Neolithic?**
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Whether we know it or not we are living in a “Neo-World”. What with neo-nazis, neo-cons, and now the biggest of those neo-wolve., aka neo-ottomans.
What will be next? A neo-arab empire, who once ruled all the way from Bangladesh to Barcelona.
How come the “sick man of Europe” is still alive? Who saved it? Dr. Kevorkian? Make that King George.
** Neolithic means “new stone age”.
GENOCIDE by INDIVIDUALS?
During the past week Hetq has been featuring articles under the general topic of “stanbol diary”. Where the *@&# is stanbol?
Who cares?
I have not read any of those so called reports, neither will I. My wish is that HETQ would stop reporting from stanbokh. Aaaah!!! That nostalgia!!!
Of course, we know HETQ means FOOTSTEPS.
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Are we following our footsteps to our “birthplace“?
THE HELL WITH STANBOL!!!!
Would not be more apt for the journalist to have labeled his series of articles “Comedistan Diary”?
It has been said the a “sucker is born every minute”. Should it not be “a comedian is born in stanbol every minute”? All the way from the top as in erdo%&*# to the bottom., and in between. Now that that master comedian halajoglu has been silenced new and improved ones are crapping cropping up.
Who really understood when that comedian in chief declared that there were over 150,000 Armenian citizen in furkey. Who understood that as a threat, i.e “we murdered deported 1.5 million of you, we can murder and deport 150,000 as easily.
I’m sure you can find more “words of wisdom” below . Here are few gems.
First this quote may shed some light on why we are so obsessed with stanbol than they are with Yerevan…
He is so right. If only we would mind our own business rather than teach angaga a lesson of “civilization”Thus, he says that it is only logical that Turkey is more often discussed in Armenia than Armenia in Turkey.
In other words he is saying… We don’t know where Yerevan is, or really if there is an Armenia.
I can’t find it now. ( PS. I found it. To follow) A clown in angaga say that Armenia is a “region of the ottoman empire”, and once again will become so?
This one is a masterpiece worthy of the Nobel Prize.
All these years we have been hearing that the Genocide was perpetrated by Martian aliens or Alaskan Eskimos, now we hear “individuals”. Who are those “individuals”, African Pygmies or Australian Aborigines?"You are of course aware that genocides can also be perpetrated by individuals and not by governments."
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Istanbul Diary: Turkish Analyst "Back Pedals" on Genocide Responsibility
Vahe Sarukhanyan
23:53, April 28, 2011
"You are of course aware that genocides can also be perpetrated by individuals and not by governments."
This was the remark made by Mensur Akgun, Director of the Global Political Trends Center (GPOT) in Istanbul where I had a chance to meet and talk with him during my stay here.
I had posed the following question, to Mensur Akgun.
Who should resolve the Armenian Genocide issue –political leaders or historians?
“The issue isn’t connected to historians. The Turkish side has numerous documents attesting to the fact that there was no premeditation. The Armenian side has just as many documents to the contrary. But if the historians can reach some general consensus, their conclusions can be presented to the politicians. Then, there is a good chance that the matter will go to arbitration. If the Genocide was carried out by specific individuals in specific location in Turkey, the Turks would be obliged to recognize it. But, of course, there would be political, juridical and historical elements involved. You are of course aware that genocides can also be perpetrated by individuals and not by governments. Each side could learn much from assembling historians, the development of political agreement and from the experience obtained in resolving that issue. By the way, even if we don’t achieve all this, and just are able to normalize relations, then no one will talk about the Genocide. It’s more likely that Turks and Armenians would commemorate April 24 together. Many people commemorate April 24 as a day of calamity and not genocide. Of course, there will be certain Armenians and Turks not content with this but this displeasure won’t make a difference. We must act so that this issue is no longer up for political discussion. Naturally, it can continue to be a matter for personal debate. Many of you have suffered, I have no doubts.”
The analyst says that the issue of rapprochement between Ankara and Yerevan periodically pops up on the official radar as an agenda item, but that Turkey doesn’t view it as a primary concern.
In contrast, Mr. Akgun argues that Armenia has two large problems with Turkey and Azerbaijan.
“Since there is hope for normalization, you discuss that issue at length. You always refer to history, which arises from the interests of your political circles, because otherwise you’d start to talk about other issues; for example corruption.
Mr. Akgun added that Turkey has many other problems besides this and points to the militarization of the country and the Kurdish issue.
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Thus, he says that it is only logical that Turkey is more often discussed in Armenia than Armenia in Turkey.
A similar view is expressed by Sabiha Gundogar, Foreign Affairs Program Officer at the TESEV (Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation).
“It is my impression that they want immediate improvement in relations in Armenia and that the border open tomorrow. They want recognition of the Genocide within one year. But the process in Turkey is a gradual one. The Armenian issue was never at the top of the list in Turkey and will never be.”
Mr. Akgun told me that Turkey is developing and becoming more self-confident. He said that Turkey would not benefit in a tangible way from opening the border with Armenia.
“Sure, tourists would come and go but there isn’t much trade going on. Also, sadly, you don’t have the natural resources like Azerbaijan. We can’t make the same investments in Armenia to get oil or gas. We have invested billions in Azerbaijan. Perhaps we could purchase a few refrigeration units and a handful of “Beko” stores in Yerevan, but not more. Your population is tiny and Armenia isn’t developed economically. We see no long-term economic potential in Armenia. There is no comparison with Azerbaijan. In addition, we regard the Azerbaijanis as brothers. That’s another story. If you had oil, then I can assure you that would have been a good reason to normalize relations.”
When I asked Aypars Gorgulu, anther analyst who works for Gundogar, is Armenia interests Turkey from an economic standpoint, he replied - “not really”.
“Turkey’s eastern regions aren’t that developed. Armenia is the same. Thus, the opening of the border would have limited economic repercussions. That’s not to say that Armenia isn’t interesting. I think that Turkey’s eastern districts would benefit somewhat from an open border. Turkey is heavily dependent on Georgia in many ways; the transit gas and oil pipelines. This makes Armenia an isolated island. An opening of the borders would create transit possibilities because even though the parties seek to isolate Armenia and focus on Georgia, the latter isn’t all that stable a country. We saw that with the war with Russia. Thus, we have to explore alternative paths. Armenia could greatly benefit from an opening of the border.
Edited by Arpa, 30 April 2011 - 08:49 AM.