The 100th Anniversary - and Events to Mark it

[hipeter924]

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I wish that the project to get a genocide museum project here in DC got off the ground, but ended up mothballed and dead due to squabbles between those who wanted to fund it, and those that wanted to run it. Would sure embarrass the genocide deniers in the US government, if they were forced to be in the same city as a museum not only commemorating one holocaust but two.

[Mher]

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There is nothing more appalling than the English press. BCC, The Economist, and the rest should just outsource their Armenia related articles to Turkey to save some costs. Hell, leading Turkish sites do a more fair job on the Genocide than these animals.

[londontsi]

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One of the most misrepresented aspects of the genocide is the statement that the Genocide was carried out during the Ottoman Empire.
As far as I am aware the Young Turks came to power in 1908.

Although the massacres started in 1890s during Sultan Hamid's reign, It was the young Turks that organised and executed the genocide.
Founders of modern Turkey.

[Artashes]

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One of the most misrepresented aspects of the genocide is the statement that the Genocide was carried out during the Ottoman Empire.
As far as I am aware the Young Turks came to power in 1908.

Although the massacres started in 1890s during Sultan Hamid's reign, It was the young Turks that organised and executed the genocide.
Founders of modern Turkey.

---- one of the most misrepresented aspects of the genocide ---
You are right. This -- mis/reprentation -- is on purpose. The purpose is to put the blame on the automums as if they were different than the turcs of today, thereby making the turcs of today not responsible.
Nothing more than turc & cohorts falsification (misrepresentation) of the truth.

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Read an article today of an interview of an Armenia American judge (federal-USA).
In this article the judge pointed out that his parents (or grandparents?) --- never smiled. These people had witnessed the murders and tortures of the genocide.
My grandparents were amongst the quietest people I have ever known. I never realized till I read the judges comment that my grandparents basically never smiled.

[Chubs]

Re: The 100th Anniversary - and Events to Mark it

One of the most misrepresented aspects of the genocide is the statement that the Genocide was carried out during the Ottoman Empire.
As far as I am aware the Young Turks came to power in 1908.

Although the massacres started in 1890s during Sultan Hamid's reign, It was the young Turks that organised and executed the genocide.
Founders of modern Turkey.

Many Turks dont even realize it, but the extermination of Armenians is the only reason why they have a state

[Mher]

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Turkey Condemns Russia For Armenian Genocide Recognition

Turkey on Friday strongly condemned President Vladimir Putin and the State Duma for reaffirming Russia’s recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire but stopped short of recalling its ambassador in Moscow.

“We reject and condemn the labelling of the 1915 events as ‘genocide’ by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, despite all our warnings and calls. Such political statements, which are flagrant violation of law, are null and void for Turkey,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The ministry charged that Russia itself is guilty of mass killings committed in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia over the past century and has no moral right to accuse other states of genocide.

Putin referred to the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide in a statement issued on Wednesday. He went on to take part in Friday’s official commemorations in Yerevan of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

“More than 1.5 million innocent people were murdered and maimed, while over 600,000 others were deported from their homes and subjected to mass repressions,” Putin said in a speech at the ceremony. “Many priceless architectural monuments and shrines were destroyed and ancient books and invaluable manuscripts burned down.”

Later in the day, the State Duma adopted a statement expressing “deep sympathy for brotherly Armenia in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.” The lower house of Russia’s parliament had first recognized the genocide in 1995.

“We also condemn this statement,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.

“The participation of the Russian President in the April 24th ceremonies in Yerevan, the show stage of the centennial propaganda campaign of Armenia, should be considered in this context as well,” it added.

Despite the harsh criticism, Ankara did not recall the Turkish ambassador to Russia or announce other retaliatory measures against Moscow.

The Turkish ambassadors to the Vatican and Austria were swiftly recalled this after Pope Francis and the Austrian parliament described the Armenian massacres as genocide.

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/26977136.html

[Mher]

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German lawmakers defy Turkey, call massacre of Armenians 'genocide'

BERLIN - The German parliament overwhelmingly approved on Friday a resolution branding the mass killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a century ago as "genocide," risking a diplomatic rupture with Ankara.

The vote marks a significant change of stance for Germany, Turkey's biggest trade partner in the European Union and home to a large ethnic Turkish diaspora. Unlike France and some two dozen other countries, Berlin has long resisted using the word.

The term 'genocide' also has special resonance in Germany, which has worked hard to come to terms with its responsibility for the murder of six million xxxs in the Holocaust.

In a parliamentary session to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the killings, all parliamentary groups in the Bundestag lower house backed the resolution in a vote likely to infuriate Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

Earlier this week Turkey said a similar resolution adopted by Austria's parliament would have "permanent negative effects" on its relations with Vienna.

"What happened in the middle of the First World War in the Ottoman Empire under the eyes of the world was a genocide," Bundestag president Norbert Lammert said at the start of German lawmakers' debate on the resolution.

Muslim Turkey denies that the massacres, at a time when Ottoman troops were battling Russian forces in the east of the empire, constituted genocide. It says there was no organized campaign to wipe out the Armenians, who are Christians, and no evidence of any such orders from the Ottoman authorities.

German President Joachim Gauck also used the word 'genocide' in a speech on Thursday.

Gauck, a former east German pastor with a penchant for defying convention, also suggested Germany itself might bear some of the blame because of its actions during World War One.

The Ottoman Empire, whose large ethnic Armenian population had flourished for centuries, was an ally of Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany during World War One when the massacres occurred.

Gauck's determination to use the controversial word prompted members of parliament to overcome long-held resistance from Chancellor Angela Merkel's government, which until Monday had steadfastly refused to use the term.

Political analysts have attributed Berlin's previous reluctance to use the term 'genocide' to its fear of upsetting Turkey and the 3.5 million people living in Germany who are Turkish nationals or of Turkish origin.

There are also concerns in Germany that massacres committed in 1904 and 1905 by German troops in what is now Namibia could also be designated genocide, leading to reparation demands.

Most Western scholars refer to the mass killings of the Ottoman Armenians as 'genocide.' Pope Francis also used the term this month, prompting Turkey to accuse him of inciting hatred.

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/German-lawmakers-call-massacre-of-Armenians-genocide-on-100th-anniversary-defying-Turkey-399082

[Mher]

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Short of British news, the events in Turkey were pretty much ignored in news from around the world while the Centennial is still the most popular topic on Facebook and on the front page of every site

[Artashes]

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Short of British news, the events in Turkey were pretty much ignored in news from around the world while the Centennial is still the most popular topic on Facebook and on the front page of every site

That is a welcome observation.
Dispite the obvious economic/politicle reason to deny the --- obvious truth --- as Obama et al are using , in fact the truth is known by all serious honest seekers.
Your observation brings some hope to that simple observation ... Everyone actually knows the truth of what really took place. Too much photographic evidence ,Armin Wagner, etc... , too much eye witness accounts bt too many ....
The dishonesty of the turc is --- KNOW --- on the world stage.
Front and center.
They are now digging the grave for their lies even deeper than the world has just expressed are DEAD.

[Haykakan]

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POLICE IN ISTANBUL ATTACK PARTICIPANTS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL EVENT (VIDEO)

21:42 | April 24,2015 | Politics

Participants of a demonstration in commemoration of the Armenian
Genocide were attacked by police officers in Istanbul, News.am reports.

The event was organized by the students of the Istanbul Technical
University. The students installed the posters of Hrant Dink, Sevak
Balikci and Armenian intellectuals who were arrested and killed on
April 24.

The security guards of the university and police officers tried to
remove the posters, with some police officers using force against
the participants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSPKujrpOoQ

http://en.a1plus.am/1210406.html