Turkey should accept responsibility for Armenian Genocide, no?

Question

Face up to it to it or the UN should order the name change to Chicken.

Answer 1

Genocide and massacre are two different words.Genocide means killing and erasing a certain race but during the time which said to be the Armenian genocide happened there were tens and thousands of Armenians were living in Istanbul,their grand children still lives there.
So,what if Turkey is right,what if it was one of the massacres of the 1st world war.

Answer 2

Yes. The genocide was conducted by Gençtürk fraction, to which also Atatürk the "father" of modern Turkey belongs. Ottoman empire used to treat national minorities well, including the Armenians, before Tanzimat. After Tanzimat nationalists gained more power but things got worse after the Balkan wars when the Gençtürks gained more power until they finally took over after they led the repulsion of foreign invaders. The nationalist Gençtürks represented the leading fraction in WWI Ottoman army and were hostile towards non-Turks and especially towards non-Muslim Ottoman citizens although themselves were not active Muslims and were also hostile towards Islam and everything it represents.

Turkish Republic was the first fascist state in Europe, although they will never admit it. Their aggressive secularism led to severe discrimination of the Muslim majority as well as Christian and Jewish minorities. The Ottoman empire recognised and respected its national and religious minorities - what has shown in battles of WWI where ethnic and religious minorities played a significant role, including Armenians, Greeks, Kurds, Arabs, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Jews and others - and Muslims, Christians and Jews.

On the other hand Turkish nationalists viewed all ethnic and religious minorities as a threat. They believed in panturkism and superiority of the Turks. And those were the people who founded modern Turkey. In the time the genocide was conducted, the Ottoman empire was ruled by Gençtürks (Young Turks), so yes, modern Turkey should accept the responsibility for the genocide.

Most of Muslim Armenians and Greeks simply hid their descent and proclaimed themselves as Turks on the emerge of Young Turks in order to avoid prosecution, which was impossible to do for the Christians as all Turks were at least officially Muslims and any sudden conversion would be spotted by the Young Turks.

No, modern Turkey is not the descendant of early Ottoman state that built bridges, housed Jewish refugees from Spain and built a model of ethnic and religious harmony. However, modern Turkish Republic is the descendant of oppressive last-day Ottoman government that imposed people with heavy taxes and conducted genocide on Armenians and still they don't treat Kurds very nicely.

Answer 3

For Turkey, the Armenian genocide was committed during the Ottoman Empire and it was also committed during a time of national crisis - The First World War. the Turks argued that the Armenians were traitors who were being supported by the Russians.

The Turks actively denied that they were engaged in genocide - the forced death marches of Armenians, the murder of important political and religious armenian figures, the forced removal of Armenians.

Every turkish government has said that there was no genocide - that Armenians simply died of natural causes. This has allowed every Turkish government to distance itself -to disown the Armenian Genocide and therefore to deny responsibility.

The sensitivity of this issue to the Turkish government can be seen that Turkey has a habit of complaining when foreign governments recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Of course turkey should accept responsibility.

Answer 4

That the activities of 1915 have been a Genocide is previous doubt; in actuality, it develop into he bloodbath of Armenians that Lemkin had in suggestions whilst he coined the term "genocide" in the 1st place. I even have appreciably studied the activities by autonomous (non-Armenian and non-Turkish) components and there in simple terms isn't a place for sensible doubt. Why Turkey refuses to settle for the activities as such is a greater complicated question. first of all, many Turks surely have self assurance it wasn't one; generations of youthful Turks have been raised with the government, the media, their instructors and their parents telling them that the nasty Armenians invented the lies approximately Genocide and that it on no account befell. they are taught that the Armenian deaths have been in simple terms causalities of world conflict I and that it any incorrect way around; the Armenians killed harmless Turks. Secondly, the government is reluctant to renowned the genocide by fact of repayment themes. Now, I even have little doubts the Armenian government could gladly forfeit any financial repayment claims in return of an acknowledgment and apology. The question of lands, in spite of the undeniable fact that, is somewhat distinctive; the lands that had belonged to Armenians for hundreds of years and that have been taken after (and thanks to) the genocide are considered necessary for contemporary-day-day Armenians. maximum of their historic landmarks, even their image (the Mount Ararat) at the instant are in "enemy's" hands; the Armenian government could on no account forfeit claims to those lands, and we aren't conversing approximately numerous hundred miles here. Thirdly, it truly is psychologically immensely difficult for a rustic to confess the form of element; denial is lots less difficult.

Answer 5

I think that everyone in the world agrees to that except the Turks themselves...The Iranians might be the only others that would go along with them, but they are also claiming that the Nazi Holocaust didn't happen in spite of hundreds of thousands of eyewitnesses...LOL.

Answer 6

Yes. However, it should be kept in mind that all countries, certainly including the United States, prefer to "forget" and deny their worst behavior in the past.

Answer 7

Silliness. Modern Turkey isn't the Ottoman Empire, and the people responsible are dead. What would be the point?

Answer 8

Yes, yes ,yes and one yes from me

Answer 9

OUI

Answer 10

YES,YES,YES!!!