Those seemingly endless «War years» of 1912–1922 brought wide-spread death and destruction on to all Ottoman citizens. No Turkish family was left untouched, mine included. Those nameless, faceless Turkish victims are killed for a second time today
rick murphy
http://www.historyoftruth.com/authors/genocide-allegations-ignore-the-six-ts-of-the-turkish-armenian-conflict-4800.html
GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS IGNORE "THE SIX T'S OF THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN
CONFLICT"
Egun Kirlikovali
Thursday, 10 December 2009
While some in unsuspecting public may be forgiven for taking the
blatant and ceaseless Armenian propaganda at face value and believing
Armenian falsifications merely because they are repeated so often, it
is difficult and painful for someone like me, the son of Turkish
survivors on both maternal and paternal sides.
Those seemingly endless «War years» of 1912–1922 brought wide-spread
death and destruction on to all Ottoman citizens. No Turkish family
was left untouched, mine included. Those nameless, faceless Turkish
victims are killed for a second time today with politically motivated
and baseless charges of Armenian genocide.
ALLEGATIONS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ARE RACIST AND DISHONEST HISTORY
They are racist because they ignore the Turkish dead: about 3 million
during WWI; more than half a million of them at the hands of Armenian
nationalists.
And the allegations of Armenian genocide are dishonest because they
simply dismiss THE SIX T’S OF THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN CONFLICT:
1) TUMULT (as in numerous Armenian armed uprisings between 1882 and
1920)
2) TERRORISM (by well-armed Armenian nationalists and militias
victimizing Ottoman-Muslims between 1882–1920)
3) TREASON (Armenians joining the invading enemy armies as early as
1914 and lasting until 1921)
4) TERRITORIAL DEMANDS (where Armenians were a minority, not a
majority, attempting to establish Greater Armenia, the would-be first
apartheid of the 20th Century with a Christian minority ruling over a
Muslim majority)
5) TURKISH SUFFERING AND LOSSES (i.e. those caused by the Armenian
nationalists: 524,000 Muslims, mostly Turks, met their tragic end at
the hands of Armenian revolutionaries during WWI, per Turkish
Historical Society. This figure is not to be confused with about 2.5
million Muslim dead who lost their lives due to non-Armenian causes
during WWI. Grand total: more than 3 million, according to Prof.
Justin McCarthy.)
6) TERESET (temporary resettlement) triggered by the first five Ts
above and amply documented as such; not to be equated to the Armenian
misrepresentations as genocide.)
VERDICT WITHOUT DUE PROCESS AMOUNTS TO LYNCHING
Those who take the Armenian «allegations» of genocide at face value
seem to also ignore the following:
1- Genocide is a legal, technical term precisely defined by the U.N.
1948 convention (Like all proper laws, it is not retroactive to 1915.)
2- Genocide verdict can only be given by a «competent court» after
«due process» where both sides are properly represented and evidence
mutually cross examined.
3- For a genocide verdict, the accusers must prove «intent» at a
competent court and after due process. This could never be done by the
Armenians whose evidence mostly fall into five major categories:
hearsay, mis-representations, exaggerations, forgeries, and «other».
4- Such a «competent court» was never convened in the case of Turkish-
Armenian conflict and a genocide verdict does not exist (save a
Kangaroo court in occupied Istanbul in 1920 where partisanship,
vendettas, and revenge motives left no room for due process.)
5- Genocide claim is political, not historical or factual. It reflects
bias against Turks. Therefore, the term genocide must be used with the
qualifier «alleged», for scholarly objectivity and truth.
HISTORY IS A MATTER OF SCHOLARSHIP, NOT CONVICTION, CONSENSUS,
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
History is not a matter of «conviction, consensus, political
resolutions, political correctness, or propaganda." History is a
matter of research, peer review, thoughtful debate, and honest
scholarship. Even historians, by definition, cannot decide on a
genocide verdict, which is reserved for a «competent court» with its
legal expertise and due process.
POLITICAL LYNCHING OF THE TURKS BY ARMENIANS TODAY
What we witness today amounts to lynching of the Turks by Armenians to
satisfy the age old Armenian hate, bias, and bigotry. Values like
fairness, presumption of innocence until proven guilty, objectivity,
balance, honesty, and freedom of speech are quickly stumped under the
feet. Unprovoked, unjustified, and unfair defamation of Turkey, one of
America’s closest allies in the troubled Middle East, in order to
appease some nagging Armenian activists runs counter to American
interests.
Those who claim genocide verdict today, based on the much discredited
Armenian evidence, are actually engaging in «conviction and execution
without due process». Last time I looked in the dictionary, that was
the definition of «lynching».
Isn’t it time to stop fighting the First World War and give peace a
chance?
ERGUN KIRLIKOVALI
Son of Turkish Survivors from Both Maternal & Paternal Sides