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Turk who recognizes what happened to the Armenians in 1915 as a genocide. He gave a very informative lecture today, based on his latest book, “A Shameful Act” at my Great Grandma’s church. I recommend everybody read this book; he has done his research by reading documents on all sides (including as many of the official and copied orders from Talat Pasha & the CPU, INCLUDING the Telegram deniers try to cast off as a forgery) to come to his conclusion.
I learned that the Armenians were kept to a different form of savagery than the rest of the non-Muslim population in the Turk’s plan, and that the Greeks were eventually persecuted in 1920 & ’21. The Turks wanted to get to them before then, but, held off because of the Germans (who I found out either encouraged the Armenian Genocide or at least were indifferent to it) telling the Turks to not harm the Greeks because they wanted Greece as an ally. From his book, I learned that “Armenians lived in peace under Ottoman rule,” is deceptive and playing with semantics because, COMPARITIVELY, they lived in peace at that time, as opposed to the savagery of earlier times…but, when the Genocide began (as it had been planned for since 1908) they were the most persecuted and possibly most feared, as they were not allowed to exceed 5 – 10% of the population in any given place. I have not read even half way into Chapter One or any of Mr. Akçem’s other books, but, I really recommend this one for reading.
I am pretty sure this is all stream of conscience thought and I apologize if it doesn’t make sense. I wish I had more to say or could be wittier about it, but, this is all. Taner teaches at a university in the United States because of Article 301 prohibits him from teaching in Turkey. I encourage everybody to tell all their friends who they think may be interested or need to know about this book.
I learned that the Armenians were kept to a different form of savagery than the rest of the non-Muslim population in the Turk’s plan, and that the Greeks were eventually persecuted in 1920 & ’21. The Turks wanted to get to them before then, but, held off because of the Germans (who I found out either encouraged the Armenian Genocide or at least were indifferent to it) telling the Turks to not harm the Greeks because they wanted Greece as an ally. From his book, I learned that “Armenians lived in peace under Ottoman rule,” is deceptive and playing with semantics because, COMPARITIVELY, they lived in peace at that time, as opposed to the savagery of earlier times…but, when the Genocide began (as it had been planned for since 1908) they were the most persecuted and possibly most feared, as they were not allowed to exceed 5 – 10% of the population in any given place. I have not read even half way into Chapter One or any of Mr. Akçem’s other books, but, I really recommend this one for reading.
I am pretty sure this is all stream of conscience thought and I apologize if it doesn’t make sense. I wish I had more to say or could be wittier about it, but, this is all. Taner teaches at a university in the United States because of Article 301 prohibits him from teaching in Turkey. I encourage everybody to tell all their friends who they think may be interested or need to know about this book.
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