Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Hürriyet - Ertugrul Ozkok:Those Armenians will never be men

"Ertugrul Ozkok:Those Armenians will never be men

I grew up with the following phrase, which my now-dead father used to whisper often into my ear when I was a child: 'My son, these Armenians are incapable of being true men....'

Even when I protested, he would insist 'You just don't know these things.' In France, when I was student, many of my friends held the same views as my father. When I would say 'Armenians have been changed by the Armenian diaspora,' my friends would reply 'No my friend, these people can never change. An Armenian is an Armenian.' "

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