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5.5.19

3702) Book Review: The Anatomy of a Forgotten Assassination – The Hate Trap


Haluk Şahin,
29.04.2019

The first bullets of a bloody campaign of terror

Two Turkish diplomats were killed by an elderly Armenian-American on January 27th 1973 in Santa Barbara, California. What appeared to be a freak crime committed by a “maniac” later proved to be the opening shots of a campaign of terror against Turkish diplomats and officials that lasted two decades, taking the lives of dozens of Turkish diplomats along with more than 60 others in nearly 600 terrorist attacks around the world.

This book focuses on the first “forgotten assassination” and presents shocking new information derived from the recently declassified FBI documents, court transcripts and the findings of historians. How did the murderer, Gourgen Yanikian, set his trap? What did he really want to achieve? Why was the trial of Soghomon Tehlirian , the Armenian hit man who killed Talat Pasha in Berlin in 1921, so important for him? What were the human and historical ramifications of this double assassination? How is it linked to the murder of Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist, in 2007?

The author was a friend of one of the slain diplomats and journalist Dink. Yet, his book . . .

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10.4.19

3698) Book Review: Unconventional Warfare in the Ottoman Empire - The Armenian Revolt und the Turkish Counterinsurgency

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Jon Peters
Everyone's Genocide
January 13, 2018

"Unconventional Warfare in the Ottoman Empire" is a comparative study of unconventional warfare practiced by the Turkish (Ottoman) military in relation to the Armenian genocide that took place during World War I.

The author has bravely tackled the fascinating (and still highly sensitive) subject of the Armenian genocide dispute, from the perspective of Armenian insurgency and the corresponding Ottoman military response to it, in the form of COunter-INsurgency (COIN) operations - 'asymetric warfare' to use the more up-to-date terminology. I was particularly struck by the fascinating comparison made by the author with regard to the British counter insurgency 'experience' during the 2nd Boer War of 1899 -1902 and the way that the appalling British treatment of Boer civilians helped form the blueprint for Ottoman COIN operations during World War I (as a former member of the British military serving in Northern Ireland during the 1980's - the euphemistically termed 'Troubles' - the parallels are not lost on me: I had first-hand personal experience of counter insurgency warfare against a tough, and utterly ruthless insurgent opponent that was - supposedly - British like me too. It just went to show that there are no 'nice rules' for defeating an insurgent enemy, only effective methods). Few people seem to realise that it was Great Britain that 'invented' the concentration camp, and that the Nazis just 'borrowed' the idea - whilst tweeking it a bit with understandable classic German efficiency - to make a far 'superior' genocide of their very own. Why should the Ottoman's have reacted any differently to their own insurgency issue, when countries like Britain and America (Philippine -American War) presented them with the guidelines on how to go about achieving it in the first place? Another important point that the author makes in the book is that the Turkish regular soldier of the time was tough, stoic and incredibly brave; the majority of the Ottoman forces involved in the Armenian Revolt were, unfortunately, not first rate soldiers, but irregular troops with ethnic divisions and a commensurate lack of military discipline when dealing with civilians. Sadly, murder and fear can be very effective 'force multipliers'.

I highly recommend Mr Warndorf's work to anyone with even a passing interest of the subject, but I especially recommend it to serving members of the Armed Forces (of any nationality), particularly those with experience in Iraq and Afghanistan ( it's also pocket-book size, so doesn't take up much space in your kit, lads!). Finally, anyone wishing to delve deeper into the subject of the Ottoman military of the C19th/ C20th can't go wrong with buying anything from Edward J. Erickson in my humble opinion.

Unconventional Warfare in the Ottoman Empire - The Armenian Revolt und the Turkish Counterinsurgency Hardcover – 2017
by Nicholas Warndorf (Author), Manzara Verlag (Editor), Mehmet Remzi Demirel (Illustrator) . . .

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3697) Book Review: Armenian Events Of Adana In 1909 - Cemal Pasa And Beyond by Yücel Güclü


The Armenian Events Of Adana In 1909 - Cemal Pasa And Beyond by Yücel Güclü


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3696) Book Review: Historical Archives and the Historians' Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915 by Yücel Güclü

Historical Archives and the Historians' Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915 by Yücel Güclü



Historical Archives and the Historians' Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915 demonstrates the vital importance of Ottoman and other relevant archives in Turkey for the study of the Armenian question. Historians, assisted by newly discovered or recently published materials, must continually reassess events of the past in order to achieve a rounder view. The Armenian events of 1915 are certainly no exception. This study encourages further engagement between the policy-making and the scholarly communities by indicating the . . .

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3694) Book Review: The "German Spirit" in the Ottoman and Turkish Army, 1908-1938: A history of military knowledge transfer

The "German Spirit" in the Ottoman and Turkish Army, 1908-1938: A history of military knowledge transfer
by Gerhard Grüßhaber

The study focuses on the mutual transfer of military knowledge between the German and the Ottoman/ Turkish army between the 1908 Young Turk revolution and the death of Atatürk in 1938. Whereas the Ottoman and later the Turkish army were the main beneficiaries of this selective appropriation, the German armed forces evaluated their (prospective) ally’s military experiences to a lesser extent. Through the analysis of archival and published sources and memoir literature the study provides evidence for the impact of this exchange on the armies of both countries and on the Turkish civil society. Indeed, the officer corps in both countries was a small but influential group of the society for the further development of their nations.
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19.6.14

3470) Book Review: Russian Origins of the First World War by Sean McMeekin

Sean McMeekin, “The Russian Origins of the First World War,” Cambridge (Massachusetts)-Londres, Harvard University Press, 2011: not perfect, but quite interesting by many aspects.

Pp. 272-273, n. 3: “More representative of the general Armenian line today are the books of Vahakn Dadrian and (with some exceptions) Richard Hovannisian. In ‘The History Armenian Genocide’ (orig. 1995; six editions so far, and counting) Dadrian devotes all of six pages of Russia’s role in ‘the Armenian disaster’—and these cover the pre-World War I period exclusively. Hovannisian in ‘The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire,’ his principal article in the volume he edited recently on ‘The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times’ (2004), does provide a fairly extensive discussion of Russia’s Armenian policy—but again, only in the period preceding the First World War. It is not that Hovannisian does not know about the Russian angle in World War I—in fact he covered this subject rather extensively forty years ago in ‘The Allies and Armenia, 1915-18’ (1968). Rather, he seems to have let it all slip down the memory hole in his later works, after becoming like an official spokesman for the Armenian cause in American academe.” . . .

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27.5.11

3271) Turkey Since 1989, Angry Nation by Kerem Oktem

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Since its re-emergence as nation-state in 1923, Turkey has often looked like an odd appendix to the West situated in the borderlands of Europe and the Middle East, economically backward, inward looking, marred by political violence, yet a staunch NATO ally, it has been eyed with suspicion by both 'East' and 'West'. The momentous changes in the regional and world order after 1989 have catapulted the country back to the world stage. Ever since, Turkey has turned into a major power broker and has developed into one the largest economies in the world. In the process, however, the country has failed to solve its ethnic, religious and historical conflicts peacefully.

At this historical turning point, Kerem Oktem charts the contemporary history of Turkey, exploring such key issues as the relationship between religion and the state, Kurdish separatism, Turkey's relationship with Israel and the ongoing controversy over Turkey's entry into the EU. Readable but comprehensive, this is the definitive book on the country's erratic transformation from a military dictatorship to a maturing, if still troubled, democracy
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20.11.10

3174) Dro (Drastamat Kanayan): Armenia's First Defense Minister of Modern Era (Limited Book Preview) / Innocence or Heroism of DRO by Sukru Aya

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Dro (Drastamat Kanayan): Armenia's First Defense Minister of the Modern Era
By Antranig Chalabian, Indo-European Publishing, 2010, 328 pages
Subjects: History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union

"DRO" General Drastamat Kanayan
His reputation made by massacring women and children of Muslim villages during World War I, the general put his "skills" to work for Adolf Hitler a few decades later. Commander of the infamous 812th Armenian battalion during World War II; possibly nicknamed as the 'Jew hunter' by the Nazis. Condemned to be shot by a firing squad of Stalin's goons, the Diaspora Armenians smuggled him into the USA by reportedly bribing INS (Immigration) functionaries. He lived in the United States until his death in Massachusetts, in 1956.

Armenian-Americans raised almost a quarter of a million dollars in just two days in order to dig up the Armenian Nazi General, flying his body back to Armenia to be reburied there with full state and military honors. His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians conducted the ceremony in May 29, 2000, with Armenia's President, Robert Kocharian, in attendance.

The holy man said, "Only words are vain, deeds are needed with the words. Let his return to the Motherland reawaken the evaluation of this truth in the souls of the Armenian people. Let Drastamat Kanayan's and his companions' eternal memory give birth among our people to new faith towards victories in the spirit of the devoted service to the Motherland."
NICE role model to serve as an inspiration for Armenia's youth..!
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Dro (Drastamat Kanayan), the valiant, selfless fedayee for the survival of the Armenian nation. Among his exploits: the assassination of Nakashidze, the viceroy of the tsar in the Caucasus. Victories in battles against the Turks, specially in Bash Aparan, during the battle of Sartarapat, which prevented the total destruction of Armenia in the aftermath of WWI. His Machiavellian 'collaboration with nazism' to save the Soviet Armenian POWs and the civilian Armenian population of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and Russia from certain annihilation, even as he cautioned his compatriots in Soviet Armenia against any untimely uprising against Soviet rule
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About the Innocence or Heroism of DRO - Drastamat Kanajan by Antranig Chalabian - Book Excerpts by Sukru Server Aya :
ISBN 978-1-60444-078-2 Indo European Publishing. Co. Los Angeles, Ca. USA

p.50: “From you, people of Van, I demand 2,000 soldiers to be our rear guard, when we advance toward Mush. Until we occupy Bitlis and Mush, Van will never be secure. In this province there are approximately 10.000 armed regular and irregular riflemen. “

p.51: May 3, 1915, was the first day of victor in Van’s heroic battle. I was at the house of my uncle’s daughter…”

p.64: “By the decree of the Viceroy, the Armenian volunteer regiments were demobilized. In their stead were formed Armenian musketeer companies. Dro was given to join the musketeer regiment with the rank of officer. He refused. Instead of getting autonomy, Armenian provinces would be joined to Russia.”

p.76: The Situation in Turkey and the Caucasus in Early 1918
The 200.000 Eastern Armenian conscripts serving in the tsarist armies had also returned to the Caucasus or Russia – careless and indifferent as to the fate of Western Armenia. Their cohesion of integrity of the 30.000 strong army under the command of General Antranik, consisting of Turkish (Western) Armenian soldiers was also undermined by the political upheaval in Russia.

p.77: The 320.000 strong tsarist army of the Caucasus front had left the entire stores of munitions, food, uniforms and so on, to the Western-Armenian National Guard army, under the command of Antranik. Thus the Russians had left to the Armenians 300 cannons, 3.000 machine guns, one billion bullets, 100.000 rifles, large supplies of food, clothing e4tc.

There was horrific famine in Turkey in 1917-1918, 600.000 out of 800.000 strong Turkish imperial army had deserted, invading villages in hopes of securing a piece of bread. Richard Hovannisian estimates the number of Turkish army deserters at half a million as a consequence of the famine, which approximates the figure given above.

Vehip Pasha was able to assembled only 400 – 500 soldiers in front of Erzurum, a division “torn to shreds” with half starving and half naked soldiers, whereas the Armenians, as we saw, had much more manpower, and many more munitions and stores behind the ramparts and barbed wire of Erzurum. The Armenians had not seen so much munitions in their history, whereas the Turks had not been as weak in their history, from a military as well as economic perspective, as they were in early 1918

p.89: The Heroic Battle of Sartarapat
The Turks had assigned altogether nine well-armed divisions to the Caucasus, 55 – 60.000 infantrymen, for military operations. Five of these nine divisions were assigned to fight the Armenians, around 30.000 soldiers. The Armenians were able to pull together 20.000 rifles against this force.

p..94: A dispute between Dro and Silikian arose about this military strategic perspective. Silikian said “I appoint you commander of Bash-Aparan” Dro replied, “I will go wherever you want, just do not divide the army. Let us with full force attack the Turkish forces advancing toward Sartarapat and massacre them. What is our information? We are informed that they have altogether two battalions. Even if hey reach Ashtarak, we can massacre them”

p. 126 As of the spring of 1919, with the destruction of the Turks in the TransCaucasus, Armenia became a de facto independent and sovereign state. The people, of whom 150.000 had succumbed to the horrific famine of the winter 1918-1919 as well as cholera and typhoid epidemics (as for the whole year around 200.000 victims) had by the fall of 1919, with famine and epidemics lightening up and the delivery of flour and grain sent by the United States of America, reached a degree of relief from crisis.

p. 127
In December 1919, Dro reached Goris from Gharalagez. His expeditionary forces consisted of 400 infantry and 300 swordsmen. They also had two cannons.

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14.11.07

2186) Book Preview: Boghos Nubar’s Papers And The Armenian Question 1915–1918 Documents

© This content Mirrored From  http://armenians-1915.blogspot.com Edited And Translated By Vatche Ghazarian

Preface
At the moment when the Great War began Armenia, divided between Russia and Turkey, repressed by force or actual massacre, had no defense … A grim alternative was presented to the Armenian leaders … They took the remarkable decision that if war should come, their people in Turkey and in Russia should do their duty to their respective Governments. They thought it better to face fratricidal strife in the quarrels of others than to stake their existence upon the victory of either side…

When Turkey attacked Russian Armenia, the Czar's Government, fearing that a successful defense of Caucasia by Armenians would dangerously inflame the Nationalist aspirations of the race, conveyed a hundred and fifty thousand Armenian conscripts to the Polish and Galician fronts and brought other Russian troops to defend Armenian hearths and
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29.10.07

2135) 4 Free New E-Books

  • From Berlin To Bagdad And Babylon
  • In The Palaces Of The Sultan
  • The Cyclopedic Review Of Current History
  • The Battlefields Of Thessaly—with Personal Experiences In Turkey And Greece
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"Still again the hue and cry was raised in Europe and America that the soulless Turk, always the Turk, only the Turk, was the guilty one. Armenian agitators, Armenian jacks-in-office, Armenian revolutionary committees provoking the Turks to retaliate on their offenders in order to force the intervention of the Great powers[19]—these political mischief makers go scot-free while the ever vilified Osmanli is pilloried before the world as a monster of iniquity and a demon incarnate.

The Anatolian halil Halid, who was born and bred in Asia Minor and who spend many years in England, commenting on the matters under consideration, pertinently asks, "Did the humanitarian British public know these? No; it does not care to know anything which might be favorable to the Turks. Have the political journals of this country—Britain—mentioned the facts I have stated? Of course not, because—to speak plainly—they know that in the Armenian pie there were the fingers of some of their own politicians."[20] And those that are well informed know the reason of Britain's attitude toward Turkey, for they know that "since 1829, when the Greeks obtained their independence, England's Near East policy has been remorselessly aimed at the demolition of the Turkish Empire and the destruction of Ottoman sovereignty.

Does France, the first nation of Europe to form an alliance with the sublime Porte, know these things? She does, but, at the present time, it suits her purpose to feign ignorance of them and to follow the policy of England in her dealings with those whom she has professed …

It is also evident that, so long as present conditions persist, sporadic massacres like those provoked by the Armenians in Cilicia and Constantinople are inevitable."

[19] Pierre Loti tells of a French consul in Asia Minor who barely escaped assassination at the hands of an Armenian agitator who, when questioned regarding his attempt on the life of the functionary, coolly replied: "I did this in order that the turks might be accused of it and in the hope that the French would rise up against them after the murder of their consul." Les massacres d"Armenie, p. 50 (Paris, 1918).

[20] The Diary of A Turk, p. 130.

Rev. J.A. Zahm, C.S.C., Ph.D., LL.D. (H.J. Mozans), From Berlin to Bagdad and Babylon pp. 210-213 (1922).

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Rev. Cyrus Hamlin

"An Armenian Revolutionary party is causing great evil and suffering to the ministry work...It is a secret organization managed with great skill and deceit known only in the East. ... they have the strongest hopes of preparing the way for Russia's entrance into Asia Minor to take possession. ... [they] will watch their opportunity to kill Turks and Khurds, will set fire to their villages, and then make their escape into the villages. The enraged Moslems will then rise and fall upon the defenseless Armenians and slaughter them with such barbarities that Russia will enter, in the name of humanity and Christian civilization, to take possession. ... When I denounced the scheme ... [he said Europe] will listen to our cry when it goes up in the shreik of our wives and children.... [this party is of Russian origin]...

Anna Bowman Dodd, In the Palaces of the Sultan p. 427 (1903),

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Dodd's book is quoting a letter by Cyrus Hamlin published in: The Congregationalist, December 23, 1893; this letter was also quoted in "Foreign Relations of the United States," 1895, Part II, pp. 1415f.


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"Armenian Agitation.—the Armenian revolutionists in Constantinople resorted again, in August, to those method of violent agitation which on former occasions brought down summary vengeance upon many of their innocent compatriots; but fortunately the disturbances on this occasion were promptly quelled without resulting in a renewal of massacre. … as if to indicate a hopeful case for those Armenians who seek to forward their appeals for reform by legitimate, instead of violent and anarchistic methods, the sultan conferred upon Mgr. Ormanian, the Armenian patriarch, the special champion of the more moderate faction, the decoration of the grand cordon of the Order of Osmanie. … the sultan had ordered the formation of a travelling commission, consisting of two Mahometans, two Gregorian Armenians, one Catholic Armenian, and one Greek, charged to visit the Armenian vilayets which were the chief sufferers in the late troubles. The commission is to raise subscriptions for rebuilding the Armenian schools, churches, and monasteries destroyed during the disturbances, and also to establishes orphanages. … Severe disturbances were reported in early August from the vilayet of van and neighboring regions on the frontier between Persia and Turkish Armenia. They seem to have been due to Armenian agitators ….."

Alfred S. Johnson (Editor), The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, Vol. 7, pp. 578-79 (1897).

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A widespread Armenian revolutionary conspiracy was therefore organized and subsidized in Russia, and even patronised by the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople. The aims of this most barbarous and wicked plot were made public some time before its denouement. …

A very shrewd and able correspondent of Reuter's Agency, who traveled throughout the Armenian districts of Asia Minor, wrote in March 1894:--The plan of the Armenian revolutionists was to provoke by the atrocities upon Mussulmans such cruelty, atrocity, outrage, butchery that Christian humanity would rise in wrath. It will be the helpless women and children who will suffer most. The revolutionary leaders know that it will be so; in fact, they count upon it as the chief factor in their success.

The same correspondent wrote the remarkable prediction that the 'chief attack will be made in the city of Constantinople itself, and that the brunt of the fighting will be borne by the Armenian residents therein.'

These prophecies, written in March 1894, were literally fulfilled in Sassun in July and August, 1894, and in Constantinople on September 30th, 1895.

…before any real atrocities to any appreciable extent had taken place—cannot be explained merely on the ground of journalistic anxiety to satisfy an unwholesome popular craving. It was the result of a carefully planned and organized propaganda, whose agents were in some cases mercenary, in others innocent through willing victim of deceit. All of the stories and many of the telegrams originally came form the same persons and locality, and from the same organization, viz., from a group of ingenious Armenian conspirators who were mostly inside the Russian frontier, between Karoungan and Tiflis. Some of these conspirators were on Turkish territory in and around Erzeroum itself. …"

Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, M.P., The Battlefields of Thessaly—With Personal Experiences in Turkey and Greece, pp. 30-33 (1897).

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