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  1. Who are Orel and Yucca? Paid by the Turks no doubt. Why should we believe them? Let’s investigate them!

  2. There is also no doubt that official telegrams were sent to monitor the number of Armenians being killed in the caravans. The following excerpt is taken from a diary entry written by my father, Misak Seferian, in 1915.

    “We heard from the replacement gendarmes that an official telegram sent to Chavlig from Oghnout reported that a caravan comprised of 970 women and children was coming toward Chavlig. These gendarmes said that there were only 890 people turned over to them. Thus, eighty people in our caravan had either died or been killed during a journey of two and a half days.”

    Please give us ordering information for Prof. Taner Akcam’s new book. It is not yet available on the internet.

  3. I await the English translation of Taner Akcam’s book “The Naim Efendi Memoirs”. I hope they expedite the translation for the next commemoration of April 24. Akcam is worth his weight in gold for his contributions to the Armenian history. Congratulations for your recent book, Prof. Akcam.

  4. Very important story! Shows how a cornerstone argument of Turkish Genocide denial, an argument that has been used since 1983 to defame Armenians and relegate the 1915 Armenian Genocide as a fraud and lie, is unfounded. Naim Efendi did exist, his documents are consistent with contemporary documents found in the Turkish archives and there is now much more reason to believe the telegrams attributed to Talat are real.

  5. Prof. Akcam,
    Thank you, thank you, thank you so very much for yet another very important research project you’ve undertaken to help debunk the deniers of the Armenian Genocide.

  6. A follow up: Sinasi Orel and Sürreya Yuca were Turkish historians. Hardly objective. Their book is full of clever misinterpretations, omissions and lies. Their book is considered trash in the guise of history being rewritten! End of story.

  7. A great historian is a detective. Taner Akcam taking clues available and not so much for decades used his great skills as an historian and master of Turkish to ferret out the truth behind the Memoirs of Naim Efendi and Talat Pasha’s Telegrams. I am very grateful for his perseverance.
    Also, his forthright condemnation of the harassment Armenians have faced in Turkey post 1923 was needed and essential. I will definitely be getting Professor Akcam’s book. I also unequivocally recommend two books about Armenians in Turkey post 1923:
    THE ARMENIANS IN MODERN TURKEY POST GENOCIDE SOCIETY, POLITICS AND HISTORY by Talin Suciyan (L.B. Tauris) and THE YOUTH HOME OF ISTANBUL: A STORY OF THE REMNANTS HOMECOMING by Hirant Guzelian (AMAA)
    Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut

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