Another Turkish Propoganda

[Arine]

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"The great Turk is governing in peace twenty nations from different religions. Turks have taught to Christians how to be moderate in peace and gentle in victory."Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

 

QUESTION l. WAS EASTERN ANATOLIA THE ORIGINAL HOMELAND OF THE ARMENIANS?

Even Armenian historians disagree on this question. Let us examine some of their contradictory theories while looking into Anatolian history.

 

The Biblical Noah Theory. According to this idea, the Armenians descended from Hayk, great-great grandson of the Biblical patriarch Noah. Since Noah's Arc is supposed to have come to rest on Mount Ararat, the advocates of this idea conclude that eastern Anatolia must have been the original Armenian homeland, adding that Hayk lived some four hundred years and expanded his dominion as far as Babylon. This claim is based entirely on fables, not on any scientific evidence, and is not worthy of further consideration. The historian Auguste Carrière summarily dismisses it stating that "it depends entirely on information provided by some Armenian historians, most of which was made up." (1)

 

The Urartu Theory. Some Armenians claim that they were the people of Urartu, which existed in eastern Anatolia starting about 3000 B.C. until it was defeated and destroyed by the Medes, with its territory being contested for some time by Lydia and the Medes until it finally fell under the influence of the latter. This claim has no basis in fact. No form of the name Armenian is found in any inscription in Anatolia dating from that period, nor was there any similarity at all between the Armenian language and that of Urartu, the former being a member of the Satem group of Indo European languages, while the latter was similar to the Ural-Altaic languages. Nor were there any similarities between their cultures. The most recent archaeological finds in the area of Erzurum support these conclusions very clearly. There is, therefore, absolutely no evidence at all to support the claim that the people of Urartu were Armenian.

 

The Thracian-Phrygian Theory. The theory most favored by Armenian historians claims that they descended from a Thracian-Phrygian group, that originated in the Balkan Peninsula and by the pressure of Illyrians migrated to eastern Anatolia in the sixth century B.C. This theory is based on the fact that the name Armenian was mentioned for the first time in the Behistan inscription of the Mede (Persian) Emperor Darius from the year 521 B.C., "I defeated the Armenians." If accepted, of course, this view effectively contradicts and disproves the Noah and Urartu theories.

 

The Southern Caucasus Theory. This idea claims that the Armenians are related racially and culturally to the peoples of the Southern Caucasus and that, therefore, they originated there. It is, however, supported only by the fact that Darius defeated the Armenians in the Caucasus. The Armenians are in no way related to any of the Caucasian races.

 

The Turanian Theory. Some Armenians have adduced similarities of certain elements of the Armenian language and culture with those of some Turkish and Azeri tribes of the Caucasus to document a relationship, but this remains to be proved.

Whichever, if any, of these theories is correct, it is very certain that the Armenians did not originate in Anatolia, nor did they live there for three to four thousand years, as claimed. They have put forward these ideas merely to support their claims that the Turks drove them out of a homeland in which they have lived for thousands of years, but they can not stand up to the facts.

[koko]

There is no point in paying attention to articles like this (turks making up history for themselves), or you'll end up on a psykiatrical clinic somewhere!

[hyecory]

"The great Turk is governing in peace twenty nations from different religions. Turks have taught to Christians how to be moderate in peace and gentle in victory."Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

 

The Ottoman Centuries by Lord kinross

pg. 557

When the Armenians Refused to submit to this double exation, Turkish troops were called into the area, in close concert with the kurdish tribesman. Soon they were indiscriminatly sloughtering the helpless Armenians. The soldiers pursued them throughout the length and breathed of the region, hunting them "like wild beasts" up the vallys and into the mountains, respecting no surrender, bayoneting the men to death, raping the woman, dashing their children against rocks, burning to ashes the villages from which the had fled. For this operation the Turksih commander, zeki *****, was awarded an appropriate gratuity by the sultan...

 

Meanwhile, the Armenians themselves, led by the Hanchaks staged a demostration as they marched through the city of Istanbul to present a petition to the potre. Voicing their protest and demanding for reform....the demostration got out of hand when one of them (from sasun) shouted "liberty or death!" The cry was taken up by the rest, breaking into a revolutionary song and provoking internvention by the police, who bludgeoned many of them to death on the spot. Meanwhile, the fanatical moslem elements, without police interventin, ran wild through the streets, rooting out Armenians and saughtering them with clubs...

 

pg. 558

This heralded throughout eastern Turkey a series of organized massacres, coinciding with the Sultan pretending acceptence of a new plan from the powers for Armenian reform. A telltale feature of them began and ended, as a matter of routin, with a bugle call, like any planned military operation....Their tactics were based on the sultans principle of kindling religious fanaticism among the moslem population. abdul hamids briefed agents, whom he sent to Armenia with specific instructions as to how they should act. It became their normal routine first to assemble the moslem population in the largets mosque in a town, then to declare in the name of the sultan, that the Armenians were in general revolt with the aim of striking at islam. Their sultan enjoined them as good moslems to defend their faith against these infidel rebels. He propounded the precept that under the holey law the property of rebels might be looted by believers, encouraging moslems to enrich themselves in the name of their faith at the expense of their christian neighbours, and in the event of resisitance, to kill them. Hence, throughout Armenia "the attack of an ever increasing pack of wolves against sheeps"...

 

page after page, it goes on and on, Armenians being slaughterd, Armenians being butcherd...

 

Anyway, here is the Ottoman bank raid.

 

In August, 1896, the succesion of Armenian massacre culminated in Istanbul itself. Once again, as in the Previous year, the turkish authorities were presented with a pretext for action by an Armenian revolutionary group. A small body of dashnaks was so bold as to enter the Ottoman Bank, the stronghold of European capitalists eneterprise, during lunch hour, for the ostensible purpose of changing money. Porters accompanying them carried sacks which contained, so they pretended, gold nd silver coinage. Then at the blast of a while twent-five armed men followed the into the bank, firing their guns and revealing that the sacks in fact were filled with bombs, ammunition, and dynamite. They declared that they were not bank robbers but Armenian petriots, and that the motive of their action was to bring their grievances, which they specified in two documents, to the attention of the six European embassies, putting forward demands for political reform and declaring that, in that absence of foreign intervention with in forty eight hours, they would"shrink from the sacrafice" and blow up the bank.

Meanwhile, its chief director, sir Edgar Vincent, had prudantly escaped through a skylight into an adjoining building. While his colleagues were held hostages, he hence proceeded to sublime porte. He she ensured that no police attack should be made on the dashnaks while they remained in the bank. Thus he secured for them permission to nagotiate. The negotiation was the first dragoman of the Russian embassy, who after gaining for them a free pardon from the sultan a permission to leave the country, addressed them at lenght with some eloquensce. finally, with assurance of talks to come, he persuaded them to leave the bank. Retaining their arms but relinguishing their bombs, they proceeded quietly on board sir edgars Vincents yacht, later to be conveyed into exile in France. As young men of(btw, their leader was 17 years old) ideals inexperienced in the wiles of political agitation, they had failed to benefit their friends and played in the hands of their enemies. For two days the streets ran with blood as gangs of undisciplined ruffians, religiuos fanatics, and savage irregulars raged through the Armenian quarter of the capital, brandishing murderous cudgals and knives and iron bars. With out interference from the police or the soldiery, and indeed with their evident connivance and help, they bludgoaned to death every Armenian who crossed their path, breaking into houses to kill all that hid there, and leaving strewn everywhere, a total of some six thousand corpses.

 

The Ottoman Centuries by Lord kinross

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