of Reso			Bayonet
Gullu, daughter of Iyso		Cutting off her breasts
Sulnu, daughter of Sulo,	Ripping open her abdomen and burning
wife of Ibo			her baby in oven
Fatma, daughter of Ibo 		Slaughtered and burnt in oven
Fidan hatun			Burnt in oven
Gulfizar, daughter of Hacihan,  
wife of Musto			Slaughtered
Rahime, daughter of Mehmet, 
wife of Halil			Bullets
Binefs, daughter of Haci Kerim,
wife of Suleyman		Burnt in oven
Mahiye, daughter of Ali, 
wife of Sivno			Slaughtered
Hati, daughter of Haci, 
wife of Ahmet         		Slaughtered
Hacer, daughter of Meho		Bullet and bayonet

 List of Females of the same village raped and murdered:

Nadire, daughter of Haci, wife of Suvis
Hani, daughter of Kulu, wife of Zerko
Zaliha, daughter of Telli, wife of Silo
Arap, daughter of Sami, wife of Hilo

 Wounded males and females of the same village:

 (a long list)

 List of massacred males and females at Istuci village:

Mikail, son of Alo		Bullets
Musto, son of Ismail		Bullets
Dervis, son of Maksut		Bullets
Ali, son of Nimet		Bayonet
Esat, son of Kelo		Bayonet and bullets
Isa, son of Nebi		Bayonet and bullets
Cevher, son of Gani		Beaten by rifle butt
Ziro, daughter of Hasan		Died from injuries
Hazal, daughter of Ali, 
wife of Acem			Died from injuries
Hamsa, daughter of Huseyin,
wife of Huseyin			Died from injuries

 List of raped women at Istuci village in life:

Sabo, daughter of Maho		Virgin
Miri, other daughter of Maho	Virgin
Emine, daughter of Meho, wife
of Sofi Salih
Sahap, daughter of Ali, wife 
of Nevruz
Gullu, daughter of Mahi		Virgin

 List of persons attacked by Armenian gangs:

 (a long list)"

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)