Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Turkey and Israel, unusual allies
Dink had been prosecuted for his views on the massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, which he called genocide... He was given a suspended six-month jail sentence, under "Article 301", last year for "insulting Turkishness". [rest of article]In the Western World, and now promulgated by the UN, it is a crime to deny the existence of the Nazi holocaust, particularly when it comes to the question of Jews killed under Hitler. Yet in Turkey, the strongest Israeli ally in the Middle East, partners in economic and military development, the Turkish government policy is to deny and bury the Turkish genocide of 2 million Armenians between 1915-1923.Does every American learn about the Armenian Holocaust like they do
about the Nazi holocaust? Most will not have even heard of Armenia, let alone the massacre of 2 million men women and children with photographs that are indistinguishable from the crimes committed during the Third Reich. You would think that Israel with its Holocaust Industry of all nations would distance itself from a country who has not only DENIED ITS ROLE IN THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, but MADE IT A CRIME TO MENTION THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE France tried to make a law of denying the Armenian Holocaust... strangely Dink fought against that law...
Dink had been prosecuted for his views on the massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, which he called genocide... He was given a suspended six-month jail sentence, under "Article 301", last year for "insulting Turkishness". [rest of article]In the Western World, and now promulgated by the UN, it is a crime to deny the existence of the Nazi holocaust, particularly when it comes to the question of Jews killed under Hitler. Yet in Turkey, the strongest Israeli ally in the Middle East, partners in economic and military development, the Turkish government policy is to deny and bury the Turkish genocide of 2 million Armenians between 1915-1923.Does every American learn about the Armenian Holocaust like they do
about the Nazi holocaust? Most will not have even heard of Armenia, let alone the massacre of 2 million men women and children with photographs that are indistinguishable from the crimes committed during the Third Reich. You would think that Israel with its Holocaust Industry of all nations would distance itself from a country who has not only DENIED ITS ROLE IN THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, but MADE IT A CRIME TO MENTION THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE France tried to make a law of denying the Armenian Holocaust... strangely Dink fought against that law...
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