Re: Armenian "genocide"

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

If the Young Turks were already in power (or almost there), then my
scheme doesn't work at all.

On 3/15/07, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I don't know enough about the deaths of large numbers of Armenians in
> >Turkey about a century ago to conclude that it was genocide (or
> >otherwise), but I have a question:
> >
> >why doesn't the current government of Turkey (1) admit that genocide
> >happened and then (2) blame the Ottoman Empire for doing it? It would
> >make it easier to get into the EU, among other things.
> >--
> >Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd
> >Wright
>
> The movie "Screamers" deals with question one. There would be immense
> financial liabilities associated with admission of guilt. But more
> importantly, you are dealing with extreme nationalism. Also, it is not
> quite the Ottoman Empire at this point but the "Young Turks" who overthrew
> the Ottomans.
>
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