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BEING A TURK IS INSUFFERABLE SHAME: TURKISH POET
15:49, 17 March, 2014
YEREVAN, MARCH 17, ARMENPRESS: The Turkish poet Serkan Engin wrote
in the article in the website Paper Boats of Poetry that for him
being a Turk is an insufferable shame, as the ancestors of the Turks
implemented the Armenian Genocide. Armenpress presents the article
of Serkan Engin "The Insufferable Shame of Being a Turk":
"I am a socialist Laz poet from Turkey. My mother is Turkish so
my mother tongue is Turkish, but I prefer to consider myself as a
"Laz" like my father's ancestors, because I am ashamed of my Turkish
ancestors from my mother's side of the family. I refuse to consider
myself as a "Turk", because my Turkish ancestors were perpetrators of
genocides at the end of the Ottoman Empire and at the beginning of
the Turkish Republic. 1,500,000 Armenians were brutally murdered by
Turkish and Kurdish people under the orders of Ottoman generals. Turks
and Kurds have killed their own neighbors, raped their little girls,
burned alive little children and women and grabbed the Armenians'
money and properties.
Also thousands of Assyrians and Chaldeans had been murdered in their
own homelands like Armenians by the Ottoman government during this
genocide period.
A terrible genocide had to be committed against the Armenians. I
accept the reality of the Armenian Genocide as the son of a Turkish
mom and I am ashamed of my mother's ancestors, of my Turkish ancestry.
This is the shame of the Turks and Kurds. This is the shame of
Turkish History, also a shame for the Kurdish people. This is a blot
on human history. I apologize to all the Armenian victims in the name
of humanity and kneel down in front of your pain even though I had
no participation in this violence personally.
Unfortunately, this is not the only "genocide" the Turks have been
involved in. Also 353,000 Pontic Greeks had been brutally murdered in
1919 in Anatolia by the order of Mustafa Kemal, the Ottoman General of
the Committee of Union and Progress, who would become the founder of
the new Turkish Republic. This new republic is the continuation of the
old racist Committee of Union and Progress, having the same mentality.
These are not the only crimes of my Turkish ancestors. From the
beginning of their history, Turks were trouble makers to all those
near them. Turks have lived by grabbing the neighboring lands,
killing many people, raping their women, making their children slaves,
grabbing their country and money for 2000 years. The Great Chinese
Wall is the concrete symbol of Turkish barbarianism. First the Turks
plundered Chinese lands, and killed them and when they began to be
more organized and founded states, they began to attack more countries
from the Great Chinese Wall to Vienna. I apologize to all the victims
of my Turkish ancestors throughout history.
Dear friends, they can arrest me and put me in jail because of these
explanations or a racist can shoot me on the street, but my conscience
and intellectual ethics make me obligated to shout out the truth to
the whole world. I will speak the truth till my last breath".
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/754189/being-a-turk-is-insufferable-shame-turkish-poet.html
From: A. Papazian
15:49, 17 March, 2014
YEREVAN, MARCH 17, ARMENPRESS: The Turkish poet Serkan Engin wrote
in the article in the website Paper Boats of Poetry that for him
being a Turk is an insufferable shame, as the ancestors of the Turks
implemented the Armenian Genocide. Armenpress presents the article
of Serkan Engin "The Insufferable Shame of Being a Turk":
"I am a socialist Laz poet from Turkey. My mother is Turkish so
my mother tongue is Turkish, but I prefer to consider myself as a
"Laz" like my father's ancestors, because I am ashamed of my Turkish
ancestors from my mother's side of the family. I refuse to consider
myself as a "Turk", because my Turkish ancestors were perpetrators of
genocides at the end of the Ottoman Empire and at the beginning of
the Turkish Republic. 1,500,000 Armenians were brutally murdered by
Turkish and Kurdish people under the orders of Ottoman generals. Turks
and Kurds have killed their own neighbors, raped their little girls,
burned alive little children and women and grabbed the Armenians'
money and properties.
Also thousands of Assyrians and Chaldeans had been murdered in their
own homelands like Armenians by the Ottoman government during this
genocide period.
A terrible genocide had to be committed against the Armenians. I
accept the reality of the Armenian Genocide as the son of a Turkish
mom and I am ashamed of my mother's ancestors, of my Turkish ancestry.
This is the shame of the Turks and Kurds. This is the shame of
Turkish History, also a shame for the Kurdish people. This is a blot
on human history. I apologize to all the Armenian victims in the name
of humanity and kneel down in front of your pain even though I had
no participation in this violence personally.
Unfortunately, this is not the only "genocide" the Turks have been
involved in. Also 353,000 Pontic Greeks had been brutally murdered in
1919 in Anatolia by the order of Mustafa Kemal, the Ottoman General of
the Committee of Union and Progress, who would become the founder of
the new Turkish Republic. This new republic is the continuation of the
old racist Committee of Union and Progress, having the same mentality.
These are not the only crimes of my Turkish ancestors. From the
beginning of their history, Turks were trouble makers to all those
near them. Turks have lived by grabbing the neighboring lands,
killing many people, raping their women, making their children slaves,
grabbing their country and money for 2000 years. The Great Chinese
Wall is the concrete symbol of Turkish barbarianism. First the Turks
plundered Chinese lands, and killed them and when they began to be
more organized and founded states, they began to attack more countries
from the Great Chinese Wall to Vienna. I apologize to all the victims
of my Turkish ancestors throughout history.
Dear friends, they can arrest me and put me in jail because of these
explanations or a racist can shoot me on the street, but my conscience
and intellectual ethics make me obligated to shout out the truth to
the whole world. I will speak the truth till my last breath".
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/754189/being-a-turk-is-insufferable-shame-turkish-poet.html
From: A. Papazian