Still denying the armenian genocide?

Question

I wonder why so much ppl are so blind
i never saw or heard witnesses of the holacost
but for some reason i admit that it was a fact
than again my parents of my parents almost got killed there
hundreds of photos, documents and still u call Arm the liar
Read the facts please and then make conclusions
Some day the truth will came out!
As for Turkey - your history is forever stained

Answer 1

I just had a conversation a/b this with a friend a few days ago. Most people know that it happened but will never acknowledge it b/c to do so could potentially lead to negative economic and social ramifications. The US and Turkey are on good terms and, never the one to meddle, the US has refused to acknowledge the genocide. What I fail to understand is how the US could meddle in Iraq, Vietnam, and so many other places around the world but fail to acknowledge such a tragedy as the Armenian genocide. While I love my country it needs to examine its priorities and arm all of those elected to the US government with a higher level of morale and some common sense. That's a small feat in comparison to our placing of a man on the moon.

Answer 2

I don't really know why you think it is denied, it is a commonly known and well documented historical event. For those who do not know what it was:
The Turks and Armenians have had conflict since before the time of the crusades when Armenians had control of provinces in Anatolia, and were in conflict with both the Seljuk Turks, and the Christian Byzantine Empire.
However, the Armenian Genocide was atrocities committed against the Armenian civilian population by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. It was a systematic and centrally controlled effort by the Ottoman Empire's government to exterminate the Armenian people between 1915 and 1918, although the worst events happened in the beginning, in 1915. Armenians were subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacres and mass starvation. The bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly moved from Armenia and Anatolia into northern Syria, where they were sent into the desert to die.

Answer 3

Exactly, those that deny the Armenian Genocide--as well as the Assyrian Genocide (750,000 innocent Assyrian Christians perished) and Greek Genocides all committed at the same time are ignorant individuals who do not wish to acknowledge the lives of innocent Christians (roughly 3 million) who perished by the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Turkey knows if it accepts the Armenian Genocide, it will then have to accept the Assyrian and Greek Genocides, something that Turkey does not want to do. My ancestors migrated from southern Turkey to northern Iraq to escape the Genocide, I know the Genocide happened, I am living proof.

Answer 4

A dear family friend (now deceased) was a survivor of the Armenian genocide. He was an orphan from Turkey, he could still speak Turkish which he learned as a child. He received help and education from some charitable person and eventually ended up as a dentist in the U.S. Not only a dentist, but an instructor in a prestigious dental school, and he told everybody he was Armenian (but a U.S. citizen). So he certainly spread awareness of what happened.

Answer 5

The Armenian holocaust has never received the publicity of the jewish one but it is one reason why so many people oppose the turkish membership of the EU.
Until the turks admit their guilt and make reparations they cannot be forgiven.