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Ixtanbul, countries recognizing the Armenian Genocide of 1915 include: Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela.
In addition to nations, many organzations have recognized the Armenian Genocide, including: European Parliament, Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, the majority of US states, The Canadian House of Commons, International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Report Prepared for TARC, The Association of Genocide Scholars, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, World Council of Churches, The Turkish Human Right Organization, The League for Human Rights, and the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal.
The idea that what happened in 1915 was only a deportation is a myth:
The Utter Fiction of the Claim of "Relocation"
The U.S. Congress is invited to lend credence to the transparently incredible assertion that the deported Armenian population was being merely exiled to the deserts of Mesopotamia where they were being "relocated." The brutal and utter cynicism of this assertion is exceeded only by the insolence with which the intelligence of the Congressmen, for that matter the intelligence of any thinking person, is thereby being insulted. Responding to this official claim at the time, Lewis Einstein, the Special Agent of the U.S. State Department at the American Embassy in Istanbul, mocked this brand of "official euphemism...the grim humor of paternal solicitude which usually covers the most barbarous massacres in Turkey...an armed policy of deportation, and the implied sequel of extermination."6 Another U.S. official, Leslie Davis, wartime American consul at Harput, in his report to the State Department described how huge clusters of Armenian deportee convoys on their way to Mesopotamia were rerouted to Harput "only to be butchered in this province...the Slaughterhouse Province."7 The candid testimony of a Turkish general with military jurisdiction over the Mesopotamia regions in question is even more telling in this respect. In his post-war memoirs he emphatically declared that "there was neither preparation, nor organization to shelter the hundreds of thousands of the deportees."8
(Thanks Hellektor for this post)
Nations that deny the Armenian Genocide or postpone the issue are obviously playing a political game to avoid making Turkey or Azerbaijan angry. Just like everyone laughed at the Iranian president, the entire academic world laughs at Genocide deniers. You simply just haven't noticed. What happened in 1915 was Genocide, too bad some people are too thick to see that.
If you ever have the audacity to question the Armenian Genocide of 1915, you are to first read this post. In my experience, in answers denialist claims 90% of the time.
In addition to nations, many organzations have recognized the Armenian Genocide, including: European Parliament, Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, the majority of US states, The Canadian House of Commons, International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Report Prepared for TARC, The Association of Genocide Scholars, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, World Council of Churches, The Turkish Human Right Organization, The League for Human Rights, and the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal.
The idea that what happened in 1915 was only a deportation is a myth:
The Utter Fiction of the Claim of "Relocation"
The U.S. Congress is invited to lend credence to the transparently incredible assertion that the deported Armenian population was being merely exiled to the deserts of Mesopotamia where they were being "relocated." The brutal and utter cynicism of this assertion is exceeded only by the insolence with which the intelligence of the Congressmen, for that matter the intelligence of any thinking person, is thereby being insulted. Responding to this official claim at the time, Lewis Einstein, the Special Agent of the U.S. State Department at the American Embassy in Istanbul, mocked this brand of "official euphemism...the grim humor of paternal solicitude which usually covers the most barbarous massacres in Turkey...an armed policy of deportation, and the implied sequel of extermination."6 Another U.S. official, Leslie Davis, wartime American consul at Harput, in his report to the State Department described how huge clusters of Armenian deportee convoys on their way to Mesopotamia were rerouted to Harput "only to be butchered in this province...the Slaughterhouse Province."7 The candid testimony of a Turkish general with military jurisdiction over the Mesopotamia regions in question is even more telling in this respect. In his post-war memoirs he emphatically declared that "there was neither preparation, nor organization to shelter the hundreds of thousands of the deportees."8
(Thanks Hellektor for this post)
Nations that deny the Armenian Genocide or postpone the issue are obviously playing a political game to avoid making Turkey or Azerbaijan angry. Just like everyone laughed at the Iranian president, the entire academic world laughs at Genocide deniers. You simply just haven't noticed. What happened in 1915 was Genocide, too bad some people are too thick to see that.
If you ever have the audacity to question the Armenian Genocide of 1915, you are to first read this post. In my experience, in answers denialist claims 90% of the time.
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