THE SAVAGE NATION!!!!!! 12-18-12

Savage connects the latest horror as a kind of the Armenia genocide on a tiny scale.. I worked with Turks for a few years and lived in Ankara for several months. I have a lot of respect for the Turkish people.

I remember reading on an English language Turkish government website years ago that the Ottoman Empire did in fact do those horrible things. The modern Republic of Turkey rejects genocide to describe the horror and in my opinion for good reason.

As for the word "genocide".. IMO

We (the U.S.) have enough problems. Turkey and Armenia are neighbors. Let them settle there. I am tired of and don't like it that it's our Congress / government that they are fighting over
-- especially the demands of both Armenia and the Armenian diaspora here in the U.S. that the United States of America adopt resolution after resolution condemning Turkey for genocide when both Armenia and the Armenian diaspora here in the U.S. apparently know that Recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey is a secondary issue (– interview with Harut Sassounian an Armenian living in southern California).
[Excerpt ]"The real purpose of the resolution is not recognition of the Armenian Genocide, but a political struggle – the issue of which side has a larger political capital in Washington. . . . [T]he admission of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey is an issue of secondary importance for us. . . . our lands were seized and our 3,000-year-old culture was destroyed. . . . Therefore, our true demand is compensation for this injustice. . . . Now specialists must study the lawyers’ advice and decide which issue should be submitted to which court, as there is the International Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights, US Federal Courts, etc. This is a most important issue. It must be studied with all seriousness, because, if we lose in court, Turkey will claim that Armenians have no legal demands."
From wiki graffiti:
There is general agreement among western scholars that over 500,000 Armenians died between 1914 and 1918 [end of W.W.I]; other estimates vary between 600,000 to 1,500,000.
There were 6 million excess civilian deaths due to war [W.W.I] related malnutrition and disease . . . The war brought about malnutrition and disease caused by a disruption of trade resulting in shortages of food; the mobilization for the war took away millions of men from the agricultural labor force cutting food production. The civilian deaths listed below include the Armenian Genocide; but do not include deaths during the Turkish War of Independence [following WWI, modern Turkey was created by a revolt against the W.W.I Allies' occupation of Turkey (mostly by Greece I think.) as I understand post-W.W.I history it was the victorious Allies who set the boundaries of modern Turkey.]
Total Ottoman Empire W.W.I civilian and military deaths 2,921,844; civilian deaths 2,150,000. That 2,150,000 is more than even the maximum estimate of Armenian victims; to wit, a lot of civilian Turks died too -- of course this does not excuse what the Ottoman Empire did to Armenians at home and abroad.
The Turks rightly point out that a hell of a lot of Turks died at the hands of Russians and Armenians. It was W.W.I that included Germany and the Ottoman Empire at war with European Allies and Russia that included Armenia. Even after the 1917 Russian Revolution I believe that the Ottoman Empire - Armenia war continued until the end of W.W.I.

I am not a historian but I can read and there is a hell of a lot more to this issue than we normally hear talked about -- including the involvement of Wilhelm II Germany, et al. had in the Armenian genocide.

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