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Rupen Janbazian
Rupen Janbazian is the editor of Torontohye Monthly. He is the former editor of The Armenian Weekly and the former director of public relations of the Tufenkian Foundation. Born and raised in Toronto, he is currently based in Yerevan.
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This sit-in makes me think back to demonstrations that Armenian political groups put on in Constantinople in the 1890s and later. Turks would sometimes respond with large-scale massacres.
This has happened in more recent times in Turkey with the riots of 1955, and the various massacres since then of Alevis and Kurds.
Can’t happen again because Turkey is more civilized and “reconciliationist” now?
Who is going to stop Turkey? The U.S.? Russia? The EU?
When Armenians demonstrate, is this a “provocation” of which future Armenian softliners will ask, “Did we provoke Turkey when we did the sit-in? Maybe we should have remained quiet.”
Easy to go back and judge, is it not?
At the moment, there is enough world attention that I don’t think the government would allow anything as bad as progroms to happen. The future however, may turn out different.
Since Armenia has been moving steadily to the Russian sphere of influence and away from the West is there no Faith in your Russian friends”?
I hope, one day Russia will reject shameful treaty of 1921, when Bolshevik Lenin gave away our Western Armenia to Ottoman’s Pashas! Legally both Empires are dead, therefore any treaty between these two Empires is null and void!
http://armenianweekly.com/2011/03/17/protesters-urge-russia-to-reject-1921-moscow-treaty/
Bruce, this is not a Russia vs USA Cold War thing. Turks have been abusing Armenians and others for over a 100 years. My family had to hide their identity in Turkey because they would be attacked. I’m thankful and happy to be an American. Standing up to Turkish racism is not a statement about Russia.
The Turks will pay, not just for the genocide but also because they have continued their psychotic policies to this very day. They could have been made peace with the past so many times – but instead they choose to continue to do evil.
{“Turks have been abusing Armenians and others for over a 100 years. “}
Turks have been abusing Armenians and others for about 1000 years, not 100, since the Seljuk Turks first ‘appeared’ in our parts around 1000AD.
The Islamized nomads brought nothing but backwardness, misery, death, destruction, looting, theft, murder, massacre – and finally Genocide of the indigenous Christians 100 years ago.
Bruce, Do not change the subject. Don’t take it to a different direction. Do not try answering with another ….. IF you do not have any sensible contribution, it is better you stay SILENT at this time, PLEASE.
Disagreement is not changing the subject. It is merely seeing a direction that can be a dangerous road for the nation to follow.