aussieturk wrote:The truth can be distorted and there are always two sides to every story.
Everybody knows the Turkish Government drafted hundreds of thousands of Armenian males into the
unarmed labour battalions. Some survivors of these battalions say that they were worked and starved to death. Others say they were marched out of town where no witness could see or hear..... and then massacred by Turkish troops under the command of Turkish officers. These survivors can only account for the fate of their own units. But what about the other thousands of Armenian males. What was their fate ?
The Armenians say that because the Turkish government never discharged any of these Armenian men from the Army at the end of the World War, they must have met the same fate as the survivors witnessed.
So aussieturk, the Armenians say all of these draftees must have been murdered because they were never seen again. Is that true ? How many Armenians survived the labour battalions ? Of those hundreds of thousands, how many Armenians did the Turkish army discharge at the end of the war ?
What's your side of this story ?.