Politicizing history is it?
The Trump administration has said it does not consider the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 to be a genocide, contradicting a unanimous vote by the US Senate.
That is, Trump has, and his pathetic slaves are echoing him.
The historic vote last week incensed Turkey, which has always denied that the killings amounted to a genocide.
Turkey’s foreign ministry on Friday summoned the US ambassador to express its anger over the vote, accusing the US of “politicising history”.
Because saying it was a genocide is political while saying it wasn’t is totally not political.
There is general agreement that hundreds of thousands of Armenians died when the Ottoman Turks deported them en masse from eastern Anatolia to the Syrian desert and elsewhere in 1915-16. They were killed or died from starvation or disease.
Hmmm I think I detect a possible additional reason Trump says it wasn’t genocide, additional to his perverse desire to suck up to Erdoğan. Something to do with not wanting brutal deportations under life-threatening conditions to be called by harsh names.
Mr Trump gave a warm welcome to Mr Erdogan in Washington DC last month, despite a recent invasion by Turkey of north-east Syria that targeted the Kurds – formerly US allies in the region. The invasion infuriated many US politicians and military officials and led to calls on the president to impose sanctions on Turkey.
During a meeting in Washington last month, Mr Trump said he was a “big fan” of Mr Erdogan, ignoring widespread criticism over the Turkish president’s poor human rights record.
Bad. Bad human rights record. Not “poor,” bad. Don’t euphemize.
The most offensive euphemism in the article is that “[the Turks have] always denied that the killings amounted to a genocide”. The truth is that the Turks have denied the killings took place *at all*, aside from a few regional conflicts against rebel groups during the war, on the level of the Easter Rising in Ireland.
The further truth is that the Armenian Genocide was not simply *a* genocide; it was *the* genocide, the event for which the term was coined in the first place. It was the model that the Nazis followed when architecting the Holocaust, and the Turkish government’s steadfast denial of its existence also provided the blueprints for Holocaust denial.