From: dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian)
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas, Argic
Summary: A fool wishing a Moslem Turk Merry Christmas, believes a revisionist 
Keywords: reaping what ones sows
Organization: S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:29:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.224612.5721@bmerh85.bnr.ca> faruk@bcars6f5.BNR.CA (Faruk
od Bosne) wrote:

[F] I would like to extend my thanks to Serdar Argic in revealing us the truth 
[F] about the events in Turkey during WW1. Before reading his articles I have 
[F] suspected (altough never believed) that Turks massacred Armenians during 
[F] a campaign of defending the very existance of their homeland. His thorough 
[F] documentation showed that Armenians were in fact massacreing Turks in 
[F] unprotected villages while Turkish Army was busy defending the country. 
[F] However, for some people the truth seems to be very painful. As the case 
[F] is, Serdar, this (desperation?) is their problem, not yours. Thanks again 
[F] and keep up good work. May I extend very best wishes in upcoming year.

You sir, were fooled. I personally refuted every bit of his revisionism,
exposed every one of his omissions, deletions, etc. I guess you never bothered
to read them, or for that matter, I never bothered to post them to soc.culture.
croatia. Well, sir, it's not surprising you were fooled so easily, since you
wished "Merry Christmas" to a Moslem Turk!

In supporting Turkish Genocide Apology, you must also believe what the leaders 
in Serbia are telling their people regarding the barbarism now talking place in 
Bosnia-Herzegovina, like there are no mass rapes of Moslems in Bosnia. I
suppose you also think the Greeks burnt Synrna and then killed themselves! I
hope your children won't have to listen to Serbian propaganda twenty or thirty 
years from now describing the "attackes on Serbian civilians in Bosnia", as the
excuse for "defending our homeland against the barbaric Moslems". But then
again you will reap tomorrow what you sow today!

Perhaps you can explain the fact that there is not a single Armenian today
living on the lands under question, only "Moslems"? Tell us Mr. Enlightened
One! Tell us why the 1915 population of Armenians in Turkey of over 2 million,
within 1 year dropped to less than 150,000? Tell us why Armenia homes were 
subsequently filled with Moslems from the Balkans! And while you are explaining
the impossible, also explain the following quote from the Inspector General of 
Turkish Forces in Armenia, during WWI:

"However, upon the breaking out of the World War the massacres recommenced with
 such violence that, of the two and a half million Armenians that lived in 
 Turkey before 1914, I believe not even one half million remain, including the
 three to four hundred thousand who dwelt in Constantinople and Smyrna, and 
 who, by means of I know not what miracle, escaped the deportation and 
 lived." [1]

             -- Inspector General of the Turkish Forces in Armenia, Nogalas Bey

			- - - reference - - -

[1] _Four Years Beneath the Crescent_ Rafael De Nogalas, Inspector General of
    Turkish Forces in Armenia and Military Governor of Egyptian Sinai During 
    the War, Translated from the Spanish by Muna Lee, Charles Scribner's Sons,
    New York, London, 1926, page 17


-- 
David Davidian <dbd@urartu.sdpa.org>  |  "The Regular Army of the Ottomans was 
SDPA Center for Regional Studies      |   entirely innocent of the Armenian 
P.O. Box 382761                       |   massacres." - Inspector General of 
Cambridge, MA 02238                   |   the Turkish forces in Armenia, WWI 
-- 
David Davidian <dbd@urartu.sdpa.org>  |  "The Regular Army of the Ottomans was 
SDPA Center for Regional Studies      |   entirely innocent of the Armenian 
P.O. Box 382761                       |   massacres." - Inspector General of 
Cambridge, MA 02238                   |   the Turkish forces in Armenia, WWI 
Xref: sparky soc.culture.croatia:148 soc.culture.yugoslavia:10157 soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna:892