The fallout continues from a committee vote in the U.S. Congress that sparked outrage by one of America’s key allies.
Turkey supports the U.S. in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has had a long military relationship with the U.S.
By a margin of one vote, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a non-binding resolution calling the World War I-era killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks a “genocide.” Turkey contends that the death toll is inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war.
Ironically, the vote comes as relations between Turkey and Armenia have recently improved.
For more, Daljit Dhaliwal speaks to Bulent Aliriza, director of the Turkey Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Tarek Bazley of Al Jazeera English reports on Turkey’s reaction.
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03/26/2010 :: 08:14:22 PM
Dave Cada Says:
You people here are pathetic and that is the nicest language I can use. How about the world start condeming the US and Canada, especially because they stick their noses in every bodies else’s business. How many Natives did these governments kill during thier genocide rampage. 19 million and probably more. And still the genocide continues. How many children killed in Residential schools, they won’t tell you but it reaches close to 100,000. Is the genocide still going on, yes it is with the stealing of land and killing off of all natural resources the natives need to survive.
Hitler didn’t learn from the Ottoman Empire, in fact if you people knew your history, he actually told the media that he learned how to commit genocide on a entire nation by following examples from the US and Canada on how they dealt with the Native problem, a true fact. Concentration camps equal reservations, germ warfare and the killing of men, women and children. Don’t believe me, do some research instead of interfering with some other countries business acting like you are holier then sh__.
They say when you point a finger at some one, you have 3 pointing back at you, I heard that when I was a child, now I see why it is so true. The fact is that America and Canada will not allow the Native Nation to build their own nation is because they have stolen land illegally that they could possibly have to repay or give back. Land that was taken by force, theft by their Indian Affairs department and by the sqwatting of their peoples ancestors. Even today, if there are resources located on native land, it is stolen by corporation tactics with the governments help. Yes, it still goes on today. A native trust fund that was suppose to be put aside for natives to benefit from the stolen land, it too was stolen. Hundreds of billions of dollars stolen by the same government today that did every thing possible to hide the fact that the money was used for other then its true purpose (used for themselves) while there are reserves living in emergency state because of it. A population that lives at a third world state, while their children commit suicide because they have given up all hope. This is the USA and this is Canada. So racist to the original people of this land that they continue to turn their backs on them, stealing the land and calling this land, sovereign to themselves. In reality, for them to call this land sovereign, they would have to kill off every native on this land, maybe this is why the genocide still continues, you decide.
Some of you talk about Muslim religion, take a good look at your Christianity religion. Not much better when it tells you its ok that Natives were killed so you can have a home on the dead natives graves your house was built on. But hey, lets go count how many Armenians died during what they called war. In Canada and the US, there is a difference, Natives held out their hand in friendship, fed your sick, offered you some land to feed your young and taught your ancestors to farm, your ancestors and still your people now, killed them out for land, resources and for the sport. Who truly are the salvages here. Now who wants to point fingers.