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The Turkish government denies that various genocides it committed against Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks ever took place.
There is a fear that it would undermine the integrity of the Turkish state and would incur large reparations if such admissions were made.
1) Why has the American or indeed Israeli government not yet officially recognised these genocides and used the word genocide to describe them?
2) Should reparations be paid by Turkey to the families and countries of those they murdered?
3) What can be done to prevent Turkey intimidating journalists and investigators who speak out about this?
4) How can Turkey come clean and the web of support for lies by Israel and the USA be unravelled here?
Armenian Genocide denial - Wikipedia
https://armenianweekly.com/2017/09/08/turkeys-genocide-denial-four-narratives/
Greek genocide - Wikipedia
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In their book Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society, Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White present a list of reasons explaining Turkey's inability to admit the genocides committed by the Young Turks, writing:
Turkish denialism of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians is official, riven, driven, constant, rampant, and increasing each year since the events of 1915 to 1922. It is state-funded, with special departments and units in overseas missions whose sole purpose is to dilute, counter, minimise, trivialise and relativise every reference to the events which encompassed a genocide of Armenians, Pontian Greeks and Assyrian Christians in Asia Minor.
and propose the following reasons for the denial of the genocides by Turkey,
There is a fear that it would undermine the integrity of the Turkish state and would incur large reparations if such admissions were made.
1) Why has the American or indeed Israeli government not yet officially recognised these genocides and used the word genocide to describe them?
2) Should reparations be paid by Turkey to the families and countries of those they murdered?
3) What can be done to prevent Turkey intimidating journalists and investigators who speak out about this?
4) How can Turkey come clean and the web of support for lies by Israel and the USA be unravelled here?
Armenian Genocide denial - Wikipedia
https://armenianweekly.com/2017/09/08/turkeys-genocide-denial-four-narratives/
Greek genocide - Wikipedia
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In their book Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society, Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White present a list of reasons explaining Turkey's inability to admit the genocides committed by the Young Turks, writing:
Turkish denialism of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians is official, riven, driven, constant, rampant, and increasing each year since the events of 1915 to 1922. It is state-funded, with special departments and units in overseas missions whose sole purpose is to dilute, counter, minimise, trivialise and relativise every reference to the events which encompassed a genocide of Armenians, Pontian Greeks and Assyrian Christians in Asia Minor.
and propose the following reasons for the denial of the genocides by Turkey,
- A suppression of guilt and shame that a warrior nation, a "beacon of democracy" as it saw itself in 1908 (and since), slaughtered several ethnic populations. Democracies, it is said, don't commit genocide; ergo, Turkey couldn't and didn't do so.
- A cultural and social ethos of honour, a compelling and compulsive need to remove any blots on the national escutcheon.
- A chronic fear that admission will lead to massive claims for reparation and restitution.
- To overcome fears of social fragmentation in a society that is still very much a state in transition.
- A "logical" belief that because the genocide was committed with impunity, so denial will also meet with neither opposition nor obloquy.
- An inner knowledge that the juggernaut denial industry has a momentum of its own and can't be stopped even if they wanted it to stop.
