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WILL OBAMA BE THE NEXT WORLD LEADER TO RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE?
Ha'aretz, Israel
April 21 2015
With authorities as diverse as the Vatican and European Parliament
recently acknowledging the atrocities of 1915, Turkey's leaders have
been in belligerent mood.
By Zvi Bar'el | Apr. 21, 2015 | 1:06 AM
In a recent column on the Hurriyet Daily News website, commentator
Burak Bekdil promises his readers "good news" and proceeds to recount
what his "own sources" told him about "how Turkey will retaliate
against the Vatican's stab in the back: Defense companies from the
Vatican will not be allowed to compete for lucrative Turkish contracts,
including deals for missile systems and fighter aircraft.
Government-friendly NGOs in Turkey will launch massive boycotts
against Vatican-made whiteware and other consumer goods.
"Economists expect the Vatican's powerful carmakers will be affected
the most. Turkish tour operators will stop carrying millions of
tourists to the holy city every year, depriving the Vatican's vibrant
hotel industry of $$$$$.
"Turkey will also use its superpower influence and block the Vatican's
bid to become a member of the United Nations Security Council.
Separately, a planned Turkish soft loan for the Vatican, worth $52
billion, will be suspended until the Pope apologizes to Turkey.
"Rumor also has it that Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told his inner
cabinet that the Pope's days as the leader of the worldwide Catholic
Church were now numbered - just like Syrian President Bashar Assad's."
Bekdil's pointed ridicule, written in response to Davutoglu's threats
of punitive measures against the Vatican that go beyond the recall
of the Turkish ambassador, adds to the storm caused by the Vatican's
recognition, on April 12, of the mass killings of Armenians a century
ago as genocide. The annual commemoration of the beginning of the
Ottoman war against the Armenians, observed on April 24, always gets
Turkey's foreign ministry into a lather, trying to fend off the charges
of genocide, and loosens the tongue of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
This year is the centenary of the massacre, and Turkey has already
weathered a few heavy blows. Last Wednesday, the European Parliament
not only reaffirmed its recognition of the Armenian genocide -
as it did in 1987 and 2005 - but also called for the establishment
of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia, and encouraged
Turkey to open its archives in order to come to terms with its past.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.652698
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Ha'aretz, Israel
April 21 2015
With authorities as diverse as the Vatican and European Parliament
recently acknowledging the atrocities of 1915, Turkey's leaders have
been in belligerent mood.
By Zvi Bar'el | Apr. 21, 2015 | 1:06 AM
In a recent column on the Hurriyet Daily News website, commentator
Burak Bekdil promises his readers "good news" and proceeds to recount
what his "own sources" told him about "how Turkey will retaliate
against the Vatican's stab in the back: Defense companies from the
Vatican will not be allowed to compete for lucrative Turkish contracts,
including deals for missile systems and fighter aircraft.
Government-friendly NGOs in Turkey will launch massive boycotts
against Vatican-made whiteware and other consumer goods.
"Economists expect the Vatican's powerful carmakers will be affected
the most. Turkish tour operators will stop carrying millions of
tourists to the holy city every year, depriving the Vatican's vibrant
hotel industry of $$$$$.
"Turkey will also use its superpower influence and block the Vatican's
bid to become a member of the United Nations Security Council.
Separately, a planned Turkish soft loan for the Vatican, worth $52
billion, will be suspended until the Pope apologizes to Turkey.
"Rumor also has it that Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told his inner
cabinet that the Pope's days as the leader of the worldwide Catholic
Church were now numbered - just like Syrian President Bashar Assad's."
Bekdil's pointed ridicule, written in response to Davutoglu's threats
of punitive measures against the Vatican that go beyond the recall
of the Turkish ambassador, adds to the storm caused by the Vatican's
recognition, on April 12, of the mass killings of Armenians a century
ago as genocide. The annual commemoration of the beginning of the
Ottoman war against the Armenians, observed on April 24, always gets
Turkey's foreign ministry into a lather, trying to fend off the charges
of genocide, and loosens the tongue of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
This year is the centenary of the massacre, and Turkey has already
weathered a few heavy blows. Last Wednesday, the European Parliament
not only reaffirmed its recognition of the Armenian genocide -
as it did in 1987 and 2005 - but also called for the establishment
of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia, and encouraged
Turkey to open its archives in order to come to terms with its past.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.652698
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress