Turkey continues to deny Armenian genocide

[Tortorella's Rant]

So they acknowledge it and then what?

[Salmonberries]

Good job at spread awareness..

One interesting but ironic fact I found is the modern state of Turkey denies the genocide.. even though the ottoman empire acknowledged it to an extent..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide_recognition

I also find it ironic that Syria now acknowledges the Armenian genocide considering what is going on in the country right now..

That's one aspect of my original post I forgot to mention.. That there's a trend according to that Wikipedia link where some countries are acknowledging it for all the wrong reasons possibly because they're against Turkey.

You want to talk about irony brother. Operation Iraqi Freedom has led directly to the final extinction of the remaining Assyrian Christians in Iraq's Nineveh Plain. I warned everyone I could back in '02 that this would be one of the results of the invasion and the toppling of Saddam the Secular in Iraq.

Warning not heeded, needless to say, lol.

[Salmonberries]

SHALL THIS NATION DIE?

BY

Rev. JOSEPH NAAYEM, O.I.

With a Preface by

LORD BRYCE

and

An Historical Essay by

Rev. GABRIEL OUSSANI, D.D.

PREFACE

BY

LORD BRYCE

The bloodstained annals of the East contain no record of massacres more unprovoked, more widespread or more terrible than those perpetrated by the Turkish Government upon the Christians of Anatolia and Armenia in 1915. It was the sufferings of the Armenians that chiefly drew the attention of Britain and America because they were the most numerous among the ecclesiastical bodies, and the slaughter was, therefore, on a larger scale. But the minor communities, such as the Nestorian and Assyro-Chaldean churches, were equally the victims of the plan for exterminating Christianity, root and branch,. although the Turks had never ventured to allege that these communities had given any ground of offense. An account of these massacres, organized and carried out with every circumstance of cruelty by Enver and Talaat, chiefs of the ruffianly gang who were then in power in Constantinople, has been given in the Blue Book, published by the British Foreign Office in 1916, and entitled " Treatment of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire." In the present volume there is presented a graphic and moving narrative of similar cruelties perpetrated upon members of the Assyro-Chaldean Church in which about half of them, men, women and children, perished at the hands of Turkish murderers and robbers. The narrative is written by the Rev. Father Naayem, who saw these horrors with his own eyes and narrowly escaped with his life. He has recounted to me and to other friends of his people in En land the terrible story, and we have encouraged him to believe that his English translation of his book will be read with sympathy and pity both here and in the United States. I venture to recommend it to those who wish to know what these innocent victims have suffered, trusting that it may do something to sustain that interest in the sorely afflicted Christian Churches of the East, which has been manifested in both countries, and hoping also that the charitable aid so generously extended to them in their calamities may be continued. The need of relief is still very great and it is for their Christian faith, to which they have clung during centuries of oppression and misery, that they have now again had to suffer.

23rd July, 1920.

http://www.aina.org/books/stnd.htm

[Apple Juice]

There was a rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery on the 100th anniversary with all the Armenians living within Vancouver. Sickens me how Turkey refuses any of this.

Did anyone see pictures of the Armenians living in SoCal (and there are millions of them) marching towards the Turkish Consolate? That was just amazing.

[taxi]

They've been doing so for quite some time.

It's getting attention right now, because it's the 100th anniversary.

It's a culmination of this, Obama's refusal to acknowledge, events in Syria, growth of the Armenian diaspora community, etc..