20 Steps Turkey Could Take to Worsen Relations with France After Genocide Vote
Comments
4 responses to “20 Steps Turkey Could Take to Worsen Relations with France After Genocide Vote”
-
“…Until Turkey acknowledges its guilt and restores the Armenian lands…” What lands? Armenia can dream as much as it likes, having a handful of naricissitic dishonest French and other politicians is not going to get Armenia anywhere. I hope Harut the Barut remembers if the Turks in ONLY (not the world wide Turks) Turkey were to walk to the border and spit Armenia would drown in Turish saliva.
-
You are right. You can spit all you want right now. But I can assure you that the time will come when there may not be anyone on these occupied lands who can spit or do anything else. That is when Armenians will simply walk in and recover their lands without spitting or firing a shot. It is hard to imagine such a scenario right now, but remember that you can not identify a single country on this planet that has had the same exact borders over the centuries. Even great empires have come and gone. Where is today the Roman Empire, the British Empire, and more appropriately, where is today the Ottoman Empire?
If you are around in a couple of hundred years from now, we will take up this conversation once again and see who is right and who is wrong. Armenia is an ancient nation of several thousand millennia. It can afford to wait for another couple of hundred years. Can you guarantee that the Turkish borders will remain the same for ever? It has not stayed the same in the past. It won’t stay the same in the future!
Let’s see who spits on who at the end. -
Well, Mr. Sassounian. I can agree that the borders are not static, they change from time to time, from century to century. So are the borders of Turkey. But what makes you so sure that the Turco-Armenian border will necessarily change in favor of the latter? Don’t you consider the possibility of changing it eastwards resulting in total disappearance of Armenia altogether (which it is close to anyway due to the massive Armenian exodus to Russia and elsewhere)? If we believe your fairy tales, once upon a time Armenia used to stretch from sea to sea (or shall we say, from ocean to ocean, from planet to planet?) Where is that mythic Armenia today? Help me to find it. I do not see it
Oh, sure, it vanished according to your theory of non-static borders.
So, please do us a favor, do not rule out the scenario when Turkey walks into Irevan and not encounter any “millennia-old” aykanush or mkrtich to spit at Because they all are gone to California, Marseilles and Siberia.
In the meantime, work harder on your education, dude. The Council of Europe and the European Parliament are different organizations. The adoption of the 1987 resolution by the European Parliament (which, by the way, expired with the expiration of the mandate of the MPs who voted for it and is no longer effective unless it is reconfirmed every five years by every new team of MPs) has nothing to do with the Council of Europe. The European Parliament is only for the EU members, while the Council of Europe has even Armenia as a member. Also, Mr. Sassounian, go ahead and see what the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) said in its 2005 resolution number 1416. I am afraid, it is Armenia that should withdraw in protest from the Council after this resolution.
And don’t talk too much about the failed UN 1985 report, if you do not want to be ridiculed further. The report got stuck in the UN Human Rights Commission because the General Assembly harshly refused to include it in the agenda due to its controversy. So, it is the funeral of the failed resolution, not any reason for celebration. But you can celebrate.
I like item 17 in your list most than anything else. Long overdue.
Besides, I am amused with this: “Every single member of the French legislature, even those voting against the bill, stated that they had no doubt whatsoever about the facts of the Armenian Genocide”. Now, check this, Mr. Sassounian: every single member of the French parliament has no doubt whatsoever about the fact that food having been digested in the stomach and moved through the bowel turns into, and gets out of the body in the form of, excrement. It is an undeniable fact, and I doubt that any French MP has any doubt about this. Why do not we penalize and throw in jail anyone who dares deny this?
But what is most amusing, Mr. Sassounian, is your hope to receive territorial and financial reparations from Turkey. Not bad. Considering that Armenian irregulars committed the first genocide of the 20th century – the one against Muslim civilians in the occupied territories of Anatolia behind Russian army’s bask – it is the right time to demand from Armenia to look honestly to its past, recognize the Turkish Genocide and cede some territories to Turkey (I like Echmiadzin) as a compensation for the barbarian act of genocide perpetrated by your ancestors, the descendants of Hye nomads who came to the Armenian Plateau from Thracia and Phrigie. Who, by the way, got a good lesson for all their crimes! Apparently, not the last one. So, see you soon -
Your lengthy diatribe of insulting statements and misconstrued facts makes the best case why France is trying to pass a law on criminalizing genocide denial. This law is exactly for people like you who do not have the decency to face the facts and not insult the descendents of genocide victims.
By the way, you are completely wrong about the UN. Were you at that UN meeting in 1985? I was!! You are simply regurgitating Turkish denialist propaganda. Please check the UN report prepared by Benjamin Whitaker. You will find there a clear reference to the Armenian Genocide.
Leave a Reply