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- From: dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian)
- Subject: Re: Self-Refuting Dolts in the Service of Turkish Genocide Apology
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.015754.26164@urartu.sdpa.org>
- Summary: quoting from a book delineating the genocide of Armenians
- Keywords: quote from Chapter I, page 1....
- Organization: S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:57:54 GMT
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- In article <9212251215@zuma.UUCP> sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic), a servile dolt
- in the service of Turkish fascism, posted a response with text written by the
- Inspector General of Turkish Forces in Armenia from:
-
- [(*] [1] _Four Years Beneath the Crescent_ Rafael De Nogalas, Inspector General
- [(*] of Turkish Forces in Armenia and Military Governor of Egyptian Sinai
- [(*] During the War, Translated from the Spanish by Muna Lee, Charles
- [(*] Scribner's Sons, New York, London, 1926, page 17
-
- Ha..."Turkish Forces in Armenia" ...according to Turkish Historical Revisionism
- there was "never" a place called Armenia! What a pack of self-refuting fools!
-
- [(*] He didn't have the guts to quote this either:
- [(*]
- [(*] "there can be no doubt that the Turk, in spite of all his
- [(*] defects, is the first soldier and the first gentleman of
- [(*] the Orient,"
-
- The very first paragraph in this text used by Turkish Genocide Apology says:
-
- "As the only Christian who witnessed the Armenian massacres and
- deportations in an official capacity, I may fittingly offer an
- explanation of the incongruity of my position. Moreover, as I
- held the post of Inspector General of Turkish forces in Armenia,
- despite my Christian affiliations, it will be appropriate to
- relate the devious and almost fantastic course of events which
- led me to that appointment, and to that paradoxical survey of the
- hideous." [1]
-
- - - - Turkish-suggested reference - - -
-
- [1] _Four Years Beneath the Crescent_ Rafael De Nogales, Inspector General of
- Turkish Forces in Armenia and Military Governor of Egyptian Sinai During
- the War, Translated from the Spanish by Muna Lee, Charles Scribner's Sons,
- New York, London, 1926, page 1, the first two sentences.
-
-
-
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- David Davidian <dbd@urartu.sdpa.org> |"The massacres? Oh well! They merely
- S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies | amuse me!" -Talaat Pasha, architect of
- P.O. Box 382761 | Turkish the genocide of Armenian people.
- Cambridge, MA 02238 | (Four Years Beneath the Crescent, p 208)
-