A few days ago I saw Ronda Rousey’s post on Armenian genocide: https://www.instagram.com/p/BEmsBg8BEUl/
And it intrigued me for I am Turkish myself. See how she effortlessly throws in racism and goes “in the hands of Turkish”, blaming all the Turks about it. I think this would also interest westerners, that’s why I’m writing this in English. We as Turks could learn some things from Armenians living abroad.
First of all, the reason why Ronda is so sensitive about Armenians is because her trainer is Armenian. So he either made her post it, or more likely, told her his sad story and convinced her to write about it. Either way, whatever profession Armenians do, when they have enough money or influence, they use it to promote the Armenian Genocide condemning. Whereas Turks mostly don’t do that. Yeah we do have a small group who’s trying to come to a resolution with Armenians
or doing anything good for their country for that matter. But most of the time they forget their country once they move out.
There has been lots and lots of massacres and genocides in human history, hell, just check WW1 and WW2 atrocities, Nazis and Soviets sacking each other’s civilian territory, delibirately and systematically killing and raping women and children, putting them on stakes and all kinds of nasty stuff. Just read about the sacking of Berlin, or the bombing of Dresden, or A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagazaki. Have you wondered why all these are only read in history books, but only the Jewish and the Armenian massacres are still “trending”? You may come upon it on a completely irrelevant organization or an event, or an irrelevant athlete or a celebrity may talk about it. A Turkish writer condemns the genocide and immediately earns Nobel literature prize. Armenian lobbies keep paying for genocide movies to be made. Have you wondered why people keep on condemning racism, but it’s completely ok to hate on some races? I had a lady friend who was Turkish, she went to an international student camp. There she met an Armenan guy. As soon as he learned that she was Turkish, he started saying to everyone “look, her grandparents are murderers, they killed innocent people. Here’s a murderous Turk.” Of course, I hear Armenians are fed hate against Turks ever since they’re children, and nobody goes around saying “wait, isn’t racism bad?” But you know what’s the funniest? Her grandparents probably didn’t have anything to do with anything. In fact, the vast majority of our grandparents didn’t have anything to do with it. Since this topic was so trendy, I geniunely wanted to find out what happened, therefore I dismissed the Turkish sources and only checked English ones. I also went through some English history podcasts. Here’s very roughly what happened:
- During WW1, Armenians, being non-Muslim, wanted the same status as Muslims, not having to pay extra taxes and things like that.
- Ottomans, being their Muslim selves, dismissed this request.
- Armenians seeked help from Europe, but nobody cared.
- Russia, fighting with the Ottomans as they always do, needed a leverage, and decided to support the Armenians. Armenians turn against the Ottomans.
- By this time, the Ottoman government is seized by “Committee of Union and Progress” after a coup.
- This committee blames Armenians for their heavy casualities against Russians, and decides they shouldn’t be located there anymore. It forces the Armenians out to pretty much a death march, because they’re in a hurry, and they don’t actually care if Armenians survive. They have bigger problems.
- Armenians either die themselves on the way, or are killed by Kurdish gangs.
- At the end of WW1, the prosecutors from the Committe were either executed or assasinated abroad.
- After this, during the independence war of Turkey against the allied forces, Armenian gangs were formed and attacked the villages, and were destroyed in return.
Sorry for the extreme summarization. Nothing makes it ok that civilians from both sides were killed. I just wanted to point out to people like Ronda, that there’s nothing we can do which will settle down the Armenians and resolve this. Because let’s face it, they got nothing other than being a genocide victim. Germany, Japan were totally annihilated much more recently, but they stood up and worked hard to become world powers. Nobody calls them victims because they don’t need that. If this “genocide” didn’t happen, Armenia would be as irrelevant as Georgia or something. Every famous Armenian which matter lives in USA or France. That’s why they will cling on to it forever. That’s why they don’t want to lose their “victim” status. That’s why when you ask a random westerner “who’s a victim country”, they would either say Jews or Armenians. And no Ronda, USA isn’t “doing nothing” on this Armenian topic. Armenian lobbies in countries like USA and France are the only reasons people talk about this instead of other war crimes, even after 101 years.
See, what westerners don’t understand is this mentality of Middle East people. Fighting with each other, backstabbing each other, and when they lose, being the “victim of persecution”. I know some Armenian groups do that, some Kurdish groups do that, some Arab groups do that, and to my embarassement some Turkish groups do that. Seriously Turks? After all those fierce and powerful pre-Islamic steppe days? Some may be upset with these words, but many western countries know these as fact, and use it to their advantage to make those groups fight each other.
And today, right now, there are many Armenians living in Turkey. And they have zero problem whatsoever. They are being treated no different than other citizens, thanks to our secular Turkish republic.
So at the end of the day, I would like to see this problem resolved by opening the archives and talking things out. Something tragic definitley happened back there. But here’s why it still can’t be resolved; because people lie. Please don’t forget this. Try to get your own facts. Don’t trust anyone even tough they say they’re witnesses.
You know what’s the actual problem? You know why this topic is being talked more and more in the last decade? Because Turkey is weak right now. No important country is financially tied to us. We are not run by people who have actual leadership skills. Sad but true, upsetting a small bunch of Armenians in USA have more consequences than upsetting the whole country of Turkey. This is the conclusion I came to. If Turkey was a strong country, I wouldn’t have to write this post right now. People forgot so easily, that USA invaded Iraq, saying it’s an operaton because Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. Killed the people defending themselves, sacked the city, and in the end their only excuse for invasion turned out to be false. What could possibly be done about it? Try and execute Bush?
Another proof that this thing will never be resolved should be the comments I’ll get. Brace yourselves for some good old fashioned anti-Turk hate. If I’m right, they will even go further to spit hate on my other posts as well, maybe even to find my Youtube account and try to downvote all my videos (happened before). Well, it’s ok, it’s their right to be hateful and racist, because they’re #victims4life
