‘U.S. President George W. Bush, in his eighth year in office, said Thursday that he shared the pain of Armenians over the tragedy of the World War I-era killings of their kinsmen in the Ottoman Empire, but declined to use the term “genocide” to characterize the incidents, angering U.S. Armenian groups.’
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facts remain facts
I belive what this guy writtes!
Turkey´s Chronic Inability to Face the Truth.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/31824.html
"…. To prevent this, the Turkish Republic has chosen to cling to the stubborn attitude that Ismet Inonu, the second President of Turkey and successor of Ataturk, said in 1938: "The Turkish nation alone has the right to place ethnic and racial demands in this country." This particularly racist attitude is amplified in the six principles of Kemailism (known as the "Six Arrows"), one of which stipulates the basic characteristic of Turkish nationalism: "The Turkish nation is indivisible; no non-Turkish minorities and languages are permitted on Anatolian soil." (Die türkische Gefahr?.., Hans-Peter Raddatz Herbig.) When such blatantly racist statements are the basis of a nation/ state- ideology, it is hardly surprising that genocide and its denial results, as genocide is, in the end, the most paramount and aggressive expression of racial discrimination! (Denial of Armenian Genocide by Turkish has littel to do with the “Turkish honor”!)"
Will it one day be politically inconvenient to classify the Holocaust as genocide? Bush has already proven his ability to misrepresent reality multiple times. That he declares Armenian deaths a tragedy but not genocide cannot alter the truth.
As Abe Lincoln once said– If we were to decide to call a dog’s tail his fifth leg— he would still only have four-as we do not possess the ability to alter the truth- only misrepresent it.
"This particularly racist attitude is amplified in the six principles of Kemailism (known as the "Six Arrows"), one of which stipulates the basic characteristic of Turkish nationalism: "The Turkish nation is indivisible; no non-Turkish minorities and languages are permitted on Anatolian soil." This is a total lie, a deliberate attack to the very foundation of Kemalism. Just on the contrary, Kemalism states that Kemalist nationalism’s social content does not accept any adjectives placed before the definition of a nation; denounces the types of national unity based on racial, religious, totalitarian and fascist ideologies. Great many number of Turks perished during those years in the eastern provinces massacred by then turned militia of perfectly Turkish speaking Armenian residents who were happily supported by Russian army as the X-factor in the harsh territory. This the crux of the issue that makes us think that it should not be treated as genocide but certainly be recognized as a great human tragedy affected all races in the region during WWI. Anyways, like I commented million times in these blogs before, I have no hope that you’d even be willing to debate what had happened 93 years ago historically, you’d flat out want everyone to define it as genocide, and that is not a subject to be up for debate in your logic. This attitude surely does not possess the ability to seek the truth.
That he declares Armenian deaths a tragedy but not genocide cannot alter the truth.
To-may-toe, to-mah-toe. Playing at definitionalism is much less useful than just going with the truth. One word does not an adequate description make, and applying it retroactively after the definition is invented is question-begging. But there are other agendas at work….
As I’ve said before, it’s quite possible that one of the major reasons Armenians wish to insist on official recognition of the events as "genocide" and on dating that goes well beyond the actual events is that it would make the CURRENT Turkish government liable for reparation$ under both international law and the domestic law$ of $ignatory $tate$. Even though the current Turkish government did not exist at the time of the events.
That’s indeed one of the main things they’re after; lands and money.
"facts remain facts" emplifies and illustrates how Armenian genocide proponents rely upon forgeries and falsifications to promote their claims.
Kemalism holds that all who are citizens of the Republic of Turkey are recognized as Turkish regardless of ethnicity because Turkish is a nationality.
This is no different from the principle that all citizens of the U.S.A. are Americans regardless of ethnicity or race.
It is a principle of equality that "facts remain facts" distorts and twists for nefarious purposes.
The events of WWI as they relate to the Armenian issue are not recognized as genocide for good reason. Armenian revolutionaries took up arms against the Ottoman Empire and helped Russia invade Ottoman lands and proceeded to massacre wholesale civilian Ottoman Muslims and Jews. Over 1 million Ottoman Muslims and Jews died in southeastern Anatolia as a result during WWI and from 1919-1922 as Armenian militias continued waging war against the Ottoman Empire.
While the Armenian diaspora continues to rely on forged documents and falsifications, renowned historians that continue to research the events of WWI in the British, French, Russian and Ottoman archives continue to conclude no genocide occurred.
Indeed, military historian Edward Erickson’s most recent article ("The Armenians and Ottoman Military Policy, 1915") concludes that Armenian revolutionaries (Dashnaks and Hunchaks) posed a real military threat to the defense of the Ottoman Empire during WWI and that orders to relocate Armenians in areas in which insurgent activity was prevalent were national security measures consistent with what was considered the normal response to insurgency activity at the time.
And those are the facts.
Those may be the facts in your world. Get a clue.