The Turks

[Joseph]

also i do know...my friends do know.i have never met a historian teacher teaching his/her students being an enemy of any nation...
and surely you cannot be aware of what they teach and do not as well as me as a student who is in her 15. year of education in Turkiye.

I'm not quite sure what you are saying but I do understand your English is not very strong. What my wife has indictated to me is that Armenians are not spoken of in your history classes unless it is to call them "traitors". Perhaps they have updated their text books since then to met EU qualifications but this is what they tried to teach her and her classmates.

[imported_willy_wonka]

I'm not quite sure what you are saying but I do understand your English is not very strong. What my wife has indictated to me is that Armenians are not spoken of in your history classes unless it is to call them "traitors". Perhaps they have updated their text books since then to met EU qualifications but this is what they tried to teach her and her classmates.

EU donot change this...if EU changed history books, then there were kurdistan (in fact a neverland), a pontus rum country and etc...
let me write what we are told in history lessons briefly:
Turks and Armenians lived in peace and trust each other.they had services to each other but nationalism, russians, some organizations (tasnak, hincak)broke this peace...despite these there were many Ottoman Armenians...they were Armenians and Christian but their county was Ottoman Empire...we know that they helped Turks and fight with Turks against the attacks.
and about "traitor" and "Armenian" association you mentioned:
Halide Edip Adıvar says:"offences, faults belong to people not nations"
we are told this, we are told to read Halide Edip Adivar...

in the post that you couldn't understand exactly i said :you cannot know about history education in Turkey as well as a student in her 15. year of education and all in Turkey...you cannot know as well as me...

[Joseph]

EU donot change this...if EU changed history books, then there were kurdistan (in fact a neverland), a pontus rum country and etc...
let me write what we are told in history lessons briefly:
Turks and Armenians lived in peace and trust each other.they had services to each other but nationalism, russians, some organizations (tasnak, hincak)broke this peace...despite these there were many Ottoman Armenians...they were Armenians and Christian but their county was Ottoman Empire...we know that they helped Turks and fight with Turks against the attacks.
and about "traitor" and "Armenian" association you mentioned:
Halide Edip Ad?var says:"offences, faults belongs to people not nationalities"
we are told this, we are told to read Halide Edip Adivar...

in the post that you couldn't understand exactly i said :you cannot know about history education in Turkey as well as a student in her 15. year of education and all in Turkey...you cannot know as well as me...

Indeed the EU has made requests that the Turks must change some rhetoric in their history books and ( this request was also made of Bulgaria, Romania, and other new members and soon-to-be members) reform it's educational system.

Armenians never trusted the Turks, they only feared being slaughtered which is what eventually did occur, yes "their country" did kill them. Armenians preferred to keep themselves to themselves and very few were involved in the revolutionary movement whatsoever. Turks saw Armenians as something less than human (dhimmi) and their relations were conducted in such an atmosphere.

I'm sure Halide Edip did say those things... as she was sending Armenian orphans to Turkish orphanages to be raised as good muslims.

Regarding Kurdistan, I think you'll see one rising very soon in Northern Iraq.

If you are trying to say that I can never know history as well as a 15 year old Turkish student, then perhaps you should be lecturing at the Sorbonne or opening your own publishing house. Bravo!

[realityShow]

If you are trying to say that I can never know history as well as a 15 year old Turkish student, then perhaps you should be lecturing at the Sorbonne or opening your own publishing house. Bravo!

if you were not trying to be sarcastic:
i think she meant that she knows what is taught in history lessons in Turkey better than you since she has been studying that lessons for 15 years...

[imported_willy_wonka]

If you are trying to say that I can never know history as well as a 15 year old Turkish student, then perhaps you should be lecturing at the Sorbonne or opening your own publishing house. Bravo!

congratulations!!!!
then you understood just this from my all sentences about it????

our subject wasn't history at that posts as you know.it was what is taught in history lessons in Turkey and what is not...
let me write again and for the last time about this point:

you cannot know WHAT IS TAUGHT IN HISTORY LESSONS IN TURKEY as well as me while i am in Turkey for 21 years and i am in this education system for 15 years...

in fact i know that you already knew exactly what i said, and you are trying to change the meaning of what i said in my posts...
anyway i have imagined the person i was discussing were more clever... unfortunately i am disappointed

[imported_willy_wonka]

if you were not trying to be sarcastic:
i think she meant that she knows what is taught in history lessons in Turkey better than you since she has been studying that lessons for 15 years...

exactly...

[Joseph]

congratulations!!!!
then you understood just this from my all sentences about it????

our subject wasn't history at that posts as you know.it was what is taught in history lessons in Turkey and what is not...
let me write again and for the last time about this point:

you cannot know WHAT IS TAUGHT IN HISTORY LESSONS IN TURKEY as well as me while i am in Turkey for 21 years and i am in this education system for 15 years...

in fact i know that you already knew exactly what i said, and you are trying to change the meaning of what i said in my posts...
anyway i have imagined the person i was discussing were more clever... unfortunately i am disappointed

I suppose my wife and some of our very good friends who were educated in Turkey are lying to me, right? As far as "changing the meaning" of what you were trying to convey, it probably has more to do with the language barrier and nothing more. I suppose that in your opinion, for someone to be considered clever, they must first agree with everything you say.

[imported_willy_wonka]

i am getting far more dissappointed post by post...

if you want to do something for your past, try to make Armenians' today better instead of trying to rewrite the history...
make today better in order to prevent your children from rewriting their past...
you and your black feelings like hatred, violence and all the other kinds we cannot conceive assort each other very much...we'd better leave you alone with them...post a lot to increase these feelings post a lot...what a blessed aim...

best wishes...

[Joseph]

i am getting far more dissappointed post by post...

if you want to do something for your past, try to make Armenians' today better instead of trying to rewrite the history...
make today better in order to prevent your children from rewriting their past...
you and your black feelings like hatred, violence and all the other kinds we cannot conceive assort each other very much...we'd better leave you alone with them...post a lot to increase these feelings post a lot...what a blessed aim...

best wishes...

Sorry to dissapoint you. The only re-writing of history on this forum is from you and your compatriots as seen time and time again. Remember, if you don't like what you read, you can always leave. I think that's the best course, don't you?

[imported_Ottoman]

Sorry to dissapoint you. The only re-writing of history on this forum is from you and your compatriots as seen time and time again. Remember, if you don't like what you read, you can always leave. I think that's the best course, don't you?

We , the Turks are guests in this forum.
Since forum has some rules .We should obey or go away...
Now I am agree with moderators and suggest Turks not to talk about 1915.
We should firstly break the wall,the silence,the ossification on both sides.
We need dialogue with Armenians.They also need this too.
Armenians and Turks should talk about everything whatever they can.
But if they can not share the same opinion on one subject , there is no need to insist on.We may change the subject to another topic, in which we may have something in common.

God save us all .