Why does the Turkish government still deny the Armenian Genocide?
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Turkish government offered Armenian government to establish an international committee in UN. \n\nThe Turkish government said that both governments should make all resources, historical documents available for this committee and this committee should be free to research in both countries and both countries should accept the decision and be liable to the final result. \n\nArmenian government rejected it.\n\nThe European Parliament sent the Armenian president a letter, urging him to support the Turkish request. Probably they rejected again because I never heard about a EU, UN or any other international committee working on it yet.\n\nArmenia continue to make propaganda against Tukey, say that there are lots of proofs, documents etc. but do not accept establishing an international committee which can finally come out with certain results. If you are so sure, why to hide then ?\n\nThe claimed genocide was in a time of a civil war that Armenians, Azeris, Turks and Kurds involved. Turkey accepts that thousands of Armenians was killed by Turkish gangs, militas but thousands of Azeris, Kurds and Turks were killed by Armenians also in the same period. So it is not so easy to name it as a genocide.  \n\nIt is same every where, my friend. The actual history and national history that tought in schools,family etc. is different in every country. If you are an Armenian, may be it is time for you to check other side of the story. For instance, you may start with the Azeris killed by Armenians. \n\nYou are lucky that you have a government which have strong lobby activities in other countries, means to reach international media. Armenia is capable of making enough noise about genocide claims and trying to make the world feel pity about them. On the other hand, claims of Azeirs about mass killings and international human rights crimes that done by Armenia cannot find any audience in the world today.\n\nThe claimed armenian genocide was almost a century ago. The claimed first Azeri genocide was almost a century ago, and then again and then again. Today there are still thousands of refugees because of the conflict between Azerbaycan and Armenia. Why don't you focus on your existing problem first because of which thousands of families is still suffering ????
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Its the same race...there are Kurds in Turkey also...but their nationality is different so they speak the same language and have the same traditions ... They have been trying to separate from both and make their own country for many many years now but it never happened
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The word genocide means The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. Did Turks did it, No. Did Armenians die, Yes. But how and why? Many armenians died that is true; but it was just after they were done killing, raping and torturing Turkish and Kurdish people with the power they took from the Russians who invaded North east part of Ottoman Empire. After Russians were kicked out, the armenians who betrayed their own country were forced to live by government, but the other peoples who were murdered raped and tortured wanted their revenge and unleashed their wrath upon the leaving armenians; so it was not the government who did it, if anything they tried to protect the armenians. It was the other comman peoples who were also citizen of Ottoman Empire. so it is not genocide it is a civil war and armenians started it. There are still mass graveyards being found in the eastern Turkey that are done by renegade armenians of the time. In Turkey, people do SPEAK and ACCEPT that armenians died but it was not done by the government and also the regular people know that armenians asked for it. And if you look for the explanations of actual "HISTORIANS" they also accept that fact not the ones accepted by lobbied "politicians" of the world.
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Because nothing can justify the holocaust. Many also believe that if something so horrid is justifiable then those who still believe in hard right politics (fascists) will rise again and take over and begin another holocaust/World War.\n\nAlso every country in Europe lost a lot of civilians, military, money, etc. due to the war. There is no reason why any country should allow themselves the humility of justifying the holocaust.
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Those ideas are all wrong.There's no such thing like genocide.And this should better be left to historians to answer.it's always easy to vilify but what's important is that if you claim such things, you have to have a basis of your idea. Talking is not enough. You must base your ideas with documents (The real ones).
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The whole of Cyprus has been admitted but only the Greek sides govt is being acknowledged. This article talks a little about it (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1555025,00.html)
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The Armenian Genocide (also known as the Armenian Holocaust or the Armenian Massacre) is a term which refers to the forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands or over a million Armenians, during the government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire. Several facts in connection with the event are a matter of ongoing dispute between parts of the \ninternational community and Turkey. Although it is generally agreed that events said to comprise what is termed the Armenian Genocide did occur, the Turkish government rejects that it was genocide, on the alleged basis that the deaths among the Armenians, were not a result of a state-sponsored plan of mass extermination, but from the result of inter-ethnic strife, disease and famine during the turmoil of World War I.\n\nDespite this thesis, most Armenian, Western, and an increasing number of Turkish scholars believe that the massacres were a case of genocide. For example, most Western sources point to the sheer scale of the death toll. The event is also said to be the second-most studied case of genocide, and often draws comparison with the Holocaust. To date 24 countries, as discussed below, have officially recognized and accepted its authenticity as Genocide.\n\nIn 1914, before World War I, there were an estimated two million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the vast majority of whom were of the Armenian Apostolic faith, with a small number of the Armenian Catholic and Protestant faiths. While the Armenian population in Eastern Anatolia (also called Western Armenia) was large and clustered, there were large numbers of Armenians in the western part of the Ottoman Empire. Many lived in the capital city of Istanbul.\n\nUntil the late 19th century, the Armenians were referred to as millet-i sadika (loyal nation) by the Ottomans. This meant that they were living in harmony with other ethnic groups and without any major conflict with the central authority. However the Christian Armenians were subject to Islamic dhimmi laws, which gave them fewer legal rights than Muslim fellow citizens. The Tanzimat gave more rights to the minorities in the middle of the 19th century. However, the long ruling Sultan Hamid suspended the constitution early in his reign and ruled as he saw fit. Despite pressure on the Sultan by the major European countries to treat the Christian minorities more gently, abuses only increased.\n\nThe single event that started the chain is most likely the Russian victory over the Ottoman Empire in the War of 1877-78. At the end of this war the Russians took control over a large part of Armenian territory (including the city of Kars). The Russians claimed they were the supporters of Christians within the Ottoman Empire and now they were clearly militarily superior to the Ottomans. The weakening control of the Ottoman government over its empire in the following 15 years led many Armenians to believe that they could regain independence from them.
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I think it is time for Armenians to show their power and show every stinkin' country in the middle east who they really are. They have been invaded for THOUSANDS of years and not just a decade so taking back what is their's and always was isn't invading, my friend. It is doing what is morally right.
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First of all, Kurds are not being killed because they are Kurd. There is this thing call the PKK- which is considered a Terrorist group and is bombing Turkish Cities. The Turkish Army is going after the PKK camps in South Eastern Turkey in efforts to stop the bombings.\n\nhow would you like it if I bombed your cities?
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It´s the Kurds. There are Kurds in Turkey, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria. \nI don´t know much about the situation in the other countries - but in Turkey, they don´t have many national rights (e.g. they have to speak Turkish at schools) - that´s why they make bombings (especially in tourist resorts) from time to time. \nAt least in Iraq, there are Kurdish representatives in the new government.
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I think if there's an overwhelming plea from the people of that country for help, or in nations such as Sudan and Rwanda where there is overwhelming evidence of genocide, then yes. \n\nOtherwise no.
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As much as I do not agree with what is going on over there, I would hardly call it genocide.  We are not trying to exterminate an entire race.
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Right now I'm reading this random small journal written by a disgusted American journalist who had been living in Turkey during the time of the Armenian genocide.  A first-hand objective account of what happened!\nSo I just want to plea- please please READ and LEARN about what happened!  So many hidden truths can be uncovered by someone who has a passion for learning.\n\nJudith Herman writes, "After every atrocity one can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened; the victim lies; the victim exaggerates; the victim brought it upon herself; and in any case it is time to forget the past and move on.  The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail."\n\nLook at Jay Lifton's book, "The Nazi Doctors" -about the holocaust that includes factual information about the genocide.\nOr Bernard Lewis's "The Emergence of Modern Turkey"\nA petition called "Taking a Stand Against the Turkish Government's Denial of the Armenian Genocide and Scholarly Corruption in the Academy" was signed by over a hundred distinguished writers and scholars including Arthur Miller, William Styron and Raul Hilberg.\nAll these people ARE NOT even ARMENIAN.\nElie Wiesel himself said,\n"I've talked to the President of Turkey about this.  I said to him: 'Why can't you admit what you did to the Armenians?  It would help your society.  It would cleanse you of your guilt.  You would gain something in the eyes of the world."\nLook up Morgenthau.  None of these people are Armenian.  They are all respected educated objective people.\nAnd those online sites?  Who wrote them?\nPerhaps that's why books are so good.  They can give you facts, accounts, and validate them with good solid (not misconstrued) evidence.
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I am half Turkish and it needs to stay a Secular democracy, thats what Ataturk founded the Turkish Republic on. Anyone who says other wise needs to read up on history.\n\nTurkey will never be a muslim state. The Military will not allow it.
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The Greek Turkish conflicts go back to the 1400's when the Ottoman turks invaded Greeks (under the Eastern Roman Empire aka Byzantine)and many ethnic conlficts since. \n\nIn Cyprus, the problem has to do with Cyprus (A Greek island, but autonomous from the Greek nation) having an ethnic Turkish minority. When the island was having revolts and many wanted to unify with Greece Turkey feared for the Turkish minority. In 1974 Turkey attacked the island and occupies even till today illegally 1/3 of the island! \n\nMost Greeks were made refugees in their own country and had to flee to the south side of the island. Many were killed, and many are missing even today. The Turkish invasion plan was a complete disaster, because it destroyed a lot of people and towns, villages, people, and infrastructure was firebombed and many were destroyed/killed.\n\n Following the invasion which the UN to this day does nothing, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was set up, which is internationally recognized only by the Turkish Republic and Azerbaijan. The Turkish government sent settlers into the territory to "Turkify" it and it has only made a bad situation worse to resolve.  The occupied side of Cyprus is a huge cost to Turkey, it is very underdeveloped and poor unlike the other side which is prospering. Although Turkish nationalists will disagree, even a Turkish member of the Foreign Ministry has admitted that it is a mistake to me privately. \n\nSo there is the dispute in Cyprus, the island has been divided for 31 years over an illegal invasion, which the whole world has sat back and done nothing about, and with every year that has past the situation only got more difficult to resolve.
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america was acting as peacekeepers through the un the turks invaded cyprus giving them an hour to go, 1600 cypriots are still unaccounted for and the turks will not allow anyone in or out of famagusta. it is believed none are alive and mass graves are inside of famagusta, and because the turks want in the eu they have refused cooperation as result of mass graves being found would undoubtedly mean refusal of entry to eu. famagusta is quite an eerie place there is a view point that allows you to look through a telescope onto the town, there is still beach towels on the sun beds that sit on the beaches, and washing hanging on clothes lines draped between the houses. in nicosia at the border you can look into the other side and see inside the houses that were abandoned with family pictures on the walls, it really is quite distressing for the cypriots. another thing i remember was one xmas two turk soldiers on the turkish side of nicosia approached the wall at the border and offered the cypriot soldier a cigarette, proposing a ceasefire because of xmas, when the cypriot soldier approached the wall the turks shot him! no one can fully appreciate the horror that the cypriots have lived with and continue to do so. they are really lovely people despite their problems that they have endured
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they are both not christian turkey has violent islamic background.