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| | (GRAND TURK) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Nevertheless the atmosphere of the Moscow discussions was friendly: neither side could afford to make more enemies, and the Turks were willing to learn from any progressive movement, anxious to obtain ideas which they could adapt to their own conditions. |
 | | The terms, if widely accepted, would have been the death sentence, not only of the Ottoman Empire but of what was now correctly described as “Turkey”, which, weakened beyond the possibility of independence, could only have awaited the inevitable Italian or German overtures of the coming years, or the Bolshevik pressure from the north. |
 | | The two most courageous nations of the Near East were at each other’s throats in a moment: the Greeks being pushed on against their best feelings by politicians, the Turks defending, not Arabian or Serbian provinces for some rapacious Sultan, but their own home land for their own people. |
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