Opinion
Armenia: Yesterday, Today, and Maybe No Tomorrow
Yesterday, Armenia was a battlefield and prize for competing empires. Today, Armenia is a battlefield and prize for competing empires.
Yesterday, the Young Turk regime released criminals from prison to terrorize Armenians. Today, Turkish and Armenian regimes contain criminals who terrorize Armenians.
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Yesterday Armenian betrayed their own country of Ottoman Empire by cooperating Russia today American Armenian are betraying their father land by keeping on telling the same lies…
And another mehmet in 100 years will say the killings in Syria are a myth and never such things happened… the mankind history has never been short of “mehmet”s
A little over-dramatic, no?
This article, “Armenia: Yesterday, Today, and Maybe No Tomorrow” is really good because young Armenian readers often do not know what happened to Armenians in the pastat the hands of the Turks, except perhaps for a very general knowledge of the genocide. These young generations may, therefore, repeat the mistakes of the past or become vuilnerable to Turkish propaganda. We can’t assume that just because some of us know about Armenian history that all Armenians do. In fact, I would like to suggest that seminars for young Armenians be held which actually explain the historical points raised by the author. There is an unfortunate tendency among some liberal Armenians to say, in effect, “Oh, the Turks of today are different – they would never commit massacres or deportations again.” Really? Ask the Kurds what they have been going through in Turkey and tell me “it can’t happen again.” Tell the Armenians in Karabagh that “it can’t happen again.”
Permit me to respond to Mr. Guliyev’s false contention that Turkish Armenians themselves revolted with Russian help against the wretched Ottoman Empire.
The Jews of Palestine – in Palestine itself – cooperated with the British against the Ottomans during WW I (see Yair Auron’s book, The Banality of Denial). Should Jews have been wiped out too, Mr. Guliyev? The Arabs revolted with British help against the Ottomans. T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) played a huge role in that. Mr. Guliyev, go tell the Arabs that Taalat should have cleansed them from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, etc. See what their reacti0n is.
I wonder if Mr. Guliyev realizes how bad it makes Turkey look to use alleged revolts as an excuse for wiping out people. Actually, as an Armenian, I kind of like his doing that. It reflects badly on the Turkish government.
Lucine has a unique way expressing her thoughts , it is intellectually provocative and yet
it reflects the truth , which makes some people uncomfortable specially the ones who are blinded by optimistic statements of some leaders in Armenian society , yet it will be well advised if these optimistic leaders look at turkey’s negations tactics for cypress they have not given un an inch to europe , US and greece they did not do it yesterday they are not doing it today and may be they will do it sometime in the future but they will extract a heavy price