· It would be a real shame if the US and the Europeans turn their backs on 70 million moderate, democratic and secular-minded Muslims. Turkey has been a stalwart ally to the US, sending troops to fight with UN forces in Korea, allowing the US to station nuclear missiles on Turkish soil during the Cold War, and use Turkish air bases.
· Congress screwed Turkey when they did not have the guts to stand up to President Bush and instead allowed a war that brought chaos and terrorism to Turkey's long southern border with Iraq. It would be adding insult to injury if Congress now passes this resolution on the Armenian genocide.
· This is one country which, albeit its shortcomings, is a beacon of democracy and secularism in the Balkans and the Middle East (look at the rest of them!) and an ally who has stood with us ever since the Korean War. The rest of the countries in the region already hate us and we were simply dying to have the only remaining ally (except Israel) hostile to us, weren't we?
· The fact that every single time the Turks have invited the Armenians to work with them to go through all the records (as the Turks have already done) is also problematic. But it is only problematic for the Armenians, because they have resolutely refused every offer the Turkish government has made at such a collaboration. · Yes, there was a calculated effort by the Ottoman Empire to rid itself of Armenians. Not because they were CHRISTIANS, but because they were separatists who were trying to get a slice of what we now call Turkey.
· That's the rub... The Armenians want it to be a CHRISTIAN genocide, and they want it to be the Republic of Turkey who was solely responsible in the end. Those are not the fact.
· This is a very old issue, here in Europe. Nothing "suddenly" about it. Turkey is having its membership to the EU blocked by this, as well as the Cyprus problemm.It is racism against Turks which is blocking EU-Turkey accession process.
· There are 10 times as many Muslims as Armenians. · These atrocities occurred during the Ottoman Empire, not The Turkish Republic. Blaming Turkey is like blaming Spanish Empire for wiping out the Aztecs..
· All major papers clearly ran editorials talking up how this was a tactic to keep Turkey out of the EU in France. The head of Sarkozy's party is an ethnic Armenian and Sarkozy and him don't want Turkey in the EU even if Turkey said it was responsible for the great potato famine in Ireland. · France is still in denial about what it truly did in Algeria.
· Frankly, I don't buy the argument that politicians were pandering to half a million Armenians - besides, there are 10 times as many Muslims as Armenians."
· Do you know that Sarkozy called Erdogan before the initial vote and said that, in return for some concessions, he would withdraw the text. (Such as opening the border with Armenia. However that border is closed because Armenia invaded and occupied neighboring Azerbaijan 15 years ago, not because of what happened in 1915) Isn't that political?
· Armenian groups went even so far as to sue the Turkish ambassador! Not to mention the fact that they also sued Bernard Lewis, emeritus professor at Princeton, who doesn't agree with the genocide thesis.
· Maybe there needs to be more empathizing the other way around. Did you know that half of Turkey's current population are the descendants of Turks and other Muslims who were driven off from the "Christian lands" between 1820-1924? (an attitude which continued until the 90s in Bosnia and Albania and Nagarno Karabagh) All the Turks see are double-standards.
· US Invasion of Iraq kills 600K+ people but whaam, this bill comes along from the very committee whose bills led to those deaths and says "oh btw, never mind Iraq or Palestine, but you Turks were such baaaad boys a century ago" ·
2. The Soviet Union: 1929 to 1953, 20 million dissidents rounded up and killed during Uncle "Joe" Stalin's purge trials. Never met a "refusnik" (sp?) he didn't like (to wack).
3. Germany: 1939 to 1945, over 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, union leaders, Catholics and others rounded up by Hilter's SS and killed.
Did you know that Uncle "Adolph" was an animal rights guy? He cried when he saw films of lions and elephants being shot in Africa. Sort of took it out on everyone else, as it were.
4. China: 1948 to 1952, between 20-23 million potential dissenters rounded up by Marxist Mao Zedone and executed. Imagine Nancy, over half the Lieutenant Governors in the United States said they thought this was a good, effective, constituency control policy.
5. Cambodia: 1975 to 1977, over one millon "educated" people rounded up under the Pol Pot regime and executed. Really didn't pay to get a "higher" education over there. Like, no "educator" left behind
. 6. Guatemala: 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians rounded up and killed because they were on the wrong side of Marxism. Think about that one over your next cup of Latte. I think they also "popped" Jaun Valdez and his mule too, he should have stayed in Columbia! 7. Uganda: 1970 to 1975, 300,000 Christians rounded up and executed under Marxist Dictator Idi Amin. Hollywood made a movie, "Last King of Scotland" in honor of this poor, mis-understood maniac buffoon. Of course, as far as Hollywood was concerned, it was only the Christians that got "wacked," and they had it coming. Hollywood seems to forget that we all got it coming!
· Turkey has opened their archives to the world long time ago and called Armenia to do the same thing. I wonder why they deny it. Armenian population was 1,294,851 in 1915 based in Boghos Nubar (Armenian)'s letter to France Department of Foreign. And relocated Armenians are only half of it, 600,000. IF all of them were died, do you think dead people gave birth and now they are talking about 1,800,000 Armenian dead?
Please, a little logic!!! Armenians in the east at that time were relocated, nobody touched any Armenian in the west. Because they were the only ones who co-operated with Russians to stub Ottoman Empire on the back.
Didn't USA put Japaneese people in the camps in WWII? History is Historian's job bot the politician's. Turkey is ready to face a serious study of historians?
· Diaspora Armenian should help starving Armenia with those money not the politicians in USA. Turkey is ready to open the border with Armenia IF this comes to a peaceful intention.
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED in 1915 TURKS WHO HAD THE MASS KİLLİNGS THAN ANY OTHERS...
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