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    ANALYSIS: TURKEY'S ARMENIAN MASSACRE OF 1915
    By Amberin Zaman

    The Daily Telegraph, United Kingdom
    Oct 12 2007

    In May 1915 the ruling junta of nationalist Ottoman officers known
    as the Young Turks ordered the mass deportation of the collapsing
    Empire's two million strong Armenian minority in reprisal for their
    alleged collusion with invading Russian armies.

    In village after village, town after town, Armenian civilians were
    rounded up and marched at rifle point towards the Syrian Desert. Tens
    of thousands were slaughtered en route; others robbed, raped and
    tortured by Kurdish brigands who would swoop down on the Armenians'
    caravans from their mountain hideouts.

    "When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations,
    they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race," wrote
    Henry Morgenthau, the then American ambassador, in his memoirs.

    A growing number of Western historians concur that the horrors
    inflicted on the Ottoman Armenians fits the United Nations' definition
    of genocide, which is described as carrying out acts "intended to
    destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious
    group".

    Descendants of survivors of 1915, largely form the Armenian Diaspora,
    is pushing for recognition of the genocide the world over. Many are
    demanding compensation and restitution of lost land, even of Mount
    Ararat in Eastern Turkey.

    Others agree that these claims are far-fetched - not least because
    Eastern Turkey is inhabited by Kurds with their own separatist
    aspirations.

    Armenian moderates say acknowledgement of the massacres together with
    an official apology from Turkey would go a long way towards healing
    the wounds of the past. But reconciliation seems far off.

    The idea of being placed in the same category as the Nazis is
    intolerable for most Turks, who believe the genocide issue is yet
    another red herring devised by Western governments to weaken and
    divide their country.

    Although Turkey acknowledges that several hundred thousand Armenians
    did perish, they insist this was a result of malnutrition, disease
    and the wartime chaos engulfing the empire during its final days.

    Indeed, Turkish schoolchildren are taught that Turks were killed
    in greater numbers by the Armenians than the Armenians were killed
    themselves. Those who challenge this official line, such as the Nobel
    prize laureate Orhan Pamuk, face prosecution under laws that make
    "insulting Turkishness" a punishable offence.

    Yet, a growing number of Turks are beginning to question the past,
    stepping forward with "confessions" to having Armenian forebears,
    many of them orphans rescued by Turkish families.
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

  • #2
    Sounds like a censored Hollywood movie.301 puts the fear in 90% of Turks to walk that imaginary line between denial and acknowladgment.
    "All truth passes through three stages:
    First, it is ridiculed;
    Second, it is violently opposed; and
    Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

    Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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    • #3
      I recall various Armenian pressure-groups protesting against US newspapers that carried articles by Amberin Zaman, some even organising protests outside newspaper offices demanding that she never be employed again. Will those groups think it is OK if Turks now start doing the same?
      Plenipotentiary meow!

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      • #4
        Thats the awkward imaginary line ,both sides tend to walk sometimes ,but at the end there are only two camps in this Genocide issue Denialists and affirmists.
        "All truth passes through three stages:
        First, it is ridiculed;
        Second, it is violently opposed; and
        Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

        Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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