Turkish Historical Revision <9305111942@zuma.UUCP> via dotage sera@zuma.UUCP 
(Serdar Argic) responded to article <1sn5f5INNkh6@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> 

[MP]   Actually, I would like to get a compilation of these one liners, 
[MP] so that I could print them out and show them to my friends over the 
[MP] summer, and they can see what kind of clowns exist out there in Chicago.

Check out alt.fans.serdar.argic!

[(*] Well, does it change the fact that during the period of 1914 to 1920, 
[(*] the Armenian Government ordered, incited, assisted and participated 
[(*] in the genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people because of race, religion
[(*] and national origin?

Muslim race? Muslim national origin? You fool!

[(*] 1) Armenians did slaughter the entire Muslim population of Van.[1,2,3,4,5]

NO. Today: Muslims 100%, Armenians 0%

[(*] 2) Armenians did slaughter 42% of Muslim population of Bitlis.[1,2,3,4]

NO. Today: Muslims 100%, Armenians 0%

[(*] 3) Armenians did slaughter 31% of Muslim population of Erzurum.[1,2,3,4]

NO. Today: Muslims 100%, Armenians 0%

[(*] 4) Armenians did slaughter 26% of Muslim population of Diyarbakir.[1,2,
[(*] 3,4]

NO. Today: Muslims 100%, Armenians 0%

[(*] 5) Armenians did slaughter 16% of Muslim population of Mamuretulaziz.[1,
[(*] 2,3,4]

NO. Today: Muslims 100%, Armenians 0%

[(*] 6) Armenians did slaughter 15% of Muslim population of Sivas.[1,2,3,4]

NO. Today: Muslims 100%, Armenians 0%

[(*] 7) Armenians did slaughter the entire Muslim population of the x-Soviet
[(*]   Armenia.[1,2,3,4]

No. The Azeri population of Armenia in 1988, after anti-Armenian pogroms in
Azerbaijan, was kicked out and sent to Azerbaijan. The remaining Muslims 
stayed in Armenia!

[(*] [1] McCarthy, J., "Muslims and Minorities, The Population of Ottoman 
[(*]                   Anatolia and the End of the Empire," New York 
[(*]                   University Press, New York, 1983, pp. 133-144.

Let's check it out! On page 121 of this Turkish suggested reference we read:

 "The 1927 Turkish census registered not one person of the Gregorian Armenian
  faith in Van, only one in Bayazit, and twelve in Erzurum. A people who had
  lived in eastern Anatolia since before recorded history were simply gone."

[(*] [2] Karpat, K., "Ottoman Population," The University of Wisconsin Press,
[(*]                  1985.

Let's check it out, but first of all the complete title of this reference
includes the words "1830-1914". Thus such a reference cannot support the 
above claimed garbage! However, since this is a Turkish suggested reference,
on pages 51 and on Table I2-B it states there were 2.4 million Armenians in
Turkey from 1844-1856. I guess they "were simply gone" after WWI!

[(*] [3] Hovannisian, R. G., "Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918. 
[(*]                         University of California Press (Berkeley and 
[(*]                         Los Angeles), 1967, pp. 13, 37.

Let's check it out! On page 48 of this Turkish-suggested reference, under
sub-title, "Deportation and Massacre of Turkish Armenians" it states:

 "Several authors assert that Armenian resistance at Van constituted a key
  factor in the Turkish evacuation of Persia and motivated the Ittihadist
  [Young Turk] leaders to annihilate the Turkish Armenians. The question of
  responsibility for the massacres or deportation of nearly all Ottoman
  Armenians has evolved into a polemic. Hundreds of books, articles, and
  documents have been published to describe the horrifying scenes of violence
  and death. Many writers, such as the British Bryce and Toynbee, French Pinon,
  German Lepsius, American Morganthau and Gibbons, have insisted that the
  massacres were predetermined and ruthlessly executed. The have refuted the
  Ottoman government's official publications and justifications by
  substantiating that anti-Armenian measures were deliberated by the 
  Ittihadists even before the outbreak of war. The fact remains than an 
  estimated eight hundred thousand to over a million Armenians perished within
  a few months, and several hundred thousand more succumbed in the following
  years to the ravages of disease, famine, and refugee life. Unknown numbers
  of women and children were converted forcibly to Islam, possessed by
  Turkish men, or adopted by Moslem families."


[(*][4] Shaw, S. J., 'On Armenian collaboration with invading Russian armies 
[(*]                 in 1914, "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey 
[(*]                   (Volume II: Reform, Revolution & Republic: The Rise of 
[(*]                 Modern Turkey, 1808-1975)." (London, Cambridge University 
[(*]                  Press 1977). pp. 315-316.

Stanford Shaw is a paid liar/revisionist for the Turkish government, and has
been exposed as a plagiarizer! For example:

Experts from an interview (in Greek) with Professor Spyros Vryonis (from NYC's
National Herald, 3/12/93) [Thanks, Mr. G.B.]

 "Few people know of the problem I faced at UCLA when Professor Stanford
  Shaw was due for promotion. I knew him to be Turkey's man; due to my
  reading knowledge of Turkish and my seniority over him, I was a member
  of the promotion committee. For that case, I sat down and read his entire
  treatise "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey". It took me
  three months and I found out, from volume I, that he had plagiarized 
  Uzun Jarsoglu, an eminent Turkish specialist on Ottoman history. Shaw
  himself claimed in his introduction that his treatise was the outcome 
  of a 20-year search through the Ottoman Archives. Well, I went on leave  
  and managed to show 40% of Volume I, containing around 5000 sentences, 
  to be the result of plagiarism, matching each sentence with passages    
  from the original work. He had even reproduced the errors. So I produced a
  500-pages manuscript and submitted a 60-pages report on Shaw's plagiarism. 

  The University, however, rejected my report and, after a closed meeting,
  promoted Stanford Shaw to Distinguished Professor. I paid a price for 
  all this: upset by the whole process, I confronted the entire University
  structure and was considered to be a chauvinist and madman. I asked for
  permission to run a seminar on Shaw's book that was denied by the President
  of the University. While the Center for Near Eastern Studies granted me
  permission, the President was depriving me of my academic freedom. Luckily,
  the Dean refused to give in and I did run the seminar, attended by more 
  than 150 academic people, in which I uncovered Stanford Shaw, who refused
  to attend. As a punishment, the University froze all my raises."

[5] "Gochnak" (Armenian newspaper published in the United States), May 24, 
              1915.

No chance! There was no May 24th, 1915 issue of Gochnak!

