Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Denying Armenian Genocide, Ankara Can't Understand What Democracy

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Denying Armenian Genocide, Ankara Can't Understand What Democracy

    DENYING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, ANKARA CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT DEMOCRACY MEANS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    02.05.2008 16:23 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Truth about the Armenian Genocide Is That It Is
    True! The denial policy of Turkey and the corresponding justification
    of the genocide sends the wrong message to the new generations of
    Turkey; worse, it breeds the potential justification of mass murder
    in the world as a whole, Edward Papelian writes in "Turkey's Chronic
    Inability to Face the Truth" article published in Global Politician
    on April 29, 2008.

    Indeed, as the former Israeli Minister of Education and a Member
    of Knesset wrote in reference to the Armenian Genocide: "We cannot
    accept victims without murderers, genocide without the responsible. An
    orphaned genocide is the father of the next genocide."

    The article continues:

    "Co-existence Is an Obligation of the People of the World: generations
    have had to deal with the genocide of the Armenians. And much time
    and energy has been wasted - time and energy which could have been
    constructively used for compensation and reconciliation. As long
    as Ankara continues to carry out international diplomatic feuds and
    to view the acknowledgment and condemnation of the genocide as only
    provocation or national humiliation, it has not and cannot understand
    what humanity, democracy, compensation, reconciliation civilized
    society, Europe and the culture of remembrance means. As a result,
    communication and interrelations with the free, democratic world
    will naturally remain troubled and disturbed. That is why the time
    has come for Turkey to look in the mirror.

    "Turkey has to understand that the invented glorious history of Turkish
    politicians/bureaucrats - the very ideology of the state itself -
    is not only biased and based on racism, but that the corresponding
    industry of genocide denial is outdated. Cosmetic "reforms" and
    cosmetic "changes" to notorious penal codes are meaningless and change
    nothing. It is the mentality of the Turkish politicians which has
    to be changed, not the facts on Armenian Genocide. What was happened
    was and remains genocide.

    "Even in "modern" Turkey, independent historians and journalists do
    not have an easy life, especially if they undertake any attempt to
    question the official national dogma regarding the Armenian Genocide
    and destruction of other Christian minorities. When they do so,
    the Turkish Minister of Justice speaks of the "stabbing Turkey in
    the back with a dagger" and of the betrayal of the fatherland. (In
    Turkey, such utterances - especially when coming from a minister of
    the government - can be the equivalent of a death sentence and are
    reminiscent of the fatwa of the religious fanatics.) Among others,
    the Noble Prize winner Orhan Pamuk was forced to go to exile due to
    his questioning of the official stance, and the Turkish-Armenian
    journalist Hrant Dink - an outspoken voice of the tiny Armenian
    community still in Turkey (foreigners in there historic home land!) -
    was executed in cold blood in 2007 in front of his office after the
    Turkish judiciary publicly persecuted him."
Working...
X