How an Armenians and Turks be friends?

Question

For centuries Armenians and Turks have been enemies, but now in modern times it doesn't seem to be acceptable anymore.
How can the friendship between them start?
Which ideas and actions ( in both sides ) prevent this? And which side seems to have more effects on that?
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Important : NO INSULTING AND BAD WORDS PLEASE!

Answer 1

It is not going to happen, never...............!!!
hey y turk you are here so I think you care and you are scared.

Answer 2

Enemies for centuries? I think you are mistaken. As far as I know Turks and Armenians were very friendly for centuries. It all started during World War I when the Russians invaded eastern Turkey. Some Armenian gangs helped the Russians and murdered civilian Turks. The Ottoman Sultan ordered the Armenians to be moved to southern Turkey for the safety of all. Some Armenians (number disputed) died on the way for various reasons. Both people suffered a lot.
In the 1970s suddenly the Soviets brought up this genocide thing and suddenly Armenians became enemies of Turks.
I met some Armenians in Turkey and here in Cyprus. I am a Turkish Cypriot. I loved them. They are very nice people.
We have to forgive what happened in the past.

Answer 3

They were friends until WW1. If you ask me why id say because the ''armenian genocide'' was many years ago and if that happened, its not any of the Turks fault who live right now.I dont say they should forget about it,i just say they shouldn't keep blaming each other and stop being racist.Thats what armenians (who are friends with Turks) think.

Answer 4

I'm not an Armenian as you know and therefore, I can't answer this question. Unfortunately, I can't telly you anything about Armenians because I don't know anybody who is Armenian. However, it's a good thing to try to find out common grounds and speak about positive attributes of each other. We would have less conflicts in our world if we only tried to talk about our similarities. I congratulate you for your question... A next step would be to think about what you (and of course all the others) like about Armenians and Armenian culture.

Answer 5

People be realistic. Times have changed now days money is more powerful than anything (it has always been like that but its more obvious now).Armenia is landlocked geographically, financially and politically. After Turkey accepts the killings of Ottoman Empire as a genocide there is no point of Isolating Armenia. In the last 15 years since Armenia's independence Armenia has achieved a lot, much more than expected. Armenia has to grow and bloom like a rose. There is a saying "A good neighbor is better than a brother" Armenia will become much better place when all these stress is gone. Armenian businessmen will be able to do business freely with neighbors. As you all know Armenians are good in business and they are very creative.

Answer 6

Ask Zori Balayan

Answer 7

No, they have been friends for centries, but now they are enemies.But not all of them..Some ulta-nationalists have hatred.Also Europe support this genocide lie, so some racist Armenians get power from them and the genocide lie never ends.

Be sure, if there weren't some ultra-nationalist Armenians, Turks want peace.All of them want peace.

Answer 8

Who knows

Answer 9

Did you read your question? no? read again..
anyway you are asking something that is not going to happen, the way turks are continuing to deny Armenian Genocide.

Answer 10

There are good and bad people in all nations

Answer 11

Speaking as someone who has been caught in centuries worth of ethnic hatred (and has bloodlines on both sides), it takes courage for both sides to open up and accept forgiveness.

The big problem with the process of forgiveness is education. Textbooks that establish the other side as evil and regard national pride as more important than human life broaden the divide and create more hardship. It becomes even more of a problem when you have strong militarization or the presence of a nationalist movement. In Japan, all the problems come from the nationalists. In Korea, the problems come from nationalists. In China, the problems come from nationalists. In each case, you have government connivance feeding the hate.

In the case of Turkey and Armenia, the case is clear: It is Turkey that has the stronger military, both in terms of power projection and the stewardship of the military over national ideals. Armenia's strength is in diaspora, in the collective strength of its people to influence the world. Hence, the recognition by many countries of the slaughter of Armenians.

Turkey is exceedingly bad at both PR and in reaching out to the rest of the world. While it is quite evident Turkey has suffered in war (against the Russians, and then in the First World War, then against the Greeks) on its native land (who doesn't suffer in war?), whatever goodwill it could have earned from the rest of the world has been drowned out in a cacophony of ultra-nationalist hate, a campaign of murder, intimidation, and human rights abuse over decades.

Ask your Question to people like Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Or Hrant Dink, Armenian-Turk journalist, murdered by a ultra-nationalist fanatic in 2007.

Peace starts when murderers put their pride, their lies, and their knives away.