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The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire (Historical Endings)

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Justin McCarthy added an excellent work of an area of interest that was neglected by so many for such a long time. The other works of him that I am referring to are his book, "Death and Exile" and the "Palestine" related statistical historical study. Despite funny claims that he works with Turkish Republic (as if Turkish Republic can 'afford' anything like this!), in fact, his writings are objective, empirical, well-founded, and well-detailed. In fact, I find his work to be in line with the "Imperial Legacy," another work by many scholars on the imperial influence left by the rule of the Ottoman (Osmanli) Empire. This is a great book and I was one of the luckiest people to have it now! (It will be some time before you can own it because of the troubles of new releases!) I strongly recommend it to anyone to understand the political and historical implications of hate and humiliation against Turks. On the other hand, Mr. McCarthy can be brutally honest when and if it comes to shocking findings about stupid, unplanned, and arrogant acts of Ottomans, especially in their last times. It is a great read, wonderful book!

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Prof. Justin McCarthy is an amazing historian. Objective, thorough, with a writing style that sweeps you along. He must also be credited for being one of the few western historians who applied himself to this much neglected arena of history: the story of the Turks. There are some groups who thrive on hating the Turks, and that makes the handful of western historians who write in a balanced (and not bigoted) way prime targets.

This book is about the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, covering the conditions why the Sick Man of Europe was "wounded by its enemies, and finally murdered." With so many enemies, Dr. McCarthy asks, how could the constantly attacked empire have survived for as long as it did?

The focus of this book is not about the Armenians and Greeks. These peoples constituted only part of the Ottoman populace. Yet, some among these groups make a hobby of denigrating anything Turkish. And one unfortunate offshoot of Amazon's wonderful policy in allowing members of the public to speak their mind is inviting those with ulterior motives to spread their propaganda.

One of these ethnic Turcophobes gave himself the name of "François De Couture," and his purpose is to try and discredit the reputation of Justin McCarthy. The non-review this zealot has composed has nothing to do with the book.

The hypocritical "genocide industry" has banded together with the Armenians, adopting their awful smear tactics instead of sticking to the historical facts. The cited "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" represents a partisan agenda, and the particular paper this fraud has mentioned ("Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide," written by three ethics-challenged "genocide scholars") has nothing to do with Justin McCarthy. The fraud throws a name of a so-called "Holocaust denier," immorally trying to link McCarthy with one who has issues with a proven genocide.

Furthermore, we are given names that supposedly know better, such as Frédéric Paulin and Daniel Panzac; unfortunately, their claims are not instantly available, but the Armenian chapter of McCarthy's "Muslim and Minorities" may be found(...) and the reader may confirm exactly how immaculate, thorough and fair Prof. McCarthy's demographic methodology is. If these cited fellows are anywhere in the same league as another the fraud tells us about, Hilmar Kaiser, then their work can be trusted no further than can be thrown. The agenda-ridden latter is far from what we would call an unbiased scholar.

Dr. McCarthy agrees with the high end of figures of Armenian mortality, 600,000... since every "European" estimate of the period gave a pre-war population figure ranging from one million to 1.6 million. Simply subtract the one million survivors the Armenians themselves concede.

The fraud calls Prof. McCarthy "pro-Turkish." That is exactly how Admiral Mark Bristol was painted, but such is the fate of anyone who is "pro-truth" in the hands of these slanderers. Prof. McCarthy also called it on the money during hearings on H. Res. 398: the Turks carried on the mature policy of putting past ills behind them and to move forward... since harping on the over half-million Turks/Muslims/Jews who were murdered by the Armenians would have bred hatred. Thus, if the Turks did not speak for themselves in the wholly biased west, the professor's statement could not have been truer: "no one spoke for the Turks." No further comment is needed in the fraud's ironic statement: "Claming the genocide as being a lie is like saying that Armenians are liars."

An insidious charge is made that Prof. McCarthy may have received grants from Turkish associations. It is common practice for professors to get grants from various sources; the fact of the matter is McCarthy has been earning his salary from the American University of Louisville, and he doesn't need grants to compromise his integrity. Armenian "scholars" such as UCLA's AEF-sponsored Hovannisian and the Zoryan Institute's Dadrian have been getting plenty of money from Armenian organizations, and ultimately it is the quality of the research that must be considered... not the source of financing.

I'm not familiar with the "Turks and Armenians" book the fraud tells us about, but what we must consider within this page is "The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire"; Amazon has provided an inside glimpse, and the publishing houses are a British firm and Oxford University Press ... neither of which have nothing to do with Turkish financing.

And let's not forget it is the job of any responsible and professional historian to "correct" poor history that has been presented in a purposely maligned way for many years. Should we still read in American textbooks of the savagery of the American Indian?

As far as another non-reviewer who defamatorily labels Prof. McCarthy as a "Hired Lobbyist at Work" let us correct his statement, "the author has spoken to the U.S. Congress on behalf of Turkish Embassy front organizations." There is no shortage of "genocide nuts" who speak during these hearings; meanwhile, there are only a handful of experts in the area of non-biased Turkish history, operating from the United States. (A contemporary example of "no one [speaks] for the Turks.") Despite what this slanderer claims, Prof. McCarthy does not get a nickel for his participation in such hearings. The only motivation for this great academician of integrity is to perform his own admirable part in allowing for the truth to prevail.
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This book gives emirical account of the events and is rather convincing.

Justin McCarthy does a great job of doing the research, gathering the statistics, and using archives to support his thesis. Some nationalistic reviewers rate him badly because of their nationalistic agenda, and the damage that Justin McCarthy causes to the political (not judicial) recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and of course Armenians will accuse him of many untrue things. Read his books on the issue, then read opposing views on the issue, read the books of the Armenian propagandists and compare them with the book of Dr. Justin McCarthy, you'll see the vast difference and realize that while at first the propagandists sound good, you realize that these were just standard techniques of obfuscation, denial, and hearsay that is added specifically to convince you that there was a master plan by the big-bad Turks to eliminate Christians, even though Christians still have churches standing for centuries inside Turkey.

Judge for yourself, but judge honestly, and don't pay attention to Armenian propagandists who had their feelings hurt and their agenda destroyed by Dr. Justin McCarthy's solid research.

Yesterday's Ottoman Empire today's Turkey is probably stuck in one of the tougest and oldest neighboorhoods in the world and understanding the near history becomes good antitode for peeking into the mind set of people today. All the recent terror events have their origin in the middle east, a part of the world which was interestingly much more calmer 200-300 years ago under the Ottoman then it is now. McCarthy by style can at times sound more like he is writing about polymer chemistry due to his attention to numerical detail in historical research but i personally think this is something very much missing in history in general. Death & Exile also by te author led me to this book and i actually found it better, more readable. A good look into the last era of the Ottoman Empire, its highly multi-ethnic construct and their intricate social upheveal...

So many of today's trouble spots were once part of the Ottoman Empire: Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel, Palestine, and Iraq, to name just a few. The problems seen today were even more widespread at the beginning of the twentieth century: ethnic minorities, determined to possess their own ethnically homogeneous states, but living in areas so intermingled with other ethnic groups that their states could only be assembled by driving out others. The victims of these ethnic cleansing events in late Ottoman times were mostly Moslems (and Jews); the protagonists were Christians, who could count on the tacit support of Christian Europe and overt support from Russia.

This story is new to us in the Christian west, mostly because western popular feeling of that time was committed to the cause of Ottoman Christian minorities, and therefore outraged only by the deaths of Christians, ignoring the deaths of so many non-Christians. Justin McCarthy has performed a valuable service in writing this eye-opening and very readable book. Most readers will find particularly valuable his treatment of the tragic intercommunal violence between Armenians and non-Armenians that, even today, is misleadingly called the "Armenian Genocide."

One of the best and most objective accounts of the events leading up to the demise of the Ottoman Empire I've ever read! It's truly worth the time and effort to read. You will come away with a fresh perspective, ready to ask more questions. That is what a good book is supposed to make you do.

I would like to thank Mr. Justin McCarthy for his frank and well researched historical analysis of an Empire which has been systematically and willfully shown as a villain and aggressor by the Western powers for over 100 years. Mr. McCarthy shows how the propaganda machine of the US, Britain, France and Russia effected the historical developments of Eastern Europe and the Middle East. After reading his book, I can understand and put many disconnected peaces of history together now. I can also see, how the current and systematic attacks on the Arab and Muslim world, unfolds in front of our eyes much more clearly, which is an undeniable extension of the Ottoman History.

This is a book that must be read by everyone who is curious about why the middle east is under attack now and how the Ottoman Empire collapsed.

Anti-propaganda machine is STILL very strong in the US and Europe which spreads it's misinformation or disinformation to it's general public as we speak. That is why this book is an essential read! Every Turk must educate him or herself against this mountain of disinformation. That includes every aspect of Ottoman and Turkish history.

Mr. McCarthy, I would like to thank you again for a very well researched, written and much needed book!!!!

This book details the end of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of the modern nation states of the current Middle East. Like other Mccarthy books however, its a little sparse in detailed analysis of specific areas. In another words, he covers far too wide a geographical area and thus we have only brief chapters dealing with such issues as the Balkan revolts or the wars in Eastern Anatolia.

Much has been said of Mccarthy being pro Turkish and it must be said that to a large extent he does tow the party line in this book. You will find little of controversy in the pages of this book when dealing with sensitive issues regarding not just some of the more controversial issues regarding Armenia and Greece but also in the structure of the Turkish republic, the issues of Turkish nationalism and how it effected not only Kurds but other Muslim minorities within the new Turkish republic such as the Bosnians and various Caucasian peoples. Another issue is the Arab revolt. Mccarthy is far too simplistic on the issue regarding it as nothing more than a 'Bedouin revolt' (To some extent it was) But to claim that there was no intellectual call for Arab separation or independence or even to claim that the Middle East was under some homogeneous benevolent Ottoman ruler is equally false. What then of the revolts of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Druze and numerous others? Is he not aware that the "Arab revolt" was under the leadership of the Sharif of Mecca (who was a high standing member of the Ottoman parliament by the way)? It almost seems that Mccarthy has fallen under the common Turkish misconception that that Arab revolt was carried out by "Wahhabi's" (They did but it was largely insignificant and received not near the support from the Allies that the Sharif did) A further issue I have with this book is there is not a reliable index of sources that Mccarthy has used rather a list of further reading and some brief notes.

A little disappointing but for anyone wishing to read the history of the end of the Ottoman empire from a more sympathetic point of view may want to have a look at this.

Yet another brilliantly and scholarly written historical book about the 'Turkish Holocaust' by a great scholar. As abundantly demonstrated in the book, almost every single document regarding the Turkish history is related to the Armenian genocide of millions of Muslim and Jewish people in Russian Armenia and Eastern Anatolia between 1914 and 1920. The genocide by the Armenians perpetrated against the defenseless Moslem Azeri, Tartar, Turkish and Kurdish people is sufficiently reflected in historical documents. Even today over eighty five years later, the terrifying screams of the victims of these massacres can be heard. Ex-Soviet Armenian government got away with the genocide of 2.5 million Turkish men, women and children and is enjoying the fruits of that genocide. Russian Armenian-paid historical revisionists will not get away with the genocide's cover-up.

The Turkish world will never forget to recall the silent memory of millions of Turkish and Jewish people cold-bloodedly slaughtered by the Armenians in Russian Armenia and Eastern Anatolia between 1914 and 1920. Yet despite the efforts of the ex-Soviet Armenian Government and its paid and revisionist organizations in U.S., in the last decades, thanks to the struggle of those whose closest ones have been systematically exterminated by the Armenians, the international wall of silence on this issue has begun to collapse, and consequently a number of governments and organizations have become supportive of the recognition of the Turkish Holocaust.

According to a recent survey conducted in Turkey and Azerbaijan: "Most Disliked": Armenians -- 97%. And, one wonders why. Because the Russian Armenian government planned and carried out a 'Genocide' against its Muslim and Jewish subjects between 1914 and 1920. 2.5 million Turkish people were murdered and the remainder driven out of their homeland. After one thousand years, Turkish lands were empty of Turks, Azeris and Tartars. The survivors found a safe heaven in Turkey. Today, the ex-Soviet Armenian government rejects the right of the Turkish people to return to their historical lands occupied by ex-Soviet Armenia. Today, ex-Soviet Armenian government covers up the genocide perpetrated by their predecessors and is therefore an accessory to this crime against humanity. Ex-Soviet Armenian government must pay for their crime of genocide against the Muslims and Jews by admitting to the crime and making reparations to the victims of the 'Turkish Holocaust.'

Plainly, Turkish people will have to come to terms with the fact that the world has its 'Turkish Holocaust' deniers, as it has its Jewish Holocaust deniers. But there can be no question of yielding any ground to them. The facts about the Armenian slaughtering of 2.5 million Muslim and Jewish people speak for themselves.

Excellent job.