Lest the truth irk the Turks, Barack Obama rushed to the aid of the Islamic supremacists who deny the Armenian genocide. "Turkey: Armenians; US Gov't Calls For Blocking Resolution," from ANSAmed, March 4 (thanks to Insubria):
(ANSAmed) - ANKARA, MARCH 4 - A few minutes from the beginning of the debate at the Foreign Commission of the American Congress, over the resolution regarding the genocide of the Armenians during the Ottoman empire, the U.S. administration advised the Commission to block the discussion, reports CNN Turk. (ANSAmed).
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No wonder Barack keeps winning "Dhimmi of the Year".
There's more on this story in the Turkish newspapers.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=urgent-2010-03-04
Both of them appear to originate from the Associated Press.
That pesky genocide stuff just keeps rolling back in like a bad penny.
There will never be a time when this truth will be convenient, but sooner or later it will be acknowledged.
I do believe that the average Turk, raised on a diet of state-altered history texts, and with a Turk-centric view of the world, has no idea of the extent of the atrocities committed against the Armenians. Each one is explained away as an aberration, an exception, an exaggeration,or a deserved retaliation. It doesn't help that the average Turk also has no experience with doing their own research and reaching their own conclusions. They are used to being spoon-fed. Also, they are not used to accepting responsibility in any matters.
Allegations of Turk-sponsored genocide simply don't fit in with their deeply held view of Turkish blamelessness.
When the truth does start to seep out, here and there, it's met with fierce denials, such as "The Armenians killed many Turks too" thereby indicating it was a fair fight; or you'll hear, "The Armenians simply went back to their home countries" abandoning houses, and beautiful churches en masse in their haste to get back to Armenia -- that's all it was -- they wanted to go home; or you might hear, "Many Turks helped the Armenians, took in their children" etc., thereby implying that it wasn't really all that bad; or you'll hear, "Sure some bad things happened, but that was World War I, after all -- bad things happen in wars."
Expect a fierce escalation in denials as the Turkish ego fights to retain its self-perceived spotless image.
Ask a psychiatrist, such as Wafa Sultan, what will happen next, when the awful truth dawns on them.
I hold no brief for either the Turks or their tender sensitivities, but as long as the Incirlik Air Base is as crucial to the supply of American troops in two war theaters as it currently is, such Congressional finger-waggling at them is a luxury in which we ought not to indulge.
Obamas acknowledged sympathy for islam has long been surpassed. Nowadays it’s more like treasonous abetting and support of the enemy, islam.
With the help of the MSM dishonest and bias media, America has elected a President which assuredly history will show, on account of not inexperience, but on account of hardly suppressed loyalty, and ushering in of the Apocalyptic Era. A decline of American power and of leadership in the West and the ascendance of the new Dark Age characterized by perpetual global global turmoil and insecurity brought upon by islamic demographic upheavals, islamic military adventures and ultimately islamic nuclear genocide
replied to comment from Kinneddar | March 4, 2010 1:19 PM | Reply Kinneddar, I had occasion several years to see, in a small way, how the Turkish view of history differs from that of the West. It was during a dinner in Barcelona where by chance I happened to be sitting next to a very attractive Turkish lady, and, having just finished reading the book "1453" that described the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, thought that mentioning this would be a good conversation starter. Unfortunately, my lead off included the phrase "fall of Constantinople." She cut me off and with a piercing gaze fairly snapped in an icy tone "Of course, you mean the liberation of Constantinople." By the time I had processed this unexpectedly stiff rebuff the moment had been lost and she had turned her back to me, so we didn't speak for the rest of the dinner.
No genocide took place at all according to the International Law of that time. No evidence or proof where ever found to support than claim of genocide by the Ottoman Empire England and France fail to find any just evidence.
Oh, looks who's back! Our first "troll-sighting" in a long time!
replied to comment from wakingwest | March 4, 2010 1:31 PM | Reply "Obama's acknowledged sympathy for islam has long been surpassed. Nowadays it’s more like treasonous abetting and support of the enemy, islam."
Hussein is a Muslim, and so yes, he aids and abets the enemy, Islam. End of story.
replied to comment from DefenderofIslam | March 4, 2010 1:35 PM | Reply SHUT-UP YOU MOHAMMEDAN.
EVERYONE knows that the Muslim Turks basically exterminated the Christian Armenians. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT. GET IT? YOU MASS-MURDERERS. ISLAM SUCKS.
You Muslim jackass. Eff Off, Creep. Bugger Off, Muslim Creep.
Incirlik Air Base, and the listening posts once so important during the Cold War, are not nearly as important as they once were. If the Turks will not allow American forces to use those bases against the present and future enemy -- which will always be the forces promoting violent Jihad (and, if understanding deepens, the forces of non-violent Jihad as well)-- then what good are they? American bases in Bulgaria and elsewhere in the region. Ideally, the Sinai should never have been given back to Egypt, but instead entrusted by Israel to the Americans, together with the three modern airbases that the Israelis had constructed, and Egypt forced to accept this "peacekeeping presence of the Americans" from whom, after all, they have received close to $70 billion that they have done nothing to deserve, not being an organic ally, or indeed an ally at all. But failing that, there are plenty of places. Furthermore, the sustained and relentless assault by the PKP and Ergodan on the secularists of the Turkish Army suggest that that army will not long remain the upholder, and bastion, of Kemalism (that is, secularism) and that, therefore, not only will Turkey have to be kept out of the E.U. whatever the ruling regime may be (because 80 million Muslims cannot be added to Schengenland and allowed the ability to simply move wherever they wish within the E.U.), but very likely, will have to be politely but firmly shown the door at N.A.T.O. if Erdogan and company continue to behave as they have been behaving.
Whenever you hear some apologist for the Turks go into this business of "it was wartime" and "it was feared the Armenians would ally themselves with Russia" bring up the previous mass-murder of Armenians, by both Turks and Kurds (don't forget the Kurds, because that shows more clearly that this was a mass-murder of non-Muslims by Muslims, and not just Muslim Turks), with special fiendish attention to murdering priests and their pregnant wives, in the years 1894-96. It was reported on by horrified American missionaries and books published on "The Massacres by the Turk."
And before that, the Turks, and Musilm Arabs, had massacred Maronites in Damascus, in 1860. The pressure of the West on the Ottoman Porte to treat non-Muslims better led, in fact, to murderousness on the part of those who could not stand to see the Christians daring to behave as if they really could enjoy something like legal equality with non-Muslims in the Ottoman domains.
The end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries are more accurately described, in that area of the world, as not Turk against Armenian, but has a succession of intermittent massacres, some small and some big, of Muslim (Turk, Kurd, Arab) against Christian (Armenian, Greek, Maronite).
What's the killing of a few million Christians between Muslims?
Muslims killing almost 100 million in India - no worries.