Armenians Call It Genocide – Turkey & US Rebuke Massacre Claims
By Donald Griffith on February 28, 2010, 6:03 pmThe 1915 massacre or genocide, in April of that year, of over 1 million Armenians and other groups by the Turkish regime is well-documented. The Turks like the Nazis kept extensive records and there is no doubt that a genocide occurred (if the word genocide is allowed to be used apart from the Jewish experience).
Politics Trumps Morality
To this day the Turks deny this genocide. The U.S. in need of allies, especially with the problems in that part of the world, sidesteps the issue. In addition, the Jews and their home state of Israel, also stay clear of condemning Turkey even though at the present Israel and Turkey have strained relations.
Israel And The Turkish Massacre
Genocide is only important if it plays into the foreign policy of a nation. Israel, though it claims had suffered a Holocaust, refuses to condemn the Turkish massacre of the Armenians. Israel goes a step beyond. Israel’s Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and their similar museums that seem to crop up everywhere, praise righteous Gentiles at the holocaust centers. They not only never condemn Turkey, but do not have exhibits at the holocaust memorials, concerning U.S. companies that were complicit in the Holocaust. General Motors and Ford subsidiaries supplied the German war machine. There was an agreement about Israel and the Jews never condemning U.S. companies, and their part in making the holocaust run smoothly.
IBM (International Business Machines) made sure its subsidiaries in occupied Europe had their famous punch cards that facilitated the roundup and extermination of Jews and others. This punch card system not only had the trains running on time, but had personal information about the Jews, making their roundup throughout Europe an easy task.
Genocide Is A Relative Concept
Genocide will only be condemned by Turkey, the U.S. and for that matter any country, when it is in their national interest to do so. The fact remains that as far as Turkey, the United States and Israel are concerned, the Turkish massacre of the Armenians is to be swept under the rug.
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I never heard of this war until watching 60 Minutes News, it’s a shame on both sides…
Israel should first own up to their ongoing genocide of the palestinians and theft of land, before trying to judge other natios
This is part of the repayment by US politicians to the Armenian lobby. As for the US, it should face up to its own genocide of the American Indians.
Has Mark Reed heard of Armenian terrorists murdering Turkish diplomats in the US, and then being pardoned by Armenian (then) Governor of CA, Deukmejian?
Shame on Israel for denying the Armenian genocide. Nothing can be lower on this planet then
Jew’s denial of the Genocide because of the holocaust. It’s time to recognize the Genocide. Don’t try to mix up issues that are irrelevant. Germany our ally too, but it did not prevent us from recognizing the holocaust.
While progressive Turkish intellectuals risk their lives by challenging the Turkish denial policy, a group on Capitol Hill is busy propagating Turkish fabrications and lies. Why should we be surprised after all, when the Jewish Holocaust is being denied more aggressively by certain politicians ? NATO member Turkey is given carte blanche; for denying the Armenian Genocide, for psycho-terror against the successors of this genocide, for blackmailing U.S. Why should the US build a relationship with Turkey based on lies and denial of Armenian Genocide?
There can not be any excuses and/or justifications for the extermination of a race. Unfortunately, 94 years after the start of the genocide campaign, Turkey’s current rude and shameless denial policy can be characterized just as perverse. Turkey has to understand that the invented glorious history of Turkish bureaucrats – the very ideology of the state itself – is not only biased and based on racism and justification of genocide, but that the corresponding industry of genocide denial, like the genocide itself is a crime against all humanity. It is the mentality of the Turkish politicians as well as the ignorance of genocide deniers which has to be changed, not the facts on Armenian Genocide. What was happened was and remains genocide. It is The Armenian Genocide.
As a result of the genocide, any trace of Armenians is being wiped away by Turkey from their native homeland in today’s Anatolia. Denial of the Armenian Genocide is similar as to justify slavery, or to label the terrible terror act of 9/11 an “accident”, or to deny the Jewish Holocaust. Furthermore, it is a denial of the history of unprecedented American humanitarian acts and reports of American diplomats during the Armenian Genocide. Finally, it is the denial of American history.
Jared,
How about you talk about the Turkish Terrorists the Grey wolves which are still active unlike ASALA which has not been active for 20 years?
Jared,
The Turkish government spends 8 times more money lobbying the US government with firms like DL Piper or the Livingston group, so stop posting nonsense.
Well, Turkey has a dark past and I won’t defend Turkish lies here. But you Amerıcans are the last people to criticize Turkey for this. Do you recognize your own genocide to Native Americans or slavery? I guess you prefer celebrating Columbus day. But your job is easier. There are millions of Armenians in the world but no native Americans left to lobby about their genocide.
Grey wolfes used terrorism during the 1970′s, when Turkish extreme left, paid USSR, killed several thousands of peoples. Such a response (terrorism vs. terrorism) is absolutely unacceptable, but talking about the Grey wolfes without mentioning the extreme left terrorist is double standard and misleading the readers.
The Grey wolfes killed no more since many years. ASALA made his last bombing attack in 1997, and several former ASALA terrorists, as well as JCAG/ARA (another Armenian terrorist group) are still active, within the PKK (Kurdish mix of islamism, maoism and anti-Turkish racism).
Anyway, the Grey wolfes were never supported by Turkish American associations. Armenian terrorists are celebrated by Armenian National Committee of America and some personalities of Armenian Assembly of America as heroes of Armenian people.
Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsoutioune, the prominent party of the so-called “Armenian diaspora” celebrates as a “hero of Armenian people” his former leader Kanayan, aka Dro, who was the chief of the 812th Armenian battalion of Wermacht, a unit who arrested Soviet Jews during WWII (Dro was exfiltrated in USA by his party, and deceased in his bed, in 1956). Young Dashnaks burned Turkish flags with a David star, in 2002 and 2003, claiming their hate of both Turks and Jews. Several Dashnaks of USA, Armenia, Lebanon and Iran (yes, ARF is active in Iran) made anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic statements, during the last years.
Why are the Turks accused of a hideous crime they did not commit? The answer is both emotional and political. Many Armenians feel in their hearts that Turks were guilty. They have only heard of the deaths of their ancestors, not the deaths of the Turks. They have been told only a small part of a complicated story for so long that they believe it to be unquestionable truth. Their anger is understandable. The beliefs of those in Europe and America who have never heard the truth, which sadly is the majority, are also understandable. It is the actions of those who use the claim of genocide for nationalist political motives that are inexcusable.
Does any rational analyst deny that the ultimate intent of the Armenian nationalists is to first gain “reparations,” then claim Eastern Anatolia as their own?
Mert,
If there are no American Indian people left then why are there folks living on various rezes throughout the country as well as Urban Indians in cities? People always act like we’re gone or something.
Anzawur, are you not aware that the Turks left several smoking guns behind? Documented orders to exterminate the Armenian population handed down by every “Pasha” you can name in the savage history of your nation.
I agree with Anzawur that it’s a passionate issue. We Armenians are eager to have the ancestors of the killers of our grandparents and great grandparents step forward and confess.
You took over 1 million lives, you took our Mt. Ararat and lands that could nearly double the size of present day Armenia.
The Turkish government’s denial is pathetic. The entire world watches and says, “Turkey, you’re making a fool of yourself. Admit it already.”