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Turkey cancels visit after genocide comment
Malaysia Sun
Friday 25th April, 2008
Turkey has cancelled a visit by Turkish minister Mehmet Aydin to Buenos Aires after the Argentinian government recognised the Armenian genocide.
Turkey's government has fiercely criticised Argentina for responding to a declaration by the Argentinian parliament referring to the genocide of Armenians by Turks.
Between 1915 and 1918 an estimated one-and-a-half million ethnic Armenians were murdered by Ottoman Turks.
The Armenians refer to the killings as genocide while Turkey has always contested the use of the term.
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| By Stop the Blame, 04-26-08, 03:35 PM |
Argentinians, Deal with your Own Atrocities on Your Own People GALLERY OF
Argentinian Torturers and Killers — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — During the 1970s Argentina lived a period of widespread military repression on the civilian population. Under the pretext of the “war against subversion” the military and police authorities develped a machiavellic campaign of terror. All civil rights - freedom of expression, justice, association vote - were eliminated. Thousands of citizens were unjustly put in prison where they endured inhuman conditions and lived under the pain of torture and the fear of death day to day.
Nothing is more horrorific, however, that what was done to 30,000 people now known as “the disappeared”. Taken from their homes, blindfolded, beaten, they were taken to secret concentration camps, where they awaited, without knowing, amidst blows and torture, death.
In this page we will remember those responsible for the disappearances, for the torture and death of thousands of human beings. None of the responsible have been duly punished for their crimes. They live in freedom, enjoying all such things that they denied their victims.
As the Gallery grows we hope to highlight some of the worse human rights violators from Argentina. However, all those who collaborated with these people and the institutions they represented, with knowledge of what thdy did, have a moral responsability and a stain in their conscience and their hands that they will never be able to wash off.
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| By Anonymous, 04-26-08, 12:02 PM |
| Well done Turkey for standing up to all this international pressure and bullying.
If all these countries want to get together and pretend their own atrocities dont exist by picking on Turkey, then why do they expect Turkey to go along with it?
I have never read any one of these resolutions that even acknowledges that Muslims were slaughtered too.
I guess the point is that Christian life is worth more than Muslim life. |
| By Anonymous, 04-26-08, 10:40 AM |
Politics masquarading as historyCountries that recognise this version of history being sponsored by Armenian campaigners are in fact taking sides in a territorial dispute.
It is disingenuous to claim they are merely noting history - the Armenian version of history is no more accurate than the Turkish version. This campaign was initiated with the specific aim of territorial restitution.
In 1919, at the Paris peace conference, the Armenians were demanding their own state based on their contribution to the defeat of the Ottomans. Since Ataturk overturned the decisions at that conference and the Armenians lost out, they are now demanding eastern Turkey based on being innocent victims of an atrocity.
Turkey is correct to lodge its protest at countries that are taking part in a campaign to sieze its territory.
Throwing the word “genocide denier” around in this instance is just for people who do not really have a proper argument. There is a huge difference between denial and legitimate disagreement.
When you have situations where the worlds leading authority on the Middle Eastern history, Bernard Lewis, is being prosecuted for point out that, actually, the evidence points to a policy of relocation then it becomes clear how little history matters in this argument.
How many other massacres has the Argentinian parliament recognised? What of the Turks killed by Armenians? Or the 11 million Ottoman Muslims ethnically cleansed in areas lost by the empire? Did they recognise the Circassians, killed in both higher numbers and higher percentage of population than the Armenians? Did they investigate what happened to the total Muslim population of Armenia?
Argentinian politicians are merely pandering to lobbiest money. Those who can afford victimhood are able to buy it. Those who cannot do not matter.
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| By ahmet, 04-26-08, 08:51 AM |
| we must all ask why politicians do not listen to historians and instead are led by lobby groups |
| By Anonymous, 04-26-08, 05:22 AM |
| Justice for the Armenians! |
| By JuanManillo, 04-26-08, 03:14 AM |
Turkey cancels visit after genocide commentArgentina recognized the Armenian Genocide a long time ago, who cares about turkey we don’t want Genocide deniers in Argentina |
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