Author: Aylin D. Miller

  • HISTORICAL FACTS IN TURKISH-ARMENIAN RELATIONS

    HISTORICAL FACTS IN TURKISH-ARMENIAN RELATIONS

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    Historical Facts in Turkish Armenian Relations
    Talaat Pasha Committee Publication -2
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    Asmalı Mescit Mahallesi, İstiklal Caddesi, Deva Çıkmazı
    No: 3/2 Beyoğlu / İSTANBUL
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    Tel: (0212) 612 31 85 – 576 00 66
    Certificate No: 12156
    This publication is free of charge, it cannot be sold in exchange for money.

    INDEX
    The Lives of Armenians during Seljuk and Ottoman Rule 5
    Armenian Revolts 7
    Massacre of Turks by Armenians Started Long Before Their Forced Migration 8
    The Decision of Forced Migration and Those Exempted from it 9
    Measures Taken To Insure Safety of the Displaced Armenians 10
    Population of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and the Number of
    Armenians Relocated 12
    The Decree to Stop Migration and Commence the Return of Those Willing 13
    Armenian Cooperation with Enemy Forces 14
    Statements Made by Russian and Armenian Statesmen 16
    Malta Exiles and the Efforts of the British to Find Documents Against the
    Ottoman Government 17
    American Research Committees 18
    The proposed Investigation Committee by the Ottoman Empire 18
    The Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Committee and the Efforts of the
    Turkish-Armenian Platform 18
    Fraudulent Documents and Pictures Manufactured by the Armenians 19
    Number of Turks who were Massacred in 4 Provinces of Eastern Anatolia
    During 1912-1922 23
    Turks Forced to Migrate in Order to Escape from Armenian Massacres 25
    A Comparison Between Deaths of Turks and Armenians and the Armenian
    Desires for More Land 26
    Assassination of Turkish Diplomats by Armenians 27
    Armenian threats and Terror Directed Towards Foreign Parliamentarians and
    Historians 28
    Armenians Raising Their New Generation as Haters of Turks and Turkey 29
    Conclusion 30
    References 31 Property of the Turkish Forum-World Turkish Alliance

    THE LIVES OF ARMENIANS DURING SELJUK AND OTTOMAN RULE

    Contact between the Turks and Armenians began in the year 1026 with the arrival of Çağrı Bey into Anatolia. Until the Seljuks defeated the Byzantines and gained control of Anatolia, Armenians had been living in principalities as vassals of the Byzantine Empire. Once Turks started to rule over these lands, Armenians then became dependent on the Seljuks….

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  • JIHAD  –   AS  A  UNIVERSAL CONCEPT

    JIHAD – AS A UNIVERSAL CONCEPT

    Allah cihad cihad jihadAyhan Ozer [[email protected]]

    The Islamic Jihad is an alarming word. In the west, either by ignorance or by design, it is loosely translated as “Holy War”. Yet, the Muslims claim that in Islamic teaching no war is holy; peace and harmony are divine injunctions in Islam. An attempt to present Islam as a warmongering faith is a stereotypical sensationalism handed down from by-gone era when Islam was painted as an arch-enemy of Christianity. If the Muslims are attacked with a faith- based intention then as a last resort Islam sanctions Jihad. Yet, Muslims are encouraged first to search for peaceful solutions to resolve their disputes and conflicts. Understanding, compromise and empathy should be given a chance to resolve hostility and confrontation as they are more constructive, and they lead to harmonious relations.

    Jihad is a multi-level concept, and has a larger connotation than its casual meaning would suggest. It is to strive in the way of God, and to struggle against evil inclinations within ourselves. It may come as a surprise to many but In that sense Jihad is not strictly religion-specific; rather, it is a way of dealing with adverse human conditions, which makes it universal. During a lifetime most individuals, even societies may have had their own moments of Jihad. For instance, the tremendous willpower put forth by a drug addict to free himself from the tentacles of addiction can be construed as a Jihad. Similarly, the ordeal of an alcoholic who seeks liberation from his predicament and his trials on this way can also be characterized as Jihad. All private struggles, such as gambling, over-eating that demand unrelenting will-power and nervous energy to overcome the evil within ourselves can be termed as Jihad.

    There is an anecdote attributed to Prophet Muhammad which illustrates the quiet inner struggle that each of us is required to exert from time to time. According to Traditions, the Prophet had just returned from a battle, victorious. He had proclaimed Jihad as the battle had been waged against the realm of disbelief to defend the faith and the faithful. One of his men said to Him, “Oh Muhammad, you have achieved your Jihad, you must rejoice it!” Prophet responded, “It was a lesser Jihad, now we have greater Jihad that lies ahead of us, and we must overcome it.” The man was puzzled, he asked, “Oh, Muhammad is there a goal more important than to be victorious in a battle?” Prophet replied, “Yes, there is! Now, it is time to conquer the evil force within ourselves, and restrain our ego lest we should slide into vainglory, and dilute our victory.”

    Almost every society has its own flaws. Some are intolerant of the religious or ethnic differences. Others are racist, and some societies oppress women, or deny basic civil liberties to their own people. Racism, for one, is a human defect inherently built in our sub-conscious. It plagues societies indiscriminately. America is a good example in that regard. At one time in its history America suffered from racism and ant –Semitism. As all the evils these two require constant vigilance lest they should raise their heads. Racism especially needs unyielding weariness; it may not be defeated yet it can be controlled through reinforcement and education. What is remarkable about America is its conscious and unrelenting persistence to purge itself of these moral shortcomings. And this can be termed as Jihad! The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s held a mirror to the psyche of the American society, and the country has become continuously vigilant against bigotry and prejudice, and eliminated them from the public sphere. What makes America great is the arduous journey it has undertaken tirelessly in the way of self edification, and its readiness to fight evil forces. In the Islamic lexicon it is called “Supreme Jihad.”

    The above are inspiring examples that describe the concept of Jihad from a larger perspective. The common thread in all those examples is the conscious effort to transcend the self in pursuit of moral rectitude.

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    Ayhan Özer

  • Preparations for Second Turkish Cypriot Cultural Festival Have Begun..Turkish Cypriot Cultural Association (TCCA),UK

    Preparations for Second Turkish Cypriot Cultural Festival Have Begun..Turkish Cypriot Cultural Association (TCCA),UK

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    CTCA UK February 2018 Newsletter

    CTCA UK Announcements

    Preparations for Second Turkish Cypriot Cultural Festival Have Begun

    Following on from the success of last year’s first ever Turkish Cypriot festival and with an overwhelming attendance of more than 20,000 people, we have decided to organise the second festival over two days to ensure that everyone is able to attend and enjoy what is promised to be an even bigger and better event. The dates will be 16 – 17 June 2018.

    In order to achieve this spectacular and ambitious occasion and provide our community with the cultural celebration it deserves, we have decided to partner with: Turkish Language, Culture and Education Consortium (Türk Dili Kültürü ve Eğitim Konsorsiyumu), Turkish Cypriot Community Association (TCCA – Kıbrıs Türk Toplum Merkezi) and Turkish Community Football Federation (TTFF – Türk Toplumu Futbol Federasyonu.

    Further updates and details, including venue information, will follow in due course, in the meantime please save these dates and keep following us.

    CTCA UK Executive Board

    CTCA UK Membership Fee Reminder

    For the attention of our all members: If you haven’t paid your membership fees yet, please complete.

    CTCA UK Needs a TV Presenter

    We are looking for a presenter to work part-time for the CTCA UK’s and its members’ TV program which will be on the screen twice a week in both Turkish and English. Please send your CV to info or info if you are presentable and have good dictation. We prefer presentation skills in both Turkish and English but you can also apply for only one of the languages.
    Please forward this to anyone who may be interested.

    Upcoming Events

    Dr. Fazıl Küçük Turkish School Presents “Parsel Parsel” Theatre Play

    Written by Zalihe Sususlu and Aygün Kencer in Cypriot dialect, “Parsel Parsel” theatre play is coming to London on Saturday 24 February. You can call 07738947674 – 07951739054 or 07980431557 for more details and tickets.

    Date: Saturday 24 February
    Time: 7 PM
    Venue: Dr. Fazıl Küçük Turkish School, Bellinghan Road, Catford SE6 2PS
    Tickets: £15

    TWPA February and March Events

    Turkish Women’s Philanthropic Association of England (TWPA) is organising:

    Afternoon Tea at 2-5 PM on Sunday 25 February
    Mother’s Day Lunch at Grand Palace on Friday 9 March at 12-3.30 PM
    Please contact the association for further details.

    Dr. Fazıl Küçük Turkish School’s Spring and Solidarity Ball

    Dr. Fazıl Küçük Turkish School is organising a Spring and Solidarity Ball with dinner, dance and music on Saturday, 10 March. Please call 07535793350 for more details and tickets.

    Date: 10 March 2018, Saturday
    Time: 6.30-11.30 PM
    Tickets: Adults £20 – Over 5s £15
    Venue: Conisborough College, Bellingham Road, London SE6 1SE

    Limasollular Association Celebrates International Day of Happiness (Costume Ball)

    Limasollular Association is holding its traditional costume ball featuring DJ Ahmet’s music to celebrate the International Day of Happiness. There will be a prize for the best costume.

    Date: Sunday, 11 March 2018
    Time: 6-10 PM
    Venue: Turkish Cypriot Community Association (TCCA – Kıbrıs Türk Toplum Merkezi)
    Tickets: £15

    Balıkçıoğlu Cabaret Theatre Presents “Huzur Evine Vermeyin Beni”

    Balıkçıoğlu Cabaret Theatre production of “Huzur Evine Vermeyin Beni” will be performed on Sunday 25 March. Please contact Artun Lurucinalı for more details and tickets.

    Date: 25 March 2018, Sunday
    Time: 3.30 and 7.30 PM (two performances)
    Tickets: £15
    Venue: Millfield Theatre, Silver Street, Edmonton

    Ali Rıza Değirmencioğlu Turkish School’s Benefit Ball

    Ali Rıza Değirmencioğlu Turkish School is organising a benefit ball to replace all the school’s books, stationery, folklore costumes and other essential items that perished in the recent fire. Please contact Sevtap Kemal on 07782359616 for more details and tickets.

    Date: Monday 7 May 2018
    Venue: Regency Banqueting Suite

    Hornsey Atatürk Turkish School Competes Abroad Again

    Hornsey Atatürk Turkish School is once again competing abroad. Last year, its Junior team came first in the Eighth European Turkish Folk Dancing Championships. At CTCA UK we are extremely proud of their achievements and wish them every success in the championships.

    Previous Events

    Dr. Fazıl Küçük Turkish School Commemorated Dr. Fazıl Küçük and Rauf Raif Denktaş

    Dr. Fazıl Küçük Turkish School commemorated Dr. Fazıl Küçük and Rauf Raif Denktaş on Saturday, 13 January.

    Limasollular Association and North London Islamic Turkish Trust Organised Mevlid-i Şerif

    Limasollular Association and North London Islamic Turkish Trust organised another Mevlid-i Şerif on 17 January 2018 to commemorate Dr Fazıl Küçük and Rauf R Denktaş on their remembrance anniversary and to pay respect to all martyrs and veterans of the Turkish Cypriot cause. Notable guests present included the TRNC London Representative Zehra Başaran, Consulate Ülkü Alemdar and her husband, and CTCA UK Chair Leyla Kemal.

    TWPA Held a Seminer on Menopause

    Turkish Women’s Philanthropic Association (TWPA), held a seminar on menopause on Friday 26 January. Gynaecologist Dr. Cahit Berk gave a keynote speech about the subject.

    Dr. Fazıl Küçük Turkish School Celebrated Its Eighth Cultural Evening

    Dr. Fazıl Küçük Turkish School had its Eighth Cultural Evening on Saturday 3 February. The event was very well attended with lots of attendees, music, folklore dance, handicrafts and delicious food from Anatolia and Cyprus.

    TWPA Hosted Local Journalists

    Turkish Women’s Philanthropic Association (TWPA), organised a dinner for local press members in London on Friday 9 February. Notable guests present included the TRNC Representative Zehra Başaran, Consulate Ülkü Alemdar, Press Attaché İsmet Ramiz and CTCA UK Vice Chair Işık Vedat. TWPA Chair Ayşe İbrahim thanked the guests. Attending journalists expressed their delight and gratitude for such an event.

    Limasollular Association Organised Daytrip to Stratford Upon Avon

    Limasollular Assocation organised a cultural trip to Stratford Upon Avon on Saturday 17 February.

    Vatan Cultural Turkish Choir Supports a Disabled Student

    Vatan Cultural Turkish Choir continues to work hard on its charity projects as well as contributing to arts and cultural activities in London. One significant charity focus has been to cover all the educational expenses of a disabled student in Cyprus. Little Ece has difficulties in walking and talking and needs special education at a private school in TRNC.

    Turkish Cypriot Cultural Association (TCCA) Started Cake Decoration Courses

    Turkish Cypriot Cultural Association (TCCA), started cake decoration courses both in English and Turkish which is happening for the first time in Britain.

  • Happiness in slow motion… Your body is an incredibly bizarre machine….

    Kimden: Suleyman Celimli [mailto:[email protected]]

    Happiness. You’re looking at happiness

    Your body is an incredibly bizarre machine.

    “What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. .”

  • WHAT TRUMP WANTS FROM YOU – COOPARATION IS ESSENTIAL FROM ALL OF US .. Darisi Turkiyenin Başina

    WHAT TRUMP WANTS FROM YOU – COOPARATION IS ESSENTIAL FROM ALL OF US .. Darisi Turkiyenin Başina

    It’s about time; but in reality, one can only hope and wish!
    Agree…not only Congress but local and State politicians as well. What a racket they have going.

    Donald Trump March 2015

    TRUMP’s Rules
    This makes way too much sense not to be passed on. But at least we can
    make our wishes known and hope. I’m with Trump on this one.

    President Trump is asking everyone to forward this email to a minimum of
    20 people, and to ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most
    people in the United States will have the message. This is an idea that
    should be passed around, regardless of political party.

    The TRUMP Rule’s Congressional Reform Act of 2017

    1. No Tenure / No Pension.
    A Congressman / Woman collects a salary while in office and receives no
    pay when they’re out of office. And, no more perks go with them.

    2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security.
    All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security
    system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system,
    and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

    3. Congress must purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

    4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay
    will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

    5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the
    same health care system as the American people.

    6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American
    people.

    7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen / Women are void.
    The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen / Women. Congress made all these contracts for themselves.

    Serving in Congress is an honor,not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators should serve their term(s), then go home and go back to work not get all kind of freebies.

    [NO WONDER THEY’RE FIGHTING EVERYTHING HE TRIES!]

    If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people, then it will only take three days for most people in the U.S. to receive the message.

    It’s time for us to take action now!

    THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS! He’s working on it at his desk.

    Pass it on!!!! Let’s help TRUMP drain the swamp!!

  • GENOCIDE.COM A PROFITABLE ARMENIAN ENTERPRISE

    GENOCIDE.COM A PROFITABLE ARMENIAN ENTERPRISE

    THIS ARTICLE IS WRITTEN IN RESPONCE TO THE BILL INTRODUCED IN CALIFORNIA

    By an Armenian-American senator, to claim $$$$$ from certain parties for
    the decendents of non existing GEnoside…

    “I REGRET TO INFORM YOUR LORDSHIP THAT THERE WAS NOTHING THEREIN
    WHICH COULD BE USED AS EVIDENCE AGAINST THE TURKS WHO ARE
    PRESENTLY BEING DETAINED IN MALTA… NO CONCRETE FACTS BEING GIVEN
    WHICH COULD CONSTITUTE SATISFACTORY INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE …THE
    REPORTS IN QUESTION DO NOT APPEAR IN ANY CASE, TO CONTAIN EVIDENCE
    AGAINST THE TURKS. R.C.Craigie,of American Archives,Washington,DC to:British Foreign Secretary, Lord George Curzon- 13 July 1922

    FRUITFUL LIKE A COTTAGE INDUSTRY

    Before we go any further, let us review what the expression ‘cottage
    industry’ means. The newest edition of a well known dictionary calls it
    “activity carried out or job done in workplace or at home.” Nothing could
    fit better than this to describe the labor-intensive work of Armenians in
    Diaspora. These people struggle slavishly, day and night, at home or office
    to achieve their obsessive objective: To ruin the good name of Turkey and
    Turks by every possible means. Some of their self-admitted confessions
    indicate that “they live every minute of every day just to hate Turks.”
    This hatred -charged loyal labor force, religious to the core, is supported
    one hundred per cent by the mother Church. Tens of thousands of its members
    work in a strictly organized fashion, following a unified agenda to create a
    product, which will represent to the world, on their behalf, the sum total of
    all the alleged misery and calumny ever befallen on the Ottoman Armenians in
    a far-away land, almost a century ago. The product they’re busy fashioning
    is an item, vital for their existence, as much as the air they breathe. It
    is extremely in demand, because without its indispensable support their house
    of cards won’t have a chance to stand up .
    The name of this much sought after profitable product is “GENOCIDE,” and the
    enterprise set up to produce it is called “GENOCIDE.COM ”
    ([email protected]) There is a HUGE amount of hunger generated for this
    item. Every Armenian wants to acquire it in large quantities, to be taken
    out hot from the presses, to be distributed lavishly by Armenians of every
    walk of life, to every corner of the world. The item is used during their
    interminable discourses, especially while the non-Armenians are being wooed
    to join their side. These people could be the members of domestic or
    international Media, representatives of various legislatures. They say that
    this article, “Genocide,” should be abundantly used at the beginning, in the
    middle, or at the end of all statements. This official procedure is to be
    strictly followed during all encounters with academics, city and state
    legislative bodies, or plain members of the local Press. As precious and
    indescribable an item the product may be, it is neither vegetable, nor
    animal, nor mineral. One may, however, call it ‘verbal.’ In normal
    conditions, excluding the ‘Armenian sacred’ month of APRIL, the principal
    place and time for this item to be used is very important. It is crucial
    that the propagation of the made-up scenarios, such as the improvised sob
    stories, the sorrowful narration of human sufferings of all kinds,
    experienced by their ancestors, and the “brutal” treatment they received
    from the rulers of the now defunct, Ottoman Empire are sensitive anecdotal
    materials ,and they have to be made quite believable. Needless to say, a
    majority of Americans do believe them. “Genocide” has been an item whose
    definition these people have been improving over the years, ever since they
    heard it first introduced in a publication by a non-Armenian . Now,
    however, having been appropriated from him, it is being honed and refined to
    an etymological perfection. Then it is sent everywhere to be subliminally
    transmitted into the cranium of every peaceful, and unsuspecting American
    citizen. This has been a proven method in which the targeted person or
    persons are made to learn to acclimatize themselves to the wrongdoings of
    the Turks as perpetrators of the “genocide.” Nothing is ever left to
    chance. All captive audiences are lectured time and again on the subject of
    a variety of cataclysms which allegedly occurred to their poor down-trodden
    Armenian relatives. Never mind the fact that the Armenians were the favorites
    of the Turkish Sultans and the
    One thing is certain though, the dates of these horrible events may
    constantly be changing. They could be referred to, at times, as having
    happened between the years of 1915 and 16, at other times between 1914 and
    1922. The most popular of them lately, has been the one of 1915 to 1923.
    However, this tedious, monotonous and definitely confusing work, is a labor
    of love for these unwavering, obdurate Armenians. Their work is believed to
    be generating from ghetto-like enclaves of Southern California. In ‘Silicon
    Valley’ alone 200,000 of them live, and many of them infiltrate the local
    computer-age cyber companies where they unload their one-sided views on the
    mythology of “genocide”. Unknown to these captive audiences is the fact that
    the “disinformatsia” the Armenians are passing on to their listeners, is
    worse than its original form employed by the Soviet Union’s KGB apparatchiks.
    The product these people are disseminating comes from their “mental
    rumination.” because they feed each other constantly stories of the distant
    past, most of them are, the purposefully-embellished semi-fictional stories
    depicting vague events allegedly taken place in geographically untraceable
    locales, with funny sounding Armenian names having replaced the original
    ethnic Turkish ones. Armenians make out of all this, a lucrative propaganda
    Industry. By collecting, packaging and peddling around these mythical fables
    passed on from generation to generation, rehashed by semi-senile
    grandmothers with their characteristically confused memories, they score
    success after success and thus recruit new turcophobes.
    The well- known French writer, and member of the “Academie Francaise”, Pierre
    Loti, despised the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire when he lived there and
    had dealings with them intimately on a personal basis. He is rumored to have
    said once : ” ..their vociferous blabber is the only claim to fame.”
    Actually, there could be no objection to what they’re saying and writing
    among themselves. But, this is not the case at all. With great deliberation
    and determination they use every cunning methodology and ‘modus operandi’
    to disseminate these venomous views of theirs, and shove them down the
    throats of uninterested American public and Media. This is the saddest part
    of the whole story, because, in most cases the same Media, accepts their
    drivel without further research or verification of authenticity. And the
    newspapers represented by the members of the Press, publish them verbatim,
    swallowing hook, line and sinker, every falsehood provided to them by the
    Armenian organizations. However, there seems to be an awakening observed of
    late. Some of the members of state legislatures are speaking up, saying :
    “resolutions dealing with 85 year old political events which may or may
    have not occurred, at another part of the world should have no relevance to
    the affairs of the state we represent in this country today.”
    Meanwhile, back in the Cottage Industry, oblivious to all this, writers of
    all caliber of talent and background grind out stories by the dozens. Every
    Spring when the month of April approaches a ‘frenzy and delirium’ take over
    these Armenian institutions. Everyone competes with everyone else, to outdo
    each other in sending letters, faxes, and e-mails, even telegrams to any and
    all publications possible. After all, Spring is the season of
    resurrection, and their stale concoctions left over from the previous years
    have to be revived once again and expedited to their new destinations as if
    they were some freshly cultivated crop. So, now is the perfect time to go
    out and plant in various journals and magazines these fictional accounts.
    Get them published in a myriad of bogus articles, then take those printed
    materials to show to the state legislators , to US Congressmen and
    Senators and demand that they pay attention to them and consider them in
    their future proposals, etc… And , low and behold ! their insidious system
    works. The routine goes on, people are fooled, the deception continues with
    no end in sight. The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) is
    happy, and the lackeys of the Armenian constituents, the unabashed
    bootlickers, the Boniors, the Porters, the Gilmans, the Pallones, the
    Radanoviches are the ones who keep on getting elected and sustain the
    “GENOCIDE.COM” operations. Their ultimate goal is to reach and inundate
    and infest the inhabitants of every conceivable location in this universe
    and beyond.
    The “drone-like” members of this cottage industry keep busy reproducing
    the tools needed to use against the Turkish nation and its government to
    force them to admit the “butchery” of millions of ‘innocent’ ancestors of
    theirs, and force the Turks to repent on the altar of history their
    systematic liquidation of the ‘millions’ of the Armenians in Anatolia.
    However, the figures used in this so-called “genocide” is an ever-changing
    thing. Every time they have reference to it the number of the victims
    fluctuates, varying between 300,000 to three million. This discrepancy does
    not bother the Armenians. They are used to this kind of thing. They are
    known to have lied and having deliberately misrepresented figures, and forge
    documents before. Interested parties should refer to the scandalous forged
    documents known as ANDONIAN papers. On various occasions when they organize
    “genocide” shows around the country, usually a disgusting “photograph” is
    exhibited. It shows hundreds of skulls piled up in a most gruesome
    fashion. The caption says: IN MEMORY OF THE 1,500,000 MARTYRED ARMENIANS
    WHO WERE MASSACRED BY THE TURKS IN 1915. The truth about this perfidious
    claim is that it is a lie. The photo is a counterfeit. It is far from being
    a photograph taken in 1915, it is in fact the photocopy of a Russian
    masterpiece painted in oil by Vassili Vereschagin who died in 1905. His
    original painting is still hanging at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow
    today. The Armenians know this forgery quite well, but continue using it
    throughout the world on pamphlets and postcards. They did this as recently
    as last month in France.
    Soon after the First World War, the high ranking Ottoman officials were
    arrested and imprisoned by a victorious England, on the island of Malta. the
    men who numbered 140 were detained, while an Armenian scholar named HAIG
    KHAZARIAN was appointed by the British to locate evidence of war crimes and
    persecution of Armenians. After researching the archives of a captive
    Ottoman government, the British archives, and finally the U.S. Department
    archives, all the detainees were released after three years . Although
    Britain suffered a great deal of humiliation, at least, they thoroughly
    researched the matter and were decent enough to admit their mistake before
    releasing these unjustly accused people. ( Erol Bulur, Media Watch report,
    Oct.3,1990)
    WHAT ADOLPH HITLER DID NOT SAY!
    The oft referred to infamous “quotation” of Adolph Hitler: “Who still
    speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians” etc… is as phony as a
    three dollar bill. Hitler had never uttered those words. However, he is
    reputed to have used frequently the following quotation , which sounds like
    it was borrowed from his Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels : “The
    more you repeat a lie, the more it becomes the truth. To be able to give a
    more authoritative answer to the above Hitler quotation, let us read a short
    passage from Prof. Dr. Turkkaya Ataov, Chairman, International Relations
    Division, Ankara, Turkey. Professor Ataov categorically refutes the quotation
    and says in part: “As a matter of fact, Hitler had probably made only one
    reference to the Armenians in a talk delivered on December 12, 1942, in which
    he described them as unreliable (unzuverlassig) and dangerous (gefahrlich.).
    Adolph Hitler was not the only one who had negative feelings about the
    Armenians. It was Pierre Loti, the French novelist and world traveler, whose
    name was mentioned above proudly defended the Turkish position, when others
    sided with the Armenians because they were closer to their religious feelings
    and beliefs. Loti knew the Turks intimately for having lived in Turkey and
    written books about his friends, the Turks, about whom he once said the
    following : “Their loyalty… unblemished honesty,…endless
    hospitality…religious tolerance …moral elegance and natural tact, do give
    affectionately deposition for the Turks in front of great Tribunal of
    Humanity. Letters continue to arrive to me everyday, from officers, soldiers,
    even Catholic priests, who were able to know them closely at the Dardanelles
    and who remain amazed to have found the Turks to be as I had described them.
    One of the most touching came from a soldier who had been their prisoner for
    a long time, to express his tender gratification of the Turks who took care
    of him with brotherly love. Thank God, the truth about them is beginning to
    make headway at home.” (France)….He continues, “To speak …about the
    Armenian race is for me more painful than one would believe, because the
    amount of their unfortunate ‘incidents’ rendered me almost scared; also… If
    I were able to claim and support that all the French who have lived in
    Turkey, even our monks and nuns, give the Turks their esteem and their
    affection, on the contrary, I believe that we would find barely one out of a
    hundred of us who has good memories of these ‘unfortunate’ Armenians. All
    who have had any relationship whatsoever with them, mundane or business,–
    business affairs above all, were turned away with antipathy.

    There are other testimonials . The well-known student of Turkish affairs,
    Dr.Stephan Ronart wrote the following in his, “La Turquie d’Aujourd’hui”
    The Turkey of Today, Paris 1937
    “….Three times in the same millennium, Turks have built three
    inter-continental empires- the mightiest that history has ever recorded. This
    expansive spirit has always been the normal pattern in Turkish social life.
    None of these early Turkish empires allowed the slightest religious
    intolerance to take hold among themselves, nor did they advance the
    superiority of one faith or of one sect over another.

    Alphonse de Lamartime,in his 9 volume essay on Turks wrote long before anyone
    else that Turks were generous and sensitive, that their country was that of
    gentle, heroic people. He proclaimed that to be
    the foe of such a people would be like being the foe of humanity. He
    finished his words by saying :
    “God preserve me from such a sin.”
    Having remembered the injustices perpetrated on the Turkish people by the
    Armenians and Greeks in these
    United States, and having just finished reading the above unsolicited
    testimonials, I cannot refrain myself from asking the following question:
    “Could our ancestors ever commit the crimes they are accused of? Were the
    Turks of the old Ottoman Empire capable of harboring within their hearts a
    burning desire compelling them to annihilate a human race, the Ottoman
    Armenians? Invariably the answer comes up a resounding “NO”, no, no, never!

    There are times when I find it impossible to comprehend the enormity of the
    accusation we Turks have been confronted with. To be able to endure for
    a long time, such a horrendous indictment, a “Genocide” we had to be totally
    innocent of the charges and we are. There was no such thing as a “Genocide”
    For those who ask themselves, “If Turks were such a fair, magnanimous, and
    gentle people why then the Armenians in Diaspora accuse them for such a
    horrendous crime of Genocide?” Here’s the answer which they will never
    accept because it runs against their profitable enterprise of GENOCIDE.COM
    . They will always refute the truth. The wholesale Armenian insurgence in
    the Ottoman Empire for a pipe dream called Independence, and the extortion
    of a piece of valuable Turkish real estate did not pan out ever since the
    Armenians have been playing the role of “bad losers” and selling a
    deportation/resettlement issue as
    plain old “Genocide”

    But why take the prejudicial words of a person like me? Why not listen to the
    an American, General James G, Harbord, the head of the U,S. Government’s
    investigative Commission, sent to Anatolia in the Fall of 1919 by none other
    than President Woodrow Wilson? In his report to President Woodrow Wilson,
    and to the U.S Congress,General James G. Harbord said the following: “The
    Turks and the Armenians lived in peace, side by side for centuries ; that
    the Turks suffered as much as the Armenians at the time of the deportations,
    that at the start of World War I and before, Armenians never had anything
    approaching a majority of the population in the territories they called
    “Armenia”; they would not have majority even if all the deported Armenians
    were returned; and the claims that returning Armenians would be in danger
    were not justified.”

    Finally as a definitive answer to the accusations of the profitable Armenian
    Enterprise “GENOCIDE.COM
    and to its tireless contributors, we have here, one more time, for every
    Armenian to see and to learn by heart, the official words used on the
    declaration of the British Government from the island of Malta, where 140
    high ranking Ottoman government officials suspected of having engineered the
    “Genocide” were kept incarcerated, and then let go free at the end of their
    third year of imprisonment in 1921. From 13 July 1922 British Foreign Office
    Archives, 371/6504/8519, Mr. R.C.Craigie of American Archives in Washington
    ,DC written to Lord Curzon, of England saying that :

    “I REGRET TO INFORM YOUR LORDSHIP THAT THERE WAS NOTHING THEREIN WHICH
    COULD BE USED AS EVIDENCE AGAINST THE TURKS WHO ARE PRESENTLY BEING
    DETAINED AT MALTA…NO CONCRETE FACTS BEING GIVEN WHICH COULD CONSTITUTE
    SATISFACTORY INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE…THE REPORTS IN QUESTION DO NOT
    APPEAR, IN ANY CASE, TO CONTAIN EVIDENCE AGAINST THE TURKS.”

    I’d like to bring this essay to a close with the words one more time of the
    great friend of the Turks Pierre Loti who in his book : “Fantome d’Orient”
    1928 wrote: “One should be blind to history not to understand the Turks.
    The dignified silence of the Turks against the mounting unjustified attacks
    and mean slanders can only be explained by their pity for the blind. …How
    beautifully this attitude of theirs answers the undignified calumnies.”

    Mahmut Esat Ozan
    Prof. Emeritus, Dept.
    International Studies
    MDCC, Miami, Fl.