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Ataturk Zombi Turkish writer Ayse Kulin ``We Didn't Butcher the Armenians
without Reason'
January 27, 2015 By administrator
[image: ayse-kulin]
Turkish
writer Ayse Kulin's statement
on
CNN Turk denying the Armenian Genocide and saying, `We did not butcher the
Armenians without a reason,' has met with objections from different circles
in Turkey and Armenian communities all over the world.
Some members of that community, as well as some prominent Turkish
intellectuals, have launched a campaign on Change.org
calling
for boycotting the writer and not buying her books. The announcement in
Turkish and English reads as follow:
`Very close to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, it is regrettable
that such an irreverent style came from the mouth of a writer, AyÅ=9Fe Kulin.
In an interview with the media, in a very relaxed way, Kulin, by saying 'We
did not butcher the Armenians without a reason,' underscored that they had
the right to butcher a nation. We do not expect an apology from her or
something in those words, we strongly condemn Ayse Kulin and reject her
books and invite all people with common sense also not to read her books.'
ISTANBUL (CivilNet)-Appearing on Enver Aysever's `Contradictory Questions'
program on CNN Turk, well-known Turkish writer Ayse Kulin denied the
Armenian Genocide took place and said `we did not butcher the Armenians
without a reason.' Below is the transcript of that conversation in
English.
AYSE KULIN: As a Turk, I feel responsibility and pain for not finding the
perpetrators of Hrant Dink's murder.
ENVER AYSEVER: But you are not the one who is governing the State.
AK: True, but that is my feeling.
EA: Do you share that pain?
AK: Yes, I share the pain. I live in this country, I always vote, yet I am
not able to solve anything. Despite being an intellectual in Turkey, I
cannot help to solve any problems. I am not able to express my feelings. I
didn't exist during the massacres of the Armenians, not even my mother [was
alive]. That is why I do not feel responsibility, but that is one of the
shameful events of my country, Turkey.
EA: You mean that you don't feel responsibility for the deportation of
Armenians?
AK: No, I don't feel any responsibility and I don't believe that it was a
genocide, although it was a very bad event.
EA: You don't think that what happened was genocide?
AK: No, I do not believe that it was genocide.
EA: But Armenians...
AK: Armenians may think it was.
EA: Armenians insist that it was a genocide. They might get angry.
AK: They might. I like Armenians very much, but those were deportations
during the war. It is difficult to call what happened during the war
genocide. They didn't do anything to them like the Jews. We did not butcher
the Armenians without a reason.
EA: You said `we' again, but they were the Ottomans.
AK: We too are Ottomans.
EA: Do you feel that way?
AK: Of course, we are the heirs of the Ottomans.
EA: Do you feel yourself an Ottoman or their heir?
AK: No, I am a daughter of the new Turkish Republic, but my generation is
different. I grew up in my Ottoman grandfather's arms.
http://www.gagrule.net/ataturk-zombi-turkish-writer-ayse-kulin-didnt-butcher-armenians-without-reason/
without Reason'
January 27, 2015 By administrator
[image: ayse-kulin]
Turkish
writer Ayse Kulin's statement
on
CNN Turk denying the Armenian Genocide and saying, `We did not butcher the
Armenians without a reason,' has met with objections from different circles
in Turkey and Armenian communities all over the world.
Some members of that community, as well as some prominent Turkish
intellectuals, have launched a campaign on Change.org
calling
for boycotting the writer and not buying her books. The announcement in
Turkish and English reads as follow:
`Very close to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, it is regrettable
that such an irreverent style came from the mouth of a writer, AyÅ=9Fe Kulin.
In an interview with the media, in a very relaxed way, Kulin, by saying 'We
did not butcher the Armenians without a reason,' underscored that they had
the right to butcher a nation. We do not expect an apology from her or
something in those words, we strongly condemn Ayse Kulin and reject her
books and invite all people with common sense also not to read her books.'
ISTANBUL (CivilNet)-Appearing on Enver Aysever's `Contradictory Questions'
program on CNN Turk, well-known Turkish writer Ayse Kulin denied the
Armenian Genocide took place and said `we did not butcher the Armenians
without a reason.' Below is the transcript of that conversation in
English.
AYSE KULIN: As a Turk, I feel responsibility and pain for not finding the
perpetrators of Hrant Dink's murder.
ENVER AYSEVER: But you are not the one who is governing the State.
AK: True, but that is my feeling.
EA: Do you share that pain?
AK: Yes, I share the pain. I live in this country, I always vote, yet I am
not able to solve anything. Despite being an intellectual in Turkey, I
cannot help to solve any problems. I am not able to express my feelings. I
didn't exist during the massacres of the Armenians, not even my mother [was
alive]. That is why I do not feel responsibility, but that is one of the
shameful events of my country, Turkey.
EA: You mean that you don't feel responsibility for the deportation of
Armenians?
AK: No, I don't feel any responsibility and I don't believe that it was a
genocide, although it was a very bad event.
EA: You don't think that what happened was genocide?
AK: No, I do not believe that it was genocide.
EA: But Armenians...
AK: Armenians may think it was.
EA: Armenians insist that it was a genocide. They might get angry.
AK: They might. I like Armenians very much, but those were deportations
during the war. It is difficult to call what happened during the war
genocide. They didn't do anything to them like the Jews. We did not butcher
the Armenians without a reason.
EA: You said `we' again, but they were the Ottomans.
AK: We too are Ottomans.
EA: Do you feel that way?
AK: Of course, we are the heirs of the Ottomans.
EA: Do you feel yourself an Ottoman or their heir?
AK: No, I am a daughter of the new Turkish Republic, but my generation is
different. I grew up in my Ottoman grandfather's arms.
http://www.gagrule.net/ataturk-zombi-turkish-writer-ayse-kulin-didnt-butcher-armenians-without-reason/