From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: "Sipa of Delco" and "ASALA/SDPA/ARF": a dangerous marriage.
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 16:37:04 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1993Jan2.015508.9513@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:

>Serdar Argic is nothing more than a pen name. Since our friend is an

As usual, it is a blatant lie. Now try dealing with the rest of what 
scholars wrote, "sipacik".

Source: Bilal N. Simsir, "The Genesis of the Armenian Question," Ankara, 1984,
pp. 5-6.

"The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 was the biggest disaster ever known 
 in the Ottoman-Turkish history. During that war nearly four hundred 
 thousands Rumelian Turks were massacred. About a million of them who
 fled before the invading Russian armies took refugee in the Thrace,
 Istanbul and Western Anatolia.[9] The Russian invasion of eastern provinces
 of Anatolia too was a real calamity for the Turkish-Muslim people of the 
 region.

 The War of 1877-78 affected also the Armenian minority in Turkey, but in a
 different way. In some remote parts of Anatolia, Armenian armed bands took
 advantage of the absence of all able-bodied Turkish men and troops, and,
 attacked unprotected peaceful Muslim villages. Such was the case, for instance,
 in the Zeitoun region where some 200 armed Armenians, under the brigand Chief
 Babek, attacked and looted the settlements of the neighbouring Yuruk tribes
 and the Turkish villages of Lisne, Kenbul, etc. and killed several unoffensive
 people.[10]"
 

[9] For details see: Bilal N. Simsir, "Turkish Emigrations from the Balkans.
    Documents. Vol. I: A Turkish Exodus (1877-1878): Vol. II: A Year of
    Transition (1879)," Ankara: 1968-1970.
[10] Turkey No. I (1880): "Correspondence Respecting the Commission sent by
     the Porte to Inquire into the Condition of the Vilayet of Aleppo,"
     London: 1880, No. 831.


p. 6.

"While Armenian merchants and shop-keepers were doing good business during the
 Russian occupation, several other Armenians in the Eastern regions of 
 Anatolia collaborated with the invading Russian armies. The Russian
 officers of Armenian origin, such as Lieutenant-General Lazareff at Kars
 and Major Kamsaragan at Erzurum, encouraged the local Armenians to enter
 Russian service and played a certain role in obtaining their collaboration.
 Major Kamsaragan, former Russian acting Consul of Erzurum, became the 
 Chief of the Police of the town during the Russian occupation...The presence
 of the Russians in the region encouraged those Armenian collaborators to
 maltreat their Turkish neighbors. Captain Trotter, the British Military
 Consul at Erzurum, reported: 'There is no doubt that during the Russian
 occupation several of the Armenians, who had been enrolled in the local
 police, took advantage of the opportunity to abuse and maltreat the
 Mussulmans. This has been admitted to me by the Russian acting Vice
 Consul...'[12]"

[12] F.O. 424/77, No. 114; Turkey No. 54 (1878), No. 355; Turkey No. 10
     (1879), No. I.

p. 19.

"...these Armenian mountaineers revolted again under the brigand Chief
 Babek, by attacking neighbouring Turkish villages and tribes...Then they
 looted several Mussulman villages....to find the mosque and government 
 buildings in flame..."

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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