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Meguerditchian: Working Together with Ancient Neighbors
The Turkish minister for EU Affairs, Egemen Bagis, recently compared the Assyrian Genocide to “masturbation.” The comment was reportedly made during a discussion with a Swedish parliamentarian of Assyrian descent at an event organized by Assyrians earlier this year.
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Regarding the death toll of Assyrians:
From the Assyrian Foundation of America’s own website:
http://www.assyrianfoundation.org/NewsView.aspx?NewsID=1016
“Assyrians should also be careful not to exaggerate the impact of real events. For example, it has become common to claim on Web sites that 750,000 Assyrians died in 1915, or in World War I, or some similar time frame. Yet no sources are provided for this figure, and it appears to contradict most of what is known about the relative size of Assyrian populations in Persia and the Ottoman Empire in the first part of the twentieth century.
It makes Assyrian genocide recognition look RIDICULOUS TO SAY that 750,000 Assyrians died when it is well-known and easy to find sources stating that the number of Nestorians in the 19th century Ottoman Empire was 70,000 to 100,000, Joseph Tfinkjdi estimated that there were 100,000 Chaldeans, and the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to Paris Peace conference put the entire Assyro-Chaldean population in 1914 at LESS THAN 600,000.”
Bagis is a known thug & his statement of masturbation shows his & entire Turkish government’s caliber.Turks should be ashamed of such character representing them in Europe.
Bagis should masturbate over his proud race, and European Civilization, for what his Altai grand fathers have done to Christian population of Turkey!!