Excellent post.It was aimed at a group of people who were allied to the Russians (still in the war in 1915, it should be pointed out) and were trying to break away from the Ottoman Empire. Had they succeeded in doing so, they would have left the Ottoman heartland wide open to a Russian invasion at a time when the empire was being invaded by Commonwealth troops and pressed by a British-inspired revolt in the provinces. What were the Turks supposed to do, hand Istanbul to the Romanovs on a platter?
You're full of shit. You never read Armaggedon's post nor checked out Don Corleone's links.You just have to be a pretty selfish, narrowminded fool to say that it's a joke or something you can just get over. And it wasn't just a civil war or a movement of people. It was during World War I. And it was all aimed specifically at Armenians. It was aimed at a people group to get them out, whether it ment forcibly deporting them or killing them. Trukey admits to people dying, sure, but it is more than just having some people die due to a conflict. They attempted to force out a specific group of people, and to me, personally, and to many others, it is pretty clear there was some intent to just simply rid the earth of the Armenians. That's what Turkey denies: genocide.
i saw lots of black people in netherlands too
Excellent post.
How about celebrating the fact that they represent one of the few cultures on earth with an unbroken history dating to before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth? Armenia, Greece, China, Persia, India - THAT'S IT.
God, I hate whiners.
Hehehe. JUst to be a whiner, Ireland should be on that list of yours. The megalithic tombs, the one in Newgrange in particular pre-date the pyramids by a few hundred years.
for the israeli's on here: israel denies the armenian genocide ... how hypocrite can they be?
on the ancient cultures stuff: greeks nowadays have nothing in common with ancient greeks, irish people nowadays have nothing in common with those prehistoric structures, ...
the armenian genocide: the turks were very well aware that the armenians wanted their own country (as did all the rest). the armenians were neighbours as they lived in eastern anatolia (still do for a part) and them getting their own country would mean that an eventual turkey after the war (which the turks were already aware of as well) would be much smaller than they would want to. so they motivated the kurds to slaughter the armenians! ... for the simple reason that they wouldn't exist anymore to claim their own country! ... if that isn't genocide, what is? and the scale also means it is a holocaust, with 1,5 million people!
it is illustrating that today the turks (and other nations) are doing everything they can to stop the kurds on their turn. because soon after the armenian genocide, they started claiming their own country as well. there have been many slaughters of kurds as well. and turkey is using every mean possible today to surpress the kurds!