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Ankara fears that Turkey will stop existing as a State
as soon as it recognizes the Genocide
Turkey has unleashed a fierce war against the Genocide
recognition in all directions, starting with State
Department and ending with congressmen.
21.03.2007 GMT+04:00
Presently Turkey is going through the hardest times in its modern
history. Even in its worst nightmare Turkey wouldn’t think that the
Resolution about the Armenian Genocide would be proposed to the US
Congress, and moreover, that there would be a possibility for this
Resolution to pass. The struggle against the recognition of the
Armenian Genocide is more fierce than ever and denying the Armenian
Genocide has become Turkey’s first prerequisite.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ankara is taking all measures against Genocide
recognition. In the given situation the Jewish lobby, which enjoys
rather heavy weight in the USA, also has its significant role in the
matter. Besides political and military-strategic factors there are
also financial factors, which sometimes work even more efficiently in
the USA than the others. For instance, because of the probable
adoption of the Resolution N 106 the military-industrial complex of
the USA, which by the way is the initiator of the Iraqi War, will lose
about $15 billion. This is the sum the USA hopes to sell Turkey the
armament for, to be used in `re-equipment of the army and struggle
against the Kurdish radicals in the north of Iraq.’ Nobody knows how
much the closing of `Incirlik’ will cost, but this is already the
political aspect of the issue.
The Turks themselves do not regret any money which can somehow support
the denial of the Armenian Genocide. According to some sources Turkey
spends $1 billion per year on anti-Genocide propaganda. Only $10
million per year is spent on the USA and Canada. It’s obvious that
this is the money spent officially, one may only guess the sum of the
money spent unofficially, and the matter is not in bribery only, which
is considered a penal act in the USA. Everything is much easier;
Turkey buys armament, although it might be bought from other countries
too, for instance Russia, or France, though after the law on the
denial of the Armenian Genocide was adopted there, it will be rather
difficult for Turkey itself to get armament in France.
During the latest meeting of the diplomatic officials, accredited in
different countries, Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah
Gyul warned the Ambassadors that in case the Resolution is passed in
the USA or in other countries, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
will consider that the Ambassadors weren’t able to accomplish their
mission. In the ceremony to the memory of the death of the Turkish
diplomats abroad, Gyul once again announced that they had become
`victims of the Armenian terrorists.’ However, the case with `the
Armenian terrorism’ doesn’t work out any more. The whole world already
knows that the assassinations of the Turkish diplomats pursued one
main aim only, which was achieved – the world learned about the 1st
Genocide of the XX century.
Turkey is not alone in the denial of the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide and enjoys strong support from Azerbaijan, which realizes
very well that it doesn’t and in the nearest future will not have any
other alley than Turkey.
How far will Turkey go in this matter and whether or not Turkey will
be able to prove that there was no Armenian Genocide, is just a matter
of time and money. This is at least what Ankara thinks. In fact
everything is much more complicated. Modern Turkish Republic itself is
the offspring of the Genocide just like the Armenian Diaspora
is. According to ARF `Dashnaktsutiun’, Ankara is well aware of the
fact that if the Armenian, as well as the Greek and Assyrian Genocides
are recognized, Turkey will stop existing as a State. Perhaps this is
the reason of Ankara’s sudden unwillingness to change the 301st
Article in the Turkish Criminal Code, which is the only method to keep
the Turkish scientists and intellectuals like Taner Akçam and Orhan
Pamuk under control.
«PanARMENIAN.Net» analytical department