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    Quotes

    Amazing how so much can be said in the space of just a few words…
    (Holdwater’s comments are in yellow.)

    Typically biased editorial cartoon depicting The Armenian "Genocide" from the period; the sword won't do without the blood spillage, of course
    Typically biased editorial cartoon depicting The Armenian "Genocide" from the period; the sword won't do without the blood spillage, of course

    “Turks, Tartars, even Persians constituted the infidel powers which neighboured and threatened European Christiandom. The word “Turk” was mainly used in two ways, as a generic name for an Islamic State with its own characteristic institutions of Government and military; and as a description of behaviour or character — the Turks ‘being of nature cruel and heartless'(…) The idea of cruelty was probably produced by the Turks’ distant foreignness combined with an absence from their lives of comprehensible Christian ethics, but more importantly by their military threat.”

    Simon Shephard, regarding the image of the Turk during the Renaissance period, in association with negative connotations such as cruelty, religious fanaticism, espionage, dirtiness, drug addiction etc.; Marlowe and The Politics Of Elizabethan Theatre, (Sussex, The Harvester Press, 1986) p.142

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    Format: .doc
    Language: English

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  • Armenian Refugees Movements And Genocide Claims

    Armenian Refugees Movements And Genocide Claims

    Armenian Refugees MovementsMany reputable sources account to 1.5 – 1.6 million of Armenian population within Ottoman Empire before WW1. Only the number provided by the Armenian Istanbul Patriarchate in 1912 is way above these general numbers, being around 2 million. Oddly, Patriarchate’s number is the only one taken into account in Toynbee’s Blue Book and in the declaration published by Boghos Nubar and A. Aharonian before Paris Peace Conference.

    Patriarchate’s 2 million figure highly contradicts with the detailed population numbers provided by British H.F.B Lynch and French Vital Cuinet for the periods ending 19th century and beginning 20th century. When we look at the numbers given by Lynch and Cuinet, it’s easy to see that Patriarchate’s number for before WW1 is nearly 100% higher than the British and French sources for the periods ending 19th century and beginning 20th century which is nearly impossible considering populations can not rise by that much for over only 15 to 20 years. Also the number provided by Armenian Patriarchate for Muslim population in Ottoman Empire in 1912 is 20-30% lower than the other reputable sources…

    Pages: 21
    Format: .doc
    Language: English & Turkish

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