how did this all start with Turks having protests?

[aerialshigh]

Im just curious for the first time last year and this year Turks are having huge rallys saying they were killed by Armenians . more lies

So whos allowing this since they never did this before/

Dont you need a permit in NYC to have permission to have a rally, same with Washington DC?

[Kharpert]

please forget this liess...there is no thing such as armenion genocide...wat about turkish genocide???

This forum is not for children.

[brotherhood]

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[Joseph]

I see neither questions or answers but many erroneous statements. For a piece cut and paste from an official Turkish website, at least they could have utilized proper English.

[Hovik]

please forget this liess...there is no thing such as armenion genocide...wat about turkish genocide???

Armenian Genocide = 100's of Foreign Eyewitnesses
Turkish Genocide = 0 Foreign Eyewitnesses

Figure out for yourself...

[Varouj]

These turks should get jobs as comedians. Try selling those sob stories to all the people you have murdered. Boldness built upon utter stupidity.

[ScythianVizier]

The Turks started to protest, and I believe their anger will get escalated over time if the Western / European / Christian countries/nations only focus on the Armenian losses.

In fact, the Ottoman muslims were subject to genocides before the Armenians, and yet there is no European country existing brave enough to tackle the tragedies that fell upon Crimean Tatars, Nogays, Akbhaz, Chechens, Circassians, Karachay-Balkars, Kumyks, Laz peoples, Albanians, Bosniaks, Pomaks, muslim Greeks, muslim Armenians, and Balkan Turks before and after 1915.

[imported_RUDO]

These turks should get jobs as comedians. Try selling those sob stories to all the people you have murdered. Boldness built upon utter stupidity.

You can tell your ideas without being rude.

Be careful!!!(while writing)or Think twice before writing a post.

[Gavur]

The Turks started to protest, and I believe their anger will get escalated over time if the Western / European / Christian countries/nations only focus on the Armenian losses.

In fact, the Ottoman muslims were subject to genocides before the Armenians, and yet there is no European country existing brave enough to tackle the tragedies that fell upon Crimean Tatars, Nogays, Akbhaz, Chechens, Circassians, Karachay-Balkars, Kumyks, Laz peoples, Albanians, Bosniaks, Pomaks, muslim Greeks, muslim Armenians, and Balkan Turks before and after 1915.

Those protests is just for domestic consumption.The Turkish gov. allready is resigned to the fact that they lost the info. war outside the country.
They are just tring to preserve whattheyre version of history is inside theyre own peoples minds .
If Crimean Tatars, Nogays, Akbhaz, Chechens, Circassians, Karachay-Balkars, Kumyks, Laz peoples, Albanians, Bosniaks, Pomaks, muslim Greeks, muslim Armenians, and Balkan Turks are a victim of Genocjde also why wont they claim it also?Could it be because in most part they gave up their national identity to become turks?

[ScythianVizier]

Those protests is just for domestic consumption.The Turkish gov. allready is resigned to the fact that they lost the info. war outside the country.
They are just tring to preserve whattheyre version of history is inside theyre own peoples minds .
If Crimean Tatars, Nogays, Akbhaz, Chechens, Circassians, Karachay-Balkars, Kumyks, Laz peoples, Albanians, Roma, Bosniaks, Pomaks, muslim Greeks, muslim Armenians, and Balkan Turks are a victim of Genocjde also why wont they claim it also?Could it be because in most part they gave up their national identity to become turks?

This is all about the idea of Ottoman Muslim Millet and its modern interopretation emerged as the Turkish identity. I am an ethnic Turk, a Karachay-Balkar (Volga Bolgar), but I have many Turkish friends who have Albanian, Bosniak, Pomak, Armenian, Greek, Roma, Kurdish, Laz, Tatar, Akbhaz, Chechen, Circassian (and so on) background even though they now name themselves as the Turkish people.

In fact, the whole idea of Turkishness could also be generalized in a similar fashion since some significant percentage of the Turkish population consisted of people whose families were subject to very similar policies to the ones experienced by the Armenians (such as my forefathers who were first deported from Caucasus, and then from Balkans). So, for an Albanian Turk, the idea of Armenian Genocide is very related to his/her presence in Turkey. Usually, people say, "they did kill the muslims, so did we kill the christians". In a way, it is true since the emergence of the Turkish nation is after the establishment of the republic. So, the ethnic cleansing of the Ottoman christians is very much related to the ethnic cleansing of the Ottoman muslims ones that took place before and after 1915.

Thus, general interpretation of genocide for these people is associated with the NAZI movies that they watched on TV. In fact, the Turkish Republic has been very ineffective in terms of educating these people in relation to the ethnic clansing campaigns that their forefathers were subject to, this was of course to prevent further ethnic breakdown that could have occured amongst these peoples (just like the one existing at a degree between the nationalist Kurds and the rest of Turkey). At present, for most of those migrant children, Turkey is their home, and the country who saved them from getting exterminated. In a sense, their place of origin exist only as some romantic location that they wish to visit some day, and the political pressure of the west is interpreted as a thread to their existence and an attempt to damage their Turkish identity.