Press & Sun-Bulletin, NY
Jan 30 2007

OPINION
Intolerance in Turkey

The Turks added one more to the slaughtered Armenians of the early
20th Century by the killing of the editor of an Armenian-Turkish
newspaper.

While I am not of Armenian extraction, I did work in Turkey in the
1960s. While there I met Armenians who related accounts of that
terrible 1915-1917 slaughter. I also read that some Armenian children
were scattered in various villages across Turkey.

In a very remote village I met one such loner of a man in his 50s.
Because of his background, we thought he would appreciate a Bible in
Turkish, which while he had never seen, he indeed welcomed. When we
came back an hour later, he was still sitting absorbed, reading his
priceless treasure.

Unfortunately, a similar investigation would reveal that Turkey has
not been very tolerant of any citizen claiming to be a Christian,
especially those who have converted from Islam.

Kenneth Cetton
Port Crane

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