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Re: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Well at the very least I do thank every Turkish individual in here who is not in denial like the Turkish government of today is and has been for the past 92 years.
My father was a survivor from the Genocide. He was a mere child when it happened and one day him and his mother and aunts saw the bodies of his own father who recently came back from America and he was 36 years old then, the bodies of his 80 year old grandfather and his uncles. All killed in cold blood. Then for about a year they stayed at their Kurdish servants' house (him, his grandmother, his mother, aunts and their children). My father used to go to help with the crops with his servants to help out. Then one day he came back and the whole house was empty. The Turkish gendarmes took away his mother, grandmother, aunts and the children away. He never ever saw them again. Then about a couple of years later suddenly my father's young aunt and uncle appeared at night and they took my father away to this brave Armenian woman who was able to send my father to the American Orpahange. And that's how my dear father came to be alive. My father for years later couldn't have a sleepless night. Every night he would wake up suddenly agonyzingly crying in cold sweat remembering all these incidences that happened to his family and the agonyzing thought of them killed wouldn't let him sleep in peace.
On my mother's side in Smyrna in 1922, my maternal grandmother who came from a very wealthy family and they were all in all 150 members. From all of them only 5 of them survived. My grandmother, her 16 year old sister, her brothers and her cousin. One of my grandmother's cousin who was 8 months pregnant, the gendarmes after taking away all the men and killing them, they have opened up her pregnant cousin's belly to see if it was a boy or a girl. They obviously killed my grandmother's cousin and her baby instantly. Then they attacked my grandmother by hitting her shoulder with a gun, then her 3 year old nephew objected and told the gendarmes not to hit her loving aunt. The Turkish gendarmes immediately beheaded the 3 year old little boy's head. You couldn't imagine how agonyzing it must have been to the mother and my grandmother to see all this happening in front of their eyes.
On my maternal grandfather's side in 1915 they have killed all his family as well and because my poor grandfather was a colonel in the Turkish army and a very educated man, he didn't know about the massacres of the Armenians and about the Genocide until much later; and one can imagine how horribly devastating it was for him when he learned of all these atrocities against his family and his race.
The Turkish government seems to be taking it lightly about the killings of 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 through 1923; but it wasn't and it isn't to be taken lightly for the Armenians dead or alive. By denying it they are further hurting our innocent martyrs' memories and they are also hurting every Armenian individual. It is like killing our martyrs over and over again. The Turkish government should get over this by at the very least accepting that the then Ittihadist government committed a heinous crime against humanity. Against the Armenian nation.
Well at the very least I do thank every Turkish individual in here who is not in denial like the Turkish government of today is and has been for the past 92 years.
My father was a survivor from the Genocide. He was a mere child when it happened and one day him and his mother and aunts saw the bodies of his own father who recently came back from America and he was 36 years old then, the bodies of his 80 year old grandfather and his uncles. All killed in cold blood. Then for about a year they stayed at their Kurdish servants' house (him, his grandmother, his mother, aunts and their children). My father used to go to help with the crops with his servants to help out. Then one day he came back and the whole house was empty. The Turkish gendarmes took away his mother, grandmother, aunts and the children away. He never ever saw them again. Then about a couple of years later suddenly my father's young aunt and uncle appeared at night and they took my father away to this brave Armenian woman who was able to send my father to the American Orpahange. And that's how my dear father came to be alive. My father for years later couldn't have a sleepless night. Every night he would wake up suddenly agonyzingly crying in cold sweat remembering all these incidences that happened to his family and the agonyzing thought of them killed wouldn't let him sleep in peace.
On my mother's side in Smyrna in 1922, my maternal grandmother who came from a very wealthy family and they were all in all 150 members. From all of them only 5 of them survived. My grandmother, her 16 year old sister, her brothers and her cousin. One of my grandmother's cousin who was 8 months pregnant, the gendarmes after taking away all the men and killing them, they have opened up her pregnant cousin's belly to see if it was a boy or a girl. They obviously killed my grandmother's cousin and her baby instantly. Then they attacked my grandmother by hitting her shoulder with a gun, then her 3 year old nephew objected and told the gendarmes not to hit her loving aunt. The Turkish gendarmes immediately beheaded the 3 year old little boy's head. You couldn't imagine how agonyzing it must have been to the mother and my grandmother to see all this happening in front of their eyes.
On my maternal grandfather's side in 1915 they have killed all his family as well and because my poor grandfather was a colonel in the Turkish army and a very educated man, he didn't know about the massacres of the Armenians and about the Genocide until much later; and one can imagine how horribly devastating it was for him when he learned of all these atrocities against his family and his race.
The Turkish government seems to be taking it lightly about the killings of 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 through 1923; but it wasn't and it isn't to be taken lightly for the Armenians dead or alive. By denying it they are further hurting our innocent martyrs' memories and they are also hurting every Armenian individual. It is like killing our martyrs over and over again. The Turkish government should get over this by at the very least accepting that the then Ittihadist government committed a heinous crime against humanity. Against the Armenian nation.
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