With all due respect, I think the interests of the Armenians living in Armenia today - or the few of them still living in Turkey - are more important than the agenda of the Armenian diaspora in France and the US. Turkey can only be expected to make so many changes and acknowledge so many errors at a time, and so I would rank reconciliation and improved relations with contemporary Armenia, and with the minorities inside Turkey now, rather higher in the priority list than fully coming to terms with the past, particularly when this genocide was committed by Turkey's predecessor state anyway. Obviously Turkey's stance towards its own citizens who have called it a genocide is shameful, but they really do make progress in terms of free speech, and this yearly attempt to provoke them isn't helping with that.
Heh, Erdogan is pissed
- 04/03/2010 10:47:20 PM
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Sigh. I wish they would stop trying to pass that.
- 04/03/2010 10:55:58 PM
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If Erdogan has no problem making scenes like the one in Davos why should he expect any less ?
- 05/03/2010 12:11:33 AM
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With all due respect, fuck Turkey.
- 05/03/2010 12:35:03 AM
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With all due respect, that's nothing new coming from you.
- 05/03/2010 12:48:05 AM
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- 05/03/2010 12:48:05 AM
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Turkey is an abomination.
- 05/03/2010 01:20:31 AM
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I don't like the new military uniform colors. Off to prison!!! *NM*
- 05/03/2010 01:38:58 AM
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Uhuh. Doesn't look like there's any point in replying to that. *NM*
- 05/03/2010 09:42:00 AM
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How is denying the eponym's genocide improving relations with Armenia?
- 05/03/2010 01:44:17 AM
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Modern Armenia looks at it rather differently than the diaspora does.
- 05/03/2010 09:58:21 AM
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I imagine modern Armenia is more placating, yes.
- 15/03/2010 05:58:24 AM
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I'm sorry, but really, you do not have a clue.
- 15/03/2010 01:02:50 PM
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Whether motivated by religion or pure nationalism allowing genocide to be denied is a bad precedent.
- 03/04/2010 11:04:53 AM
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It's been denied for eighty-five years. It can wait five more.
- 03/04/2010 07:47:57 PM
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Re: It's been denied for eighty-five years. It can wait five more.
- 08/04/2010 09:47:31 AM
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I wish the Turks would just admit it on their own.
- 05/03/2010 12:33:27 AM
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I agree. They just need to man up and admit it, apologize, and move on. *NM*
- 05/03/2010 01:38:12 AM
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