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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.

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