oh how I love God ... Oh God, let me witness!
Interesting
Tuesday Afternoon ... Speak America ... Speak and find out the Why .... Look at Ourselves ... Tuesday Afternoon ....
I’m sure the Pope is heartbroken...
I mean, like, dude! There are still Armenians!
It was attempted genocide!
DUH!
There are the myths that certain people want desperately to believe, and there is what really happened. Sometimes the reality is so fantastic, it cannot be at first believed, but in retrospect, the Islamic Jihadists that ran the Ottoman Empire were entirely capable of carrying out just the same kind of widespread oppression and murderous mass killings, as the present-day ISIS paramilitary terrorists. The discovery of the mass killings is much easier to document today, with ubiquitous cell phones and drone overview of the atrocities, even as they occur.
The present Turkish regime may deny the Armenian massacre, but SOMETHING happened, starting on April 24, 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up and arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labor, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert.
Unfortunately for the Ottomans, they left survivors, who managed to relate the terms by which the Armenians were sent into their worldwide diaspora. Nor were the Armenians the only targets, in the drive by the Ottomans for their variety of “national purity”. Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination, and their treatment is considered by many historians to be part of the same genocidal policy.
The Middle East is a dangerous and hostile territory, made the more so by the rigidity of doctrinal belief and total lack of empathy by various sects of of supposed followers of Mohammed Ali.
they can deny the truth as often as you wish....it is still the truth....like the halocaust say it didn’t happen a zillion times....it still did.
Catholic ping!
Turkey, you cannot handle the TRUTH!
One of the better things Pope Francis has done is bring the world’s attention to the slaughter and dispossession of Christians in the Middle East by Islamists. Hopefully he will focus more on this issue and less on playing Ecumenical with Muslims.
Be honest I don’t care what Turks I have Arenmia American classmates throughout high school I really don’t give rat*** what Turkey think
When I think of Turkey I think of two things Otterman empire and movie Midnight express
SO cry me a river Turkey
Touchy, are we?