REQUEST: WRITING OF ATATURK!
A. Shiraz
I am looking for the writings of Mustafa Kamal Pasha.
We are trying to emulate and implement a secular state like Turkey in
Pakistan and would love your assistance with any writings , speeches,
books by Ataturk or his friends.
Thank you and please contact me directly at the above email address.
Thank you friends.
This is the address (temporary) of our present group's electronic
gathering place :
MACREAU
During the implementation of the Latin Alphabet, he sent an officer named
KUBILAY to the eastern province in order to see the progress. Softas, Talibans
of the time, killed KIBILAY and dissected his body...ATATURK hung all of those
who had a beared from telegraph poles...Since than those Softas can not talk
much.
I suggest to you Pakistanis get rid of all medreses, than you might solve your
problem....but ...than....I also believe in Santa Clause...lol
A. Shiraz
I envy you Turks and what a great leader you had :) and great women
too ;) with all due respect to the women of Turkey but they are so
sophisticated and they know everything about art and culture and have
so much finesse unlike some of the veiled and stupid women from our
part of the world :( I think the women of Turkey were liberated by
Ataturk as well, right?
We are struggling with Islamic fundamentalism and Islamists every day
and we need help. We have no writings of ataturk to look upon and we
have nothing to take consolation from.
Some say Musharraf wants to be like Ataturk but we don't think he has
the will to face down Islamic fundamentalism. He says that he admires
Ataturk but I admire Ataturk also that doesn't make me Ataturk.
We are HUNGRY for the writings of your leader in particular we want
writing that criticize Islamic fundamentalism because no one in our
part of the world has the courage to speak up against Islam.
Help us Turks!
Roman
LOL! Anytime turks and muslims are involved one never can tell whether
what's being said is meant seriously or whether it's a joke.
You do sound like some anti-turkish troll, actually. But then, some muslims
are so insane that this could be meant seriously! Anyway, I had a good
laugh! I hope someone can still your HUNGER. Bruahahahahaaa....
A. Shiraz
We are battling Islamic fundamentalism in our part of the world and
wish to implement a secular country like Ataturk. Please help us imbue
our ideas with the words of Ataturk. We would like to tailor his words
to inspire our own people.
Not many in our country have the courage to speak up against Islamic
fundamentalism and we would like to begin with the words , speeches
and essays of Ataturk and his friends.
Roman <nir...@here.de> wrote in message
>
> LOL! Anytime turks and muslims are involved one never can tell whether
> what's being said is meant seriously or whether it's a joke.
What did I say that was funny ? I admire Ataturk ! I admire all the
things he has done for the Turks and made the Turkish women more
beautiful, more intelligent, more liberated than they were, what is so
funny about saying that?
Let me see you are one of those Islamist Turks who is getting their
arse kicked by the Germans ? Am I correct ? You want to become more
Muslim and you resent the fact that Europe is not accepting you
reactionary Islamic arse ?
Roman
LOLOLOL!!!!! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Bruahahahhaaaaa...
sutten
Roman
From what I can see, demented turkish retard, you are considered an
idiot even by your fellow turks.
There are some sick creeps on usenet, but you outdo them all with your
psychopathic hatred and anti-social agitation.
BTW, what did your psychiatrist tell you is an anally regressed retard,
you anally regressed retard? You didn't understand because you are too
retarded? Too bad, a little self-knowledge would do you good, retard.
A. Shiraz
You are some Islamist Fundamentalist living in Germany right ?
I would like to request all writings critical of Islam please since
that seems to really annoy people like Roman to no end.
Also I would like Turkish people to join us and help us support the
creation of a secular country modeled in the spirit of Anglo-American
West with Turkey as a predecessory :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Secularize_Pakistan
Roman <nir...@here.de> wrote in message
> I ...
> idiot ...
> sick creeps ...
> psychopathic hatred and anti-social agitation.
>
> anally regressed retard,
> ... anally regressed retard? ...
> retarded? ... retard.
Roman
> My god, you are so filled with hatred and so filled with animus!
>
> You are some Islamist Fundamentalist living in Germany right ?
Yep, that's right! LOL!
> Also I would like Turkish people to join us and help us support the
> creation of a secular country modeled in the spirit of Anglo-American
> West with Turkey as a predecessory :
That's the way to do to create a new state: call for help to people on
usenet. Nevertheless: wish you every success! <g>
.
A. Shiraz
>
>
> That's the way to do to create a new state: call for help to people on
> usenet. Nevertheless: wish you every success! <g>
My dear friend this is our shout for help to Turkey and the Turkish
people : help Pakistan become secular like Turkey. Give us an Ataturk
also! give us his writings and his words and his spirit!
We intend to excel Turkey in our goals of westernization and
anglo-americanization and we intend to change the face of Asia and the
Middle East in the process.
Just you see we will reach across the seven seas to our friends and
brethren we will change things in the Islamic lands.
bigmacnfries
Yeah, it is not "sick" to rape, torture and massacre millions of
totally innocent and defenceless human beings (Turks, Arabs, Jews,
Kurds and other non-Armenians) of Ottoman Eastern Anatolia to carve up
an Armenian homeland which never existed; but it is "sock" to disclose
Armenian savagery.
What sick and twisted logic!!!
Only an Armenian brainwashed brain with unconditional anti-Turksih
hatred can produce this sick and twisted logic.
+++++++++++++
Terrorist Armenians raped, tortured, massacred millions of innocent
and defenceless Turks, Jews, Kurds, Arabs and other non-Armenians in
Ottoman Eastern Anatolia during WWI (with direct and generous support
from their allies, the victors of WWI including Czarist Russia which
also created the mess in the Middle East, including the fake state of
Iraq, millions of people are suffering from now) to ethnically cleanse
the area for an Armenian homeland which never existed.
The rest of the Ottoman Armenian population either very blindly
followed their terrorist leaders (who were ".. craven and
mean-spirited and exel in nothing except drinking." - Marco Polo), or
remained totally complacent.
Another thug of Armenian anti-Turkish Hatred Inc indicates typical
Armenian behavior correctly:
"No sir, you will not find Armenians who will express disapproval or
distress for the assassination of Turkish governmental officials. It
is unfortunate that the attitude of the Turkish government vis-a-vis
Armenian demands dictates that more people have to die in pursuit of
justice. ... It is not uncommon to find those within the Armenian
diaspora who actually applaud these violent actions. "
David Davidian <d...@urartu.SDPA.org> | The life of a people is a sea,
and
S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies | those that look at it from the
shore
P.O. Box 2761, Cambridge, MA 02238 | cannot know its depths.
->> Boston'dan Van'i istiyoruz <<- | -Armenian
proverb
http://www.ataa.org/ataa/ref/atrocities/chronological_rundown.html
Armenian Atrocities & Terrorism
Armenian Terrorism - A Chronological Rundown
January 27, 1973 Santa Barbara, California|
The Armenian Gourgen Yanikian, a U.S. citizen, invites the Turkish
Consul General, Mehmet Baydar, and the Consul, Bahadžr Demir to a
luncheon. The unsuspecting diplomats accept the friendly invitation.
Gourgen Yanikian murders his two guests. He is sentenced to life
imprisonment.
April 4, 1973 Paris
Bombings at the Turkish Consulate General and the offices of Turkish
Airlines (THY). Extensive damage.
October 26, 1973 New York
Attempted bombing of the Turkish Information Office. The bomb is
discovered in time and defused. A group calling itself the "Yanikian
Commandos" claims responsibility. They want the release of the double
murderer of Santa Barbara, Gourgen Yanikian, who insidiously murdered
two Turkish diplomats.
February 7, 1975 Beirut
Attempted bombing of the Turkish Information and Tourism Bureau. The
bomb explodes while being defused. A Lebanese policeman is injured.
The "Prisoner Gourgen Yanikian Group" claims responsibility.
February 20, 1975 Beirut
The "Yanikian" group demanding the release of the double murderer of
Santa Barbara strikes again. Extensive damage is caused by a bomb
explosion at the THY offices. ASALA (Armenian Secret Army for the
Liberation of Armenia) also claims responsibility for the bombing.
October 22, 1975 Vienna
The Turkish Ambassador, Danis Tunalžgil, is assassinated in his study
by three Armenian terrorists. ASALA claims responsibility.
October 24, 1975 Paris
Ambassador Ismail Erez and his driver, Talip Yener, are murdered. The
ASALA and the JCAG (Justice Commandos for the Armenian Genocide)
dispute responsibility.
October 28, 1975 Beirut
Grenade attack on the Turkish Embassy. The ASALA claims
responsibility.
February 16, 1976 Beirut
The First Secretary of the Turkish Embassy, Oktar Cirit, is
assassinated in a restaurant on Hamra Street. The ASALA claims
responsibility.
May 17, 1976 Frankfurt, Essen, Cologne
Consulates General in Frankfurt, Essen and Cologne are the targets of
simultaneous bomb attacks.
May 28, 1976 Zurich
Bomb attacks at the offices of the Turkish Labor Attache and the
Garanti Bank. Extensive damage. A bomb in the Turkish Tourism Bureau
is defused in time. Responsibility is claimed by the JCAG.
May 2, 1977 Beirut
The cars of the Military Attache, Nahit Karakay, and the
Administrative Attache, Ilhan Özbabacan, are destroyed. The two
diplomats are uninjured. Credit is claimed by the ASALA.
May 14, 1977 Paris
Bomb attack at the Turkish Tourism Bureau. Extensive damage. The "New
Armenian Resistance Group" claims responsibility.
June 6, 1977 Zurich
Bomb attack at the store of a Turkish citizen, Hüseyin Bülbül.
June 9, 1977 Rome
Assassination of the Turkish Ambassador to the Holy See, Taha Caržm.
He dies soon after the attack. The JCAG claims responsibility.
October 4, 1977 Los Angeles
Bomb attack at the house of Professor Stanford Shaw, who teaches
Ottoman history at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).
Responsibility is claimed by an "Armenian Group of 28."
January 2, 1978 Brussels
Bomb attack at a building containing Turkish banking services. The
"New Armenian Resistance" claims credit.
June 2, 1978 Madrid
Terrorist attack on the automobile of the Turkish Ambassador, Zeki
Kuneralp. His wife, Necla Kuneralp, the retired Turkish Ambassador
Besir Balcžoglu die immediately in the rain of gunfire. The Spanish
chauffeur, Antonio Torres, dies of his injuries in the hospital. ASALA
and JCAG claim responsibility.
December 6, 1978 Geneva
A bomb explodes in front of the Turkish Consulate General. Extensive
damage. The "New Armenian Resistance Group" claims responsibility.
December 17, 1978 Geneva
A bomb explodes at the THY Bureau. ASALA claims responsibility.
July 8, 1979 Paris
The French capital experiences four bomb attacks in a single day. The
first is at the THY offices; the next at the offices of the Turkish
Labor Attache; the third in the Turkish Information and Tourism
Bureau. A fourth explosive, intended for the Turkish Permanent
Representative to the O.E.C.D., is defused before it explodes. The
JCAG claims responsibility.
August 22, 1979 Geneva
A bomb is thrown at the car of the Turkish Consul General, Niyazi
Adalž. The diplomat escapes unhurt. Two Swiss passers-by are injured.
Two cars are destroyed.
August 27, 1979 Frankfurt
The offices of THY are totally destroyed by an explosion. A pedestrian
is injured. The ASALA claims responsibility.
October 4, 1979 Copenhagen
Two Danes are injured when a bomb explodes near the offices of THY.
ASALA claims credit.
October 12, 1979 The Hague
Ahmet Benler, the son of Turkish Ambassador Özdemir Benler, is
assassinated by Armenian terrorists. The murderers escape. JCAG and
ASALA claim responsibility.
October 30, 1979 Milan
The offices of THY are destroyed by a bomb explosion. ASALA claims
responsibility.
November 8, 1979 Rome
The Turkish Tourism Office is destroyed by a bomb. ASALA claims
responsibility.
November 18, 1979 Paris
Bomb explosions destroy the offices of THY, KLM, and Lufthansa. Two
French policemen are injured. Responsibility is claimed by ASALA.
November 25, 1979 Madrid
Bomb explosions in front of the offices of TWA and British Airways.
ASALA, in claiming responsibility, states that the attacks are meant
as a warning to the Pope to cancel his planned visit to Turkey.
December 9, 1979 Rome
Two bombs explode in downtown Rome, damaging the offices of PAN AM,
British Airways and the Philippine Airways. Nine people are injured in
the terrorist attack. A "New Armenian Resistance Movement" claims
responsibility.
December 17, 1979 London
Extensive damage is caused when a bomb explodes in front of the THY
offices. A "Front for the Liberation of Armenia" claims
responsibility.
December 22, 1979 Paris
Yžlmaz Çolpan, the Tourism Attache at the Turkish Embassy is
assassinated while walking on the Champs Elysées. Several groups,
including ASALA, JCAG and the "Commandos of Armenian Militants Against
Genocide" claim responsibility.
December 22, 1979 Amsterdam
Heavy damage results from a bomb explosion in front of the THY
offices. ASALA claims credit.
December 23, 1979 Rome
A bomb explodes in front of a World Council of Churches Refugee
Center, being used as a transit point for Armenian refugees from
Lebanon. ASALA claims credit for the attack and warns the Italian
authorities to halt "the Armenian diaspora."
December 23, 1979 Rome
Three bomb explosions occur in front of the offices of Air France and
TWA, injuring a dozen passers-by. ASALA claims responsibility, stating
that the bomb was placed "in reprisal against the repressive measures
of French authorities against Armenians in France" (i.e., questioning
suspects, carry out investigations, etc.)
January 10, 1980 Teheran
A bomb which explodes in front of the THY offices causes extensive
damage. ASALA claims responsibility.
January 20, 1980 Madrid
A series of bomb attacks, resulting in numerous injuries, occurs in
front of the offices of TWA, British Airways, Swissair, and Sabena.
The JCAG claims credit for the attacks.
February 2, 1980 Brussels
Two bombs explode within minutes of each other in front of the
downtown offices of THY and Aeroflot. The "New Armenian Resistance
Group" issues a communique in which they claim responsibility for both
attacks.
February 6, 1980 Bern
A terrorist opens fire on Turkish Ambassador Dogan Türkmen, who
escapes with minor wounds. The would-be-assassin, an Armenian named
Max Klindjian, is subsequently arrested in Marseilles and returned to
Switzerland for trial. The JCAG claims credit for the attack.
February 18, 1980 Rome
The offices of Lufthansa, El Al and Swissair are damaged by two bomb
attacks. Telephone messages give three reasons for the attacks: 1. The
Germans support "Turkish fascism"; 2. The Jews are Zionists (ASALA);
3. The Swiss behave "repressively" towards the Armenians.
March 10, 1980 Rome
Bomb attacks on the THY and Turkish Tourism Bureau offices on the
Piazza Della Repubblica. The blasts kill two Italians and injure
fourteen. Credit for the attack is claimed by the "New Armenian
Resistance of the Armenian Secret Army."
April 17, 1980 Rome
The Turkish Ambassador to the Holy See, Vecdi Türel, is shot and
seriously wounded. His chauffeur, Tahsin Güvenç, is also slightly
wounded in the assassination attempt. JCAG claims responsibility for
the attack.
May 19, 1980 Marseilles
A rocket aimed at the Turkish Consulate General in Marseilles is
discovered and defused prior to exploding. ASALA and a group calling
itself "Black April" claim credit for the attack.
July 31, 1980 Athens
Galip Özmen, the Administrative Attache at the Turkish Embassy, and
his family are attacked by Armenian terrorists while sitting in their
car. Galip Özmen and his fourteen-year-old daughter, Neslihan, are
killed in the attack. His wife, Sevil, and his sixteen-year-old son,
Kaan, are wounded. Credit for the double killing is claimed by ASALA.
August 5, 1980 Lyon
Two terrorists storm into the Turkish Consulate General in Lyon and
open fire, killing two and injuring several other bystanders. ASALA
claims credit for the attack.
August 11, 1980 New York
An "Armenian group" hurls paint bombs at the Turkish House across from
the United Nations, home of the Turkish Representations in New York.
September 26, 1980 Paris
Selçuk Bakkalbasž, the Press Counselor at the Turkish Embassy, is shot
as he enters his home. Bakkalbasž survives but is permanently
paralyzed as a result of his injuries. ASALA claims responsibility for
the attack.
October 3, 1980 Geneva
Two Armenian terrorists are injured when a bomb they are preparing
explodes in their Geneva hotel room. The two, Suzy Mahseredjian from
Canoga Park, California, and Alexander Yenikomechian, are arrested.
Their arrest leads to the formation of a new group called "October 3,"
which subsequently strikes at Swiss targets.
October 3, 1980 Milan
Two Italians are injured when a bomb explodes in front of the THY
offices. ASALA claims credit for the attack.
October 5, 1980 Madrid
The offices of Alitalia are rocked by a bomb explosion which injures
twelve individuals. The ASALA claims responsibility for the attack.
October 6, 1980 Los Angeles
Two molotov cocktails are thrown into the home of the Turkish Consul
General, Kemal Aržkan. He survives with injuries.
October 10, 1980 Beirut
Two bombs explode near Swiss offices in West Beirut. A group calling
itself "October 3" claims responsibility for these bombings as well as
others on the same day against Swiss offices in England.
October 12, 1980 New York
A bomb placed in front of the Turkish House explodes. Four passers-by
are injured. JCAG assumes responsibility.
October 12, 1980 Los Angeles
A travel agency in Hollywood, owned by a Turkish-American, is
destroyed. JCAG claims responsibility.
October 12, 1980 London
The Turkish Tourism and Information Bureau's offices are damaged by a
bomb explosion. ASALA claims credit.
October 12, 1980 London
A Swiss shopping complex in central London is damaged by a bomb blast.
Callers claim the explosion was the work of "October 3."
October 13, 1980 Paris
A Swiss tourist office is damaged by a bomb explosion. "October 3"
again claims credit.
October 21, 1980 Interlaken, Switzerland
A bomb is found in a Swiss express train coming from Paris. Luckily,
it does not explode. "October 3" is believed to be behind the action,
which could have caused a catastrophe.
November 4, 1980 Geneva
The Swiss Palace of Justice in Geneva is heavily damaged by a bomb
explosion. Credit is claimed by "October 3."
November 9, 1980 Strasbourg
Heavy damage results from a bomb blast at the Turkish Consulate
General. The attack is claimed by ASALA.
November 10, 1980 Rome
Five people are injured in attacks on the Swissair and Swiss Tourist
offices. ASALA and "October 3" claim credit.
November 19, 1980 Rome
The offices of the Turkish Tourism Bureau and those of THY are damaged
by a bomb explosion. ASALA claims responsibility.
November 25, 1980 Geneva
The offices of the Union of Swiss Banks are hit by a bomb explosion.
Responsibility is claimed by "October 3."
December 5, 1980 Marseilles
A police expert defuses a time bomb left at the Swiss Consulate in
Marseilles. "October 3" claims responsibility.
December 15, 1980 London
Two bombs placed in front of the French Tourism Office in London are
defused by a Scotland Yard bomb squad. "October 3" claims the bombs
are a warning to the French for assistance they have rendered the
Swiss in fighting Armenian terrorism.
December 17, 1980 Sydney
Two terrorists assassinate saržk Aržyak, the Turkish Consul General,
and his bodyguard, Engin Sever. JCAG claims responsibility.
December 25, 1980 Zurich
A bomb explosion destroys a radar monitor at Kloten Airport, and a
second explosive planted on the main runway of the airport is defused.
"October 3" claims credit for these attempted mass-murders.
December 29, 1980 Madrid
A Spanish reporter is seriously injured in a telephone booth while
calling in a story to his paper about the bomb attack on the Swissair
offices. "October 3" claims responsibility.
December 30, 1980 Beirut
Bomb attack on the Credit-Suisse offices. ASALA and "October 3" fight
over who gets the credit.
January 2, 1981 Beirut
In a press communique, ASALA threatens to "attack all Swiss diplomats
throughout the world" in response to the alleged mistreatment of "Suzy
and Alex" in Switzerland. On January 4, ASALA issues a statement
giving the Swiss a few days to think things over.
January 14, 1981 Paris
A bomb explodes in the car of Ahmet Erbeyli, the Economic Counselor of
the Turkish Embassy. Erbeyli is not injured, but the explosion totally
destroys his car. A group calling itself the "Alex Yenikomechian
Commandos" of ASALA claims credit for the explosion.
January 27, 1981 Milan
The Swissair and Swiss Tourist offices in Milan are damaged by bomb
explosions. Two passers-by are injured. "October 3" claims credit for
the bombing in a call to local media representatives.
February 3, 1981 Los Angeles
Bomb-squad officials disarm a bomb left at the Swiss Consulate. The
terrorists threaten in anonymous phone calls that such attacks will
continue until Suzy Mahseredjian is released.
February 5, 1981 Paris
Bombs explode in the TWA and Air France offices. One injured, heavy
material damage. "October 3" claims credit.
March 4, 1981 Paris
Two terrorists open fire on Resat Moralž, Labor Attache at the Turkish
Embassy, Tecelli Arž, Religious Affairs Attache, and Ilkay Karakoç,
the Paris representative of the Anadolu Bank. Moralž and Arž are
assassinated. Karakoç manages to escape. ASALA claims responsibility.
March 12, 1981 Teheran
A group of ASALA terrorists try to occupy the Turkish Embassy, killing
two guards in the process. Two of the perpetrators are captured and
later executed by the Iranians. ASALA claims credit.
April 3, 1981 Copenhagen
Cavit Demir, the Labor Attache at the Turkish Embassy, is shot as he
enters his apartment building late in the evening and is seriously
wounded. Both ASALA and JCAG claim the attack.
June 3, 1981 Los Angeles
Bombs force the cancellation of performances by a Turkish folk-dance
group. Threats of similar bombings force the group's performances in
San Francisco to be canceled as well.
June 9, 1981 Geneva
Mehmet Savas Yergüz, Secretary in the Turkish Consulate, is
assassinated by the Armenian terrorist Mardiros Jamgotchian. The
arrest of the ASALA terrorist leads to the formation of a new ASALA
branch called the "Ninth of June Organization," which will be
responsible for a new series of attacks.
June 11, 1981 Paris
A group of Armenian terrorists, led by one Ara Toranian, occupies the
THY offices. Initially ignored by the French authorities, the
terrorists are only evicted from the premises after vehement protests
from the Turkish Embassy.
June 19, 1981 Teheran
A bomb explodes at the offices of Swissair. The "Ninth of June
Organization" claims responsibility.
June 26, 1981 Los Angeles
A bomb explodes in front of the Swiss Banking Corporation offices.
Again the work of the "Ninth of June Organization."
July 19, 1981 Bern
A bomb explodes at the Swiss Parliament Building. "Ninth of June"
claims responsibility.
July 20, 1981 Zurich
"Ninth of June" strikes again. A bomb explodes in an automatic
photo-booth at Zurich's international airport.
July 21, 1981 Lausanne
Twenty women are injured as a bomb laid by Armenian terrorists
explodes in a department store. "Ninth of June" claims responsibility.
July 22, 1981 Geneva
A bomb explodes in a locker at the train station. Authorities suspect
"Ninth of June."
July 22, 1981 Geneva
An hour later, a second bomb explodes in a locker at the station.
Police cordoned off the area following the first explosion, thereby
preventing injuries from the second.
August 11, 1981 Copenhagen
Two bombs destroy the offices of Swissair. An American tourist is
injured in the explosion. "Ninth of June" claims responsibility.
August 20, 1981 Los Angeles
A bomb explodes outside the offices of Swiss Precision Instruments.
The attack is claimed by "Ninth of June."
August 20, 1981 Paris
Explosion at Alitalia Airlines. "October 3" is back in action.
September 15, 1981 Copenhagen
Two people are injured as a bomb explodes in front of the THY offices.
Police experts manage to defuse a second bomb. Credit is claimed by a
"Sixth Armenian Liberation Army."
September 17, 1981 Teheran
A bomb explosion damages a Swiss Embassy building. ASALA's "Ninth of
June" claims responsibility.
September 24, 1981 Paris
Four Armenian terrorists occupy the Turkish Consulate General. During
their entry into the building, the Consul, Kaya Inal, and a security
guard, Cemal Özen, are seriously wounded. Terrorists take 56 hostages.
Özen dies of his injuries in the hospital. The terrorists are ASALA
members.
October 3, 1981 Geneva
The main post office and the city courthouse are hit by bomb
explosions. An ASALA member is scheduled to go on trial for murder in
the courthouse. "Ninth of June" claims credit for the attacks, which
leave one person injured.
October 25, 1981 Rome
An Armenian terrorist fires at Gökberk Ergenekon, Second Secretary at
the Turkish Embassy. Ergenekon is wounded in the arm. ASALA claims
credit in the name of the "September 24 Suicide Commandos."
October 25, 1981 Paris
Fouquet's, the fashionable French restaurant, is the target of a bomb
attack. A group calling itself "September-France" claims the attack.
October 26, 1981 Paris
The same group is behind the explosion of a booby-trapped automobile
in front of "Le Drugstore."
October 27, 1981 Paris
"September-France" carries out a bomb attack at Roissy Airport.
October 27, 1981 Paris
A second bomb explodes near a busy escalator at Roissy Airport. No one
is injured. "September-France" claims responsibility.
October 28, 1981 Paris
The same group is responsible for a bomb attack in a movie theater.
Three people are injured.
November 3, 1981 Madrid
A bomb explodes in front of the Swissair offices, injuring three
persons. Considerable damage to nearby buildings. ASALA claims
responsibility.
November 5, 1981 Paris
A bomb explodes in the Gare de Lyon, injuring one person. The attack
is claimed by the Armenian "Orly Organization."
November 12, 1981 Beirut
Simultaneous bomb explosions occur in front of three French offices:
the French Cultural Center, the Air France offices and the home of the
French Consul General. The "Orly Organization" claims responsibility.
This organization owes its name to the fact that the French police
arrested an Armenian at Orly Airport in Paris because of forged
papers. The idea now is to "bomb him free."
November 14, 1981 Paris
A bomb explosion damages an automobile near the Eiffel Tower. "Orly"
claims responsibility.
November 14, 1981 Paris
"Orly" launches a grenade attack on a group of tourists disembarking
from a sightseeing boat on the River Seine.
November 15, 1981 Paris
"Orly" threatens to blow up an Air France airplane in flight.
November 15, 1981 Beirut
Simultaneous bomb attacks are carried out against three French
targets: the "Union des Assurances de Paris", the Air France offices
and the "Banque Libano-Française". "Orly" is responsible.
November 15, 1981 Paris
A McDonald's restaurant is destroyed by "September-France."
November 16, 1981 Paris
A bomb injures two innocent bystanders at the Gare de l'Est. "Orly"
claims responsibility.
November 18, 1981 Paris
"Orly" announces that it has planted a bomb at the Gare du Nord.
November 20, 1981 Los Angeles
The Turkish Consulate General in Beverly Hills suffers extensive
damage. The JCAG claims credit.
January 13, 1982 Toronto
An ASALA bomb causes extensive damage to the Turkish Consulate
General.
January 17, 1982 Geneva
Two bombs destroy parked cars. The ASALA "Ninth of June Organization"
claims credit.
January 17, 1982 Paris
A bomb explodes at the Union of Banks and a second is disarmed at the
Credit Lyonnais. "Orly" claims responsibility.
January 19, 1982 Paris
A bomb explodes in the Air France offices in the Palais des Congres.
"Orly" claims responsibility.
January 28, 1982 Los Angeles
Kemal Aržkan, the Turkish Consul General in Los Angeles, is
assassinated by two terrorists while driving to work. Nineteen year
old Hampig Sassounian is arrested and sentenced to life.
March 22, 1982 Cambridge, Massachusetts
A gift shop belonging to Orhan Gündüz, the Turkish Honorary Consul
General in Boston, is blown up. Gündüz receives an ultimatum: Either
he gives up his honorary position or he will be "executed."
Responsibility is claimed by the JCAG.
March 26, 1982 Beirut
Two dead, sixteen injured in an explosion at a movie theater. ASALA
claims credit for the attack.
April 8, 1982 Ottawa
Kani Güngör, the Commercial Attache at the Turkish Embassy in Ottawa,
is seriously wounded in an attack by Armenian terrorists in the garage
of his apartment house. ASALA claims responsibility.
April 24, 1982 Dortmund, West Germany
Several Turkish-owned businesses suffer extensive damage in bomb
attacks. The "New Armenian Resistance Organization" claims
responsibility.
May 4, 1982 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Orhan Gündüz, the Turkish Honorary Consul General in Boston is
assassinated. The murderer is still at large.
May 10, 1982 Geneva
Bombs explode at two banks. The attacks are claimed by an Armenian
"World Punishment Organization."
May 18, 1982 Toronto
Four Armenians are arrested for trying to smuggle money out of the
country. The money was extorted from Armenians, a common practice
throughout the world. In the course of the investigation, it is
discovered that the terrorists fire-bombed the house of an Armenian
who refused to make his contribution to Armenian terrorism.
May 18, 1982 Tampa, Florida
Attack at the office of Nash Karahan, the Turkish Honorary Consul
General.
May 26, 1982 Los Angeles
A bomb damages the office of Swiss Banking Corporation. The suspects:
four Armenians accused of involvement in ASALA.
May 30, 1982 Los Angeles
Three members of ASALA are arrested when planting a bomb in the Air
Canada cargo-office.
June 7, 1982 Lisbon
The Administrative Attache at the Turkish Embassy, Erkut Akbay, and
his wife, Nadide Akbay, are assassinated in front of their home. JCAG
claims responsibility.
July 1, 1982 Rotterdam
Kemalettin Demirer, the Turkish Consul General in Rotterdam, is shot
down by four Armenian terrorists. An "Armenian Red Army" claims
responsibility.
July 21, 1982 Paris
Sixteen injured in a bomb explosion near a cafe in the Place
Saint-Severin. Credit is claimed by the Orly Organization. "Orly"
complains that the French do not treat the arrested Armenian
terrorists as "political prisoners," but rather as ordinary criminals.
July 26, 1982 Paris
"Orly" is responsible for injuring two women in an explosion in Paris'
"Pub Saint-Germain."
August 2, 1982 Paris
Pierre Gulumian, an Armenian terrorist, is killed when a bomb he is
making explodes in his face.
August 7, 1982 Ankara, Esenboga Airport
Two Armenian terrorists open fire in a crowded passenger waiting room.
One of the terrorists takes more than twenty hostages while the second
is apprehended by the police. Nine people are dead and eighty-two
injured&emdash;some seriously. The surviving terrorist, Levon
Ekmekjian is arrested and sentenced.
August 8, 1982 Paris
A bomb is defused in time. "Orly" regrets the discovery.
August 12, 1982 Paris
Terrorists open fire on a policeman assigned to protect the offices of
the Turkish Tourism Attache. Luckily, he escapes without injury.
August 27, 1982 Ottawa
Colonel Atilla Altžkat, the Military Attache at the Turkish Embassy,
is assassinated in his car. JCAG claims responsibility.
September 9, 1982 Burgaz, Bulgaria
Bora Süelkan, the Administrative Attache at the Turkish Consulate
General in Burgaz, is assassinated in front of his home. The assassin
leaves a message "We shot dead the Turkish diplomat: Combat Units of
Justice Against the Armenian Genocide." An anonymous caller claims
that the assassination is the work of a branch of the ASALA.
October 26, 1982 Los Angeles
Five Armenian terrorists are charged with conspiring to blow up the
offices of the Honorary Turkish Consul General in Philadelphia. All
belong to the JCAG.
December 8, 1982 Athens
Two Armenians on a motorbike throw a bomb at the offices of the Saudi
Arabian Airlines. The bomb hits a power pylon, explodes and kills one
of the terrorists. His accomplice, an Armenian from Iran named Vahe
Kontaverdian is arrested. It is later revealed that ASALA ordered the
attack because Saudi Arabia maintains friendly relations with Turkey.
January 21, 1983 Anaheim, California
Nine "sophisticated" pipe bombs are confiscated from an Armenian
bakery after one of the detonators goes off and causes fire.
January 22, 1983 Paris
Two terrorists attack the offices of THY with hand grenades. No one is
injured. ASALA claims credit.
January 22, 1983 Paris
French police defuse a powerful explosive device near the THY counter
at Orly airport.
February 2, 1983 Brussels
The offices of THY are bombed. The "New Armenian Resistance
Organization" claims responsibility.
February 28, 1983 Luxembourg
A bomb placed in front of Turkey's diplomatic mission is defused. The
Armenian Reporter in New York reports that the "New Armenian
Resistance Organization" is responsible.
February 28, 1983 Paris
A bomb explodes at the Marmara Travel Agency. Killed in the explosion
is Renée Morin, a French secretary. Four other Frenchmen are wounded.
A few minutes after the attack, ASALA claims responsibility.
March 9, 1983 Belgrade
Galip Balkar, the Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia is assassinated in
central Belgrade. His chauffeur, Necati Kayar is shot in the stomach.
As the two assailants flee from the scene, they are bravely pursued by
Yugoslav citizens. One of the terrorists shoots and wounds a Yugoslav
Colonel, and is in turn apprehended by a policeman. The second
terrorist opens fire on civilians who are chasing him, killing a young
student and wounding a young girl. The two terrorists, Kirkor Levonian
and Raffi Elbekian, are tried and sentenced.
March 31, 1983 Frankfurt
An anonymous caller threatened to bomb the offices and kill the staff
of Tercüman newspaper, a Turkish daily.
May 24, 1983 Brussels
Bombs explode in front of the Turkish Embassy's Culture and
Information offices and in front of a Turkish-owned travel agency. The
Italian director of the travel agency is wounded. ASALA claims credit.
June 16, 1983 Istanbul
Armenian terrorists carry out an attack with hand grenades and
automatic weapons inside the covered bazaar in Istanbul. Two dead,
twenty-one wounded. ASALA claims responsibility.
July 8, 1983 Paris
Armenian terrorists attack the offices of the British Council,
protesting against the trials of Armenians in London.
July 14, 1983 Brussels
Armenian terrorists murder Dursun Aksoy, the Administrative Attache at
the Turkish Embassy. ASALA, ARA and JCAG claim responsibility.
July 15, 1983 Paris
A bomb explodes in front of the THY counter at Orly airport. Eight
dead, more than sixty injured. A 29 years old Syrian-Armenian named
Varadjian Garbidjian confesses to having planted the bomb. He admits
that the bomb was intended to have exploded once the plane was
airborne.
July 15, 1983 London
A bomb, similar to the one that exploded at Orly, is defused in time.
ASALA claims responsibility for both attacks.
July 18, 1983 Lyon
A bomb threat is made by ASALA against the Lyon railroad station.
July 20, 1983 Lyon
Panicky evacuation of Lyon's Gare de Perrache following a bomb threat
from ASALA.
July 22, 1983 Teheran
"Orly" carries out bomb attacks on the French Embassy and Air France.
July 27, 1983 Lisbon
Five Armenian terrorists attempt to storm the Turkish Embassy in
Lisbon. Failing to gain access to the chancery, they occupy the
residence, taking the Deputy Chief of Mission(DCM) and his family
hostage. When explosives being planted by the terrorists go off,
Cahide Mžhçžoglu, wife of the DCM and four of the terrorists are blown
to pieces. The DCM, Yurtsev Mžhçžoglu, and his son Atasay are injured.
The fifth terrorist is killed in the initial assault by Turkish
security forces. One Portuguese policeman is also killed and another
wounded. The ARA claims responsibility.
July 28, 1983 Lyon
Another bomb threat on Lyon-Perrache railroad station. ASALA claims
responsibility.
July 29, 1983 Teheran
A threat to blow up the French Embassy in Teheran with a rocket attack
causes Iranian officials to increase security at the facility.
July 31, 1983 Lyon and Rennes
Bomb threats from Armenian terrorists force the emergency landing of
two domestic French flights carrying 424 passengers.
August 10, 1983 Teheran
A bomb explodes in an automobile at the French Embassy. ASALA claims
credit for the attack.
August 25, 1983 Bonn
A whole series of bomb attacks against offices of the French Consulate
General claim two lives and leave twenty-three injured. ASALA claims
responsibility.
September 9, 1983 Teheran
Two French Embassy cars are bombed. One of the bombs injures two
embassy staff members. ASALA claims credit.
October 1, 1983 Marseilles
A bomb blast destroys the U.S., Soviet and Algerian pavilions at an
international trade fair in Marseilles. One person is killed and
twenty-six injured. ASALA and "Orly" claim credit.
October 6, 1983 Teheran
A French Embassy vehicle is bombed, injuring two passengers. "Orly"
claims responsibility.
October 29, 1983 Beirut
Hand-grenade attack on the French Embassy. One of the ASALA terrorists
is arrested.
October 29, 1983 Beirut
The Turkish Embassy is attacked by three Armenian terrorists. One of
the assailants, Sarkis Denielian, a 19 years old Lebanese-Armenian is
apprehended. ASALA claims responsibility.
February 8, 1984 Paris
Bomb threat on an Air France flight to New York.
March 28, 1984 Teheran
A timed series of attacks is carried out against Turkish diplomats:
Two Armenian terrorists shoot and seriously wound Sergeant Ismail
Pamukçu, employed at the office of the Turkish Military Attache;
Hasan Servet Öktem, First Secretary of the Turkish Embassy, is
slightly wounded as he leaves his home;
Ibrahim Özdemir, the Administrative Attache at the Turkish Embassy,
alerts police to two suspicious looking men. They turn out to be
Armenian terrorists and are arrested;
In the afternoon of the same day, Iranian police arrest three more
Armenian terrorists outside the Turkish Embassy;
An Armenian terrorist is killed when a bomb he is attempting to plant
in the car of the Turkish Assistant Commercial Counselor explodes
prematurely. The dead terrorist is later identified as Sultan
Gregorian Semaperdan (ASALA).
March 29, 1984 Los Angeles
ASALA sends a written threat, saying they will assassinate Turkish
athletes who take part in the Olympics.
April 8, 1984 Beirut
ASALA issues a communique warning that all flights to Turkey will be
considered military targets.
April 26, 1984 Ankara
The Turkish Prime Minister, Turgut Özal, receives a threat warning him
that if he goes ahead with a planned visit to Teheran, ASALA will
schedule a major terrorist operation against his country.
April 28, 1984 Teheran
Two Armenian terrorists riding a motorcycle open fire on Isžk Yönder
as he drives his wife, Sadiye Yönder, to the Turkish Embassy where she
works. Isžk Yönder is killed, and ASALA claims credit for yet another
senseless murder.
June 20, 1984 Vienna
A bomb explodes in a car belonging to Erdogan Özen, Assistant Labor
and Social Affairs Counselor at the Turkish Embassy in Vienna. Özen is
killed and five others seriously wounded, including a policeman. ARA
terrorists claim credit for the crime.
June 25, 1984 Los Angeles
A news agency office in France receives a letter threatening to attack
all governments, organizations and companies which assist, in any way
whatsoever, Turkey's team at the Los Angeles Olympics.
August 13, 1984 Lyon
A bomb explodes in a Lyon train station causing minor damage. ASALA
claims credit.
September 1984 Teheran
Several Turkish owned firms in Iran come under attack after receiving
warning letters informing them that they are to be targeted. The first
victim is the Sezai Türkes Company. A Turkish employee is injured
while fighting the fire caused by the explosion. A chain of smaller
scale acts of intimidation follows.
September 1, 1984 Teheran
Iranian authorities expose a plot to assassinate Ismet Birsel, the
Turkish Ambassador to Teheran.
September 3, 1984 Istanbul
Two Armenian terrorists die as one of their bombs goes off too soon.
The ARA claims credit.
November 19, 1984 Vienna
Evner Ergun, Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Development and
Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations, Vienna is assassinated
while driving to work. The assassins leave a flag with the initials
"ARA" on his body.
December 1984 Brussels
Authorities are able to thwart a bombing attempt at the residence of
Selçuk Incesu, Turkish Consul General.
December 29, 1984 Beirut
Two French buildings in East Beirut are bombed. ASALA claims credit.
December 29, 1984 Paris
Following an ASALA threat to blow up an Air France plane, police
increase security at the Charles de Gaulle Airport.
January 3, 1985 Beirut
The offices of Agence France Presse are extensively damaged when a
bomb explodes.
March 3, 1985 Paris
An anonymous caller to Agence France Presse threatens to attack French
interests throughout the world upon the indictment of the three
terrorists who participated in the Orly attack.
March 12, 1985 Ottawa
Three heavily armed terrorists storm the Turkish Embassy, killing a
Canadian security guard in the process. After blowing up the front
door, the gunmen enter the building. Ambassador Coskun Kžrca manages
to escape but suffers extensive injuries. The wife and daughter of the
Ambassador, who were taken hostage, are later released, and the
terrorists surrender. ARA claims responsibility.
March 26, 1985 Toronto
A threat to blow up the city of Toronto's transit system leads to
chaos during the rush hour. An "Armenian Secret Army for the
Liberation of Our Homeland" claims responsibility for the threat.
November 1985 Brussels
A special anti-terrorist security squad of the Belgian police exposes
and arrests three Armenian terrorists with Portuguese passports. They
were planning an attack on Turkish officers at NATO headquarters.
November 28, 1985 Paris
French police arrest the leader of the terrorist
organization&emdash;the "Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of
Armenia-Revolutionary Movement" (ASALA-RM)&emdash;Mr. Monte Melkonian,
a U.S. citizen. In Melkonian's apartment, police confiscate weapons,
explosive devices, arrival and departure information on Turkish ships
scheduled to visit France and a picture of Turkey's Ambassador to
France, Adnan Bulak.
December 1985 Paris
Forty-one shoppers in two of Paris' leading department stores
(Gallerie Lafayette and Printemps) are injured (twelve seriously) when
nearly simultaneous bomb explosions rip through the stores. In the
ensuing panic, some 10,000 Christmas shoppers flee into the street.
The Armenian Reporter, published in New York, reports in its December
12th issue that French law enforcement authorities are concentrating
on ASALA as the most likely perpetrator. ASALA later takes credit for
the two bombings.
November 23, 1986 Melbourne
At 2:15 a.m. a bomb explodes in front of the Turkish Consulate
General. One dead -presumedly the perpetrator- and one Australian
injured.
bigmacnfries
> From what I can see, demented turkish retard, you are considered an
> idiot even by your fellow turks.
>
> There are some sick creeps on usenet, but you outdo them all with your
> psychopathic hatred and anti-social agitation.
>
> BTW, what did your psychiatrist tell you is an anally regressed retard,
> you anally regressed retard? You didn't understand because you are too
> retarded? Too bad, a little self-knowledge would do you good, retard.
Yeah, it is not "sick" to rape, torture and massacre millions of
totally innocent and defenceless human beings (Turks, Arabs, Jews,
Kurds and other non-Armenians) of Ottoman Eastern Anatolia to carve up
an Armenian homeland which never existed; but it is "sick" to disclose
Armenian savagery.
What sick and twisted logic!!!
Only an Armenian brainwashed brain with unconditional anti-Turksih
hatred can produce this sick and twisted logic. Only an Armenian sick
brain can say "Turkey should go fuck herself".
What a sick and corrupt brain !!!
+++++++++++++
"info-turk.be" is a mouthpiece of Armenian/Greek/PKK/KADEK
anti-Turkish Hatred Inc and a fabricator of anti-Turkish hate
propaganda.
Roman (nir...@here.de), a thug and murderer of
Armenian/PKK/KADEK/Greek anti-Turkish Hatred Inc., posts another
anti-Turkish hate propaganda fabricated by "info-turk.be" which is a
mouthpiece of Armenian/Greek/PKK/KADEK anti-Turkish Hatred Inc and a
fabricator of anti-Turkish hate propaganda.
Roman
The TURKISH RETARD, spamming "Mary K.", also known as "bigmacnfries",
"Robert T Carr", "faulty nutter", "sutten", "assinservitude", as well as
under many other screen names, is the well-known village idiot on usenet
spreading lies about countries like Greece, Armenia, Kurdistan, Europe.
This idiot copies and pastes his turkish hate propaganda from turkish
propaganda websites.
*Don't fall for his lies.*
--
In the German language the old word to "türken" (to turkify) means "to
falsify".
Roman
bigmacnfries
Before calling this hatefull and blood-thirsty thug of Armaian "My
dear friend" I would like to remind you just fai warning.
bigmacnfries
Before calling this hatefull and blood-thirsty thug of Armaian "My
dear friend" I would like to remind you just fai warning.
http://www.ataa.org/ataa/ref/atrocities/testimonies/abdurrezzak.html
Armenian Atrocities & Terrorism
III. Testimonies of Witnesses
ABDURREZZAK AYAZ
Father's Name: Ömer Çavus
Mother's Name: Emine
Place of Birth: Van-Gevas
(Recounting the experiences of his father who died at 75 years old.)
Q: Can you tell us about the Armenian revolt and massacre which took
place before your father died?
A: My father was an artillery man who defended Van when the Russians
were advancing. In fact, they were able to keep the Russians back for
some time with cannon fire. Yet later, the Russian military again went
on the attack. As a result, the inhabitants of Van fled, and those
from Gevas later also became refugees. When the Russians entered, they
burned and destroyed the place as they had done to Van, including
crops and trees. Those on the road were starting to die because of
hunger and disease. Neither the army nor the refugees had anything to
eat. My father had told me about their situation with great sorrow. He
said he was very strong, so he returned to Gevas with his weapon and a
sack with the hopes of finding food to carry back. He found a dark
cloud over the city, with everything burned. He couldn't find anything
to eat. When he went to the creek, he saw a Russian horse which had
died. Their horses were very large. It was infested with worms because
it had laid there for a while, but undamaged parts remained. He cut
off those parts, put it in the sack, and brought it to his group. They
ate off of that for a while.
Q: Did he ever mention the massacre when he returned to Gevas?
A: Of course he did. He saw many corpses. All those who stayed behind
were killed. They even burned the animals and trees.
Q: Did the Russian military come that far?
A: They came as far as Bitlis. Their army and cannons passed through
these hills. The Russians attacked the population from one side, and
the Armenian brigands from the other. He said they went as far as
Siirt, and returned when the Russian army retreated. Everything was
damaged or destroyed. They harvested what the Armenians had sowed.
Slowly but surely they reestablished themselves, but came across many
human bones when digging up covered pits. He would always cry when
telling stories of suffering, but cut it off by saying "I hope God
keeps us from those experiences again."
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http://www.ataa.org/ataa/ref/atrocities/testimonies/abbasgunes.html
Armenian Atrocities & Terrorism
III. Testimonies of Witnesses
ABBAS GÜNES
Place of Birth: Kars-Hakmehmet
Date of Birth: 1897
The Armenians came to our village of Hakmehmet. They called out to
the leaders of the village, promising peace. They gathered us in a
mosque, inviting all men, women, and children. After searching us,
they took the jewelry from the women. At night they led us like a pack
of animals out of the village. They again searched us, saying that
they would kill anyone who hid money. Some villagers turned in their
money, others did not. They ordered us to split into two groups and
advance toward the villages ahead. We started walking when an Armenian
approached on horseback, and recommended that we hurry, because the
other Armenians would kill us. We continued on the road. Women unable
to carry their small children left them at the foot of trees or rocks,
or in ditches. The children were crying. We reached the Iranian
villages on foot. We later heard that the remaining villagers were
murdered. Some of them were shot, others killed with swords, and then
all thrown into a well.
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http://www.ataa.org/ataa/ref/atrocities/testimonies/aysesevimli.html
Armenian Atrocities & Terrorism
III. Testimonies of Witnesses
AYSE SEVIMLI
Father's Name: Dervis
Mother's Name: Hayriye
Place of Birth: Van-Zeve
Date of Birth: 1897
When the villagers heard that the Armenians were approaching, they
took as many precautions as possible. They dug positions in the hills.
The inhabitants of seven villages filled up our village. There was
little room in the village to maneuver around the people and carts. On
the day that we heard the Armenians had almost reached the village,
the men ran to take their positions and begin fighting. We had no
ammunition or weapons assistance. When the Armenians entered our
village, some of our men died fighting; others were burned in their
homes. I hid with my mother and some others in a barn further away
from the fighting. I got under a large basket. The Armenians killed
everyone they could find and also fired at the barn. A bullet hit my
mother's scarf, but she was not hurt. I know of only two other women
who survived.
The Armenians were in Bardakçž before coming to our village. My God,
when we went out at night, blood, gunfire, moaning, and wailing filled
the air. I witnessed them torture people by cutting "pockets" out of
skin while mockingly telling them they were decorating them with
medals. When we approached the Bardakçž village, I saw that on the
other side of the brook, in the field near Mehmet's house they had
tied the arms of five men together and were shooting at them. When
they fell to the ground, they stabbed them with bayonets. My mother
handed them all of her money and valuables so that we would not be
hurt. They then brought us to Van, and tortured the prisoners in
unmentionable ways. We stayed in the military barracks for four
months. We later became refugees, and remained as such until April
1918.
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http://www.ataa.org/ataa/ref/atrocities/testimonies/birikasit.html
Armenian Atrocities & Terrorism
III. Testimonies of Witnesses
BIRIK ASIT
Place of Birth: Bitlis
Date of Birth: 1890
In anticipation of the Russian advance toward Bitlis, a battalion of
200 Armenians in Siirt led by a Turkish commander came to Bitlis. They
were going to defend Bitlis against the Russians. The front of Ulu
Mosque was an open bazaar at the time, and the Armenians rested there.
The commander was the only Turk in the army. The commander staying at
the old Hazro Inn next to the Alemdar bridge. A Turk was guarding the
front of the commander's home. In the morning the guard excitedly
knocked on the commander's door, saying not one soldier remained in
the city. When the battalion commander arrived at the bazaar, he saw
that not one of the Armenian soldiers were there. He later learned
that they went toward Bashan to join the Armenian Russian forces. They
later joined the Russian forces and participated in the massacres in
the city.
I witnessed three events during the Bitlis occupation which I will
never forget. First, the Russian soldiers housed more than 200 women,
children, and elderly in Hamza and sükrü Çelebi's home, and placed an
Armenian soldier to guard the door. At night this soldier notified his
friends, and they at night went to the home, and took the women they
liked. After taking advantage of them, they killed them at the side of
a brook.
A Russian commander made a surprise inspection visit. An older woman
told him that while they numbered 200 when they arrived, 80 were taken
away at night by Armenians, and only 120 remained. The Russian
commander then replaced the Armenian guard at the door with a Russian
one.
Second, there was a pregnant woman who lived in a home in the Dilan
neighborhood with her three children. When the Armenians entered their
home, they made a bet as to whether she was carrying a boy or girl,
and slit her stomach with a bayonet.
Thirdly, before the Russians came to Bitlis, ten Armenian families
came to my home, and said that they wanted to go to the mosque and
convert to Islam. We took them to the mosque, and they converted. We
started to see them more often, and help them. After the Russians came
to Bitlis, they asked us to take them to the Russian soldiers in
exchange for money. When I asked them why they wanted to go there,
they answered that they were Armenian, and were never Muslims.
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http://www.ataa.org/ataa/ref/atrocities/testimonies/bekiryoruk.html
Armenian Atrocities & Terrorism
III. Testimonies of Witnesses
BEKIR YÖRÜK
Father's Name: Yusuf
Mother's Name: Gülnaz
Place of Birth: Van
Date of Birth: 1900
Q: Can you tell us as best as you can remember what the Armenians did
in Van and Gevas?
A: We lived in the same neighborhoods as the Armenians. We too lived
in the Norsin neighborhood and got along well until the Russians
intervened. In those days, Armenian youths established committees with
Russian encouragement, and started causing trouble. They killed the
superintendent of police and threw him in the park. They killed the
postman in Hasbagž. They bombed a building now replaced by a
bathhouse, and twenty people died in the explosion. When the
constitutional monarchy was declared, the mufti and the priest shook
hands and extolled the brotherhood of Muslims and Christians. The
Mufti cried as he shook hands, but events developed against us. The
committee members became increasingly out of control and the rebellion
began. We fought the Armenians for 29 days in Hasbagž. We had no
weapons. When the division went to Erzurum, we remained completely
defenseless.
The Armenians who joined the army after the establishment of the
constitutional monarchy used our weapons to shoot at us, and those who
remained in the army hit our soldiers from behind. They also bombed
the barracks. The young people and the elderly left in the Muslim
neighborhoods would take turns guarding against the Armenians.
Meanwhile, the Russians were sending them gold to finance their
effort.
This struggle lasted 29 days until the arrival of the Russians. The
elderly Armenians didn't want this fight because they were the
wealthiest inhabitants of the area, and feared sacrificing their
standard of living. Armenians owned up to 1,000 stores and sold
European cloth in the old part of the city of Van. When these events
broke out, inhabitants of nearby villages and towns all fled to Van,
and those stores disappeared within two days.
Fifty vessels full of people left Van, three of which carried wounded
soldiers. Cevdet Pasha saw the passengers off at the pier. We went to
Adžr Island, where the Armenians were training underground. We stayed
on the island for nine days. The waves destroyed some of the ships
with wooden sails. The island had wells and two bakeries. No one
brought any supplies from Van. We were hungry and distraught. My elder
brother was an officer and came back wounded from Erzurum. My brother
realized that the Armenians would cut us off. He convinced his
captain, and ten ships left from there, but we couldn't go very far.
Thank God we stayed close to shore. The next day we reached Tatvan,
but under difficult circumstances. The day we left Van the Armenians
had set everything ablaze. There were wounded soldiers from all parts
of Turkey in Van, and the Armenians fired on apartments used as
hospitals where they were staying. That is why Van is sacred ground
with martyrs from 67 provinces [in Turkey].
My uncle, Terren Aga, was very old, and we couldn't take him with us
when we left Van. His wife, daughter, and two grandchildren remained
with him. Armenian hoodlums beat my uncle and the children with an ax
and killed them. His daughter hid in an abandoned American school.
When the Armenians found her, they killed her by throwing her from the
second floor.
We went to Bitlis from Tatvan where we remained for nearly two months.
When the Russians arrived, we again went on the road. We then went to
Hizan and Diyarbakžr. After we left, the Gendarme commander -- who was
crying like a baby -- brought my uncle (who was Deputy Governor Ömer
Bey) a report. A soldier named Mansur was also present. When we asked
him to explain, he said that three days after Van was emptied they
went to pick up the bodies. Hundreds of elderly women were impaled on
stakes. They still had their scarves on and looked as if they were
sitting. When they got closer they saw that they were killed before
being impaled. They saw a woman who was split in two and her unborn
child was placed on her chest.
Muslims who witnessed these thousands of examples of inconceivable
brutality tearfully reported the incidents to Ömer Bey, who then told
Mustafa Kemal. When the Russians finally arrived, they were displeased
with the savageness which resulted in the destruction of four-fifths
of Van. In addition to those massacred by the Armenians, many people
also died as they were fleeing. Many collapsed on the road from hunger
and disease. No one was able to take anything with them when they left
Van.
When we returned to Van from exile three years later we found the
Muslim neighborhoods leveled to the ground, but the areas owned by
Armenians were left undamaged. When we returned there were about 2,000
Armenians living in Van who fled to the islands when the Turks started
returning. Two years later, the government sent them to Revan.
Q: Did you ever participate in the fighting or use a weapon?
A: No, I have never used a weapon. I didn't have a gun, plus they
didn't give me one because I was too young and didn't know how to use
it. Instead, I would bring food and water to the combatants.
Q: What kind of equipment were the Armenians using?
A: They had the latest equipment which was provided by Russia and
England. They gave them weapons and had them fight us. The Armenians
couldn't do anything to us, but when they were armed, the balance was
upset.
Q: Did many people die in these and other clashes?
A: Of course, thousands of people died. After fighting for 29 days,
the then-Governor Cevdet Pasha commanded us to leave Van when he heard
that the Russian forces were approaching. Cevdet Pasha was actually a
very courageous man, but we had neither guns nor ammunition, while the
Russians were armed with top of the line weapons.
Q: Didn't the Ottoman state take any precautions against the
Armenians arming themselves to this extent? Didn't word get around?
A: People knew, and the government knew. Yet the military was on the
fighting front, and only a few gendarmes were left in Van. They
couldn't do anything about it. The Armenians first shot Police
Lieutenant Nuri Efendi, and blew up the Hamitaga barracks. Many
soldiers were killed. Then they placed bombs in the Norsin Mosque and
Hacž Naci Hodja Mosque. They blew up Hafžz Hodja along with his son.
Our women were raped, and our children shot.
Q: How was the evacuation carried out?
A: We left from here on 50 ships. That day the weather was stormy and
rainy, as if all hell broke loose. The ships ran into each other. They
were unable to approach the pier for a long time. The weather hadn't
warmed up yet -- I think it was April. We left before the Russians
arrived. There were about 250 people in our group, and 60 died. Some
died at the hands of the Armenian bandits, others from cholera,
disease, and hunger.
My uncle, his family and children, were all cut into pieces with a
hatchet under the mulberry tree in our neighborhood. They [Armenians]
massacred all those that stayed behind when we left. We lived in the
Norsin neighborhood at the time. They burned all of Van.
All of this was planned by the Armenian committees which treacherously
manipulated the Armenian population.
Q: Do you remember the names of those committees?
A: Dashnak was the most prominent one. There were others as well, but
I don't remember their names now. They received money and gold from
Russia and England.
Q: Did the Armenians kill many women and children?
A: The elderly didn't bother much, but all of their young people were
armed. They killed whoever they could corner. They killed them and
threw them into the lake or into the fire. For example, a woman was
baking bread in a nearby village, and had her young child was at her
side. The Armenians went into her backyard and asked her what she was
doing. When she answered that she was baking bread, they insisted she
needed a kebab as well, and pierced her child and threw him into the
fire and burned him alive.
What else can I tell you? God knows the extent of what went on. During
our escape, we took off on the ships, and stayed around the islands
for four days. We couldn't sleep at night because of the wails,
crying, and screams we heard all night. These were the cries we heard
from surrounding villages: Zeve, Bardakçž, Kalaç, and Molla Kasžm. I
hope God ensures that we don't have to relive those days when these
massacres took place.
Q: Where did you go after the islands?
A: From the islands we went to the Dervis village. It took us all day
to get there. Ten ships were tied together at the edge of the lake. We
were very frightened. In the morning we left toward Tatvan, and
finally reached our destination. We were able to rest there, and later
left toward Bitlis.
Q: Do you remember how many people were with you in your convoy?
A: There were between 10 and 20 thousand people in our convoy.
Q: Did many people from your convoy die in the exodus?
A: Of course.
Q: Could you tell us how they died?
A: The women couldn't take care of the children. Some would leave them
in remote areas. Hunger and disease were rampant. For example, Ömer
Efendi wrapped his child in rags and left him alive under a tree as we
approached the Bitlis creek. There were many other children like this
thrown into the Bitlis creek, or buried when they died. But Ömer
Efendi regretted what he did, and a few days later went to retrieve
the child and brought him back alive.
Q: How long were you a refugee?
A: Three years.
Q: What did you find when you returned to Van? How was Van, was there
much damage?
A: I saw Van; it was completely destroyed and burned. When we were in
Bitlis, the Deputy Governor Ömer Bey was there. He would regularly
receive reports on the situation in Van. We would follow the situation
of the Russians from there. One day a soldier, Mansur, came to Bitlis.
He was from Halep and used to live near the Norsin Mosque. He was in
tears as he told us the story of how they entered Van, and saw that
the women were lined up in a row with their head scarves still on. As
they approached, they saw that they were impaled and killed. They
painfully removed them and buried them. The soldiers left all their
work and buried them. They then went to another location where the
women had been raped and then killed. There was blood everywhere.
A similar incident occurred in the Amik village which is close to
here. The inhabitants took refuge in the castle and pulled up the
ladder when the Armenians arrived. The Armenians approached and
convinced them to let down the ladder because they were now friendly
and there was no reason to be afraid. As soon as they ascended the
stairs, they separated the children and men and threw them down the
hill. Some of the women threw themselves from the castle, while the
others were taken to an unknown location.
Q: Did you hear about similar incidents at the time?
A: Of course I did, but what else can I tell you? Dignity, chastity,
and integrity all went out the window. We suffered so much, some
people even resorted to cannibalism. But we were so compassionate that
when we found Armenians hiding on the island, we didn't do anything to
them.
Q: Were they the Armenians who stayed when you fled?
A: No, they were Armenians remaining on the island. During the exodus
they brought many Turks to this island and killed them. The ship
captains were Armenians. Many of our people were maliciously killed in
this way on the ships. As I told you earlier, we couldn't sleep
because of the wails in those days. When we left, Van was burning, and
it was still burning when the soldier Mansur came.
Q: Will you tell us about your situation in Bitlis?
A: When we arrived in Bitlis as refugees, they were angry with us
because we abandoned Van. Initially the people in Bitlis were not very
kind to us, asking us why we ran away and did not fight the enemy. We
answered that we had no other choice because we did not have guns or
ammunition. Not long after, the population of Bitlis had to flee as
well, and they understood our position. The heat was debilitating.
There was no food or water. Cholera and disease were spreading. Many
people died. One day we saw that vehicles from Elazžg were arriving.
The army corps came with Armenian drivers to bring salt to Harput.
Q: Were the drivers Armenian?
A: Yes, Armenian soldiers who were carrying salt. There was a captain
leading them, and my brother approached him and asked him to stay and
send a telegraph to arrange for a truck to carry us. We obtained
permission from Mustafa Kemal Pasha and they started to transport us
toward Diyarbakir. There was neither food nor water on the way. Many
people died from diseases. At that time, there was a landowner named
Mehmet. He has since died, but he was unique. He had fed the army and
its horses for a year, and had given the military the keys to his
stables. One year later Mustafa Kemal Pasha came, sat across from him,
and asked what they owed him. When he said "for what?", Mustafa Kemal
explained that the army had depended on him for a year. He responded
that they were welcome to the remaining food. Anyway, when he saw us,
he gave the order to set up a feast right away. Bulgur rice, lentils,
and meat were prepared and offered. Everyone ate to their heart's
content.
Let me tell you another story. I saw many of the men who had been
tortured by the Armenians with my own eyes. In some places they had no
meat on their bones. From hunger they ate human flesh. There was a
milkman called Faik whose father was carrying a child when we saw him.
When I asked him what he was doing, he said if he didn't carry the
child away, they would eat him too.
I hope God doesn't make us live through those days again. Hunger and
disease left us with nothing. No dignity, chastity, nothing.
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CEVAHIR KOKUM
Father's Name: Ibrahim
Place of Birth: Bitlis-Hizan-Çökekyazž
Date of Birth: 1899
When the Russian forces entered Bitlis in the beginning of March, we
were forced to become refugees. We abandoned our homes and marched
toward Hizan. We came across hundreds of people who fled like us on
the road. They were so frightened that they crawled under or into any
structure they could find on the road. Meanwhile, we were being
followed by Armenian bandits. When seyh Selahattin heard of this, he
came to us and asked that all men able to fight follow him. On the
way, he asked us to light a fire under a bush so that those who saw it
would think that we were a large group. We later learned that in a
subsequent fight the Armenians lost and that seyh Selahattin lost an
eye to an enemy's bullet.
Meanwhile, hunger had reached a peak level. We sent a convoy of 12 men
and 4 women to Hirit (Cökekyazž) village to get food. They were cut
off by Armenians in the Müskünüs (Düzköy) village. Although the women
were successful in escaping, the men were caught by the Russians.
These 12 men were tied to each other, a "pocket" was cut out of their
skin on their legs, and their hands were placed in these pockets.
Their organs were cut off and placed in their mouths. Unsatisfied by
this brutality, they built a fire in the middle of the rest of them,
and killed them all with a thousand and one torture methods.
My cousin Hüsniye was unable to escape and got stuck in the city. They
killed her six children, and when they were taking her away on
horseback, she jumped from the horse and ran toward the fields.
Unfortunately, she was caught by the Armenians, who raped and killed
her.
Were all the Armenians so barbaric? Weren't there any good ones? I am
sure there were. My deceased grandmother would always talk about an
Armenian named Manik. When talking about him, she would also pray in
thanks for all that he had done.
Manik worked as a servant for Hacž Yusufzade. This Armenian saved my
grandmother and her other relatives from the Armenian massacre. Let's
hear the story from Hanife Boran.
"I, my father Hase, my uncle Süleyman, and my aunt Felek were left
among the enemy, but our Armenian servant Manik saved us from the
Russians and Armenians.
"One day an Armenian general came to our home and asked us for some
milk. Since it was winter, we were feeding our animals a bitter plant,
a taste which naturally was reflected in the milk. When the Armenian
general drank the bitter milk, he ordered to have my uncle Solomon
murdered as punishment. They tied my uncle to two side by side steel
doors, and fiercely tortured him by opening and shutting the door.
Unsatisfied with this, they took him away. Manik went and got my
father.
"A few days later they picked out and took away all of the pregnant
women among us. We later learned that they tied them all to poles, bet
on whether they were carrying boys or girls, and killed them by
cutting them open. Manik was unable to do anything about this, he
simply was not powerful enough.
"They later took us from the Avih neighborhood to the convent of Emin
Efendi in the city. They taped red crosses to our arms. Manik
immediately took them off our arms. When we later asked him the
meaning of that, he said the crosses marked those that would be taken
to Russia. One day, Manik came running to us. He said the home we were
in was going to be hit by Russian cannon fire. When he brought us to
another house, he kept us hidden by following the sewers. Manik would
leave in the day, and return at nightfall with all of the bread,
sugar, and other food supplies he could find. When we asked why he was
doing this, he replied that he could not betray us after eating our
bread for so many years.
"One day, Manik came to us excitedly and said that the Russians had
emptied the city, and that it was not right for him to stay after
everything that the Armenians had done, and that he would emigrate to
Russia with the rest of the Armenians. We sat and cried, since Manik
was the only adult left with us. His leaving would mean that we were
left all alone. Manik left, but we did not forget him or what he did.
"We can only thank Manik and those like him. We have nothing else to
say."
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DEVAZ SEYHOGLU
ÖMER MUSTAFAOGLU
TAYYIP ABDÜLHAMITOGLU
Place of Birth: Bitlis
Dates of Birth: 1897-1899-1901
On July 12, 1915, the platoon commander in Kotum warned the village
elders that the Russians and Armenians were approaching the village.
The inhabitants prepared to flee toward Bitlis. A half hour before
reaching the Armenian village of Dog, a few hundred Armenians and
Kazakhs attacked the refugees. Even though they raised their arms to
surrender, men, women and children were brutally murdered. Only 30 of
them survived.
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EBUBEKIR AND ABDÜLKERIM
Places of Birth: Bitlis-Kolpiç
Dates of Birth: 1900-1901
We had been out of the village when some of the villagers went to
Bitlis. When they returned, they told us about the fall of the city.
When we learned that the enemy was advancing from the Tatik plains,
some of our men went there with the goal of stopping them. Others went
toward Karcžgan. When it was clear during our fight with the enemy
that we would not last long, we immediately fled to save our families.
At this critical time, the Russians and a large number of Armenians
were charging toward our village from two different directions.
They started to kill people and burn their homes. One hundred and
fifty people were killed with swords. As we escaped, Armenians named
Bidet, Arsak from the Orans village, Sandir from the Herit Armenian
village, and Krizikio from the sube village were chasing us and
cursing our Muslim religion as well as hurling insults at our prophet.
The Russians and Armenians had tortured the population so much that on
our return, no one could hold back the tears. Naked men and women were
tied to each other and hanged from trees. Dead mothers who had their
heads and breasts cut still held their lifeless children in their
arms. They had kidnapped the young and beautiful women. The bandits
also took the furniture they could use with them, and burned the rest.
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FEVZI FEYYAT
Father's Name: Hacž
Mother's Name: Zekiye
Place of Birth: Van-Gevas
Date of Birth: 1906
Q: Could you tell us about the period of Armenian revolt, and its
causes?
A: The Armenians started to revolt against the Turkish nation and the
Muslim nation. They were getting support from Yerevan, as well as from
Russia and from Armenians in Russia. They were cutting up the Turkish
people without remorse. For example, they hanged and cut up the
inhabitants of the Arkalan village. They skinned them alive, and
killed the gendarmes. Hursit Aga, a community leader, was killed the
first day. The villagers were spared no cruelties. A massacre to this
extent wasn't even witnessed in the first days of history.
Q: Do you remember other incidents like this one?
A: Of course, there are more. For example, we had a village called
Müküs, whose name has changed to Bahçesaray. Bahçesaray is in the
Kžrmžzžköprü region. They used swords to wipe out the entire village.
Families left all of their possessions behind and fled. Those that
couldn't run were killed. The residents of three or four of the
neighboring villages were unable to flee the Armenian massacres.
Q: Wasn't there a national force to protect these villages?
A: No, there was nothing. No weapons. The troops had gone to war. The
Russian war had started, and the youth had joined the army. Then old
men like me, women, and children stayed behind. In fact, during the
exodus, it was women, not men who were carrying what they could from
their homes. Women and children were left to do all of the work. I was
around eight or nine years old at the time, and remember quite well.
We went to Resadiye. My father later caught up with us when he was on
leave from the army, and helped us out for a while.
At that time when the Turkish men were being drafted, there were a lot
of Armenians. In fact, some of the villages were completely occupied
by Armenians. Turks were located closer to the center of town. There
were a few Turkish families left in some of the Armenian villages, but
at the first opportunity they migrated to places where Turks were a
majority.
The Armenians cut off the roads. In Gevas we could not go out and act
comfortably. The country was at war, and the Armenians saw that as
their opportunity and started a civil war. They raided many villages.
In some, there were only three or four homes that survived. In the
village of Dereagzž, they cut up all of the inhabitants by sword.
Q: When you fled the village, who was with you?
A: My mother, my father, and two uncles were with me. Van was
evacuated on the rumor that the Russians were approaching, but of
course, there were some that stayed. We left from there, and joined
the refugees on the road. Many did not have any belongings with them.
Some had one or two donkeys with them loaded with what they could
carry, food and drink.Q: Were there many elderly women and men with
you? Were there many children?
A: There were lots of children. Of course, many died in front of our
eyes, some of which were either thrown in the lake or left behind.
Some were left behind because they could not be carried. I remember
very well. A woman wrapped her daughter in a red dress, kissed her
several times, and threw her in the lake. Some died because of hunger
and disease. Some were successful in carrying their children even
though they were hungry and destitute.Q: Did you come across any
Armenian rebels during your flight?
A: No, disease and weather conditions hurt us more.
Q: How did you acquire food and drink?
A: We had brought some with us when we left. It was spring, however it
was not possible to find water. I remember well, it was May 16th.
Q: Could you tell us about those that left Van on ships?
A: Yes, some came to Tatvan on boats.
Q: Could you tell us about their experiences?
A: They too left Van because the Russians were approaching, but
because the captains of the ships were Armenian, many were killed on
the islands. Only a few were able to get away. Anyway, after Armenians
occupied Van, those that stayed were killed and cut up too.
Q: How long were you refugees?
A: Three years, after which we returned to Van. We reaped the crops
that the Armenians had left. This time they ran away.
Q: Do you remember what Van was like then?
A: The homes belonging to the Muslim Turks were all burned and
destroyed, while some of the Armenian homes were still painted and
furnished. The animals and belongings they were unable to carry were
left to us.
Q: What else can you tell us?
A: I remember that we went to Resadiye and came back to get wheat. We
wanted to get some wheat to take to the mill. A crowd appeared,
declaring that the Russians were coming. When we tried to return, the
Turkish soldiers on the road did not let us. Then Halil Pasha's
division made several gains against the Russian army. After the cannon
ball noise died down, the division commander gave us permission to
continue. We continued our journey with horses laden with food. Our
army, praise God, was later victorious.
Q: Did you ever face death during your journey?
A: No, we were never attacked on the road, but those who fled on boats
were in a terrible situation. Someone called Sait told us about it. He
said he fell asleep, but when he awoke he saw that the ship had
approached an island, and asked the captain why this was so. He told
the captain there were Armenian brigands on the island, which the
captain denied. They didn't believe him. The Armenians on the island
then started to shoot at them. Many people were shot and died, but
Sait and others were able to get away.
There are so many stories, but which one should I tell? I hope God
doesn't make us relive those days.
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FARIS SÜRÜM
Father's Name: Kasim
Place of Birth: Bitlis-Cevizyatagi
Date of Birth: 1904
Around the time that Bitlis was going to be saved from the Russians,
we were continuously fighting. During this time the Russians and
Armenians would cut up anyone they found in the city. There was a two
story house in the Mermutlu neighborhood, next to Sütlü Bulag. The
Muslims hid there out of fear. Those barbarians cut up all of the
defenseless people there. I don't know the exact number, but there
were so many Muslims killed that the blood was flowing from the door.
They carried the bodies to the second floor since there was not enough
room for them on the first floor.
When we later took back Bitlis from the Russians, we started to follow
the Russian forces. The enemy was retreating toward Ahlat. When we
arrived to the Zigag village near Ahlat, we couldn't hold back our
tears in the face of the brutality we witnessed. The Armenians had
planted sharp metal poles, and impaled pregnant women stomach first on
those poles. Some of the poles went into their stomachs and out of
their backs. I will never forget this savageness until I die.
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POLICE OFFICER HASAN ÇABUK
Father's Name: Yusuf
Place of Birth: Bitlis
Date of Birth: 1896
The Armenians committed tremendous cruelties in Bitlis. I was in
Bitlis at the time. I had graduated from the Sultan high school there.
When the war broke out, I was drafted. After fighting in Erzurum and
Pasin, I fell into the water in Bitlis on the way to Baghdad, and
stayed in Bitlis because I became ill. That is how I witnessed the
atrocities first-hand.
Most of the population had fled before the occupation, but those that
remained were subject to the massacres. The Armenians killed Mr. Polat
and his family. Women and girls were rounded up by the Armenians and
taken to the Aynel Barut mosque where they were killed after being
raped repeatedly.
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HACI CEMAL ÇUVAÇ
Father's Name: Ibrahim
Mother's Name: Fidan
Place of Birth: Van-Köprüköy
Date of Birth: 1905
When the Armenian riots broke out we were living in Köprüköy. Our
relations with the Armenians in surrounding villages weren't bad. In
fact, they were quite good. But before the inhabitants of Van became
refugees, Armenian fighters began shooting at the Muslims. Their
leader was Aram the Blind. Our youth had all joined the army because
of the declared mobilization. In fact, my three brothers were martyred
while serving as soldiers in Erzurum. There were old people like me
and children left in the village. Men older than sixty were serving as
militia.
We hadn't heard that the inhabitants of Van had fled -- we didn't
know, so we stayed. One week we stayed in the sehayne village. When we
learned that the Russians were approaching from this side, we fled to
Van, but heard that Van was being evacuated. We got caught in the
crossfire.
When we were between the villages of Kalecik and Iskele, the Armenians
of Kalecik started to fire on us. We didn't know where to go.
Armenians captured Van, and the Russians were behind us. If we didn't
flee, the Armenians would cut us up. At the end we decided to flee to
Iran, because Hacž Nebi from sžhkara had served as a soldier on the
Iranian border and said he knew the way and we could easily reach
Iran. The inhabitants of the village met at the top of the hill and
divided into two. Half of us joined the Gülsünler villagers and took
the road to Iran, while the others stayed. During this time Halil
Bey's forces were losing and retreating, so we couldn't go to Iran
either. So we took to the Nardis mountains and went to Siirt via Hosap
and Hasir. We spent 32 days traveling in the mountains. We suffered
from hunger and thirst. We slaughtered a few animals we had with us,
and ate grass to survive. But we owe the soldiers for the fact that we
arrived safely in Siirt. They fought during the day, while at night we
would advance in their shadow. We fled without taking anything with
us.
Those whostayed behind went to the village of Zeve along with the
inhabitants of seven villages. All but a few of them were massacred by
the Armenians. I knew Hamza who was among the survivors. He was from
the village of Amik, but now he's dead as well. Only one or two women
and children survived.
They raped and killed the women in their custody. Hamza would tell us
about it. They would throw children into the air and pierce them with
bayonets. They stuffed most of the people into homes and committed
mass massacres before setting the homes on fire.
There were 18 people in our family who became refugees, but only my
father and I survived. The rest died on the road. We went to Siverek
and Urfa via Siirt and Diyarbakžr. We were in Urfa for three years.
When we returned to Van, the Muslim villages were burned down and
destroyed. For example, while Hždžr, and our village Gülsünler were
completely burned down, not one house in the Armenian village of
Muprutepe was destroyed. We stayed a while in that village, then
rebuilt our own village. We were able to return to our village with
Mr. Abdurrahman. But I can't explain in words what the Armenians did
to us. The inhabitants of Van, Bitlis, and Mus all fled, while those
that stayed were massacred.
When we returned around 1,500-2,000 Armenians had remained. When the
Turkish army entered Van they sought refuge on the island of Çarpanak.
The government took care of them for one and a half to two years, and
later sent them to Revan. But we never retaliated for the repression
we suffered. In fact, we fed them for two years.
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HAYDAR ISAOGLU
Place of Birth: Bitlis
Date of Birth: 1898
In February 1916, I was in a village of Bitlis called Tako. When I saw
a convoy of inhabitants from Bitlis on the road, I asked them why they
were leaving. They told me that the city was unexpectedly invaded by
Russian and Armenian forces, that these forces were composed mainly of
Armenian soldiers, and that they were killing all Muslim men, women
and children that they came across.
When I sent word, Ali, the son of Süleyman, who lived in Bitlis'
Hersan neighborhood, told me the following story. He said his brothers
Ismail and Halil were killed by Armenians in front of their door. The
wife of my brother, daughter of Yakup, was forcibly taken away. His
brother-in-law, Hacž Ali's son Yusuf was also killed, and his cousin
Mercan was taken away by bandits who later committed an outrageous
murder. His neighbor seyh Harzan was ill and was killed in bed, and
his wife semo and one of their servants were also killed. Recep, the
son of Mustafa who had come to visit the seyh, also faced the same
fate. They killed Hasan, the son of Kilincizade near his home, even
after collecting a large ransom. Many people were forced into carrying
heavy objects for long distances barefoot and without any head
coverings despite the snow and brutally cold weather. Among them was
Ahlatlž Nigar, a woman around 80 years old, Tero's sick wife Bezirgan,
Halil, the son of Ismail, Mehmet, the son of Ahmet, his brother
Mithat, and his uncle seyh Hafi, who was around 50 years old. After
this news, I did not have the courage to go to Bitlis, and returned to
my village Tako.
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HACI HÜSEYIN KOCA
Place of Birth: Bitlis-Ahlat
Date of Birth: 1904
I am from Ahlat. I was a child during the mobilization years. The
Armenians formed committees and massacred people. But they did it more
around Van then Bitlis or Ahlat. We were forced to become refugees
because of the Armenian revolt against the Muslim population. We went
to Diyarbakžr where we stayed for one year, and later went to Batman
where we stayed four years. My brother was in Nusaybin. My sister and
I were the only members of my family who survived when we went to
Batman. The rest died on the road during the flight.
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HASAN MEHMETOGLU
Place of Birth: Bitlis
Date of Birth: 1890
I was on duty at night around ten o'clock when the city of Bitlis was
invaded and occupied. My sister came and told us that the city was
invaded by the enemy. When we went out on the street, we saw the
people running. We heard thousands of guns and machine guns. I was
forced to go to Arapköprüsü, a half an hour away from Bitlis to save
my family.
Behind us, the Russian forces and Armenian brigands were killing all
of the Muslims who were trying to save themselves by stopping them
with a forceful bullet. On the other side, the Russian Cossacks were
trampling them with their horses.
The mixture of screams, hopelessness, and the children's wails were
emanating from all sides. It was a miracle that a small group like
ours survived. While we were running away, assistant police chief
Mehmet Vehbi was shot and wounded.
All those that were left behind were the victims of Russian and
Armenian impetuousness. Among the ill-fated victims were the following
people I knew: Van Assistant Chief of Police Mr. Vefik, Police Officer
Ali, Assistant Superintendent of Police Mr. Süleyman, Remzi, and Sait
who were from Van but were serving in Bitlis, Bitlis policemen Mr.
Hamdi and Mr. Resul, Bitlis Courthouse Records Administrator saban
Vehbi, and Hoca Ishak's son, Abdurrezzak.
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HACI RASIT BARIS
Father's Name: Basu
Mother's Name: Cevahir
Place of Birth: Van-Ercis-Yukarž Isiklž
Date of Birth: 1901
I am from the Yukarž Isžklž village of Ercis. After the mobilization
was declared, the Russians arrived. Armenians had already rebelled by
then, and we could only defend ourselves from them for a month, after
which we fled. I remember that my father was wounded at that time. The
Armenians shot him, shrapnel split his head, and he was severely hurt,
but did not die. We first went to Bitlis, Mardin, and Diyarbakir. When
we returned to our village it was completely ruined.
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HACI SADI ALDANMAZ
Father's Name: Bahri
Place of Birth: Bitlis
Date of Birth: 1902
We left Bitlis before the Russians occupied the city. I was 13 years
old at the time. There were up to 100 children left on the side of the
road on the snow from Arapköprüsü to Duhan. Those that stayed in the
city were subject to a frightful massacre. The Armenian commander
Antranik bayoneted 16 women and children with his own hands. The
Armenians were committing atrocities [in Bitlis] before the Russian
invasion as well, but after the occupation, the crimes accelerated. As
far as I remember, 9 year old Hatice who lived in the Hersan
neighborhood was taken from her mother's arms by the Armenians, and
viciously raped without reference to the fact that she was a child.
Hako was the Armenian who took this child from her mother and raped
her. He was known as cold blooded Hako.
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HIKMET SAYLIK
Father's Name: Ziver
Mother's Name: söhret
Place of Birth: Van-Gülsünler
Date of Birth: 1901
I am from the village of Gülsünler, which used to be called sžhkara.
We left the village when the Armenians raided the villages and started
massacring the Muslim population. We were going toward Van, but the
Armenians stopped us before we arrived. We had no choice but to
return. About 300 people from the village gathered in Zeve, while an
equal number returned to the village. We fled toward Hosap as a group.
Turkish soldiers were in Hosap, and they told us to leave as soon as
possible and get out of the line of fire. In spite of the difficulties
we faced, we went as far as Siirt. Many of the refugees suffered and
died due to widespread hunger and disease. From there, we arrived in
Diyarbakžr, Mardin, and finally in Adana. We then went to Konya,
because the French had occupied Adana. The government then sent us to
Mersin, but when the Turkish military took back Van we returned. But
Van and its villages were completely ruined: quiet, burned, and
destroyed. Three hundred people were martyred in our village. They
gathered the people in houses and burned them alive. The inhabitants
of Van fled, and those that remained were cut up by the Armenians.
When we returned, not all of the Armenians had left. Some of the
villages, such as Alaköy remained as they were, and the Muslims did
not hurt anyone there. The government later sent the Armenians to
Russia. Many members of my family were martyred in this village
including my mother, father, brother Mustafa, and other relatives.
Around 30-40 families fled with us, but only ten families returned.
Those that stayed and those that went to Zeve were all massacred. I
found the skeletons of nearly 200 Muslims killed by Armenians. I
buried them here, but could not afford to provide headstones. This
includes the graves of my mother and father as well as many relatives.
The Armenians had burned them alive.
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HACI ZEKERIYA KOÇ
Father's Name: Yakup
Mother's Name: Nadide
Place of Birth: Van-Ayanžs
Date of Birth: 1908
When the Armenian incidents broke out we were in our village, Ayanžs.
Zeve, Mollakasžm and Ayanžs were the villages in the region inhabited
entirely by Muslims. There were five or ten Armenian homes in the
other villages. Before these problems broke out, we had excellent
relations with the Armenians. We got along particularly well with
Armenian-inhabited Alaköy. We would invite each other to banquets, and
there were no hostilities between us.
Then when everything started and the residents of Van fled, we decided
to migrate as well. We got together, filled four carts as much as
possible, and got on the road. As we were leaving the village, a man
came from Van, and asked us where we were going. When we told him, he
urged us to stay, saying he had cannons, guns, and military supplies.
On his encouragement, everyone returned home. Three days passed. On
the fourth day, we were at my grandmother's. I was standing and eating
a piece of buttered bread my grandmother prepared for me. Three
villagers were there helping us out. We heard one gunshot, and the men
said "This noise is from Armenian guns, it buzzes like tin. Our
weapons clatter. Something is going on."
Meanwhile someone came from Mollakasžm, stood on the hilltop of our
village, and yelled "Why are you still around? Kurds raided and
plundered Alaköy, and the Armenians are attacking villages." Right
after this my cousin Dursun showed up. An elderly woman asked him why
he came. He had a bullet through his thumb and said, "They destroyed
the village and I ran away. Before the villagers had a chance to
organize, the Armenians surrounded the village. The Armenians captured
our livestock near the cemetery and took them to Alaköy. The Armenians
went into the village and separated the men and stuffed them into a
room. Their leader was Hamados Pasha, who had paid Iranian Kurds to
fight with him. He told his fighters to separate all males over the
age of seven, and add them to the men to be burned.
They spoke Turkish almost as well as we did. At that time I was seven
years old. My mother immediately wrapped a scarf around my head, put a
loose dress on me, and pulled me toward her. I survived, but they
picked out four or five people from among us and took them away near
the men. As soon as they added them to the men they poured gasoline on
the crowd and lit a fire. The screams emanating from there reached the
skies. They rounded up the women and took them outside. They would
mock us by saying "ladies why don't you sit here and rest. Look how
nicely the dogs are at each other's throats." The "dogs" they referred
to were someone's son, husband, father or uncle, crying "oh my God" in
agonizing pain. They made us sit there for up to an hour. When we
walked by the cemetery, one of the Armenians began singing a ballad
mocking us.
At that moment we saw that the Armenians had shot my mother's cousin
with her child still nursing on her breast. Then an Armenian came and
killed the child with a bayonet. They killed a lot of people in that
area. Those that could run away escaped, those that couldn't had gas
poured over them and were burned. We were forced to sit there for
quite a while.
Hamza, Hacž Ümmet's uncle lived in our village. He always carried a
dagger. The Armenians were going to carry him away and kill him, but
he ran toward them. He was either going to kill them or be killed. He
could not overcome them. Before they killed him they carved out
"pockets" in his thighs and placed his hands inside. Excuse my
language, but they cut his organ and placed it in his mouth, and cut
his nose and placed it in his behind.
They then took us to a hilltop in Alaköy before taking us into the
village. There they packed us into a barn. The children in the group
were starving and began to wail from hunger. The Armenians cut off the
hands, feet, and other appendages of the dead men, cooked, them, and
brought them as food. The children could not understand, but the women
said that it was preferable to starve, and had to explain this to the
children. When nightfall came, they flooded the barn with water. The
women had placed the children on their shoulders and were shouting.
After some time they emptied the water out of the barn by opening a
trench. The next day the women were escorted out, and dried their
clothes on rocks outside the village. The women of Mollakasžm lived a
little further down than us. The Armenians had killed the men in the
village there and imprisoned the women.
In other words they were raiding Muslim villages, killing the men, and
imprisoning the women. In Alaköy they led us onto the road toward Van.
When we arrived at the Mermit stream, some of the women threw
themselves into the water rather than die in the hands of their
captors. The infidels shot them from behind and killed some of them.
They broke the arms and bashed the heads of some that wanted to jump
into the water. I was with my mother, aunt, and grandmother. My mother
was still nursing my sister. When my mother wanted to throw herself
into the water and kill herself, my grandmother held onto her and
would not let her go. The Armenians put blockades by the stream to
prevent people from jumping. The next thing we knew, an Armenian came
to us and asked my grandmother who we were, and from which village we
came. My grandmother was rude at first, but told him when he insisted.
When she responded that we were from the village of Ayanžs, and that
my grandfather's name was Muhittin, her sons Yakup and Niyazi, he
grabbed her and said he would never want or permit harm to come to us.
We were stunned. He then told us a story of when they were coming from
Bahçesaray to Van in eight wagons. My father stopped some men who
wanted to kill the Armenians from doing so. Instead, he escorted them
all of the way to Van, then he turned around and came back to the
village.
That man gave us some bread, old cheese, and yogurt. Well into the
morning they took us from there and brought us to Bardakçž. At night
we slept in the plains of the village with armed guards at our sides.
What harm could women inflict anyway? There were about 700-800 of us.
Then in the morning they woke us, and took us to the foot of the
castle in Van. There the governor of Van, Cevdet Pasha, had a
three-story detention center. They brought a lot of people there
before us. One of the women who was there gave birth to a baby. The
Armenians threw the child off the roof of the building, and the child
was lost. We stayed there for five days. In the afternoon they let us
go out in the fields, and people gathered whatever they could find to
eat.
After five days, they brought two more groups of people. In the
afternoon they moved us to Hacž Bekir's detention center near the old
Governor's home. They had also brought the inhabitants of the Muslim
village Pürüt there. Before they passed out bread, they added sulphur
and other things to it. Up to 70 people a day died as a result. The
Armenians dug ditches along the wall across from the barracks and
brought in the dead on stretchers and threw them there. Here too, we
ran across one of the Armenians which my father had saved. That
Armenian fed us for a few days. People were attacking the food.
One week went by, and they told us the Russians had arrived. One day a
major, a captain, and two soldiers came into the barracks and counted
and recorded the prisoners. The next day we were fed rice with meat,
and taken outside where there were Russian guards. The Russians asked
about our villages, and told us they would take us there. When we all
wanted to go to Mollakasžm, they accepted. In the morning they loaded
us onto 70 to 80 wagons and took us to Mollakasžm. After arriving, we
stuck together out of fear of the Armenians. We picked a leader from
among us, and lived that way until the Turkish army came to Van. After
some time, we rehabilitated the villages which the Armenians had
burned and plundered.
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IZZET CENGIZ
Father's Name: Mehmet
Mother's Name: Ifakat
Place of Birth: Bitlis-Ahlat-Adabag
Date of Birth: 1906
I am from the Adaba g village of Ahlat. We used to have Armenian
villages nearby: Karnuç, and on this side of Ahlat, Agag, Kžzva , Zi
ga g, Sivot, and Tevot (on the outskirts of Nemrut mountain).
I was about six or seven years old, and remember the Armenians
rebelling. From what I heard, I remember that the Armenians set up
committees, brought in fighters, and massacred Muslims who boarded
Armenian-run ships on the Van lake. From time to time they robbed and
plundered our village too. When events started to take place where we
lived, they kidnaped my grandfather Dervis who was in Kotan. There is
a stone quarry facing Mecca, where three men attacked my grandfather
with the intention of cutting him up. He saw that one of them was
Serop who worked with him for three years. My grandfather asked him if
he was killing him because he took care of him for three years. Serop
let him go, saying he was going to cut him up thinking he was Nadir.
Yet shortly after, my grandfather became very ill with fear and died
soon after.
One evening some young visitors came from Kotan, and were having
dinner with us. My father had recently returned from a trip and was
sitting with them. Soon after, my uncle Osman came in, and asked my
mother for some bread for a caravan which came to the village. When my
mother brought him some, he said it was not enough, and told her to
round up all she had and follow him. Since our village isn't really on
the road to anything, my father became suspicious of the caravan
story. He followed my uncle to see what is going on. At the edge of
the castle he saw a ship with Armenian bandits near the shore. They
were roasting a cow which they caught while it was grazing near the
castle. They had secretly set up an ambush and were waiting.
When my uncle had gone out to look for the animals, they cut him off,
asking for bread, but demanding that he tell no one. They told him
they would return his cow if he did as they said. My father went and
got my cousins Davut and Hursit, so they could all go and keep watch
at the castle. They also sent a messenger to Ahlat to tell the army.
At daybreak they fired at the ship and sunk it. When the Armenian
issue flared up in and around Van, it really became heated around
here.
We left our village once, anticipating the arrival of the Russians who
came to Deliklitas (Bitlis). We went as far as Kurtalan, also known as
Zoh, and stayed about three months. We returned to the village when we
heard that the Russians had retreated. The crops had dried up, and
there was no feed for the animals. The villagers then gathered their
animals and sent them to Diyarbakžr. A shepherd called Ahlatlž Sadžk
came to the village to pick up his herd. The Russians arrived before
he could leave, and we all became refugees again. Since the Rahva
grassy plains were covered with snow, the villagers used the back
roads. My mother's uncle was ill, and could only walk with crutches.
He had three sons, who left with my other uncles and my brother. My
mother sewed her valuable jewelry onto the clothing of my brother. She
never told him, but always worried that he may lose it. I stayed in
the village with my mother and her uncle. My cousins were going to
bring a sled because of the snow, and all the children remaining in
the village were going to leave on it, including my grandmother, my
little cousins, and others.
One day while we were waiting for the sled, Armenians dressed in
Russian military uniforms raided the village. They gathered us all in
front of our house, and surrounded the village. We had no weapons, we
were all women and children. They threatened us, and the Armenian
revolutionary committee leaders placed a guard with us and went to
pillage the other homes. I was standing near my mother at the edge of
the wall. Before I knew it, my mother was slowly creeping around the
wall, and then she ran. I was only a child. I thought for a moment,
and ran after her by following her footsteps. When we had cleared the
village, I started to cry because I was afraid. As I approached the
rocks overlooking the lake, I saw that my mother was standing at the
edge of the rocks and was going to throw herself into the water. I
started to scream as loud as I could, asking her what she was doing.
She told me to go back, saying that they would not hurt me since I was
a child, but that they would soil her innocence. When I told her I
would jump after her, she changed her mind and returned. She carried
me on her back and we went and hid in an area used as a wool storage
center by our neighbors. When I tried to cry once, my mother covered
my mouth. She said I didn't let her kill herself and escape, and we
couldn't let the Armenians discover us.
We stayed there until late the following day. My mother asked me to go
check on the dog quietly. If it was resting, she said, there were no
foreigners in the village. But if it was up and barking, it meant the
Armenians were still there. I went out, saw that the dog was laying
down, and told my mother. She got out, and saw that my grandmother,
who had been wounded by a bullet on the lower right side of her body,
was looking for us. It turns out that an Armenian knew my father, and
wanted to mock her by asking her where he was. She answered that her
son had been martyred, and added that if he were alive he surely would
protect her. With that, the Armenian fired at her. The bullet hit her
right cavity, near her stomach. Even though my grandmother told him to
shoot again because she was still alive, the Armenian answered that
this was enough for her, and walked away. We learned from my
grandmother that my aunt Vahide was injured, a women named Hasret
jumped in the lake and was shot by the Armenians, and another woman
from another neighborhood died when her arm was torn off.
We were miserable in a village burned, destroyed, and pillaged. We
boiled the bones of dead animals and drank the water. We survived for
three days by eating the snow at the edge of the rocks. After four
days, the Russian soldiers arrived, took us captive, and brought us to
Agrž. There were roughly 70-80 military prisoners along with us. They
left my mother's uncle behind with the promise of sending a vehicle to
pick him up later. My mother laid out half of a blanket under him, and
covered him with the other half. She also left a small bundle of money
with him.
Later during the journey, she saw that same bundle of money being
carried on the money belt of a soldier. When she asked what happened
to her uncle, he replied that he wasn't there when they returned -- he
seemed to have disappeared. We never learned what happened to him.
There were many Armenians in the Russian army, and they were hurling
insults at the captives. There was an older prisoner named Mr. Sadžk
among us, who noticed that one of the Russian soldiers was reading the
Koran. Mr. Sadžk, who spoke Russian, asked him why. The soldier said
he was a Turk from Kazan, and a Muslim. He asked us to appeal to the
highest Russian military official in Agrž's Yogurtyemez village for
protection from the Armenian massacres.
They later handed us over to a Tatar guard. Among the prisoners from
my village whose names I remember were my mother, my aunt Mahi (whose
child they took from her arms and we never heard of again), my aunt
Gülsüm, her daughter Hayriye, Mr. Sadžk, his wife Zeliha, their
daughter Selvi, their daughter-in-law Nergis, and my cousin Mikail.
The Russians settled us in the Yekmal village of Agrž, where we stayed
three years. When they retreated during the Russian revolution, they
left all of their belongings to the Armenians. We later settled in the
Sofyan village. An Armenian named Agop from the Kazer village sent us
word that we needed to be prepared against an Armenian group advancing
before the Ottomans. He said he was Muslim, but planned to go with
them because he feared that they would hurt him otherwise. On this
news, we went to the Birikan village. Men who could carry weapons in
the Birikan and Sofyan villages put up a good fight against the
Armenians from Sofyan. But in the Gilasor village, the Armenians
loaded the Muslim population into two homes and burned them. The same
things happened in the village of Lesko.
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ISO FROM THE TIL VILLAGE
OSMAN FROM BITLIS
FERHAT FROM KARSIN
HALIT FROM OSKAVAK
Place of Birth: Bitlis
Dates of Birth: 1896, 1898, 1899, 1902, respectively.
The Armenian bandits, who were supported by the Cossacks during the
Russian assault, were leading the greater Russian army. They were
responsible for attacking the villages and creating confusion. The
inhabitants of the attacked villages were hiding on the trails so that
they would not be followed by the bandits, but they were discovered
and carried away by the Russian soldiers. The stronger men were taken
into Russia as prisoners of war by the Russian army. But the Muslims
taken away by the Armenians and Cossacks were massacred without
exception.
The remaining were led on a march with thirty guards in April, 1916.
The sergeant and some of the guards were Armenians from the Caucasus.
On the first day, they continued to walk, but when they reached the
trail on the second day, the sergeant said to one of the guards in a
low voice in Armenian, "let's kill them." Haydar from Derbo who
understood Armenian, relayed the death command to his friends, and
suggested that it was better to attack the guards than die like
sacrificial lambs.
When they reached sahniyan, the smell of death permeated the air.
Bodies torn into pieces were laying on the side of the rocks. Everyone
felt that death had arrived. Despite this, they attacked the guards.
Six prisoners died, but some guards also lost their lives.
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IBRAHIM SARGIN
Father's Name: Halil
Place of Birth: Van-Zeve
Date of Birth: 1903
I am from the well-known Zeve village, site of the most rampant
Armenian massacres.
Q: How old were you when the Armenians rebelled?
A: I had just turned 11 at the time.
Q: Were your parents alive at the time?
A: Yes, they were.
Q: Were they subjected to Armenian atrocities?
A: I will tell you all about that later. I first want to try to
explain the Armenians' position.
We know how untrustworthy the Armenians and Russians were, and about
their efforts to attack the Ottoman State from behind by forming bands
of rebels. At that time, Russians were paying Armenians a stipend.
However, the Armenians were paying the Ottoman State only one gold
coin in taxes, while those unable to pay that much were paying five
silver coins. There were certain changes during the rule of Sultans
Hamit and Resat. They extended equal rights to the Armenians,
declaring that they would be equal to Muslims, like brothers. They
passed a law lifting the tax imposed on them, and made them equal to
us. There was jubilation in the streets. Armenian priests and our
religious leaders hugged and kissed. At this time it was also decided
that Armenians would serve in the military with us and study in our
schools. The Armenians were thrilled with these changes. As soon as
they had the opportunity, they established committees and asked for
money from France and England and arms from Russia. They figured they
could cooperate with the Russians, receive military supplies from
them, and attack the Ottomans from within while the Russians could
advance from the outside.
What did the Russians do? They constructed storage bins out of the
stove pipes and stove metal. These bins were three feet long and one
and a half feet wide, and filled with arms and munitions. Some of our
supplies including kerosene came from Russia at the time. The Russians
delivered these military supplies to the Armenians by hiding them in
the bins and covering them with kerosene containers. Having armed the
Armenians in this way, the Russians sent a member of the secret
revolutionary society from Russia. His name was Aram, and he was blind
in one eye. A Russian Armenian, they named him Aram Pasha. Then they
brought someone named Antranik to the Mus area, and called him
Antranik Pasha. Plus, there was an Armenian revolutionary committee
leader nicknamed sahin in the Karagündüz village of the Erçek region.
They would set up committee organizations and head for the Turkish
borders. They crossed into Turkish villages where they would attack
and kill Turks, and then retreat. They carried weapons and bandits to
Karagündüz on horseback.
Q: Do you remember the revolutionary committees in the region and the
names of their leaders?
A: I named some of them a little earlier. I don't remember any other
names. They armed themselves with the help of the Russians, and came
with their horses. They created storage areas in the sisanus village,
and moved to a lake village which was completely inhabited by
Armenians who had moved into the village earlier. On the lake there
were enormous ships which could carry 500-600 people. These ships
would carry arms and ammunition to Adilcevaz, Ahlat, Ercis, and Gevas.
Some would later be sent to Tatvan, Mus and Bitlis. The Armenians
armed themselves well with these supplies, and started to form
guerilla groups. More specifically, they organized fighters and hid
them on the islands of Akdamar, Çarpanak, and Kadir. These fighters
later scattered throughout the area, insulting and provoking the
public. After a while, they decided to get along with the Russians.
After the Russians declared war on the Ottoman Empire, all of our
soldiers left the area. Some went to the Caucasian front line, while
others went to the Iranian front line. The Armenian soldiers
accompanied our soldiers. After the two sides started fighting, our
soldiers noticed that they were being shot from behind. The doctors
could not understand why soldiers who should be hit from the front
were hit from behind. Then they realized that Armenian soldiers would
kill ours whenever the opportunity arose. We lost perhaps thousands of
our soldiers in this way, but it was too late when it was discovered.
Some of the traitors were found, while some joined the Russian
fighters. This war lasted two and a half years. Our soldiers were in
terrible shape, and were forced to retreat. The Russian military
started to advance. When they arrived at the Çaldžran plains, they
came across the Hamidiye regiment which was formed during the reign of
Sultan Hamit and was composed of tribes. The Russians used the
Hamidiye organization for their own means, telling them to provide
soldiers to defend the area, while they would provide munitions and
arms.
A soldier who heard that the Russians arrived in Çaldžran ran to his
village (Derebey) and told the village headman that it was futile to
work in the fields since the Russians had already arrived in Çaldžran,
which meant they would be in the village either that day or the next.
He told the villagers they would all be killed if they didn't flee.
Hearing this, the villagers gathered together, took some food and
whatever they could carry, and left toward Van. They first reached the
Zorava village, which is Circassian. When the inhabitants asked them
what was going on, they told them that they were headed to Van because
the Russians had entered Çaldžran and were advancing toward Muradiye.
Hearing this, the villagers in Zorava joined the refugees. Later there
were eight villages which joined this caravan to Van; Hakis, Zorava,
Derebey, sžh Ömer, sžhkara, sžhayne, Hždžr, and Göllü. They had no
idea that Van was emptied and that its inhabitants had migrated. When
they arrived at the Everek plains, they saw some Armenians who asked
them in Armenian: "Where are you mindless people going?" to which they
answered, "We're going to Van. We will go wherever the inhabitants of
Van go." To this the Armenians showered them with insults and added
"Turks left Van over six or seven days ago, and are refugees. The era
of Cevdet Pasha has been over for a long time. The Aram Pasha
Administration has been formed. All of the wounded, hospitalized,
women and children in Van were killed. Mosques were torched, barracks
burned. We cut up all of the Muslims in Van. There were only 20-30
women remaining, and we gave them to Aram Pasha." To this, Circassian
Ibo said that they would become prisoners, and proposed that they go
to Zeve, which was very close to the lake. He suggested they could
find a ship there and save the women and children.
By the time this group of refugees reached our village (Zeve), we saw
that there were over 2,000 of them. When we asked them what happened,
they responded, "We were fleeing to Van, but Armenians preempted us
and told us that the inhabitants of Van had migrated, so we came here
to acquire a ship in the hopes of saving our women and children."
It was spring, and it was not easy to settle the refugees in our small
village, but we did our best. We settled them in homes, tents, and
barns. There were more than 2,000 of them, and they stayed with our
villagers, who numbered about 500. In addition, soldiers disbanded
from the army came home to our village. You should have seen them.
They had long beards, their uniforms were torn, they were full of
lice. We settled them, too. One was my brother Necip, my cousin
Mustafa, my brother-in-law Mehmet, my cousin Ilyas, Recep, son of
saban, Mustafa's son Seyyat, and Emrah's son sükrü. They were
emaciated -- just skin and bones. They took off their clothes and
burned them and pulled off the lice. My uncle Yusuf was a good barber.
After scrubbing their heads with hot water, he shaved them with a
razor. Believe me, because of the lice, blood was dripping from their
faces and eyes. They were somewhat more comfortable after that.
Two days had passed. On the third day, the village Hodja began his
morning call to prayer. Those that wanted to pray went, others went to
their jobs. There was a river in the middle of our village. It flows
all the way from the Iranian border, and becomes a lake in the spring
when the snow melts. But we were never sure exactly where this water
came from. One day we heard a woman's voice from the other side of the
river calling for someone to carry her to our side. On hearing this,
my uncle grabbed his horse, followed the sounds, and what did he see,
but Esma, the daughter of Ahmet. He was amazed when he saw Esma, who
had married into the Molla Kasžm village. She promised to tell her
story after my uncle helped her cross the river. He helped her onto
the saddle and brought her to this side of the river. At this time the
villagers had finished their morning prayer and had gathered around
them. She told them to fend for themselves, that Hamit, Molla Kasžm,
and Ayanos had been killed, and that the perpetrators would be in our
village any day now. The Hodja addressed the crowd with "Friends, we
are Muslims. It doesn't fit our religion for us to die needlessly. We
have about 60 weapons, 2 chests full of ammunition, and eight or nine
soldiers with guns and bullets. Let's defend our village. My father's
cousin, Hodja Osman who served with Cevdet Pasha had sent 60 guns and
the ammunition."
There were hills near our village, below the bridge. There were plains
on the top, and grasslands below. The villagers took their positions
on the top part of the hills, and waited for the Armenians to advance.
When the Armenians surrounded the village on three fronts and
attacked, our villagers were prepared. They fought the Armenians until
noon. When our side charged them, the Armenians were startled. Some of
them fled to Mermit village, while others went to Vadar village. After
they fled they started to regroup. There were other Armenian villages
such as the enormous Alay village comprised of 400 homes. They
gathered together all of the Armenians, and again started a battle
which continued until the end of the mid-afternoon prayer. After the
mid-afternoon prayer, there were up to one hundred horses speeding
down Erzurum Street which originated in Van. The villagers thought
that they were Ottoman soldiers who came to their assistance after
hearing gunfire, but soon saw that they were Russian Armenians who
heard the gunfire and came to the village. The fighting started again,
and our villagers started to run out of bullets. The Armenians saw
this as an opportunity and entered the village by killing the Turks
who were guarding it. The village was burning, and herds of people
numbering two or three thousand started to flee. The Armenians were
throwing small children in the air and piercing them with bayonets or
sticking them in the stomach with bayonets. The children let out
shrill cries and fell to the ground like baby birds. In desperation,
some of the women and young girls threw themselves into the river,
while others lit fire to bails of grass and threw themselves into the
bonfire.
They captured Corporal Seyyat alive, laid him on the ground, undressed
him, and skinned him alive. They also carved out his shoulders and
carved into his sides, taunting him by saying that Sultan Resat
promoted him and gave him a medal. The Armenians also set fire to the
grass and threw some of our women and children into the fire and
burned them alive. They sliced the throats of the rest of the
survivors as if they were sacrificial lambs. Not one child survived.
After massacring the entire village, they killed the five most
attractive women; my cousin Seher, Esma, the headman's wife, a distant
relative Hayriye, my aunt Ayse, and Güllü. Then they left. I'll
explain to you how I survived even though the Armenians vowed to
continue the massacres until we were all dead. My father was very well
known, and he had extended much kindness to the Bardakçž village. My
father had once saved the life of Kžrbe, and his son Asvador was among
the Armenians. Although at the time my father was in Iran as a reserve
officer, Asvador came to us during the massacre. Asvador told the
Armenians not to touch me, my mother, and one of my sisters and saved
our lives. After the Armenians left, Asvador took us out of hiding.
The wounded were moaning from pain, begging for someone to wrap their
wounds or give them some water.
Asvador brought us to the Bardakçž village where we stayed for some
time. My cousin Sema in Bardakçž would swear to us that in the evening
the Armenians would come and pick out ten or eleven women out of the
150, and rape them until the morning. The women would be covered with
blood, and after they were dropped off they were unable to even sit.
Meanwhile a Russian government was established in Van and Aram Pasha
became its leader. Aram Pasha's government proclaimed that any
refugees in need of food or water were welcome in Van. My father at
this time was in the Haçik village where he and my uncles were on
Halil Pasha's boat. From there they went to a village in the Hosap
region. When my uncles heard the proclamation they went to Van. They
were shocked to see that the city was burned and completely destroyed.
The city used to be at the foothill of the castle. Everything was
completely destroyed: the buildings, barracks, mosques, bathhouses,
and government buildings.
My father was from the Haçbahan neighborhood where there were Armenian
homes and stores. Coincidentally, Asvador ran into him on the street.
After the customary greeting, my father asked him if he had any news
about our village. Asvador responded that they had slaughtered all of
Zeve, but that his younger wife, child and daughter were safe with
him. He volunteered to hand us over to my father. My father
acknowledged the favor by Asvador, but feared that the Armenians would
kill him if he went to the village, so he suggested that Asvador bring
us to him instead so that he could take us away. When Asvador came to
see us that night, he told us that he ran into my father, and that we
should prepare ourselves so that he could take us to him. In the
morning he loaded us onto an ox cart, took us to Van, and delivered us
to my father. I will never forget that day. My father took us to Hosap
from there. We didn't stay long because the Armenians were raiding a
village a day. Many people were fleeing either toward Iran, Mardin or
Diyarbakžr to save their lives.
Q: Mr. Ibrahim, can you tell us about what happened in Van. Apparently
the first revolt took place there, where the castle was toppled by
cannon fire, the city was completely destroyed, and an Armenian
government was set up. Since you were in Zeve you may have seen the
troubles in Van. Do you have any knowledge of the incidents in Van?
A: They used cannon fire to burn the castle. At that time we were in
the village of Bardakçž, and could see the fire in Van from there.
Mosques, buildings and barracks were burned. After capturing the
castle, they aimed some of the cannon fire downhill. The mosque near
the castle also was burned and destroyed, as well as the Hamitaga
barracks. They butchered almost all of the Muslims there &endash; only
a few women survived. After the Russian government was established,
these women complained to the Russians about the Armenians, and asked
for protection because they trusted the Russians more. The Russians
had the women guarded and did not violate their virtue, but the
Armenians raped our women and massacred the children and elderly.
Q: Mr. Ibrahim, is it possible that one of the reasons that the
Russian soldiers did not touch our women was the possible presence of
Turks in the Russian army?
A: Yes. There were Crimean and Caucasian soldiers and officers. They
protected our women because they too were Muslims. In fact, they even
sent them back to their villages including the Molla Kasžm village.
During the massacres they could only send 30 of the 150 women. They
planned to stay in the Molla Kasžm village until the Ottoman military
arrived. However, they were subject to even further hardships. When
the Russians retreated, the Armenians stayed behind. The Armenians
suggested that the Russians leave their weapons, ammunition, cannons,
and supplies, so they could fight the Ottoman government. When the
Russians left all of their equipment to them, the Armenians became
even more ruthless and continued the massacres. When our army starting
arriving from Bitlis to Gevas and clashing with these Armenians, the
Armenians headed to Van toward Muradiye and Kars. They ultimately went
to Russia and Iran. Only a handful of Armenians remained behind. They
stayed on small islands in Lake Van such as Çarpanak.
Q: Were there any Armenians in your Zeve village?
A: No, none.
Q: Where were you at the time that the Armenians established an
Armenian government with the Russians?
A: We were in Zeve at the time.
Q: How many people from Zeve survived?
A: In addition to myself, six women were saved from Zeve, and that was
only because of a good deed my father had done earlier. Everyone else
was murdered, including many women and children.
Q: They say that a mosque near the Van castle was burned. Was this
mosque in Van or Zeve?
A: It was in Van, but mosques in Zeve were burned down as well. In Van
they burned other mosques such as the Kayaçelebi, Ulu, and Hüsrev
Pasha, as well as many smaller mosques. You can still see all of their
traces.
Q: Were there any people inside the mosques in Van when they were
burned down?
A: Without a doubt.
Q: How about in Zeve?
A: Many had gone into the mosque for protection. Among them were uncle
Hamza, Dervis, and Derebeyli. I don't remember the names of the others
except for a great personality in Zeve whose name you may have heard;
Sultan Hacž Hamza. He built the first dervish lodge in the area.
Q: Isn't it true that during the massacres the Turks sought refuge in
the lodge thinking that they would not be killed?
A: They sought shelter in the tomb, not the lodge.
Q: They say that the Armenians burned down the tomb, is that right?
A: It is true. They set fire to the tomb too, and thought everyone
inside had been killed, but three people survived. Unfortunately,
mosques, tombs made no difference to them. They burned them down with
everyone inside. I hope God will protect us from similar events in the
future.
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IMAM ZEYNELABIDIN
Place of Birth: Kars
Date of Birth: 1908
I am 82 years old, and witnessed the Armenian massacres. The Armenians
raided the refugee tents of Mr. Abdullah, and killed him and many
other people whose names I do not know. Since Mr. Abdullah's second
wife Zeytun was very attractive, they took her away and killed him.
One day, they gathered the Muslims from Digor, and placed the men in
Laz Hasan's house. The women were put in the ditch near Hacž Aziz's
home. They fired into the ditch and killed more than 400 Muslims that
way. As for the men, they would take them out two by two and cut their
heads off with axes. From Mr. Halil's family, they killed him, his
sons and the rest of the family. I know their names because we were
relatives. Yusuf, his son, father of Esen, the mayor, was wounded but
able to save himself. His brothers Asaf, Arslan, and Tahir all died.
They stole a lot of personal property. All the people sought refuge in
the mountains. The elderly and sick that were left behind in the
village were all killed. I can't tell you all of the terrible things
the Armenians did. Thank God for our soldiers who saved Kars.
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KAYA ÇELEBI
Father's Name: Vehbi
Mother's Name: Cemile
Place of Birth: Van
Date of Birth: 1925
Kaya Çelebi retells the stories told by his mother Cemile
(1884-1984).
Q: When did your mother pass away?
A: She passed away a month ago at the age of 100.
Q: Can you tell us, without editorializing, or becoming emotional,
what your mother said about the incidents in Van, the Armenian revolt,
and the reason that it happened?
A: You know the reasons. The Armenians lived under the protection of
the Ottoman State for 600 years, and had every privilege. They took
advantage of this land and of us. They rose to high positions
including ministers in government agencies. There was no pressure on
them. However, this favorable treatment caused a reaction. I predict
that they got the idea of forming their own state.
Q: Do you remember your mother's description of the development of the
revolt in Van and the accompanying incidents?
A: I can tell you about it. Their only goal was to establish an
Armenian state in eastern Anatolia with Van at its center. Revolts and
terrorist incidents started to take place everywhere. These even
started before the First World War, but the war was an opportunity for
them to collaborate with the Russians. The Armenians in Van and
Erzurum ensured the Russian entry into Van by leading them to the city
after the start of the war. Naturally, with the Russian occupation,
many Turks became refugees. In fact, they had previously sent a
division in Van to Erzurum, and Van was left without the presence of
soldiers. Van's leaders at the time went to the governor and asked him
how he permitted the departure of a division with the presence of an
Armenian threat. The governor responded that he could defend the city
with a squadron, since the opposition was not even a state. Despite
all the insistence, the division was sent to the front from Van. The
public became worried and held a meeting. They sent the division off,
crying and screaming, as if they knew what fate was awaiting them.
Armenian brigands took advantage of this situation and positioned
themselves. Van was occupied by Russian forces on May 20, 1915. Their
terror continued for two years, ten months, and eleven days until
April 2, 1918. Given the oppression, the governor decided to evacuate
Van.
Q: Since the revolt started in April, and the occupation was in May,
can you tell us about the beginning of the revolt as described by your
mother?
A: There were rebellions earlier as well, but the initial large revolt
was in April. The then-governor Cevdet Pasha saw that the situation
had deteriorated, and commanded that all women, children, elderly, men
and women board ships docked in Lake Van. Anyone that could carry a
weapon was already in the army &endash; most of them on the Erzurum
front. Those that were in Van could not have defended themselves. The
ships were full when they left, but since the owners were Armenian,
they carried the passengers to the side of the Çarpanak island and
killed many of them. This was later discovered, and the public then
opted for land transportation. My mother was pregnant, and had three
other children, 10, 7, and 5 years old. That day my mother gave birth.
When we learned that the Russians had started to advance from Çatak,
she wrapped up the child without recovering, and hit the road even
though she was ill. She was trying to follow a group to Edremit.
Although she was slowing down the crowd of 60-70 because she did not
feel well, they waited for her. My grandfather was a retired police
officer, and my father was a manager in Gürpžnar. My grandfather was
with my mother and helped her, because many people were too weak to
carry their children. For this reason there were many abandoned
children on the road. In fact, my grandfather thought it was best to
leave the child, but when my mother refused, he had no choice but to
give up.
As the crowd left for Edremit, 7 guards were provided for protection.
However, 20-30 Armenian bandits cut them off around Edremit, and
fought with the guards. When the guards lost, the crowd was taken
hostage. The men were shot on the spot, and my grandfather died on my
mother's lap. Two of the bullets scraped my mother's shoulders, and
the scars remained for the rest of her life. After killing the elderly
men in cold blood, the Armenian bandits gathered the women and
children, and told them that they would be taken back to Van. After
insulting, torturing, and hitting them with the butt of guns, they
took them to an area outside of Van where they asked them to wait
because they would take them to the American Embassy. However, they
explained that they could not take the entire group at one time
because the Russians would kill them if they saw them, so they would
take them in groups of three or five. The bandits started leading
small groups through the trees. Among them was my mother's
mother-in-law and other relatives. Soon shots were heard, and the
group thought there was a skirmish. In fact, when they were out of
sight, Armenians killed them and put them in sacks. Another group was
taken away, and again, shots were heard. When the next group was
taken, my mother was left behind since she had a small child. However,
they took away my siblings and two grandmothers, and killed them as
well. Meanwhile, an Armenian girl approached my mother. My mother said
she was their gardener's daughter. My grandfather was one of the
outstanding citizens of Van.
Q: What was your grandfather's name?
A: It was Mahmut. The Armenian girl asked why my mother was sitting
around. She responded that she would be taken to the American Embassy,
just like her mother, mother-in-law, children, and other relatives
before her. The girl revealed that they were all taken further down
the road to be killed, and offered to take my mother to the Embassy
since she was considered a family friend.
My mother then followed her and fled to the American consulate without
being discovered among the trees. She sought refuge there for some
time, but the Russians claimed the refugees as their prisoners, and
took all of the women, with the understanding that they would be led
to Batum and Tiflis. They hit the road under Russian military
surveillance, and traveled with horses and donkeys.
Q: Was this group massacred as well?
A: Armenian bandits stopped them as well, and tried to take them away
by force. The Russians did not permit them, but there were casualties
in the process.
Q: Was your mother saved?
A: My mother was saved, and went as far as Tiflis where Azeri Turks
lived. They distributed one or two people per home, and my mother was
placed in a Turkish home. She did not know her children were killed,
and told the man of the house that her children were sent to the
consulate in Batum. She asked to be taken there so that she could look
for them. Because the gentleman was well off, he was able to send her
to Batumi shortly, where she visited all of the orphanages. Despite
her endeavors and search, she was unable to locate her children or
relatives, and had to give up. These orphanages were established by
Azeri Turks, and took care of all refugee children. When they
discovered that my mother could read and write, they made her manager
of one of the orphanages. My mother was around thirty years old at the
time, and managed the orphanage for about three years. She cared for
and taught the children. Finally, after three years, Van was liberated
by the Turks on April 2, 1918. A truce was later signed, and prisoners
were exchanged. That is when my mother arrived in Istanbul on a ship
called "Nurcemal". After an exhaustive search, she found some
relatives, and settled down near them. Meanwhile, my father looked for
my mother in Batum. After learning from the prisoners that she had
gone to Istanbul, he travelled there and found her. Five years later,
my father opened a tea house and took a civilian job with the
military. He joined a group in Besiktas which took officers to the
independence struggle in Anatolia. They carried men at night in boats
and ships. He thereby helped Atatürk by supplying him with very
capable commanders.
Q: Do you remember what your mother told you about the atrocities the
Armenians committed in Van?
A: She said this about the massacres: Instead of taking them to the
American consulate, they stuffed many Turks into homes, poured
gasoline on them, and burned the inhabitants alive. The other
massacres took place in the Zeve village near Van. The Armenians
raided this village. Of course, there were no men that were able to
fight in this village, they were all at the front. There were only
women and the elderly, who tried to defend themselves with weapon
scraps. But when they ran out of ammunition, the Armenians entered the
village. Some of the Turks hid, and hoped they would not be hurt, but
the Armenians started to kill women, children, the elderly, and anyone
who crossed their paths. They burned some of them alive, and raped the
women. Some women could not tolerate what was happening, and threw
themselves in the river hoping to preserve their dignity. They took
their lives without surrendering. As a result, more than 2,000 people
died.
We built a monument to the martyrs in Zeve to commemorate these
incidents. We unveiled it in 1973 at the 50th anniversary of the
Republic. We tried to publicize the massacre to the world in this way.
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KADRIYE DURAN
Father's Name: Hamid
Mother's Name: Nigar
Place of Birth: Van-Kavunlu (Çoravanis)
Date of Birth: 1904
I was ten years old when we became refugees. Before we fled, Degirmen
was an Armenian village which included 80 Armenian families and three
Muslim Turkish families. One day the Armenians gathered the three
families, cut them up, and tossed them into a well. They tortured and
killed the young men by cutting "pockets" into their thighs and
crucified them by nailing them to the wall by their foreheads. Roughly
30 young people died this way. A woman whose father-in-law lived in
the Degirmen village came to tell a cleric in our village what was
going on in Degirmen. After this, conflicts arose with the Armenians
living in our village, and a few Armenians were killed. After what
happened in the Degirmen village, a weapon was distributed to every
home in our village as a precaution. My father was the headman of our
village. Since the surrounding villages were Armenian, the Muslim
population feared that our village would be attacked, and gathered in
the mosque. We filled sacks with sand and used them as barriers.
During this time, two young Armenians were locked into a home because
our villagers could not bear to kill them. But they dug a tunnel under
the house, and fled to Degirmen village carrying news. Then the
inhabitants of three villages, Degirmen, Faržh and another Armenian
village raided our village. The fighting lasted for more than an hour.
The Armenians controlled the bridge above the stream, and invaded
Ziyaret as well. The stream overflowed with melted snow, and it was
pure chaos when we tried to cross the stream. When my mother entered
the water, it reached her chest. Naturally, people broke their arms,
legs, or heads, while children were carried away by the water. It was
hell, pure hell. The Armenians were throwing the dead bodies onto
heaps of wheat. The bodies had piled up like hills. My father jumped
on his horse and went to Van from Akköprü. Since Sžhke was an Armenian
village, they didn't give him permission to pass through. My father
explained the situation to the governor of Van, Cevdet Pasha and asked
for his help. One hundred soldiers came to our rescue, and the
Armenians fled. We hid in the village of Dirandaz which was Muslim.
After spending the night there, my father went to Van in the morning
and asked those entering the city if we should return to our village.
They said that we shouldn't, so we were forced to become refugees. My
sisters and I wore men's clothing and hit the road.
We were going towards Edremit when the Armenians raided Van. The city
was burning, and the houses were in flames which reached the sky. We
reached Edremit, but they raided that too. We went from there to
Bitlis, from Bitlis to Siirt, to Diyarbakžr, and then to Siverek. We
stayed there three years. There were eight people in our family who
became refugees. On the way, my brother Ali was captured. The rest
died on the road. Only my mother and I were able to return to Van. We
weren't the only ones affected. The inhabitants of Van, Edremit, and
Van's Muslim villages all became refugees. Those that didn't run were
killed at the hands of the enemy, while most of those that got away
died on the road.
A few years later, my mother and I returned to Van, and what did we
see? There were ruins everywhere, a few people, but they were all
hungry, thirsty, and miserable. Neighborhoods and houses were empty.
There was no bread, wheat, or anything. We were compelled to return to
the village of Çoravanis. The wheat there was starting to mature. We
cracked the bitter seeds, boiled them, and drank the water. The
Armenians took whatever furniture, goods, animals, or whatever they
could find, and destroyed our houses as well. A man on a horse who saw
us alone in the village told us that there was a grain storage area
near the pier. My mother and I went to get 60 kilos of flour there,
but it was later stolen. The Armenians had not yet withdrawn
completely. There were bandits everywhere. One time my mother and I
went to the Erek mountain to gather pieces of metal which we wanted to
trade for bread with the soldiers. We ran into six Armenians who were
going to kill us, but when it suddenly started to rain and hail, we
ran away and hid in a cave. We barely saved our lives.
We suffered considerably. Three years later my brother died in
captivity. We were told that the Armenians were going to kill him, but
the Russians objected. They had made him build roads in Armenian
villages by hand. We rebuilt our homes, planted our fields, and
started anew.
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KAMILE ELIBOL
Father's Name: Ali
Mother's Name: Kisma
Place of Birth: Van-Ercis-Gölagzž
I am from the Gölagzž village of Ercis, which is now a neighborhood of
Ercis. I was ten years old when the Armenians raided our village. We
had no early warning or intelligence that the Armenians and Russians
would invade. One day we were told that Ercis was destroyed, and that
the Russians had invaded. Those that heard the news in time fled, but
we were caught by surprise. We too gathered our belongings and joined
the refugees. When the Armenians invaded, those that were able to get
away did -- those remaining were all killed. Many men were able to get
away, but the women and children were caught. They were collected and
brought to the castle. My God, they raped the children, then they
killed them. They killed so many people that they piled the bodies
onto ships and threw them into the Lake Van. Of course, I had
relatives that died too. The relatives on my father's side whose names
I can remember are Celal, Cemal, Ali, and Nurettin. We first ran away
to Ahlat, and from there to Tatvan, Bitlis, Diyarbakžr, Adana, and
Konya where we stayed about ten years. When we returned, Ercis and
Gölagzž were burned and destroyed. The Armenians left nothing, they
destroyed everything.
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MEHMET HATUNOGLU
Father's Name: Veli Çavus
Some of us young people, and the elderly able to fire a gun went up to
the mountains to defend ourselves against the Armenian massacres. We
learned that the Armenians burned Ercis, along with the old Karayusuf
Pasha Mosque, sükrü's home, and many other buildings with our women
and children inside. We chose the most courageous among us and sent
them down to the city at night to learn what was going on. I can't
tell you what I saw, it was so hideous. They [Armenians] planted a
stake every fifty meters on the Pulur (now Çžnarlž neighborhood), and
Ercis -Egans road, and impaled the elderly taken from the mosques on
these stakes. They all died in a pool of blood. Then we went into the
large Çavusoglu barn, and saw people sliced up and laying in blood,
most of which were relatives or people we knew. They were beaten and
killed with axes, shovels, and cleavers. They placed a basket over the
head of Haydar Imam, and impaled him. We thought that no one was left
alive, but later learned that Kžçe, who worked as a maid with the
Armenians, survived but had lost consciousness.
The Armenian simo had a beautiful daughter who was very helpful to
Muslim Turks. She would bring them water and intelligence. According
to rumor, she was in love with a young man named Emin. She was caught
bringing news to the Turks the day the barn was raided, and she too
was killed. There were about twenty or twenty five people in the barn.
Some of them were taken to the pilgrimage in Haydarbey after we
returned from exile. Other bodies which started to rot were covered by
wicker, dirt, and herbs by a group of women. Until recently this was a
place where people visited martyrs and prayed. After some time, no one
took responsibility for the site, and it fell into disrepair.
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MUHAMMET RESIT GÜLESER
Father's Name: Abdullah
Mother's Name: Habibe
Place of Birth: Van
Date of Birth: 1900
I was a young student at the Dar'ül-Muallimin school, around 15 or 16
years old during the Armenian massacres, and remember what happened
quite well. Before the First World War, we had good neighborly
relations with the Armenians (whose population was said to be
approximately 17,000).
With the declaration of the constitutional monarchy in 1908, they
started to exploit the principles of independence, equality, and
justice to their benefit. Their leader in Van, Aram Pasha, was in the
delegation that notified Sultan Hamit that he would have to leave his
throne. The Armenians set up an underground organization in Van, and
dug tunnels which extended from near the Great Mosque (Büyük Cami) all
the way to the old section of town. It was even possible to go through
these tunnels on horseback. One day the tunnels were inadvertently
discovered when a section caved near a guard. Even though Aram Pasha
was detained near the Great Mosque based on the intelligence provided
by an Armenian after the discovery, he was released without punishment
due to the political sensitivities of the time.
In short, the Armenians were very well organized. Already well
established in commerce, they were doing very well financially. After
the Armenians and Jews were permitted to join the military, groups of
Armenians joined the military during the retreat of the Van division.
The Armenians entered the military prepared -- with their own weapons.
Our soldiers were carrying German-made primitive weapons that after
firing four shots, would drop the fifth bullet. According to what we
had heard from Mr. Hacž Latif and others who later returned to Van,
the Armenians in the Van division were shooting our soldiers in the
back. There were also several cases of Armenian doctors and nurses
poisoning our wounded soldiers who were hospitalized in Van after
returning from the eastern front.
Regarding the situation in Van, the Russians were approaching from
three fronts, Muradiye, Özalp, and Baskale. The Armenians in the city
were rebelling and continued an aggressive campaign against the Muslim
population for 29 days. We had three barracks, Hacž Bekir, Aziziye,
and Toprakkale. Ten soldiers would guard each one. They raided these
barracks and slaughtered the soldiers like sheep by slicing their
throats. Ali Çavus was also martyred there. While our weak militia
were digging trenches to try to fight, the Armenians made holes in the
walls and were firing shots with machine guns, pouring cans of
kerosene, lighting fires, and escaping through the deep tunnels. This
brutal attack lasted 29 days. The decision to flee was finally made so
that the Muslim population would not suffer any more deaths. Those
with carts used them; those without were under desperate conditions,
but we all joined the exodus. People left their children on the road,
others died from hunger and disease.
It should be remembered that the Armenians not only committed large
massacres in Van, but in the villages as well. The homes in the
villages of Tžmar, Baskale, and Özalp were stuffed with hay and set on
fire. Those that tried to escape were killed with bullets and
bayonets. The inhabitants of a few villages in Zeve organized and
fought the Armenians, but almost all of them -- from seven different
villages -- were killed. Mass graves are still being uncovered in
these villages and a memorial was built.
Of the twelve ships that carried the Muslim refugees from Van, four of
them carried government employees and their families. All of the
sailors aboard the vessels were Armenians. The Armenian bandits, aided
by these sailors, forced the four government employee boats to dock at
the Adžr island, and killed all of the passengers. As for those in the
other eight boats, they were taken to another island near Tatvan where
Armenian bandits were waiting, but were able to escape with few
casualties because they were armed.
When we left Van, we first went to Bitlis, and later to Diyarbakžr. We
witnessed the Armenian savagery along the way. Finally, I will tell
you about what we saw and heard upon returning to Van. The Armenians
applied all types of torture to the inhabitants, God bless their
souls. They paraded Isa Hodja, who was over 100 years old, on a donkey
through the village, raided and looted homes, and gathered women and
girls into Mr. Ziya's home where they repeatedly raped them. They
threw the bodies of the dead into wells, and even filled the well of
our mosque with their victims' bodies.
When General Cevdet entered Van for the first time, he asked the
gendarmes to escort 130 women whose husbands were at the front to
Diyarbakžr. They had been stranded in Van because they did not have
any transportation. About 30 of them stayed in our house. They spun
wool to survive. They were also given military rations. They told us
that there was no end to the torture and cruelties they suffered at
the hands of the Armenian bandits. The Armenians skinned the men,
castrated them, and raped and impaled the women.
We returned to Van four years later. We stayed two years initially,
but were forced to flee again when the Russians arrived. This time we
went as far as Siirt. When we returned 200-250 Armenian families were
seeking refuge on the Çarpanak island. They were hoping that the Turks
would leave, and that they would resettle in Van. Most of them were
artisans. A short time later, a new decree was issued, and they were
sent to Revan under the protection of the government. However, Van,
raided seven times by the enemy, was completely destroyed except for
the Armenian quarters. We had to rebuild the city.
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MEHMET SAAR
Father's Name: Tevfik
Mother's Name: Rukiye
Place of Birth: Van-Göllü
Date of Birth: 1901
I am from the Göllü village. The Armenians revolted when the army in
Van retreated toward Erzurum. Our mothers and fathers were all slain
by Armenians. My father, a gendarme sergeant, was among those killed.
The villagers in Mollakasžm, Amik, sžhayne, Göllü, Hždžr, Kurtsatan,
and Köprüköy were also murdered. Part of our village hid in Zeve and
were later killed, but we were able to escape. Armenians tortured and
inflicted all types of cruelties on the people they kidnapped. They
cut up pregnant women and removed the unborn children with bayonets.
They raided and burned all of the Muslim villages, murdering men,
women, young and old. The Muslim population which fled the villages I
named tried to escape by crossing the bridge on the Ablengez River.
The Armenians demolished the bridge, and threw the bodies of their
prisoners into the river. In the spring when the snow melted, the
bodies were emptied into the lake. During the day, my mother, my two
sisters, and I would lie low and advance slowly by the crops on the
river, and at night we would stay in the hills. We knew if the
Armenians found us they would kill us. My mother died before we
reached Diyarbakžr. I later lost my two sisters, and was left all
alone. I stayed in Diyarbakžr for three years, and returned to my
village the fourth year. Since Van and the Muslim villages were all
burned and destroyed, we settled down in an Armenian village since
they remained intact. We later returned to our villages which we
rebuilt with our own hands.
Words cannot express the torture we suffered at the hands of the
Armenians. We lost our homes, families, and possessions. After losing
my mother, father, and two sisters, I also lost my cousin and other
relatives who were trying to escape to Tatvan by ship with thousands
of other people. All of the passengers on the ship were brutally
slaughtered and dismembered by the Armenians near the Parkat village
near Adilcevaz.
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MEHMET TAS
Place of Birth: Kars-Esenbogaz
Date of Birth: 1902
(Mehmet Tas pointed out the scars on his face). When the Armenians
raided our village, we all sought refuge in the nearby forest. They
fooled us into coming back to the village, stuffed us into a barn, cut
us up, and burned us. An Armenian saw me, swung the sword to my face,
and threw me into the fire. I immediately stood up and fell again
among the dead. The soldiers came that night. I don't remember
anything else because I was very young, but my foot was burned.
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ORUÇ TÜRKELI
Place of Birth: Kars-Hakmehmet
Date of Birth: 1899
There were no Armenian homes in our village at the time. Then
Armenians and Muslims became enemies, and the Armenians arrived in
Kars. They didn't have any possessions or homes then, but they came
and stayed in our village. The Armenians had a wise man named Dikran
who also stayed in our village. The oldest was their leader.
My mother would make bread, and I stayed near her. One day, I went
outside to play with the children and have a good time. I heard that
the Armenians surrounded the village. I asked myself why this was so,
since Armenians lived among us as well. They told us to gather our
belongings so that we could make peace. I went home to tell my mother.
She had baked bread, and two armed Armenians came and told us to
gather the bread and go inside. We did as they said. It was either the
first or second day of our religious holiday. We had meat too, but
they left nothing. They took us away.
There is a home in the village where they put all the women, men and
children from the village. They put the older boys and men in one
room, and the younger ones with the women. I was with my mother. We
had a few gold coins which my mother placed at the baseboards of the
walls, because they would come and search the homes and confiscate any
money. We had nothing else. Nightfall came and it became dark. They
treated us like a heard of sheep. We were women and children. They put
two Armenians on each side of us who led us by poking us with
bayonets. They took us out of the village, and would stop and check us
from time to time for money. My mother threw the coins on the ground
which was made of dirt and stepped on them. They took us to the fields
in the middle of the village, and told us to divide into two and march
toward the next village. Armenians on horses arrived, and they told us
they would take us back because the other Armenians would kill us. We
continued to march, while they returned. They stood and waited for a
while, and then left. There were many small children with their
mothers. Those unable to carry the children left them behind. Mothers
were carrying one child in their arms, one on their backs, and holding
the others by the hand. A few children were left by rocks or ditches.
We went to Iranian villages, and later learned that they massacred
those that stayed behind, including my father, and threw the bodies
into wells. Some were killed by bullets, some by sword, and some were
thrown into the wells alive. Those wells were old and deep, but they
threw them all in there. We stayed in Iran for eight to ten years. Our
villagers later returned, but of course my father was killed by the
Armenians.
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SAIT ALDANMAZ
Father's Name: Bahri
Mother's Name: Nigar
Place of Birth: Bitlis
Date of Birth: 1900
I was fourteen years old during the mobilization. Armenians insulted
us in every way. With my own eyes, I saw an Armenian poke a dagger
into a woman's stomach and pull out her child. They killed 15-20
people with bayonets in my neighborhood of Ersan. When the Russians
arrived, the Armenians helped them. The Armenians who arrived with the
Russians attacked our soldiers under the Hormuz police station. We saw
the bodies which were left on the snow. These incidents took place
during the second migration of September,1916. We fled one other time
in July 1915, and stayed in Gorlar for a month. When the Russians were
unable to penetrate Bitlis, we returned. Only 45 families fled. We
left everything behind -- our home, our animals, our barn &endash; and
they were all destroyed. Among the ruins of every home, in the fields,
and in the farms were the bodies of people killed with the Armenians'
bayonets. We applied for permission to bury them. The soldiers dug
ditches and the bodies were buried there. There were thousands, not
hundreds of bodies, because five-ten people were killed in each home
with bayonets.
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SEYH CEMAL TALAY
Father's Name: Cimsid
Mother's Name: Fatma
Place of Birth: Van
Date of Birth: 1901
The Russians were providing weapons to the Armenians. With military
assistance from the Russians and encouragement from England, France,
and the United States, all of which had consulates in Van, Armenians
increased their hostilities in the beginning of 1915. The Russians
were secretly providing them with sophisticated arms hidden in food
supplies sent from Russia to the port of Trabzon, and from there sent
by caravan to Van. The goods on the caravans were distributed in the
center of the old city, and the hidden ammunition was secretly
distributed to the Armenian militants. The leader of the Armenian
rebellion in Van was Aram Pasha, but I don't remember the name of the
leader of the Dashnaks. They all had land claims, especially in Van.
The 11th squadron was assigned to Van, but went to Erzurum to
mobilize. The Armenian bandits were emboldened by this and started
their campaign of terror against the Muslim inhabitants.
The militants were launching raids on the Muslim villages and
neighborhoods. The only thing we had to fight them with was a militia
led by IImam Osman, composed of those either too old or too young to
join the army.
Let me tell you a story which I will never forget. I went to a school
located near the government mansion. Armenians studied at the same
school. Some of the students in the Armenian underground went to get a
Muslim student named Rüstü from his home on the pretext of studying.
They took him to the Isžtma bridge near the industrial park. After
insulting him, they raped and killed him, leaving his body for his
family to find the next day. The family later composed a ballad to
honor his memory.
I can remember the beginning of the skirmishes between the Muslims and
Armenians. Our militia, which would meet in the Mahmut Aga barracks
across the street from the Van State Hospital, was on duty a day
before the war with the Armenians started. The Armenians prepared the
night before and positioned themselves well. They had dug holes in the
State mansion, and when our militia was preparing for morning prayer
at a fountain nearby, the Armenians showered them with bullets. Many
of our soldiers were killed. The fighting between local Muslims and
Armenians had begun. Everyone took to the streets, and mass confusion
ensued. Despite this, we got up and went to school. We had two
teachers, one from Selanik, one from Edirne. They said "Come on kids,
let's all forgive each other, we might not see each other again," and
suggested we use the side streets to avoid Armenian bullets. I left
school with some friends, but decided to take our regular route. We
saw that weapons and munitions were being distributed in front of a
munitions storage area for protection against the Armenians. We then
noticed a few Armenians creeping up from behind, and notified the man
distributing the weapons. He threw down the munitions in his hand and
fired on them, and they ran away.
The wars started on April 2-3, 1915. In 1914, the Russians had not
been able to penetrate the front line, but they surrounded our
soldiers from behind by passing Çaldžran-Bahçesaray, and established a
headquarters in the Molla Hasan village.
It was difficult to provide our soldiers with military supplies since
the young students and elderly people carrying the equipment could not
go further because of the cold weather. Many of them died.
We couldn't go anywhere either. But in the spring the Armenians went
completely crazy. On May 10, 1915, the Russians were moving toward
Van. On Governor Cevdet's orders we evacuated Van, taking with us what
we could carry. During the war, Armenian brutality had reached a stage
that no one, including the old, sick, captive, women, or children,
could escape. The atrocities reached the degree that even the
Armenians' main supporters, the Russians, were trying to prohibit
their actions.
My grandmother Mihri couldn't flee with us because one of my uncles
was paralyzed from the waist down. Unable to speak because of the
shock of what happened in our absence, she later used sign language to
explain what had transpired. They shaved my uncle's mustache along
with his flesh, and then took them to a house which they used as a
detention center and tortured him and the other captives until the
Russians arrived.
When we became refugees there were 23 members of our family. We lost
most of our family on the road to Bitlis and Urfa. Only two of us
returned to Van. Our first stop on the road was Bitlis where we
arrived in 11 days, and then went to Siirt, where we had relatives
with whom we stayed for a few months. When we heard about the Russian
advance, we again fled to Diyarbakžr. Our convoy consisted of 250
people. We suffered from hunger and thirst on the way. We went through
Kurtalan and Diyarbakžr and the village of Kebir, where we didn't stay
long, and again took the road to return to Van. When we reached
Kurtalan, we learned that the Russians had entered Van again and went
to Siirt. In the spring of 1916 we went to Baghdad, but fled to Mardin
when the English advanced. In 1917 we arrived in Urfa. The French who
entered Urfa started tormenting the Muslims by bringing the Aleppo
Armenians to the city. This time we fought for 22 days.
We had left Van in 1915. When we were finally able to return, only two
people remained from the 23-member family. Van was totally destroyed.
The Armenians burned and demolished everything except for the
Armenian-owned homes. In fact, when the Turkish army entered Van,
around 2,000 Armenian artisans, expecting retaliation for their
repression of the Turkish population, sought refuge on the island of
Adžr. The Turkish government instead ensured their safe passage to
Revan.
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YAMIN TOSUN
Father's Name: Osman
Mother's Name: Hanžm
Place of Birth: Van-Ercis -Haydarbey
I am from the Haydarbey village. We became refugees when the Armenians
revolted and the Russians came. We moved to Urfa, where my mother,
father, and sibling died because of the famine that year. When the
Russians retreated, Armenians took their place, but the Turkish army
pushed them back to Revan. We returned to our homes, and found Ercis,
the Muslim village and our village completely burned down and
demolished.
bigmacnfries
Before calling this hatefull and blood-thirsty thug of Armaian "My
dear friend" I would like to remind you just fai warning.
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ARMENIAN TERRORISM
INTRODUCTION
As a bridge between Asia and Europe, with its straits connecting The
Black Sea with the Mediterranean and its geopolitical situation at a
point where the Central Asian, Caucasian and Middle Eastern natural
energy sources intersect, Turkey draws the attention of the entire
world.
The Ottoman Empire in the past and Turkey at present has always been
an arena for which intrigues were incessantly designed. The
colonialist superpowers wishing to eradicate the Ottoman Empire from
the world by dividing it did not fail to use in their schemes also the
Armenians who coexisted in peace with the Turks for so many centuries.
There are today just like in the past, several countries striving to
secure themselves political and economic benefits at the expense of
Armenian community. Monuments accusing Turks and Turkey of having
committed genocide are being erected in some countries; decisions
intending to recognise the so called genocide are brought into the
parliamentary agenda in several countries and even voted for in some
others. Issues that need to be left to historians are turned into
means of self interest by the politicians.
The Armenians who were ousted from one place to the other, pushed into
wars, and treated as third rate citizens throughout the history by the
Romans, Persians and Byzantines. After the advent of Turks into
Anatolia, they benefited from the just, humane, tolerant and unifying
traditions and beliefs of their new neighbours. The period that lasted
until the end of the nineteenth century when the apogee of these
developments and relations was attained, was the golden age of
Armenians. In fact, the Armenians were by far the greatest
beneficiaries of the opportunities offered by the Ottoman Empire to
all industrious, capable, honest and straightforward citizens of the
non-Moslem communities. Being exempted from the military service and
to a large extent from taxation, they had the opportunity to excel
themselves in trade, agriculture, craftsmanship and administration and
therefore were rightly called the "loyal nation" because of their
loyalty and ability to interact with the Ottomans. There were so many
Armenians who spoke Turkish, who even conducted their rites in this
language , who rose to topmost public service posts such as the
Ministries and Under-Secretariats of State for the Public Works, Navy,
Foreign Affairs, Finance, Treasury, Posts and Telegraph and Minting.
There were some who even wrote books in Turkish and foreign languages
on the Problems of the Ottoman Empire .
With the start of the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the European
powers began to intervene in its affairs and degeneration became
evident in the peaceful Turkish-Armenian relations. Great effort was
displayed by the instigators whom the Western powers planted into the
Ottoman Empire under clerical guise, to create a schism between Turks
and Armenians in the religious, cultural, commercial, political and
social fields. Thus, bloody clashes arose, in which the blunt of pain
was borne by the Turks, and thousands of Armenians and Turks lost
their lives in the revolts that broke out in Eastern Anatolia and
spread all the way to Istanbul.
Though there were many Armenians fighting in the Ottoman armies
against the enemy or serving in the rear ranks during the World War I,
a considerable number had sided with the foes on the battlefronts and
launched massacres against the population without distinction of
women, children and the aged. Their toll was hundreds of thousands of
Moslems and ruin in Eastern Anatolia.
The measures adopted by the Ottoman Empire to stop this violence were
presented to the rest of the world under a completely different light
and the Armenians, misguided by the promises and instigation of the
Western Powers started to undermine the country where they had led a
privileged life more than a thousand years.
The Hinchak, Tashnak, Toward Armenia, Young Armenians, Union and
Salvation, Ramgavar, Paramilitaries, Black Cross societies and Hinchak
Revolutionary Committee, which were established out of Anatolia,
formed organisations urging the people for an armed revolt. These
activities were the bloody uprisings that cost thousands of Turkish
and Armenian lives.
During World War I, the Ottoman Empire was fighting against Russian
armies in Eastern Anatolia, where the Armenian revolt was at its peak;
and also against Armenian forces which supported the Russians. On the
other hand, behind the lines it had to continue to fight against
Armenian guerrillas that were burning Turkish villages and towns and
attacking military convoys and reinforcements. In spite of this
violence, the Ottoman Empire tried to solve the Armenian problem for
months by taking local measures. Meanwhile, an operation was made
against the Armenian guerillas and 2345 rebels were arrested for high
treason. When it became evident that the Armenian community was also
in rebellion against the state, the Ottoman Empire proceeded with the
last resort of replacing only those Armenians in the region who
actively participated in the rebellion. With this measure, the Ottoman
Empire also intended to save the lives of the Armenians who were
living in a medium of civil war because Turks started to
counter-attack the Armenians who had performed bloody atrocities
against Turkish communities.
Today, Armenia and some states using Armenians for their economic and
political benefits have launched a massive propaganda campaign to
present the replacement decision and the 24 April arrests as genocide
to the world public opinion.
At the end of the World War I, when the armies of Allied States
occupied The Ottoman Empire and the British officials among them
arrested 143 Ottoman political and military leaders and intellectuals
for "having committed war crimes toward Armenians" and exiled them to
Malta where a trial was launched. However, the massive scrutiny made
on the Ottoman, British, American archives in order to find evidence
to incriminate these 143 persons failed to produce even the least iota
of proof against them. In the end, the detainees in Malta were
released without trial and even any indictment in 1922.
The United States archives contain an interesting document sent to
Lord Curzon on 13 July 1921 by Mr. R.C. Craigie, the British
Ambassador in Washington. The message was as follows: "I regret to
state that there is nothing that may be used as evidence against the
Turkish detainees in Malta. There are no events that may constitute
adequate proofs. The said reports do not appear to contain even
circumstantial evidence that could be useful to reinforce the
information held by His Majesty's Government against the Turks."
On 29 July 1921, the legal advisers in London decided that the
intended indictments drawn up against the persons on the British
Foreign Ministry's list were semi-political in nature and therefore
these individuals should be treated separately from the Turks detained
as criminals of war.
They also stated the following: "No statements were hitherto received
from the witnesses to the effect that the indictments intended against
the detainees are correct. Likewise it does not need to be restated
that finding witnesses after so long a time is highly doubtful in a
remote country like Armenia which is accessible only with great
difficulties." This statement was made also by none other than the
legal advisers in London of His Majesty's Government.
Yet, the efforts to smear the image of Turks with genocide claims did
not come to an end as the British press published certain documents
attempting to prove the existence of a massacre claimed to have been
perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire while efforts were being made to
start a lawsuit in Malta. It was stated that the documents were found
by the British occupation forces in Syria, led by General Allenby. The
inquiries subsequently made by the British Foreign Office revealed,
however, that these documents were fakes prepared by the Armenian
Nationalist Delegation in Paris and distributed to the Allied
representatives.
The Armenian Diaspora, who left no stone unturned to keep the genocide
claims on the agenda despite all these facts, resorted to terrorism in
the end. The so-called Armenian issue, which started to attract the
attention of the world and Turkish public opinion through the smearing
campaign launched by the Armenians against Turkey after 1965, in the
‘70s turned into terrorist attacks directed against the Turkish
representations abroad. In Santa Barbara on January 27, 1973, the
first individual terrorist attack was launched by an aged Armenian
named Gurgen (Karekin) Yanikian. He murdered Mehmet Baydur and Bahadir
Demir, the Turkish Consul General and Vice Consul in Los Angeles, and
these murders turned into an organised campaign after 1975. The
attacks against Turkish embassies, officials and institutions abroad
gradually intensified.
A major increase in the attacks was noted after 1979 when an internal
unease started in Turkey. The Armenian terrorists staged a total of
110 attacks at 38 cities of 21 countries. 39 of these acts were
committed by small arms, 70 of them were realised by bombs and one was
an outright occupation. 42 Turkish diplomats and 4 foreigners were
killed and 15 Turks and 66 foreigners were wounded in these incidents.
As these actions received a strong reaction from the world public
opinion, the Armenian terrorist organisations changed their tactics in
1980 and began to co-operate with the PKK terrorist group which was
pushed into the scene by the Eruh and ªemdinli attacks as the ASALA
and Armenian operations were stopped. The documents and evidence from
Beqaa and Zeli camps show that the PKK and ASALA militants were
trained there together.
The success achieved by the Turkish security forces made the Armenian
terrorism pursue the so called genocide claims through the Armenian
Diaspora and attempt to make the world believe in the existence of
such an event by inducing several parliaments to adopt resolutions and
laws which recognise it.
The goal of these terrorists is to plant into minds of people the
existence of a genocide, to force Turkey to recognise it, to receive
indemnity from Turkey and, finally, to snatch from Turkey the land
needed for realising the dream of Great Armenia
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TURCO - ARMENIAN RELATIONS
Throughout history, hundreds, thousands...millions of people lived on
these lands. At times, their existence was marked by battles, and at
others, peace reigned over them. The Armenians too, were among the
inhabitants of these lands. They were ruled by the Persians, the
Macedonians, the Seleucids, the Romans, Partians, Byzantines and
Arabs...were constantly exiled from one region to the other, and were
accorded third-class citizenship until the Turks gained sovereignty
over Anatolia, in 1071. After this date, fighting gradually diminished
and Byzantine persecution left its place to the just, tolerant,
humanitarian and unifying beliefs and traditions of the Seljuks. The
years of peace and calm enjoyed by Armenians under the hegemony of the
Seljuks reached a climax under the rule of the Ottomans...a period
that can be defined as the 'Golden Age'... Sultan Mehmed the
Conqueror, who put an end to Byzantine rule, allowed the foundation of
the Armenian Patriarchate, an unprecedented move for the Armenians to
whom he granted freedom of conscience and faith. The transformation of
the Armenian Episcopate in Western Anatolia to the Istanbul
Patriarchate, following a decree he issued in 1461, is clear evidence
of the vision and tolerance displayed by Mehmed and of the subsequent
Ottoman Sultans toward other faiths.
As a matter of fact, the present day Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II was
according due rights to those who in turn had taken a similar stand
toward the Armenians throughout their 'Golden Age' by saying: " We can
duely grasp the significance of tolerance between different religions
and cultures, as well as the value of this incident dating back to 538
years, by taking into account the tensions witnessed throughout the
world on the threshold of a new millennium, the ongoing wars beyond
our borders in particular."
Following the reign of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, Turco-Armenian
relations continued excellently until the end of the 19th century. In
fact, Armenians were by far, the greatest beneficiaries of the
opportunities offered by the Ottoman Empire to all industrious,
efficient, honest and productive subjects of the non-muslim
communities. Being exempted from the military service and to a great
extent from taxation, the Armenians had the opportunity to make
headway in trade, agriculture, craftsmanship and administration, and
by reason of their loyalty to the Empire, as well as their ability to
intermingle with other subjects, they had duely attained the title of
'loyal people'.
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ARMENIAN TERRORISM
HOW THE ARMENIAN ISSUE CAME ABOUT
A drastic change was witnessed in Turco-Armenian relations with the
decline of the Ottoman Empire towards the end of the 19th century. As
a result of activities carried out by instigators infiltrating the
Ottoman territories from the West, mostly under a clerical guise,
Armenians began to pull themselves away from the Turkish community in
the religious, cultural, commercial, political and social fields.
Armenians who used Turkish as their language, who conducted their
religious sermons in Turkish and even those who had attained high
positions within the Empire, such as cabinet ministers,
undersecretaries and the like, collaborated with the enemy forces in a
bid to attain the downfall of the Ottoman State.
It is during this period that the Armenians began to present
themselves as an 'oppressed community' and claimed that their
sovereignty rights over Anatolia had been seized by the Turks, this
with the aim of securing the backing of the West. States aspiring to
attain their goals by exploiting the Armenians, did in fact encourage
such propaganda and helped to create public opinion in a drive to have
a say in the sanctions to be imposed on Turkey, and to be able to
intervene when necessary. Thus, all initiatives with the pretext of
supporting the Armenians and safeguarding their rights found serious
backing within their own public opinion.
Once they lost their privileged status, with the Reformation Bill
granting equal status to muslims and non-muslims alike, the Armenians
asked Russia not to withdraw from Eastern Anatolia, which she had
invaded during the 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian war; that autonomy be
granted to these territories, or that reformation be conducted in line
with their interests. These stipulations found the partial backing of
Russia, and henceforward the Armenian issue began to assume an
international dimension with the Yesilkoy Agreement, formerly known as
the Hagia Stephanos Agreement, signed at the end of the
Ottoman-Russian war and the subsequent Berlin Agreement. Thus, foreign
powers aspiring o divide the country, started intervening in
Turco-Armenian relations.
Once, efforts to organize Ottoman Armenians to take action against the
State, by means of committees set up in Anatolia as a result of
activities carried out by missionaries proved futile, it was then
decided that Russian Armenians set up such committees in regions
outside the boundaries of the Ottoman State. Thus, the moderately
militant Hinchak, with socialist tendencies, was set up in Geneva in
1887, followed by the extremist and pro-independence Tashnak Committee
set up in Tbilisi in 1890, favouring terror, rebellions and struggle
to achieve its goals. These committees had been targeted at '
liberating Anatolian territory and the Ottoman Armenians'. Attempts to
launch a revolt, instigated by the Istanbul-based Hinchaks and aimed
at provoking the Ottoman Armenians by drawing the attention of
European nations to the Armenian issue, were followed by acts carried
out by Tashnaks who had launched a political struggle. These attempts,
masterminded by committees outside the Ottoman lands were supported by
missionaries positioned in Anatolia.
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ARMENIAN TERRORISM
APRIL 24, 1915
The Ottoman government, against numerous rebellions that began after
1890 and promptly following Armenian massacres which resulted in the
murder of tens of thousands of Turks, contented with informing most
important persons of Armenian congregation and Armenian deputies that
"Government will take the necessary precautions if Armenians continue
to stab in the back and assassinate the Turks". However, it became a
necessity to secure behind the borders because the army was in war at
various fronts, the events did not stop but increased and assaults
towards defenseless Turkish women and children increased.
With this aim, on April 24, 1915 the Armenian Committees were closed
and 2345 of their directors were arrested due to the crime of carrying
out activities against the government. April 24, which is commemorated
annually as the "Anniversary of Armenian Massacre" by the Armenians
abroad is this date when the 2345 revolutionary committee members were
arrested and it has no relation with deportation.
However, the Armenian revolutionary committee members who propagandize
even the unfounded events by exaggeration, promptly made a move to
propagandize these mentioned arrests. As a matter of fact, Ecmiyazin
Catholicos Kevork sent the telegraph below to the President of USA:
"Dear President, according to the last news we got from Turkish
Armenia, the massacre began there and an organized terror endangered
the presence of the Armenian people. At this critical moment, I am
addressing to the noble feelings of your Excellency and great American
Nation and in the name of humanity and Christianity belief requesting
you to promptly interfere by means of your great Republic's diplomatic
representatives and protect my people in Turkey who are left to
violence of the Turkish fanaticism.
Kevork, Archbishop and Catholicos of all Armenians."
Pursuant to the telegraph of Archbishop Kevork, Russia's Washington
Ambassador got in contact with USA and thus, April 24, which is the
day when Armenian committee members dealing with illegal works were
arrested was propagandized to world's public opinion as "the day on
which Turks massacred Armenians".
REFERENCE:
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ARMENIAN TERRORISM
TURKISH DIPLOMATS KILLED BY ARMENIAN TERRORISTS
TURKISH DIPLOMATS KILLED BY THE ARMENIAN TERRORISTS DURING THEIR DUTY
The main targets of Armenian terror organizations, ASALA in
particular, were now being chosen from among Turkish diplomats abroad.
The first of the series of terrorist attacks was carried out against
Mehmet Baydar, the Turkish Consul General in Los Angeles and his
Deputy, Bahadir Demir. The assassinations were perpetrated by an
Armenian by the name of Gurgen Yanikan in 1973. This individual action
turned into organized Armenian terror as of 1975 and further escalated
as of 1979. 110 acts of terror were carried out by Armenian terrorists
in 38 cities of 21 countries. 39 of these were armed attacks, 70 of
them bomb attacks and one was an occupation. 42 Turkish diplomats and
4 foreign nationals were assassinated in these attacks, while 15 Turks
and 66 foreign nationals were wounded.
Tarih Location / Responsibility Name
27.01.1973 Santa Barbara / Consul General Mehmet BAYDAR
Santa Barbara / Consul Bahadir DEMIR
22.10.1975 Vienna / Ambassador Danis TUNALIGIL
24.10.1975 Paris / Ambassador Ismail EREZ
Paris / Driver Talip YENER
16.02.1976 Beirut / First Secretary Oktar CIRIT
09.06.1977 Vatican City / Ambassador Taha CARIM
02.06.1978 Madrid / Ambassador's wife Necla KUNERALP
Madrid / Retired Ambassador Besir BALCIOGLU
12.10.1979 The Hague / Ambassador's son Ahmet BENLER
22.12.1979 Paris / Tourism Counsellor Yilmaz ÇOLPAN
31.07.1980 Athens / Administrative Attache Galip ÖZMEN
Athens / Administrative Attaché's daughter Neslihan ÖZMEN
17.12.1980 Sydney / Consul General Sarik ARIYAK
Sydney / Security Attaché Engin SEVER
04.03.1981
Paris / Counsellor for Labour Affairs Resat MORALI
Paris / Counsellor for Religious Affairs Tecelli ARI
09.06.1981 Geneva / Secretary M.Savas YERGÜZ
24.09.1981 Paris / Security Attaché Cemal ÖZEN
28.01.1982 Los Angeles / Consul General Kemal ARIKAN
08.04.1982 Ottawa / Counsellor for Commercial Affairs Kani GÜNGÖR
04.05.1982 Boston / Honorary Consul General Orhan GÜNDÜZ
07.06.1982 Lisbon / Administrative Attaché Erkut AKBAY
27.08.1982 Ottawa /Colonel, Military Attaché Atilla ALTIKAT
09.09.1982 Bourgas / Administrative Attaché Bora SÜELKAN
08.01.1983 Lisbon / Administrative Attaché's wife, wounded in the
armed assault directed against her husband Erkut Akbay on 07 06 1982,
died on 08 01 1983 Nadide AKBAY
09.03.1983 Belgrade / Ambassador Galip BALKAR
14.07.1983 Brussels / Administrative Attaché Dursun AKSOY
27.07.1983 Lisbon / Counsellor's wife Cahide MIHÇIOGLU
28.04.1984 Teheran / Secretary's wife Isik YÖNDER
20.06.1984 Vienna / Attaché for Labour Affairs Erdogan ÖZEN
19.11.1984 Vienna / International Official Enver ERGUN
07.10.1991 Athens / Press Attaché Çetin GÖRGÜ
11.12.1993 Baghdad / Administrative Attaché Çaglar YÜCEL
04.07.1994 Athens / Embassy Counsellor Haluk SIPAHIOGLU
MEHMET BAYDAR
27 January 1973
Los Angeles/USA
The Armenian assaults against Turkish citizens started in 1973 when
Mehmet Baydar and Bahadir Demir, Turkish Consul General and Consul in
Los Angeles, were murdered by a 78-year-old American Armenian named
Gurgen (Karakin) Yanikian.
Inviting Baydar and Demir to the Baltimore Hotel in Santa Barbara by
declaring that he wished to give a painting of Abdulhamid as a gift to
Turkey, Yanikian shot the two Turkish diplomats dead. He was arrested
for murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, Yanikian was paroled on
31 December 1984 and died shortly afterwards.
This incident, constituting the first assault against the Turkish
diplomats, launched a chain of murders and became a template for the
subsequent attacks by Armenian terrorists.
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BAHADIR DEMIR
27 January 1973
Los Angeles/USA
The Armenian assaults against Turkish citizens started in 1973 when
Mehmet Baydar and Bahadir Demir, Turkish Consul General and Consul in
Los Angeles, were murdered by a 78-year-old American Armenian named
Gurgen (Karakin) Yanikian.
Inviting Baydar and Demir to the Baltimore Hotel in Santa Barbara by
declaring that he wished to give a painting of Abdulhamid as a gift to
Turkey, Yanikian shot the two Turkish diplomats dead. He was arrested
for murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, Yanikian was paroled on
31 December 1984 and died shortly afterwards.
This incident, constituting the first assault against the Turkish
diplomats, launched a chain of murders and became a template for the
subsequent attacks by Armenian terrorists.
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DANIS TUNALIGIL
Vienna/Austria
22 October 1975
Turkey's Vienna Ambassador Danis Tunaligil was murdered by three
terrorists raiding the Embassy.
When the Turkish Airline Office in Beyrouth was bombed on 20 February
1975, the letter left in the location by ASALA's Esir Yanikian group
that undertook the attack's responsibility declared that they would
fight against the imperialists for the Armenians' rightful case and
that the attacks would aim at Turkey, Iran and United States and that
this case was only a beginning.
On 22 October 1975, three persons bearing automatic weapons forced
their way into the Turkish Embassy in Vienna, neutralised the guards
and entered the Ambassador's office. Receiving an affirmative reply to
their question in Turkish to Danis Tunaligil if he were the
Ambassador, they shoot him with automatic weapons. Tunaligil died on
the spot and the murderers rapidly left the premises and fled in an
automobile.
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ISMAIL EREZ
Paris/France
24 October 1975
Turkey's Paris Ambassador Ismail Erez and his driver Talip Yener were
murdered in the vicinity of the Embassy. The Ambassador's car was
ambushed at around 13.30 hours at the Bir Hakeim Bridge on Seine River
and Ismail Erez and his driver Talip Yener were murdered by automatic
weapon fire. The attack
was owned by an organisation that called itself the Armenian Genocide
Justice Commandos.
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TALIP YENER
Paris/France
24 October 1975
Turkey's Paris Ambassador Ismail Erez and his driver Talip Yener were
murdered in the vicinity of the Embassy. The Ambassador's car was
ambushed at around 13.30 hours at the Bir Hakeim Bridge on Seine River
and Ismail Erez and his driver Talip Yener were murdered by automatic
weapon fire. The attack
was owned by an organisation that called itself the Armenian Genocide
Justice Commandos.
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OKTAR CIRIT
Beyrouth/Lebanon
16 February 1976
Turkey's Beyrouth Embassy First Secretary Oktar Cirit became the
victim of Armenian terrorism while sitting at a hall. The attack was
owned by the ASALA, which made its name known for the first time.
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TAHA CARIM
Rome/Italy
9 June 1977
Turkey's Vatican Ambassador Taha Carim was killed by the cross fire of
two terrorists in front of the Embassy's residence. The attack was
owned this time by the Armenian Genocide Justice Commandos
organisation.
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NECLA KUNERALP
Madrid/Spain
2 June 1978
Three terrorists opened fire on the car of Turkey's Madrid Ambassador
Zeki Kuneralp whose wife Necla Kuneralp and retired Ambassador Besir
Balcioglu lost their lives in this attack owned by the organisation
that called itself the Armenian Genocide Justice Commandos
organisation. For the first time in this incident, a foreigner had
lost his life in an attack directed against Turks. That was the
Ambassador's driver Antonio Torres.
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BESIR BALCIOGLU
Madrid/Spain
2 June 1978
Three terrorists opened fire on the car of Turkey's Madrid Ambassador
Zeki Kuneralp whose wife Necla Kuneralp and retired Ambassador Besir
Balcioglu lost their lives in this attack owned by the organisation
that called itself the Armenian Genocide Justice Commandos
organisation. For the first time in this incident, a foreigner had
lost his life in an attack directed against Turks. That was the
Ambassador's driver Antonio Torres.
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AHMET BENLER
The Hague/Netherlands
12 October 1979
Ahmet Benler, son of Turkey's The Hague Ambassador Özdemir Benler, was
killed in an armed attack. This case was owned separately by the ASALA
and the Armenian Genocide Justice Commandos organisation.
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YILMAZ COLPAN
Paris/France
22 December 1979
Turkey's Paris Tourism Counsellor Yilmaz Colpan was murdered as a
result of the attack by a terrorist. This case was the second attack
in Paris of the Armenian terrorism. A person calling the news agencies
thereafter said that the Armenian Genocide Justice Commandos was
responsible for the assaults in Rome, Madrid and Paris and added that
it was killing the Turkish diplomats because Turkey did not grant the
rights of Armenians.
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GALIP ÖZMEN
Athens/Greece
31 July 1980
Turkey's Athens Embassy Administrative Attaché Galip Özmen and his
14-year-old daughter Neslihan Özmen were killed in an armed attack by
a terrorist while his wife Sevil Özmen and son Kaan Özmen survived
though seriously wounded. The attack was owned this time by the ASALA.
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NESLIHAN ÖZMEN
Athens/Greece
31 July 1980
Turkey's Athens Embassy Administrative Attaché Galip Özmen and his
14-year-old daughter Neslihan Özmen were killed in an armed attack by
a terrorist while his wife Sevil Özmen and son Kaan Özmen survived
though seriously wounded. The attack was owned this time by the ASALA.
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SARIK ARIYAK
Sydney/Australia
17 December 1980
Turkey's Sydney Consul General Sarik Ariyak and his security guard
Engin Sever became the victims of Armenian terrorism.
Aside from this case,
- Dogan Türkmen, Turkey's Ambassador to Switzerland, came out alive
from the attack on 6 February 1980 in Bern,
- Fire was opened on 17 April 1980 on the official car of Turkey's
Vatican Ambassador Vecdi Türel. Both Türel and his security guard
Tahsin Güvenc were wounded in this attack, and
- Selcuk Bakkalbasi, the Press Attaché of Turkish Embassy in Paris,
was wounded in an armed attack on 26 September 1980.
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ENGIN SEVER
Sydney/Australia
17 December 1980
Turkey's Sydney Consul General Sarik Ariyak and his security guard
Engin Sever became the victims of Armenian terrorism.
Aside from this case,
- Dogan Türkmen, Turkey's Ambassador to Switzerland, came out alive
from the attack on 6 February 1980 in Bern,
- Fire was opened on 17 April 1980 on the official car of Turkey's
Vatican Ambassador Vecdi Türel. Both Türel and his security guard
Tahsin Güvenc were wounded in this attack, and
- Selcuk Bakkalbasi, the Press Attaché of Turkish Embassy in Paris,
was wounded in an armed attack on 26 September 1980.
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RESAT MORALI
Paris/France
4 March 1981
Resat Morali and Tecelli Ari, Counsellors of Labour and Religious
Affairs at the Turkish Embassy in Paris were attacked by two
terrorists when they were taking their car in front of the Labour
Attaché's office. Morali was killed on the spot while the Religious
Affairs Attaché Ari succumbed to death at the hospital where he was
rushed with serious wounds. The attack was owned by ASALA in this
third murderous attack of the Armenian terrorism and Turkey gave a
protest note to France for not properly protecting the Turkish
diplomats.
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TECELLI ARI
Paris/France
4 March 1981
Resat Morali and Tecelli Ari, Counsellors of Labour and Religious
Affairs at the Turkish Embassy in Paris were attacked by two
terrorists when they were taking their car in front of the Labour
Attaché's office. Morali was killed on the spot while the Religious
Affairs Attaché Ari succumbed to death at the hospital where he was
rushed with serious wounds. The attack was owned by ASALA in this
third murderous attack of the Armenian terrorism and Turkey gave a
protest note to France for not properly protecting the Turkish
diplomats.
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M. SAVAS YERGÜZ
Geneva/Switzerland
9 June 1981
Mehmet Savas Yergüz, Secretary of the Turkish Consul General in
Geneva, lost his life in an armed attack shortly after leaving the
office for going home. The attack was owned by the ASALA. Mardiros
Camgozian, the Lebanese Armenian terrorist arrested after the attack,
received a 15-year imprisonment sentence.
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CEMAL ÖZEN
Paris/France
24 September 1981
Four Armenian terrorists occupying the premises housing the Turkish
Consulate General and the office of Cultural Attaché, hostaged 56
Turkish officials and citizens and killed security guard Cemal Özen
who attempted to attack and wounded Consul General Kaya Inal. The
terrorists wanted Turkey to release 12 political detainees and to send
them to Paris. As they realised that this demand would not be complied
with, they surrendered to the police some 15 hours after. Turkey
warned France once more and France demented the attack that was owned
by the ASALA. Four Armenian terrorists named Vasken Sakoseslian,
Kevork Abraham Gozlian, Aram Avedis Basmacian and Agop Abraham
Turfanian, received 7-year imprisonment sentences. The court verdict
received a large dissentment in Turkey.
Also in 1981,
- Turkey's Copenhagen Labour Attaché Cavit Demir came out with small
arm wounds on 2 April in the lift of the apartment house where he
lived, and
- Turkey's Rome Embassy Second Secretary Gökberk Ergenekon survived
with minor wounds an attack that was directed against him on 25
October on a street.
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KEMAL ARIKAN
Los Angeles/USA
28 January 1982
Turkey's Los Angeles Consul General Kemal Arikan was killed by the
Tashnak militant Hampig Sasunian, who was sentenced to life
imprisonment.
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ORHAN GÜNDÜZ
Boston/USA
5 May 1982
Turkey's Boston Honorary Consul General Orhan Gündüz was killed in an
armed attack.
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ERKUT AKBAY
Lisboa/Portuga
7 June 1982
Turkey's Lisbon Embassy Administative Attaché Erkut Akbay died as a
result of an armed attack on his car. His wife Nadide Akbay succumbed
later to death at the hospital where she was brought with corporeal
wounds.
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NADIDE AKBAY
Lisboa/Portuga
7 June 1982
Turkey's Lisbon Embassy Administative Attaché Erkut Akbay died as a
result of an armed attack on his car. His wife Nadide Akbay succumbed
later to death at the hospital where she was brought with corporeal
wounds.
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ATILLA ALKIKAT
Ottawa/Canada
27 August 1982
Atilla Alkikat, the Military Attaché at the Turkish Embassy in Ottawa,
was killed in an armed assault.
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BORA SÜELKAN
Bourgos/Bulgaria
9 September 1982
Bora Süerlan, Administrative Attaché of the Turkish Consulate General
in Bourgos, was killed by a terrorist attack.
Also in 1982,
- Kani Güngör, Commercial Attaché in the Ottawa Embassy of Turkey, was
wounded in an attack on 8 April,
- Kemal Demirer, Rotterdam Consul General of Turkey, was wounded in an
attack in front of his residence on 21 July. He came out of this
attack with minor wounds and the attacker was arrested while trying to
get away.
- On 7 August, two ASALA terrorists made an armed attack in Esenboga
Airport of Ankara. There were eight casualties and seventy two
injuries in this attack, constituting the first within Turkey of the
Armenian terrorism.
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GALIP BALKAR
Beograd/Yugoslavia
9 March 1983
An armed assault was made against Turkey's Belgrade Ambassador Galip
Balkar on 9 March 1983 by two terrorists. Mortally wounded in this
attack, Balkar died on 11 March. A Yugoslavian student also lost his
life in this incident. Terrorists Kirkor Levonian and Raffi Alexander
were sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment on 9 March 1984, exactly
one year after the incident.
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DURSUN AKSOY
Bruxelles/Belgium
14 July 1983
Turkey's Brussels Embassy Administrative Attaché Dursun Aksoy was
murdered by Armenian terrorists.
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CAHIDE MIHCIOGLU
Lisboa/Portugal
27 July 1983
The Lisbon Embassy of Turkey was occupied and those within the
building were hostaged by five Armenian terrorists. Cahide Mihcioglu,
wife of Embassy Counsellor Yurtsev Mihcioglu, was killed during this
incident. The Portuguese police saved the hostages by an operation and
killed all five terrorists. The attack was owned by an organisation
that called itself the Armenian Revolutionary Army, which threatened
with death the Portuguese Prime Minister Mario Soarez because of the
death of the terrorists.
On 16 June, a terrorist opened fire on the people at the Grand Bazaar
in Istanbul. Two persons were killed and twenty-one were wounded in
this attack of which the author was killed on the spot. It was later
ascertained that he was an Armenian.
A bomb exploded in front of the Turkish Airlines office in Paris-Orly
Airport. Two Turks, four Frenchmen, one American and one Swedish died
and sixty-three persons, of whom twenty-eight were Turks were wounded
in this attack, named later as the "Orly massacre".
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ISIK YÖNDER
Teheran/Iran
28 April 1984
Isik Yönder, husband of Turkey's Teheran Embassy Secretary Sadiye
Yönder, who was a businessman doing trade with Iran, was killed by an
ASALA militant.
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ERDOGAN ÖZEN
Wien/Austria
19 November 1984
Turkey's Vienna Embassy Labour Attaché Erdogan Özen was killed as a
result of the explosion of a bomb planted in his car. This incident
was owned by the Armenian Revolutionary Army.
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ENVER ERGUN
Wien/Austria
19 November 1984
Enver Ergün, an official at the UN Representation of Turkey, was
killed as a result of the explosion of a bomb planted in his car. This
incident too was owned by the Armenian Revolutionary Army.
A terrorist trying to plant a bomb on the car of Isil Ünel, Turkey's
Teheran Embassy Deputy Commercial Attaché, was blown to pieces as the
bomb exploded in his hands on 28 March 1984.
The next day, Hasan Servet Öktem and Ismail Pamukcu, First Secretary
and Deputy Attaché of the Turkish Embassy in Teheran, were wounded in
an armed assault in front of their houses
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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
CHRONOLOGY
1022 Basileios II annexed Armenian territories in the Byzantine Empire
and 40.000 Armenians were deported to Anatolia.
1046 The Armenian sovereigns were killed by Byzantine Emperor
Constantine IX.
1054 Seljukian Sultan Tugrul Bey gave the Armenians autonomy.
1098 The Armenians collaborated with the Crusaders.
1461 Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror invited Armenian Bishop Hovakim to
Istanbul and he was honoured by the title of "Patriarch". Later some
privileges were given to the Armenians.
1790 The First official Armenian school was opened by two Armenians
Amira Miricanyan and Shnork Migirdic, in Istanbul, at Kumkapi.
1823 The Bezciyan School was founded by an Armenian called Artin
Bezciyan in Istanbul, Kumkapi.
1824 Patriarch Karabet has taken Armenian Grammar School Kumpkapi
under his protection.
1853 (October, 22) Armenian Commission of Education was founded.
1876 The Ottoman Assembly accepted the first Armenian deputies.
1877 (December, 7) Armenian National Council decided on forcing their
people to join the Army and fight.
1878 (April, 13) The Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul, Nerses has sent
a note to British Secretary of Foreign Affairs saying that they would
not live together with the Turks any longer.
1878 (July, 13) The Treaty of Berlin was signed. Article 61 about the
Ottoman Armenians was added to the treaty.
1878 (August, 3) The British Secretary of Foreign Affairs Lord
Salisbury sent an instruction to the British Ambassador Layard and
informed him that the Ottoman Government should begin making reforms
in the Eastern Anatolia.
1890 (June, 20) Revolt of Erzurum
(July) Kumkapi Demonstration
First Sason Revolt
1892 - 1893 Merzifon, Kayseri and Yozgat Revolts
1895 (September, 30) Sublime Porte (Government's Gate) Event in
Istanbul.
1895 (November) The Armenian attempt for a revolt in Maras.
1896 (October, 30) Armenian Uprising in Istanbul
1896 (June, 1) First Van Revolt
1896 (August, 26) Raid of the Ottoman Bank
1902 Armenian philologist H. Acaryan published a book called "The
Effects of Turkish Language on Armenian Language and The Turkish Words
in Armenian".
1904 Second Sason Revolt
1905 (July, 1921) The Assassination attempt against Sultan Abdulhamid
II in Yildiz Mosque.
1908 Armenian newspaper "Jamanak" was statrted to be published.
Second National Council has opened and some of the Armenian Committee
members were elected deputies.
1909 (April, 14) Armenian Revolt in Adana.
1915 (April, 15) Second Van Revolt
(April, 24) Armenian Committees working against the Ottoman Government
were closed. The 2345 members of those committees were arrested.
(May, 3) Armenian Massacres in Van.
(May, 27) The Law of Relocation was passed.
1918 (February, 1) Armenian secret society member Arshak committed
massacres in Bayburt.
(April, 25) Armenian militants killed 750 Muslims in Subatan village
of Kars City.
(May, 1) An Armenian militant named Arshak killed 60 Muslims including
children in Kars City.
1919 (November, 20) Two Armenian high category bureaucrats of the
Ottoman government, Bogos Nubar Pasha and Sherif Pasha signed
Armenian-Kurd independence document.
1920 (January, 12) An Armenian mounted unit has tortured Muslims in
the Arapdar village of Antep City.
(December, 2) Treaty of Gumru was signed.
1921 (March, 15) An Armenian terrorist assassinated Talat Pasha in
Berlin.
(March, 16) The Moscow Treaty was signed.
(March, 18) Misak Torlakyan killed the Minister of Internal Affairs of
Azerbaijan, Cevanshir Han, in Istanbul.
(October, 13) Kars Agreement was signed.
(December, 6) Armenians killed Sait Halim Pasha in Rome.
1922 (July, 22) Cemal Pasha was killed by Armenians, in Tbilisi.
1923 Armenian Munib Boya entered the Turkish National Assembly as a
deputy.
(June, 24) The Lausanne Treaty was signed.
1934 Franz Werfel published his novel "Forty Days in Musa Mountain"
in USA.
1935 (December, 15) In Pangalti church an Armenian Group burned
Werfel's novel "Forty Days in Musa Mountain" declaring that book
"utters maliciously false statements about the Turkish Nation".
1936 After the publication of Franz Werfel's "Forty Days in Musa
Mountain" in France, it caused a lot of reactions in the Turkish
press.
1937 Cevat Rifat Atilhan, "Musa Dagi" adinda kitap yazarak, Franz
Werfel'in eserinin gerçekleri yansitmadigini bildirdi.
1937 Werfel'in, "Musa Dag'da Kirk Gün" adli eserinin filme alinmasinin
engellenmesi, ABD Disisleri Bakanligi nezdinde gündeme geldi.
1943 Armenian Berc Türker Keresteci entered the Turkish National
Assembly as a deputy from Afyonkarahisar.
1957 Migirdich Shellefyan was elected as a deputy from Istanbul in the
27 October elections.
1964 (December 24) The Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kypriano
applied to UN Council of Security to get the approval of "the
Armenian Issue" against Turkey.
1965 (April 24) Armenians had organised a demonstration against
Turkey, in San Paulo, Brazil.
1969 (April 24) Armenians made a demonstration in front of the Turkish
Embassy in London.
1973 (January 27) An Armenian terrorist, Migirdic Yanikyan killed
Mehmet Baydar, Turkish Consul General for Los Angeles and his
assistant Bahadir Demir.
1975 (January 20) ASALA was founded.
1975 (October 22) The Turkish Ambassador in Vienne Danis Tunaligil was
killed by Armenian terrorists.
1975 (October 24) The Turkish Ambassador in Paris Ismail Erez and a
police officer Talip Yener were killed by Armenian terrorists.
1976 (February 16) The First Secretary of Turkish Embassy in Beirut
Oktay Cerit was killed by the Armenian terrorists.
1976 (May 28) Turkish diplomatic bureau in Zurich was bombed. An
Armenian called Noubar Soufoyan was arrested and condemned to 15 years
in prison.
1977 (May 29) Istanbul Yesilkoy Airport and Sirkeci Station were
bombed. Four people died and 31 people were injured. The attacks were
undertaken by the "Extreme Armenian Movement Groups".
1977 (June 9) The Turkish Ambassador in Vatican Taha Carim was killed
by the Armenians.
1978 (January 3) The Turkish Embassy in Brussels was bombed. The
attack was undertaken by "Armenian New Resistance Organisation".
1978 (June 2) In Madrid, the Turkish Ambassador Zeki Kunaralp's wife
Necla Kunaralp and the ex Ambassador Besir Balcioglu were killed by
the Armenians.
1978 (July 8) In Paris, the Turkish Diplomatic Bureau and the Tourism
Bureau were bombed. The attacks were undertaken by the "Armenian
Genocide Justice Committee"
1978 (August 6) Turkish General Consulate for Geneva was bombed. The
attacks were undertaken by the "The Armenian New Resistance
Organisation".
1978 (December 17) The Geneva Bureau of Turkish Airlines was bombed by
ASALA.
1979 (April 15) The Greek government approved "The Monument of
Armenian Revenge" to be erected in Nea Simirna Square in Athens.
1979 (August 22) Assistant Consul Niyazi Adali in Geneva was
assassinated by ASALA, in attack three other people were killed.
1979 (August 27) Turkish Airlines Bureau in Frankfurt was bombed by
ASALA.
1979 (October 4) Turkish Airlines Bureau in Copenhagen was bombed by
ASALA.
1979 (October 12) The son of Ozdemir Benler, the Turkish Ambassador
in Amsterdam, Ahmet Benler was killed in La Hague.
1979 (December 22) The Tourism Counsellor of Paris Embassy Yilmaz
Copan was killed by Armenians.
1980 (January 10) ASALA bombed Turkish Airlines' Bureau in Tehran.
1980 (February 6) Ambassador Dogan Turkmen was injured in an armed
attack in Bern.
1980 (March 10) Armenian terrorists bombed the Turkish Airlines
Bureau in Rome. Two Italians died; 14 Italians injured.
1980 (April 8) During meeting in Sayda, ASALA declared the Kurds as
their blood brothers by claiming there were resemblances between the
two communities.
1980 (April 17) The Turkish Ambassador in Vatican Vecdi Turel was
attacked by the Armenians, and his police officer Tahsin Guvenc was
injured.
1980 (April 19) ASALA attacked the Turkish Consulate in Marseille.
1980 (June 31) The Turkish Administrative Attaché Galip Ozmen and his
daughter Neslihan Ozmen were killed by the Armenian terrorists.
1980 (August 5) The Turkish Consulate in Lyon was stormed by the
Armenian terrorists and Kadir Atilgan, Ramazan Sefer, Kavas Bozdag and
Huseyin Toprak were killed.
1980 (September 26) Turkish Press Attaché in Paris Selcuk Bakkalbasi
was attacked by the Armenians and he was badly injured.
1980 (November 10) ASALA attacked to Turkish Consulate in Strasbourg.
1980 (December 17) Turkish Ambassador in Sidney, Sarik Arkyan and his
police officer Engin Saver were killed.
1981 (January 13) Armenian terrorists had put a bomb into the car of
Ahmet Erbeyli Counselor of Finance in Paris Embassy. He survived by
chance.
1981 (March 4) The Administrative counsellor of Turkish Embassy in
Paris, Resat Morali and imam Tecelli Ari were killed by the Armenians.
1981 (April 3) The Armenians shot Cavit Demir the administrative
counsellor of the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen; he was luckily
survived with injuries.
1981 (June 9) The Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Geneva Mehmet S.
Yerguz was killed by ASALA.
1981 (September 24) The Armenian terrorists stormed the General
Consulate in Geneva; and killed police officer Cemal Ozen.
1981 (October 3) The Second Secretary of Turkish Embassy in Rome was
attacked by Armenian terrorists; he was badly injured.
1981 (November 27) "Armenian Students Union in Europe" and "Kurdish
Students Association in Europe" made a joint declaration in London.
1982 (January 28) The Turkish General Consulate in Los Angeles, Kemal
Arikan was killed by two Armenians Harry Sasunyan and Kirkor Saliba.
1982 (April 8) Commerce Counselor in Ottawa Embassy Kemalttin Kani
Gungor was injured by an armed attack.
1982 (May 5) The Turkish honorary Consul for USA Boston Region Okan
Gunduz was killed by Armenians.
1982 (June 7) Erkut Akbay the administrative attaché in Lisbon
Embassy was killed. On the same day, Atilla Altikat the military
attaché in Ottawa, Bora Süelkan the administrative attaché to Bulgaria
and chargé d'affaires of Lisbon Embassy Yurtsev Mihcioglu and his wife
Cahide Mihcioglu were attacked. Turkish Ambassador in Canada Coskun
Kirca was attacked as well.
1982 (August 7) Ankara Esenboga Airport was bombed by three Armenian
terrorists. Three police officers and nine civil people died.
Seventy-eight people were injured. A terrorist called Levon Ekmekciyan
was arrested.
1982 (August 10) An Armenian named Artin Penik burned himself to
protest Esenboga Airport Incident.
1983 (January 29) Levon Ekmekciyan was found guilty of 1982 Esenboga
Airport incident and he was executed in Ankara.
1983 (January 29) Harut Levonyan and Rafi Elbekyan attacked to the
Turkish Ambassador in Yugoslavia and a man from Belgrade who was
passing by was killed.
1983 (June 15) Some terrorists of ASALA organisation attacked Turkish
Airlines office in Paris Orly Airport. The attack resulted in the
death of four Frenchmen, two Turks, an American and a Swedish person.
In the incident sixty people were injured.
1983 (June 27) Five Armenian terrorists who raided the Turkish Embassy
in Lisbon were died.
1985 (March 12) Turkish Embassy in Ottawa was raided by three Armenian
terrorists. One of the Canadian civil guards was shot dead. Ambassador
Coskun Kirca survived with injuries.
1991 (January 21) Armenians attacked to Hacilar City. Three Soviet
soldiers and two Azeris were killed. The terrorists killed an Azeri
journalist Savatin Askerova.
1991 (April 13) In Karabagh, Armenians and Azeris fought. The
Armenians bombarded Azeri villages.
1991 (April 23) The Armenians bombarded Azeri villages in Susa
region. Three Azeris were killed, three houses were destroyed, and
three houses were demolished.
1991 (April 26) Four Azeri civil guardians were killed. The attack
was undertaken by "Karabakh Warriors".
1991 (September 23) Armenia declared its independence.
1991 (December 26) Soviet Union was dissolved. Armenia gained its
legal independence.
1996 Levon Petrosyan was elected as the President of Armenia for the
second time.
1997 (March 20) One of the leaders of Tashnaksutium Rober Kocaryan
became the prime minister of Armenia.
1997 (December 20) The Armenians celebrated the 160th year of Surp
Agapyan Hospital together with New Year's fest.
1998 The President of Turkey Suleyman Demirel received Ara Kocunyan
the editor of "Jamanak" newspaper in the of 90th anniversary of the
newspaper, in his resident.
1998 (February) The President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyon
resigned. Thus Robert Kocaryan has found a way for presidency.
Petrosyan was protested by the extreme nationalists with his peaceful
approaches in Karabagh.
1998 (February) Elcibey the leader of Azerbeyjan People's Front
evaluated the resignation of Petrosyan, and he said Kocaryan revolted
against Azerbeyjan with the Russian assistance in Karabagh.
1998 (March 30) Kocaryan was elected the President of Armenia.
1998 (July) Abdullah Ocalan the leader of the PKK terrorist
organization demanded a special village from Armenia for the use of
his organization.
1998 (October 14) Mesrob Mutafyan, became the 84th Patriarch of the
Turkish Armenians.
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ARMENIAN TERRORISM
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The spamming TURKISH RETARD who calls himself "pigmacnfries", also known
as "Mary K.", "Robert T Carr", "faulty nutter", "sutten",