The problem of "Armenian genocide" is a much more serious one than it
is thought by everyone, because it keeps breeding violence in more
places than it is realized. The solution is to expose the truth, the
whole truth related to this problem.
The Ottoman Empire was not an empire like the others, meaning that it
was not built through colonization. It was created by the necessity of
self-defense. And Ottoman rulers believed that it was their God-given
duty to protect the peoples of the countries they ruled. For example,
they reduced taxes in all those countries, abolished taxes in poor
countries, and even sent sacks of gold to countries and cities in
need, including some European cities. They sent food to Ireland when
it was badly needed. They sent aid as far as Indonesia. They treated
all citizens equally. When they liberated Cyprus from the occupation
of Catholics, they sent gold, materials, personnel, and even drawings
to repair Orthodox churches left in ruin by the Catholic occupiers.
This is how the Ottoman "Empire" lived for 500 years. Armenians were
given the status of preferred people because of their activities
useful to all citizens
After the Ottoman rule's usefulness and power diminished, Western
states began dismantling the Ottoman "Empire" for colonizing many of
the countries they "liberated." Their main strategy was to promise
independence to the non-Turkish citizens and to help them to rebel
against the State. This strategy worked well in the Balkans and in the
south of Anatolia, because Turks constituted a minority in most cities
there.
But, the Westerners and the Russians made the mistake of using the
"liberation" strategy also in Anatolia where the Turks constituted the
majority. They choose the Armenians as their tool in Eastern Anatolia.
For this strategy to work, Armenians had to become the majority, and
this necessitated genocide against the Turks. This is how Anatolian
genocide began, but it was committed extremely savagely by the
Armenians against the Turks, with the help of Western powers and the
Russian army invading Northeastern Anatolia. This is the great truth
that has to be known by the whole world. Armenians joined Russian
troupes in m***** and also engaged in sabotage acts behind the Turkish
army. The guilty Armenians fled with the retreating Russian forces.
This process was repeated several times following the military
developments and carried many Armenians outside Anatolia. The same
things happened again in Southeastern Anatolia with French forces
using the Armenians. Of course, Turks defended themselves but never
committed the atrocities like those committed by Armenians. Also, more
Turks died than Armenians, because Armenians were trying to realize
genocide.
The Ottoman Government, which included Armenian ministers, ended the
hostilities in Northeastern Anatolia by relocating the Armenians of
the region to other places of the Empire. American missionaries
accompanied the migration with the permission of the Ottoman
Government. They did not re****t any act of genocide against Armenians.
This is re****ted in the American journals of that time because the
events of Northeast Anatolia have been discussed in the US Congress.
The accusations directed to Turks have been manufactured afterwards
for reasons explained below.
One of the Armenians' reasons for accusing the Turks of having
committed genocide is of course to secure material gains. And the
Western politicians who sup****t Armenian allegations are after the
votes of the Armenian citizens of their countries, as exemplified
below. But the problem has deeper and less rational roots.
When a person repeatedly makes self-harming mistakes while trying to
secure gains, he or she becomes neurotic. This is the etiology of all
types of neurosis. One proof of this the causation of "experimental
neurosis" in animals. As Freud noticed, when the self-harming mistake
occurs while actively seeking gains, the result is obsessive
compulsive neurosis. In opposition to this, hysteria, for example, is
caused when the harmful events related to *** are passively accepted
thinking that they are good. The Armenians who committed genocide
against the Turks were after undeserved gains but suffered losses,
although they hurt the Turks much. Consequently, they are now obsessed
with the idea of genocide and compulsively try to compensate their
losses. Under these conditions, the real issue is not gains and
losses but the preservation of mental health. Suffering losses while
trying to secure gains suggest mental insufficiency, which is a
suspicion or fear that can ruin mental health by making all future
decisions unreliable. Thus, the Armenians keep seeking undeserved
gains not for the sake of gains but for preserving their mental
health. If they secure undeserved gains from the Turks, this will
prove that what happened to them was not a consequence of mental
insufficiency, because they will have succeeded in securing undeserved
gains without getting hurt.
The problem of Armenians is not only neurosis, because they keep
repeating violent actions which are not observed in neuroses. Violence
is observed in schizophrenia, for example. Indeed, some of the
experiences of the Armenians are of the type that causes not neurosis
but schizophrenia. This disorder is caused by repeated harmful mastery
failures, and its symptoms are in the form of unrealistic mastery
successes or unrealistic external attributions of mastery failures. To
master can also be expressed as to control, to use, or abuse. The
Armenians suffered much because foreign powers tried to use them to
dismantle the Ottoman Empire for their own profit. This is enough to
cause schizophrenia of some degree of severity, with violent symptoms.
For example, Armenians murdered more than 60 innocent Turkish
diplomats around the world in several decades in the 20th century.
They tried genocide against the Azerbaijan people because they are of
Turkic origin. French newspaper Le Monde wrote about those events: "We
created monsters."
If the Armenians can hurt the Turks without getting hurt themselves,
they will have proved that this is possible, and that therefore what
happened to them in the past when they tried to commit genocide
against the Turks does mean that they are mentally insufficient.
There is one more schizophrenic factor in the behavior of the
Armenians. They are trying to use the Western diplomats to hurt the
Turks in any way they can. If they achieve this, they will have proved
that they can use the Western diplomats just as the latter used them
in the past and continue to use them.
The same defense mechanism is also used continually by Western
diplomats. Because they failed in the past when they tried to use the
Armenians against the Turks, they keep trying to do the same thing to
prove that they can succeed, and that therefore their past failures do
not show that they are mentally insufficient. Of course, they also
seek to attract the votes of their Armenian citizens. For example, a
US senator who was sup****ting the Armenians' genocide allegations
stopped doing that after he was told by the President that his
behavior was hurting the interest of US. He then explained this change
by saying that he was an American before being a politician. This
means that he had sup****ted the Armenian thesis for securing political
gains, and that he had not thought of the interests of his country
while doing that. Evidently, such a person cannot be considered to
have sup****ted the Armenians for helping them, which is something he
admitted by his explanation of his behavior.
The French are the most ardent sup****ters of the Armenians, because
France has a large population of Armenian immigrants, which means
plenty of votes, and also because the French government has been the
first Western government which accepted failure in using the Armenians
against the Turks and made peace with the new Turkish government, thus
deserting the Western camp.
Evidently, the above-explained defense mechanisms used by the
Armenians and their Western sup****ters are irrational, because they
consist of repeating the self-harming mistakes of the past to prove
that they were not mistakes, and that therefore they do not mean
mental insufficiency.
Of course, it cannot be known whether or not the Armenians' and the
Western diplomats' repetitions of their past mistakes to prove that
they were not mistakes will succeed or not. But so far, such attempts
have backfired and kept sowing the seeds of violence. A more rational
behavior would be to admit that they made mistakes in the past but
that this does not mean mental insufficiency, because everyone can
make mistakes for many reasons other than mental insufficiency. Their
present behavior is mild mental disorder it is not the most rational
one. I cured many persons suffering from various types of mental
disorder by examining their past experiences and implicitly showing to
them that their failures were not due to mental insufficiency.
Failures need to be considered as similar to traffic accidents, which
occur when several unfavorable conditions are realized simultaneously
- accidentally.
Altan Loker
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