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Eyewitnessing of the Russian Lieutenant Colonel to the Actions of the Armenians in the Eastern Front
The journal in manuscript kept During World War I by the Russian Lieutenant Colonel Tverdohlebov, who was the Commander of the 2nd Armenian-Russian Fortress Artillery Regiment in the province of Erzurum in late 1917 and early 1918 is in the archive of the General Staff Military History and Strategic Studies Institute namely, ATASE.
When the journal of the Russian Lieutenant Colonel is examined, the dimensions of the Armenian atrocity and unimaginable massacres can be seen. The memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel Tverdohlebov, who said, "What I witnessed and heard is beyond the borders of any predictions and imagination about the Armenians", is the best answer to the Armenian allegations. One wonders how the Armenian militants would be able to come back as officers of Russian Army with the power to annihilate whole population of several villages in 1917-18, if they were victims of a genocide as claimed.
The book is multilingual with translations: Turkish (pp.3-44), English (pp.45-90), French (pp.91-126) and in its original language, Russian (PP.127-188).
Armenian Genocide Resource Center
Open access e-books such as Armenian Mythomania by Australian historian Erich Feigl,
The Austrian historan Feigl decided to study the Armenian allegations of genocide upon th ekilling of his dear friend Erdoğan
Articles and conference papers such as "Art Of Living Together In Ottoman Society: Case Of Turkish-Armenian Relations" Erciyes University Symposium, 2006.
The Ottoman Armenian Tragedy is a Genuine Historic Controversy
Considerations from reputable scholars, many of whom are Ottoman history experts, on the following questions:
* Is the genocide label, which is so vigorously promoted by Armenian advocacy organizations appropriate?
* Did the Ottoman government during World War I possess the requisite intent described by the U.N. Genocide Convention, to destroy the Armenians?
* What was the Armenian Revolt and how did it impact the Ottoman government’s decision to relocate Armenian civilians from eastern Anatolia?
* What was the ultimate toll upon the Armenian population? And how many deaths could be attributed to the various causes: intercommunal warfare, starvation, exposure, massacre, disease, etc.?
* What was the ultimate toll upon the Ottoman Muslim population embroiled in these same events? And how many deaths can be attributed to the same causes?
"A genuine historic controversy : History records the enormous human suffering from both of these events: Perhaps 5.5 million Muslims, mostly Turks, died as refugees or were killed in the years immediately preceding and during World War I, as well as through the formative years of the Republic of Turkey. And certainly hundreds of thousands of Armenians died during the Armenian Revolt and the relocations consequently ordered by the Ottoman government. Scholars on the Ottoman Empire continue to examine the details and causes of these twin tragedies. What they have uncovered is not a singular tale of Christian woe, but rather a complex story that, if presented as evidence, would make it highly unlikely that a genocide charge could be sustained against the Ottoman government or its successor before a neutral arbiter...."
McCarthy, Justin. The Destruction of Ottoman Erzurum by Armenians. Presented during a Conference by Erzurum, Ataturk University, September 2002.
http://www.tallarmeniantale.com/mccarthy-erzurum.htm (Accessed on 04.07.210)I am no historian, but as I read about this issue, I have been telling myself that it sounds to me that what Armenians had done is genocide of the Turks, and I was wondering if this view could be scientifically correct. Here we are, Professor McCarthy says "... Yet this was the real genocide, a genocide of the Turks. At the end of the war, one-third of the Muslims of Erzurum Province were dead."
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