22 June 2007

1762) About Us & FAQ's

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  1. Q1:) Who's behind the website? Are you from the Turkish Gov/Turkish Nationalist Front/USA Lobbying Group /Armenian Opposition Political Parties/etc?
  2. Q2:) Why the site is in English? You don't respond in Turkish/Armenian! / I have this exotic/rare document in Armenian/Turkish/Russian/etc. Would you translate that into English/Turkish/Armenian for me please? / Can you help me with this? Can you email me that?
  3. Q3:) How often do you update your site ? How can I be notified about the new content ?
  4. Q4:) How can I contribute content ? / Would you like me to email you such and such content? / Have you being financially funded! Is there any way I can help?
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  6. Q6:) You didn't publish my comments! You didn't answer my emails! You x&#$*@# !!!
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  8. Q8)I haven't received any response to my email! / Once I get an auto response, does that mean you've got my email?


Q1:) Who's behind your website? Are you from the Turkish Gov/Turkish Nationalist Front/USA Lobbying Group /Armenian Opposition Political Parties/etc? . .

A1:) The Site is run by Turkish Armenian individuals from 3 continents with the direct input of many volunteers worldwide

We provide the content for informational purposes only. cARETAKERS of this website, are NOT affiliated with ANY group, organization or a Political Party. We do not necessarily endorse and specifically disclaim all responsibilities for such content. You acknowledge that we need not pre-screen any content, but we reserve the right (but not the obligation) in our sole discretion to refuse, edit, move or remove any content on the website. Once the article submitted, and published at our site, we also reserve the right not to remove it at the request of the submitting person, later on. All removal requests must be done by your legal representative with full contact details and credentials. We will not remove any content (image, post, part of a post, comment or your IP Address) simply because you just ask for it or you don't like it.

Q2:) Why the site is in English? You don't respond in Turkish/Armenian! / I have this exotic/rare document in Armenian/Turkish/Russian/etc. Would you translate that into English/Turkish/Armenian for me please? / Can you help me with this? Can you email me that?

A2:) We have structured the site in English only for a wider audience. We also do have an online Google translation of our articles into more than 50 languages including Turkish, Русский-Russian . Ελληνικά-Greek . Francais . Deutsch . Italiano . Espanol . Português . 日本語 - Japanese. Korean. 中文 (繁體-Chinese .اللغة العربية -Arabic. Armenian is also provided by the translation engines at alfa / experimental stage at present.

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Version: 4.1
Dated April 2011

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May 2010 Update

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7 comments:

Yervant, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany said...

I appreciate and admire the work you do at your blog.

It seems that there is a satire directed at the Dashnak activities in 1890s, call Comrade Panchooni, by the author Yervant Odian. Comedy is a very strong tool for resisting violence and fanaticism.

Jean-Louis Mattei gives some excerpts in his book in Turkish. You have some quotation from Odian on your web site and at least one reference to Panchooni.

I wonder if you could find the whole text in English and post it on your blog? I would really appreciate it as I haven't been able to find it on my own.

It would be very good to find a text in English. I believe that there is at least one publication in Turkish, but having it in English and in digital format would make it accessible by a much larger crowd.

Take care

PS: Yes, I am using an anonymous messaging. I hope you'll bear with me in these paranoid times.

(IP Address Logged)

Ataman said...

It has been a long time since I have written to you guys, but I tend to have a look at the site every now and then. I must say you guys are doing a Fantastic job, the energy, time, and effort you guys put into this site is unbelievable. My greatest heart felt congratulations and best wishes go to all three of you. You know how to contact me if you need to for anything.

Cheers
Ataman

Julia Gul Arslan ( Australia-Gallipoli Friendship Society inc) said...

Probably, it is a bit of out of context however I have to ask you all a favour please.

As you already know that recently, Australian-Armenians, Australian Greeks and Australian Assyrian started to ignite so-called genocide in Australia as well. It is not enough, Greeks now encouraging Australians to claim that Turks treated Prisoners of War (POWs) badly...

Does anyone any idea of these claims please?

As far as I made an my investigation we treated not bad at all. If anyone has any idea of POWs., could you please write me any details in regards to these false claims please?

The Turkish youth must work much harder now,...

JGul Arslan
gallipolisociety at yahoo dot com dot au
facebook: JGul Arslan
www.ausgallipoli.net

Maxime Gauin said...

The issue of prisoners of war was discussed and settled during Malta investigation:

http://armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2009/04/2820-deportees-of-malta-and-armenian.html

The issue of Assyrians is discussed in Salâhi Sonyel, « The Assyrians of Turkey, Victims of Great Powers Diplomacy »:

http://www.ttk.org.tr/index.php?Page=Yayinlar&KitapNo=119

(99.189.0.xxx) Glendale, California, United States said...

Are you making up the "Popular Posts"

Why anti Armenian Posts listed above all?

(99.189.0.xxx) Glendale, California, United States


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We do not manually enter which post is the most popular and which one is the second popular and so on, according to our wishes in order to make the "Popular Posts" at this site.

"Popular Posts" is a third party script runs a dynamic and live results of the most visited posts at this site.

If your next question would be:

Why "FBI Busts Armenian Mafia For The Largest US Medicare Fraud" is always on the top?

The answer is simple.

That specific page gets 3 times higher hits and referrals through the Google, compare to the homepage ( armenians-1915.blogspot.com)

Test it yourself by clicking the posts at the bottom of that list more often and witness how they go up in the ranking to the top.

Of course your preferred one may not go all the way to the top as you wish with few extra clicks

You may need several thousand clicks of your preference as well as you need to stop google referring 3 times more to armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2010/10/3155-armenians-busted-for-largest-us.html compared to armenians-1915.blogspot.com at this site.

To cut it short, it is a multi million dollar business if one needs to "manipulate" the google referrals

Editors
armenians-1915.blogspot.com

Sutekh (66.31.200.153) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States said...

The website has the most exhaustive sources on the issue but the way the website is structured is a little bit hard to navigate. Maybe the website could be divided into a few sections:

Articles
Books
Scholars
Historical Documents


It could also help to have more obvious borders between different posts.

Site Caretakers said...

Ref: Sutekh (66.31.200.153) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

We appreciate your candid opinion very much.

We are aware of the points in addition to the ones mentioned at:
http://armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2011/09/3320-2011-website-survey-preliminary.html

but we feel
a)restricted in some implications due to blogspot constraints
b) our inability to manage such large number of posts
c) Lack of time and volunteers

Please do expand on your points and feel free to write to us via newsrush at gmaildotcom

We may also move this opinions to a better place since this temporary post will be deleted/replaced in a month time

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