snake, Turkey was in war with Russia when the Armenians thought it would be a good chance to rise up against her, thats not genocide my friend thats war, Turkey killed a lot of people during that period in order to regain her independence,mostly foreign too, however going after TCs only, thats genocide! And funny enough most of it occured while the GCs were too busy running away from the Turkish invasion, so call me an idiot but i truly fail to see how that is self defence or even strategical retreat! (unless ofcourse that was the initial strategy)
Over a million and a half Armenians were killed during the final years of the Ottoman Empire - are you saying a 1,500,000 or so Armenians were soldiers?? Women and children were soldiers? You also have to ask why the Armenians sided with the Russians.
Look at during that period in Turkey, many Christian minorities had to change their names to sound Turkish to avoid persecution. Even today, to become a Turkish citizen, you have to register a Turkish name. Is this not persecution against minorities? Even recently we have witnessed the harrassment of Greek and Armenian minorities in Turkey, which the government and the police does not intend make a real effort to stop.
With regards to GC going after TC only meaning 'genocide', this is exactly what I mean to TC being willfully blind to the truth. Between 1963 and 1969, the inter-communal deaths between GC and TC were rougly the same - with maybe 150 or so more TC deaths. So are you telling me that the 150 or so more deaths makes the difference for a so-called 'genocide'??? Why are you avoiding that fact the TC paramilitaries also did their upmost to cause animosity in Cyprus between the two communities to realise their ideology of racial segregation??? You do know that official UN figures show that more Greek Cypriots died at the hands of the Turkish army and Turkish Cypriot paramilitaries than the total number of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot deaths in the previous ten years? So does this not count as your version of 'genocide' too??
Its even more amazing to see how many GCs actually believe that TCs have no brains and that they actually need the propaganda from Turkey to make their own minds up about the situation that THEY were in them selves. You are soo ahead of yourself that you claim to be able to diagnose the social problems of an entire nation like the Turks, get over yourself man seriously
You said it in the sentence that I put in bold. Either you are afraid of the truth that both sides share an equal blame to crimes leading upto the invasion of 1974...and the proven facts that outside superpowers (such as the US and UK) wanted to divide Cyprus in order to please Turkey, which also sees many Turks and Turkish Cypriots making up lies to legitimise the current crime commited in Cyprus by Turkey - OR - you DO have no brains in deciphering what the word 'genocide' means and cannot comprehend credible facts and figures reported by the United Nations or the European Courts of Human Rights with regards to the Cyprus Problem.
For how much longer are Turkish Cypriots and Turks going to turn their heads away from the truth in order to fit in with the denialist Turkish social structure????
Do you know what 'genocide' means???? Or are you trying to divert the fact that the Turkish Ottoman Empire is side by side with the Nazi regime in commiting acts of real actual genocide in the last 100 years.
