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Funny, how all these sad stories easily make their ways even among intellectual people.

"Our duty is to make Turks out of all the non-Turks within the Turkish country, no matter what. We will cut out and throw away any element that will oppose Turks and Turkishness." There's no such quote from İnönü. But when lies are supported with such strong words, suddenly people start respecting them.

These lies are made up by kurd-islamists in recent years, and other groups such as armenians are also trying to grab a bite from Turkey, by taking kurd-islamists side and supporting their lies. These lies can easily be traced back to kurd-islamist so-called historians' books, but one can go no further than that, for there's no supporting evidence on their claims even in their books.

But as always, if you repeat the same lies over and over again, people will believe it.

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Ah.... one of those :)

So lets understand what you're trying to say here.... that none of this happened, that all the Armenians, Greek Orthodox people, Assyrians and Syriac Christian peoples just dropped dead of their own accord. And the Ottoman authorities had nothing to do with it .... right ? Thats what you're saying ?

Interesting, it was armenians first, but then Greek Orthodox people, Assyrians and Syriac Christian are also added to list huh?

Nobody suddenly dropped dead i guess, but deportation is one thing, genocide is another. Deportation of armenians were ordered by von Schellendorf, for the armenian separatist gangs were causing way much trouble on the eastern side, assaulting on mostly kurdish villages, as well as turkish villages. During deportation, kurds tried to take revenge of these assaults. Deportation, illnesses and such seems to have claimed some lives too. You can find some more details on these assaults in Soviet Russias military reports in 1915, such as Brigadier General Leonid Bolhovitinov's.

The interesting thing is: sad stories do not seem to require proof. For example, if a million is dead, then it should have been easy to find mass graves on the route. Where did a million corpses go, did barbaric ottomans eat them?

Another interesting thing is: you are in the middle of a world war, and you suddenly give up fighting the enemy, and start wasting your arms and forces on a million of unarmed civillians, seems logical huh?

These sad stories are nothing but stories that mostly have roots in some event but grew more and more in peoples mouths in years, like religious fairy tales. People love drama, and when the story is touching, they do not seem to look for any proof for believing.

They're not "added to the list" , they were always there, you just don't want to acknowledge it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide

There is tons of proof, from both Turkish/Ottoman and external sources, not matter how much you deny it.

Turkish sources are open for inspection for years. Please provide some solid proof, other than your relatives' stories.

Heh! , My relatives ? You're sound like a troll jumping to conclusions

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