Countering the Anti-Turkish Falsehoods of a Biased Author

Submitted by Jamie (United States), Dec 11, 2019 at 18:55

I discovered this page ("Further on Greece") after reflecting on another hit piece of Author "Ianus," on the Chester Concession, where he worked to defame two very honorable Americans because they had the audacity to be truthful, and thought of Turks as human beings.

It is only fitting for "Ianus" (who keeps referring to Istanbul as "Constantinople" these days, in the 21st century; the name of that city was changed shortly after its conquest in 1453) to have utilized a fellow Turk-hater, U.S. Consul George Horton, who wrote "The Blight of Asia," as a reliable source. Who were the people Horton felt ought to be regarded as his title's "Blight"? There was a certain dictator in WWII who also felt another people was a "blight."

Brian Coleman, "George Horton: the Literary Diplomat," Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, volume 30, January 2006: "His account, however, goes beyond the blame and events to a demonization of Muslims, in general, and of Turks, in particular. In several of his novels, written more than two decades before the events of September 1922, he had already identified the Turk as the stock-in-trade villain of Western civilization. In his account of Smyrna, he writes not as historian, but as publicist."

Horton begins The Blight of Asia by summoning his first "moral witness," Gladstone, who felt the Turks were "the one great anti-human specimen of humanity." His next "moral witness" was Cardinal Newman, who "describes the Turk as the 'great anti-Christ among the races of men.'"

"Ianus" has defamed the Chesters here, as well. He ridicules the fact "that the Greeks burned Smyrna." Greece had conducted a scorched earth policy during its exterminatory campaign of 1919-22. Why would the Turks burn their own city, especially since their country lay in ruins and Izmir, or what Ianus is going to call "Smyrna," was rich in desperately-needed resources? Particularly when eyewitnesses such as Paul Grecovich, the city's Austrian fire chief, saw "Christians" — Armenians, the Greeks' allies — with kerosene cans, and Alexander MacLachlan, who referred to how the "investigation of the fire's origin led to the conviction that Armenian terrorists, dressed in Turkish uniforms, fired the city. Apparently the terrorists were attempting to bring Western intervention." Joseph Grabill, Protestant Diplomacy and the Near East, 1971, p. 263.)

Ianus' ridicule continued: "A million and a half Christians practically committed suicide and were not actually massacred." Ianus was actually generous, because 1.5 million is reserved for the fate of the Armenians. When one adds the other "Christians," Greeks and Assyrians who have also jumped aboard the profitable "genocide" bandwagon, the numbers shoot up to 2 or 3 million, or whatever they can get away with. (Assyrians, another group that traitorously rebelled much as the Armenians and the Pontic Greeks, often claim 750,000 murders. There were not that many Assyrians to begin with.)

1.5 million served as the entire pre-war Ottoman-Armenian population, according to the period's consensus. Consult the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, for example, or this Frenchman who spent twelve years compiling population statistics: https://abload.de/img/noname0fjbf.jpg. Over one million survived. For example, U.S. Senate Resolution, Nov. 10, 1919: 1,293,000 Armenians alive and accounted for. Joint U.S. Congress Resolution No. 192, April 22, 1922 relative to Near East Relief activities ending December 31, 1921: 1,414,000 living Armenians.

When at least one million survivors are subtracted from an original population of 1.5 million, the result cannot be 1.5 million. The half-million who perished mostly died of famine and disease, the same as the majority of every other Ottoman group, the ones whose lives never matter. Ironically, the killers of many were the Armenians' own allies, Britain and France, when they conducted their naval blockades in order to starve enemy citizenry,

Many Armenians who died violently died in battle, because they had massively revolted, beginning even before the war began for the Ottomans. It can only be a genocide, according to the 1948 U.N. Convention on Genocide, when the victims are innocent. Opposing fighting forces do not count.

The Armenians who were massacred (by rogue elements; not soldiers acting under orders, for those who value the necessity for "evidence") numbered in the low tens of thousands. Le Figaro investigated in 1977, in response to the raging Armenian terrorism of the period, those feverishly working to get their "genocide" to become widely accepted (succeeding beyond their wildest dreams; crime can indeed pay), and concluded 15,000 were killed from murder and other causes. 15,000 is only one percent of the 1.5 million figure biased U.S. congressmembers recently and near-unanimously agreed upon when they passed the "Armenian genocide" resolution.

What gets lost in the equation is that it was the Armenians who had conducted the factual systematic extermination campaign, doing away with 529,000, according to the secret records of the Ottoman archives. It becomes quite racist to never mention this other side of the coin.

There is no "rabid anti-Semitism in Turkey." If some have come to see Israel's excesses committed upon Palestinians, that is not "anti-Semitism." Turkey has protected Jews since 1324 (http://www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/muslims-and-jews/muslims-and-jews-in-history/jews-in-the-ottoman-empire-and-turkey.html), also saving many Jews during the Holocaust.

Greece, on the other hand, has had a long history of Jew-hatefulness. In their 1821 war of independence when Greece committed its first systematic extermination campaign against Turks (doing away with 25,000), William St. Clair added in "That Greece Might Still Be Free: The Philhellenes in the War of Independence" (1972): "Pregnant women were cut open, their heads cut off, and dogs' heads stuck between their legs. From Friday to Sunday the air was filled with the sound of screams... One Greek boasted that he personally killed ninety people. The Jewish colony was systematically tortured..."

George Findlay, History of the Greek Revolution, London, 1861: "Although the total estimates of the casualties vary, the Turkish, Muslim Albanian and Jewish population of the Peloponnese had ceased to exist as a settled community after the early massacres."

"Jews, who were perceived as infidels by the Greeks, were killed as readily as Muslims."

Each time the Greeks conducted their systematic extermination campaigns, as with the 1912-12 First Balkan War (killing or chasing away over 600,000) and in their 1919-22 invasion of Anatolia (killing 640,000; numbers per "Death and Exile," McCarthy, 1995), Jews were also targeted. Jews were no less targeted when they conducted their systematic extermination campaigns, not only of Ottoman Turks and others during 1914-1920 and beyond, but also in the other campaign exterminating the Tatars and other Turkic peoples. (One powerful reference for the latter: the book, Men Are Like That, 1926.)

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