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The Crux of the Turkish Genocide Debate.

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, September 7 2010, 17:02:54 (UTC)
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No one, not the Turks, not anyone disputes the fact that Christians died, not only because of normal wartime conditions, but by deliberate actions of various individuals, during WW I.

What those who claim a genocide have not proven to any degree of certainty (despite claims that this was equal to the Holocaust) is...

1. That the Turks had a history of persecuting religious minorities.

2. That in wartime, when faced with rebellion from within (regardless of how noble-sounding the rebellion such as "we just want our freedom"..or, "all we want is our own country"...or, "we are just expressing normal national aspirations" etc), rebellion which amounts to treason, armed insurrection aided by the enemy, and ssedition, every nation on earth has the right and duty to defend its borders and citizenry from all hostile forces ESPECIALY those from within its own ranks.

3. That the Turks engaged in an active hunt for Christians in all their major cities.

4. That Christians everywhere in the empire suffered the same deliberate actions...that their churches were closed...that they were forbidden to worship...that their property was confiscated...that their businesses were closed or taken from them and that they were not allowed to work to feed their families and that they were herded into gehttos for eventual removal to death camps built on the outskirts of major towns and cities...and that such death camps were discovered at the end of the war...or mass graves indicated such willful and deliberate slaughter as to constitute a genocide AND that the common Turkish citizen lived a life markedly better than did Turkish Christians throughout the war.

These conditions seem to me to be lacking in all the evidence those who are desperate to condemn Muslims of Christian crimes bring to the argument.

Where si the proof of any of this?

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The Crux of the Turkish Genocide Debate. pancho - Tuesday, September 7 2010, 17:02:54 (UTC)
- Re: The Crux of the Turkish Genocide Debate. Tiglath - 09/12 12:28
  - Re: The Crux of the Turkish Genocide Debate. pancho - 09/13 02:02
    - Re: The Crux of the Turkish Genocide Debate. Tiglath - 09/13 12:39
      - Re: The Crux of the Turkish Genocide Debate. pancho - 09/13 14:25
        "SeyfoCenter"??? THAT is your Source...? pancho - 09/14 00:36
        
        Re: The Crux of the Turkish Genocide Debate. Tiglath - 09/14 14:17
        What about the Kurds? Tiglath - 09/14 14:46
        Re: What about the Kurds? pancho - 09/14 15:57
        
        Re: The Crux of the Turkish Genocide Debate. pancho - 09/14 15:51
        are we being a little capricious? pancho - 09/14 19:26
        Re: are we being a little capricious? Tiglath - 09/15 13:55
        Re: are we being a little capricious? pancho - 09/15 16:22
        
        but the question remains Rashad - 09/14 22:16
        Re: but the question remains Tiglath - 09/15 14:28
        Re: but the question remains pancho - 09/15 16:46

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