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Summary: Truth can not be revealed by listening to one side only
Review: For the past decades, international community was only exposed to Armenian side of the story. This is one of the first chances of listening to the Turk side. The presence of the strong Armenian lobby supressed the facts in the Turkish archives . An unbiased person must listen to the both sides and to the facts, not to the arguments increasingly being distorted over years coupled with disinformation campaigns. Many neutral researches are being hindered by Armenian lobby and the results are dismissed with a blind rage. Every year the published deaths from the Armenians increase, to a point that it surpassed the total Armenians lived then by some multiples. DO NOT HAVE AN OPINION BEFORE YOU HAVE INFORMATION
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Summary: A must if you want to know the truth not the propaganda
Review: I read this book to get a view of what the general Turkish feeling is in regard to the Armenian genocide, an event that saw the destruction of over 1 million Armenians during WWI. I was aware of the Armenian version, and then decided to check unbiased sources not connected with Turks or Armenian, which lead me to writings by Clerance Usher and Henry Morgenthau, an American physician, and US Ambassador to Ottoman Turkey respectively. Both provided horrific accounts that is in line with reports of German and other foreign missionaries in Ottoman controlled areas. I was quite disgusted by the book by Uras. No credible information was provided, and it casually swept aside tonnage of evidence the point to the events. What is really alarming about the entire issue is that after the near annihilation of the Armenians, the author continues to hate them even more. His arguments can be summed up by saying it never happened, it was in self-defense, and they deserved it. Anyone researching the Armenian Genocide, ridiculously called the "Armenian Question" by the author, should read the two mentioned sources above for clear, unbiased reports. This particular book is reminiscent of neo-Nazi denials of the Holocaust, and should be treated as such, absolute filth.
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Summary: A platform for propaganda
Review: It is amazing to see that even a book review can become a hotly debated issue when it comes to resolving issues between two people. As much as it is amazing, it is very sad, too because the same hoard of emotions that stir up the debates between these two people have spilled over to other countries such as France and created a platform for political propaganda to benefit these countries. As the accession talks continue between EU and Turkey, the whole historical incident that could have been easily analyzed and studied for objective scientific results by co-working scientific parties (archeologists, historians, etc.)of both countries, Armenia and Turkey, is being brought out as an issue that Turkey must declare guilty. Instead of letting our boiled blood take over for vengeance from the other side for atrocities committed in a time of despair and horror a long time ago, can we sit together and discuss issues to start a healing process? A long feud will not benefit any one of the parties over the long run, but will create hatred and, God forbid, repeat of destruction more forceful than the ones in the past.
As for the book, I must agree that most of the references in this particular edition are, to my surprise and sadness, not included. Therefore, those accounts, clearly describing another version of the story by the US and German ambassadors, etc., can not be compared based on solely on this book. Unfortunately, the Turkish version of the book is full of references, all of them in good order, almost scientific. Furthermore, there is a plethora of literature on the Turkish side and I am sure same holds true for the Armenian side and none of these sides, I am afraid, has an opinion of the other. In this unfortunate sense of blindness and deafness where no side sees the counterpart's version or arguments and where no objective scientific committe of some sorts are in hard work to uncover what really happened, we are both at a loss. And years pass and what remains is our versions that we tell our children. Then the question becomes, should we be coureagous enough to be able to come together and discuss like civilized people?
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Summary: Cowards
Review: Once again, a coward of a Turkish diplomat has tried to deny the rape, slaughter, torture, and expulsion of over a million Christian subjects in the Ottoman Empire. The author's attempt to conceal the Genocide of the Armenian people is a stain on all of humanity. Don't be fooled.
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Summary: Cowards
Review: Once again, a coward of a Turkish diplomat has tried to deny the rape, slaughter, torture, and expulsion of over a million Christian subjects in the Ottoman Empire. The author's attempt to conceal the Genocide of the Armenian people is a stain on all of humanity. Don't be fooled.
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Summary: A must if you want to know the truth not the propaganda
Review: This is a book that shows how unrealistic nationalists can throw their people in to fire. Like every contemporary people Armenians wanted to take their share from the disintegrating Ottoman Empire. But unlike serbs, greeks, bulgarians, arabs etc they did not have a majority in any area. Their tactic can be mainly described by citing this paragraph as you can find in this book (from a nonturkish reference)
"One of the revolutionaries told Dr. Hamlin, the founder of Robert College, that the Hentchak bands would `watch their opportunity to kill Turks and Kurds, set fire to their villages, and then make their escape into the mountains. The enraged Moslems will then rise, and fall upon the defenceless Armenians and slaughter them with such barbarity that Russia will intervene in the name of humanity and Christian civilization.' When the horrified missionary denounced the scheme as atrocious and infernal beyond anything ever known, he received this reply: `It appears so to you, no doubt; but we Armenians have determined to be free. Europe listened to the Bulgarian horrors and made Bulgaria free. She will listen to our cry when it goes up in the shrieks and blood of millions of women and children. . . . We are desperate. We shall do it'. (46) " However they could only be able to get 20-30 thousands of their people get killed. A total of 300 thousand armenians killed during ww1 (according to various foreign resources)including those killed by diseases and fighgting against turks and hunger( Turkey lost 500 thousand soldiers in the war and2 million due to disease and hunger at the same period) However dead Armenians managed something unprecedented . To reproduce while they are dead. They were 600000 in the 40ies 1.5 million in the 90ies and if I am up to date current population of dead Armenians are more than 2 million (Of course I respect the innocent dead armenians and turks who were killed during those terrible incidents)
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