From: ptg2351@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Panos Tamamidis )
Subject: Re: The Turkish Genocide upsets, frustrates and shames "sipa of Delco".
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:09:36 GMT

sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic) writes:

>A concerned "sipa"? When you have finished "dropping" I'd suggest 
>you answer the points scholars have raised below.

>1) Did Armenians slaughter 62% of Muslim population of Van?
>2) Did Armenians slaughter 42% of Muslim population of Bitlis?
>3) Did Armenians slaughter 31% of Muslim population of Erzurum?
>4) Did Armenians slaughter 26% of Muslim population of Diyarbakir?
>5) Did Armenians slaughter 16% of Muslim population of Mamuretulaziz?
>6) Did Armenians slaughter 15% of Muslim population of Sivas?
>7) Did Armenians slaughter the entire Muslim population of the Armenian
>   Dictatorship?

>There is only one answer to questions 1-7. And that is a resounding 
>'yes.'[1,2,3] 

>[1] J. McCarthy, "Armenian Terrorism: History as Poison and Antidote," 1984.
>[2] K. Karpat, "Ottoman Population 1830-1914," The Univ. of Wisconsin Press,
>    1985.
>[3] R. Hovannisian, "Armenia On The Road To Independence," 1967, p. 37.

>Between 1914 and 1920, 2.5 million Turks perished of butchery at the 
>hands of the Armenians. The genocide involved not only the killing 
>of innocents but their forcible deportation from the Russian Armenia. 
>They were persecuted, banished, and slaughtered while much of Ottoman 
>Army was engaged in World War I. The Genocide Treaty defines genocide 
>as acting with a 'specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial 
>part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.' History shows that 
>the Armenian dictatorship intended to eradicate the Muslim population. 
>2.5 million Turks and Kurds were exterminated by the Armenians. 
>International diplomats in Ottoman Empire at the time - including Admiral 
>Bristol - denounced the Armenian dictatorship's policy as a massacre of 
>the Kurds, Turks, and Tartars. The blood-thirsty leaders of the Armenian 
>dictatorship at the time personally involved in the extermination of the 
>Muslims. The Turkish genocide museums in Turkiye honor those who died 
>during the Turkish massacres perpetrated by the Armenians. 

>The eyewitness accounts and the historical documents established,
>beyond any doubt, that the massacres against the Muslim people
>during the war were planned and premeditated. The aim of the policy
>was clearly the extermination of all Turks in Armenian dictatorship
>territories.

>The Muslims of Van, Bitlis, Mus, Erzurum and Erzincan districts and
>their wives and children have been taken to the mountains and killed.
>The massacres in Trabzon, Tercan, Yozgat and Adana were organized and
>perpetrated by the blood-thirsty leaders of the Dashnaks and Hunchaks.

>The principal organizers of the slaughter of innocent Muslims were
>Dro, Antranik, Armen Garo, Hamarosp, Daro Pastirmadjian, Keri,
>Karakin, Haig Pajise-liantz and Silikian.

>Source: Bristol Papers, General Correspondence: Container #32 - Bristol
>to Bradley Letter of September 14, 1920.

>"I have it from absolute first-hand information that the Armenians in 
> the Caucasus attacked Tartar (Turkish) villages that are utterly 
> defenseless and bombarded these villages with artillery and they murder
> the inhabitants, pillage the village and often burn the village."


>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)