the Pawnmover 说:
I'm turkish and my comment on topic is; it's a shame to deny the existence of the armenian genocide. people like missak manouchian lost their families during those "so-called" events that the turkish dictatorship denies. however, armenians never got lonely in this massacre-genocide stuff, thanks to the Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa (secret service in Ottoman.)
forced marches of greeks is not very well known due to the hidden archives; but there are
sources give detail to those events.
We do accept many armenians lost their families and have killed by turks and also by armenian gangs. But genocide is something organized and systematical. In order to accept some killing is a genocide, you have to see some documented proofs of that. An army order from higher ranks or the population records could be the proof. But since ottomans had been beaten by allied countries, and ottoman army records have demolished, ruined and changed, we can not trust ottoman army documents. On the other hand, when we look at the population records, none of the statistics shows that there are 1 million dead.
Whenever you argue about that so-called genocide with an armenian, he'll probaly say his grandmother, his uncle etc. have killed by turks. Nothing more. No proof, no document, nothing... His family could be killed by turks, but it doesn't mean there was a genocide.
the Pawnmover 说:
forced marches of greeks is not very well known due to the hidden archives; but there are
sources give detail to those events.
Have you ever read those sources? They are all bunch of american and english propoganda news from wwI. Also you guys keep linking wikipedia as the source.
Here's some information about wikipedia, from wikipedia itself:
The open nature of the editing model has been central to most criticism of Wikipedia. For example, a reader of an article cannot be certain that it has not been compromised by the insertion of false information or the removal of essential information. Former Encyclopaedia Britannica editor-in-chief Robert McHenry once described this by saying:
The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him. Wikipedia is a faith-based encyclopedia.
As a consequence of the open structure, Wikipedia "makes no guarantee of validity" of its content, since no one is ultimately responsible for any claims appearing in it.[81] Concerns have been raised regarding the lack of accountability that results from users' anonymity,[82] the insertion of spurious information[83], vandalism, and similar problems.
and here's more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Information_loop
So I'm saying again, FOR ****S SAKE DO NOT GIVE WIKIPEDIA AS A SOURCE