They cut ties with France not just once, but 3 times. This is hugh.
“Who after all speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” - Hitler, August 22, 1939
Before genocide - 2 million Armenians and 2,000 churches in Ottoman Turkey (formerly Armenia), after genocide 70,000 Armenians and 50 churches.
Turkey is so touchy over this Armenian genocide issue.
I’m taking a college class on the “Holocaust” that focused on this issue. It’s pretty cut and dry. Turkey in the end decided not to try the murderers so a few of the victims family members hunted them down and took vengeance. (just like the Israelis).
Doesn’t this have Turkey violate the NATO Treaty?
Good for France.
Wow! I agree with France on this one, for a change.
What French expect Turkey to surrender
"the admission of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey is an issue of secondary importance for us. The following issue must be raised: a cruel crime was committed against the Armenian people. The whole nation was actually annihilated, our lands were seized and our 3,000-year-old culture was destroyed. This is not only a cruel crime, but also a great injustice. Therefore, our true demand is compensation for this injustice. The world must know about what happened, and we have to a great extent succeeded. The Turkish side is well aware that the step to follow the admission of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey will be a demand for compensation and return of the lands. This is the reason why Turkey will not admit the Armenian Genocide . . . ."
So what happens now? the Kurds also demand the same territory -- who by the way were also guilty of murdering hundreds of thousands of Armenians -- as well was Kaiser Wilhelm II German Emperor aware and, some say, abetted the attempted extermination of Russia's ally the Armenians with whom Germany was battling in W.W.I.
I recall that the article admits that Turkey acknowledges the deaths. The horrors did in fact happen. There are elsewhere claims of hundreds of thousands of Turk civilians killed also.. the real issue seems to be territory and retribution demanded of modern Turkey.
(Lawsuits have forced insurance companies to pay Armenians in recent years.)
BTW, speaking of destroying Armenian culture -- how much was destroyed when Armenians were forced under the control of the Bolsheviks? I think Armenia was the first Soviet "republic" established outside of Russia.
Oh no!! Does this mean no more taffy on the Champs Élysées?
(It is kind of neat seeing that Muslims in Europe can be charged -- I guess the guys weren't Islamists or Jihadists.)
So Armenians want this for France, America, et al. also? They have serious issues with the modern Republic of Turkey. We have enough problems. Turkey and Armenia are next door to each other. Start talking! Fat chance! We'll give up California to Mexicorruption before Turkey will give up eastern Turkey to Armenia --- wot? OK. Nevada.
As noted above the issues are territory and retribution -- labeling the horrors of the deaths genocide is not the issue. Modern Turkey admits the horrors (and asks what about the hundreds of thousands of Turk civilians killed.)
I have been relatively in support of the Armenian claims for years, more out of general sympathy for the scale if their losses than intimate knowledge of the details of the issue.
Lately, while at my local Barnes & Noble library, a glanced through a new book on Russian history, leading up to and during WWI.
In that book, they pointed to a lot of evidence, spelling out Russian funding and intrigue in support of Armenian freedom fighters against the Ottomans and then the Turks.
The views of the author were: the Russians were involved in an attempt to undermine the Ottomans and the Turks for their own - Russia’s, possible benefit, and the Ottomans and later the Turks were not deaf, dumb and blind to this intrigue (stirring up and using the Armenians) by Russia.
I am simply noting that this part of the issue was not something I had known about previously - regardless of the pros and cons regarding the author’s views of the issue.