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Has it ever occured to any of the Turkish minds that the informaion that YOU receive ın YOUR country might be prejudice?
I for myself do not believe there has been a genocide like many European ( such as the french..) believe. I really dont think so. But I am a hundred percent sure that the information given at Turkish highschools in history lessons about this topic is faaar away from the truth.
However, what has just happened in France, is unacceptable. EVEN if it was a fact that there definately has been a genocide, it is still unbelievable that such a law can be accepted. It takes the right away for people to judge about situations for themselves and takes away their right to speak their mind (be it without harming anyone).
to cut a long story short.. I think in Europe most people look rather one-sided to the Armenian genocide. I think that what Lapinkulta says about Europe being against Turkey is very overdone, but I understand that point of view because in some aspects its true. On the other hand, I think it is about time that Turkish people also start to see that the information they generally read, is not always true. As a kid I was tought that usually the harder someone is defending himself, the more he has to hide..
I realize that in Turkey there is rather an abstract way of thinking: ıf something is not A, ıt means it is B.
But simply saying there was no genocide doesnt mean that Turkish people in the past didnt do horrible things! Saying that Turkish people did horrible things şn the past, doesnt mean Armenians didnt do horrible things! I believe there was a situation of mutual horrifying actions like they happen in (civil) wars. Probably both are to blame in the past. And if not in the past, then nowadays. For sticking so strict to the own ideas without leaving space for the other.
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) and the way they are put majestical. No matter what kind of person he is, he is surely good at what he is doing!
