Monday, September 03, 2007

Time to say new things on the ‘genocide’ issue [Turkey]

"Time to say new things on the ‘genocide’ issue [Turkey] JTW News ^ | 9-3-07 | Omer TASPINAR Posted on 09/03/2007 5:25:17 PM PDT by SJackson The Anti Defamation League’s recent decision to acknowledge that the Armenian “massacres” of 1915 were tantamount to “genocide” has created a political storm in Turkey. Seen from Washington, such Turkish resentment is counterproductive. It only confirms the fact that Turkey needs to come to terms with its own history. When you have prominent leaders of the Turkish Jewish community writing letters to the ADL reminding them that the Turkish Jewish community’s well-being is jeopardized, this does not exactly come across as a ringing endorsement of Turkey’s democratic maturity."

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