The next step

[imported_nemesis]

I am sure you are right. But again that doesnt show the whole people idealogy and aim. There are soo many Skin Heads gangs in Germany, the government of German people did alot to get rid of them. But again it stays the same. I guess at this point we should better distunguish the starting point and aim. Who did it and why they did that?
I am proud to be Turkish, and i am proud of my multi-cultural ethnic background. You feel alot more tollerant against any kind of angryness and violence if you know the reason and solution.
My mother came from Greece and my father came from middle Anatolia.
My Grandfather (my dad's father) is Arab, and he was the police officer chief of Kemal Ataturk. My mother's father coming from Kirim (Russia). I am proud of this. I have tons of Armenian, Jewish, and Cypriot friends. We are always talking about the confilicts and how people are trying to manipulate NOW with THE PAST. I am just willing to underline, It is a redicilous thing to do. If were are trying to distort/change NOW by using PAST, we commit SIN i guess.

Those things happened before, are not happening right now. Ofcourse there are some people who has sick ideas, but this doesnt reflect the whole precious attitude of Turkish. I must honestly say, Turkey and Turkish people has been and will always be, well behaved/loving and careing towards foreigners/minorities and each other by %90 of the population. This is real and will always be. I really dont care that little percentage and eventually if we stop talking about that percentage and pin point it, it will disapear.

Turkey and Turkish shared alot with their minorities (not like any other country). We suffered together, we laughed together and worked together and sure will live together for many many years.

I dont think diging the graves and trying to prove the old suffering and pain every second day will going to help someone/or some government to recognize or fell the pain of those people who suffered. It will just going to start a flame of endless and pointless war.

I personally fell the pain and suffering of people who has been betrayed and also who has been badly treated. But at the end this is life.
Life is not always full of joy.

I dont think there is a problem for Turkey and Armenia to overcome this particular situation. In fact we as people has already did that.
And If you are talking about politicts. Who cares about those bunch of idiots anyway.

Cheeres to everyone.

Thanks for your thoughts I myself have a lot of Turkish friends and do agree that the majority of Turkish people are nice and we're so much alike..my problem is not with people like you its with the mistakes that were done by the previous Turkish governments ...However I do agree that digging the past will not help anything we should look into the future
Take care

[taboo]

Hi Hovik and Nemesis;

I can not agree with you guys more.
I came to this forum with prejudice feeling but now i can say, it is a great forum to be.

I am thinking exactly what you guys are saying.
We need to change our image as Turkey in Europe and in America and also act like a democratic country.(i am saying act, because IMHO no country is democratic and will never be ) We are maybe the worst country in the world not representing itself nicely.

I will do my best, and will fight against with the problems in my country and in my government which is misrepresenting the majority of Turkish people and reflecting a very false image of what Turkey is.

As you can tell, the coruption in Turkey's government is really high. Nothing is done and everything is moving really slowly. (Even if, the recent government looks like they are doing something. But deeply they are not)
But if we as Turkish people will create a public opinion, i think they will act sooner.

I am hoping that we will overcome this.
Thanks for the heads up guys. I really appriciated.

You can now officially count me in.
And this can be my official joining msg to this forum.

Cheers to everyone.
Thanks