New Neighbors

[imported_Deniz]

Are you bored of the biased Armenian/Diaspora point of view? Do you need something different and constructive? Then I recommend you to visit:

http://www.newneighbors.am

That is an excellent Armenian site providing news for the whole region, enjoy.

[Hovik]

http://www.newneighbors.am/news.php?cont=3&rg=2&date=04.01.2006&month=2&year=2006

Thats rich!

Their going to steal our lands and then sell 'em back to us - right...

And I don't know too many Armenians who'd want to have anything to do with Turkey until they address their past...

As for posting the site - thanks but no thanks

[Serdar]

I'm with Hovik and 95% of the earth's Armenian population.

[Turanist]

I dont think Turkey should let all Armenians buy land in east. What if all the diaspora buys lots of lands. land is cheap. millions of Armenians can move to Turkey. can Turkey afford this immigration?

i think Turkey should pay compensation and then if Armenians want lands then they can buy it.

[Kharpert]

When these insurance claims are settled, we won't need to buy back any of the land we have deeds and legal documents for. And considering the lands which Armenians have been on have mostly been thrown to the Kurds, an Armenian has virtually nothing to gain from returning.

[Turanist]

so how can you have deeds. i thought Ottomans kicked you out? did Armenians carry deeds with them?

[Kharpert]

Deeds are usually in the form of pieces of paper and fit conviently in pockets.

[Turanist]

which court is it?
what if Turkey rejects the courts decision?

[Kharpert]

Turkey has no say in the court case. If the claim is settled in favor of the Armenians then a German bank (Deutsche bank) will have to monetarily reimburse those that have deeds and legal documents that date back to 1915. It's Turkey's decision whether to refuse access to those with the deeds, but the money aspect of it comes from the bank.

[Kharpert]

A Kurdish civil war seems highly unlikely. TurQ posted this a while ago:

Terkey had sensitive approach to this area in past. After the Seyh Said revolt and the British support to this revolt shaped the Turkish state policy for Kurds. But this is past we cant always be in 1925. There is no danger for seperatism which is supported by KUrds. Even the very staunch Kurdish nationalists do not believe an independent Kurdish state in Turkey. They are just being reactionary.

At this point who is right or wrong is not important, the important thing is to have stabilty in the region. Majority of the Kurds in Turkey pretty much aware whats going on in middleast they are not blind for independence, and they dont have any desire to do so.

As far as repression thats an other issue. It is not etnical. If it were we wouldnt have Kurds in our parliment, and they are 30% of our parliment. If Turkey wants to be a strong player in Mid east it has to have strong relations with Kurds. Kurds see Turkey as big brother, Kurds can only unite under Turkey, they cant get along with each other(The 16th century Kurdish scholar Idris-i Bitlisi puts it very well). By rationale politics and strategy we can be the significant player in mideast by Kurds and a significant player in balkans by Albanians.

The Kurdish issue is not that simple to understand. For example let me give you one name "Faik Bulut". He is Kurdish, he is a communist anarshist and fevrent supporter of PKK. But this guy also have close relations with some certain leftist inclined pro-coupist generals(like Kemal Yavuz). He was portrayed as *Patriot* eventhough he had been sentenced by state because of his PKK links. s you see in reality this is not purely ethnical, there is something different going on there. Kurds and Turks have no problem in terms of their ethnicity.

On that note, I agree and have always said that the challenge in getting our land back is having to deal with the Kurds.