Opinion
Leylekian: Armenian Genocide Denial: The Turkish Vietnam
By Laurent Leylekian
Once again, Turkish diplomacy is facing a dead-end. Once again, they thought they could succeed by throwing the Armenian Genocide into oblivion with the notorious protocols process. But their own inconsistency and lack of sincerity prevented them from blocking—through the final ratification of these protocols—the course of genocide recognition and the issue of what Turkish-occupied Western Armenian territories.
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my armenian hating friends you will never pass this bill in US, NEVER, it is beter use of your money to help your fellow armenians in armenia who are suffering under russian control, every business is owned by them, you have tow rich countries in both sides you are enemy with whom can help you better your economy
but you are so bilnded by armenians diaspora who basically forms and gets funded by you hating the Turks when are you going to get over this hate and call it as it is
you betrayed your host nation and got killed when you were cought doing the killing
that is all
move on
Turkey will never be able to wipe off the Armenian Genocide History with political power, bribe or by any other means. Even the Turkish people know in their hearts that this was a Genocide commited by their great grandfathers and slowly coming to terms with it. The Armenian Genocide will always remain the First Genocide in the 21st century commited by the Ottoman Empire.
As of now more than 20 countries recognize the Armenian Genocide which include France, Canada,Russia and America has to recogize as this is the country that preaches Humanity and Human rights. People complain about America’s wrongs with its own Native Indian people and Slaves, well, America has admitted to these wrongs and Turkey absolutely denies it.
What goes around comes around, surely. The death of the men, women and CHILDREN are crying out for justice. Well Justice will never be served but its about time we recognize the Armenian Genocide.
Mark? Yeah right, more like Mehmet the Turk.
We are not “armenian hating”, we are turkish hating.
Host nation? The Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and Kurds are the natives of Anatolia, while the Turks were/are the invaders and all the indigenous nations have suffered from your Central Asia barbarity. Secondly, despite all its troubles, Armenia has been developing without any interference by Turkey and will continue to do so. We would much rather be an enemy of Turkey than be forced to magnanimity to scoundrels like you an your barbaric kind. I would much rather be aligned to Russia than a mid-level muslim nation that full of lying scum such as yourself. You go your way, we will go ours.
As vehemently as I will push for the recognition of the genocide, it is also as vehemently as I say here that I do not hate the Turks. I do not work out of hatred. I work out of love for truth, respect for justice, and my Christian faith that says that I am supposed to love the truth.
I honor all people who have suffered terrible injustice. So if my own grandparents and all the grandparents of the people of my community in which I grew up suffered something so horrible, so inhumane, so awful — because they are Christian — am I supposed to turn a blind eye to that? No, it is the people who wish to cover this up who are filled with hatred, not us who love our grandparents and speak out of love and respect for truth. It is the people who are filled with hatred who wish to let anybody get away with genocide against people because of their faith and their culture which is historically much more ancient than that of the Turkish nation, which came along thousands of years after the identity of the Armenian people (and the Greeks in the same region, also suffering with us) was established in this place. That is not hatred on our part; it is love. It is hatred — and help to terrorists everywhere — to seek to cover up genocide, especially based on religious difference.
On the Armenian TV stream, there are comments saying “We won!”. Question…What exactly do you think you’ve won? Recall what happened in October of 2007, when the House Resolution passed 27-21, but then died without reaching the floor. The same will occur once more. It won’t even reach the House floor for a vote, and as a result, will die once again! So, go ahead and hoop and holler all you want, but all you’ve really done is probablly awakened a sleeping giant! Just remeber this…TWO CAN PLAY THIS GAME!
If I were to write a “pro-genocide” commentary and submit it to Zaman, it would not pass , nor would it be printed. Yet, we are allowing commentaries by wild turks , genocidists turks, frothing at the mouth with hate spewing their venomous anti armenian, negationist tirades. It is provocative, it is insulting, and they should not be allowed. Let those wild turks write their toxic comments and submit it to Zaman, their natural habitat.
Very well and interestingly written!