Senate’s Adoption of Genocide Resolution Upsets Newly-Elected Patriarch of Turkey

What a disgrace. When living in a hostile neighborhood it is understandable that sometimes one must use conciliatory rhetoric to appease the oppressor for the sake and the good of the community. But to stoop down to this level is truly humiliating and pathetic. I question the integrity and the origin of some of these Armenian clergy making such self-hating and enemy-appeasing statements.

Furthermore, someone should remind the archbishop that the reason why they have remained on those lands, as he put it, is because when the preplanned and state-sponsored mass extermination and genocide of the indigenous Armenian populations was put into motion in the spring of 1915, the city of Istanbul, occupied Constantinople more accurately, was the political capital of the Ottoman Empire full of foreign embassies and ambassadors and it was because of this fact alone that the Armenian community there was spared and managed to survive. That is the reason why over two hundred and fifty Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were snatched from their homes by the Turkish gendarmes in the secrecy of the night, to avoid visibility, and later eliminated in order to leave Armenian communities leaderless to help expedite their extermination, WHILE hundreds of thousands of fellow Armenians in the remote eastern provinces, occupied Western Armenia, were dragged out of their homes in plain view under criminal Turkish guards and taken out of towns and murdered. The archbishop should understand that his Armenian community is not an island that survives or can survive on its own but that it is because of the Armenians outside terrorist Turkey that they do and can do so. It is the Diaspora Armenians, whom he attempts to distance himself from, that is actively watching and working for the well-being of his Armenian community!

Why does this man bother to make these statements. You are in a country that denies a murder of an entire Christian population. Yes and I am sure some of your own ancestors were killed as well. There is nothing to say no comment to the Turkish press. In that country no Armenian should be commenting on any issue. Secondly about your ridiculous comment “those of us who remained in this country”. Are you serious?????????? Your wonderful Turkish government murdered its Christian subjects. Most of my family was killed during that time. As a matter of fact the priests were the first to be murdered. Some of them were nailed just like Christ on the very church doors that they served. Next the men were taken and murdered and if they were serving in the Ottoman Army they were lined up and shot. The women and children were rounded up either murdered or exiled to the desert of Der Zor. Some were burned alive in caves. Should we live our lives in hate? No. But we should say never again to stop future crimes against humanity from occurring.