Historically (before Erdogan took power) Turkey was America's ally against the Communists while the Armenian Church was very pro-Soviet and left wing. In fact, the Armenian genocide has been a cause c'elebre for the Left for decades. Of course, the way the Left changes course, I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see things reversed 180 degrees now.
I actually attended an Armenian church one summer while I was "searching." Aside from the liturgy, all the homilies were very left wing, and the Catholicos in Etchmiadzin actually came out with a statement (this was 1990, the 75th anniversary of the genocide) that Armenian surivival depended on the USSR and no Armenian should be permitted to have the "wrong orientation."
Also, the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia was a Communist terrorist outfit that wanted to take eastern Turkey and annex it to the Soviet Union. The organization was created under the aegis of the Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Of course, some "palaeos" idoloze Arafat and the PLO.
We need to know all of this. Starts with the truth.
The story of what happened in eastern Anatolia during WWI is much more complex than the standard story of a Nazi-style genocide. Something along those lines was part of it, but it is much more complicated.
>>>>Historically (before Erdogan took power) Turkey was America’s ally against the Communists while the Armenian Church was very pro-Soviet and left wing. In fact, the Armenian genocide has been a cause c’elebre for the Left for decades. Of course, the way the Left changes course, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see things reversed 180 degrees now.
I actually attended an Armenian church one summer while I was “searching.” Aside from the liturgy, all the homilies were very left wing, and the Catholicos in Etchmiadzin actually came out with a statement (this was 1990, the 75th anniversary of the genocide) that Armenian surivival depended on the USSR and no Armenian should be permitted to have the “wrong orientation.”
Also, the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia was a Communist terrorist outfit that wanted to take eastern Turkey and annex it to the Soviet Union. The organization was created under the aegis of the Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Of course, some “palaeos” idoloze Arafat and the PLO.<<<<
Turks were persecuting Armenians long before any communists around.
Even the latest Armenian holocaust took place circa 1915, before communist takeover in Russia.
You can’t blame Armenians for siding with communists later. It was their mean of survival.