319) Quotes From Academics Around World On Armenian Revolutionary Movements Against Empire which they were a citizen of on side of Russian Tzar

 

 

"...ARMENIAN VOLUNTEER UNITS SERVED IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY, AND THERE WAS AGITATION FOR A HOMELAND IN AND AROUND THE ANATOLIAN CITY OF VAN..."
WILLIAM L. CLEVELAND, A HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, 1994, PP.142

 

"...ARMENIAN VOLUNTEERS CERTAINLY STARTED KILLING MOSLEM CIVILIANS AS SOON AS RUSSIAN TROOPS CROSSED THE OTTOMAN FRONTIER..."
DAVID NICOLLE, PH.D, THE OTTOMAN ARMY 1914-18, 1996, PP. 38

 

"... MOREOVER, THROUGHOUT EASTERN ANATOLIA THE TURKS WERE THREATENED BY THE INSURRECTION OF THEIR EMBITTERED ARMENIAN SUBJECTS, WHO DISRUPTED COMMUNICATIONS AND FORMED VOLUNTEER GROUPS TO HELP THE RUSSIANS. OTHERS JOINED THE RUSSIAN ARMENIAN FORCES...",
PETER MANSFIELD, A HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST, 1991, PP. 150

 

"...A FEW THOUSAND ARMENIANS JOINED THE RUSSIAN ARMY; THERE WERE ARMENIAN DESERTIONS FROM THE OTTOMAN ARMY AND GUERILLA ACTIVITY BEHIND THE OTTOMAN LINES...",
ERIK J. ZURCHER, TURKEY, A MODERN HISTORY, 1993, PP. 120

 

"..THE ARMENIAN SIDE HAS TRIED TO DEMONSTRATE THIS(GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN THE KILLINGS)INVOLVEMENT, BUT SOME OF THE DOCUMENTS IT HAS PRODUCED(THE SO-CALLED )HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE FORGERIES..."
ERIK J. ZURCHER, TURKEY, A MODERN HISTORY, 1993, PP. 121

 

"..ARMENIAN REBELLION IN THE EAST ACTUALLY BEGAN BEFORE THE RUSSIANS AND OTTOMANS TRADED FIRE..."
"...IN APRIL 1915, ARMENIAN REBELS INFLITRATED THE CITY(VAN) AND BEGAN TO ATTACK THE POLICE FORCE...",
"...BOTH ARMENIANS AND MUSLIMS WERE EXILED OR DEPORTED FROM THEIR HOMES THROUGHOUT THE WAR..."
"...ALL OVER EASTERN ANATOLIA MORE THAN A MILLION MUSLIMS WERE FORCED FROM THEIR HOMES BY ARMENIAN NATIONALISTS AND RUSSIAN SOLDIERS...",
THE OTTOMAN TURKS, Justin McCarthy, 1996, PP.364-365

 

 

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