A turk needs your help

[Guest]

Here's an entry from our guestbook. If anyone can help him with information send an email to him or just reply to this topic.

I'll ask him to come here for information.

From: Ali Suat (aurguplu@yahoo.com)

 

quote:

---

hi

i am an enemy (turk) who is interested in his country's past (the darker pages included)

 

i have been surfing on a few armenian sites, and have found references to admissions by prominent turks of the period on the massacres.

 

but these references did not give the original sources.

 

we are an ever-growing bunch of turks who want to know more about what really happened then, so i would be grateful if anyone could help me out with this. there are a number of places where such things are mentioned, but unless specific information is given like date, place, title, page etc. it is of little use in a serious discussion.

 

i am a low-tech guy, so i would appreciate if someone could communicate me through my e-mail above.

 

thanks in advance for any help

 

regards,

 

ali

aurguplu@yahoo.com

---

 

 

 

[This message has been edited by Garo (edited December 08, 2000).]

[Guest]

Hello

Here's a link where you can get more information

 

http://www.armenian-genocide.org/

 

quote:

---

dear garo,

 

i checked it out, it was useful, but not adequate. i

keep on surfing to find more stuff.

 

thanks for the information

 

regards,

 

ali suat

---

 

quote:

---

dear garo

 

i found some quotations of turks admitting to the

crimes in the website www.cilicia.com. some of these

contain reference data, but others don't.

 

i need the reference data for the others so that i can

get to the originals. could you help me?

 

i apologise for troubling you like this, but i hope

you understand the difficulty (and danger) of

conducting this sort of research in plain view. if i

attempted to walk into a library or archive to ask for

those documents just like that, my research might come

to an abrupt end.

 

thank you again for your kind patience and assistance.

 

regards,

 

ali suat

---

[Guest]

From: Ali Suat Urguplu <aurguplu@yahoo.com>

 

I found the below site on the internet. it's all in

turkish as far as i can see (maybe they did not

envisage to start a dialogue with you when they set it

up).

 

the contents: all the past and present sins of my

country, not only the armenians. it's a forum. i have

read some entries, and found that there was widespead

acceptance of the massacres, and some people debating

whether it was a genocide or not (and not everyone

says no). one of them, whose grandfather is (was?)

still called Kanlý Ziya (Ziya the Bloody) by the local

Turks is reported by his grandson/daughter (?) as

having taken part in the "pillaging" after the

killings.

 

it's a modest beginning, but a beginning nevertheless.

everything starts like that.

 

i'll check out if there's anyone out there who speaks

languages other than turkish. meanwhile, maybe those

of you who are conversant in turkish (if any one of

you is) might consider to contact them.

 

thanks for your assistance & good luck with work.

 

here is the site address:

http://members.aol.com/xsoysal/index.html/...l/homepage.html

 

regards,

 

ali suat

[Guest]

This information has been provided by Martin.

Thank you for your help.

 

 

Dear Mr. Suat,

 

I hope the following information I received from the Zoryan Institute may

address your questions:

 

"Ali should consult the work of Turkish historian Taner Akcam in Chorbajian

and Shirinian's STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE GENOCIDE. He would also be interested

in other articles in the Armenian section of the book. I also recommend all

works by Dr. Dadrian including the small volume published by my institute:

Key Elements in the Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide: A Case Study of

Distortion and Falsification. This is available from The Zoryan Institute,

2286 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachsuetts 02140. Cost $12.00.

 

Sincerely,

Levon Chorbajian, Ph.D.

Director, The Zoryan Institute

"

Sincerely,

Martin J.