Conscientious Turks

[ardakilic]

I find it useful to open a thread named "conscientious Turks" who helped, sheltered, hide or saved Armenians in the Genocide.

HACI HALİL (Haji Khalil)

“A Shameful Act is dedicated to the memory of a Muslim Turk, Haji Khalil, who saved the family of my good friend, Greg Sarkissian, during the Genocide. Haji Khalil and Greg’s grandfathers were business partners in the city of Urfa when the government orders came. Whoever hides an Armenian is to be hanged in front of his own house, and then the house will be burned. In spite of this order, Haji Khalil hid the Sarkissian family in his attic, eight people in all, taking care of them, feeding them and burying one of them when she passed away. "

[Joseph]

I find it useful to open a thread named "conscientious Turks" who helped, sheltered, hide or saved Armenians in the Genocide.

HACI HALİL (Haji Khalil)

“A Shameful Act is dedicated to the memory of a Muslim Turk, Haji Khalil, who saved the family of my good friend, Greg Sarkissian, during the Genocide. Haji Khalil and Greg’s grandfathers were business partners in the city of Urfa when the government orders came. Whoever hides an Armenian is to be hanged in front of his own house, and then the house will be burned. In spite of this order, Haji Khalil hid the Sarkissian family in his attic, eight people in all, taking care of them, feeding them and burying one of them when she passed away. "

Good idea. I'll do some research. In the case of my family, I cannot provide a name but can say they were Dersim.

[ardakilic]

Good idea. I'll do some research. In the case of my family, I cannot provide a name but can say they were Dersim.

Dersim area was well-known for their so-called "rebellions" (i prefer self-defense) from 1921 to 1940. In addition to their struggle against Ittihadist-Kemalist dictatorship, also being a shelter for Armenians in the genocide made them target i think.

[ardakilic]

Hüsnü Bey

Hüsnü Bey was the head of the court-martial in Van, and he was aware of the preparations, he warned the Armenians and later remained by their side when the plan was put to action.

http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=H%C3%BCsn%C3%BC_Bey

[Sako]

Great idea Arda, I'll try to contribute but even if I don't, I'm all ears, this is very thoughtful of you.

[ardakilic]

Abdullahzade Mehmed (Muftu* of Boghazlian)

He testified in the trial of Kemal, kaimmakam (governor) of Boghazlian. He demanded hang of him, because of his massacres of Armenian "deportees" in the town. He is famous with his words in the trial: "Hang this murderer! There is God in the heaven and i am beware of Allah's anger".

* Muftu is an Islamic religious authority in a town or city who can determine the convenience of an act to Islamic laws.

[hipeter924]

Well as my second favorite journalist Robert Fisk put it Turkey denies the Armenian genocide that the founder of the Turkish Republic condemned, in fact quite a few Turks were apologetic and understood how inhumane they had been; of course today the Turkish government denies that the founder of the Turkish Republic believed the genocide occurred.

[Miyoka_Zinima]

My Kurdish friend says that his grandpa, in Turkey -i think he is in Iran now- killed lots of Armenians just to get loot.

Lets blame Kurds too!

[hipeter924]

My Kurdish friend says that his grandpa, in Turkey -i think he is in Iran now- killed lots of Armenians just to get loot.

Lets blame Kurds too!

Kurds have officially apologized for the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish government has not.

[hipeter924]

Since there is not a Kurdish government, how could they 'officially' did that?

Also, even if they did, for what percent of total causalities you are going to blame Turks after that?

The people you call 'rebels' or Kurds want a Kurdish state, they call Kurdistan.

We have a clear figure of how many Armenians were killed, that was 1.5 million, and that is before we get into the Greeks and others.