\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 3, 2012<\/p>\n
To:\u00a0 Leonard Felson and<\/p>\n
Seasons Media, LLC<\/p>\n
P.O. Box 92<\/p>\n
West Simsbury, CT 06092<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
From:\u00a0\u00a0 Bob McKay PhD Advisor to the Southern New England<\/p>\n
Turkish American Association & Former Missionary of the American<\/span><\/p>\n Board of Foreign Missions-now The United Church Board of World<\/span><\/p>\n Ministries.<\/span>\u00a0 (1959-1964)\u00a0 P.O. Box 126, Eastford, CT 06242\u00a0 Phone:<\/p>\n 860-978-6794<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Regarding \u201cA Connecticut Missionary in Turkey-Caroline Hamilton\u2019s Courageous<\/p>\n Work\u201d by Leonard Felson.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I loved the article \u201cA Connecticut Missionary in Turkey\u201d as all of our three children were born in the Gaziantep American Hospital co-founded by West Hartford\u2019s Caroline Hamilton.\u00a0 I grew up in nearby Simsbury, attended the Immanuel Congregational Church on Farmington Avenue and after graduation from UConn (trainer of Jonathan IV) was recruited to work in Turkey as a Congregational Church Missionary to teach biology to young Turkish boys at the Tarsus American College by the same mission board that employed Caroline Hamilton.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, from my own experience in Turkey, research, and participation in international seminars, etc. I found one part of the article misleading and perhaps insensitive to the innocent readers of this magazine article.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The article discusses \u201cMassacres\u201d, \u201cAtrocities\u201d, and \u201c50,000 Armenian Dead\u201d.\u00a0 This language and the reporting of what happened during\u00a0 tragic times over 100 years ago is and has been slanted to the Western \u201cChristian\u201d point of view.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 The answer is simple.\u00a0 In the Ottoman Empire during the turn of the last century many diverse international forces saw an opportunity to acquire various parts of the Ottoman Empire for themselves.\u00a0 The Armenians were no different.\u00a0 In order to create an Armenian country for themselves they became terrorists within the Ottoman Empire encouraged and armed by Russia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the Ottoman Empire proselytization was not allowed!\u00a0 Christians could teach and preach to Christians, Jews could teach and preach to Christians and the Muslims could only teach and preach to Muslims. \u00a0\u00a0Thus, when reported to the West, massacres of Muslims by Armenians are almost never mentioned, especially since Christians were reporting the stories from their point of view.\u00a0 Due to the overall beautiful picture Leonard Felson has created of Caroline Hamilton\u2019s courageous work, in Turkey, I do not wish to belabor this point except to say that during this historic time in history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 About 1\/3 of the entire Ottoman Muslim population died of war, disease, or famine and we in the West pass it over as we do the 7 million non-Jewish victims of the holocaust.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0 Also while thousands of authors and scholars have looked at this point, the most salient words come from a speech of Hovhannes Kactchaznouni, the first Prime Minister of the Independent Armenian Republic in his epoch report to the 1923 (Armenian) convention.\u00a0 Copy Enclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thus, while the subject I discuss is only tangentially related to Mr. Felson\u2019s story, it is nevertheless very important to Turks around the world and to the many Turkish students of the University of Hartford and the families who resides in West Hartford and surrounding areas in Connecticut.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cordially,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Robert B. McKay<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Historical Notes:<\/p>\n Isabel Hemingway (Ernest\u2019s cousin) after leaving the China mission came to Turkey and founded one of the first nurse training programs at the \u201cGaziantep American Hospital\u201d co-founded by Caroline Hamilton. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 3, 2012 To:\u00a0 Leonard Felson and Seasons Media, LLC P.O. Box 92 West Simsbury, CT 06092 From:\u00a0\u00a0 Bob McKay PhD Advisor to the Southern New England Turkish American Association & Former Missionary of the American Board of Foreign Missions-now The United Church Board of World Ministries.\u00a0 (1959-1964)\u00a0 P.O. Box 126, Eastford, CT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":774855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9721],"class_list":["post-53371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","tag-armenian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAintab is the Ottoman name of Gaziantep (Gaziantab).\u00a0 I believe Kemal Ataturk may have added Gazi as a prefix to the name of the town:\u00a0 Gazi meaning victory over infidels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"