Why dont we let historians investigate this instead of politicians?
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#12Why dont we let historians investigate this instead of politicians?
Because modern-day Turkey has turned the whole thing into a political issue. Turkey cannot accept the historical truth.
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#14Why dont we let historians investigate this instead of politicians?
Because historians has long since written the last stroke on the event?
It has been only a century since to reconstruct events thoroughly from first sources.
Similarly, it's beyond obscene to demand a revision of holokost when there are still living, breathing survivors who toiled in death camps.
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#15As someone with an Armenian dad and last name, I’ve felt some interest in this story and my country’s (US) refusal so far to acknowledge it since learning about it. It’s pretty far removed from me, and I’d probably not live here if my ancestors hadn’t fled the Turks back in the day, but it’s also very sad to see that it’s used as a political token over and over again. Obama promised that he’d be the first sitting pre…
Erdoğan thinks himself as the last Ottoman Emperor standing (c.f. The Third Reich), that’s why no way in hell he’ll accept any atrocities that Ottomans committed.
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#16Interesting article, however I couldn't find primary Turkish sources that detailed the reasoning behind the deportations. Did the Turks institute the policy to remove Armenians from within Turkey or to exterminate them?
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#17Why dont we let historians investigate this instead of politicians?
Because historians has long since written the last stroke on the event? It has been only a century since to reconstruct events thoroughly from first sources. Similarly, it's beyond obscene to demand a revision of holokost when there are still living, breathing survivors who toiled in death camps.
I have never seen death camps in Turkey
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#18Striking how much downvoting on comments with links to more facts about the genocide is going on here. Striking, but not the least surprising...
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because modern-day Turkey has turned the whole thing into a political issue. Turkey cannot accept the historical truth.
Turkey is the one that offered this solution
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#20As a guy born in Turkey I’m happy that this is finally getting the recognition it deserves. On the other hand, finding any neutral resource about the First World War in Turkey is hard to come by. The best resource I’ve found so far is written by a German General called Otto Liman von Sanders, he wrote a book called “Five Years in Turkey” [0] talking about 1913 - 1918. It at least has some parts on the events which wi…
>Sorry to digress but it’s important to mention that, the hate against Greeks will take an ugly turn in 1955
Almost no one is aware there has been constant armed conflict between the Greeks and Turks in Cypress for over 100 years on ethnic grounds. This includes genocide, terrorism, massacres, kidnappings, executions, and mass graves