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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Armenian story has another side -- chicagotribune.com

"Armenian story has another side By Norman Stone, a historian and the author of 'World War I: A Short History' October 16, 2007

All the world knows what the end of an empire looks like: hundreds of thousands of people fleeing down dusty paths, taking what was left of their possessions; crammed refugee trains puffing their way across arid plains; and many, many people dying. For the Ottoman Empire that process began in the Balkans, the Crimea and the Caucasus as Russia and her satellites expanded. Seven million people -- we would now call them Turks -- had to settle in Anatolia, the territory of modern Turkey."

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