08-10-2006, 01:22 PM
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“Wrong is right.”
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Originally Posted by BadNick
I have an Armenian friend so I hear about it once in a while, their widespread slaughter by the Turks ranks right up there with some of the worst atrocities. I'm not even up to speed as to the motivations, but I'm sure it relates to maintaining power and concepts of ethnic cleansing the "homeland".
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My family and many of their friends are Turkish. I encounter a lot of pride and nationalism (and for the most part, rightly so). Let's not forget about the Armenian genocide. For lack of a better source, here's some Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
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The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: Հայոց Ցեղասպանություն, Turkish: Ermeni Soykırımı) – also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great Calamity (Մեծ Եղեռն) or the Armenian Massacre – refers to the forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands or over a million Armenians, during the government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire. Some main aspects of the event are a matter of ongoing dispute among the academic community and between parts of the international community and Turkey. Although generally agreed that events said to comprise the Armenian Genocide did occur, the Turkish government and several international historians reject that it was genocide, and claim that the deaths among the Armenians were not a result of a state-sponsored plan of mass extermination, but of inter-ethnic strife, disease and famine during the turmoil of World War I.
Despite this thesis, most Armenian, Russian, Western, and an increasing number of Turkish scholars believe that the massacres were a case of genocide. For example, most Western sources point to the sheer scale of the death toll. The event is also said to be the second-most studied case of genocide,[1]" and often draws comparison with the Holocaust. To date 21 countries, as discussed below, have officially described it as genocide.
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