Saturday, March 25, 2006

Turkish Scholarly Reason !


Sedat Laciner - JTW Photo
Do you remember what Sedat Laciner, the JTW editor and the ISRO Director told me in his Letter 5 ? Talking about Cemal, Enver and Talaat he said :

They [Cemal, Enver and his friends] made great mistakes, yet I know that they did not make genocide, because they were Turkish.
Any reasonable person, will find that kind of response simply absurd!


Yet, it seems that the above is a well established concept in Turkey today .... "They Can't Possibley Commit Genocide because they are Turks."

In his blog, the Artyom Reader reported that, in the last Istanbul conference Mehmet Saray who presented in an emotional tone a paper entitled “Armenians and the Ottoman conception of the state” said the following at the end of his paper:
“The Turkish nation is the most noble nation of the world; friends, it is not possible for such a nation to commit genocide.”

Are those your so-called scholars Turkey ?!

posted by Maral at 5:24 AM

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

They believe in their statements about Turkish nobility and not without cause. When Christian nations were not allowing their own minorities to live equally or even to live, the Ottomans allowed its millets internal autonomy, and those as Armenians retained their culture, language, religion and identity for centuries. Compare with Armenia who wiped out its Muslims in the two or three years after becoming a republic. These Muslim Azeris constituted 30-40% of the population in 1918. This has nothing to do, of course, with the widescale extermination efforts of the Armenians when they were in charge of regions of eastern Anatolia, 1915-1921, when they ruthlessly wiped out hundreds of thousands of Ottoman Muslims and others. If you were honest, you would make reference to these great crimes of your forefathers.

3:41 PM  
Blogger Maral said...

Thank you for commenting.

Please refrain from repeating propaganda baseless claims which obviously lack any evidence !

11:47 PM  

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