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Saying "Armenian genocide" cannot atone for your own genocides

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We have reached April, haven't we. The countries whose genocidal character comes from their history, their nature, their characters, and which are famed for their politics that drown the whole world in blood, corruption and genocide not only in history but even today, have started to reheat the Armenian agenda against Turkey.

First ABD. In a draft resolution submitted by the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, it was stated that "the House of Representatives regards recognizing and commemorating the Armenian genocide as ABD policy." It is a draft resolution; it is not known what will happen, how it will develop. But this is the usual agenda every year in the ABD senate and congress.

Then in France, the decree declaring from now on 24 April the "Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day" was signed by President Macron and published in the official gazette.

Then a motion was submitted from the coalition government in Italy asking it to officially recognize the Armenian genocide and defend this in the international arena. When the motion was voted on, it was adopted with 382 yes votes against 43 abstentions.

The very people-loving countries and states of Europe, by resorting to the year 1915, thus show how sensitive they still are even to the sufferings endured that day, how compassionate and how humane they are. Don't misunderstand, the matter has nothing to do with the events being lived today; it is entirely out of their compassion, their incorrigible humaneness, their tenderheartedness that cannot bear to hurt an ant. If you buy it.

While blood is flowing in many parts of the world today under their own responsibility, what they do by going back to 1915 is nothing other than inciting hatred a little more. When this hatred has already become a serious problem of European societies, and while they summon fascism day by day into their skies like a dark cloud, such steps only make disaster fall from those clouds.

Yet in the early days, how well they played the innocent, the tenderhearted, the humanist, while doing this. Today, for some reason, they are not convincing, and with their manner of clinging to this agenda they cannot hide their hatred that would drown all Turks, all Muslims in a spoonful of water if they got the chance.

Come on, in the past there was not a lack of the sense in their clinging to this agenda of paying a kind of atonement, to some degree, to have their own sins forgiven. Because what befell the Armenians, even when looked at from their point of view, was largely the tragic result of an adventure that they themselves had pursued. They incited, and left them in the middle... That is one dimension of the story.

Another dimension is what they did after taking the Armenians deported because of the event they call genocide into their own countries like an unwanted hanger-on. In fact, even when the Ottoman Empire was deporting the Armenians, it had not taken them abroad, that is, out of its own lands. What it did was in fact nothing more than a relocation within Ottoman lands. Later, the places where the Armenians were settled remained outside the Ottoman borders. It was from those places that many Armenians had gone to Europe. The number of those Armenians was of a size to make racist Europe feel a threat to population balances. France's measure against this threat was, in the Second World War, driving them to the front lines against the other European countries and having them killed.

Why is this file never opened? When it seems about to be opened, why is it immediately covered up, why is an attempt made to have it forgotten? Yet in it there is a great crime that France committed against the Armenians, and instead of facing its own sin France takes refuge in 1915, where a genocide story onto which it can throw all its sins is, in any case, thoroughly worked out, chewed and swallowed, standing ready.

Our foreign minister, Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, recalls the genocide in Rwanda committed 25 years ago as an example of the hypocrisy in this genocide literature. In fact there is no need even to go that far. Do they not have a share in all the massacres being committed today? While the blood of a million people was flowing in Syria, what humanitarian sensitivity of France did we hear?

Did he not, only two months ago, visit the Egyptian dictator Sisi, who had killed three thousand of his own people in a single day without batting an eye, and moreover during the days when he was killing, again as though committing a massacre, by executing 9 innocent young men, and together with all the illustrious European leaders at that? And did they not also listen to a speech from that dictator on the particular conditions of dictatorship?

French President Macron is someone who, only in these days, has signed a resolution supporting the attacks of the coup-maker Hafter, whom he supports in Libya solely for oil, which may include genocide against his own people. His announcing that he will officially commemorate the Armenian genocide every year, what balm could that be, and for the pain of which oppressed?

What is being lived in Libya today is in fact a disgrace of humanity. Someone with no connection left to the Libyan people is making an occupation attempt against the national accord government, the only legitimate representative of the Libyan people recognized by the international community, is trying to overthrow this legitimate government and seize all of Libya's resources, and this man can be supported by some countries, France among them. It is very clear that this Armenian Genocide agenda has nothing to do with the French conscience, but is it not understood to cover up which seizure, which new genocide attempt it is being reheated?

And Italy?

The blood that it spilled in Libya in the twenties and thirties, for the oil it is again after these days, still continues to flow today. And it takes refuge in 1915 to cleanse its sins.

Take refuge then, until where?

But know that these hypocritical airs of mourning of yours about the Armenians are of no benefit either to the dead Armenians or to their descendants alive today. Moreover these airs of yours will constantly remind of the crimes you committed against them. Your mention of the Armenian genocide, far from being an atonement for your sins, exposes your real intentions all the more.

What you will carry to today by taking refuge in 1915 is nothing other than hatred and enmity. And, of course, the naked reality of your contradictory and hypocritical position today...