"For nearly a century, the American missionaries have been maintaining contacts with the Armenian minority. (...) It is by this canal that one learnt in the United States the troubles from which suffered the Armenians under the Hamidian regime (...) But the missionaries were not able to or did not want to explain to their coreligionists that the Turks bore exactly the same troubles. As a result, instead of giving to the Americans an impartial image of the situation of all the peoples of the Empire, instead of explaining clearly that it was Hamidian regime who was the oppressor and the Turks suffered as much as the Armenians, the missionaries drew the attention of America only on the misfortunes of the Armenians."
Clair Price, "The Rebirth of Turkey," New York, 1923, pages 79-80
