The Turkish government’s denial of the Armenian Genocide is as futile as a man who repeatedly hits his head against the wall, hoping the wall will give way.
For more than a century, successive Turkish governments have done everything in their power to cover up the heinous crime of the Armenian Genocide committed by their predecessors. No Turkish leader has had the courage and honesty to admit the truth. Instead, Turkey has wasted huge sums of money to deny the undeniable. It has bribed questionable scholars and crooked politicians around the world to distort the historical facts. Ankara has published hundreds of deceptive books and made several trashy movies to cover up its crimes. Over several decades, Turkey has spent tens of millions of dollars to hire American lobbying firms to pressure the US Congress not to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide. All of these efforts failed miserably. The US House of Representatives recognized the Armenian Genocide in 1975, 1984 and 2019. The US Senate unanimously recognized it in 2019. Moreover, two US Presidents acknowledged it: Pres. Ronald Reagan in a Presidential Proclamation in 1981 and Pres. Joe Biden in his commemorative statements on April 24, 2021 and 2022. The most authoritative American acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide took place on May 28, 1951, when the US government submitted an official report to the World Court, stating that the Armenian Genocide was one of the “outstanding examples of the crime of genocide.”
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The Armenian genocide is the cornerstone of the formation of Modern Turkey.Turkey’s identity is built on the “Big Lie” of a country inhabited only by Turks and therefore continues its cultural genocide against Armenian monuments and sites, for example Ani. If Turkey accepts the genocide, then it would have to change its identity, education curriculum and transform its society, just as Germany did after WW2. Reparations would follow naturally. But I don’t expect any of this to happen as long as Turkey continues as a fascist state.
If political statements have “no value” and the AG is purely a legal question to be dealt with in a court of law, how are the following issues reconciled?:
1) Can international laws be applied retrospectively, noting the Genocide Convention was only codified by the UN in 1948? and
2) Who is the accused/defendant, noting that the Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923? Assuming this threshold overcome, what about the dilemma that if Turkey can be litigated as a successor state for the past offenses of its former empire, it also opens up the possibility of it reclaiming its former territories and assets?
Mr. Sassounian, its deeper then that. The actual concoctors of the genocide were Zionist Jews. The CUP was a “Jewish movement”, so said Sir Gerard Lowther British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire who witnessed the Sultan being removed and the CUP implanted. He wrote those words himself in 1908. And when oil was found in 1905 in Baku, that sealed the fate of the Armenians as Zionist banking decided it was time to remove the Sultan and install the CUP. And more so, it was to remove the Armenians off their ancient homelands to make a more homogenous race of Asian invading Turks so as to more easily control the trade and oil transit routes with out “Armenian disruption”. Ataturk himself, the supposed founder of modern Turkey, was a Sephardic Jew. Lets start there as most Turks don’t even know that much. So this cover up runs deep. Its not just the compensation factor. Its the actual actors that must be hidden at all cost. But like a rotten smell you cant cover it up. Just look at who today denies and actually works against the acknowledgement of the AG: Israel and England. This speaks volumes.
Conspiracy theories only pacify Armenians to believe that they have no agency about their future. There is little evidence for these fantastical theories. The opposite is actually true! Armenians, get to work and build up Armenia and your communities.
Yes, sir! You are indeed correct on this and it will continue because Turkey never sees the penalty for its crimes just the same as Azerbaijan.