Turk Threatens Armenian With Genocide
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This is a bit of a rewind from the week after the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. I posted videos from that day – April 24th – and all the subsequent week. I posted videos that I took from
the events of that day. If you’ve been watching, you know what I’m talking about. But I haven’t gone back and really revisited any of the reactions to the President of the United States officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide. I did read in a previous episode the body of the text of the official press release from the White House, and I want to note before I read this article
that one of my Armenian friends took issue with the fact that the press release didn’t mention in the title subject line the title of it that this was recognition for the armenian genocide and not armenian remembrance or something along those lines, even though in the body of the text
describes the events clearly as a genocide. He was insinuating that this is trying to have it both ways. He felt that the administration is trying to walk a thin line, and I understand that skepticism. I mean, we’re living in a very divided country, much less a very divided world. But the United States is very divided right now. So, maybe some of his skepticism is his political leanings away from this administration. Or maybe it’s just a frustration with how Armenians have been lied to forever and that this doesn’t look as solid or as definitive as it should be.
It was an important milestone. It was an important step. But actions speak louder than words.
But what I want to read today is this piece about Garo Paylan. He is a member of parliament in turkey. Turkey – the nation known for massacring Armenians, for those who follow actual history. The nation of Turkey known for massacring 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 to 1923. This doesn’t even count the 200,000 – 300,000 that were massacred from 1894-1896.
Now, one thing about Turkey is it is a modern nation. It’s very diverse socioeconomically. For example, Istanbul is an incredible metropolitan melting pot. It’s been a multicultural hub for centuries, if not millennia. Yet when you go to the other end of the nation, it’s tiny little rural villages are a step back in time in a lot of these regions. But as diverse as the demographics, the economic strata, and the gorgeous countryside are, there is not a uniform mindset. It’s much more like the United States of America in many ways. There are plenty of people in Turkey that absolutely hate their government. And the further west in Turkey you go, the more outspoken they are able to be about it. Because it is a totalitarian dictatorship. I mean, it’s a democratically elected government… but it’s more authoritarian. I can’t compare their system of government to
ours in that way. It’s a lot less free there – to speak your mind – but the further west you go, which is where Istanbul is in the western end of the nation, with more multicultural and western influence – you are more open to speak your mind. (Even though you still need to watch your back)
And so, this guy – I’m not sure which part of Turkey he’s from – he’s an Armenian who was elected to parliament back in 1908, when the Ottoman Empire elected their first round of ministers into the Ottoman government. There were a lot of Armenian ministers then. Now there’s one. So, it’s amazing that there is one at all. But there is only one. So I’m just going to read this guy’s reactions and what happened to him. Now this article is from April 27, 2021 – three days after the American President recognized the genocide:
Garo Paylan Threatened After Making Remarks About Armenian Genocide
Garo Paylan, who spoke on the floor of the Turkish Parliament about the need for Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide, was threatened by a fellow lawmaker who aligns himself with Turkish nationalists.
Independent lawmaker Ümit Özdağ threatened Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament representing the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) over his remarks about the Armenian Genocide, the Bianet news agency reported.
On April 24, Paylan criticized the fact that there are still streets and schools that are named after Talat Pasha, who was the Ottoman Empire’s minister of interior during the genocide.
“After 106 years, we walk on streets named after Talaat Pasha, the architect of the Genocide. We educate our children at schools named after Talaat Pasha,” he wrote on Twitter. He likened the situation to naming schools and streets after Hitler in Germany.
Halkımı imha eden zihniyetin kalıntısı “yine yaparız” diyor.
Siz vurdunuz da, biz ölmedik mi? Öldük. Ama geride kalanlar adalet mücadelesini hiç bırakmadı.
Benden sonra da bırakmazlar..
Bu ülkenin vicdanlı çoğunluğu, meydanı senin gibi faşistlere terk etmedi, yine terk etmezler.. https://t.co/EIb4spntxC
— Garo Paylan – Կարօ Փայլան (@GaroPaylan) April 27, 2021
Quoting his tweet, Özdağ wrote: “Impudent provocateur. If you are not content, go to hell. Talaat Pasha didn’t expel patriotic Armenians but those who stabbed us in the back like you. When the time comes, you’ll also have a Talaat Pasha experience and you should have it.”
Özdağ, a former member of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), was elected as to parliament in the 2018 elections from the İYİ (Good) Party, a splinter movement of the MHP. He resigned from the İYİ Party in early March, accusing it of expelling nationalists from the party.
In response to Özdağ’s tweet, Paylan called him a “fascist” and wrote: “The remnant of the mentality that obliterated my people says, ‘We’ll do it again.’ You hit us and didn’t we die? We died. But those left behind never give up the struggle for justice. And they won’t give up after me as well.”
Özdağ then called Paylan a supporter of the Tashnags(referring to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation), ASALA and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
“You massacred hundreds of thousands of Turks. You stabbed our army in the back. Those who did it suffered the punishment of it. No one touched patriotic Armenians,” Özdağ wrote, calling Paylan a “vicious enemy of the Turkish nation.”
So, the article ends with some more lies.
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