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Turkish President on Denial of Armenian Genocide

On the 42th of April 2014, the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan demonstrated the Turkish Government's stance on the Armenian Genocide; stating his condolences to the descendants of the Armenian Genocide victims by addressing them as victims of the “events of the 20th century.” (cite) This caused an unpleasant reaction from Vigen Sargsyan, the Head of the Armenian President’s staff, as he claims the following; “In Erdogan's statement we saw almost all the theses of Turkey's propaganda machine of the last years, its efforts to present the victim and the executioner from the same legal angle. Meanwhile, reality demands Turkey just to recognize the fact of Genocide and openly condemn that crime against humanity," (cite)

Why does Turkey deny?

As Armenian Genocide researcher Vahakn N. Dadrian seeked to identify the main gatekeeper’s behind Turkey’s acceptance and recognition of the Genocide, he uncovered the following. “As a rule, powerful perpetrators who managed to escape prosecution and ensuing retributive justice in the aftermath of the crime cannot be expected to voluntarily concede culpability and admit guilt.” Insisting Turkish authorities will never admit to their actions due to their fear of obtaining a negative reputation. Dadrian adds with the growth of Turkish military power and increasing economic prosperity, the admittal of this genocide is especially risky and unappealing. Vahakn asserts Turkey denies claims of genocide with propaganda and a “Repertoire of rationalizations, distortions and falsehoods has been created and made an integral part of the prevailing denial syndrome.”

Evidence on the Armenian Genocide includes Armenian Genocide literature found in archives, which are saturated with documents verifying and confirming the premeditated efforts of the Turkish Ottoman Empire conducting Genocide strategic during the genocide time period. Documents describing the massacres are denied and claimed as false/fabricated information by Turkish Party leaders. (cite) These documents, and other archives, were examined by internal forces and purposely never published for the public to see,

Tactics of Murder on Children

3000 extradited Armenian children were left behind for orphanage There was administration of poisonous medicine to execute children Children were drowned in the Black Sea who refuse to take poisonous medicine Use of steam baths to suffocate babies/young infants Corpses dumped in nearby sea Red Crescent Hospital in Turkey kept as “pleasure where Governor General Cemal Azmi, kept 15 young Armenian girls to be used for frequent sexual acts, and later executing them afterwards Young Turkey Party potentates had also engaged in using young Armenian girls for sexual uses, hiring dozens to provide orgies and other sexual favours for party runners. Drowning of children in the Trabzon river, Degirmendere, and the usage of the coastline of the Black Sea - Armenian women and children were loaded on barges at the port city of Ordu in Trabzon province and drowned on the high seas, this occured multiple times with the whitness of Turkish officials There occured many homozexual rapes; where young boys were kept in homes and raped under ownership of Turkish Long after mass killings stopped, the rapes and sexual violations of young boys furthered on Burning of Armenian children was another strategy of mass murder, and was a main torture method “en masse” and was economically a more friendly method of torturing Armenians, as the government did not have to spend much on recources for this kind of execution

Assimilation of Children in Turkish Communities

Armenian children of young age were adopted into Turkish households and given muslim lastnames, cleared of their Armenian cultural roots; speaking of the Armenian language was prohbitied and if spoken were grounds for beatings. Birth records were falsified, and no reunion was allowed of Armenian children with blood relatives. (cite). Orphanages such as the “Ayn Tura” used methods of physical abuse, torture, abusive language all under the justification it was done in the interest of the child’s well being. Turkish communities and villages were comprised of many Armenian citizens, those of all different occupational and economic ranking; “some physicians, some peasants, some artitiss and some bussiessmen and intellectuals.” At the beginning of the genocide practices by the Turkish government, all cities and villages were ridded of their Armenian citizens, regardless of order of class/status in the society. Armenians comprised Men were often confronted with brutal methods of physical punishment or exterminatioon, whilse children and women were kept in extremely poor kept camps. A percentage of those displaced were sent out to be raped, tortured, starved, kidnapped, enslaved and murdered in the desserts of Syria. (cite)