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Turkey: Armenian church daubed with pro-genocide graffiti

Mar 28, 2015 10:27 pm By Robert Spencer

Armenian church hate graffitiThe position of all too many Turks regarding the Armenian Genocide is that it never happened, and they’re glad it did.

“İstanbul-based Armenian church daubed with hate messages,” Today’s Zaman, March 25, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The Surp Astuanzazh Armenian Church in İstanbul’s Bakırköy neighborhood was daubed with hate speech on Tuesday as “1915, blessed year” was written on the side of the building in reference to the massacre of more than 1 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Tensions have been growing since Turkey announced in January that it would host international events to commemorate the centennial of the Gallipoli Campaign on April 24, a date that overlaps with the annual commemoration of the massacres, which many countries consider to be genocide….

Today’s Zaman visited the site on Wednesday morning and found that the graffiti had been painted over. But an administrator at the church said, “This type of thing happens all the time.” The Armenian Patriarchate of İstanbul refused to comment on the matter. No criminal complaint has been filed.

The incident comes hot on the heels of another racist slur against Armenians in Turkey. It was reported on Tuesday that Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek had filed a criminal complaint against Turkish-Armenian journalist Hayko Bağdat on defamation charges after Bağdat posted lighthearted tweets on his Twitter account referring to the mayor as an Armenian after the March 2014 local elections.

Gökçek appears to believe it an insult to be called an Armenian as his lawyer petitioned the Ankara Prosecutor’s Office, saying, “The statements [by Bağdat] are false and include insult and libel.”

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  1. Sovereign Man says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 12:08 am

    “The position of all too many Turks regarding the Armenian Genocide is that it never happened, and they’re glad it did.”

    Add to that, “and it was the Kurds who did it anyways.” Turkey needs a lesson like Germany received, they are seriously sick in the heads. Also I have heard from Muslims, including Turks, the same about 9/11. “It was the actually the Jews/CIA/never-happened, but America deserved it anyways.”

    I’m sick and tired of beating this dead horse, but when the hell will the people of the West re-open their eyes to the true nature of the Mohammedan death cult? Why must history repeat itself; why are people so stubborn against seeing the stark truth?

  2. Linde Barrera says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 12:09 am

    The Gallipoli Campaign was a strategy on the part of the Allied Forces to control the Strait of Dardanelles during WWI. The French and British forces suffered heavy casualties due to the Ottoman Empire vigorously defending these waters, of which they wanted to keep control. April 24 is the designated day “In Memory of the 1,500,000 Armenian Martyrs slaughtered by the Turks” in years prior to and including WWI. The Turkish government is using April 24 as a propoganda tool to laud themselves in battle, while showing great disrespect to the Armenian Martyrs anniversary date. Those Turks are vile.

    • M S case says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 6:15 pm

      Yes they are vile and I look for that church to be gone in the near future Thanks to the religion (CULT) of peace

    • TH says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 10:21 pm

      Galipoli was an ill-conceived idea which was promoted by Churchill when he was at the time First Lord of the Admiralty. Mny Australian and New Zealand soldiers died there for which reason the aniversary is a great occasion for the celebration of their bravery in those countries.

      • Linde Barrera says

        Mar 30, 2015 at 12:19 am

        To TH, yes you are correct about the bravery of the Australian and New Zealand servicemen who died in Gallipolli. I remember reading that in the great book “Caravans to Oblivion” by C S Graber. But the Australians and New Zealanders were fighting with the British, French and Russians. They were against the Turks. So rest assured, Turkey is not designating April 24 to celebrate the Allied Forces’ fight against them, the Ottoman Empire.

  3. Baconeatingkaffir says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 12:25 am

    I used to work and live in that part of Istanbul. I know that church well as I used to walk past it on my way to and from work. I’ve been inside there a few times. If I remember correctly they used to have their own private school. Even at that time 10 years ago it wasn’t unusual to see graffiti on the walls and morons coming out of the bars and pissing there etc. Of course they’d have never done that to a mosque.

    • M S case says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 6:20 pm

      Therein lies the problem….Nothing is ever done to their mosques and they know that nothing never will be….What an uprising would occur if it did. but if Churches here in the US started to be destroyed they would just get a swat on the but and that would probably be the end of it. If one church in the US should be destroyed by Islamic terrorist then we should take out five in retaliation. No we couldn’t do that Just turn the other cheek.

      • Joseph says

        Mar 30, 2015 at 12:14 am

        “Just turn the other cheek.” Is one of the most misquoted and LEAST understood saying Jesus ever said. Get a good “study Bible”
        Try this, It is really only part of what it means, there is also a deeper meaning but you can still get it if you read VERY carefully.
        http://www.gotquestions.org/turn-other-cheek.html
        Sorry I can’t get it to hot link

        • Joseph says

          Mar 30, 2015 at 12:19 am

          Well I guess it did work
          2nd meaning is to shame someone. A Roman soldier could strike a Jew once and only once. To do it twice the soldier will end up in hot water.

        • nothosaur says

          Mar 30, 2015 at 9:39 am

          Indeed, it is extremely difficult/impossible to logically reconcile Matthew 5:39 with the legal concepts of “self-defense” and “countersuit” or the right to trial by jury/judge.

          How can I reconcile the commandment, “do not resist evil” and simultaneously avail myself of the right to use deadly force to stop an aggressor who is imminently threatening me with great boldily harm?

          Also, how can I reconcile the commandment regarding lawsuits and simultaneously avail myself of the right to answer a lawsuit and force the plaintiff to carry a burden of proof, especially when the plaintiff is lying about me.

          I went to a Christian law school, and still cannot reconcile that one. In all my years of practice, I have failed to find one single Christian lawyer or Defendant who obeys Jesus’ commandment regarding lawsuits.

          But, really, I don’t mind much. I would rather spend my time around people of a radically peaceful religion that they have trouble following, than a radically violent religion that they follow all to often.

          If we could only persuade Muslims to disregard Mohammed as much as Christians disregard Matthew 5.

  4. Baucent says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 7:28 am

    There’s a bit more to this story. The Gallipoli landing is notable also for the involvement of Australian and New Zealand Army Corp (ANZAC) forces who suffered great losses being landed on a beach with a steep cliff face. The ANZAC Day is celebrated in both Australia and New Zealand on 25th April each year and also at ANZAC cove at Gallipoli where it attracts thousands of pilgrims and a official memorial service.

    So the overlapping with the marking of the Albanian Genocide may not be intentional, rather a convenient coincidence.

    • TH says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 10:24 pm

      I would be naive to think that it is a convenient coincidence when Edrogan is the President of Turkey and he is in the process of preparing for the declaration of his own Caliphate.

    • Linde Barrera says

      Mar 30, 2015 at 12:29 am

      To Baucent– I honestly don’t think it is a convenient coincidence. I agree with TH. With a militant president in power in Turkey, he will use any excuse to “Islamacize” any situation. Also, Albania has a Muslim population of over 70%. The country in question is Armenia, the first country to become Christian.

      • Baucent says

        Mar 30, 2015 at 9:34 am

        Check out “ANZAC Day at Gallipoli” on the web,you will find out it’s a been big event for many years, and attended by government and military representatives from Turkey, Australia and New Zealand on 25 April. The commemorations pre date Erdogan. The day is a national holiday in both Australia and New Zealand. So, I stand by my convenient coincidence assessment.

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