Tehcir
They dug a hole 8 meters in diameter.
It was full of dead Turks, including children, of all ages and genders!
They shot them, bayoneted them, stripped them naked and stuffed them into a hole.
Only one household in Mamahatun escaped to the mountains and was saved.
Kazım Karabekir.
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"..it was seen that a hungry dog was tearing apart the body of a Turk killed by Armenians and left by the side of the road.
Sometimes one would come across children's heads with their teeth bared in front of the dogs.
The walls, the ruins, the fire places were all full of dead Turks, pieces of arms, skulls, fatty leg bones, human bodies that had not yet decayed.".
Ahmet Refik.
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Prof.
Mc Carthy 19th
the end of the century
He writes that 5 million 500 thousand Turks, in comparison to 40 thousand Greeks and 580 thousand Armenians, lost their lives in ethnic conflicts in the Ottoman lands in the 50 years between the quarter of Show More
