Armenian Atrocities Are
Charged Against the Turks
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k A leader of Armenian *
* thought in the United States k
k who is associated with a west- *
♦ em state college volunteers *
♦ this reply to the signed state- *
* ment of Dr. Ahmed Emin, edi- k
k tor of the Constantinople Tan k
k in, concerning Armenian atroc- *
k ities charged against the k
♦ Turks. k
* In requesting that his name k
k be withheld the writer says: k
k “I would prefer you not to k
k use my real name as signed k
k under the story. I am doing k
k this in order to safeguard the k
k three remnants of my immedi- k
k ate family of ^4, who are in k
k Turkey at present. The rest k
k were killed by the Turks with- k
k in this last year. If you wish k
k to use a name you may use my k
k pen name—Azad Ardzive.— k
k EDITOR. k
“Revolutionary movement and open
treason” have been the cause of the
present plight of the Armenians in
Aia Minor, according to Dr. Ahmed
Emin, editor of the Constantinople
Tanin, as set forth in his story “The
j Other Side,” recently printed in the
press of the United States.
When the Turks conquered Arme
| nia 500 years ago there were 40,000,
j 000 Armenians in that country. To
| day there are hardly 3,000,000 of
i them all over the world.
The 37,000,000 Armenians perished
as the result of periodic, annual and
daily massacres at the hands of the
Turks. A fanatic may consider this
the work of a “humane race”—the
| Turks—and indulge in pointing out
the faults of other nations to justify
the barbaric acts of its own.
The assimilation of the Armenians
is a historic impossibility. Even the
Turkish practice of cutting the tongue
of every Armenian when he failed to
speak in Turkish did not make sue
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eessful the assimilation policy of the
Ottoman government.
By what sense of justice then does
the Turk argue in favor of his own
government as a giver of freedom of
language. What does the gentleman
mean by “freedom of community” if
he does not wish to contradict flatly
the flats of the Ottoman rulers?
Thirty thousand Armenians were
massacred in Adana at the hands of
the so-called Young-Turkish party in
1908—soon after the provlacation of
the “constitutional government.”
Five women were crucified. One of
the boa-es, still on the cross, "as
to where the Christian battleships
were anchored.
To the mind of our critic this may
be “absolute equality with the Turks.”
Not long ago the government sent
official doctors to "vaccinate” the Ar
menian children of the town of Zei
tun. Instead of injecting the vaccine
serum they injected poison and 400
children died in one night. If this -is
the work of a humane race what
might be its brutal deeds?
My own experience in the massacre
of 1895 and ’96 are still fresh in my
memory and if necessary I can enu
merate tales of horror which I heard
and saw.
With all these cruel inflictions, in
stead of fostering revenge, one Ar
menian political party held the bloody
hands of the Committee of Union and
Progress, saying that it is enough we
are brothers; let us work for the wel
fare of the country.
The Armenian revolutionary move
ment was the child of persecutions at'
the hands of the Turkish government.
When apparently a change took place
in Turkey in 1908 the revolution par- j
ties automatically became political |
parties.
Suppose that a few Armenians, or a
gi-oup of them had conspired against
the government. Why were not those
directly responsible punished ? Did
Great Britain put to the sword the1
Irish people—men, women, and chil
dren—because of the present upris
ing ’
, By what logic then can Turkey jus
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tify the burning, drowning, clubbing
and killing in inconceivable ways of
Armenian men, women and children
because of the alleged participation
of a few Armenians in treasonable
acts?
When the war broke out the Ar
menian men of military age were sent
to the front to dig trenches and do
other menial work. They were final
ly distributed among the Turkish vil
lages and killed. Who was it then
that rebelled ? The old men, women
and children?
The Armenian language belongs to
the Indo-European while the Turkish
is a mixture of Persian, Arabic, and
Turkish, which consists of about 500
words. Religiously the Armenians
are Christians, while the Turks are
Mohammedans. Generally speaking
there is social similarity between the
majority of the people of the world.
Particularly speaking the lines of so
cial habits are sharply drawn be
tween the Turks and the Armenians.
The extermination policy of the
Turks was followed even by Sultan
Salim Canoony. It is as old as are
the Turkish invasions. The disappear
ance of 93 per cent of the Armenian
population and the attempts made by
our critic to justify the unspeakable
crime of the Turkish government
shows that Dr. Ahmed Emin is a true
exponent of Mohammeday theology,
which justifies the telling a lie when
it ‘‘averts evil from a Moslem.”
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