AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH FRIENDS OF TURKEY

My parents were both Holocaust survivors and about three quarters of my family were murdered by the Nazis. I do not hate Germans as most of the people of Germany weren't even alive between 1933 and 1945 when the Nazis ruled the country. Indeed, Germans are probably more conscious of the evils of that time than any other people on earth.

I have read your posts on many threads. You preach hatred of the Turk for centuries of wrongs against Christians. Is that something the Turks of today or the current secular Turkish state is responsible for? Do you hold people responsible for the sins of their ancestors. If so (and I think you do) I pity you. It must be horrible to live with so much hate and to hate those who did nothing to you.

You conveniently neglect to mention the fact that the Germans have apologized, acknowledged, and made reparations for the heinousness.

That is reason to hate people generations later? I see it as a reason to interact and educate, not to hate. I also don't believe much in reparations after the victims are long dead. Tell me: do you think the descendants of African-American slaves should receive reparations too? The only possible case of reparations making sense would be to Armenia. That should be a subject for negotiation between the Armenian and Turkish government, no?

Muslim Turkey never has and is in a state of denial concerning the genocides.

Where is this "Muslim Turkey" you speak of? Turkey is a secular state who's population is majority Muslim, but Jewish Turks are no less Turkish, for example. The only reason I can see for appending Muslim before Turkey in your sentence is to inflame passions here.

That is reason to hate people generations later?

Justice is justice denied. Generations later? you must be joking...the genocide happened to my grandmother's generation. Muslim Turks are still at it commiting similar atrocities against the Kurds. The few remaining Christians are still being denied their right to worship and priests being imprisoned.

The only possible case of reparations making sense would be to Armenia.

Armenians are included in the category of Christian. Of course, they and the Assyrians and the Greeks are all entitled to reparations and apologies including a full accounting in public view of the world of the atrocities that were commited by the kemalist muslim regime.

Where is this "Muslim Turkey" you speak of?

It is exactly where Turkey is and Turkey is 99% Muslim. Their government is run by Muslims. Their military is 100% Muslim.

The term "secularist" is for public consumption only and for certain types to feel more comfortable about the past.

Inflaming passions? You must be kidding...if you have been diligently reading my posts then you apparently have been reading the turks' and turkophile posts as well. The truth it seems is a bitter pill for some to swallow and justice is only extended to one's own.

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