Kikapu wrote:I have a very good Turkish friend in the US, who couple of years ago accepted the slaughter of the Armenians by then the Ottomans, but he did not want to call it genocide, just because that use of the word was only created after WWII, therefore, since the word "Genocide" was not in our vocabulary at the time of this atrocities taking place, then the word Genocide should not be used today according to him.!
At that time, his wife and I rolled our eyes as if to say, .....
You What.???
But does he have a point with his explanation, however.???
Hey its the undercover GC
Ok I really dont know much about this so maybe someone can answer a few questions for me:
1 what was the population (numbers) of armenians in the ottoman empire the last time a census was taken before WW1
2. the Armenia diaspora now is mainly from the survivors of the 'genocide' is that right? what is the size of the diaspora population?
3. Does the figures that you correlate between one and two match up?
4. what is the proof that this was a systematic attempt to kill all the Armenians?
5. Why are the Armenian archives not open?