to be exact million muslims were exterminated by the armenians in article lt p inn ql appserv eng sun com linden positive eng sun com peter van der linden writes so did the turks kill the armenians so did the jews kill the germans you even make armenians laugh an appropriate analogy with the jewish holocaust might be the systematic extermination of the entire muslim population of the independent republic of armenia which consisted of at least percent of the population of that republic the memoirs of an armenian army officer who participated in and eye witnessed these atrocities was published in the u s in with the title men are like that other references abound rachel a bortnick the jewish times june or was it the armenians who massacred the turks yes to be exact armenians slaughtered million muslim people between and source mccarthy j muslims and minorities the population of ottoman anatolia and the end of the empire new york university press new york pp source hovannisian richard g armenia on the road to independence university of california press berkeley and los angeles p source hovannisian richard g armenia on the road to independence university of california press berkeley and los angeles p the addition of the kars and batum oblasts to the empire increased the area of transcaucasia to over square miles the estimated population of the entire region in was of whom percent were armenian percent georgian and percent moslem of the latter group were tatars paradoxically barely one third of transcaucasia s armenians lived in the erevan guberniia where the christians constituted a majority in only three of the seven uezds erevan uezd the administrative center of the province had only armenians as compared to moslems by the time of the russian census of however the armenians had established a scant majority percent in the guberniia it had risen by to percent or of the inhabitants this impressive change in the province s ethnic character notwithstanding there was on the eve of the creation of the armenian republic a solid block of tartars who continued to dominate the southern districts from the outskirts of ereven to the border of persia see also map historic armenia and map administrative subdivisions of transcaucasia in percent turk we closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the tartars and then proceeded in the work of extermination our troops surrounded village after village little resistance was offered our artillery knocked the huts into heaps of stone and dust and when the villages became untenable and inhabitants fled from them into fields bullets and bayonets completed the work some of the tartars escaped of course they found refuge in the mountains or succeeded in crossing the border into turkey the rest were killed and so it is that the whole length of the borderland of russian armenia from nakhitchevan to akhalkalaki from the hot plains of ararat to the cold mountain plateau of the north were dotted with mute mournful ruins of tartar villages they are quiet now those villages except for howling of wolves and jackals that visit them to paw over the scattered bones of the dead ohanus appressian men are like that p some of the references from eminent authors in the field of middle eastern history and eyewitnesses of the armenian genocide of million muslims the armenian revolutionary movement by louise nalbandian university of california press berkeley los angeles diplomacy of imperialism by william i lenger professor of history harward university boston alfred a knopt new york turkey in europe by sir charles elliot edward arnold london the chatnam house version and other middle eastern studies by elie kedouri praeger publishers new york washington the rising crescent by ernest jackh farrar reinhart inc new york toronto spiritual and political evolutions in islam by felix valyi mogan paul trench truebner co london the struggle for power in moslem asia by e alexander powell the century co new york london struggle for transcaucasia by feruz kazemzadeh yale university press new haven conn history of the ottoman empire and modern turkey volumes by stanford j shaw cambridge university press cambridge new york melbourne the western question in greece and turkey by arnold j toynbee constable co ltd london bombay sydney the caliph s last heritage by sir mark sykes macmillan co london men are like that by leonard a hartill bobbs co indianapolis adventures in the near east by a rawlinson dodd meade co world alive a personal story by robert dunn crown publishers inc new york from sardarapat to serves and lousanne by avetis aharonian the armenian review magazine volume fall through spring armenia on the road to independence by richard g hovanessian university of california press berkeley california the rebirth of turkey by clair price thomas seltzer new york caucasian battlefields by w b allen paul muratoff cambridge partition of turkey by harry n howard h fertig new york the king crane commission by harry n howard beirut united states policy and partition of turkey by laurence evans john hopkins university press baltimore british documents related to turkish war of independence by gothard jaeschke neside kerem demir bir sehid anasina tarihin soyledikleri turkiye nin ermeni meselesi hulbe basim ve yayin t a s ankara ingilizce birinci baski the armenian question in turkey veysel eroglu ermeni mezalimi sebil yayinevi istanbul a alper gazigiray osmanlilardan gunumuze kadar vesikalarla ermeni teroru nun kaynaklari gozen kitabevi istanbul dr kirzioglu m fahrettin kars ili ve cevresinde ermeni mezalimi kardes matbaasi ankara t c basbakanlik osmanli arsivi babiali istanbul a yildiz esas evraki b yildiz perakende c irade defterleri d cemaat i gayr i muslime defterleri e meclisi vukela mazbatalari f dahiliye nezareti kalem i mahsus dosyalari g dahiliye nezareti sifre defterleri h babiali evrak odasi siyasi kartonlar i babiali evrak odasi muhimme kartonlari t c 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belgelerle tanzimat istanbul gn kur atase askeri tarih belgeleri dergisi v xxxi dec askeri tarih belgeleri dergisi v xxxii dec hocaoglu m ed ittihad i anasir i osmaniye heyeti nizamnamesi istanbul meray s l trans ed lozan baris konferansi tutanaklar belgeler ankara vols meray s l o olcay ed osmanli imparatorlugu nun cokus belgeleri mondros birakismasi sevr andlasmasi ilgili belgeler ankara osmanli devleti dahiliye nezareti aspirations et agissements revolutionnaires des comites armeniens avant et apres la proclamation de la constitution ottomane istanbul ermeni komitelerinin amal ve hareket i ihtilaliyesi ilan i mesrutiyetten evvel ve sonra istanbul idare i umumiye ve vilayet kanunu istanbul muharrerat i umumiye mecmuasi v i istanbul muharrerat i umumiye mecmuasi v ii istanbul muharrerat i umumiye mecmuasi v iii istanbul muharrerat i umumiye mecmuasi v iv istanbul osmanli devleti hariciye nezareti imtiyazat i ecnebiyye nin lagvindan dolayi memurine teblig olunacak talimatname istanbul osmanli devleti harbiye nezareti islam ahalinin ducar olduklari mezalim hakkinda vesaike mustenid malumat istanbul iv ordu aliye divan i harbi orfisinde tedkik olunan mesele yi siyasiye hakkinda izahat istanbul turkozu h k ed osmanli ve sovyet belgeleriyle ermeni mezalimi ankara turkiye buyuk millet meclisi gizli celse zabitlari ankara vols russia adamof e e ed sovyet devlet arsivi belgeleriyle anadolu nun taksimi plani tran h rahmi ed h mutlucag istanbul altinay a r iki komite iki kital istanbul kafkas yollarinda hatiralar ve tahassusler istanbul turkiye de katolik propagandasi turk tarihi encumeni mecmuasi v xiv sept asaf muammer harb ve mesulleri istanbul akboy c birinci dunya harbinde turk harbi v i osmanli imparatorlugu nun siyasi ve askeri hazirliklari ve harbe girisi gn kur ankara akgun s general harbord un anadolu gezisi ve ermeni meselesi ne dair raporu kurtulus savasi baslangicinda istanbul akin i turk devrim tarihi istanbul aksin s jon turkler ve ittihad ve terakki istanbul basar z ed ermenilerden gorduklerimiz ankara ermeniler hakkinda makaleler derlemeler ankara belen f birinci dunya harbinde turk harbi ankara deliorman a turklere karsi ermeni komitecileri istanbul ege n n ed prens sabahaddin hayati ve ilmi mudafaalari istanbul ercikan a ermenilerin bizans ve osmanli imparatorluklarindaki rolleri ankara gurun k ermeni sorunu yahut bir sorun nasil yaratilir turk tarihinde ermeniler sempozyumu izmir hocaoglu m arsiv vesikalariyla tarihte ermeni mezalimi ve ermeniler istanbul karal e s osmanli tarihi v v th ed v vi nd ed v vii nd ed v viii nd ed ankara kurat y t osmanli imparatorlugu nun paylasilmasi ankara orel s s yuca ermenilerce talat pasa ya atfedilen telgraflarin icyuzu ankara also in english translation ahmad f the young turks the committee of union and progress in turkish politics oxford serdar argic we closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the turks and then proceeded in the work of extermination ohanus appressian in soviet armenia today there no longer exists a single turkish soul sahak melkonian
