Re: recognition of armenian genocide
My concern for Armenians is based on my personal moral values yes.
Before 1908 the revolutionary groups were striving for a more democratic state with every people having equal rights. Their motto was justice, equality and freedom. But of course the 1908 revolution was lie. The christian peoples contiuned to be the second-class subjects. Because the Turks didn't have the intention to cease from the Turkish and Islamic domination over Anatolia. They chose the policy of Turkilizing and assimilating Anatolia. They destroyed the Anatolian identity, erased the rich cultures of Anatolia and eventually created a shallow artificial country with a price of victimizing all the ancient Christian peoples. What a great idiocy.
If they weren't so chauvinistic and fascist minded. Was it so hard to grant autonomy for Armenians acknowledging the historical Armenia and honouring the Armenian culture and gratifying this fundamental and crucial element of Anatolia? Was it so hard to embrace the great Pontic and Greek culture? No they had to look down on them. They had to be dominant. And they erased these cultures from Anatolia as if their culture was richer than these. They didn't have the right to do this. But they did and look at the place where we live right now. A total mess without aesthetics, taste, art. A shallow banal people without roots, culture and intellectuality who worship power and whose main value is violence.
Anatolia could be a great place. A cradle of civilization. A land of peace. A multicultural state where highly intellectual, peaceful and productive people live in contributing the family of humanity. This could happen but they didn't let it be....
Originally posted by gmd
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Before 1908 the revolutionary groups were striving for a more democratic state with every people having equal rights. Their motto was justice, equality and freedom. But of course the 1908 revolution was lie. The christian peoples contiuned to be the second-class subjects. Because the Turks didn't have the intention to cease from the Turkish and Islamic domination over Anatolia. They chose the policy of Turkilizing and assimilating Anatolia. They destroyed the Anatolian identity, erased the rich cultures of Anatolia and eventually created a shallow artificial country with a price of victimizing all the ancient Christian peoples. What a great idiocy.
If they weren't so chauvinistic and fascist minded. Was it so hard to grant autonomy for Armenians acknowledging the historical Armenia and honouring the Armenian culture and gratifying this fundamental and crucial element of Anatolia? Was it so hard to embrace the great Pontic and Greek culture? No they had to look down on them. They had to be dominant. And they erased these cultures from Anatolia as if their culture was richer than these. They didn't have the right to do this. But they did and look at the place where we live right now. A total mess without aesthetics, taste, art. A shallow banal people without roots, culture and intellectuality who worship power and whose main value is violence.
Anatolia could be a great place. A cradle of civilization. A land of peace. A multicultural state where highly intellectual, peaceful and productive people live in contributing the family of humanity. This could happen but they didn't let it be....
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