HAS ERDOGAN PERSONALLY THE CAPABILITY TO COMPLETE THE CLEANSING IN the 21st Century? LIKE THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF ARMENIANS DURING THE 20th CENTURY ;;; www.Apodimos.com – http://news.pseka.net We update all the Greek and Cypriot emigrants this year, the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington and the Parliament of Sweden joined the growing number of political institutions that have decided to seek the cause of slaughtering ethnic cleansing of Armenians during the 20th century. And now here are a response to a statement by the current Prime Minister of Turkey and leader of the Islamic party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan: «In my country there are 170,000 Armenians. Seventy thousand of them are civilians. 100.000 tolerate more. So what I'm going to do tomorrow? If necessary we will tell the 100,000 mark: OK, time to return to your country. Why? It is my people. I am not obliged to keep them in my country. » This extraordinary threat was not in a stupid rally in a fly-blown town. England was pronounced on 17 March on the Turkish language service BBC. Just to be clear, then, to hear the chief politician in Turkey: «If democratic assemblies dare to mention the ethnic cleansing of Armenians during the 20th century, I am going to complete the cleansing of the 21st!» . And we ask us, how would the world respond if a European prime minister called for mass deportation of all Turks? However, xenophobic demagogy of Erdogan's just not attracted condemnation from Washington or Brussels. Let visitors know - our readers what is happening, studying the valid publication of news.pseka.net.
The term genocide, as formulated in the first trial in Nuremberg, 1945. It means, you, the methodical extermination (total or partial) of national, racial or religious group. It is a primary offense is not related with conflict. We exterminated a group which did but something is. With such a conceptual background before we can identify two main (2) basic genocide early last century: the genocide of Armenians and Pontic Greeks by the Turks, which until recently remained mostly unknown and the Greeks of Pontus. As mentioned the Armenian genocide facts Armenian citizens extermination of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Orders for cleansing Armenians had been given earlier by Sultan Abdul-Hamid (1894-96) but the main responsibility for the most widespread massacres attributed to the Young Turks movement (1908-18). The beginning of the Armenian Genocide is the symbolic April 24, 1915, when the leadership of the Armenian community of Istanbul and detained hundreds of Armenians of Istanbul were hanged. He was ultra-nationalism of the Young Turks and Kemalist designed to eliminate the exemption and other peoples to rule themselves without any other reason but just something that was. "Turkey is for Turks alone" proclaimed then Turkey. Nobody escaped. Expelled the Greeks of Pontus, the Armenians and Assyrians - are all Christians - but Muslims and Kurds. The persecution continued, and later in occupied Cyprus to Istanbul (1), Imbros, Tenedos (1) Izmir and elsewhere. But today it continues attacks against the Ecumenical Patriarchate (2) and the closure of the Halki Theological School (3). The crime of genocide of Armenians marked the modern Armenian history. The 24th April is the anniversary of the tragedy that came from «multiple channels» to get official recognition. Why does it seem that these tragic events in history people are not considered self-evident to automatically determine the size of the injustices committed ...
Eventually, the Turkish extermination program shall be implemented throughout the region to the depths of Asia Minor. Ordering delivery of all hunting weapons allegedly to be used in war. Armenians surrender all weapons and what were forced to buy to fill the excessive number of weapons, charged the Turks supposedly possessed. Which might be recruited to carry weapons and Armenians were killed or efonefthikan the hard work. The remaining others, elders, women and children forced to join the «March of Death.» Here supposedly mandatory routes for traveling to other locations. Accompanied by Turkish officers whom or tolerance which are killed in roadside ambush staged in stopping death. Those killed have been lifted to its final destination destruction in the Syrian desert city Dezor. Some Armenians were only spared thanks to the help of Arabs and other foreigners.
By the way, let's look a little historical memory to see once situations «familiar» with regard to the policy of Turkey ... Armenia was once a large area covering most of eastern Asia Minor and the current Republic of Armenia. Called Great Armenia and was a significant presence in Eastern Roman Empire, especially after the victory of Christianity. But what has happened and now the latter has to be limited to an area of 30.000 sqm with a population struggling to survive under conditions of extreme poverty? v A remembrance for the Genocide of Greeks of Pontos The killings of course the Greeks of Pontus began in 1461, eight (8) years after the fall of Constantinople, the siege of Trabzon, with persecutions through the centuries and in all phases of the Pontic Greeks in the north coast of Asia Minor and culminating in the genocide at the beginning of last century, from 1908, well before the First World War by the Asia Minor catastrophe. Especially for the 20th century: · From 1908 - 1915 there are killings of Pontic Greeks in the wider region of Asia Minor. · In 1916, we have the annihilation of the Pontic Greeks in Samsun and the wider area of Trabzon only escaped because they had occupied in April 1916 by the Russian army. But when the Russian army left the city in February 1918, half the population followed the Russian army during the retreat and scattered on the coast of Georgia in the Caucasus, in Cappadocia and in the depths of Asia Minor to Armenia and Kazakhstan. · In 1919, the landing at Trabzon on May 19, we knock the Pontian Greeks. Terrorism, the labor battalions, the exiles and pyrpolismoi villages forcing the Pontic Greeks to flee their homes. Run, deprived of everything and in a terrible state, to the mountains where they waited for death and staged ambushes gallows on the final stroke. · In 1920, created the Federation of Pontian, Armenian state, but the defeat of the Armenian Army in Erzurum by Kemal following capitulation and the Pontic Greeks living alone. · In 1922, we have the uprooting of the Greek element in Smyrna with arson and destruction. · From 1922 - 24, the Pontic Greeks moved from Samsun via Istanbul and Syria to Drama, Kavala, Xanthi, Kilkis, Kozani Preveza, Greece, Piraeus, Thessaloniki and other parts of Greece. · In the early 1990s and 10 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Pontic Greeks in Georgia and Caucasus palinostoun on the outskirts of urban centers and rural regions of Thrace in Greece. The unknown holocaust of Pontic Greeks is the second biggest genocide of the previous century after the Armenians. 353,000 Pontic Greeks were killed in the period 1916 - 23, while the eve of the Pontic Greeks PA counts 700,000 people that wiped out 50% of the Pontian Greeks. Parallel Lives continues. Almost in parallel with the Pontic Greeks and Armenians were expelled without being excluded and the Assyrians. The persecution of the Armenians began on April 24, 1915. The Young Turks gathered all the Armenian leaders in Constantinople and executed. The remaining civilians and other helplessly compelled to follow the orders of the Turks.
Erdogan: If democratic assemblies dare to mention the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in the 20th century, I will personally complete that cleansing in the 21st! By Christopher Hitchens 2010-04-09 April is the cruelest month for the people of Armenia, who every year at this season have to suffer a continuing tragedy and a humiliation. The tragedy is that of commemorating the huge number of their ancestors who were exterminated by the Ottoman Muslim caliphate in a campaign of state-planned mass murder that began in April 1915. The humiliation is of hearing, year after year, that the Turkish authorities simply deny that these appalling events ever occurred or that the killings constituted "genocide."
In a technical and pedantic sense, the word genocide does not, in fact, apply, since it only entered our vocabulary in 1943. (It was coined by a scholar named Raphael Lemkin, who for rather self-evident reasons in that even more awful year wanted a legal term for the intersection between racism and bloodlust and saw Armenia as the precedent for what was then happening in Poland.) I still rather prefer the phrase used by America's then-ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau. Reporting to Washington about what his consular agents were telling him of the foul doings in the Ottoman provinces of Harput and Van in particular, he employed the striking words "race extermination." (See the imperishable book The Slaughterhouse Province for some of the cold diplomatic dispatches of that period.) Terrible enough in itself, Morgenthau's expression did not quite comprehend the later erasure of all traces of Armenian life, from the destruction of their churches and libraries and institutes to the crude altering of official Turkish maps and schoolbooks to deny that there had ever been an Armenia in the first place. This year, the House foreign affairs committee in Washington and the parliament of Sweden joined the growing number of political bodies that have decided to call the slaughter by its right name. I quote now from a statement in response by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the current prime minister of Turkey and the leader of its Islamist party: «In my country there are 170,000 Armenians. Seventy thousand of them are citizens. We tolerate 100,000 more. So, what am I going to do tomorrow? If necessary I will tell the 100,000: OK, time to go back to your country. Why? They are not my citizens. I am not obliged to keep them in my country». This extraordinary threat was not made at some stupid rally in a fly-blown town. It was uttered in England, on March 17, on the Turkish-language service of the BBC. Just to be clear, then, about the view of Turkey's chief statesman: «If democratic assemblies dare to mention the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in the 20th century, I will personally complete that cleansing in the 21st!» Where to begin? Turkish "guest workers" are to be found in great numbers all through the European Union, membership of which is a declared Turkish objective. How would the world respond if a European prime minister called for the mass deportation of all Turks? Yet Erdogan's xenophobic demagoguery attracted precisely no condemnation from Washington or Brussels. He probably overestimated the number of "tolerated" economic refugees from neighboring and former Soviet Armenia, but is it not interesting that he keeps a count in his head? And a count of the tiny number of surviving Turkish Armenians as well? The outburst strengthens the already strong case for considering Erdogan to be somewhat personally unhinged. In Davos in January 2009, he stormed out of a panel discussion with the head of the Arab League and with Israeli President Shimon Peres, having gone purple and grabbed the arm of the moderator who tried to calm him. On that occasion, he yelled that Israelis in Gaza knew too well "how to kill"—which might be true but which seems to betray at best an envy on his part. Turkish nationalists have also told me that he was out of control because he disliked the fact that the moderator—David Ignatius of the Washington Post—is himself of Armenian descent. A short while later, at a NATO summit in Turkey, Erdogan went into another tantrum at the idea that former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark would be chosen as the next head of the alliance. In this case, it was cartoons published on Danish soil that frayed Erdogan's evidently fragile composure. In Turkey itself, the continuing denial has abysmal cultural and political consequences. The country's best-known novelist, Orhan Pamuk, was dragged before a court in 2005 for acknowledging Turkey's role in the destruction of Armenia. Had he not been the winner of a Nobel Prize, it might have gone very hard for him, as it has for prominent and brave intellectuals like Murat Belge. Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink, also prosecuted under a state law forbidding discussion of the past, was shot down in the street by an assassin who was later photographed in the company of beaming, compliant policemen. The original crime, in other words, defeats all efforts to cover it up. And the denial necessitates continuing secondary crimes. In 1955, a government-sponsored pogrom in Istanbul burned out most of the city's remaining Armenians, along with thousands of Jews and Greeks and other infidels. The state-codified concept of mandatory Turkishness has been used to negate the rights and obliterate the language of the country's enormous Kurdish population and to create an armed colony of settlers and occupiers on the soil of Cyprus, a democratic member of the European Union. So it is not just a disaster for Turkey that it has a prime minister who suffers from morbid disorders of the personality. Under these conditions, his great country can never hope to be an acceptable member of Europe or a reliable member of NATO. And history is cunning: The dead of Armenia will never cease to cry out. Nor, on their behalf., should we cease to do so. Let Turkey's unstable leader foam all he wants when other parliaments and congresses discuss Armenia and seek the truth about it. The grotesque fact remains that the one parliament that should be debating the question—the Turkish parliament—is forbidden by its own law to do so. While this remains the case, we shall do it for them, and without any apology, until they produce the one that is forthcoming from them.
The then state of affairs lasted for the genocide of Pontic Greeks and Armenians degraded and largely in secret and unknown. Hitler to encourage the holocaust of the Jews said: Who, after these (missing Armenian Genocide, Pontic Greeks and Assyrians) will speak tomorrow at the West for the extermination of the Jews? But today, international organizations, States, Media and intellectuals began to raise questions about the recognition and vindication. To date twenty (20) and more countries have recognized the Armenian genocide and have submitted several questions in the House. France, in 2001, recognized the Armenian genocide and the 2006 French National Assembly criminalized the denial of recognition to justify frustrated Armenians in France, descendants of victims of the Armenian genocide. In the U.S. Congress have made proposals for recognition of the Armenian genocide and state governors in the U.S. have done. But, U.S. presidents have been reported previously in this worst crime against humanity. The Armenians, fifty (50) years, began to celebrate April 24 (beginning of the slaughter of 1915) as a day of remembrance for the genocide of 1,500,000 Armenians by the Turks. The dispersion of Armenians built a worldwide monuments and tombstones with inscriptions in memory of the Armenian genocide. Then, not from lawsuits in 1999 when life insurance company in New York began in 2004 compensation cases insured about 2,000 Armenians of Ottoman rule before 1915, with an initial amount of 24 million dollars for Armenian individuals and charities. The Greek (and Cypriot) parliament in 1994 established the 19th of May (anniversary of coup de grace in Trabzon, 1919) as a day of remembrance of the genocide 353,000 Pontic Greeks during the period 1916 - 23. The Pontic Greeks in Greece erected a monument in Thessaloniki memory of the genocide of Greeks of Pontos. Restored so the historical memory that was interrupted for seventy (70) years from the destruction of Smyrna, albeit belatedly. But, most importantly: the European Parliament has recently and refers to the first genocide of the Pontic Greeks and Assyrians, in addition to the petition of the Armenian genocide. Turkey refuses to accept the genocide of Armenians and Greeks of Pontus after mania. It has not, criminalizing any reference to such genocide. Recently, the Nobel Peace Pamuk, 2005, and the author Elit Shafak, 2006 were reported as criminal prosecution in the genocide of the Armenians, but eventually acquitted. But, recently, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, Dink murdered in Istanbul because he too refers to the Armenian genocide. The Apodimos.com believes that all Greeks, Cypriots and emigrants brothers and we should make remember that, the word genocide one associatively and automatically brings to mind the genocide of Armenians in 1915 by the Young Turks and the genocide of Jews and other Slavic peoples in 1940 - 45 from the Germans. But there is another black spot in the history of genocide, the Greeks of Pontos who has not yet been vindicated. And the Armenian people, through his struggle, is now vindicated even if belatedly. The Hellenism of Pontos suffered all forms of genocide by the same army that perpetrated the genocide of the Armenians, the division of Cyprus and the destruction of Kurdish ethnicity. Turkey now has to face alone the genocide of the Armenians and the Greeks of Pontos and the Assyrians. A country like Turkey, which wants to claim that it is worthwhile for the European course, must show sincerity, remorse and responsibility. Anyone who disregards the story, that of revenge. Today Germany is not despised in the past and paid and still paying for the holocaust of Jews and is now a respected, reputable and responsible country in the world. Genocide, as a primary crime against humanity should be punished to vindicate and to prevent recurrence of. If there had been a Nuremberg trial for the genocide of Armenians and Greeks of Pontus, today might not be neglecting the holocaust of Jews. If now the international court is not justice to punish the genocide in Rwanda, it seems easy to stop the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Notes: (1) Today, in Istanbul left fewer than 2,000 of the 125,000 Greeks who had remained in Istanbul and surrounding areas, after an exchange of populations.
Missing the 6000 Greeks who had remained in Imbros and Tenedos.
Mandatory exchange of 1,650,000 Greeks from Asia Minor - Western Thrace Turkish-speaking Muslims with a 670.000 from Greece. (2) The universality of the Patriarchate of Constantinople is now trying to challenge Turkey, like the Pope's visit, in November 2006 in Istanbul. (3) Turkey refuses to reopen the Halki Theological School, which closed in 1971.
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