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Starvation in Turkey

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, February 18 2009, 21:27:43 (CET)
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Why is it that only some history books mention widespread starvation in Turkey during the First World War? In reading of other wars mention is made that hostilities don’t begin until the crops are harvested for that year...because there won’t be food otherwise that year...and less and less of it as the war drags on. Clearly food supplies are important and just as clearly the lack of them can bring disaster.

Hundreds of thousands of people, Turks too, starved to death in Turkey during that time....it’s interesting that the same number of Assyrians we allege died in that war, 750,000, is almost the same number of Iraqi children, 700,000 (and counting) under the age of five, who died in America’s war on Iraq...in this war we all know they died of starvation, though it could easily have been prevented and wasn’t caused by an act of God but of Christians...so in reality they didn’t actually starve so much as have starvation used as a weapon to kill them with...whereas in Turkey during 1915-18, we allege that Assyrians were deliberately killed, something we won’t say now about Iraqis killed by starvation...only we insist they were killed deliberately...by gunfire and sword and whatnot...when in reality they died of disease and starvation. Oddly enough, that war, and the disease and starvation, was also not an act of God but of, you guessed it, Christians again.

Once again we’re lying to the world and each other.

It’s also odd that in articles in western news sources who cry up the charge that the Turks deliberately killed Christians, no Turk is ever quoted telling his country’s side of the story...which you would think would certainly be expressed....instead the reader is left with the impression that the Turk has absolutely nothing to say on the subject...like he knows he’s guilty as charged. But even if he was, wouldn’t he at least invent some plausible reason why any Christians died? And if he were to invent something, wouldn’t “death by starvation” be a good excuse? So why not include it? Even as an alleged excuse...or, are we really to believe that the Turk has nothing to say and doesn’t even want to bother to give a good excuse??? Like he’s THAT much of a bald-faced thug?

Since many reporters are in government’s pocket when not actually CIA operatives it could be that they merely leave out any statement by Turks which tell the whole story. It wouldn’t be the first time.

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