Re:All this rhetoric, no understanding (Score 1)

I find your remark....." Sure, there's the Armenian genocide they say never happened, for example. You may say that's horrible. So was American genocide of Native Americans, or the Saxon genocide of Anglos after 1066".... flippant. This is a genocide that happened less then 100 years ago and still affects people around the world, My Gran being one. Her family (the ones who survived the genocide) fled to Lebanon and died of illness not long after. My Gran and her sister aged 8 and 16 came to the UK with nothing but the clothes on there back, and ever since have done nothing but contribute to society. Don't they deserve to know what happened to their family and home, before there family fled? The information on the property stolen from the Armenian population under the guise of 'Safe Keeping' is still classified. To those Turks still refusing to understand their own history, I would like to ask: If the Armenian 'Genocide' never took place, why did Raphael Lemkin refer to the 'events of 1915' as 'Genocide'? He was a Holocaust survivor who not only created the word Genocide, but led the drafting and adoption of the 'International Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of Genocide' adopted unanimously by the 'UN General Assembly' in Paris on December 9th 1948. Even if you don't agree with his point of view, he is a good reason to allow a free debate in Turkey on this issue. Suppressing debate is an unfortunate position for a country soon to become a fellow EU member.