Note 17 — Chapter VIII · FROM MUSH TO ERZERUM
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It is interesting to compare Brant’s account of Kulli in 1838. His words are:—“It formerly contained a great many Armenian families. I was told that 200 emigrated to Georgia, and only about 15 Mohammedan families now reside among extensive ruins” (op. cit. p. 344). In 1893 the transformation has been completed, and Kulli has become a Kurdish village. The successive steps of the process, which is of general application, may be defined as follows:
1. Emigration or disappearance of Armenians (friends of Turkey make excuses).
2. Lapse into barbarism: enrolment of Hamidiyeh (friends of Turkey exult).
3. Standing nuisance at the doors of Russia (a heavy calm).
4. Russian conquest (Turkey disappears, her friends having preceded her). ↑