Author of "Forgetful Dupe or the Chester Concession" Has Engaged in Libel

Submitted by Jamie (United States), Dec 11, 2019 at 17:49

Regardless of whether the author of this hit-piece is from Poland, the anti-Turkish sentiment is prevalent in the West; the Chesters, two extremely honorable Americans, were defamed in force by the Turk-haters at the time their New York Times articles appeared, and they are still being vilified today. Their crime: they looked upon Turks as human beings.

The Chesters' essays are available online. (Excerpts from the one by the son: https://www.ataa.org/armenian-issue-revisited/angora-and-the-turks.) Those wishing to make judgments need to weigh what they wrote, instead of being influenced by the opinions of those who assassinate the Chesters' character.

People who engage in business deals do not always sell their souls, and feel compelled to lie through their teeth. There was nothing propagandistic in what either wrote; they relayed the facts; the "innocent" Armenians indeed fired the First Shot" (http://www.ataa.org/resource-center/armenian-issue-revisited/the-first-shot) according even to the confessions of Armenian leaders themselves such as Boghos Nubar, "Armen Garo" Pasdermadjian, and the first prime minister of Armenia, Hovhannes Katchaznouni. (His 1923 manifesto: http://louisville.edu/a-s/history/turks/Katchaznouni.pdf.)

There is no evidence for an "Armenian genocide"; hearsay, forgeries, and majority opinion resulting from politics and prejudice cannot substitute for evidence. The text for the "Armenian genocide" resolution which was approved by corrupt congressmembers offers no evidence, only the most absurd claims (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/296/text), such as 1.5 million Armenians being killed. That was the entire pre-war population, and even many of the deceitful "genocide scholars" concede one million survived.

It was the Armenians who conducted the factual extermination campaign. Two Turk-biased Americans, Niles and Sutherland, sent to help Armenians by the Near East Relief, were shocked to find out who the true exterminators were. (http://louisville.edu/a-s/history/turks/Niles_and_Sutherland.pdf .)

The Armenians mass-murdered 529,000 in all, including Jews and even some Greeks (the author from above, "Ianus," is probably Greek), according to the secret Ottoman archival records. Contrast with the low tens of thousands of Armenians massacred by lawless forces (tribes and revengists) outside the control of the Ottoman government, who took to trial 1,673 who harmed Armenains during the war, and executed 10% of decided cases — which clearly demonstrates a "genocide" would have been impossible. (The half-million who perished mainly died of famine and disease, the same as for the majority of every Ottoman group, even the soldiers. Many Armenians dying violently lost their lives in battle, because the treacherous Armenians had rebelled. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehk5pDKyUno)

The letter of the Armenian National Defense Committee of America addressed to British Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey, dated March 26, 1915 (this would be before the famous beginning of the "genocide" on April 24), exposes the Armenian revolt and collaboration with the Entente Powers against the Ottoman Empire: https://abload.de/img/nonamex4jxg.jpg. The treachery began in force once Armenian terrorist groups formed in the 1890s, massacring Muslims to induce counter-massacres, in order to induce imperialists to come in and take over. This 1895 newspaper account explains: http://www.tc-america.org/files/news/pdf/armenianswereresponsible.pdf.

Getting back to the claims of "Ionus," note how this biased and dishonest person wrote how Ataturk allowed for the Chester Concessions in 1923 to cover: "1) the famous Mosul and other oil fields." Mosul is in Iraq, which was lost to the British in the war; it was no longer under Turkish control. (It is commonly known, even in 2007 when "Ionus" wrote this nonsense, that Turkey is not an oil-producing nation.)

Ionus wrote, "In exchange for that generous gifts the OADC and all its personnel and stock-holders were supposed to spread good news about Kemalist Turkey and courageously counter anti-Turkish (mainly Greek and Armenian) "propaganda.'" The only thing these haters have to do is simply make claims, in the knowledge that the anti-Turkish sentiments are so vigorous, "say so" would be sufficient. There is never any need for the factual EVIDENCE.

Ionus further wrote, "The concession was formally signed in April 1923 after the extermination of the Greeks." There was no "extermination" of Greeks. (As usual, what is missing: the EVIDENCE.) The reason why Greeks and Assyrians (groups that also rebelled, albeit not on as wide a scale as the Armenians) have eagerly hopped aboard the "genocide" train is because they could see how easily the Armenians have gotten away with their lucrative strategy. There are great financial and political benefits to be reaped from "victimhood."

Lloyd George got Venizelos to invade the defeated Ottoman Empire from 1919-22. Please read https://drpatwalsh.com/2019/04/27/centenary-of-greek-invasion-of-anatolia/. The Greeks and their Armenian allies (the ones among the 350,000+, particularly in from western Anatolia, who were generously exempted from the temporary relocation, a valid security measure given how Armenians acted as a fifth column) systematically exterminated 640,000 Turks, Muslims and Jews. (Per the demographer Prof. Justin McCarthy, Death and Exile, 1995.) Even Raphael Lemkin classified these horrendous crimes as a "genocide." These 640,000 are invisible lives in the Western world; they did not matter then, and they do not matter today.

The population exchange of Greeks and Turks that resulted is blamed on the Turks, of course, because the Turks are there to be blamed for everything. In point of fact, it was Venizelos who insisted on this exchange. Greece had lost much of its male population thanks to Venizelos' ill-fated adventure, and he managed to extract monies from Europeans, to take care of these refugees.

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