Comment Re:Headache for EU negotiators (Score 1) 482
Friends, I am a long time reader first time poster on /. I have always been too lazy to get an account but I think it's high time that I started participating :)
I will keep my comment and clarification short, to the point, and truthfully honest. First off, I am a Turkish citizen who has lived in the US for a long time, but now I have returned to my homeland. I see talk about Armenian "genocide" in many places and most of the time all of us who know what is actually going on (both Turks & Armenians) have to just get angry at the ignorance of it all and always left without anything to do because our voices are not heard. I would like to post a few key points that our fellow slashdot poster the Anonymous Coward has left out.
- The genocide theory and the trailing propaganda against my nation has been brought forth and been actively supported by the Armenian government. The Turkish government suggested that the two countries form an unbiased panel of historians to research and find out the details and facts. The idea was swiftly shot down. It is not in the interest of the these guys who do have a voice, for the truth to be found. For it is likely that the killings happened because of circumstantial reasons (ie. chaos of war), and the "evil" Turks will be cleansed of what they claim our forefathers had done.
- Kurds are another group of people who live side by side in Turkey, and are considered Turks (Turkish citizens) themselves. We have had a famous Kurdish prime minister (Turgut Özal). Has the US had a black/hispanic/woman president? (the same can be asked of many European governments). We have had a woman prime minister as well.
- Armenia have killed off and otherwise have caused deaths of many Azerbaijan citizens (these people are ethnically Turks). Would this be considered genocide? Perhaps we should investigate... Or continue to just make ignorant comments and propaganda?
- We are a country/nation who has had to deal with a lot and I agree that we are struggling to solidify our stand in the world. The people are plagued by turmoil. Besides that, we have little to no voice in the world today. It doesn't help that the peoples that have had so many freedoms for centuries and were only considered Ottomans within the roof of the Ottoman Empire would be working so hard to damage their old brethren. To what cause? Vengeance? I do not know.
I will keep my comment and clarification short, to the point, and truthfully honest. First off, I am a Turkish citizen who has lived in the US for a long time, but now I have returned to my homeland. I see talk about Armenian "genocide" in many places and most of the time all of us who know what is actually going on (both Turks & Armenians) have to just get angry at the ignorance of it all and always left without anything to do because our voices are not heard. I would like to post a few key points that our fellow slashdot poster the Anonymous Coward has left out.
- The genocide theory and the trailing propaganda against my nation has been brought forth and been actively supported by the Armenian government. The Turkish government suggested that the two countries form an unbiased panel of historians to research and find out the details and facts. The idea was swiftly shot down. It is not in the interest of the these guys who do have a voice, for the truth to be found. For it is likely that the killings happened because of circumstantial reasons (ie. chaos of war), and the "evil" Turks will be cleansed of what they claim our forefathers had done.
- Kurds are another group of people who live side by side in Turkey, and are considered Turks (Turkish citizens) themselves. We have had a famous Kurdish prime minister (Turgut Özal). Has the US had a black/hispanic/woman president? (the same can be asked of many European governments). We have had a woman prime minister as well.
- Armenia have killed off and otherwise have caused deaths of many Azerbaijan citizens (these people are ethnically Turks). Would this be considered genocide? Perhaps we should investigate... Or continue to just make ignorant comments and propaganda?
- We are a country/nation who has had to deal with a lot and I agree that we are struggling to solidify our stand in the world. The people are plagued by turmoil. Besides that, we have little to no voice in the world today. It doesn't help that the peoples that have had so many freedoms for centuries and were only considered Ottomans within the roof of the Ottoman Empire would be working so hard to damage their old brethren. To what cause? Vengeance? I do not know.
