Saturday, October 14, 2006
"Genocide, massacre, deportation: Turkey's definition of peace"
Thousands of Lebanon's Armenians rallied in Beirut Thursday against Turkish troops taking part in a U.N. peacekeeping force there, on the same day France moved to make denial of the Ottoman genocide of Armenians a crime.
Armenian political and religious leaders attended the demonstration, which came just two days after the first contingent of Turkish peacekeepers arrived to police a ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah.
The rally took place on Beirut's downtown Place des Martyrs, which honors six Lebanese nationalists who were hanged by the Ottomans during World War I.
The crowd, drawn from an Armenian community of about 140,000 people, held high banners denouncing the presence of Turkish troops as "an insult to the collective memory of the Armenian people", while waving Armenian, Lebanese and French flags. "Genocide, massacre, deportation: Turkey's definition of peace," read another banner.
IMO: Turkey clearly will not face reality yet. The EU has enough problems right now without even considering the admission of Turkey as being currently remotely possible. We must assume that USA had some good intentions over the Iraq war. So far there apparently have been 650,000 (UK figure) or 50,000 plus (US figure) casualties. Let the volatile, badly run and oversubsidised Turkey join the EU anytime soon ? Only if we want the EU to become the new Iraq, not something anyone would want, including Turkey.
Armenian political and religious leaders attended the demonstration, which came just two days after the first contingent of Turkish peacekeepers arrived to police a ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah.
The rally took place on Beirut's downtown Place des Martyrs, which honors six Lebanese nationalists who were hanged by the Ottomans during World War I.
The crowd, drawn from an Armenian community of about 140,000 people, held high banners denouncing the presence of Turkish troops as "an insult to the collective memory of the Armenian people", while waving Armenian, Lebanese and French flags. "Genocide, massacre, deportation: Turkey's definition of peace," read another banner.
IMO: Turkey clearly will not face reality yet. The EU has enough problems right now without even considering the admission of Turkey as being currently remotely possible. We must assume that USA had some good intentions over the Iraq war. So far there apparently have been 650,000 (UK figure) or 50,000 plus (US figure) casualties. Let the volatile, badly run and oversubsidised Turkey join the EU anytime soon ? Only if we want the EU to become the new Iraq, not something anyone would want, including Turkey.
# posted by uv : 5:51 AM
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