If you have ever visited Turkey, you know this is absolutely forbidden to talk about. They keep trying to get the world to forget.
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.
“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.
Does it admit it’s basically an Islamic issue?
Maybe he should read the script for a movie about turkey’s conversion to Islam.
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.
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...
Wow...God bless Bale for this incredibly brave statement...an almost unheard of move in Hollywood
I have a seven-volume series called “The Great Events of the Great War” written in 1920. In the final volume are listed battle deaths at 7,200,000 and civilian deaths at 9,000.000. Of those 9,000,000 Armenians account for 1,100,000 and Greeks in Turkey for 900,000. So if it weren’t for the Turks, WWI would have probably been the first war in all history in which there were more combatants killed than civilians.
The Turks right before Attaturk reign executed millions including in Israel many Arabs and Bedouins and Jews and Coptics etc
Anybody in the way
Genocide by committee...the Young Turks
Good for him. While going to college in Fresno it was always a topic. There is a large Armenian community there and has the William Soroyian theater who was a great literary artist.
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As Muslims the Turks are born liars. They murdered the Armenians because they were Christians and knew the world was busy elsewhere so they could get away with it.
Won’t the “Coexist” bumper sticker make everything ok?
We will see this film.