From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history,talk.politics.cis
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: He's got the clue !
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 10:41:16 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1992Nov19.183646.25628@cs.wisc.edu> solodov@monterey1.cs.wisc.edu (Mikhail V. Solodov) writes:

>ok, here is an intelligent solution.
>Let us all put this Argic guy in our .kill file .

Now that's an intelligent solution. So your solace is not religion or
yoga or rum or "karakus" or even deep sleep. It's history.

"The revolutionary committees in Van were more powerful than those
 in other parts of the country. Large quantities of arms and ammunition
 were imported through Iran and the Caucusus, and a well-disciplined 
 organization set up among the Armenians. In Van we find the Hunchaks, 
 the Armenagans, and the Dashnaks.

 Preparations for the rebellion had been going on for almost a year.
 Stores of arms and ammunition had been built up by means of an 'arms tax'
 levied on the Armenian population, and the organization of the mutiny had
 been taken over by leaders from Russia and Iran."

"...It was under these circumstances that the Armenian rebellion broke out
 in April 1915. The rebellion, which lasted until August, seemed to follow
 a course parallel to the one outlined in the protocol mentioned above.
 One was continually coming across Armenians cutting off telegraph lines,
 and when asked why they were doing this, they would invariably reply 
 they had been ordered to do this by the Russians. When the Russians launched
 an offensive on the front, the Armenians would revolt in the rear. Indeed,
 there were also revolts far inside the country, in places as remote as
 Sebinkarahisar. There were in fact very few Ottoman forces in the rear of
 the army. In Istanbul, too, an Armenian revolutionary movement was 
 discovered."

"In all the occupied territory from which the Russians were withdrawing,
 the Turks were exposed to attacks by the Armenians, who were attempting 
 to take over the administration. The Turkish population was forced to
 leave their homes and flee. There were large number of unwarranted 
 arrests and many were killed. Antranik arrived in Erzurum as a general
 in Russian uniform to take over the defence of the city, and he was 
 joined there by Doctor Zavriev, who had previously been appointed 
 Deputy Governor-General of the occupied provinces. The atrocities and
 massacres committed by the Armenians continued in their fury."

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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