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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Apr 22, 2015 13:26:53 GMT
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Post by Young Ireland on Apr 22, 2015 13:50:47 GMT
Well that appears to be progress at least. How long will it be, I wonder, before Turkey formally acknowledges that it occurred?
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Apr 22, 2015 14:01:33 GMT
Could be a result of Turkey recognising where its interest lies. But the construction of a church there is a big move; so is the tolerance of a Moslem openly becoming Christian.
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Post by hibernicus on Apr 22, 2015 22:25:25 GMT
This is an interesting piece from a Jewish intellectual magazine discussing the relationship between the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust, and criticising Israel's historic reluctance to acknowledge that it was genocide (partly because of reluctance to diminish the uniqueness of the Holocaust, partly because Turkey tended to ally with Israel against the Arab states, though this has changed since the Islamist AK party came to power in Turkey). tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/190274/jewish-organizations-armenian-genocideThere are some links to related articles in the same publication about the Armenian genocide.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Apr 28, 2015 8:09:06 GMT
At present Germany is confronting the amount of information available to the Kaisir at the time and the fact that he took no action. However, it is anybody's guess if it would have had any effect (a la Pius XII). However, it does mean that there was considerable documentation on the Genocide available in Berlin in the late 1930s which sheds a new light on Hitler's statement "Who today speaks of the Armenians?"
The United States never declared war on the Ottoman Empire and maintained a diplomatic presence in the empire throughout. I wonder how much was known in Washington?
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