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<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n POCKET GUIDE TO TRUTH<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Sources of information on alleged Armenian claims of Genocide<\/span><\/p>\n against The Turks.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Find out what former Armenian Premier Senin Ovanes Katchaznouni said during the 1923 Dashnak Party Conference in Bucharest-Romania, about the mistakes and misguided activities \u2013treachery- of Armenian extremists <\/span>and activists. Available from iletisim@kaynakyayinlari.com <\/span>ISBN 975-343-438-3<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Examine Guenter Lewy’s “The Armenian Massacres in Turkey, A Disputed Genocide” ISBN-13:978-0-87480-849-0 available on Amazon.com (Jewish author from USA) <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Read Sukru Server\u2019s \u2018GENOCIDE OF TRUTH\u2019 <\/span>freely available on Armenians-1915.blogspot.com or direct from ssaya@superonline.com <\/span>ISBN 9789756516249<\/span><\/p>\n An incredible <\/span>account of one man\u2019s quest for truth against Armenian fabrications and distortions of history!<\/span><\/p>\n films to watch are:<\/p>\n <\/span> & Read Prof. Turkkaya Ataov’s WHAT HAPPENED TO OTTOMAN ARMENIANS?<\/p>\n ISBN 1=4243=1004-0 (obtainable from ssaya@superonline.com), (Turkish author) also read Sukru S Aya\u2019s (ssaya@superonline.com) book <\/span>\u2018Genocide of Truth\u2019 <\/span> <\/span>(\u0130stanbul Ticaret \u00dcniversitesi\u20132008) ISBN 9789756516249 or <\/span>have a look at www.armenians-1915.blogspot.com by Turkish Armenians (including free downloadable books and automatic translation of site text into several languages), <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n for Armenian terrorism against Turks.. why Armenians are not talking about their terrorists?<\/span><\/p>\n an interesting read (in 3 languages) of memoirs of a Russian Officer on Armenians at (click on the book for downloading) or access it <\/span>and others at (from Turkish Military archives reputed to be richest on this issue)<\/p>\n There are also several powerful books on this subject by the American author <\/span>Justin McCarthy <\/p>\n <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The TURKS ARE WILLING AND READY TO FACE THE ARMENIANS AT A PUBLIC INQUIRY AND DEBATE, FOR THE SAKE OF ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUTH. <\/span>But are the Armenians are ready to do so? <\/span>Have you asked them ..?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The Turkish Government supports the establishment of an independent International <\/span>commission to research the background of the Turco-Armenian relations during the <\/span>1st<\/sup> World War (see OSCE resolution) but the Armenians are refusing to participate!. Do ask them why..! <\/span>If truth scares them, then let it be. <\/span>Simply put, they are afraid of the truth surfacing and damaging the bond holding together their people.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n ————————————————————–<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n “The Ottoman archives remain largely unconsulted. When so much is missing from the fundamental source material, no historical narrative can be called complete and no conclusions can be called balanced<\/span>.”<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n Prof. Jeremy Salt<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Armenian application of Genocide related claim and consequences thereof is <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cUNJUST\u201d and \u201cBEREFT OF ANY FOUNDATION\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n European Union<\/span>, Luxembourg<\/span> Council of Justice <\/span>– case heard on the 17th<\/sup> December <\/span>2003 and an outcome of appeal of the 16th<\/sup> January, 2004<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Middle East Journal<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span> 61.2\u00a0(Spring 2007):\u00a0p348(2). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The Armenian Rebellion at Van, by Justin McCarthy, Esat Arslan, Cemalettin Takiran, and Omer Turan. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2006. vii + 266 pages. 11 Maps. Notes. Appends. to p. 285. Bibl. to p. 291. Index to p. 296. $25. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Reviewed by Edward<\/span> J<\/span>. Erickson<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n This timely book follows and complements recent work by Donald Bloxham [The Great Game of Genocide, reviewed in The Middle East Journal (MEJ), Vol. 60, No. 1 (Winter 2006)] and Guenter Lewy [The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide, reviewed in MEJ, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Spring 2006)]. Both Bloxham and Lewy contend that there was an actual Armenian rebellion in 1915, which was encouraged and aided by the Allies, and aimed at the establishment of an Armenian state. Moreover, Bloxham asserts that ill-timed active collaboration with the Allies by Armenian nationalist leaders led their people into a disastrous confrontation with the Ottomans. The Armenian Rebellion at Van supports these contentions by showcasing them with a fascinating case study of the well-known uprising in Van, the eastern Anatolian city and province, in the spring of 1915. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The authors begin with three chapters detailing the geographic, economic, and demographic setting of Van province, with attention to the origins and politics of the Armenian committees, especially those of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (the ARF or Dashnaks). Chapter four examines the rebellion of 1896. Chapter five, titled the “Development of the Revolution, 1897-1908,” outlines the growth of an armed Armenian movement by examining its leadership, tactics, arms smuggling, and Russian connections. Chapter six, on the period 1908-1912, briefly covers the deteriorating relations between the Young Turks and the ARF, while chapter seven covers the events preceding the outbreak of war. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The heart of the book, chapter eight, is a detailed examination, at the tactical level, of what happened at Van in late March and April 1915. Using previously unavailable documents from the Ottoman military archives in Ankara, the authors offer a picture of a carefully planned and executed rebellion that was sponsored by and closely coordinated with the Russians, who launched an offensive aimed at seizing the city. The concluding two chapters explain the destruction of both the Armenian and Muslim communities in the province and present an analysis of why the Ottomans failed to suppress the rebels. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n So why read another book about the Armenians’? This book represents a massive revision of what is known in the West about the Van uprising. Of particular importance is a well-developed exposition of Armenian leadership, organizational architecture, professionalism in military training, innovative tactics, and weaponry that is integrated into an explanation of how the battles were fought. The authors assert that the rebels were not simply city residents reacting in self-defense but were instead well led, tightly organized, and dangerous. They present a convincing argument based on new archival information. The maps are unusually clear and include (for the first time) small-scale municipal maps of the city of Van as it existed in 1915. The book is a gold mine of new and detailed information. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n This reviewer found the overall tone of the book to be unusual in its fair treatment of the Armenians by Turkish scholars. Professor McCarthy and his Turkish co-authors present the Armenians as able practitioners of the art of insurgency and note that the Armenian leader “Aram Manukian must be counted as one of the geniuses of guerrilla warfare” (p. 258). Moreover, they conclude that the Armenian insurrections were instrumental in crippling the Ottoman strategic position in Anatolia, and they also reinforce Bloxham’s assertion that the Armenians were badly let down by their Russian allies. Unfortunately, there are minor factual errors in the text. For example, Ottoman casualties at Sankaml are overstated by 100% (p. 179) while the cited Turkish source (Turk Harbi) actually gives much lower numbers. The authors erroneously give the date of a critical order from Enver Pasha on security precautions as September 25, 1914 (p. 190), when the correct date is February 25, 1915. Incorrect information is given on the composition of the First Expeditionary Force (p. 210) that includes flawed British estimates of non-existent bis divisions. There is also a lack of clarity and completeness in citing the Turkish archives; the authors rarely detail what the document is. Instead, they choose to list only its archival call number. However, these are small issues in what is otherwise a very valuable contribution to the field. <\/span><\/p>\n Specialists and interested readers alike will understand and appreciate this book. It is clearly written, and establishes an important corrective to the extant Western historiography. While it will certainly irritate the global Armenian lobby, this reviewer would encourage those seeking a balanced and informed understanding of these events to read The Armenian Rebellion at Van. It is well worth the price and highly recommended. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Lt. Col. Edward<\/span> J<\/span>. Erickson<\/span>, USA (Retired), International Research Associates, LLC<\/span><\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————————-<\/span><\/p>\n The following are excerpts from a review essay by Masaki Kakiszaki<\/span><\/em>, University of Utah, on a newly released book by Guenter Lewy<\/span><\/em>, titled \u201cThe Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong> University of Florida Press, 2005.\u00a0\u00a0 The full review is published in Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Spring 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n by Masaki Kakiszaki, University of Utah,<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n The full review is published in Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Spring 2007.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n Guenter Lewy\u2019s The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide<\/span><\/strong> has unleashed debate in the United States as well as in different countries such as Canada, France, Germany, and Turkey. In the United States, Lewy\u2019s articles expressing skepticism about historiographies constructed by both Armenian and Turkish historians about the Armenian genocide appeared in Middle East Quarterly and Commentary; in subsequent issues, these journals published several letters to the editors from readers, mostly Armenians, who objected to Lewy\u2019s thesis. (\u2026) <\/span>It is important to examine Lewy\u2019s argument in order to understand the reasons for Armenian scholastic anger against the book. The attacks on the book demonstrate how an inquiry into the tragic events of the First World War can be removed from historical context and elevated to mythological level, a process that, in turn, prevents any rational exchange between the two sides.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n (\u2026) Lewy\u2019s purpose is to evaluate the consistency and validity of the ongoing debate over the evidence for the Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey. The literature that pertains to the fate of the Armenian population during the First World War involves two narratives. On the one hand, Armenian scholars present this tragedy as the first genocidal event of the twentieth century. They argue that the Armenian massacre was a product of the Ottoman government\u2019s special intent to deport and exterminate the entire Armenian population in the empire. On the other hand, Turks contend that this event was an outcome of Armenian collaboration with the Russians, inter-communal warfare in eastern Turkey, and the harsh economic and social conditions of war (such as food shortages and the spread of diseases).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n (\u2026) This book tackles the question not of the scale of Armenian suffering but of \u2018the premeditation thesis.\u2019 Although there are wide discrepancies with regard to the total number of victims, at least both camps acknowledge that hundreds and thousands of Armenians lost their lives during the deportation. Thus, Lewy focuses on the dispute over the cause of Armenian massacres by inspecting the way in which Armenians and Turks have offered contradictory or competing accounts (\u2026) He concludes that an Ottoman intent to organize the annihilation of Armenians cannot be determined with the evidence that so far has become available to scholars. Thus, he rejects the term \u2018genocide\u2019 to describe the mass killing of Armenians, while admitting the indirect responsibility of the Ottoman local government officials for the loss of life of a large number of Armenians.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n (\u2026) He criticizes the manner in which Armenian authors rely on the consequences of the Armenian deportation to prove that the Young Turk leaders had prior plans for total destruction of the Armenian population. He argues that \u2018objective results are not the same as subjective intent\u2019. Furthermore, Lewy claims that the Armenian side ignores the multiplicity of cases in the tragedy by playing down the roles of starvation and disease, which afflicted not only the Armenian deportees but also Muslim Turks. Lewy also finds problems in the Turkish version of the stories <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n (\u2026)\u00a0 As Lewy points out, \u2018Both Turks and Armenians have accused each other of horrible crimes while at the same time denying or minimizing the misdeeds committed by their own forces\u2019. The Turkish side tends to dodge the responsibility of atrocities against Armenians by shifting the blame from the Ottoman government to \u2018the civil war cause.\u2019 On the other hand, Armenian authors ignore the Armenian revolutionary movements\u2019 relationship with Russia and the threat this relationship posed to the Ottoman government.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n (\u2026) Lewy\u2019s book aims to clarify the gap in our knowledge of the Armenian suffering. Lewy \u2018reconstructs\u2019 a history of this tragedy by strictly distinguishing the confirmed facts from the mere assertions of historians who fail to support their claims with substantive evidence. In this process he attempts to determine how the government decided on the deportation plan, how it was implemented in different regions and cities, who were responsible for the massacres, and how many people died. The chapters in this section reveal the diversity in the levels of Armenian suffering and the variation of the degree of implementing the deportation. This picture seems to imply that the deportation of the Armenian population was not carried out in a systematic or well-organized manner, which would be necessary for the purpose of total destruction of the Armenian community.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n (\u2026) In terms of the number of victims, different authors have generated different estimations. It is also difficult to determine the precise death toll because we have neither an exact figure for the prewar Armenian population nor an accurate count for the number of survivors. It also is impossible to distinguish the number killed by Turks and Kurds and those who perished due to starvation and disease. After a critical examination of the Armenian and Turkish historiographies, Lewy proposes an alternative explanation. He argues that \u2018it was possible for the country to suffer an incredibly high death toll without a premeditated plan of annihilation\u2019 for several reasons.<\/span><\/strong> First, the Ottoman government, despite its willingness, failed to arrange an orderly process of relocation of Armenians because of its institutional ineptness. The systematic and organized relocation of tens of thousands of Armenians proved beyond the ability of the Ottoman government. Food shortages and epidemic diseases which the authorities could not prevent or control exacerbated the environment for Armenians during the course of the deportation. Additionally, the government could not provide adequate protective measures for the Armenian deportees from hostile Kurds, Circassians and others. According to Lewy, these severe conditions and the inability of the Ottoman government to provide protection resulted in the high death toll of the Armenians. Thus, while he concedes that the government bears responsibility to a certain extent for the outcome, he emphasizes that it is the government\u2019s ineptness rather than a premeditated plan to exterminate the Armenians that caused the Armenian tragedy.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n One of the contributions of Lewy\u2019s work is that he clarifies what we have learned as confirmed facts from both the Armenian and Turkish historians. Without leaning to either side, he accepts evidence and arguments that are substantiated by other sources. His neutrality becomes obvious in Part IV, which discusses the politicization of the controversy over the Armenian massacres. He argues that the Armenian side\u2019s argument of the premeditation thesis lacks authentic documentary evidence and suffers from a logical fallacy. But he also criticizes the Turkish side for distorting the historical fact by translating the Armenian massacres into mere \u2018excesses\u2019 or \u2018intercommunal warfare\u2019.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\n<\/span>In order to establish truth and to confront racist bias against Turks, read below the works and commentaries of scholars and researchers,<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nYou may peruse www.tallarmeniantale.com, by author Holdwater & The \u201cArmenian Research\u201d Foundation or peruse <\/span><\/p>\n
\nRead on internet www.tallarmeniantale.com\/c-f-dixon-BOOK.htm, written by a British officer in 1916 \u2013 the portrayal of Anatolian Armenians, <\/span><\/p>\n
\nProf. Salahi Sonyel’s “The Turco-Armenian Imbroglio” ISBN-0-9504886-6-6, available at Cyprus Turkish Association 0207 437 4940 kibristc@btconnect.com (Cypriot Turk author)<\/span><\/p>\n
\n“The Armenian Revolt 1894-1920” documentary DVD by Third Coast Films, P.O. Box 664, Clarion, PA 16214, USA, <\/span>info@thirdcoastfilms.com (by an American Director) This is a MUST !!<\/span><\/p>\n
\n“Sari Gelin’ documentary DVD through www.sarigelinbelgeseli.com info@sarigelinbelgeseli.com (maybe available on eBay) (by a Turkish Director)<\/span><\/p>\n
\n“MYTH OF TERROR’ by late Erich Feigl (1986)Zeitgeschichte\/Bucherdienst Austria (Austrian Author) which contains the signatures of 63 foreign Academics refuting the Armenian claims<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
Comments by neutral<\/span> Scholars <\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Outcomes of Trials<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n