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  • davidoga
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    Re: Do you think Turkey has become a regional Leader?

    Originally posted by Mos View Post
    Where did you see my ideology being based on discrimination? Just Because I don't view Turks as "brothers" I'm using discrimination?

    I think the first step would be an official apology from Turkish State and afterwards there to be some dialogue for opening some ties, opening border, and so forth. I don't think getting back all of Western Armenia is realistic either at this point, but what is realistic and very justified is compensation, though of course no sort of compensation can undo what the genocide did. Or you can choose the path of denial, create tension and hatred in the region, and have to face pressure from all different directions.
    Mos,

    Land compensation, IMO, is the only appropriate kind of compensation. Armenia is (or at least it should be) too proud to take money from Turkey. However, asking for sites literally on the border, such as Ararat and Ani, is reasonable. There are no Turks living here, so the concept of self-determination cannot be used. These sights mean nothing to Turkey, but everything to us.

    However, this is only a reality if Turkey stops seeing Armenia as an enemy state. Therefore, opening of border and establishment of relations should a priority.

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  • Mos
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    Re: Do you think Turkey has become a regional Leader?

    Originally posted by Antifascist View Post
    Artashes and Mos,

    Your ideology is not much different from Grey Wolves of Turkey. Full of discrimination and just based on nationalist/ethnic brotherhood.

    You are even against me, someone who always speaks out against Turkish nationalism. You are against me just because I am Turkish.

    For extreme right-winger people like you 'Only Armenians can be real 'brothers' of Armenians'. Just like the extreme right-wing Grey Wolves who say 'Only Turks can be 'brothers' of Turks.'

    Why do you live your life based on discrimination ? Sad.

    I spoke clearly. Turkey should apologise and accept the genocide. Compensation can be discussed. But border change ? Don't be crazy. So, if you think like that, how far back to the past does the whole world have to go ? So many borders would have to change then !!! I am not saying this from a 'Turkish perspective'. I am saying this as a realist.

    So difficult to talk to a nationalist....Turkish, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Zambian or whatever.
    Where did you see my ideology being based on discrimination? Just Because I don't view Turks as "brothers" I'm using discrimination?

    I think the first step would be an official apology from Turkish State and afterwards there to be some dialogue for opening some ties, opening border, and so forth. I don't think getting back all of Western Armenia is realistic either at this point, but what is realistic and very justified is compensation, though of course no sort of compensation can undo what the genocide did. Or you can choose the path of denial, create tension and hatred in the region, and have to face pressure from all different directions.

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  • Antifascist
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    Re: Do you think Turkey has become a regional Leader?

    Artashes and Mos,

    Your ideology is not much different from Grey Wolves of Turkey. Full of discrimination and just based on nationalist/ethnic brotherhood.

    You are even against me, someone who always speaks out against Turkish nationalism. You are against me just because I am Turkish.

    For extreme right-winger people like you 'Only Armenians can be real 'brothers' of Armenians'. Just like the extreme right-wing Grey Wolves who say 'Only Turks can be 'brothers' of Turks.'

    Why do you live your life based on discrimination ? Sad.

    I spoke clearly. Turkey should apologise and accept the genocide. Compensation can be discussed. But border change ? Don't be crazy. So, if you think like that, how far back to the past does the whole world have to go ? So many borders would have to change then !!! I am not saying this from a 'Turkish perspective'. I am saying this as a realist.

    So difficult to talk to a nationalist....Turkish, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Zambian or whatever.

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  • Artashes
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    Re: Do you think Turkey has become a regional Leader?

    Does anyone remember the discription of the words that come out of Gods mouth?
    Try telling Him to shut up you worthless pieces of shxt.
    Artashes

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  • Artashes
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    Re: Do you think Turkey has become a regional Leader?

    Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
    TURKEY, FRANCE TO MEND TIES AFTER GENOCIDE ROW JUNE 22, 2012 01:28 AM

    The Daily Star
    June 22 2012
    Lebanon

    ANKARA: Turkey has agreed to restore all ties with France, Foreign
    Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday, following a breakdown in
    relations last year prompted by a simmering dispute over the 1915
    mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.

    Ankara canceled all economic, political and military meetings with
    Paris in December after France's lower house of parliament voted
    overwhelmingly in favor of a draft law to make it illegal to deny
    that the killings amounted to genocide.

    France's highest court overturned the law two months later but the
    Turkish measures taken against France, which included restrictions on
    French military aircraft and ships landing or docking on its territory,
    have remained in place.

    Speaking live on Turkish television, Davutoglu said Turkey's Prime
    Minister Tayyip Erdogan had ordered the sanctions to be lifted after
    a positive meeting with France's new President Francois Hollande at
    a world summit in Brazil.

    "The prime minister gave the necessary instructions after meeting with
    Hollande. Because of this new attitude from France, these sanctions
    will be dropped," he said during an interview with news broadcaster
    CNN Turk.

    Davutoglu said he would travel to Paris on July 5 for bilateral
    meetings where they would discuss taking additional "positive steps"
    in the future.

    Relations between the countries became strained under former French
    President Nicolas Sarkozy and his election defeat earlier this year
    was viewed in Ankara as a chance to start a new phase.

    Muslim Turkey accused the former French president, whose UMP party
    put forward the bill, of trying to win the votes of 500,000 ethnic
    Armenians in the two-round presidential vote on April 22 and May 6.

    Sarkozy had also been one of the most vocal opponents of Turkish
    European Union membership.

    Armenia, backed by many historians and parliaments, says about 1.5
    million Christian Armenians were killed in what is now eastern Turkey
    during World War One in a deliberate policy of genocide ordered by
    the Ottoman government.

    Turkey says there was a heavy loss of life on both sides during the
    fighting in which Armenian partisans supported invading Russian forces.

    The Ottoman Empire collapsed after the end of the war, but successive
    Turkish governments and the vast majority of Turks feel the charge
    of genocide is a direct insult to their nation.
    Exactly what I feared. This is why I and others have said : it is only us(Hay) that's going to remember,it is only us that's going to do the right thing.
    A message to the entire fuxking world --- you cannot stop the truth ---
    Artashes

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  • Hyreniq
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    Re: Do you think Turkey has become a regional Leader?

    Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
    Turkey's turn to the east is a result of its faliure in the west. It failed to become a EU state after many years of trying thus it gave up on it and decided to look to the east (unfortunatly for us) for opportunities.
    Turkey's turn to the east: do you mean to the Islamic world? If hat's what you mean; in my opinion this is all a political game that turkey is playing by wearing a mask on the face but with the same soul and the same blood. You can see their true colors buy how they're reacting to Syria's affairs. And after all who really runs Turkey?

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  • Haykakan
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    Re: Do you think Turkey has become a regional Leader?

    Turkey's turn to the east is a result of its faliure in the west. It failed to become a EU state after many years of trying thus it gave up on it and decided to look to the east (unfortunatly for us) for opportunities.

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  • jgk3
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    Re: Do you think Turkey has become a regional Leader?

    Turkey is the springboard of American and European interests in the middle east. With Greece in economic turmoil and Turkey's economy being artificially sustained, it is more confident about it's western front and can be used to concentrate in Middle Eastern (and Russian) political affairs.

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  • Haykakan
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    Re: Do you think Turkey has become a regional Leader?

    TURKEY, FRANCE TO MEND TIES AFTER GENOCIDE ROW JUNE 22, 2012 01:28 AM

    The Daily Star
    June 22 2012
    Lebanon

    ANKARA: Turkey has agreed to restore all ties with France, Foreign
    Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday, following a breakdown in
    relations last year prompted by a simmering dispute over the 1915
    mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.

    Ankara canceled all economic, political and military meetings with
    Paris in December after France's lower house of parliament voted
    overwhelmingly in favor of a draft law to make it illegal to deny
    that the killings amounted to genocide.

    France's highest court overturned the law two months later but the
    Turkish measures taken against France, which included restrictions on
    French military aircraft and ships landing or docking on its territory,
    have remained in place.

    Speaking live on Turkish television, Davutoglu said Turkey's Prime
    Minister Tayyip Erdogan had ordered the sanctions to be lifted after
    a positive meeting with France's new President Francois Hollande at
    a world summit in Brazil.

    "The prime minister gave the necessary instructions after meeting with
    Hollande. Because of this new attitude from France, these sanctions
    will be dropped," he said during an interview with news broadcaster
    CNN Turk.

    Davutoglu said he would travel to Paris on July 5 for bilateral
    meetings where they would discuss taking additional "positive steps"
    in the future.

    Relations between the countries became strained under former French
    President Nicolas Sarkozy and his election defeat earlier this year
    was viewed in Ankara as a chance to start a new phase.

    Muslim Turkey accused the former French president, whose UMP party
    put forward the bill, of trying to win the votes of 500,000 ethnic
    Armenians in the two-round presidential vote on April 22 and May 6.

    Sarkozy had also been one of the most vocal opponents of Turkish
    European Union membership.

    Armenia, backed by many historians and parliaments, says about 1.5
    million Christian Armenians were killed in what is now eastern Turkey
    during World War One in a deliberate policy of genocide ordered by
    the Ottoman government.

    Turkey says there was a heavy loss of life on both sides during the
    fighting in which Armenian partisans supported invading Russian forces.

    The Ottoman Empire collapsed after the end of the war, but successive
    Turkish governments and the vast majority of Turks feel the charge
    of genocide is a direct insult to their nation.

    Leave a comment:


  • Artashes
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    Re: Do you think Turkey has become a regional Leader?

    Did I forget to mention WHO hands out the wings?
    Artashes

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