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Tom Vartabedian

Tom Vartabedian

Tom Vartabedian is a retired journalist with the Haverhill Gazette, where he spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and photographer. He has volunteered his services for the past 46 years as a columnist and correspondent with the Armenian Weekly, where his pet project was the publication of a special issue of the AYF Olympics each September.
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    • Dear Eric should know that dear John the Turk is 100% unadulterated AG Denialist.

      in his own words: “I am convinced that The Armenian genocide was fabricated by Armenians in order to take revenge from Turks. Basically, Armenian got what they deserved, They tried to plot a huge land grab from Turkey but ultimately failed then they were frustrated by their idiocy and failure and fabricated the Armenian genocide.”

    • We could care less about who you support and who you don’t. Politically motivated Armenians? Those are big words for a little man. How are the Turks motivated, by greed, wolf-like appetites, theft, hyena-like character, ownership by force? All of the above I would say without a doubt.

      How do you feel when you see the pictures of the towns and villages your ancestors took away from the natives by force, gave them Turkish names, brainwashed you with fallacies so you can come here and display them with your false Turkish pride and welcome us to visit, as you put it, our ancestral cities? We don’t need your con games, we will reclaim those cities, towns and villages and neither you nor millions like you are welcomed to visit.

  1. A sugar-coated—in the best Turkish tradition—comment by a Turkish denialist idiot whose mental capabilities allowed him to think of nothing more intelligent than to put the revered Christian name of John side by side with “turk”.

    “Politically motivated Armenians”.
    Clarification: “politically motivated” are, in “turk the idiot”’s psyche, the prevailing majority of Armenians worldwide who advance the cause of justice for recognition of the Ottoman Turkish crime of genocide. For him, advancement of justice is “political motivation”. Otherwise, if an Armenian only shoots films or writes music, he or she is fine; he or she is not “politically motivated”.

    “I and most Turkish people welcome you to your ancestral cities or places in Turkey.” How sweet of “turk the idiot”! Clarification: after we effectively emptied your ancestral cities or places of indigenous Armenians, you now can visit your ancestral cities or places. Now you pose no danger to a unified Turkish state because our ancestors have forcibly deported and barbarously mass murdered about 2 million of native Armenians. Please, do come and visit what miraculously remains of your ancestral cities or places, including thousands of destroyed or turned to sheepfolds or mosques Armenian churches and monasteries, schools, seminaries, houses, villages, and urban districts. Please come and see with what good care your ancestral cities or places were treated by “civilized” Turks.

    “[…]your ancestral cities or places in Turkey.”
    Clarification: your ancestral cities or places have never been outside Turkey or the Ottoman Empire. It is not the nomadic Turks who invaded Asia Minor from Central Asian steppes just a thousand years ago. It is the Armenians who suddenly appeared in the native Turkish lands and attempted to plot a huge land grab from Turkey. Not their own ancestral lands but lands that have always, even before the 11th-century intrusion of the Seljuks, have belonged to the Turks.

  2. John
    It is important to write the name correctly which is john the turk.The rest of your writing proves what I have been saying for a long time

  3. Eric, fascinating work. I agree that as a community we have to approach 2015 from every angle including the artistic angle. I also agree with you that there are many decent Turks who do not hate us and want their government to recognize the Genocide. My prayer is that the number and voice of those turks increases and gets much louder. We cannot wait to see the film!!

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