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TURKEY'S GOVERNMENT GETS UNREASONABLE AND HYPOCRITICAL: IT WANTS AN APOLOGY FROM ARMENIA!
iNEWP
http://inewp.com/?p=8266
July 29, 2011
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan shifted his attention from
demanding an apology from Israel for the Gaza Flotilla incident back in
2010 to demanding an unreasonable apology for the Armenian President
Serzh Sarkisian's Q&A with Armenian students in which the president
was accused of "inciting hate" in the next generation against Turkey
and subtly "claiming" Turkey's lands that were previously Armenia's
in the past.
Prime Minister Erdogan specifically cited President Sarkisian's answer
to an Armenian student's question which asked if Armenia would ever
get its ancestral lands, called "Western Armenia" nowadays by the
Armenians and "Eastern Turkey" by the Turks, back.
President Sarkisian answered,
"It depends on you and your generation...I believe that my generation
has fulfilled its task: when it was necessary in the beginning of
the 1990â~@²s to defend a part of our fatherland - Karabakh - from
the enemy, we did it. Now, if you boys and girls of your generation
spare no effort, if those older and younger than you act the same way,
we will have one of the best countries in the world."
Note that there is no tone of hatred against the Turks nor any "claims"
on present Turkish lands won by the Ottoman Empire long ago.
Sarkisian continued,
"A country's standing is not determined by its territory, small or
large, a country should be modern, it should be secure and prosperous,
and these are conditions which will allow any nation to sit next to
the respectable, powerful and reputed nations of the world."
In short President Sarkisian is saying: it doesn't matter how big or
small a country is as long as the country's people is safe, happy and
well-mannered which should allow prosperity to occur in both wealth
and culture.
However . . . Prime Minister Erdogan interpreted Sarkisian's answer as
"a provocation, a blunder..an attempt to instill spite and hatred in
his country's youth".
What?!
Before Armenia even considers apologizing for anything at all, the
Turkish government should finally give the long-awaited apology for
the Armenian Genocide which systematically killed more than 1 million
Armenians shortly after World War I started and even prompted the
creation of the word 'genocide'.
The Armenians and their government who should, as humans generally
would, demand for vengeance and compensation in fact try to push aside
differences and sometimes even the Armenian Genocide for friendship
and diplomacy with Turkey.
Indeed, the Armenian government has been the more willing side in talks
between Turkey and Armenia urged by the United States government and
the EU.
Armenia is a true neighbor that the Turkish government does not
deserve at this point.
As justice, Turkey's adamant refusal to recognize that the Armenian
Genocide ever occurred has been one of the reasons why the European
Union membership has been elusive for the NATO member country.
Turkish citizens, mostly intellectuals, writers, artists, journalists
and others, however have already apologized for the Armenian Genocide
in the place of their government most prominently in 2008 when tens
of thousands of Turks gathered online.
iNEWP
http://inewp.com/?p=8266
July 29, 2011
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan shifted his attention from
demanding an apology from Israel for the Gaza Flotilla incident back in
2010 to demanding an unreasonable apology for the Armenian President
Serzh Sarkisian's Q&A with Armenian students in which the president
was accused of "inciting hate" in the next generation against Turkey
and subtly "claiming" Turkey's lands that were previously Armenia's
in the past.
Prime Minister Erdogan specifically cited President Sarkisian's answer
to an Armenian student's question which asked if Armenia would ever
get its ancestral lands, called "Western Armenia" nowadays by the
Armenians and "Eastern Turkey" by the Turks, back.
President Sarkisian answered,
"It depends on you and your generation...I believe that my generation
has fulfilled its task: when it was necessary in the beginning of
the 1990â~@²s to defend a part of our fatherland - Karabakh - from
the enemy, we did it. Now, if you boys and girls of your generation
spare no effort, if those older and younger than you act the same way,
we will have one of the best countries in the world."
Note that there is no tone of hatred against the Turks nor any "claims"
on present Turkish lands won by the Ottoman Empire long ago.
Sarkisian continued,
"A country's standing is not determined by its territory, small or
large, a country should be modern, it should be secure and prosperous,
and these are conditions which will allow any nation to sit next to
the respectable, powerful and reputed nations of the world."
In short President Sarkisian is saying: it doesn't matter how big or
small a country is as long as the country's people is safe, happy and
well-mannered which should allow prosperity to occur in both wealth
and culture.
However . . . Prime Minister Erdogan interpreted Sarkisian's answer as
"a provocation, a blunder..an attempt to instill spite and hatred in
his country's youth".
What?!
Before Armenia even considers apologizing for anything at all, the
Turkish government should finally give the long-awaited apology for
the Armenian Genocide which systematically killed more than 1 million
Armenians shortly after World War I started and even prompted the
creation of the word 'genocide'.
The Armenians and their government who should, as humans generally
would, demand for vengeance and compensation in fact try to push aside
differences and sometimes even the Armenian Genocide for friendship
and diplomacy with Turkey.
Indeed, the Armenian government has been the more willing side in talks
between Turkey and Armenia urged by the United States government and
the EU.
Armenia is a true neighbor that the Turkish government does not
deserve at this point.
As justice, Turkey's adamant refusal to recognize that the Armenian
Genocide ever occurred has been one of the reasons why the European
Union membership has been elusive for the NATO member country.
Turkish citizens, mostly intellectuals, writers, artists, journalists
and others, however have already apologized for the Armenian Genocide
in the place of their government most prominently in 2008 when tens
of thousands of Turks gathered online.