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Armenian-Americans Reclaim Site of 2017 Turkish Attack with Peaceful Protest for Armenian Genocide Justice
WASHINGTON—Armenian Americans demanded justice for the Armenian Genocide, drawing a spotlight on Turkey’s abuse at home and aggression abroad at the annual April 24 protest organized by the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF-YOARF) Washington “Ani” chapter, in cooperation with the Armenian Genocide Commemorative Committee of Greater Washington, D.C.
This year’s protest, which included the support of area Greek, Assyrian, Yezidi, and Kurdish communities, was held at Sheridan Circle, acro
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As a turkish-american I’m truely sorry about what my ancestors did 103 years ago. Erdogan regime will never accept guilt or apology, but I know from my heart it was genocide what heppened to innocent armenians.
Thank you, Ahmet. It means a lot to read that. I also wish strength and endurance to your progressive factions there that seem to be targeted by a very authoritarian government which is sweeping up journalists, academics, minorities and dissenters. When I look at the people there, I see my own face and my relatives are lost there. I do not just see descendants of perpatrators-I see descendants of who should have been my neighbors and friends. It could be me there, and likely I have descdenants of aunts, cousins, uncles there. I am glad that you can look at Armenians and also see yourself and realize it could have been you. I hope for a progressive Turkey where recognition, restitution and reparations could take place. It takes guts to own your past. Empathy and compassion are for sure strength in this world although more rare. I own the past of the country we fled to ( genocide, slavery, racism) , so I know it takes courage to stand against the main tide of denial, but I trust that you all have the ability to do it.
you talk on behalf of yourself Ahmet for I don’t have any guilt on my conscious, whether it was or wasn’t or was genocide doesn’t change the fact that I wasn’t even born. ba ha get a life & move on, people are starving & dying as we speak around the world, shouldnt we be concerned more about that than stupid armenian nationalism?
ahmet, you have no right to apologize for something that did not happen. Read what I wrote below. The entire population was 1.5million, so how can there be > 6 million today? I also don’t think you are Turkish since you say Erdogan but there isn’t one Turkish political party that agrees to something that did not happen the way described here. But you did not know this apparently.
As Someone that is Turkic and raised is Britian; a very successful scientist and analyst I considered these accusations objectively as possible.
2 problems:
1. These ‘innocent’ armenians have massacred thousands of Turkic Azeris and under international law occupying their land;
2. If 1.5million armenians were killed mathematically it would be impossible fr there to be over 6 million world wide that all claim to be descendants of the alleged events. In fact the few hundred thousand on both sides claimed by Turks would mean over a million left which would translate after about 100 years into over 6 fold with a healthy birth rate. Of course armenians population is declining but that is due to unrelated, present factors.
Some advice, from what I can see Turkey and the Turkic world under the umbrella of the Turkic council is rising in every way. What harm can all this propaganda (which it what it is) do to your conceived enemy? Making enemies of Turks will only result in the further decline of armenia.
Soykırımdı yaptığımız başka açıklaması yok. Ermeni Soykırımı’nı peki bizler ne zaman tanıyacağız? karanlık geçmişimizde yüzleşme zamanı.. #ermenisoykırımı #ozurdiliyorum