2007-07-11 12:17:04 · 5 answers · asked by shammas21 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Yes they did, if Wikipedia is to be believed. The Kurds that helped were called gendarmes. This is a report from British diplomat Gertrude Bell in 1915 after a battle between Britain and the Ottomans during WW I;
"The battalion left Aleppo on 3 February and reached Ras al-Ain in twelve hours....some 12,000 Armenians were concentrated under the guardianship of some hundred Kurds...These Kurds were called gendarmes, but in reality mere butchers; bands of them were publicly ordered to take parties of Armenians, of both sexes, to various destinations, but had secret instructions to destroy the males, children and old women...One of these gendarmes confessed to killing 100 Armenian men himself...the empty desert cisterns and caves were also filled with corpses..."
This shows from someone's point of view that they were involved, if Wikipedia is to be believed. Another source calls them Turkish Gendarmes. This come from Armeniapedia.org.
2007-07-11 12:42:54 · answer #1 · answered by kepjr100 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes
2007-07-11 17:29:11 · answer #2 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is a lie.There is no Armenian genocide.
2007-07-11 23:40:41 · answer #3 · answered by habisce 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There has never been a genocide. Your question is manipulative.
2007-07-12 01:08:12 · answer #4 · answered by Ipek K 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It wasn't a genocide, it was just a war.
2007-07-12 01:03:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋