Posted on 04/19/2017 8:11:13 PM PDT by george76
the Armenian genocide, an event Turkey does not recognize.
“One and a half million people were killed in the most brutal fashion, and I knew nothing about it, and that’s not uncommon
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The fact that this Armenian genocide happened and no one was ever held accountable may have provoked other genocides since.”
At least 26 countries recognize the deaths as genocide, but in Turkey it is reportedly illegal to bring up the event.
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If you have ever visited Turkey, you know this is absolutely forbidden to talk about. They keep trying to get the world to forget.
And they all lie about it, bald faced lie.
Other than the labeling of the historical fact that it happened, the only other thing I can recall is an iconic photograph of some cruel man taunting starving Armenian children by waving a piece of bread in front of them.
I'm sure I saw the photo in one of those "30 Amazing Historical Photos!" slideshows that you see on these clickbait sites.
I'm going to go to Wikipedia to learn more about the "Armenian Genocide". It sounds pretty awful...
It was Jihad.
All of the negative comments about this film are from Erdogan’s Islamists.
Tuck Furkey
“but in Turkey it is reportedly illegal to bring up the event.”
Reportedly? Its called “insulting Turkish honor” and you get four years in jail for admitting the Armenian Genocide happened.
In his memoirs the US Ambassador to Turkey at that time said that the Turks called him in and said that they were going to kill all the Armenians and so they would die without heirs and their assets must go to the state. So they wanted American help in getting the US life insurance policy money that many Armenians had. These were common among Armenians as for some strange reason they didn’t trust the Turkish life insurance companies.
Armenian Genocide Library Opens in Washington.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3542042/posts
Looks like now is the time to bring it up. Geopolitics kept it from happening. It makes cowards of us all.
The definitive book is forty Days of Muss Dagh. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00CMGZKXC/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1492659532&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=forty+days+of+musa+dagh&dpPl=1&dpID=41HejEsG8ML&ref=plSrch
Supposedly The Promise is true to what is written there.
Does it admit it’s basically an Islamic issue?
is that book readable or will my eyes cross trying to get thru it?
Maybe he should read the script for a movie about turkey’s conversion to Islam.
And that's SAYIN' something.
Looks like a great movie and I don’t go often to the theater but may for this one. So, it’s finally time it’s in the theaters. I’ve watched the trailers for it.
I served with a few Armenians who told me all about it.
See Post 18 if you want to go to an audio link for a 68 minute talk about this genocide. It also touches on the genocide of the Assyrian Christians and Greek Christians (in Turkey) during this same time period.
Now I know a lot more about it. It culminated during World War I. Well over a million (estimates range up to 1.5 million) Armenian Christians murdered by the evil (Muslim-majority) Ottoman Empire.
The "Armenian Genocide" is every bit as sickening as one could possibly imagine. One would do well to familiarize oneself with this "forbidden" history.
People treated as second-class citizens for hundreds of years—up through the late 19th century, well into the first quarter of the 20th century—and then rounded up and "deported" to desert locations where no sustenance was possible—all along the way being robbed, raped, murdered, and starved—and finally piled in scattered reeking mounds and burned, or else buried in nameless and numberless graves.
Another historical example of systematic murder of infidels by a fanatical Muslim majority.
There are a plethora of such examples of such behavior, even in the 21st century.
Just absolutely shameful...
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