Quoting AlphaF: What makes you think Turks do not want to discuss the issue?
Do you know that a fair discussion of the issue, even between historians, are forbidden in some European countries? In France you can go to jail only by saying "There was no Armenian Genocide", even if you are a Professor of history..
If you are, really interested in a fair discussion, pls...but give us your facts....not hearsay crap.
Tell me Armenians did not enjoy 700 hundred years of peace under Ottoman Empire,
Tell me they were not allowed to practice their religion freely,
Tell me they never donned French and Russian unuforms, while the majority of Turks were busy fighting in Gallipoli,
Tell me the Ottomans had no right to fight the rebels and traitors.
Tell me Ottomans were dumb enough to fight Armenians at Empire's weakest state, that they could not have eliminated all Armenians easily a 100 years in advance (year 180 had they an intention of genocide in their minds.
Tell me there were no American missionaries in the area who tried to break the peace among Anatolian people.
Or keep your smart ideas to yourself and let the wounds heal between the two old friends.
Your approach serves neither to the benefit of Turks, nor the Armenians in Armenia, nor Armenians living in Turkey (as Turkish citizens). It only serves a bunch of militant Armenian diaspora, who make their living by selling hatred
Why dont you fight for the rights of Palestinians, with the same bravery, NOW? |
