The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus
By Vahakn N. Dadrian
http://www.questia.com/library/78126524/the-history-of-the-armenian-genocide-ethnic-conflict
It took him about 20 yrs to write it. I’ve read it. He’s written many books and 100’s of articles in many different languages and that you selected just one in order to indict the Germans over the Turks just isn’t rational nor that you listened only to the Turkish peoples point of view as most of them get their information from government schools who aren’t going to admit they were guilty - many also get their info from the site - the Turkish talltales site - talltales have stolen pictures from the Armenian Genocide site and taken them as their own dead which is why the one can’t copy anything from their website anymore.
As for reading an account by the NYSlimes, that would be like telling me to read that there was no famine in the USSR especially in the Ukraine from the same rag.
Wiki has a halfway decent account:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
This account from an eyewitness from our Ambassador at the Time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_Morgenthau%27s_Story
I’ve spoken to a number of Kurds and they actually admit they were conned into leading the Ottoman soldiers in the ethnic cleansing of the Armenians. One of the reasons they remain bitter to this day. Do you believe there was an ethnic cleansing of the Greeks from Constantiple?
The thought of blaming the Germans over the Turks has never occurred to me. I merely indicated that I believe that the German military and the Kaiser knew what was happening; some German military protested, some probably looked the other way, and others it appears to me participated.
I honestly believe this statement that I wrote: "Armenia and the Ottoman Empire were at war (W.W.I) . . . Turks . . . wonder where is the concern for the . . . Turkish civilians killed by Armenia."
RE: "As for reading an account by the NYSlimes, that would be like telling me to read that there was no famine in the USSR especially in the Ukraine from the same rag." Duranty wasn't working there at the time.. or at least he was still an office boy. :)
I fully understand the Turks refusal to use the word genocide to label the horrific events. It seems to me that Recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey is a secondary issue - interview with Harut Sassounian. [An Armenian living in southern California.] explains it. It is a public relations ploy to generate more anti-Turkey resolutions worldwide to support legal actions. Let it be settled on the merits of what is known. They live next door to each other, for heavens sake!
Which leads to this: "I don't like it that it's our Congress / government that Turkey and Armenia are fighting over to [not get/get] resolutions monthly (almost it seems to me)."
The wiki articles may be good or not. I rarely consult wiki graffiti. No thanks.
Regardless of it all.. I will still believe the news accounts of the economic ties between Ankara and the Kurdish Region of Northern Iraq. I just hope that the public protests in Turkey lead to the ouster of the AK Party and a return to secular Turkey.
I absolutely insist that the Marxist terrorists PKK and the Kurds of Northern Iraq are not the same.
Thanks for your informative thoughtful response.