Facts vs Tales

Submitted by Kuvayi Milliye (Turkey), Aug 13, 2014 at 05:46

Pathological haters and their genocide fetish is laughable. But it doesnt take much effort to expose their each lie by facts.

--- Since moving to its new location at Sultan Ahmed Square it has been thronged with researchers. Usually several hundred scholars, young and old, Turkish and foreign (including scholars from Armenia and Greece) are studying there at all times. To say that these are a few persons selected by the Turkish government is absurd. The only persons I know to have been excluded from the archives are a very few persons who have abused the employees or who have attempted to steal documents.

When I first came to these archives forty years ago, it employed a few elderly gentlemen able to read the old script, and their cataloging went very slowly. The archives now has a large staff of catalogers, and it has made available an amazing variety of all sorts of important documents, including the files of the Ministry of the Interior and the Secret Police, the complete archives of Sultan Abdulhamid II's Yildiz Palace, large amounts of secret correspondence stemming from the Young Turk period.

More is being made available every month. The materials concerning Armenians have all been microfilmed, with Xerox copies made available in bound volumes in the reading room. Copies of these microfilms also were sent to the U.S. Library of Congress and other national libraries throughout the world.

( Professor Standford Shaw )

The archives of Republic of Turkey has been open for any scholar from any country of the world for over 50 years now.

- Turks conquered Istanbul from Romans, not Greeks. Calling it "occupied" makes zero sense in terms of history. Romans called Istanbul New Rome/Nea Roma, not Constantinople. It was Eastern Roman Empire, not Byzantine. Byzantine is a name which was made by Western historians. Greeks never conquered Anatolia. Dont claim rights on lands that you never ruled.

It is the hobby of pathological and brainwashed haters like the user "dhimmi" above to log-in to Wikipedia and edit a new "genocide" page to feed their Turk obsession. The quote below explains the genocide fetish of these clinical cases ironically in a funny manner.

--- While playing poker with a bunch of Greeks, Armenians and Italians in the back room of a Greek restaurant in New Jersey, I punched a Greek named Manoli and broke his nose, as he was trying to cheat. I am wondering if this incident went down in Greek annals as the, Greek Genocide of 1973 at Town Diner in Paterson, New Jersey.

( Jean Marais )

It is the typical method of slanderers to call someone a "propagandist" when they have nothing better to say. These are enough for the beginning of the education of pathological haters.

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