While this is a great tragedy and its a very saddening moment in human history for everyone, the extra zero added to the death toll is easily proven through even by their own church’s clearly unrealistic changes in total population throughout a few years and the fact that they sided with their own country’s #1 enemy and plotted against their own country kind of disqualifies this tragedy to be labeled a genocide. No one is proud of this history and it was also labeled by Ataturk as the darkest moment in ottoman history. A time when ottoman empire was pretty much already defeat, with no control of the empire by a very unified Europe focused against the ottoman empire which was an Islamic caliphate at the time and not to mention Russia on the other side, a whole other animal whom was planning to attack the ottoman empire right where the Armenians were, ironically, the story is long and interesting. We should all get together to talk about it instead of avoiding proper debates.
My personal opinion on this is that the Armenians have been used by the west and Russia for too long. If you do some research on all theyve gone through, even recent history, you can always somehow point the finger at their “best friend country” as they always refer to them for whatever reason. Just something to think about for Armenians.
This reply was modified 3 days, 1 hour ago by Ragepost randy.
This reply was modified 3 days, 1 hour ago by Ragepost randy.
While this is a great tragedy and its a very saddening moment in human history for everyone, the extra zero added to the death toll is easily proven through even by their own church’s clearly unrealistic changes in total population throughout a few years and the fact that they sided with their own country’s #1 enemy and plotted against their own country kind of disqualifies this tragedy to be labeled a genocide. No one is proud of this history and it was also labeled by Ataturk as the darkest moment in ottoman history. A time when ottoman empire was pretty much already defeat, with no control of the empire by a very unified Europe focused against the ottoman empire which was an Islamic caliphate at the time and not to mention Russia on the other side, a whole other animal whom was planning to attack the ottoman empire right where the Armenians were, ironically, the story is long and interesting. We should all get together to talk about it instead of avoiding proper debates.
My personal opinion on this is that the Armenians have been used by the west and Russia for too long. If you do some research on all theyve gone through, even recent history, you can always somehow point the finger at their “best friend country” as they always refer to them for whatever reason. Just something to think about for Armenians.