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Keep yourself clean from Armenian lies of 'peaceful co-existence, no revolt and self-defence' my friend.
Armenians Aid Russians Against Turks. Tyro Herald, 12-10-1914.
Armenians Aiding Russians Besiege Turkish Town Van. Manitoba Free Press, 7 November 1914.
. Talat and Enver Pasa, right after the war broke out, in case Armenians side with the enemy, especially if they make hostile attempts against the Ottoman Army, they certainly warned that heavy precautions will be taken. But besides this, Armenians didn't fall behind from making hostile activities against the Turks, especially insisted on attacking Turkish Armed Forces. At the beginning, many Armenian soldiers, some Armenian officers, fled to Russia besides having an Armenian parliamentary as the head of them. These, joined to Armenian volunteer regiments together with the Armenians who crossed the Russian border. They committed barbaric attacks against Muslim folk on the Russian side by crossing the Turkish border. Armenian bandit gangs assaulted supply routes, messengers and reinforcements behind Ottoman front. The notables of Turkish goverment and military were not wrong about worrying for a large scale Armenian rebellion. This revolt really exploded in Van on April 1915.
Joseph Pomiankowski, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Military Attache, Istanbul
. Armenian fanatics crammed their community with absurd, utopian and absolutely perverted ambitions regarding the Armenian independence. These ambitions were impracticable, because nowhere and never in Ottoman Empire Armenians did constitute majority. Extremists became insolent, terrorized indiscriminately both Muslims and Christians. After the First World War broke out, they unleashed civil war.
Erich Feigl
. Armenians were the favored portion of the population of Turkey, or that in the great war, they traitorously turned Turkish cities over to the Russian invader. They boasted of having raised an army of 150.000 men to fight a civil war, then they burned at least 100 Turkish villages and exterminated their population. In Geneva, a plan has been made for the creation of the 'Armenian home' in Caucasian Turkey, a home that would require protection by some foreign power and be the prelude to new armed conflicts and ultimate atrocities.
John Dewey, The Turkish Tragedy, The New Republic Magazine, 12 November 1928
. In the beginning of fall 1914, when Turkey had not yet entered the war but was preparing to, Armenian volunteer groups began to be organized with great desire and pomp in Trans-Caucasia. In spite of the decision taken a few weeks before at the General Committee in Erzurum, the Dashnagtzoutiun actively helped the organization of the fore-mentioned groups and especially arming them to fight against Turkey.
Manifesto of Hovhannes Katchaznouni, Armenia's First Prime Minister, 1923, Bucharest
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