My Response to the recent article in New York Times

Will I get an apology from the Armenians about the ASALA attacks, which haunt me to this day? Will I get an apology for the death of my good friend’s father, who was killed in cold blood while waiting at a red light? Will there be ever any admittance of wrong doing here?

My father was a UN diplomat and we lived in fear while living abroad for so many years. Armenian terrorists killed over 200 innocent diplomats, and their wives, children, and friends. While living in Canada, I had to go to school under police protection. We had police waiting in front of our home 24/7. My family received threatening phone calls, threatening letters, insults, hate, hate, and lots of lots of hate. Who will take back those year?

My father use to make us wait in the house while he would in his suit, bend down, look under the car to see if there was a foreign object like a bomb (not that he knew what he was doing but was trying to do anything to prevent his family’s death). Hesitantly, he would start the car. If the car didn’t blow up, then he would wave and we would all go in. Of course we had to change our route everyday, for the fear of being attacked and killed waiting while the red light switched from red to green. Those few seconds felt like hours.

It's not about whether Turkey did this or that. This argument is about how strong a Diaspora is. Armenian Diaspora pours millions of dollars every year to get their agenda through. Turks just sit back and wait for things to disappear as usual. That is a non-strategy. Hence, all the exaggerated hysterical emotions about the events that took place 100 years ago, falsified historical facts, false quotes, exaggerated numbers of deaths and of course, play on the "We poor Christians were killed by the evil Muslims."

There is no doubt in my mind that Armenian revolt could have been handled much better. Those Armenians who were armed by the Russians and organized by the British and Americans could have been handled better. The Ottoman authorities at the time should not have leashed the Kurds on the Armenians and protected those Armenian villages that were not revolting. They could and should have done things differently for sure. I agree with the Armenian pain but I am adamantly against the games that are being played on the media, the congress, and in the Christian countries in the world…

My grandmother from my father’s side is an Austrian Jew. She escaped with her family in the beginning of the century to Turkey from Nazi Germany. That was the best thing her mother could have done because almost all of her family members were killed. But she and her mother and brother survived because the Turkish government protected her and others like her.

Armenian Diaspora loves to give the impression to the world that “Turks are evil, they have no remorse, and they should be punished for what they have done. That Turks must admit their evil acts.”

OK. Then, I want America to apologize and accept the Genocide label for what they have done to the Native Americans, Vietnamese, and Iraqis. I want France to do the same for Algeria, I want Belgium to the same for Congo, I want the British to do the same for India, Pakistan, African colonies, I want Portuguese and Spain to the same for all the indigenous people they wiped out in South America. Let’s all sit around the table of Genocide instead of pointing the finger to only Turkey! That is hypocritical and demeans the pain of humans in my mind. It is ludicrous to suggest that only a Muslim country is worth punishing.

That is nothing more then political move and a complete hypocritical act by the world!
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