So what if Turkey is "mad" at us? I mean in the end, you guys all dissaprove of the war...so wouldn't this jus

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t not matter? I mean, if Turkey doesn't allow us to use our bases, then why stop there but continue to pull out our troops??
Plus, I mean if we don't settle this from what happened 90 years ago, when will we?

Tell me your opinion :3

Answer 1

With all due respect, in 1915 Turkey ( the then Ottoman Empire ) committed genocide on the Armenians.
The evidence is clear and apart from a few dissenting voices not controversial at all.It's a fact!!
Apart from the Turks that is who claim it was an internal affair and the rightful suppression of a rebellion.
Politically it is undoubtedly unfortunate that Turkey is mad, with
a muslim oriented government in power now and with a suspected fundamentalist or better traditionalist President
just newly elected ( controversially ) .
The Army has vowed to defend the secular state as founded by Ataturk, but is also eager to take on the Kurdish PKK
militants in northern Iraq.
And that would undoubtedly anger and dismay the Al Maliki
government, in other words it's a mess!!!.
I'd just play hardball with the Turks, let them be mad.
They're Nato members and depend largely on Europe for cash and trade..........I don't think they'll risk losing that in the end.

Answer 2

I absolutely agree with you that genocide is genocide and, if it is to mean anything at all ,our opprobium of this horrible type of crime against humanity should know no limitation in time.

It is shameful that it has taken us this long.

During the Cold War an argument could be made for not angering Turkey. It was a matter of our security and survival and Turkey was geographically well placed to make its alliance a strategical necessity .But the Cold War began in 1946 and was certainly over by 1990.

It is absolutely correct that we could not have gone to war against Iraq so cavalierly if Turkey had shown more hostility. Israel also wants us to keep Turkey happy and out of the Israeli/U:S. - Palestinian equation. Those have been some of the reasons that we have been so cowardly reluctant to call the massacre of the Armenians what it was - a genocide carried out under Attaturk and his Young Turk party in 1915-1917.

Answer 3

Turkey did not exist at the time of the genocide.

The nation of Turkey was formed after a revolution in the 1920's. The genocide was by the Ottoman Empire, the government over thrown by revolutionaries who then established the nation of Turkey.

Anyone who voted for this resolution is ignorant of the facts. Democrats who voted for this resolution are ignorant of the facts and are hypocrites who should hold themselves accountable for ethnic atrocities like the political support of slavery.

Answer 4

Glossing over horrendous events is never the answer. One must not be afraid to address difficult issues.

Answer 5

Who gives a crap about Turkey anyway.