How is denying the eponymics genocide improving relations with Armenia? - Edit 1
Before modification by Joel at 05/03/2010 03:09:01 AM
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.
If I were an Armenian (or Kurd) I wouldn't trust the Porte farther than I could throw the Hagia Sophia. Talk and token reforms to convince the EU they're not as bad as Syria don't impress me. Show me real change.