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  1. Wow… truly a historical moment! How appropriate such a trial is 100 years since the Armenian Genocide.

  2. I served in the US Army in Korea during the Korean War (1953-1954)with Turkish soldiers. I had a top secret clearance so was able to move around the war zone quite freely looking for Armenian soldiers in the Turkish army. When I approached the Turks in their base of operations I asked if there were any Armenian guys in their outfit and you should have seen the expressions on their faces. I had three other US Army guys with me and the Turks did everything they could to find Armenians drafted into the Turkish army and serving in Korea. They probably thought we came to start some trouble when they learned I was Armenian. Eventually, I found two Armenian Turkish officers, Levon Sarkisian and Harent Condon, who I became friendly with while we were there. Harent said then when he gets back to Turkey he is going to get out of there and come to the USA which he did and the last I talked to him, about 25 years ago, he was living in Long Island, NY. I can’t begin to tell you the hatred they had for the uniform they had to wear. Well, I could go on and tell you much more but I’ll end it here. GOD BLESS THE USA AND ARMENIA!

    • Thank you for this story. It’s very interesting to hear such individual anecdotes.

      How much did you interact with the Turkish soldiers and what was that like.

  3. Perincek’s opening statement was a reminder of what freedom of speech is all about. And his later remarks correcting Ms. Clooney’s comments about Talaat Pasha along with those of Queen Council G. Robertson’s were indeed a remarkable display of one of the many dis-and misinformation that has been perpetrated throughout the world by Armenian activists. All in all, no matter which way the ECtHR may decide, it is heartening to see that the other side of the coin is finally being shown on the world stage. That, in itself, is a game-changer.

    • Talaat had blood on his hands, including my family’s. If you see him as a hero, then you’re for the crime he committed.

      And what you call “misinformation” is actually our collective experience and not something pushed by “Armenian activists”. And that “misinformation” includes what non-Armenians saw and recorded for history, as Amal Clooney pointed out.

      What’s the game changer? Turkey has been covering up the genocide since the end of WWI. That countries are affirming that 1915 was genocide and being accepted by historians and that more people know about it is what’s the game changer. Otherwise people had forgotten about the Armenian genocide thanks to Turkish activism to erase history.

      Have you not noticed how the Armenian Genocide is being reported in the news? Have you not noticed that it’s being talked about more and more in Turkey, how it’s less of a taboo, how there are now Turks, even if small in numbers, who have been commemorating April 24 in Istanbul?

      The tide is turning.

    • Let’s also not forget all the freedom of speech issues in Turkey. One could not talk about 1915 in any shape or form. How many people were jailed or dragged into court because of what they said about the Armenian Genocide. How many journalists are in prison in Turkey. Did you miss the part where Amal Clooney pointed out the freedom of speech issues in Turkey?

    • Charity starts at home, I suggest you go and champion for free speech in Turkey. Remember Dink, Gezi, Taksim, etc… How many Turkish journalists are languishing in jail for exercising their freedom of expression? What have you personally done to help their cause?

  4. Thank you Dr. Amal Alam Aldeen-Clooney
    Our Hope … Our Yeraz* 
    Your are “The Queen of Humanity” 
    Queen of the Humans Right,

    No one can deny …
    No one can criticize …

    Queen of the English language 
    Queen of precisive phrases
    Queen of the International Law 
    Queen of a respectful female face  
    Queen of dignity…

    Carrying Queen-ness with ironic lawfulnees.
    Every human who love Justice, fairness, truthfulness, 
    Must respect …and apply for every race and in far terrains 
    Those luckless who lost that great gesture, treasure…
    Freedomness…As…every creature crying for…
    To express, and yet live in peace.

    Dr. Sylva Portoian
    January 29, 2015

  5. PERINCHECK’S CROCODILE TEARS THAT HE FEELS THE PAIN OF THE MURDER ARMENIAN PEOPLE BY THE ORDER OF TALAT HE HOLDS TALAT IN HIGH ESTEEM THEREFORE HE IS PROUD OF THE GENOCIDAL ACTIONS OF TALAT AGAINST THE ARMENIANS THE OTTOMAN HITLER.ARMENIANS DON’T NEED WOLVES IN SHEEP CLOTHES.

  6. I lived in Armenia as a Peace Corps volunteer. Love the people & country. Turkey committed much against Greeks too.

    • Indeed. The Otttoman Empire and Turkish Republic committed genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Dersim Kurds, Alevi Kurds, Yezidis, Assyrians, Aramaens, Maronites, Bulgarians.

  7. I told the crowd here what the outcome will be before the court delivered the verdict for the perincek case.we also know what will be the final verdict of the court.not because we communicated with the judges but used common sense.when the court delivered its verdict you will hear that turkey bribed the judges or intimidated europe etc.

  8. With freedom of expression comes the responsibility of being politically correct, not offensive and not distorting the truth. Denying the Armenian Genocide is not only distorting a well documented historical truth but is also condoning such a crime as acceptable, to be carried out time and time again. History is full of such crimes which have been allowed to be carried out over and over again because the perpetrators have been allowed to get away with it.If Turkey had been properly dealt with for the Armenian Genocide it is less likely that others would have dared to commit similar crimes against the Jews, Rwandans etc. It is never late to set the records right but it is an ongoing crime against the victims and humanity to deny a such a criminal acton.

  9. Sevgin Oktay,

    Perincek’s disgusting statements are actually a reminder of the continuation of the criminal Turkish nation’s endless denial of committing genocide against the Armenian people. Denying the historical facts of the worst possible crime against humanity, genocide, is by itself a crime. And if denial of the Jewish Genocide is a crime in Europe, then the denial of the Armenian Genocide is equally a crime. Therefore, Perincek belongs in prison; and by finally convicting him of this crime, will teach a valuable lesson to the rest of those genocide-denialist scums of the criminal Turkish nation. Hopefully, the ECHR will finally uphold justice and send that piece of filth (Perincek) to the garbage can where he belongs; but even if they don’t, it’s still heartening to have the world notice how more and more desperate the criminal Turkish nation is becoming in covering up its barbaric past.

  10. Talaat must be feeling the heat in hell next to Hitler and saying… ARMENIANS WILL NOT FORGET!!!

  11. Let there be not an ounce of doubt in your minds that is nothing more than another form of Turkish racism and hate towards their Armenian victims. This is not about fighting for the freedom of speech to express one’s thoughts without fear of legal prosecution but rather it is about the freedom to hate and the freedom to continue to deny the Armenian Genocide perpetrated on the indigenous Armenians in their own homeland by the blood-thirsty and nomadic Central Asian Turkish ancestors of this disgusting Perincek, a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

    Why would a Turkish politician, and an activist in an organization named after Talat the mastermind of the Armenian Genocide, go out of his way to travel to a foreign country to take advantage of loopholes in the liberal European laws to challenge a historical fact that emptied over two million Armenians from their ancient and now-occupied and confiscated homeland with 1,500,000 brutally murdered in the process, other than for denial and hatred when, in fact, no such freedoms are extended to the citizens of his own country?

    Only Turks of his caliber have the audacity to do such hateful things when only a few years back in his own illegal and fascist country of Turkey another Turkish citizen, but NOT of Turkish origin, Hrant Dink tried to use his freedom of expression in “democratic” Turkey and was gunned down by an ultranationalist juvenile coward in front of his own office.

    Turks are NOT fooling anyone but themselves. It is just a matter of time that you will brought down to your knees.

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