HULIQ, NC
Oct 14 2007
La Stampa recognizes the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1918
La Stampa is one of Italy’s best-known and most widely sold Italian
daily newspapers. The article talks about the cruel past of the
Armenian people who were massacred by the Ottoman Empire and forced
to march in the hot deserts.
`The cruel past and alarming present tend to unite, forming a crisis
which can call into question Turkey’s traditional strategic ties with
the U.S. and NATO. In addition, the current dissension with
Washington and Paris can block Turkey’s thorny path toward the
European Union. An explosive and critical mass is being accumulated
in Europe-aspired Turkey. And on the top of this mass appears one
word – Genocide, the tabooed and defamatory word. This awful word has
pealed in the Democrat-dominated U.S. Congress as a final verdict
that cannot be appealed. This word has come to define the Armenian
`marches of death’ that extended from the Anatolian northeast to
Syrian deserts in 1915-1918. The Ottoman Empire had no mercy on
children, women and old people. This slaughter is described in
historical documents, bulletins, testimony of witnesses, novels by
Franz Werfel and recently shot films,’ the article says.
`Many historians say it was the first genocide of the 20th century,
maybe because Young Turks, redial reformators and patriots, their
powerful military heirs and secular governments controlled by them,
never recognized the fact of the Genocide. They always denied this
terrifying word and chilling statistics which stubbornly reminded of
1 million 800 thousand killed Armenians. They kept on insisting that
the casualties reached 200 thousand only as result of the chaos
inherent to war. Since those times, the Turkish authorities have
followed state historical revisionism. The incumbent Erdogan and
Gul-led Islamist government is not an exception,’ La Stampa reports.
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