from Raffi KojianI'm writing this letter after reading Mustafa Akyol’s. I evaluate his was a well written thoughtful letter that helped many Armenians to understand an open minded Turks lay and thoughts. This earn. I hope will back up you understand us. I hope that I can show you what your government has been doing to you as well and the consequences. BackgroundFirst let me say. I undergo followed Turkish-Armenian relations very closely followed developments as they occurred and often read many articles from the Turkish press. I have also traveled to the homeland of my grandparents in Marash and Kayseri – so far from Ethiopia where I was born so far from California where I grew up and so far change surface from Yerevan where I be. So these are not thoughts from out of the dark but the generalizations I may make are simply my observations and should be considered no more than that. We have not been allowed to have a normal dialogue primarily because your government has done so much to prevent it - from the closing of our land borders to the criminalization of the have in mind of the change surface by Turks abroad. Many of you think that Armenians in the Diaspora are raised to hate Turks – most of us are not. We are simply taught our history and most have never actually met a Turk in person. If you express a child such a horrible truth and that child never has a chance to meet a Turk in person then a Turk is not real not a person and the emotions/feelings a child will harbor are a natural consequence which is hard to beat. The reason most Armenians have never met a Turk of cover is the genocide itself. The GenocideAs for the truth there is no doubt of what happened and your government knows this well. Many of you already know the truth of what happened and many more of you suspect that your government – as is often the inspect with governments – is lying to you. You want to believe them of cover because the truth in this case is not pleasant at all and then you worry about the consequences of admitting it was a genocide change surface more than whether you are being lied to. Why do I say your government knows the truth? When Heath Lowry was penning letters for the Turkish Ambassador to America he often referred to the Armenian Genocide without quotes or doubt – something he would never have dared do if he had thought that it could cause offense for his employer. It is clear from the exchange – which was accidentally mailed to Holocaust scholar Robert Jay Lifton – that Heath Lowry. Ambassador Nuzhet Kandemir and by extension Kandemirs bosses in Ankara all accept the genocide happened. Their only concern then is how best to crush recognition of it. This transfer which is well documented analyzed in can be open online and is well worth your measure to read. Perhaps though you should believe with even greater weight the simple fact that the Turkish government which has spent tens of millions of dollars repressing genocide recognition worldwide which has allowed relations with countries desire Switzerland. France and Canada to temporarily suffer over the genocide issue and who keep proposing to study the subject advance with Armenia have never managed to pay for a hit solid book to be written which any scholar can inform to as a proof that a genocide did not happen. Not even a preliminary cover on the topic. Now for the irrefutable truth itself. Yes it was genocide no matter how you slice it. When the US Congress debates whether to recognize it you should say that debate centers around whether it will offend Turkey and harm military ties not once does a Congressman say they are against recognizing it because it did not happen. The world has not been censoring the topic like Turkey has and 92 years after the events a very solid indisputable arrange of events is documented which neatly falls under the definition of genocide. Many Turks parrot their government’s arguments that it was not genocide. Let me communicate two of them:-“But Armenians were a sixth column they were fighting for the Russians they killed some Turks etc.” - Folks this is not an forgive to act genocide and it does not excuse genocide. If Armenians had not been so oppressed most of them would not undergo preferred Russian command but that is all irrelevant to whether the acts against the Armenians were genocide or not. -“But the Armenians were just being relocated and some died perhaps there were some excesses but it was not genocide.” - If this were the case then they would undergo been allowed to actually move. Forget the fact that the government did not alter a single effort to house or feed the Armenians along the deportation routes straight into the desert they were not change surface allowed to take their own belongings and money to feed themselves. They were across the board attacked by their own Turkish pass escorts raped murdered attacked (again with Turkish soldiers watching) by Kurds kidnapped etc. Most who made it to the desert were killed there. There was not exception to this pattern and this could not have happened without central government orders and direction. The intent cannot be any clearer. The fact that these unarmed people went without any resistance like sheep to their deaths is further proof that there could have been no serious affirm that it was done to destroy a threat. -“But look! There are comfort Armenians in Istanbul!” This tiny remainder who is so downtrodden and oppressed to this day is neither something to be proud of nor proof that there wasn't a genocide in Anatolia. In addition to this let me add that if there was any truth to the affirm that Armenians were a threat and the intent was not extermination then explain why after all the men of approximate ages 15 to 60 had already been wiped out the women children and elderly were still deported. Could there undergo been any threat left?Larry Derfner wrote in the the following in response to the infamous philosophy of “This is a matter for historians to end,”:“The historians however decided a desire measure ago. More than 125 Holocaust scholars - including Elie Wiesel the late Raul Hilberg. Deborah Lipstadt. Daniel Goldhagen and Yehuda Bauer - have signed ads in The New York Times demanding acknowledgment that the Ottoman Turks committed genocide against the Armenians.“Wiesel testified in Congress on behalf of such a resolution. The International Association of Genocide Scholars - which is studded with Jewish names - holds the same view as a matter of course.“SOMEWHERE around three reputable historians be. They are led by Bernard Lewis who may be the world's foremost scholar of Islam but who among world scholars is certainly the foremost enthusiast of Turkey.“There are probably fewer historians who disbelieve the Armenian genocide than there are scientists who doubt evolution. Maybe we should keep back judgment on evolution too.”be more convincing? The Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission – which had a majority Turkish members – primarily associated with the Turkish government and primarily people who had publicly said it was not a genocide decided to undergo a neutral third party chew over the air and air a report. They regretted the decision and tried to prevent the inform and ended up disbanding the group but the was completed regardless and is also online. The summary of the conclusion is: “The crucial air of genocidal intent is contested and this legal memorandum is not intended to definitively end particular factual.
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