The worst genocide in modern history

What was the Ottoman Empire going to do, say no? If they refused these international organizations from entering their country, they would basically be advertising that there was a genocide. They let them in, and allowed them to operate under much difficult circumstances. You might want to check the records of these organizations that set up hospitals in the empire, so you can read their accounts (non-Armenian and non-Turkish accounts) of the government-sponsored atrocities that were committed against Armenians and other minorities.

When the Americans relocated Japanese Americans in WWII, it was stricly economical, we went over this today in my college history class. The Anglo-American population lobbied the government to relocate the Japanese out of the west coast, because the Japanese were rivaling the Anglo-Americans in business. The Japanese were forced to sell their properties and businesses at extremely low prices, and the people who bought them were--guess who-- the same Anglo-American businessmen that lobbied for their relocation. They relocated them on the grounds that they would aid the Japanese by spying and espionage. There was never a single reported case of a Japanese in America who committed an act of treason.

Some Germans and Italians in America actually did do espionage for their respective countries, and they were caught. Why do you think they never relocated Germans or Italians in America? They werent forced to relocate because Germans and Italians were not easy social targets like the Japanese, and were not in major economic competition with anyone in the U.S.

Same situation with the Armenians. Many Armenians actually did move back to their villages and cities years after the war, with their written contract of ownership of their property. However, when they went back, there were Turks living in their houses, and they were never given back their rightful property. Ive heard many cases like this, Armenians even sued the American insurance company that was supposed to take care of their financial rights during the war. Many Armenians still have their property contracts from Ottoman days, but the government had already moved in a Turkish population to live in the thousands of abandoned Armenian-owned houses.

You're right, *part* of the Ottoman Empire was what many nations recognize as Armenian land (Eastern Anatolia). The Sevres treaty was supposed to give that land to an independent Armenian Republic, but it was ripped up in a secret meeting of i believe only 6 nations (Armenia was not part of this meeting, even though the treaty directly affected them). One of the members of this meeting was the Turkish Republic, and they saw it best to get rid of the treaty in secret along with the small handful of nations present at the secret meeting.

The Armenians were actually abandoned by the French in Cilicia, after the French had casually disarmed the Armenian population in that area.

The Armenian schools and churches in Turkey have never been renovated by government money, unlike Turkish schools and mosques. Also, UNESCO has sent many complaints to the Turkish government about their complete lack of maintenance towards ancient Armenian buildings in Eastern Anatolia. Also, on every Turkish tour of Eastern Turkey, they do not mention the Armenians even once, even though Armenians had been building a civilization there since before Christ. What explanation does the Turkish government have for this?

Reviewed by Daniel Pipes

McCarthy has unearthed a horrifying and extremely important fact: that in the course of the century between the Greek war of independence and World War I, the Ottoman Empire suffered five and a half million dead and five million refugees. He deems this Europe's largest lost of life and emigration since the Thirty Years' War. Christian suffering in this time and place is well-known; McCarthy shows the other side, that "Muslim communities in an area as large as all of western Europe had been diminished or destroyed." His study minutely reviews the regions and wars, pulling information from foreign and Ottoman sources to produce a compelling account.

Those who have objectively researched the events realise that the Armenian diaspora has desperatly tried to invent history and exaggerate their suffering and minimilise the suffering they caused.

                                                                                                       
It was really the first intentional large-scale genocide of the modern times, as well as the model case of the consequent tradition of ethnic cleansing. It was also the largest single genocide of the 19th century. It preceded the wave of pogroms and deportations that Russia used against the Jews, and it also preceded the tragic consequences that the same Russian expansion wars against Turkish territories had on Armenians after the turn of the century. For some reason, the Circassian genocide has never been given proper attention or researched well. The Circassian genocide ended at about same time with the launching of the Jewish deportations in 1880s, when more than three million Circassians had been expelled from the territories occupied by Russia. The numbers of those who were killed, are not known. Anyway, it meant 90 per cent of the whole Circassian population..  Anssi Kullberg, The Eurasian Politician - October 2003

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"These Circassians are just like your American Indians - as untamable and uncivilized... and, owing to their natural energy of character, extermination only would keep them quiet"