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  • The Centenary of the Armenian Genocide. 100 years of pain, facts and

    BasNews, Iraq
    Jan 31 2015


    The Centenary of the Armenian Genocide. 100 years of pain, facts and figures.

    "Attention will not be less this year, and the question is whether
    Turkey is a strong competitor in the battle for an imaginary price for
    helplessly diplomacy. Or as the sarcastic: That the Turkish definition
    of genocide is "That we didn't do against Armenians."

    by Kaiwan Bahroz

    On the centenary of the Armenian genocide Turkey celebrates its heroic
    efforts in the World War massacre.

    April 24 this year will be the centenary of the Armenian Genocide
    marked in Yerevan. It is their remembrance day. The day of pain and
    torture.

    100 years and Turkish government has never taken responsibility.

    Turkey's President Erdogan is showing responsibility or not. Or how
    bitter the Turkish memory culture is, this statement from the 16th of
    January enlightening:

    On April 24, the day that the Armenian Diaspora has dedicated to
    commemorate the so-called Armenian Genocide, world leaders will gather
    in Turkey to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli.

    Erdogan announced this as a battle and not a genocide.

    On 24 April 1915 600 leading Armenian intellectuals and officials
    were arrested in Constantinople: Politicians, writers, lawyers,
    doctors, academics and especially officers. Most were executed in the
    Syrian desert or hung from bridges in Constantinople.

    The Armenians were stood puzzled. They perceived themselves as loyal
    Ottomans. After Constantinople stood in the way of genocide, as the
    articulate part of the Armenian opposition was removed. They wiped out
    the troublesome intellectuals of Armenia.

    During two years more than 1.5 million Armenians were murdered, and
    hundreds of thousands of other Christians: Assyrians, Kurds, Chaldeans
    and Greek Orthodox.

    Erdogan's response to the memory of slaughterhouses is thus
    highlighting the Turk's heroic efforts in the World War massacres.
    Turks have sent invitations to over a hundred heads of state.

    Putting it bluntly, this is like Germany, on the International
    Holocaust Remembrance Day, would mark the Wehrmacht heroic efforts on
    the Eastern Front during World War II.

    The First World War

    As a known fact, Turkey was allied with Germany and Austria / Hungary
    during WWI. The battle for the Dardanelles was one of the biggest
    battles of the World War, close to two hundred thousand lives were
    lost. Gangway Gallipoli was the Allies (France, Russia, Britain,
    Australia, New Zealand and others) attempt to conquer Ottoman empire
    from the sea.

    April 24th was mentioned day when Ottoman authorities murdered
    Armenian intellectuals and officials in the capital. And these two
    events are closely connected. Plans for ethnic cleansing of Christians
    empire existed already, but the decision to arrest and kill leading
    Armenians in the capital just at this time was taken because
    ungtyrkerne - knowing that an allied landing was imminent - feared
    Armenian treachery. A time Erdogan will now recalls.

    Erdogan believes he gives an outstretched hand to the Armenians,
    because Armenians also served in the Ottoman forces at Gallipoli,
    which in his imaginative shall prove that Armenians were not
    persecuted, but rather included as a people in the empire's final
    phase.

    These are new tones. It is not long since Turkey denied that Armenians
    were loyal Ottomans.

    Armenians had never fought on the Turkish side.

    In the history of the Armenian disloyal fifth colonist underlie the Turks.

    Turkey have a pragmatic relationship to the truth as both
    representations used to argue that the events of 1915 were not
    genocidal.

    On one side were Armenians potential traitors (therefore they were
    deported out of Anatolia) and on the other side were Armenians highly
    decorated soldiers in the army.

    It is fascinating to read the easier humanized the tone of the Turkish
    public in these infringement times. We can compare Erdogan's language
    with reactions to the cartoons. It is a potent and dangerous
    mentality.

    Armenians were sacrificed because of victimhood was acting out through
    violence. It characterizes infringement tyranny are notions that all
    political and cultural issues has its cause and origin somewhere other
    than your own. Ottomans thought it was great powers who had caused the
    Ottoman stagnation (both right and wrong) over several hundred years
    and that Christians and Jews were superpowers collaborators.

    The official Turkey claims periodically that they have nothing to
    answer for when it comes to genocide, because it was the Ottomans who
    ruled during WWI and not the modern nation-state Turkey. Just the
    objection, however, seems to be forgotten when it comes to the
    nation's heroic past. Another factor is that there just were tensions
    in transition between empire and nation that led to persecution and
    murder of the minorities. And it was not so they national chauvinist
    abuses disappeared in the new Turkish state.

    Kurds

    At the end of the 1920s and 1930s the Turks initiated what so called
    a Turkishfication policy. People with a different language and culture
    should be converted to the Turkish (assimilation), and many Kurds were
    forcibly relocated to new areas. This led to rebellion among Kurds. In
    what has become known as the rebellion in Dersim (1937/1938), a big
    number of civilian Kurds were killed. The figures were vary large,
    from 110,000 to 140,000 killed. Several hundred villages were burned
    and conducted extensive forced relocation of the population.

    In the years that followed, Kurdish struggle for an independent
    Kurdistan met with harsh repression in Turkey. Kurds have been
    subjected to extensive political persecution, and many Kurdish
    writers, journalists and human rights activists have been imprisoned
    and killed. Kurdish language and culture have been banned.

    Both young Turks and later Kemalists were ideological hybrids:
    Inspired by national chauvinism from Europe and the Turkish Muslim
    tradition. At airports in Turkey's major cities can be met by posters
    where the victims of genocide reviled. Well paid state history
    institute travels around the world with exhibitions, lectures and
    literature on the "so-called genocide", where the assailants portrayed
    as the real victims. Authorities conducts active iconoclasm against
    traces of victims culture: Religious buildings demolished, destroyed
    or looted. Get new has been listed.

    Although the genocide happened a hundred years ago, it is still
    subject to potent politics. The reason is of course that Turkey has
    never taken responsibility. Attention will not be less this year, and
    the question is whether Turkey is a strong competitor in the battle
    for an imaginary price for helplessly diplomacy. Or as the sarcastic:
    That the Turkish definition of genocide is "That we didn't do against
    Armenians."

    Kaiwan Bahroz is a political analyst, human rights activist, He has
    worked as a humanitarian affairs officer for the United Nations, and
    obtained Masters degree from the University of Nordland, where he
    studied political sciences. Follow him on Twitter: @kaiwanbahroz


    http://basnews.com/en/opinion/2015/01/31/the-centenary-of-the-armenian-genocide-100-years-of-pain-facts-and-figures/

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