From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: "Karakus" goes to Van and Erzurum Turkish Genocide Museums.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21:00:14 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1992Nov16.180252.26592@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> deniz@mandolin.ctr.columbia.edu (Deniz Akkus) writes:

>I suspect Mutlu is not Turkish.

The response of a true "karakus". Were you high on "mutlu" when you
wrote that? By the way, I really miss him. Now, any comment?

Source: Documents: Volume I (1919).
        "Document No: 88," Archive No: 1/2, Cabin No: 113, Drawer 
        No: 3, File No: 527, Section No: 732(2057), Contents No: 26-7.
        (To the Ottoman Army Acting Supreme Command - 9th Army Commander
        Sevki)

"For 4-5 months, Armenians in Erivan, Karabag and Nahcivan have been 
 committing all kinds of cruelties on the Moslem population. Particularly
 in Erivan and Karabag, the Armenians have annihilated the Moslem 
 population by massacres, plunders and by forcing them to leave. Up-to-date,
 thousands of Moslem families, have been forced to flee for their lives
 in starvation to the Kars region. Those who could not flee or migrate
 were annihilated. Files, documents and reports on this matter have been
 from time to time submitted to the Supreme Command.

 The Gang Leader named Antranik, who has directed the Armenian policy
 of cruelty and brutality, has so far shed the blood of hundreds of
 thousands of people. Also destroyed all the houses, still continuing
 the same destruction in Karabag."
          

        "Document No: 65," Archive No: 4/3671, Cabin No: 163, Drawer 
        No: 5, File No: 2947, Section No: 628, Contents No: 3-1, 3-3.
        (To Acting Supreme Command - Commander, 3rd Army General)

"The situation in the cities of Erzincan and Erzurum which we have 
 recently taken over is given below:

 These two beautiful cities of our country which are alike in the
 calamities and destruction which they suffered, have been destroyed,
 as the specially designed and built public and private buildings of
 these cities were deliberately burnt by Armenians apart from the 
 destruction suffered during the two-year Russian occupation.

 All barracks buildings of Erzincan, the cavalry barracks in Erzurum,
 the Government building and Army Corps Headquarters are among those
 burnt. In short, both cities are burnt, destroyed and trees cut down.

 As to the people of these cities:

 All people old enough to use weapons rounded up, taken to the Sarikamis
 direction for road building and were slaughtered. The remaining people,
 were subject to cruelties and murder by Armenians following the 
 withdrawal of Russians and were partly annihilated the corpses thrown 
 into wells, burnt in houses, mutilated by bayonets, their abdomens
 ripped open in slaughterhouses, their lungs and livers torn out, girls
 and women hung up by their hair, after all kinds of devilish acts.
 The few people who were able to survive these cruelties, worse than
 those of the 'Spanish Inquisition,' are in poverty more dead than alive,
 horrified, some driven insane, about 1500 in Erzincan and 30,000 in
 Erzurum. The people are hungry and in poverty, for whatever they had
 has been taken away from them, their lands left uncultivated.

 The people have just been able to exist with some provisions found in
 stores left over from the Russians. The villages round Erzincan and 
 Erzurum are in the worst condition. Some villages on the road, have 
 been leveled to the ground, leaving no stone, the people completely
 massacred.

 Let me submit to your information with deep grief and regret that
 history has never before witnessed cruelties at such dimensions."

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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