Posted on 04/24/2011 4:31:28 PM PDT by george76
A group of demonstrators gathered by Istanbul's Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art for a rally in commemoration of Armenian Genocide victims. Hrant Dink’s son Arat Dink, publisher and human rights advocate Ragip Zarakolu participated in the event.
Negation of Genocide is continuation of massacres; it’s time to put an end to Turkish policy of negation...
(Excerpt) Read more at panarmenian.net ...
I’ll be a son of a dink.
I don’t get what Turkey has to lose by doing this. This is no different than Germany acknowledging that the previous government perpetrated the Holocaust.
>This is no different than Germany acknowledging that the previous government perpetrated the Holocaust.<
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Muslims do not commit genocide, don’t you understand?
A little hyperbolic today, I think.
Refusal to admit to a past murder may be wrong, but it's a far cry from killing more people.
Pressure of this type on Turkey hurts only one side in Turkish politics, the secularists. It helps the Islamist parties, the people that are most likely to actually commit fresh massacres.
These people have guts or stupid after the Turkish military just used chemical weapons on the Kurds
The Turkish Republic resists calling the Armenian Genocide what it was because its founding continued the policy of mass murder against Christians. Read a history of the Rape of Smyrna: during the Second Greco-Turkish War, the Christian populace of the city of Smyrna was murdered or driven to flee in boats by the followers of the “secular” Ataturk, who had arrange with Western “Christian” powers that their naval vessels off the coast would not rescue Christians fleeing the city. Only a Japanese warship rescued any of the Greeks fleeing the city, for which reason when Greece declared war on Nazi Germany and Italy, during WW II, they did not also declare war on Japan as did all other allied powers.
>> These people have guts or stupid
You’re the one that’s stupid, where do you come up with that accusation.
Turkey is in the process of a current genocide using chemical weapons against a different group of people.
At the same time a previous group of survives of a genocide by the same government many years earlier are asking for an apology and retribution for their ordeal.
What is the logic in this?
1. the current event is so irrelevant to them that it is a none issue. (Which would be stupid.)
2. They believe in or have some kind of trust in this present government that they will kill the other group and not them while they are asking for retribution. (which is stupid)
3. They are taunting a tyrant into attacking them again (which could be either very stupid or some of the bravest people on the plant.)
4. something else i am over looking?
Do we know which answer it is?
>> Turkey is in the process of a current genocide using chemical weapons against a different group of people.
You are out of your mind.
You will never get Turk MUslims to take responsibility for their savagery against the Christian original inhabitants of Asia minor. Savagery is their norm.
They will repent when they find Lord Jesus.
are you oblivious to the elimination of the Kurds or what?
I have not only read it I have been studying it. At this point it should be taken as a historical book and that is it.
So many things. I would love to get into this with you. I was discussing this with a muslim someplace else then Bin died and he stopped talking with me.
Why did Armenia get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Good luck with rational discussion with a Turk. Reason and compassion are anathema in the cult of islam.
These are the same people who just tore down a 200 year old church in norther cyprus.
They’ve torn down lots of churches—mostly burned them down with people inside.
That said, I’m surprised the Turks did not sell it to some Brits or Germans and turn it into a nightclub. They do that too. -—and far worse
this was this month.
>> are you oblivious to the elimination of the Kurds or what?
I certainly am :)) What a bunch of bull.
This Turkey worships at the altar of a syphilitic monster called Mustafa kemal. Don’t expect logic or reason from them.
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