Don't forget the 4th biggest genocide in history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_toll
3 of the top 10 genocides are by glorious Turkey.
This was your quote: "The Turks did have their crimes, so did Armenians."
Özer Tayiz:
> The greatest genocide in history was possibly the mass murder of 100
> million american indians, when america was "discovered", but you won't read
> about it much in any US public school history book. Or the history book of
> any US allies. Because USA has the biggest military now.
Oh yeah and in Turkey you won't read anything about how the Turkish
state was founded on genocide, how Erdogan supports ISIS and the brutal
ongoing killings of Kurds in Nusaybin and Cizre.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-l-phillips/research-paper-isis-turke_b_6128950.html
Picture of Nusaybin city centre:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CknLJKeWEAAt3JC.jpg:large
Do you see the Nazi-esque flags in a city they've destroyed.
The people are saying NO! they don't want the Turkish military. This
horseshit about a few fanatical terrorists ignores the massive levels of
support they are getting from the population who sees them as the true
protectors and heroes resisting against the occupiers.
"From Fascist to anti-militarist: An interview with a Turkish ex-soldier"
https://corporatewatch.org/news/2016/may/16/fascist-anti-militarist-interview-turkish-ex-soldier
This is the best explanation of the dynamics for our neutral observers.
It is spot on about explaining Turkish nationalism and the mental hoops
Turks go through to justify tolerance of genocide against "separatist
Kurds" mumbling bullshit conspiracy theories and playing the victim card
- despite being a top member of NATO who together with Saudi Arabia
funds Islamic groups to topple regimes and maintain their balance of
power against Iran and Russia.
This is the worst crime in the middle east happening now. Every person
in Turkey who is ignorant and chooses to remain ignorant, supporting
their government by taking Erdogan's side is complicit in the mass rape
of young Yezidi girls and the mass killing of Yezidi boys when IS invaded.
It was the Turkish backed Peshmerga that went and disarmed the Yezidis.
Then when ISIS invaded, they ran away leaving the people defenseless. It
was the YPG and PKK who liberated Yezidi girls and families in a highly
risky operation. And then they setup Yezidi local defense forces now,
and it is Turkey and the Peshmerga who are opposing them. They are
threatening military action and bombing fighters there who exist to
defend themselves against ISIS. Turkey gives support to ISIS, treating
them in their hospitals, giving them money and allowing their fighters
to cross the borders in and out.
There's plenty of this stuff around, just start reading if you don't
believe me.
So it's a bit rich when you start talking about US genocide that
happened centuries ago when there is a genocide happening now in your
country that you refuse to accept. Not only that but you excuse & deny
older genocides in Turkey, and deny the holocaust.