Akcam: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister and Bulent Arinc

There was no suggestion of “hatred” in the original English remark: “Before I met you, Turkish was the language of the enemy. Now it’s the voice of my friend.”

Wow what a good and an honest man you are dear Mr. Akcam, my hat’s off to you.  Indeed the Muslims in the Middle East were very good to us all Armenians after the Genocide.  They took us all in and let us share their lands by making us their citizens and we had every right to live, multiply and have a great livelihood in the Middle East; plus we were able to have our Churches, our schools, our get-to-gethers in our wonderful halls and even have seats in their parliaments, such was the numerous cases in Lebanon and probably elsewhere too.  Indeed some Muslim Turks and Muslim Kurds had a good heart and kept many Armenians from being massacred in 1915 (I have heard of it myself from sources).  Some Muslims indeed have tried.  The one’s that killed atrociously, barbarically and murderously were the ones that were hired by Talaat Pasha and the rest of the Unionists, who also let out their worst convicted murderers out of prisons to do the dirty jobs for them as they did to some hired Turks, Kurds and their Gendarmes.  Because Mr. Akcam, it is true that the Koran believes in the same God as we do Christians believe, and God does not allow innocent people and civilians en masse to be murdered, just because they also believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.  The Koran doesn’t ever say that.  It was very unfortunate though that the Turkish elite in the 1900’s were extremely weak and they let outside sources like the CUP (Talaat/Enver/Gemal/Dr. Nazim)  to rule their own country and use their own Turkey, the Turkish land and the Turkish people to commit the first Genocide of the twentieth century from 1915 through 1923.  Indeed in 1922 it was Kemal Ataturk who charged into Smyrna and had the Turkish gendarmes kill 130,000 Armenian civilians (my grandmother’s 150 members were amongst them, only 5 out of 150 of them survived), then right after that, Kemal Ataturk went after the civilian Greeks and had them annihilated.  We understand Dr. Akcam, that it wasn’t the Turkish government who was ruling Turkey in 1915; but it was the CUP – the Unionists who originally were exiled from Spain and came to Turkey as Turkey opened their doors to them in the 1600’s era, and they were (the CUP) was the ones who plotted against the civilian Armenians’ killings which practically made them to be of an extinct race.  However, the Turkish government of today must accept the crimes against the 1.5 Million Armenians’ killings; because it was the Turkish government of 1915 who have committed the Armenian Genocide.

How about telling Armenians about their “inconvenient truths”?  That takes real decency a rental mouthpiece can not afford it seems. 

There is an element of truth in the above though.  Turks have been in a process of facing their own failings, cleaning their closets and  correcting mistaken policies of their past for a while now.  While he describes all this, he is still at the same time calling on them to “face” their history.  By that he only means adopting the position of Dashnaks!  Of course there are cheers from bleechers!  This is the only way he can maintain his presence on these pages.

Does he not know that Turks of Republic of Turkey will consider themselves no more responsible for Ottoman policies than Italian government will take responsibility for the Roman policies or actions?  Of course he does.   Does he not know that it was nationalism among other things that brought an end to the Ottoman empire, and it was nationalism that made the end of Sick Man of Europe (of Europe!?) so violent.  I am not talking about Turkish nationalism by the way.  Of course he knows.  Doesn’t he know all the Armenian myths, the forgeries, propaganda, the blood-feud and racism and hate that fills these pages?  Of course he knows.  Does he not know that while he preaches open discussion of truth, those who dare to challenge the myths are gagged in some parts of the “civilized” world as a result of Armenian efforts?  Of course he does. 

People like him are the reason why the discussion of actual truth and facts have been torturous and why Turkish nationalists have found it easy to carry on their agendas.  Not the other way around as some here believe. 

Just as importantly, where is the Armenian Akcam – pun intended!