Opinion
Hamparian: The Protocols: Turkey’s Fourth Line of Defense
The protocols are the most recent obstacle in our century-long quest for truth, justice, and security for the Armenian nation. For, let there be no mistake, Turkey’s denial of the truth of the Armenian Genocide represents, at its heart, the obstruction of both the justice that is deserved and the long-term security that is required by all Armenians.
For us, as Armenian Americans, the protocols represent our last hurdle to U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
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Hey Aram,
Judging from your piece, it’s quite obvious whom the real desperate ones are (and it’s not Turkey!). That tightness that all of you are feeling is the closing in of truth against the 100 year old walls of dashnak lies and propaganda! Can you hear it creaking as chunks are starting to fall? The protocol’s historical commission will be the wrecking ball which finally brings those walls tumbling down!
Hy robert – as I said, you have been well programmed by your own leaderships. Sadly. Manooshag
Friendly advice to “robert”:
Why don’t you retire where that most infamous high priest of Turkish Denialsm has been disposed of for a couple of years now – yes Yusuf Halagoglou the head of “Turkish Historical Society” or “Turkiya Tarikhi Jamiaeti” – translation, Wholly Discredited (now almost fully bankrupt and insolvent!) Turkish Lie Factory for Fabrication, Production and Worldwide Export of Fables and Lies about Turkish History in general and the Armenian Genocide in particular!
As most people even inside Turkey know this state institution for production of state ideology and state ordered history (costing millions of dollars) had to be protected from its very inception by infamous 301 and other punitive laws forbidding free and independent inquiry of academic as well as journalistic nature into Turkish history in general and Armenian Genocide in particular.
There are signs (as Halagoglou’s dispatch for example shows) that the walls of this fortress of lies are beginning to crack and collapse. And well done to Aram Hamparian for a masterpiece, tracing the progress of this Turkish collapse from its genesis to its present crumbling state.
No let up until Turkish ultra-nationalist racist ideology of Turkism with all its rotten components, just like its counterparts in Nazi Germany and South African, namely Nazism and Apartheid ideologies and regimes, is disposed of for good in the dustbin of history.
That day is very near! Amen!
What this turk wrote here amounts to nothing but Garbage.
These are the grandchildren of the killers of freedom loving peoples.
Ferhat
Only myths need such elaborate protection. As nationalist as Halacoglu was, and no point denying it, I do not recall anything he stated being proven false. He did not fabricate stuff, those were not “his” truths. On the other hand, one can point to every aspect of the Armenian genocide myth and find distortions, fabrications and blatant lies. That is the truth.
I have observed over the years how the Armenian discourse over this issue changed and adapted as more light was shed over the historical facts and figures and more non-Armenian academics delved into the archives and looked at some real facts for a change. Undfortunately one can not fight myths with facts.
Hey Murat,
It seems you have some real problem in observing “change over the years”, as you put it. Otherwise how could you have failed seeing the fact that so many governments and parliaments, scholars, academic institutions including the EP, the Paris People’s Tribunal, International Association of Genocide scholars, etc. etc, even growing number of Turkish intellectuals, have acknowledged, or are acknowledging, the fact of the Armenian Genocide?
It doesn’t surprise me then that the shameful fabrications of a defunct and deposed historian like Halacoglu should be read by you as truth.
Hye robert and murat, two prime examples of the Turks who have been educated in the Turkish leaderships’ lies. The Turkish history books lie to the students, the turkish history books lie to their own citizens, even lie to themselves in creating/discarding their own history..
Turkey shows a brazen leadership which is hiding the truths of their decayed,
decaying and decitful government… all this shall bring down this convoluted Turkish government.
Too, Turkey has yet to join all the civilized nations of the world. Turkey makes/breaks alliances like the are toothpicks… Turkey acts as mediator for other nations – imagine – a nation unable to retain
alliances dares to offer to mediate other civilized nations! And for this robert and murat give their allegiance instead of seeking to replace such leaders. Turkey will only join the civilized nations of the world when the current liars, their leaderships, are removed/replaced as was the Nazis of Germany
after WWII…
Today I read of a 15year old Kurdish girl, in the wrong place at the wrong time, did/did not toss
pebbles (supposedly) at some police as she was on her way to visit family. She has been punished excessively and is in a vile Turkish jail… 15 YEARS OF AGE, A GIRL, A KURD…. Shades of the movie
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS!
What manner of judges – would place a 15 year old girl, a Kurd in a Turkish jail for tossing pebbles?
This can only happen in a Turkey whose forbears were from the Asian mountains – and never joined the civilized nations of the world – despite all their efforts to ‘glitter’ as a democracy… These judges shall know their actions are beyond intelligent and reasonable laws – which do not exist in Turkey.
This epitomizes the nature of the Turks – as they dealt with all the nations whom they eliminated or
worse, kidnapped, raped and destroyed. The turk is the turk is the turk….
murat and robert you shall find those want to change your leaderships – else you too shall be as the
judges who jailed the 15 year old Kurdish girl to the hellish jails of Turkey.
Manooshag