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Turkey accuses France of genocide after Armenian bill
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Published: 23.12.11, 21:30
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61. computer t o Erdogan
(12.24.11)
I can buy him a computer made in Israel for Hanukah present.
62. jorge
anton ,   ist turkey   (12.24.11)
i can easily show you many mistakes in your post but choose not to for a reason :) i am gonna tell you one more diffrence between us we have time but you dont ;) today i tried new columbian coffe and advise it :)
63. #43 blindman
solomon ,   bklyn   (12.25.11)
1. Armenians lived throughout the area. Those living under the Russians joined the Russian army. Those living under the Ottomans joined the Ottoman army. When the Russians (with help from their Armenian battalion) defeated the Ottomans the Ottomans became worried about the loyalty of their own [Ottoman] Armenians. They disarmed then and began to commit genocide not just to the Armenian men, but women and children also. 2. Muslim refugees from the Russo-Turkish War settled in Turkey but in Armenian areas. They were jealous of the well-to-do Armenians and attacked them during the massacres. 3. See #1 above. 4. Many, many Muslims participated in the genocide against the Armenians. They wanted to take revenge, which is still genocide. The Ottoman soldiers were killed by the Russians and French; the Armenians were just one battalion. And Ottoman Armenians were also killed as it was feared they would become a fifth column; another excuse for genocide. 5. You are wrong, as usual. You quote selective facts, leaving out details that totally expose your false histories. Nice try.
64. #63 selected Armenians and omitted Algerians
observer ,   Egypt   (12.25.11)
65. #18 "SJOERD"
solomon ,   bklyn   (12.25.11)
THE UN HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY THE VERY COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS. MAYBE YOU SHOULD MIND YOURS INSTEAD.
66. #63 blindman
solomon ,   bklyn   (12.25.11)
1. France invaded and conquered Algeria in 1847. The Algerian war of independence began as a civil war, with one faction wanting independence and the other wanting to remain French. Algerians began a civil war, the Armenians did not. 2. You totally ignore that I proved your statements about Armenians misleading and wrong. You will also ignore this one about Algerians I'm sure. Typical.
67. #64 ignores my answers as he ignores facts.
solomon ,   bklyn   (12.25.11)
68. exuse me ,in my previous comment
shahrazed ,   annaba,algĂ©rie   (12.25.11)
45000 died not 45
69. to solomon, bklyn
observer ,   Egypt   (12.25.11)
According to the Algerian documents, between 350,000 and 1.5 million Algerians died during the Algerian War of Independence. Algerians argue that the massacres should be named as genocide and France must apologise to the Algerians. Arab states and many Muslim countries, including Turkey, back the Algerian claims. However the French do not accept the claims. According to the French side, the number of killed Algerian civilians is about 350.000, but not more than "France's Alledged Algerian Genocide". There were executions and widespread arrests during the War of Independence. "Villages were bombed from the air and a town was shelled from a cruiser at sea. The attacks were more or less random. The point was not so much to punish the original rioters as to teach the whole Muslim population to know their place. Settlers set up their own unofficial death squads and killed hundreds of Muslims. German and Italian prisoners of war were released to take part in the massacre". On the October 17, 1961 peaceful protest and for weeks after, bodies of Algerian men women and children- citizens of France because Algeria was at that point still a French colony- were washed up on the banks of the river. In 2008, the Knesset declined to recognize the Armenian massacre how a country of great democracy like Israel failed to make the minimum required by the friendly Armenian people. Because Israel has been in constant fear that Turkey would divulge the no secret that the Young Turks were crypto-Jews. The same like the Ukrainian Holodomor. The US has issued a Congress' understanding recognizing the Armenian massacre. are you pro America or pro Israel?
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