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Lexington Library Unveils New Turkish Book Collection
LEXINGTON, Mass.—Cary Memorial Library of Lexington, Massachusetts is home to a growing World Language Collection, a program offering members of local ethnic groups an opportunity to request library books in their mother tongue. As the town of nearly 33,000 has diversified over the years, welcom
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Where do you draw the line? The answer is simple: The same place you would draw a line with respect to the Jewish Holocaust. Would they allow any Holocaust denialist book?
No surprise here.
Fanatic Armenians use every occasion to advance their claim for the events that took place over a Century ago.
Regardless of the search of the truth by the American Historians such as Justin A. McCarthy (who teaches History at the University of Louisville, Kentucky), these fanatics seems to enjoy Stamping everyone who oppose their claims as “Deniers”.
Well over 30,000 Armenians are ILLEGAL MIGRANT WORKERS in Turkey today. Armenia needs Turkey for its Economic survival.
Armenians in Diaspora seems to still throw fuel to the fire, instead of promoting PEACE between Armenians and Turks.
Your people practiced cruel genocide on a huge scale and it’s time to acknowledge that but you will not.
It’s difficult to take Mr. Cetinbas’ comments seriously when he makes five mistakes in his first sentence.
1. “Fanatic Armenians” should be “Fanatical Armenians.”
2. “…advance their claim” should be “…advance their claims.”
3. His description of the Genocide, the deportations, the theft of Armenian lands and properties” as “…the EVENTS that took place” must be the lamest euphemism of the month.
4. “…over a Century ago” should be a “…over a century ago.”
5. “…Armenians use every occasion to advance their claim…” is patently false.
7. He also writes “…American Historian…” The sentence makes no sense and there is no reason why “historian” should be in capital letters.
8. “…these fanatics seemS to enjoy Stamping everyone…” Why is the “s” of “stamping” in capital letters? In the same sentence, why does he capitalize the “d” of Deniers?
3. According to his logic, we should forget the Genocide, Western Armenia, and Cilicia because 30,000 Armenians are doing low-wage work in Turkey.
4. Why the “e” of “economic survival” in capital letters?
5. The claim that Armenia needs Turkey for its economic survival is false. In fact, through its blockade of Armenia, Turkey contributes to Armenia’s economic challenges. Why is “illegal migrant workers” in capital letters?
6. “Armenians in Diaspora seems to still throw fuel to the fire, instead of promoting PEACE between Armenians and Turks.” “Seems” should be “seem.” One doesn’t throw fuel to the fire. The verb is “pours”. Why is “peace” in capital letters?
Mr. Cetinbas has to learn English and truth-telling before he hits the computer.
Turks invented genocide and just cannot swallow their barbaric killing of mass populations. A rather murderous nation.
What would Jesus Christ do? Armenians are claiming to be Christians/Catholic, but they sure do not follow his teachings of forgiveness. The genocide happened a long, long time ago, Isn’t it time to reconcile? Is it time to forgive in order to be forgiven? No one stated that Armenians were given a bounty by Russia for every left ear of a Turk. No one has acknowledged mass graves of Turks found in Northeastern Turkey. A French team did indeed follow the path of the genocide, dug up mass graves only to find Turkish artifacts and remains of men, women and children. The event happened in a time of hate and intolerance, so now let’s reconcile and not let the bitterness continue to blind everyone to the ultimate goal. Remember, we are all judged by what we do. If we continue to condemn, we will be condemned. If we forgive from the heart, then there will be joy among the citizens of heaven and of earth. Remember, Christ is watching in tears as we destroy what little good is on earth. Once our time is up, He will be Christ the Just, from whom there will be no ‘second chance’.
A candid reply to a “far-fetched forgiveness plea”:
Denial has always been the Ottoman Empire’s & their descendants’mantra – as long as Armenians throughout the world stay the course & keep enlightening people from all other cultures about what the Turks did with premeditation to our ancestors, we will always have hope that history will render the true account of how a great people survived and prospered for generations after what could have been the annihilation of a whole race by another culture with evil and jealousy embedded in their sadistic hearts; Never forget that the seeds of the extermination of a people (by the Turkish government during the latter & early periods of the 19th & 20th centuries) were planted in Adolf Hitler’s mind when he said in 1939: ” Who does now remember the Armenians?”
Armenians seem to have stuck in 1915. If Armenians wish to be looking back, instead of forward, that is their business. Turks and Turkey, however, prefer to look ahead with hope, inspiration, and determination, the long-discredited Armenian political claim of genocide not withstanding. No matter what the Turks and Turkey do, Armenians are quick to judge it from 1915 window. We are fed up with Armenian obsession with defaming all things Turkish. We are going our way, the new Silk Route way, whether Armenians repent and join us or not…
To Charley Roach and other genocide deniers — What fairy tales have you been reading? The Armenian Genocide is an undisputed fact. The horrors the entire Armenian nation suffered in 1915 are unparalleled in history. The few instances when Armenians killed Turks was simply resistance to slaughter — as what occurred in Van. The money stolen from Armenians helped transform Turkey from a Third World Country (The Sick Man of Europe) into a world power. When Turkey makes an honest effort to admit what its ancestors did and pay back the money and return the land, we will work toward forgiveness. In the meantime you understand denial is the last phase of genocide.