Talk:Ruth A. Parmelee

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Tendentious approach
From the text: ″Following the outbreak of World War I, mutual distrust between Turks and Armenians reached almost intolerable levels when, in early 1915, Turkey was invaded both by the British at Gallipoli and Russia from the north″ (I bolded.) This is a clear attempt, by a WP user known for their similar attitudes in several articles, to distort and misrepresent facts. Firstly, the Armenian displacement began, only days after, a 24 April 1915 Decree. At this date, exactly on 18 March 1915, the Turks had already won a decisive victory against the Allies at the Gallipoli front, as you may read at the article Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign. Secondly, the land operations of the Gallipoli/Dardanelles War began after the said Decree (on 25 April) and the so-called "invaders" had nothing else to do but be kept at bay, in trenches, for months without being able to advance as the Turkish defence did not give them any chance to move on. In the end "they went back as they came" without being able to invade Ottoman Turkey at all. As regards the Russians in the north, I know of no Russian invasion in the north of the country during the IWW. In fact the north of Turkey is the Black Sea and the major naval operations in the Black Sea was realised by Turkish and German ships attacking Russian ports. At the land border in NE the Turks captured (or better recaptured their own) territory lost a quarter of a century before, although they lost the Battle of Sarikamish. In 1915 Turkey was not "squeezed at a corner" as the user is pretending to claim.

In short, nobody was pressing the Turks to displace the Armenians anywhere in 1915 other than the Armenian rebellion (which the Turks naturally saw as betrayal of the common motherland, called Ottoman Empire) and their collaboration with the enemy (Russians).

I hope somebody, one day, will notice that a certain user is only trying to advance a certain nationalist POV against the Turks, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire in all the Armenian-related articles of WP (many of them initiated by the same user). The same user's contributions about present-day Turkey and Turks are also only the "negative" ones and I mention this not to speak about a contributor but about a certain nationalist agenda harming WP's Neutral character. Regards. --212.174.190.23 (talk) 15:10, 3 February 2014 (UTC)