"Turkish / Kurdish Culture"
No fair war, ok. Perhaps you are close to the truth. War is ugly. Victims of war are usually the most overlooked... However, your war was with Russians, and others but not Armenians. You took advantage of the cover of WWI and attempted to systematically eliminate the Armenian people. This goes beyond fair or not fair, this is condemned by the rest of the world as Genocide. In a war, soldiers fight soldiers. In the Armenian Genocide Soldiers and released barbarians from Turkish prisons slaughtered and maimed innocent civilians as their targets, it started with the men, and the intellectuals, and worked its way down to the women, elderly and children. SYSTEMATICALLY... That was NOT a WAR. And not until after this horror began did you have Armenians taking up arms in any significant numbers.
Check a history book... Armenians were known as, and treated as dogs, infidels in the late 19th century. An Armenian on a donkey or horse passing by a walking Turk, was forced by law to dismount from his/her animal and walk the horse past the Turk (obviously Turks were not subject to the same law). Does this say anything to you? Only after we were massacred and our 'freedoms' were totally lost did we DEFEND ourselves. Furthermore, Armenians in constantinople and other western cities could not have possibly helped the few Armenians on the Russian front, yet they were massacred right? How do you explain this? Why have eyewitnesses expressed horror at babies and women who were slaughtered? What do they have to do with a few volunteer Armenian defense units after we no longer could be led to your slaughter. What about the draft of Armenian men and boys into the ottoman army only to be immediately stripped of arms, organized into labor battalions and then forced to dig their own graves before being shot and buried? How was this fair? So Armenians were wrong because instead of the men being massacred in your army, they chose to pick up a knife or pitchfork (whichever was not taken away by Turks with their racist minority arms laws)... right? We are the WRONG ones right? And you...YOU didn't do anything but massacre a few. WRONG! It was an organized calculated attempt to destroy the Armenian nation and/or remove them from their historic homeland so that the OTTOMAN YOUNG TURKS could create the very pan-turkish dream you mentioned above.
Yeah naturally my 7 year old uncle was a traitor because he hid in the chimney of a friendly turkish house, and for that he deserved to have his hands cut off and bleed to death, right?
Or how about my Grandfathers nephew Varstadt who was a young school teacher at the college in Kharpert at the time of the Genocide. He was not a defender, revolutionary, or even involved with the Armenian movements seeking reform. The representatives of the the Young Turks 'Special Organization' welcomed themselves to his classroom and beheaded him in front of his students. Gee, isn't it strange that when Varastadt met his fate he was teaching class and not on the "Russian Front", isn't it? How do you explain that?
And while we are talking about the 'Special Organization', how do Turks weasel their way out of truthfully explaining the purpose and existance of this well documented organization?
Our resistance to your torture and genocide was broken, but we survived and here we are... Only 2 reasons we had insufficient weapons "technology" (not that Turks knew a THING about weapons technology since their weapons were european in origin) are these: (1) Your racist law against minorities, specifically Armenians that they were not allowed to possess weapons - also evidence of the Turkish Genocide formula. (2) We were not at war with you, and unlike Turks we were peaceful people, had been for thousands of years before a Turk ever showed up on our land...
Yes, and...?
No, that is not my understanding. I don't believe Turks should gather whatever they got and return to Middle Asia. You have no idea what my understanding is... And for that matter, it's inconsequential what I think about the Turkish destiny. We are talking about the Armenian Genocide. I can't think of a single Armenian in the Ottoman Empire suggesting that Turks "gather whatever they got and return to Middle Asia", on the flip side, did Turks let Armenians "gather whatever they got" during the Genocide? In most cases NO. In the few cases where they were Turks had Kurds ready to attack caravans of Armenians carrying only their most valuable possessions (obviously the items people would take if only allowed to take what they could carry), so even then they didn't leave with ANYTHING in the end.
Again, I didn't give my opinion on what the destiny of Turks should be right? So, why does it sound naive? Who said it? Not me...
A Kurdish State, or a Kurdistan have NEVER existed in the history of the world, correct?
An Armenian State DID exist, in fact many Armenian states existed when nobody in the region had ever heard of such a thing as a Turk...
The attempted destruction of the Armenian Nation by means of Genocide, so that Turkey could assume control of Armenian lands connnecting Turky to Turkish Azerbaijan, and on into Central Asia creating the Pan-Turkish fantasy your YOUNG TURKS were dreaming about WAS THEIR REALITY...
Pan-Turkism is unrealistic? more likely fantastic? Go spraypaint that on your monuments to Talaat, Enver and Jamal... It was their idea which fuel hatred for Armenians and the eventual Genocide...
Now someone is fantasizing if you think anything different! What did you bring with you from Central Asia when you plopped down on the land of Armenians and others? 'Hatred for anyone but Turks' doesn't count...
Anger gets nobody anywhere... The only feeling I have towards you and people LIKE you, is quite simply - PITY...
I will come to Western Armenia, be sure of that. I will come to Turkey too, I have studied the Ottoman Empire, and will be very interested to travel Turkey while on my way to the Western Armenian homeland.
When showing me Turkish/Kurdish culture, what are you going to present? How about all the Armenian churches converted to Mosques! Maybe i'm stupid infidel and won't notice...
Originally posted by elendil
Check a history book... Armenians were known as, and treated as dogs, infidels in the late 19th century. An Armenian on a donkey or horse passing by a walking Turk, was forced by law to dismount from his/her animal and walk the horse past the Turk (obviously Turks were not subject to the same law). Does this say anything to you? Only after we were massacred and our 'freedoms' were totally lost did we DEFEND ourselves. Furthermore, Armenians in constantinople and other western cities could not have possibly helped the few Armenians on the Russian front, yet they were massacred right? How do you explain this? Why have eyewitnesses expressed horror at babies and women who were slaughtered? What do they have to do with a few volunteer Armenian defense units after we no longer could be led to your slaughter. What about the draft of Armenian men and boys into the ottoman army only to be immediately stripped of arms, organized into labor battalions and then forced to dig their own graves before being shot and buried? How was this fair? So Armenians were wrong because instead of the men being massacred in your army, they chose to pick up a knife or pitchfork (whichever was not taken away by Turks with their racist minority arms laws)... right? We are the WRONG ones right? And you...YOU didn't do anything but massacre a few. WRONG! It was an organized calculated attempt to destroy the Armenian nation and/or remove them from their historic homeland so that the OTTOMAN YOUNG TURKS could create the very pan-turkish dream you mentioned above.
Originally posted by elendil
Or how about my Grandfathers nephew Varstadt who was a young school teacher at the college in Kharpert at the time of the Genocide. He was not a defender, revolutionary, or even involved with the Armenian movements seeking reform. The representatives of the the Young Turks 'Special Organization' welcomed themselves to his classroom and beheaded him in front of his students. Gee, isn't it strange that when Varastadt met his fate he was teaching class and not on the "Russian Front", isn't it? How do you explain that?
And while we are talking about the 'Special Organization', how do Turks weasel their way out of truthfully explaining the purpose and existance of this well documented organization?
Originally posted by elendil
Originally posted by elendil
Originally posted by elendil
Again, I didn't give my opinion on what the destiny of Turks should be right? So, why does it sound naive? Who said it? Not me...
Originally posted by elendil
An Armenian State DID exist, in fact many Armenian states existed when nobody in the region had ever heard of such a thing as a Turk...
The attempted destruction of the Armenian Nation by means of Genocide, so that Turkey could assume control of Armenian lands connnecting Turky to Turkish Azerbaijan, and on into Central Asia creating the Pan-Turkish fantasy your YOUNG TURKS were dreaming about WAS THEIR REALITY...
Originally posted by elendil
Originally posted by elendil
Originally posted by elendil
Originally posted by elendil
When showing me Turkish/Kurdish culture, what are you going to present? How about all the Armenian churches converted to Mosques! Maybe i'm stupid infidel and won't notice...
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