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Forget Armenia, Turks Should Condemn American Indian Genocide

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Turkey is beset on all sides by the shock doctrine strategy of the west, and from within by its US-backed marionette government. Now the Armenian Genocide issue has once again bubbled to the surface. Apologize! Apologize! yell the so-called Turkish liberals, egos stroked and, no doubt, palms greased by their western puppeteers. It's the same old drama with the same stodgy cast burbling the same trite lines. As usual, the government does nothing, thus contributing to the confusion, apathy, and fear that stalk the land. But that's the whole idea isn't it?  

Turkish people, instead of handwringing and moaning, ACT! Turkish people, you heirs of the Atatürk Revolution, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave you the right (and responsibility) to save your country. (http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~sadi/dizeler/hitabe2.html )  Fight the rush-to-judgment efforts of the Armenian Genocide lobby. Every "Turkish child of future generations"- should demand that their parliament immediately enact a resolution that condemns the American Indian Genocide. Turkish people"-ACT! Defend your country against the dark powers that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk foresaw over eighty years ago. The facts of the catastrophe done to the American Indians are in plain sight and beyond dispute. Spain, Portugal, England, and, most importantly, the United States of America should stand condemned in the eyes of the world for the crimes committed against the aboriginal population in the Americas.  

Upwards of 200 million Indians lost their lives on the combined North, Central, and South American continents after Columbus landed in 1492. The Indians in South and Central America were mostly enslaved to extract precious metals. The Indians in North America were displaced, starved, and slaughtered to make way for the enormous flow of European immigrants. Vast numbers died from European diseases, perhaps the first weapon of mass destruction, in this case, biological warfare. Surely Turkey has the right to defend itself from the Western claims of genocide, given the historically bloody hand of the West.   

From approximately 15-18 million North American Indians present in the days of Columbus, only 190,000 were left in the territorial United States in 1890. The destruction of the Southern Indians (the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek tribes) resulted in the seizure and clearance of their enormously fertile forest lands (the Southern black belt) in order to expand both slavery and cotton production in Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi. In this manner, the red and black races were displaced, enslaved, and murdered in order for white America to prosper. The proof of this assertion is fully documented and unassailable.  

On the other hand, Turkey has welcomed warmly the persecuted minorities of many nations. The same year that the destruction of the American Indians began, 1492, Turkey's Sultan Bayezit II accepted the Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. Similar compassion was render to Jews centuries who fled Hitler's genocide. Surely Turkey has the right, the responsibility, and moral authority to counter the orchestrated, poorly documented, rush-to-judgment of the Armenian Lobby and its collaborators, both western and Turkish.  

The horrific destruction of the sophisticated Native American cultural system was encouraged by the government of the United States, particularly under the administration of that so-called champion of so-called democracy, Andrew Jackson. By 1890, the American Indians were finished. Their numbers had been reduced by 98 percent over the 400 years since Columbus landed. By 1890 the United States government had seized 98 percent of their land. No greater genocide or land grab has existed in the history of the world. Surely Turkey has the right to challenge the unproven claim of so-called genocide by affirming through parliamentary resolution the well-documented genocide of an entire race of people by an act of policy by the government of the United States of America.  

It is high time that Turkey takes the offensive on the matter of genocide. In this day of widespread destruction, it is high time to remind America, Americans, and their government, that they are up to their ancestral elbows in the blood of the American Indians. The Turkish government must condemn the American Indian Genocide, or itself be condemned. And if you, the Turkish people, think that makes you a traitor, then read again Nazım Hikmet's magnificent poem, Vatan Haini ("Traitor"-) below, along with Atatürk's statement of your "primary duty."- 

Cem Ryan, Ph.D.

Istanbul, 21 December 2008

http://forreasonsunknown-cem.blogspot.com/

TRAITOR

"Nazim Hikmet is still continuing to be a traitor,

We are a half-colony of American imperialism,"- said Hikmet.

"Nazim Hikmet is still continuing to be a traitor."-

This came out in one of the Ankara newspapers,

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James (Cem)Ryan is a writer living in Istanbul, Turkey. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he holds a Ph.D. in literature. His historical novel, Natural Affinities, about New York City during World War I, was published (more...)
 

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shame on you

to provide a forum to this criminal turks lies and PROPAGANDA. the murderous turkish lowlive gangs has not only committed murder torture and outright genocide and dispossetion of their homeland against  the Armenians but also of Assyrians, the Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs etc. not to even mention the recent crimes against the Kurds WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE AMERICANS/JEWS. Again SHAME ON YOU allowing this FILTHY LOWLIFE turk a forum for its propaganda.

by john josephson (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 13 comments) on Wednesday, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:37:13 PM

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you filthy turkish low life propagandist: you're going down.

James (Cem) Ryan  PROPAGANDIST of the criminal turk is posing as phony outraged "liberal" to fool this forum giving it  apass to print it's propaganda. all the while in ther PAST 70 YEARS his head pupperteers pupprteers are cutting criminal deals left and right  to suppress genocides and crimes against humanity in "turkey". you low lowlives will go down with your gangster sestern and jew supportes.

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