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Money. AgentOrange Send a noteboard - 18/03/2010 05:47:27 PM
Why is Turkey so insistent about denying a very dark page in their history? Most countries - indeed, all healthy ones - can generally admit to injustices that are 100 years old or so. No one has even asked them to admit their atrocities against the Kurds committed in my lifetime.


It might instigate compensation lawsuits. If the government aknowleges history, it might allow many desecndents of those who perished to sue Turkey for financial recompense. That is a great sum of money.
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Why not let sleeping dogs lie? Talic - 17/03/2010 05:22:34 PM 423 Views
No Isaac - 17/03/2010 06:17:50 PM 411 Views
Everyone else knows what happened.... Talic - 17/03/2010 06:35:37 PM 453 Views
Every nation has to come to grips with the "sins of its past". everynametaken - 18/03/2010 01:30:56 AM 366 Views
Erdogan is the Middle East's Chavez. *NM* AgentOrange - 17/03/2010 06:38:00 PM 194 Views
I think Lieberman has the better claim there. *NM* Legolas - 18/03/2010 03:39:29 AM 172 Views
Hardly. Lieberman makes sense AgentOrange - 18/03/2010 05:34:43 PM 340 Views
I've read some articles saying otherwise. Legolas - 18/03/2010 05:49:52 PM 390 Views
Torpedoing Biden's mission ? What a sad joke. AgentOrange - 18/03/2010 06:22:37 PM 347 Views
Would you like to call it something else? Legolas - 18/03/2010 06:26:34 PM 391 Views
Because Obama was looking for a way to get offended AgentOrange - 18/03/2010 06:54:55 PM 536 Views
Your problem is that a "settlement freeze" doesn't impress anyone at all. Legolas - 18/03/2010 07:16:55 PM 351 Views
Maybe we should just ask the Palestinians if we can keep Tel Aviv ? AgentOrange - 18/03/2010 07:44:07 PM 328 Views
If you want anyone to be impressed, yes. Legolas - 18/03/2010 09:03:11 PM 313 Views
How is it too much when there is a freeze ? AgentOrange - 18/03/2010 09:22:03 PM 387 Views
You call this a freeze? Legolas - 18/03/2010 09:43:52 PM 428 Views
Not your sourness silly. Obama's AgentOrange - 18/03/2010 10:15:56 PM 357 Views
Ah. Legolas - 18/03/2010 10:22:58 PM 332 Views
And you know what really annoys me ? AgentOrange - 18/03/2010 10:53:13 PM 399 Views
How long are supposed to stop building for? random thoughts - 18/03/2010 09:32:58 PM 332 Views
How about permanently? Legolas - 18/03/2010 09:50:46 PM 394 Views
I don't think i agree that the condidtions for peace or that well known random thoughts - 19/03/2010 04:32:37 AM 308 Views
Major conditions Floffe - 19/03/2010 09:59:37 AM 360 Views
Re: Major conditions random thoughts - 19/03/2010 01:26:54 PM 355 Views
Seriously, what conflict are you looking at? Legolas - 19/03/2010 01:56:24 PM 490 Views
Re: Seriously, what conflict are you looking at? ßelals Girl - 19/03/2010 04:47:07 PM 346 Views
Ah, good point there... I was kinda thinking of the West. Legolas - 19/03/2010 08:31:11 PM 379 Views
well I wasn't talking about how anyone treated but who was making the decisions random thoughts - 19/03/2010 09:24:47 PM 423 Views
That really isn't a very useful observation at this point, though. Legolas - 19/03/2010 09:32:30 PM 328 Views
Man, your analysis is weird AgentOrange - 20/03/2010 11:24:40 AM 621 Views
I'm a bit confused what you're saying exactly... Legolas - 20/03/2010 04:10:14 PM 371 Views
How so ? AgentOrange - 20/03/2010 11:04:30 PM 318 Views
It was over because Israel wanted it to be over. Legolas - 20/03/2010 11:24:33 PM 347 Views
Maybe. AgentOrange - 21/03/2010 12:23:58 AM 425 Views
Re: Major conditions Floffe - 19/03/2010 03:01:42 PM 479 Views
They don't exactly have much that they *can* give up. Legolas - 19/03/2010 10:46:35 AM 378 Views
I don't want them to give up anything more then the violience random thoughts - 19/03/2010 01:55:51 PM 373 Views
That's simple enough: Israel is a first world state. Legolas - 19/03/2010 02:13:17 PM 337 Views
That is a little thin random thoughts - 19/03/2010 03:27:10 PM 419 Views
Israel has been a democracy since its inception Floffe - 19/03/2010 04:01:30 PM 423 Views
Okay, two things first... Legolas - 19/03/2010 08:59:57 PM 428 Views
That's ridiculous. everynametaken - 18/03/2010 06:53:40 PM 410 Views
Truly I cannot answer that. AgentOrange - 18/03/2010 07:00:58 PM 326 Views
It is pretty crude snoopcester - 17/03/2010 11:15:28 PM 421 Views
This. Nicely put. *NM* Legolas - 18/03/2010 03:29:02 AM 158 Views
Why is recognizing a 100-year-old evil in his country's past "backing him into a corner"???? Tom - 18/03/2010 11:41:05 AM 389 Views
The guy who has managed to face down one military coup from a sector that doesn't want it admitted? snoopcester - 18/03/2010 12:39:46 PM 458 Views
Turkey's atrocities against the Kurds are what I referred to. Tom - 18/03/2010 02:00:58 PM 383 Views
Ah, well that is a different matter snoopcester - 18/03/2010 02:31:58 PM 424 Views
Why is it so hard for you people to see that the AKP are the "good guys" in Turkey? Legolas - 18/03/2010 01:44:13 PM 339 Views
There are no "good guys" in Turkey, at least not in the government. Tom - 18/03/2010 01:57:44 PM 325 Views
Equating the two is ridiculous. Legolas - 18/03/2010 02:13:37 PM 506 Views
My issues are not with a lack of democracy and I don't equate the AKP and the military Tom - 18/03/2010 02:35:00 PM 452 Views
The AKP is not anti-American. Legolas - 18/03/2010 03:02:00 PM 359 Views
Its better than the alternative Aisha - 18/03/2010 01:11:07 AM 493 Views
So they respond to claims of genocide with threats of ethnic cleansing? Terrible. Just terrible. Tom - 18/03/2010 11:39:31 AM 361 Views
Nicely put *NM* Isaac - 18/03/2010 04:22:58 PM 168 Views
Money. AgentOrange - 18/03/2010 05:47:27 PM 324 Views
Unlikely. Tom - 18/03/2010 08:51:28 PM 340 Views
I agree. What they are doing now only makes things worse for them random thoughts - 18/03/2010 08:48:25 PM 296 Views
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