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Here is some evidence of Turkey’s crime.

Paul Hindenburg
German Field Marshal

Aus Meinem Leben (From My Life) (Leipzig, Hirzel, 1934)

pg. 169 “The Turkish war effort revealed the darkest side of the Turkish domination, i.e., the Turkish conduct against the Armenian elements. The Armenian Question… involved panturkic as well as panislamic ideologies. In the attempt at solving it racial hatred and religious enmities entered the picture…Turkey initiated a policy of annihilation (Vernichtungspolitik) against the Armenians.”

Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President 1901-1909.

The crowning outrage has been committed by the Turks on the Armenians. They have suffered atrocities so hideous that it is difficult to name them, atrocities such as those inflicted upon conquered nations by the followers of Attila and Genghis Khan. It is dreadful that these things can be done and that this nations [U.S.A.] nevertheless remains ”neutral”.

Excerpted from a letter to Dr. Samuel P. Dutton, published in New York Times, 1 December 1915.

Mustafa Arif

“Ver redet heute noch fon der Vernichtung der Armenier?”

This is George Idzhyan’s speech in the Academic Decathlon Competition of 2012 in California. He received the gold medal and a near to perfect score:

“Ver redet heute noch fon der Vernichtung der Armenier?”
This was the conclusion to the fìnal speech that Adolf Hitler gave before he ordered the invasion of Poland. The statement was an appeal to ignorance. To the detrimental winds of time and apathy. “Wer redet heute noch von der Vernichtung der Armenier?”
Translates to “Who, today, still remembers the annihilation of the Armenians?”


A quarter of a century before this command, a símilar one was ordered by Talat Pasha, the Ottoman sultan. On April 24, 1915, húndreds of Armenian intellectuals were systematically massacred. Then came one of the wórst atrocities the world had ever seen. Pregnant women were ráped and forced to dance on fire only to have their wombs rípped open and left to die in the sand. Young girls we’re being crucified. Row by row. Day after day. The death toll was 1.5 million. 1.5 million deaths go unjustified because Túrkey still refuses to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide.

This year, President Nikolas Sarkozy of France passed a law that would make it illegal to deny the Armenian Genocide. Although a severe move, this is a necessary blow to the Turkish government, who withdrew their ambassador since then, to remind them that they can’t hide from their crimes forever. The united states, on the other hand, has succumbed from the truth as to not agitate their ally in the middle east. During his 2008 campaign, President Obama released a statement saying: “The Armenian Genocide is not a debatable topic, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence. The facts are undeniable. As President I will recognise the Armenian Genocide”.

Since becoming president, Mr. Obama has broken his promise. Distorting history for diplomatic purposes as he shamelessly contradicts himself comfortably knowing that he would get away with it. Mr. President. Your hypocrisy offends me. To think that you can, without penalty, use the pain and suffering of my people as bait to fish for votes disgusts me. If I am to love my country, I must be assured that these decisions that will change the lives of millions are based on morality and justice, values that America was born on. By giving my people hope that their ancestors’ pain from the merciless claws of their murderers was not shed in vain, that they would have their suffering finally recognised, only to take it away once it was convenient for you. That, is unforgivable. We will never forget. Our forefathers will get the recognition that they deserve. Turkey will admit to the guilt of their past crimes just as Germany did.

“Wer redet heute noch von der Vernichtung der Armenier?”
I do.