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In a recent interview with Erdogan, the Turkish PM, the matter of the continued denial of the undeniable was raised. With an interesting response.
SPIEGEL: Why doesn't modern Turkey acknowledge the Ottoman Empire's genocide against the Armenians? The Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives has approved an Armenian Genocide resolution ...
Erdogan: When a journalist uses the word genocide, he should take a careful look at the issue first.
There can be no talk of genocide against the Armenians. Genocide is a legal term.
(My observation) And a legal term defined by the UN and which applies to what the Turks got up to against the Armenians, the Greeks, and the Assyrians.
In 2005, I wrote a letter to then-Armenian President Robert Kocharian, in which I told him that this is not a matter for politicians like us, but one that needs to be studied by historians.
(My observation) And I do hope that Kocharian pointed out that historians provide the evidence and the politicians must take the appropriate actions. The historians have done their bit. The Turks have not and worse yet continue to deny that they should.
There are currently millions of documents on the subject in Turkish archives, of which more than 1 million have been examined since I wrote to Kocharian.
If there are archives in your country, I wrote to him, then make them accessible.
(My observation) They are.
And if historians cannot clarify the subject sufficiently, then let lawyers, political scientists and archaeologists take part in the effort.
(My observation) Historians HAVE clarified the subject. Independent historians, Sufficiently for everyone but the Turks it would seem.
From his response to the Turkish genocides it would seem that he has taken at least one leaf from the “how to run a country” handbook by the late and very unlamented Joseph Goebbels.
Reading the rest of the Spiegel interview :-
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686131,00.html#ref=nlint
what comes over, at least to me, is a duplicitous individual up to his neck in taqiyya and kitman, and representing everything that we should be avoiding.
Yet someone who for some strange reason thinks he holds a winning hand and can now play the game to his own advantage.
WE should be aware that this is what he is like when he thinks he can call his own tune. It is indicative of how he would behave within Europe if he was able to, and so we should have nothing to do with him, or a country of which he is a far from untypical member of the population in terms of values, aims, ambitions, and morality.
Be a neighbour by all means but a family member? To paraphrase the old “Atomcraft” bumper sticker ……… Türkische Art? Kein Dank
SPIEGEL: Why doesn't modern Turkey acknowledge the Ottoman Empire's genocide against the Armenians? The Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives has approved an Armenian Genocide resolution ...
Erdogan: When a journalist uses the word genocide, he should take a careful look at the issue first.
There can be no talk of genocide against the Armenians. Genocide is a legal term.
(My observation) And a legal term defined by the UN and which applies to what the Turks got up to against the Armenians, the Greeks, and the Assyrians.
In 2005, I wrote a letter to then-Armenian President Robert Kocharian, in which I told him that this is not a matter for politicians like us, but one that needs to be studied by historians.
(My observation) And I do hope that Kocharian pointed out that historians provide the evidence and the politicians must take the appropriate actions. The historians have done their bit. The Turks have not and worse yet continue to deny that they should.
There are currently millions of documents on the subject in Turkish archives, of which more than 1 million have been examined since I wrote to Kocharian.
If there are archives in your country, I wrote to him, then make them accessible.
(My observation) They are.
And if historians cannot clarify the subject sufficiently, then let lawyers, political scientists and archaeologists take part in the effort.
(My observation) Historians HAVE clarified the subject. Independent historians, Sufficiently for everyone but the Turks it would seem.
From his response to the Turkish genocides it would seem that he has taken at least one leaf from the “how to run a country” handbook by the late and very unlamented Joseph Goebbels.
Reading the rest of the Spiegel interview :-
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686131,00.html#ref=nlint
what comes over, at least to me, is a duplicitous individual up to his neck in taqiyya and kitman, and representing everything that we should be avoiding.
Yet someone who for some strange reason thinks he holds a winning hand and can now play the game to his own advantage.
WE should be aware that this is what he is like when he thinks he can call his own tune. It is indicative of how he would behave within Europe if he was able to, and so we should have nothing to do with him, or a country of which he is a far from untypical member of the population in terms of values, aims, ambitions, and morality.
Be a neighbour by all means but a family member? To paraphrase the old “Atomcraft” bumper sticker ……… Türkische Art? Kein Dank