What’s the worst that could happen? Turkey won’t like us anymore? That ship has already sailed.
History lesson -
In April 1915 the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic decimation of its civilian Armenian population. The persecutions continued with varying intensity until 1923 when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey. The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was reported at about two million in 1915. An estimated one million had perished by 1918, while hundreds of thousands had become homeless and stateless refugees. By 1923 virtually the entire Armenian population of Anatolian Turkey had disappeared.
The Ottoman Empire was ruled by the Turks who had conquered lands extending across West Asia, North Africa and Southeast Europe. The Ottoman government was centered in Istanbul (Constantinople) and was headed by a sultan who was vested with absolute power. The Turks practiced Islam and were a martial people. The Armenians, a Christian minority, lived as second class citizens subject to legal restrictions which denied them normal safeguards. Neither their lives nor their properties were guaranteed security. As non-Muslims they were also obligated to pay discriminatory taxes and denied participation in government. Scattered across the empire, the status of the Armenians was further complicated by the fact that the territory of historic Armenia was divided between the Ottomans and the Russians.....
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocide.html
“Who remembers the Armenians?”, it was only 1.5 million. Who remembers the 26M Russians or the 12M German victims, or the 100M Chinese? Man’s inhumanity to man continues regardless of who remembers. There will be more to follow, you can bet on it.
Truth
Courage to speak it
Remember Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem
That’s all you need to know about this guy
“Recognizing” the Armenian genocide pre Erdogan were a bad move. It was committed by a previous entity, the Ottoman Empire. Türkiye was a different nation after Mustafa Kemal’s revolution. That said, it is time to recognize the genocide. Erdogan is attempting, now indirectly but explicitly, to revive the Ottoman Empire. As such he is taking on himself and on Türkiye the legacy of that Empire. It is time.br> It also removes the rationale for the attachment to NATO. Severing the country from NATO would be felt as a drastic and disastrous act by the Turkish middle class which is still quite large by Moslem standards and could galvanize those people to rise against the neo-Ottomans.
PBS is always running a show about this. I have not seen any shows on the communists killing 100 million+ people. Maybe next season....