[ April 24, 2024 ]
The author of this article was raised a Muslim in Turkey.
Continuing to deny the Armenian Genocide, particularly at a time when Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered across the world, is one way for Turkey to remain backward, uncivilized and ill-deserving of its aspirations to become a part of Europe.
Turkey: On Anniversary of Genocide, Armenians Still under Attack
by Uzay Bulut
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- It is estimated that between one and one and a half million Armenians perished.
- The government-funded Turkish Institute of History just announced that it is preparing to publish 25 volumes “refuting Turkey’s involvement” in the Armenian Genocide.
- “[I]t’s obvious that the recognition and condemnation of genocides are the most effective tools for the prevention of new genocides.” — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, February 13, 2019, ArmenPress.com
April 24 marked the 104th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey. It was on this date in 1915 that Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested in Constantinople and later murdered. It is estimated that between one and one and a half million Armenians perished.
Since then, Turkish authorities have aggressively denied that the genocide even took place, or that Turks carried it out, and penalized those who dare to assert otherwise.
The government-funded Turkish Institute of History (TTK) recently announced that it is preparing to publish 25 volumes “refuting Turkey’s involvement” in the genocide. The TTK also has produced a documentary — “The Armenian Rebellion Against the Ottoman State, Terrorism and Propaganda” — claiming that the Armenians started committing “atrocities” against Muslims in 1915, to which Turks responded by “relocating and resettling” them. As a result, according to the documentary, the Armenian diaspora proceeded to spread “lies about the so-called Armenian genocide.”
In addition to the Turkish government’s ongoing genocide-denial, there is also an attempt by many members of the Turkish public to wipe out all vestiges of Armenian religion and culture.
Functioning Armenian churches in Istanbul – which are few and far between — have been vandalized on several occasions. In February, for instance, the Surp Hreshdagabed church in Istanbul’s Balat District was spray-painted with the graffiti warning: “You are finish [sic].”
Last year, the Surp Takavor church in Istanbul was spray-painted with graffiti reading: “This homeland is ours.”
In 2016, the Bomonti Mkhitarian Armenian School was painted with graffiti calling to “torture Armenian[s].”
Meanwhile, non-operational Armenian churches, whose congregants were murdered or forcibly deported during the genocide, frequently fall prey to “treasure hunters” on looting sprees. Some of these “treasure hunters” even film themselves digging up church property, including cemeteries, and posting the footage on social media to boast about their quest for gold and other valuables. One historic Armenian church in Kars has been targeted by looters so often that many of its walls have collapsed.
Congregants of the Armenian Surp Giragos Apostolic Church in Diyarbakir — which was damaged as a result of clashes between the Turkish military and Kurdish militants five years ago, and has not been open to public since then — celebrated Easter this year at a café.
In February, the house where the late Armenian poet, Yeğişe Çarents, was believed to have lived in Kars was recently destroyed. According to the newspaper, Agos, since a number of other houses in the area suffered the same fate, the demolitions were thought to have been carried out by the Kars municipality or governorship.
The current population of the Armenian community in Turkey is approximately 60,000 — and shrinking, as a result of the “tense political atmosphere and violence” in the country. One Armenian from Turkey, who moved his family to Europe, told Agos:
“We wanted our child to live in more civilized conditions. Turkey hasn’t been peaceful at least for 5 generations. Turkey cannot manage to reach ‘the level of contemporary civilizations’ and it seems that it won’t in the next 30 years.”
Continuing to deny the Armenian Genocide, particularly at a time when Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered across the world, is one way for Turkey to remain backward, uncivilized and ill-deserving of its aspirations to become a part of Europe.
As Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan recently said:
“We do not view the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the context of purely Armenian-Turkish relations. We see that in the context of global prevention of genocides and ensuring global security because it’s obvious that the recognition and condemnation of genocides are the most effective tools for the prevention of new genocides.”
Uzay Bulut, a journalist born and raised a Muslim in Turkey, is currently based in Washington D.C.
Turkey: On Anniversary of Genocide, Armenians Still under Attack
Since the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923, Turkish authorities have aggressively denied that the genocide even took place, or that Turks carried it out, and penalized those who dare to assert otherwise. Pictured: Armenian civilians, escorted by Ottoman soldiers, marched through Harput to a prison in nearby Mezireh (present-day Elazig), April 1915. (Image source: American Red Cross/Wikimedia Commons)
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4 years ago
Turkey continues its denial of Armenian genocide.
How to Counter 7 Lies in Turkey’s Denial of the Armenian Genocide
By David Swindle
April 20, 2019
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These falsehoods include the following:
1. The book quotes Erdoğan at the beginning demanding that all death and suffering of the period be treated the same, ignoring the historical question of who was responsible: “a fair humanitarian and conscientious stance requires an understanding of all the pain experienced in this period regardless of religion or ethnic origin.” This is akin to insisting that equal historical weight be given to the Jews murdered in the Holocaust and to the Nazis responsible for their deaths.
2. The book claims that the Ottoman Empire did not seek to exterminate the Armenians — that it sought only to relocate them. The decision to forcibly relocate Armenians was supposedly the result of a “life or death struggle,” and had it not been done “to secure both fronts during this time [sic] war,” then there would have been “heavy casualties among Muslims.”
3. The book alleges that Armenians and Turks “lived side by side, amicably” for centuries; the conflict allegedly started with “the armed actions by the Armenians.” Thus, Turkey claims that rising Armenian nationalism provoked the conflict. This ignores the fact that pogroms against Armenians occurred in 1894, 1895, 1896, and 1909.
4. It alleges that Armenians collaborated with Turkey’s enemies during the war and committed violent crimes: “they were involved in manslaughter and looting incidents in cities and towns, that there is a need for a radical measure for the security of the state and that on this account, it had been decided to transfer the Armenians rioting from the war zones to other regions.”
5. The pamphlet asserts that the Ottoman government did have a plan to feed and support the Armenians who were forced to relocate; however, there were “certain setbacks and abuses in implementation” that “caused many Armenians to have bitter memories of this period etched in their brains.”
6. Any abuses of Armenians were supposedly done by “disobedient state officials,” and documents proving that such events occurred supposedly disprove genocide claims because “they also prove that the Ottoman Government did not intend for such incidents to occur, on the contrary, penalized those who committed such crimes.”
7. Finally, the pamphlet asserts that in the 1970s, Armenian terrorists murdered Turkish diplomats and that it was around this time when “forged documents and photographs” and “dubious memoirs” emerged supporting the idea of the genocide. This historical revisionism collapses by doing the most basic historical research into the period. The truth of the genocide was affirmed in the 1918 memoir by Henry Morgenthau, who served as the United States’ ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918, and Winston Churchill’s 1929 history of the First World War, The World Crisis. It is evidenced even by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkish president from 1923 to 1938. Ataturk named the nationalist group responsible for the genocide: “These leftovers from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the lives of millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred …”
To summarize: Today, Turkey claims that the Ottoman Empire’s policy was one of relocation, not extermination, and that it was both morally justified and existentially necessary because it was provoked by alleged Armenian nationalism, violence, and treason.
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Where to begin? All of these historical points and arguments may seem like a lot to unpack.
Go to the link for the TRUTH behind these MUSLIM LIES:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/how_to_counter_7_lies_in_turkeys_denial_of_the_armenian_genocide.html
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I’ve personally heard a stinking muslum Turk deny the Armenian Genocide and refer to it as a defensive reaction by the Turks to an attempted genocide by Armenians on them. His stank was due to his addiction to unfiltered Turkish cigarettes, which made him smell like an ashtray.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
They always accuse others of what they DID or ARE doing.
It’s so tiring…
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
When I went attended the University of Communism, Los Angeles I once took a history class that dealt specifically w/the history of Turkey from the 19th thru the early 20th century. There was absolutely no mention of the Armenian Genocide or any of the pogroms against Armenians either by the professor who taught the “history” class or the textbook(s) or even that slavery was an integral part of the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish “history” professor regularly and vociferously denied the Armenian Genocide and neither the UCLA history department nor the UCLA administration had ANY problems w/that fact.
4 years ago
Congregants of the Armenian Surp Giragos Apostolic Church in Diyarbakir — which was damaged as a result of clashes between the Turkish military and Kurdish militants five years ago, and has not been open to public since then — celebrated Easter this year at a café.>
Strange, is it not, that one (the only?) place in the Middle East where an admittedly tiny Armenian community practices its traditions and observes its holidays unmolested is, is, oh I hate to say it, but it’s I-S-R-A-E-L. Same with the Bahais. But those Zionists are so raaaaaaaaacist.
Does anyone know if the Ottoman archives that might bear the genocide of Armenians has ever been open for review by Western scholars? I believe Bernard Lewis was the first to be given wide access, but I don’t know that he commented on the Armenian genocide.
The Turks were quite clever- acting in the best tradition of the Prophet Mohammed: they conscripted the men, which made it all the easier to massacre the women and children.
Oh well, enlightened folks don’t care about Armenians, now, do they?
4 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
WRT your last question when have you EVER expressed any sympathy for the 70,000 Nigerian Christians slaughtered THIS century by f’ing muslums? Or the 300 odd Christians recently slaughtered by f’ing muslums in Sri Lanka?
I guess your typing hands become severely disabled when it comes to muslum atrocities, slavery, persecution, and mass rape committed in this century.
4 years ago
Uzay Bulut, a journalist born and raised a Muslim in Turkey, is currently based in Washington D.C.
I don’t know or much care if Ms Bulut considers herself Muslim today. I appreciate her intellectual honesty and am grateful she is here.
4 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Yeap whoop-de-doo she recognizes the Armenian Genocide, while ignoring the million other Greek and Assyrian Christians slaughtered by Turks, how very brave. What about the ongoing persecution of other faiths that is SOP in Turkey? What about Cyprus? What about the Istanbul pogrom?
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Whenever I see someone trying to communicate with her, I always think of her as a latrine.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
It’s supercilious, sanctimonious moral bankruptcy disgusts me. I’m sure this POS has tried to get members of the “goon squad” banned — like any good muslum collaborator would do.
4 years ago
It is estimated that over 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered by Muslims.
Meet some victims –
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Oh God. What savagery is this? Anyone who could do such things is not part of the human race.
There is some crack perhaps in a portal of Hell that has allowed monsters to leave their confines.
How could this be the act of anything human?
4 years ago
Even lefty Wikipedia acknowledges Turkey murdered at at least 1.5 million Armenians!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
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4 years ago
Even lefty Wikipedia acknowledges Turkey murdered at at least 1.5 million Armenians!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
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4 years ago
It wasn’t just Armenian Christians who were slaughtered, it was Greek and Assyrian Christians who were slaughtered as well, which makes it seem as if what the Turkish muslums didn’t was more a genocide of Christians than anything else.
4 years ago
It wasn’t just Armenian Christians who were slaughtered, it was Greek and Assyrian Christians who were slaughtered as well, which makes it seem as if what the Turkish muslums didn’t was more a genocide of Christians than anything else.
4 years ago
We need another Vlad the Impaler to deal with Erdogan.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Mitchell
I was a kid when I read Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” I had no idea that it had basis in a real person, though not a real vampire. Then last year I discovered that Vlad had learned his craft from none other than the Turk. A year or so ago it was claimed that Muslim women were calling for Isis to reinstitute impalement. This may be the most brutal way to die. The Turks may be the most brutal people to ever walk.
4 years ago
Reply to
Rusty
The great muslum hero Tamerlane/Timurlane was a pretty brutal MF’er. He bragged about slaughtering Hindus en mass by chopping their heads off. Hindu women commonly committed suicide rather than being sold into islamic slavery. One of the Boston Marathon bombers was named after Tamerlane/Timurlane.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Ever heard of the German historian Koenraad Elst? Here is one thing he wrote in Negation in India.
“The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th Century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death. Entire cities were burnt down and the populations massacred, with hundreds of thousands killed in every campaign, and similar numbers deported as salves. Every new invader made (often literally) his hills of Hindu skulls. Thus, the conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu population; the region is still called the Hindu Kush, i.e. Hindu slaughter. The Bahmani sultans (1347-1480) in central India made it a rule to kill 100,000 captives in a single day, and many more on other occasions. The conquest of the Vijayanagar Empire in 1564 left the capital plus large areas in Karnataka depopulated. And so on.
As a contribution to research on the quantity of the Islamic crimes against humanity, we may mention that Indian(subcontinent) population decreased by 80 million between 1000 (conquest of Afghanistan) and 1525 (end of Delhi Sultanate)…”
It’s been written that Afghanistan was probably Christianized until it was conquered(which is one reason Columbus chose the route to India he chose(Read William Federer’s book “Who Is King In America and Who are His Counsellors”.)) Now all Afghanistan has is “dancing boys.” Funny how Obama punished an American soldier for taking some punishment to one of the users of those boys.
4 years ago
Reply to
Rusty
No I haven’t heard of that historian. It’s nice to know someone has documented the unbelievable atrocities the f’ing muslums visited on the Hindus — and still do. If the Hindus of India slaughtered or expelled every last f’ing muslum parasite squatting on their territory I’d only ask how I could help out.
4 years ago
“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
Churchill
4 years ago
Reply to
Michael Copeland
A man of vision, whose bust was removed by one in power, and restored by another in power, to a place where it belongs.
His disappointment at what has transpired must be higher than the highest mountain peak.
4 years ago
Admitting genicide would destroy his relationship with the EU.
(LOL)
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4 years ago
Jussie Smollett seems to have learned from Turkey to never admit guilt.
4 years ago
At least the Germans learned and apologized for their genocide. The Turks, however…not so much.
4 years ago
Turkey ought to be really punished for this. Maybe in the TURD world war that is coming. Laid flat from end to end.
4 years ago
A perfect example of why you never surrender your guns. See Venezuela today. Govt. troops shooting unarmed civilians and running them over with armored cars. Thing would be a little different if the populace was armed. The history of the Armenians and the Jews would be much different if the situation changed.
4 years ago
Ask any Greek about the Turkish murders of Greeks and Armenians and Catholics as well. It was a slaughter of Christians. This set the stage for the murders of the Nazis and Bolsheviks,and it will not be forgotten. Turkey owes their descendants billions in reparations that will be paid.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
“Reparations” from f’ing muslums? You might as well hope for allah to split the moon into two again.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
The Turks are occupying land and resource that is rightfully belong to Armenia and the Christian Greeks have a real good claim on Constantinople. as well as North Cyprus and several large islands currently occupied by the Turks. That Would make a good downpayment.
4 years ago
God knows thre truth. Who dares to mock God. They should repent for the brutality they committed. I have heard about it, but could not have imagined such horror.
What did they do. God will not let this pass.
Now I understand the deep sadness, the inconsolability in an Armenian I once met. We never knew. His ancestors, his countrymen were likely slaughtered.
4 years ago
An islamic genocide or its denial are not a problem for leftists or the globalists. They want a closer relationship with Turkey, despite the Turkish government’s ongoing genocide-denial. 
DW (Germany) in 2016
4 years ago
I used to know an Armenian guy, his grandmother’s ENTIRE family was slaughtered by f’ing Turks. She only survived because she was a pretty young thing and became a slave girl for a Turkish family.
