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Turkish Dictator Erdogan Defends Armenian Genocide
PJ Media ^ | APRIL 24, 2019 | DAVID P. GOLDMAN (Spengler)

Posted on 04/24/2019 9:54:35 AM PDT by BeauBo

Liberals call anyone they don't like Hitler, so often that we have to remind ourselves that there really are monsters out there. One of them is Turkey's strongman Recep Erdogan, who marked the remembrance day for the nearly two million Armenians butchered by the Turkish army and their auxiliaries at the end of World War I. Hitler declared in 1939 that he could kill the Jews because, "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" The Armenian genocide was massively reported at the time by U.S. and other foreign diplomats and comprehensively documented by historians. Despicably, Erdogan continues to defend the first great genocide of the 20th century.

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“appropriate at the time.” he called the genocide.

Today (24 April) is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

1 posted on 04/24/2019 9:54:35 AM PDT by BeauBo
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Well, they were merely Christians so............

Mrs rktman went to Armenia not longer after the collapse of the USSR to help teach economics and capitalism. She had only ever been to the Bahamas prior to that. Quite an eye opener. Lucky for her, her bosses husband is Armenian and he went with them.


2 posted on 04/24/2019 9:57:52 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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3 posted on 04/24/2019 9:58:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BeauBo

1) We didn’t do it.
2) And anyway, they deserved it.


4 posted on 04/24/2019 10:02:46 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: BeauBo
"“No group or state has been able to prove their claims on the Armenian issue", says Erdogan.


5 posted on 04/24/2019 10:05:21 AM PDT by BeauBo
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You’d think that the Turks would want to take the heat off of themselves by saying words to the effect that, “What was done then - several generations ago - was during a time of war, but we today recognize that it was wrong. Turkey will never do anything of the sort today or in the future. Note, however, that modern Turkey and its people are not responsible for what happened 100 years ago...we are sorry for what our great grandparents did, but not responsible for it in any way.


6 posted on 04/24/2019 10:28:46 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: BeauBo

Whereas before he denied it.


7 posted on 04/24/2019 10:59:47 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Texas Fossil

Ping.


8 posted on 04/24/2019 11:41:48 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BenLurkin

Obama LOVED Erdogan. Obama said that Erdogan was the very first person that he called in a crisis. Both were/are protectors of Islam, so it figures.


9 posted on 04/24/2019 2:04:02 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: BeauBo

Genocide can never be okay! Only a fool would attempt to say it was.


10 posted on 04/24/2019 3:20:21 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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This was what I always wondered when I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Why don't they admit it happened, acknowledge that it was wrong, and say they don't act like that any longer? But whenever the subject came up, they danced around it.
11 posted on 04/24/2019 4:36:50 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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This was what I always wondered when I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Why don't they admit it happened, acknowledge that it was wrong, and say they don't act like that any longer? But whenever the subject came up, they danced around it.
12 posted on 04/24/2019 4:36:52 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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To: Ancesthntr
This was what I always wondered when I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Why don't they admit it happened, acknowledge that it was wrong, and say they don't act like that any longer? But whenever the subject came up, they danced around it.
13 posted on 04/24/2019 4:36:55 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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To: Ancesthntr
This was what I always wondered when I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Why don't they admit it happened, acknowledge that it was wrong, and say they don't act like that any longer? But whenever the subject came up, they danced around it.
14 posted on 04/24/2019 4:36:56 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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To: Ancesthntr
This was what I always wondered when I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Why don't they admit it happened, acknowledge that it was wrong, and say they don't act like that any longer? But whenever the subject came up, they danced around it.
15 posted on 04/24/2019 4:37:01 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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To: Ancesthntr
This was what I always wondered when I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Why don't they admit it happened, acknowledge that it was wrong, and say they don't act like that any longer? But whenever the subject came up, they danced around it.
16 posted on 04/24/2019 4:37:05 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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To: Ancesthntr
This was what I always wondered when I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Why don't they admit it happened, acknowledge that it was wrong, and say they don't act like that any longer? But whenever the subject came up, they danced around it.
17 posted on 04/24/2019 4:37:06 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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To: Ancesthntr
This was what I always wondered when I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Why don't they admit it happened, acknowledge that it was wrong, and say they don't act like that any longer? But whenever the subject came up, they danced around it.
18 posted on 04/24/2019 4:37:07 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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To: BeauBo

I wouldn’t mind “some people doing something” to Erdogan.


19 posted on 04/24/2019 4:41:54 PM PDT by windsorknot
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I think that must be some kind of FR record.

Anyway, the difference between the Armenian genocide
and the Nazi genocide of the jews is that the Nazis
were the first to industrialize the process.
The Turks slaughter was on a personal basis and much more
of the populace was involved in the physical killing.

I remember reading of several accounts in which whole
churches of Armenian refugees were slaughtered/shot
or had their throats cut.


20 posted on 04/24/2019 4:51:03 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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