Posted on 06/02/2016 1:33:57 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
German lawmakers' planned vote to recognize the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, will test the "friendship" between Berlin and Ankara, Turkey said Thursday, according to AFP.
The resolution "will amount to a real test of the friendship" between the two nations, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said.
"Some nations that we consider friends, when they are experiencing trouble in domestic policy attempt to divert attention from it," he said at a meeting of his Justice and Development Party (AKP). "This resolution is an example of that."
He stopped short of threatening Germany with political and economic retaliation, but added "3.5 million Turks live in Germany..."
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"Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Führer Hitler
At the time, however, the Kaiser’s government did not care for the program of annihilation. Only one German officer actually participated in it, the suppression of an armed uprising by the Armenians in Ourfa by Captain Eberhard Count Wolffskeel Von Reichenberg. There he actually did some killing, although at Zeitoun and Mousa Dagh he did what he could to diplomatically avoid open bloodshed, and get the Armenians to cooperate in their relocation, of which I am not sure from his letters he was aware was to death camps in the dessert. At any rate, after the massacre at Ourfa, he was recalled to Germany by a displeased Kaiser’s government.
Two thoughts:
1) Nations don’t have friends. Nations have interests.
2) Everyone knows that the Armenian genocide happened. But what business of a foreign parliament is it to pass resolutions about it?
Germany paid reparations, both to individual survivors and to the State of Israel, for the Holocaust. Why should Turkey, in the absence of surviving victims 100 years later, be exempt from at least paying something to Armenia. And Germany’s parliamentary resolution, while not in any way binding on anyone, is at least a step in that direction.
Murdering bastards still ignore their brutsl, bloody, steppe savage past.
You think that only Turkey should be allowed to have a opinion about the genocide it committed?
Germany has been in-bed with Turkey, and before that the Ottoman Empire, for a long, long time. First it was a strategic necessity to counterbalance the Russians. Then it was economic and all about Turkish workers. Now it’s about... what? Germany doesn’t really need Turkey for anything as far as I can tell. It just seems like “inertia”... that nobody in German leadership is stopping to re-evaluate.
“It wasn’t genocide, what is that? It was jihad. That’s allowed.”
Don’t twist my words - of course anyone can have an opinion (even if it is wrong and contradicts well-established facts - e.g. Turkey’s position on this).
A parliamentary resolution is a whole different kettle of fish. A bit presumptious, IMO.
I don’t know why Turkey would or should be exempt from reparations. Not my point and not exactly Germany’s business, IMO. The Turks will just throw a hissy fit (not that I care) and that’s about it. Wait. Actually, pissing the Turks off finds my wholehearted approval!
Oh, and let me add that passing symbolic resolutions IMO isn’t the job of the German parliament - they should leave that to the pukes at the U.N. and work for their constituents for a change.
Be friendly..............
..............accept OUR LIES!
OR ELSE!!
“”3.5 million Turks live in Germany...”
And they get dashedly upset when someone accuses their grandads of genocide. Might throw things and attack people, you know./sarcastic fake British accent
Socialists think history is whatever they say it is. Of course the government has to vote on which historical facts are officially sanctioned.
Tuck Furkey.
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