“The Turks and their helpers murdered, straightforwardly or indirectly, through privation and disease, between 1.5 and 2.5 million Christians between 1894 and 1924.”
And the Turks still deny that they did it. Disinformation and ignorance continue to cloud this issue. Even in this article, Kemal Ataturk refers to himself as a “mujahid,” that is, a jihadi, and the word is translated as “crusader.” The jihadis fought against the cross and Christianity. They were in no sense “crusaders,” and it is sloppy thinking and sloppy writing to apply the word to them, as if religious violence ultimately derived from Christianity. See The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS for the truth about 1,400 years of jihad activity, including the genocide of Anatolia’s Christians.
“Book review: The genocide of Anatolia’s Christians,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2019:
Israeli historians Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi have produced a work that shocks the conscience with their forensic study of the exterminatory violence committed during the final stage of the Ottoman Empire and the lead-up to the nascent phase of the Turkish Republic.
In contrast to scholarship that has largely focused on the World War I Ottoman extermination of Anatolia’s Armenian population, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924 broadens that time frame to study other persecuted Christian minority groups, particularly Greeks and Assyrians.
An important lesson from this masterful history concerns the role that Islamic-animated genocide played in the destruction of the region’s Christians. Morris and Ze’evi marshal no shortage of evidence.
Take the example of one sheik who, according to the British diplomat in Turkey Gerald Fitzmaurice, “ordered his followers to bring as many stalwart young Armenians as they could find. To the number of about 100 they were thrown on their backs and held down by their hands and feet, while the sheik, with a combination of fanaticism and cruelty proceeded, while reciting verses of the Koran, to cut their throats after the Mecca rite of sacrificing sheep.” This massacre unfolded during a savage period of widespread targeting of Armenians that extended from 1894 to 1896.
The book abounds with examples of Islamic ideology being combined with state directives to promote the extermination of Middle Eastern Christians. It is not a historical study for the faint of heart.
The authors conclude that what happened was deliberate, state-engineered genocide aided by Muslim clerics and the Muslim-majority population. They base their conclusion on “the massive documentation – American, British, French, German and Austro-Hungarian – that we have studied over the past decade.”
The Ottoman and Turkish Republic’s policy of elimination reduced Asia Minor’s Christian communities from 20% of the population at the end of the nineteenth century to 2% in 1924.
Morris and Ze’evi write, “The Turks and their helpers murdered, straightforwardly or indirectly, through privation and disease, between 1.5 and 2.5 million Christians between 1894 and 1924.”
The rise of the Young Turks and the Ottomans’ entry into WWI revealed a kind of grotesque historical irony. According to a contemporary witness, Wilfred Post, a doctor and missionary who was born and reared in Turkey, “The proclamation of the holy war, which failed to unite all Islam against the Entente, nevertheless had the effect of arousing the old fanatic spirit of the Turks themselves and they prosecuted the holy war within their own Empire with a zeal exceeding that of their forefathers.”
The German diplomat and archeologist Max von Oppenheim produced the 1914 “Memorandum on the fomenting of rebellions among the Muslim subjects of our enemies” that was sent to Sultan Mehmed V for approval. In short, Oppenheim and Kaiser Wilhelm II convinced the Ottomans to urge Muslims worldwide to revolt against their colonial masters based on jihadi ideology.
Oppenheim’s jihad failed while the Ottoman’s internal jihad against Christians succeeded at the cost of spectacular violence and suffering for Christian minorities.The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of the Turkish nationalist leader Mustafa Kemal (later Kemal Ataturk) did nothing to diminish the role of “jihadi rhetoric” as an organizing tool.
Kemal, the military hero associated with the Gallipoli campaign and who later become Turkey’s president, declared there was a “national holy war now commencing to save our sacred race and fatherland from the danger of dismemberment.”
Kemal made that statement after resigning from the army, saying he had then become a “crusader [mudjahid] fighting for the glory of the race.”…
Zaki says
Biased propaganda based on fear mongering trying to demonize Muslims. If you truly are a true journalist you should also write articles on atrocities committed against Muslims in Kashmir, Palestine etc.
Crusades Were Right says
* “Biased propaganda based on fear mongering trying to demonize Muslims”
Prove it.
* If you truly are a true journalist you should also write articles on atrocities committed against Muslims in Kashmir, Palestine etc”
Seems we have a new definition of “journalist”! lol
Christianblood says
Zaki
We Bow Our Heads In Memory Of The 50 Million Victims Of The Orthodox Christian Holocaust In Eastern Europe! More of this below:
http://www.serfes.org/orthodox/memoryof.htm
Angemon says
Nearly one quarter of them were murdered by Russia in Ukraine alone.
Christianblood says
Angemon, the Anti-Christian traitor defending his Ottoman/Turkish masters! No surprise here!
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“Angemon, the Anti-Christian traitor defending his Ottoman/Turkish masters! No surprise here!”
Rubbish – I simply quoted from the article you posted, as I have done elsewhere. Hence the personal attacks – you know very well what the article reads because I pointed it out to your face. And I’ll qute it again for good measure, tovarisch Christianblood:
Let’s do the math, shall we? (12/50)*100 = 24%. One quarter = 25%. Hence what said: nearly one quarter of them were murdered by Russia in Ukraine alone. In any case, if anyone here defends Turkey it is you – at least since the Turks started waving money at Russia…
Christianblood says
Angemon
Don’t wana waste time with your nonsense here but understand that
both Russians and Ukrainians and other USSR Slavic Christians were ALL victims of the Bolshevist Marxism which was NOT indigenous to the Slavic people but was imported from Germany and was forcefully and brutally imposed on Russo-Ukranian Christians by others who hated them.
BTW, you keep accusing Soviet repression on Russians alone while the three longest serving Soviet premiers who led the USSR for much of its 70 year history were not even Russians. Joseph Stalin was Georgian and Khrushchev and Brezhnev were Ukrainian nationals!
Angemon says
“Don’t wana waste time with your nonsense here”
The “nonsense” being me quoting from the article you provided. The actual nonsense was your rambling about me defending Turks.
“but understand that
both Russians and Ukrainians and other USSR Slavic Christians were ALL victims of the Bolshevist Marxism”
It was not the Ukrainians who imposed a famine on Russians that killed millions – do not try to capitalize on their suffering, you ghoulish, soulless fiend. In any case, aren’t you, by your logic, an “Anti-Christian traitor defending his Ottoman/Turkish masters”?
“which was NOT indigenous to the Slavic people but was imported from Germany and was forcefully and brutally imposed on Russo-Ukranian Christians by others who hated them.”
Again with that nonsense? Same responses at the last time. Again: Ukrainians aren’t Russians. Stop trying to capitalize on the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. And again: it was not Germans or Americans who invaded Russia to impose Marxism. it was eagerly adopted by Russians – what nationality was Lenin again?…
“BTW, you keep accusing Soviet repression on Russians”
Again: where have I did that? I pointed out that your very own countrymen starved millions of Ukrainians. Your usual response to that is “but Russians also murdered other Russians” – no different, in nature, thans muslims apologists saying that islamic terror groups murder muslims as well as infidels…
“alone while the three longest serving Soviet premiers who led the USSR for much of its 70 year history were not even Russians. Joseph Stalin was Georgian and Khrushchev and Brezhnev were Ukrainian nationals!”
According to you, Russians and Ukrainians are one and indivisible. You need to keep your schizophrenia under control…
Christianblood says
Angemon
You must be ready to join your Buddy and Nato member Erdogan as he prepares to invade Cyprus and Greece and your satanic and traitorous West will give him all he needs to do just that just as they have helped an islamist takeover of Bosnia & Kosovo a couple of decades ago!
Erdogan’s words below:
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkey-is-prepared-to-reinvade-cyprus-if-needed-erdogan/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHSav7TbYBM
Angemon says
“You must be ready to join your Buddy and Nato member Erdogan as he prepares to invade Cyprus and Greece ”
And the anti-Angemon jihad continues – right after I pointed out that CB changed his tune regarding Turkey, the mud-flinging began. This requires no saying, but I’ve stated my distaste for Erdogan on many occasions, and stated, also on many occasions, that Turkey should be kicked out of NATO.
Now, I didn’t force CB to post an article stating that his very own countrymen – Russians – starved millions of Ukrainians. He did it out of his own free will. Nor did I force him to defend Turkey’s purchase of weapons to Russia – what will he say if a Russian-manufactured Turkish missile kills Cypriots? My money is on him blaming the US…
Angemon says
“Erdogan as he prepares to invade Cyprus and Greece”
Let’s say that’s the case. Do you denounce Russia selling weapons to Turkey, weapons that will be used in the alleged invasion to murder Greeks and Cypriots? Do you, CB? I’d bet my life’s saving you won’t….
gravenimage says
I see that Zaki is demanding that we ignore the Muslim genocide against Christians in Turkey, and instead focus on the “suffering” of Jihadists in Kashmir and “Palestine” who have been unable to murder all the Infidels there. Nice try…
gravenimage says
Of course, the claim that Angemon pointing out what was in christianblood’s own link is support for Muslim savagery makes no sense.
And christianblood has indeed applauded Russia selling weaponry to Turkey several times now–something Angemon has of course never done. Anti-Jihadists don’t want to see any Infidels arming Muslims.
CRUSADER says
“The Promise” movie – trailer video
Turks and Russians….bad news for the Armenians….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk4TivbNVUM
Pal says
Angemon,
A lot of thanks for
THE UKRAINIAN HOLOCAUST OF 1932-33 !!
ALL must know that “christianblood” and “crusader” are Russians, Russian trolls, designated to JIHADWATCH, and paid by KGB and GRU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades
Edmund says
You are 100% right. Becouse they are the most peacefull, rightfull and good willing people on the planet. They just must first destroy all unbelivers, as his god sayed by mouth of Mo. Then it will be paradice. Free brothel to everyone (except womans, becouse they are barely humans). Unfortunatelly unbelivers will see such plan as daemonic, but who cares about those ville creatures ?
Ecosse1314 says
To be fair Zaki..one does not have to try very hard.
Munchenfez says
Which planet have you flown in from? You appear to have an alternate reality from that we experience here on Terra, the 3rd rock from the sun.
infidel says
Wah wah… Playing victim here… and that too about Kashmir and we all know how U animals chased out the Hindu pundits and raped and butchered their women folk. Shame on U pathetic lowlife of an lying Islamic piece of garbage. Kill non Muslims and then play victims..
Raja says
Infidel,
Islam apologists can be the best deceivers on the planet. The devil god told them to do so.
True God says just the opposite:
Psalms 5
6 You destroy those who speak falsehood; The LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
Psalms 10
7 His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.
Psalms 17
1 Hear a just cause, O LORD, give heed to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.
Psalms 24
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood And has not sworn deceitfully.
Psalms 26
4 I do not sit with deceitful men, Nor will I go with pretenders.
Psalms 32
2 How blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit!
Psalms 34
13 Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.
Angemon says
Let’s go by parts.
“Biased propaganda”
Do you have any evidence to back this claim?
“based on fear mongering trying to demonize Muslims.”
Is anything written not factually correct?
“If you truly are a true journalist you should also write articles on atrocities committed against Muslims in Kashmir, Palestine etc.”
What, exactly, does that have to do with the topic of that book, a book titled” The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924″?
Angemon says
Oh, and if the article is “propaganda”, like you claim, why do you say they should also talk about alleged atrocities committed against muslims elsewhere? Speaking of which, are you going to cover any atrocity committed by muslims against non-muslims in the name of islam? Do you even acknowledge that any took place?
CRUSADER says
TRUTH !
BegrensEuropa! says
@Zaki Jul 20, 2019 at 9:21 am: Which part or statement in the article is in your esteemed opinion incorrect? What historical proof do you have to offer? I am sure that Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi would be delighted if you could point out any oversight on their part.
Angemon says
Indeed – that’s exactly what it was.
Battle says
Jesus taught them, “Therefore all things whatsoever would that men would do to you, do ye even unto them …” Saint Matthew
7:12 (King James Version)
Battle says
Jesus spoke “And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” Saint Luke 6:31 (King James Version)
Christianblood says
Battle
(…Godless Western Elites Want to Destroy Christianity…)
Patriarch Kirill: He is right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfSPgO-4uJA
Angemon says
Patriarch Kirill is of the opinion that islamic violence is contrary to the true principles of islam…
Christianblood says
Angemon is breathing the very dark, anti-Christ spirit of materialism, godlessness, ignorance, degeneracy and spiritual-bankruptcy!
Ouch! I take refuge in Christ from such a satanic spirit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1003&v=usDcUOdYFtU
Angemon says
Nah, I’m speaking the truth. That you’re unable to counter with the propaganda you normally spam and, instead, drift away with inane pseudo-spiritual ramblings is proof enough of that… Now, what do we call someone who scatters away at the sight of truth?…
Angemon says
BTW, since you’re speaking about “materialism, godlessness, ignorance, degeneracy and spiritual-bankruptcy”, what’s your stance on Turkey? I see you went from “The genocidal muslim Turks who murdered close to two million Armenian, other Eastern Christians also hate Russia and both USA, the genocidal muslim Turks are united in hate for Russia in being members of “Nato”, an organization whose reason for existence is nothing but to dismantle and to destroy Russia” to “Turkey is a sovereign nation who can buy weapons from whomever they want”. Funny how the two million dead Christians are meaningless to you the moment the Turks wave money at you precious little Russia…
gravenimage says
Patriarch Kirill has praised Islam for its morality–I find this very disturbing.
Avenger says
Angemon,
So is it good with you if the USA sells its most high tech weapon systems to Turkey but Russia shouldn’t be allowed?
Was it good with you when the Turks invaded Cyprus in 1974 with weapons made and purchased from the US, murdering 3500 Greek Cypriots and annexing over half of the country?
Communism in Russia (Soviet Union) lasted about 74 years. That is but a blink of an eye compared to how long Russia has existed and yet you use these dark years to “define” Russia. Russia for centuries defended many East European nations from the depredations of the Ottoman Empire. In the Crimean war of 1853 Russia would have extinguished Ottoman Turkey for good but France and Great Britain sided with Turkey, forcing a truce.
For centuries Russia has been a constant hammer against Ottoman expansion and the main cause for this wicked caliphates final implosion.
It is the Western powers, including the US that has brought this monstrosity of a country back to life.
Angemon says
Ah, I was wondering when the backup would show up.
“So is it good with you if the USA sells its most high tech weapon systems to Turkey but Russia shouldn’t be allowed?”
My point here is that your fellow CB seems to think the opposite – he went from denouncing Turkey as an evil, terrorism sponsoring allied of the US to defending Turkey as an independent nation who can buy weapons from whoever they want – I guess CB only cares about Turkey arming terror groups when they do it with weapons bought from the Americans. No amount of your asinine questions will change that.
“Was it good with you when the Turks invaded Cyprus in 1974 with weapons made and purchased from the US, murdering 3500 Greek Cypriots and annexing over half of the country?”
Is it good with you if the Turks use weapons bought from Russia to murder Greeks and Cypriots? Would it be good with you if the Turks had used, for example, Russian-made Kalashnikovs, like most islamic terror groups use nowadays? Would that be OK with you? I already stated, on several occasions, that Turkey should leave Cyprus, as well as NATO. Do you need me to repeat it again?
“Communism in Russia (Soviet Union) lasted about 74 years. That is but a blink of an eye compared to how long Russia has existed and yet you use these dark years to “define” Russia.”
Didn’t Russia used to define it self as communist? And considering the lasting impact your commie nation had during those 74 years, am I supposed to pretend they didn’t exist? Or did you cheer in joy when the Soviets created the “Palestinians” to use as a tool against Israel for being a US ally? Do you shed tears of joy when a “Palestinian” murders an Israeli civilian? Or perhaps you are a bigger fan of other Russia-supported terror groups? Perhaps the Japanese Red Army? Maybe Italy’s Red Brigades? The Sandinistas? MPLA?
“Russia for centuries defended many East European nations from the depredations of the Ottoman Empire.”
More recently, Russia conspired with Nazi Germany to split Eastern Europe between them. And, also more recently, you Russians had your dirty paws on most of it – which prompted most Warsaw pact countries to seek the protection of NATO as soon as they got the chance… And weren’t a fair number of Ottoman-Russian wars a simple matter of seizing territory, as imperial powers are known to do? Perhaps we should ask, let’s say, the Poles what they think of Russia?
“In the Crimean war of 1853 Russia would have extinguished Ottoman Turkey for good but France and Great Britain sided with Turkey, forcing a truce.”
Didn’t Russia had a larger army fighting closer to home? Didn’t those Western powers force the Ottomans to abolish the jyzia? And didn’t Russia side with Turkey against UK-backed Greece during the Greek-Turk wars?
“For centuries Russia has been a constant hammer against Ottoman expansion and the main cause for this wicked caliphates final implosion.”
Right – and no one in the West fought the Ottomans and their predecessors and allies ever. No Reconquista, no Tours, no Lepanto, no Covadonga, no Vienna – twice – no Tolosa. Italians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Austrians – none of them ever lifted a finger against the Ottomans, their allies and their predecessors. Let me tell you a little secret – because, apparently, the best way to keep a secret from you is hiding it in a book. Westerners were fighting islamic caliphates before the Rus vikings settled in Novgorod. But, were I to believe your forked tongue, I’d think that I’d owe my Christian heritage to Russia instead of the Holy League….
“It is the Western powers, including the US that has brought this monstrosity of a country back to life.”
Even if that were, in fact, the case, I don’t see Russia refusing to deal with Turkey as a matter of principle. No, your precious little Putin is more eager to take Turkish money than the US or the West, so you can take that and shove it.
gravenimage says
Avenger wrote:
Angemon,
So is it good with you if the USA sells its most high tech weapon systems to Turkey but Russia shouldn’t be allowed?
Was it good with you when the Turks invaded Cyprus in 1974 with weapons made and purchased from the US, murdering 3500 Greek Cypriots and annexing over half of the country?…
…………………………..
What calumny. Angemon was p christianblood’s hypocrisy–not expressing his own.
chriaitnblood has lauded Russia selling Turkey arms–Angemon has never done the same vis-a-vis the US or anyone else, as I’m sure Avenger is well aware.
More:.
Communism in Russia (Soviet Union) lasted about 74 years. That is but a blink of an eye compared to how long Russia has existed and yet you use these dark years to “define” Russia. Russia for centuries defended many East European nations from the depredations of the Ottoman Empire. In the Crimean war of 1853 Russia would have extinguished Ottoman Turkey for good but France and Great Britain sided with Turkey, forcing a truce.
For centuries Russia has been a constant hammer against Ottoman expansion and the main cause for this wicked caliphates final implosion.
It is the Western powers, including the US that has brought this monstrosity of a country back to life.
…………………………..
Russia did aid some Eastern European nations in their fight for freedom from the Ottomans–and this is a very good thing, as I have noted here many times.
The implication that this now means that it is a good thing that Russia is enabling Islam in Iran and Turkey is *quite* mistaken, though. These Muslim thugs are not allies with any Infidels.
infidel says
This is a beautiful beautiful video with a very beautiful and yet very powerful msg for White Civilization and as a proud Hindu, I heartily second it and support the Christian ethos of the West.
Christianblood says
infidel
Well-said, Infidel!
The fact is the traitorous, hollywoodized West replaced Christianity with Islam and with “LGBTQ” degeneracy and can’t stand such a truth spoken by a Russian Christian leader! Isn’t that why the godless, materialistic and spiritually bankrupt West hates Russia and Putin so much?
(…We Live In A World Based On Biblical Values; Liberals Are Trying To Dismantle It…) President V.V. Putin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMUeryzX2Y
gravenimage says
christianblood is enraged that we don’t murder gays as Chechnya and Iran does.
Battle says
Robert Spencer hits nail on head. Good.
CRUSADER says
Someone send him a box of delicious GREEK Delights!
Falsafa says
I am impressed Mr Spencer – three Türkiye bashing articles in two days (19-20 July). You’ve outdone yourself – whipping your crowd of bigots into a feeding frenzy! ofcourse what all this has to do with religion beats me.
You of course forget to mention the genocide of 5 million Ottoman Turks, during the same time periods you state above, in the Balkans, Eastern Turkey, Western Turkey, by Greek, Serbian armies, irregulars, Armenian Dashnaks…etc.
of course we can always apologise for our existence, apologise for conquering Anatolia in the 12th century from the Eastern Roman Empire, apologise for the Seljuk and the Ottoman Empires. We should pack our stuff and go back to Central Asia, oh wait can’t do that either as the Chinese Huns are holding our ancestors – the Uighurs – at gunpoint committing ethnic cleansing on a scale not seen since WW2. So we are stuck aren’t we! what can we do? where can we go?
Angemon says
“ofcourse what all this has to do with religion beats me. ”
Have you tried this novel concept of “reading and taking the time to understand the information contained in the articles”? I’m asking because your current method of “mouthbreathing, skimming the titles and REEEEEEEEEEing on the comments section” doesn’t seem to be working well for you….
Ecosse1314 says
Nothing to do with religion at all. Just so happened that the turks hit on 2 million random people and proceeded to slaughter them. Oddly enough the dead all turned out to be Christian
If you could reference where you find the 5m supposed Turks massacred we would all be grateful.
Falsafa says
McCarthy, Justin (1996). Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922. Darwin Press, Incorporated. ISBN 0-87850-094-4.
CRUSADER says
Falsafa, (false anti-fa) !
Do you think that you could ever be DE-PROGRAMMED?
SAFI says
“of course we can always apologise for our existence, apologise for conquering Anatolia in the 12th century from the Eastern Roman Empire, apologise for the Seljuk and the Ottoman Empires. We should pack our stuff and go back to Central Asia, oh wait can’t do that either”
I for one have never seen a Turk, much less a turkish leader, be apologetic about anything, the exact opposite. I’ve only seen Turks celebrating, bragging, and gloating over those conquests and imperial glories. Often accompanied with dreams and promises of more to come in the near future.
And for another, though I personally wouldn’t object to you “going back to Central Asia” we must always try to be realists. So, for now, all we’re kindly asking is that you stop trying to steal even more lands than what you’ve already conquered and “turkified” (a polite term for ethnically cleansed).
gravenimage says
Muslims conqueri8ng Infidels and committing genocide against them has *everything* to do with Islam, as the absurdly self-styled n”Falsafa” knows all too well.
gravenimage says
Turkey 1894-1924: “Deliberate, state-engineered genocide aided by Muslim clerics and the Muslim-majority population”
………………………….
Yes–in 30 years Muslims wiped out most of Turkey’s Christian population–only a tiny remnant survives today.
Spiro says
Yes and this is a historical fact
Muslims Turks can’t change that
Falsafa says
@gravenimage – who wiped out who? your self- serving comments only reinforce your self delusion.
Read and educate yourself:
McCarthy, Justin (1996). Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922. Darwin Press, Incorporated. ISBN 0-87850-094-4.
McCarthy, Justin (1983). Muslims and Minorities: The Population of Ottoman Anatolia and the End of the Empire. New York University Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-8147-5390-3.
…plenty more references available on request…
gravenimage says
There were well over two million Chri8stians–Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and Levantines–in Turkey before the 1890s–by 1923, there was just a pitiful remnant remaining. There are almost no Chr8istins surviving in Turkey today. For the appalling “Falsafa” to pretend that the genocide of Christians was instead that small minority wiping out Muslims is grotesque, but should not surprise.
James says
It all seems very strange. I remember the movie Lawrence of Arabia and how he supposedly loved Arab culture so much and wanted to organize Arabs to fight against the evil Turks. I guess the story in the film was not based on an historical analysis of the issues involved in the Near East. And of course there was the other film about Chinese Gordon and the mahdi. Such films probably do more to muddy the issues than to clear them up. Now I am not sure what to believe or who was in the right.
Falsafa says
the recollection by the British diplomat Gerald Fitzmaurice was based on hearsay, He did not personally witness the supposed events that is claimed in this book. Not factual, self serving, poor scholarship.
For those who have an intention to acquire a more balanced historical assessment through true scholarship I may recommend the following historians;
Lord Kinross
Norman Stone
Gunther Lewy
Bernard Lewis
Stanford J. Shaw
Justin Mccarthy
Caroline Finkel
——————————————–
black adder says
You can take your recommendations and… shove them. Nobody pays attention to stupid kemalists any more. You are done!
Angemon says
Genocide deniers and islamic boot-lickers. What a group! WHAT! A GROUP!!!!!
How about, instead, you read the works of Paul Fregosi, Robert Spencer, Ibn Warraq, Henri Pirenne or Emmet Scott?
Falsafa says
@Angemon – Academic Scholars versus Bloggers!…little wonder of your level of „knowledge“ blinded by pure propaganda!
Angemon says
Ah, the claim of “propaganda”. All the people I named have published books containing many academic sources and citations. Or do you deny it?
Angemon says
Also, do you deny that the Turks commited a genocide against the Armenians?
Raja says
Falsafa,
People of Islamic faith do all kinds of evil in the name of religion and also quote Koran etc. to justify them.
Every terror attack is followed by breast beating and whining of victim-hood by Muslims. Not even Sep 11 was spared of this drama. The supremacist nature of Islam is defended shamelessly through lies.
After an Islamic terror act the Muslims apologists usually refer to imperialism, plunder of Islamic lands and so on as though Islam was NEVER A PARTY to those atrocities.
Islamic world knows very little about Christianity and the Western empires of the past. They can only brag that the bible is “corrupted”, which again is the biggest con job of Islam. Propaganda?
Aren’t all the lies, a propaganda of Islam because EVEN THE VICTIM-HOOD CLAIM CAN NEVER BE APPLIED UNIFORMLY ACROSS THE GLOBE by Islamic apologists.
gravenimage says
The Armenian Genocide is one of the most amply chronicled events in history–by diplomats, travelers, aid workers, and the Turks themselves.
Jerry says
Toxic Zaki
Please read and explain the last major sub-paragraph
to Article Seven of the Hamas Covenant, which, in
turn, is a direct quotation form the Hadith, and spells
out Islam genocidal agenda against all Jews, regardless
of Zionism, occupation, Palestine or anything else.
A similar agenda is shared by all Islamists not only
against all Jews, but also against all Hindus, Christians,
the adherents of all other religions other than Islam
and all secular humans.
“Islamophobia” is a fake excuse used to justify
the Islamic genocidal agenda of all others,
while Humanophobia is practised by Muslims
against all others.
It’s time the genocidal Turkish Muslims end
the occupation of Anatolia and restore it
to the Greek Christians, and should end the
occupation of North Eastern Cyprus.
At the same time the close to forty million
Kurds oppressed by Turkish rule should
be granted full self rule and allowed to
establish their own independent state.
They have a far greater justified claim
for it than the “Palestinians” who already
fully control more than 82% of the original
territory of “Palestine” under the guise
of “Trans Jordan” later renamed “Jordan”
which was established on what was
originally designated for a national home
for the Jewish People.
Jordan is under populated with just under
ten million on land more than five times
that of the whole of Israel, with just under
nine million, even if you include the so
called West Bank.
Christians are still being exterminated
by Muslims in Syria, Iraq, the Lebanon,
and Egypt, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan
and many other parts of the world.
Eric Jones says
I had a co worker who is from a Greek family. She stated her grand mother who lived in Turkey escaped the genocide recounted in this article. As far as the violence, the grand mother said the Greeks were as bad as the Turks. Do not trust Erdogan.
Eric