They should at last open their archives, stop lying and beg pardon to turkish people...
I am a Turkish citizen and Armenian minority on same time, and I never had problem here in Istanbul... Turks love me and I love Turks, so I don't understand why Armenians from abroad attack turkish governement...
Isn't it at last time to open your hearts, Armenians ? Why are you so brain-washed ?...
2007-04-25 07:29:58 · 48 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Turkey
I'm not so young...I am 46 years old...
2007-04-25 07:35:58 · update #1
El Chris : you say I'm Turk ? Of course I'm turkish citizen with a turkish passport,but I don't forget my roots...What's the problem ? In USA, Lebanon,France,Argentina,etc, Armenian also have citizenship of their living country...Aznavourian is french citizen,Cher is US citizen,Nalbandian is argentinian citizen, so what ?... In Turkey there are also turkish armenians, as Arto Tunçboyacyan ( now he's in USA), as Garo Mafyan,as Hrant Dink( God bless his soul...), as myself...
El Chris, come to Istanbul, pray in our churches, open your heart...
2007-04-25 09:19:36 · update #2
Hey Sera, do you think that I should be ashamed of my turkish citizenship ? And you, which citizenship are you ? French? American? Lebanon?
I prefer to be Turk than other nationalities, because Turkey and Armenia are brother countries...
And that Jean-Charles you're talking about is just a crazy yahoo user, but I don't know him personnally...
Come to Istanbul, enter the church, pray, sing, and open your heart...It's time for peace now...Amen...Amin...
2007-04-26 02:01:35 · update #3
Bosphorus, you are right...Because of Armenian Diaspora, we Turkish Armenians feel really unconfortable...When a Turk looks at me with arrogant eyes, I think its' because of US and French Armenians who try to make pressure on medias....
2007-04-26 02:05:09 · update #4
Hey LakeVan, I'm innocent, and I have the right to be friend of Fatih or whoever on Yahoo Y/A...
You choose your friends watching which race they are, it's so pathetic...I choose my friends because they have an innocent soul and a great heart...
If you want to become my friend, you have to change...Get a life !
2007-04-26 08:56:50 · update #5
Thank you for being honest and opening your heart. We should not generalize and say "all Turks/Armenians etc" are good or bad.
Terrible things happened in the past. This is true. I do not believe it was a "genocide". People killed each other for various reasons, one was vengeance. I never think violence solves any problem. We need to sit and talk and try to understand each other, with an open heart. All we need is love and understanding.
I met some Armenians here in Cyprus and I loved them. They are very nice people. We have similar things in our cultures.
Those who call for revenge are pathetic. Their hearts are full of hatred. Let them live and perish in their hatred then.
2007-04-25 22:02:17 · answer #1 · answered by anlarm 5 · 20⤊ 12⤋
A disputed conflict from over 90 years ago, but nothing is mentioned about the illegal military occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh since 1993 by Armenian forces? UN resolutions 822, 853, and 874 condemn the Armenian military occupation of nearly 1/5th of Azerbaijan's territory and call for the immediate removal of Armenian forces. Approximately 1 million Azeri Turks were rooted from their homeland and live in sub standard conditions as IDPs. Thousands of Azeri civilians were massacred by Armenian forces. Most notably, on February 26, 1992, Armenian forces slaughtered over 800 Azeri civilians, mostly women and children, during the invasion of Khojaly. speak out against the systematic agression committed by their own ethnic brethren. One's humanity should supercede their tribal/ethnic loyalties.
2016-05-18 04:00:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly,the psychologic truth is that when people have to leave their homeland and live abroad in this or that way,they develop a strong sentiment to hang on.That is why,most of the of the Turks who went to Germany or other European countries to work turned out to have some reactionary and racist attitudes and even became fanatic Islamists.Such people tend to overreact to the ideas or arguments that might disillusion them and tend to face the matters with a closed mind.
Secondly,what happened in 1915 between Turks and Armenians was caused by the same reason which is working hard in Iraq today,that is Imperialism.
Why do you think all different ethnic and secterial groups are butchering each other there,like Armenians and Turks did in 1915 when the Ottoman Empire fought against the Allied powers in WW1.Who do you think will have the benefit of that bloody situation in Iraq?Kurds,Arabs,Turkmans,Sunnis or Shiats? Of course none.
They will gain a big and never-ending hatred towards each other in the end as did Armenians and Turks although they had been living together peacefully for centuries by 1915.
2007-04-27 17:50:21 · answer #3 · answered by edd 3 · 4⤊ 6⤋
I have always believed that diaspora's attitude is making the lives of our Armenian friends harder. I look at their children sometimes and hate to think in what kind of an environment their parents are trying to raise them.
I hate the diaspora (I'm sorry if I'm hurting you somehow) and chauvinistic Turks (meaning non-Armenian Turks) equally.
As for the truth, it is a fact that Armenians suffered a lot and my heart bleeds for them. I also know what kind of atrocities Muslims lived through and my heart bleeds for them, too. If the virus of nationalism didn't enter these lands (and it didn't enter of its own accord, it was forced by the same people that support the lies), diaspora Armenians and I would be living together, in the same country.
Once, it was universally "known" that the world is flat, and anybody who said otherwise was punished. Truth has a habit of coming out eventually. The one thing I am happy about is, the educated part of this country doesn't have the pathological hate some of our neighbors and diaspora Armenians seem to have. Reconciliation must be possible.
2007-04-26 01:47:33 · answer #4 · answered by Totally Blunt 7 · 14⤊ 9⤋
george bush, we,ll have a new president after the next election. maybe things will get better. i dont understand the world now,things are so messed up. i hope we get some in office,that know what they are doing. good luck to the world!!!!!
2007-04-25 07:44:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
The answer to your question is Pride. If men admit they are wrong, then usually it's because someone has a gun to their head or the head of their families. Also, lies have been told so much (not just in Turkey or Armenia) that more lies have to be told or the whole history of things will fall apart, and men will see themselves for what they are -violent animals.
2007-04-26 06:32:29 · answer #6 · answered by Tabatha 3 · 8⤊ 7⤋
I think the real question is what will the Armenians have to give up if they Apologize. there is always a political motive for any action!!!
2007-04-25 07:35:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋
r u retarded ? why do u even consider urself armenian.. no 1 is saying that turkish ppl today are bad ppl.. they werent the ones who slautered us, their grandparents did.. but u know what ? they did and were not lieing they are.. u should be very ashamed for thinking that way.. ur turk washed, just like how im whitewashed.. but i am still armenian and forever will be
2007-04-28 20:59:20 · answer #8 · answered by VCP 3 · 11⤊ 7⤋
This is how safe Armenian were, it is no better now...it is worse now....
Year 1967
Let Armenians keep in mind that the Armenians of Istanbul are hostages in the hands of Turks. Let them forget the past, if not, not a single Armenian will live in Istanbul. It is true now it is not easy to commit genocide again, but we can make the atmosphere unbreathable for the Armenians.
From "Yeni Istiklal Haftakik Siyasi Gasete." Istanbul, January 25, 1967.
the situation is no better now April 24 2007
2007-04-26 14:39:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 11⤋
Thanks brother for your explanations to public
You are right because we are like brothers and sister living together for years
There is a foreign finger under this point which some one want to make a war between Turkish and Armenian
2007-04-27 07:16:17 · answer #10 · answered by steelcosmos 1 · 6⤊ 9⤋