Ahsen
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30 okur puanı
Şubat 2018 tarihinde katıldı
Reklam
“Besides being a very Important commercial Center, Kayseri is the ethnical frontier of Asia Minor, which is inhabited toward the east by the Lag and the Armenians, descendants of the ancient Hittite-Alardic race (intermingled with Kurd, Mongols, and Senites in the south; and in the west, with Greek and Levantine elements). This extraordinary mixture of nations and remnants of races, of different tongues and established customs, which I shall call the neo-Hittite, or simply the Alardic, is divided into two sections. One of them, the Mohammedan, embraces 80% of the population, the remaining 20% being composed of Orthodox Greeks, Armenians, SyrioChaldeans, Jacobites, Nestorians, and a series of infinitesimal semi pagan sects; as, for example, the Jesidas or Devil-Worshipers, the Ali-Ahali, Baktadh, Kisilbash, etc.”
“Those who believe the cities of the Near East to be less cultured than the European are mistaken. If the superiority of modern civilization consist in producing freight, then there can be no doubt that the Oriental is less civilized than the Occidental. But less cultured? Never! The Orient is the eradle of world culture and looks toward Europe which sweats after riches with the same indulgence, not to say compassion, as is shown by an old man, rich in experience, as he watches the fretful child struggle to satisfy its infantile caprices. Let us remember that when Europe was still swamp and forest, culture had already illumined the Orient for thousands of years. And when Europe shall have been lowered into the sepulchre of history, as Rome and Greece have been, the ancient and immutable culture of the Orient will continue shining above the eastern horizons with the intense light of the stars from which it was kindled.”
“The Armenian massacre which took place in Turkey during the World War resulted chiefly from, and were the natural consequence of, the revolution for emancipation carried on by the eastern Armenians, headed and directed by the Extremist parties of the Ramgavars and the Hunshak, who opposed openly and on occasion even with armed force, the efforts at reconciliation sponsored by the Dashnakist, who favored autonomy. Perhaps the Committee of Union and Progress was considerably influenced in favor of the massacres by fear lest the Armenians put themselves in accord with the Germans in order to form under their protection a league of all Christians. If such a League had come into existence, it would have neutralized the absolute power which the Young Turks had been exercising up to that time in the Empire, by means of armed force and in the name of the Sultan.”
“And while speaking of the Turkish army, let me add, with no fear whatever of being mistaken, that the regular army of the Ottomans was entirely innocent of the Armenian massacres. It not only disapproved of these massacres, but would even have prevented them forcibly if it had been able to do so. It would be not only an injustice, but contrary to the truth in every sense of the word, to look upon the army as an accomplice to, or to try to make it responsible for the errors committed by some of its members who formed part of the Committee of Union and Progress.”