Tonyukuk, the lobotomized, fascist Turk, also formerly known on the Usenet
as notoriously lying and falsifying "Baba Bey the Turk", a criminal mass
canceller and rabid Jew, Greek and Armenian hater, writes:
<snip usual Turkish propagand garbage>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Resistance
Hamidian Massacres
Throughout 1895-96 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire suffered in a wave of
violence commonly known as the Hamidian massacres. While Van largely
avoided
massacres in 1895, the Ottomans send a military expedition in June of
1896.
Armenians were initially able to defend themselves in Van, but upon
agreeing
to disarm in exchange for safety, massacres continued, culminating in the
death of over 20,000 Armenians.
Despite this, Armenians continued to make up a relative majority of the
population in what is today known as Eastern Anatolia or Western Armenia).
According to Viscount Bryce, their numbers were between 1.8 and 2.1
million.[2] In the Van province, they constituted an absolute majority
over
the combined Turkish and Kurdish population.[3]
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