On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:41:26 -0700, "Altan Loker (real name)"
<alloker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I heard about the problem of "Armenian genocide" for the first time at
>age 26 when I went to US. This fact alone shows that there is no
>hostility between Armenians and Turks in Turkey.
So nobody in Turkey speaks of the Armenian Genocide, therefore it did
not happen? Here is an alternative explanation for you to ponder,
Altan:
Associated Press, 11 Oct 2007
ISTANBUL, Turkey - The son of a journalist killed earlier this year
after calling the massacre of Armenians genocide was convicted
Thursday of insulting Turkey's identity for republi****ng his father's
remarks.
Arat Dink, editor of the Armenian newspaper Agos, and publisher Serkis
Seropyan each received a one-year suspended sentence for "insulting
Turkishness," said their lawyer, Erdal Dogan. He said they would
appeal the sentences.
>I went to the public library in New York and looked at a few magazines
>published in the1920s. If I remember correctly, it was in New Statesman
>that I read about a joint session of US Congress dealing with the
Armenian
>genocide allegation.
If you wish to base your version of history on an article you think
you read in a magazine published in the 1920's, be my guest. However
the link below will provide the op****tunity to enhance your historical
knowledge very easily. The source is, of course, the U.S. Ambassador
to Turkey at the time of the genocide.
http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/morgenthau/Morgen24.htm
I presume you will contend that Ambassador Morgenthau was just a
willing tool of the "vast Armenian conspiracy" to discredit the
Turkish government of 1916.
Santayana wrote that "Those who refuse to learn from history are
condemned to relive it."
And those who deny the reality of history render themselves
>incapable< of learning from it, so their destiny to relive the worst
episodes in their history becomes a self-inflicted wound. Does the
Turkish word "kismet" have any relevance here?
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The wars are long, the peace is frail
The madmen come again . . . .
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