What do you know about Armenian Resistance in the period between 1914 and 1918?

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Cetin

hi Armenia NEVER friend,
here are some sentences and phrases from AKOP AKOPYAN.
http://www.philatelia.net/classik/plots/?id=3254
R.I.P AKOPYAN AKOP!

â€œToday,you rescued yourselves by shaking off from the terrible night wareâ€™s fetters that the Dashnagtzoution party and government put you in.
During thirty years how many times did they put you,Worker Armenian,in fire because of the crimes of this clumsy maid ,did they destroy your heart nd soul,did they put you in an ugly form!
How many times did Dashnagtzoution maids run you , Worker people of my beautiful ,young Armenia ,down ,break your bones ,injured!
Dashnagtzoutions provoked the NATIONS and MASSACRED by cold bloodiness of a hangman and insidiousness of CHAUVINISM."
../..

Dashnagtzoution was overturned.(1920)

Dashnagtzoution was overturned.
The house God damned tyran lived was destroyed.
He throttled the people during thirty years.
Drunk the blood of Armenians.
During thirty years like o cruel spirit
Settled down over my country.
Scattered death ,demolished all,
Sowed thousands of graves.
(...)

Dashnagtzoution was overturned.
Weâ€™re digging into the rubbish to eternity.
Weâ€™re making a black coffin for him
By breaking down the arch of jail.
As ,under black arch
Throttled people cruelly
By entering that jail a few time ago
With the power of government.

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For more informations:
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1)Akop Akopyan,SoÃ§ineniya ,Gosudarstvennoe
Ä°zdatelstvo Hudojestvennoy LiteratuarÄ±
Moskva ,1956
2)G.M.Dallakyan,Borba BolÅŸevikov Za
Ä°nternatsionalnoe SploÃ§enie TrudyaÅŸihsya Zakavkazya
(1914-1917 gg.),Yerevanskiy GosudarstvennÄ±y Universitet,
Yerevan,1966

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ARMENÄ°ANS ,PLEASE OPEN YOURâ€™S ARCHIVES!

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Ipek K

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Slick Rick

I ve seen a lot of Armenian propaganda on here lately.
Question . Whilst Russia was oppressing and bleeding your country dry over the last century did they also cryogenicly freeze the population after 1918.
its just a thought as you all seem to bleat on about incidents from around 100 years ago which have no bearing on the people living today.

Hurricane

you are messing your time here,trying to impose your opinions that was proved not to be true by historians! You can get nothing by insulting us!GO AWAY

Qu'est ce que tu pense?

I've never studied Armenian history, so I would have no idea. I could say that I know the definition of a resistance, but I cannot specify your event, because the word, "Armenian" is too generic to specify a hypothesis of what "Armenian Resistance" is.

Mehmet K

I dont know too much. But let me explain what i know:

ARMENIAN REVOLTS AND MASSACRES

In the period that followed the Berlin Treaty, the Armenian issue developed in two directions, The first is the interventions made by the Western powers in the affairs of the Ottoman Empire, and the second is the clandestine organisation and rearmament of Anatolian, Syrian and Thracian Armenians in various parts of Anatolia, particularly in Eastern Anatolia and Cilicia.

The initial provocations started coming from Russia. This attitude induced the British and French Governments to display a greater interest toward Armenians. British Consulates mushroomed in Eastern Anatolia and large numbers of Protestant missionaries were dispatched to this region.

As a result of these activities, several Armenian committees were formed in Eastern Anatolia from 1880 onward. These committees that remained at local level failed and withered away in time because the Armenians who lived in welfare and did not have any complaints against the Ottoman Empire were not interested in the committees.

When the plans to make the Ottoman Armenians revolt against the State through the committees failed, the Russian Armenians were encouraged to set up such committees out of the Ottoman Empire. Hinchak was founded in Geneva in 1887, with socialist tendencies and moderately militant ideas and Tashnak was established in Tbilisi in 1887, with extremist, terrorist and revolutionary attitudes favouring armed struggle and full independence. The goal imposed on these committees were the ï¿½salvation of Anatolian land and Ottoman Armeniansï¿½.

The revolt attempts launched by the Hinchaks that extended its organisation into Istanbul and aimed at provoking the Ottoman Armenians by drawing the Western attentions on the issue, were followed by those of the Tashnaks. The common features of the both groups were the fact that they were planned and oriented by the committees that came to the Ottoman Empire from abroad and that they were largely supported by the missionaries spread all over Anatolia.

The first revolt broke out in Erzurum in 1890, followed by the Kumkapi demonstration in the same year. These revolts were followed by 1892 and 1893 Kayseri, Yozgat, Ã‡orum and Merzifon incidents, 1894 Sasun revolt, 1894 Sublime Porte demonstration and Zeytun mutiny, 1896 Van revolt and the occupation of Ottoman Bank the same year, the second Sasun Revolt in 1903, the 1905 attempt to kill Emperor Abdulhamid and the Adana revolt in 1909.

By far the greatest damage given to Turks by the Armenians were the massacres perpetrated during World War I. During this period, the Armenians acted as spies for the Russians, evaded the mobilisation orders by hiding, and those that were in the Ottoman army collectively committed high treason by joining the Russian forces taking their arms with them.. The Armenian gangs that had already started attacks on the Turkish villages, with the start of the war massacred, among others, the entire women, children and the aged inhabitants of Zeve village of Van Province.

The quelling of these revolts by the Ottoman army was presented to the world as a massacre of Armenians by the Moslems and thus the issue acquired a larger international dimension. In fact, the British and Russian diplomatic reports of the time state that the goals of Armenian revolutionists were to create social chaos against which the Ottoman army would react and to thereby ensure the intervention of Western powers in the situation. It seems that these goals were reached and the diplomatic and consular representations of the Western States, with the assistance of Christian missionaries spread all over Anatolia, played a major role in the transmission of the Armenian propaganda to the Western public opinion.

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THE ARMENIAN TERRORISM

Another significant dimension of the Armenian issue from Turkeyï¿½s point of view is the start of the use of armed terror methods by the Armenians against the Turks. This aggressive strategy which was aimed directly at Turkish statesmen, started with the bombed attack launched in 1905 against Emperor Abdulhamid II.

After the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923, there was a peaceful period until 1965. In 1965 the terrorist movements suddenly rekindled with the support of the Armenian lobby. Turkish diplomats were killed, nearly 20 monuments were erected until the end of 1972 and a systematic press and publication activity was launched.

During the Armenian terror period, it was the traditional Tashnak and Hinchak organisations that designed, developed and implemented the attacks, diversified the targets, provided manpower for the terrorist teams, gave them moral and psychological support and found the necessary contacts for them.. The organisation that made itself known most frequently in this process was the ASALA, the acronym of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia.

The creators of the new terror age were the traditional terrorist organisations through the teams and groups that they trained, and the ASALA with the most merciless and inhuman practices under an independence mask. ASALA received its moral and psychological support, and the medium for contacts and relations from Hinchak. It may be stated on the basis of the foregoing that the traditional terror continued without respite, benefited from the occasions offered in the ï¿½60s and, making use of the of the opportunities launched a manhunt against Turks.

The Armenian terrorist organisations showed a rapid ascent within a relatively short time by armed assaults against the Turkish officials, representations and organisations abroad. During this period, the Armenians who secured themselves bases in Central and Eastern European Countries, and Syria and Lebanon also received help from the Cypriot Greeks and Greece.

The Armenian terror organisations, upon adverse reactions from the world opinion, have changed have their tactics and entered into co-operation with the terrorist group PKK in the ï¿½80s. PKK was pushed into the scene with the attacks directed against Eruh and Âªemdinli in 1984 and the Armenian terrorist group ASALA withdrew to the background. The facts evidencing the connection between the Armenians and PKK are the following:

The terrorist group PKK announced the dates between 21 and 28 April 1980 as the Red Week and commemorated the 24th April as the day of genocide committed against Armenians.

On 8th April 1980, PKK and ASALA organised a joint press conference in the City of Sidon in Lebanon and issued a declaration at the end of this conference. Because of the reactions against this event, however, they decided to maintain their relations illegally on a secret basis. PKK and ASALA declared joint responsibility for the attacks made on the Turkish Consulate General in Strasbourg on 9th November 1980 and on the Turkish Airlines bureau in Rome on 9th November the same year.

Abdullah Ã–calan, the separatist terrorist and the leader of PKK, was elected to honorary membership of ï¿½the Association of Armenian Authorsï¿½ for ï¿½his intellectual contributions to the idea of Great Armenia.ï¿½

A Kurdistan Committee within the Armenian Popular Movement was formed as in many European countries.

On 4th June 1993, the Armenian Hinchak Party held a meeting at the PKK headquarters in Western Beyrouth with the participation of several members of PKK and ASALA.

Another striking example of the Armenian-PKK relations is the following group of decisions taken in the meetings held at two separate churches in Beyrouth from 5th to 9th January 1993, with the participation of the Armenian Orthodox Archbishop, officials of the Armenian Party and about 150 youth representatives:

A somewhat sedate attitude should be reserved toward Turkey for the time being.

The Armenian community is on the way to growth and better economic conditions.

The propaganda activities have started to make the genocide claims better understood in the rest of the world.

The recently-founded Armenian State, with a constantly growing territory, will definitely avenge the ancestors of its citizens.

The Western powers and particularly the United States side with and favour the Armenians in the combat for Karabakh. This opportunity should be well exploited as more and more Armenian young men join the ranks in this fight.

The civil war in Turkey ( referring to the war against PKK terrorism) will continue and eventually collapse the countryï¿½s economy, leading to an uprising by the entire population.

Turkey will be separated and a Kurdish State will be formed.

Armenians will hold good relations with the Kurds and support their fight.

Territories presently held by the Turks will become Armenian tomorrow.

It may be stated briefly that the common goal of the Armenian terrorist organisations is to destabilise Turkey using all available opportunities, to save the so-called Armenian land under occupation, and to create an independent Great Armenia. These expectations appear to be nurtured also by the new state of Armenia under different forms and guises.

The Babe is Armed!

Is this really a question or just a statement posing as a question?

Okay, my answer: "Not much."

Totally Blunt

Armenian propaganda is based on the reports of Christian missionaries hanging out in Anatolia at the time. (Don't ask me what they were doing in a war torn area and to what purpose.) That, and the propaganda book, the Blue Book, whose counterpart about Germany was refuted by the British parliament afterwards.

I'm very very sure those holy men the missionaries were very very impartial while reporting the events and didn't favor Christian Armenians against Muslims.

And I'm very very sure that they did a random sampling of villages in accordance with statistical science and visited all those villages to see the suffering of various societies, and didn't mislead the receivers with reports of only Armenian villages.

I'm very very sure that their reports were scientific to a fault, and didn't hide any facts, didn't ignore atrocities commited by the denizens of chosen villages and didn't exaggerate what others were doing unto them.

Lady Teacher

Let the lesson begin.

Certain oft-cited Armenian American evidence is of diminished value, having been derived from dubious and prejudicial sources.

Armenian Americans purport that the wartime propaganda of the enemies of the Ottoman Empire constitutes objective evidence. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, who is frequently quoted by Armenian Americans, visited the Ottoman Empire with political, not humanitarian aims. His correspondence with President Wilson reveals his intent was to uncover or manufacture news that would goad the U.S. into joining the war. Given that motive, Morgenthau sought to malign the Ottoman Empire, an enemy of the Triple Entente. Morgenthauâ€™s research and reporting relied in large part on politically motivated Armenians; his primary aid, translator and confidant was Arshag Schmavonian, his secretary was Hagop Andonian. Morgenthau openly professed that the Turks were an inferior race and possessed "inferior blood." Thus, his accounts can hardly be considered objective.

One ought to compare the wartime writings of Morgenthau and the oft-cited Gen. J.G. Harbord to the post-war writings of Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey 1920 - 1926. In a March 28, 1921 letter he writes,

"[R]eports are being freely circulated in the United States that the Turks massacred thousands of Armenians in the Caucasus. Such reports are repeated so many times it makes my blood boil. The Near East Relief have the reports from Yarrow and our own American people which show absolutely that such Armenian reports are absolutely false. The circulation of such false reports in the United States, without refutation, is an outrage and is certainly doing the Armenians more harm than good. â€¦ Why not tell the truth about the Armenians in every way?"

degisen

armenians lost it.

hanibal

I don't want to know anything about Armenia.

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