Let’s see. A million and a half Armenians killed. Not genocide, insists Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. A million Greeks killed. Not genocide, insists Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. The jihad conquests of the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Europe, and more. Not colonialism, insists Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. And indeed, the Ottoman Empire didn’t create colonies out of the conquered territories; the Ottomans just created colonial subjects within the empire: the dhimmis, the Jews and Christians who were subjugated under Islamic law, and who had to pay a special tax and suffer institutionalized discrimination and harassment. The Ottoman’s Empire’s bloody record is abundantly documented from primary sources in The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, but Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu is counting on his hearers not knowing this history, and he is largely correct.
“No genocide, colonialism in Turkey’s history: FM Çavuşoğlu,” Hürriyet Daily News, April 15, 2019:
Turks are proud of their history because they have not committed any genocide or partaken in colonialism, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said, vowing the Turkish government will not stay silent against “some countries trying to lecture Turkey on history,” in reference to France and Italy’s recognition of the 1915 killings of Armenians as genocide.
“We are proud of our history because our history has never had any genocides. And no colonialism exists in our history,” Minister Çavuşoğlu addressed an event at Selçuk University in the Central Anatolian province of Konya on April 15.
Turkey will never take history lessons from those who have forgotten the history of their own countries and will not hesitate to give a lesson to those who dare question Turkey’s history, Çavuşoğlu said, indirectly recalling a quarrel he had with a French parliamentarian last week in the southern province of Antalya on the sidelines of a NATO parliamentary meeting.
“France is the last country which can lecture Turkey on genocide and history,” Çavuşoğlu had said, in response to a statement by French deputy Sonia Krimi. “France should mind its own dark history in Rwanda and Algeria,” he added….
owensgate says
Awww, You’ve GOT to be kidding, right Mevlüt? Delusional much?
mortimer says
MORE THAN DELUSIONAL … it is INTENTIONAL DISINFORMATION …
TURKS AND OTHER AUTHORITIES ACKNOWLEDGED THE GENOCIDES COMMITTED BY TURKEY:
– Mustafa “Ataturk” Kemal
Founder of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923 and revered throughout Turkey, in an interview published on August 1, 1926 in The Los Angeles Examiner, talking about former Young Turks in his country…
‘These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.’
– Adolf Hitler
While persuading his associates that a Jewish holocaust would be tolerated by the west stated…
‘Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?’
– Yossi Beilin
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister. April 27, 1994 on the floor of the Knesset in response to a TV interview of the Turkish Ambassador:
‘It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember… We will always reject any attempt to erase its record, even for some political advantage.’
– Enver Pasha
One of the triumvirate rulers publicly declared on 19 May 1916…
‘You are greatly mistaken. We have this country absolutely under our control. I have no desire to shift the blame onto our underlings and I am entirely willing to accept the responsibility myself for everything that has taken place.’
– Talat Pasha
In a conversation with Dr. Mordtmann of the German Embassy in June 1915…
‘Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate (grundlich aufzaumen) its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention. What on earth do you want? The question is settled. There are no more Armenians.’
– Cemal Pasha
To a German officer upon seeing the deportations in Mamure said…
‘I am ashamed of my nation (Ich schame mich fur meine Nation)’
– Cemal Pasha
Minister of the Interior of Turkey publicly declared on March 15 that on the basis of computations undertaken by Ministry Experts…
‘800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed…by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.’
– Prince Abdul Mecid
Heir-Apparent to the Ottoman Throne, during an interview and later Caliph of Islam until 1924…
“I refer to those awful massacres. They are the greatest stain that has ever disgraced our nation and race. They were entirely the work of Talat and Enver. I heard some days before they began that they were intended. I went to Istanbul and insisted on seeing Enver. I asked him if it was true that they intended to recommence the massacres which had been our shame and disgrace under Abdul Hamid. The only reply I could get from him was: ‘It is decided. It is the program.’”
– Grand Vezir Damad Ferid Pasha
Equivalent rank in the US would be head of the cabinet I think. He described the treatment of the Armenians as…
‘A crime that drew the revulsion of the entire humankind.’
– Mustafa Arif
Minister of Interior stated on 13 December 1918…
“Surely a few Armenians aided and abetted our enemy, and a few Armenian Deputies committed crimes against the Turkish nation… it is incumbent upon a government to pursue the guilty ones. Unfortunately, our wartime leaders, imbued with a spirit of brigandage, carried out the law of deportation in a manner that could surpass the proclivities of the most bloodthirsty bandits. They decided to exterminate the Armenians, and they did exterminate them.’
– Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story, 1919
‘When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. . . . I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.’
– British Viscount James Bryce
October 6, 1915, speech
‘The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April.’
– Count Wolff-Metternich
German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire July 10, 1916, cable to the German Chancellor
‘In its attempt to carry out its purpose to resolve the Armenian question by the destruction of the Armenian race, the Turkish government has refused to be deterred neither by our representations, nor by those of the American Embassy, nor by the delegate of the Pope, nor by the threats of the Allied Powers, nor in deference to the public opinion of the West representing one-half of the world.’
– Theodore Roosevelt
May 11, 1918, letter to Cleveland Hoadley Dodge
‘. . . the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it . . . the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.’
– Herbert Hoover
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, 1952
‘The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries—all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.’
– Prof. Colin Tatz, Director, Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies
‘ The Turkish denial [of the Armenian Genocide] is probably the foremost example of historical perversion. With a mix of academic sophistication and diplomatic thuggery — of which we at Macquarie University have been targets — the Turks have put both memory and history into reverse gear.’
elee says
Thanks again for your scholarship Mortimer.
seabird says
He has no remorse or sympathy for the Christian victims of genocide because he’s proud of what the Turks did.
In fact, the Turks enjoyed every minute of the rapes, thefts, kidnappings and slaughter.
Even the Arabs were appalled at their cruelty and savagery.
Thanks for caring, Mortimer but let’s not forget what Taalat Pasha said when questioned about the objective of his “deportations”;
“The destination of the deportation
is annihilation”.
CRUSADER says
Mortimer, did you get to see the movie, “The Promise”, about the Turkish situation 100 years ago?
‘The Promise’ Puts Armenian Genocide Onscreen and Donates Profits …
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/promise-puts-armenian-genocide-onscreen-donates-profits-charity-993244
CRUSADER says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnwgMYeaqr4
“THE PROMISE”
black adder says
Henry Morgenthau’s “Secrets of Bosphorus” is a masterpiece.
gravenimage says
All important quotes, Mortimer.
elee says
Muslim human rights in two easy steps: (1) Declare kafirs “worse than beasts” and hence not human. Koran 8::56; (2) Kill, enslave, exterminate. Too many instances to cite here. “Some people did something” in Turkey among other places.
ThinnySkinnyWhinny (@WhinnySkinny) says
LOL … Islam is BASED on those VERY qualities.
Tony Naim says
1.5 million Armenians, a million Assyrians, hundreds of thousands of Greek Orthodox and Maronites exterminated or starved to death by the Sunni Muslim Ottoman Turks during the First World War –
Spiro says
Your right and before WW1 they committed genocide of Greeks and
Other groups
This Turk is either nuts or he thinks we’re to stupid to see his Moslem arrogance
Michael Garant says
Then I guess it was just ”some people doing things.” Sheesh……….
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on.
mortimer says
As far as this Muslim fanatic is concerned, it isn’t ‘GENOCIDE’ when Muslims do it. It’s ‘jihad’. It’s the ‘justice’ of Allah.
Muslims are Allah’s bounty hunters. They take the kafirs dead or alive.
mortimer says
WHAT? NO COLONIALISM ??? Erdogan talks about REVIVING the OTTOMAN EMPIRE …
Idania Fraginals says
What about the one Million Genocide of Armenian? Why about ALL the killings of the Otoman Empire?
Muslims under any name or nationality are potential terrorists ready to kill if it is required of their agenda.
mortimer says
Most people do not know that there is no ‘Turkish’ race. Turkey is one of the biggest MELTING POTS in the world. Modern Turks are the descendants of MILLIONS OF SLAVES FROM EVERY COUNTRY! The slaves were RAPED in harems.
No wonder it is ILLEGAL to criticize ‘TURKISHNESS’.
Spiro says
Very good point
black adder says
Apart from the rapes, the kidnappings and the “blood tax”, many people converted so that they could survive. The abuse of the Christians was so extreme that they felt they had no choice.
CRUSADER says
Seen the movie “THE PROMISE” ??
CRUSADER says
This is why I do not call the furniture piece by its O name, but call it a BYZANTIUM instead.
Leave it to the furniture boys to pioneer a Comfort-First attitude towards Imperialism.
mortimer says
The Century Of Genocide Denial Tearing Turkey Apart
CRUSADER says
Facing up to the Past (2006): Novelist Orhan Pamuk threatened under Turkey’s dubious Article 301 for daring to speak out about the Armenian Genocide.
Ankara’s handling of calls to recognise the Armenian Genocide reveals the deep strains tearing at Turkish society. When author Orhan Pamuk acknowledged the massacre, he provoked an outcry.
Many fear that if Turkey recognises the killings, it will be forced to pay out billions in compensation. But with the EU pressuring Ankara to allow greater freedom of speech, Turkey may soon have to face a public debate on its past.
Charles says
No colonization? REALLY!?!?!? I thought that the Byzantine Empire included the levant, North Africa and Anatolia. I thought that Constantinople was a Greek city and that the Hagia Sophia was once a Christian Church before the city was colonized by the Turks…LoL. Our history books must be VERY inaccurate…or FM Çavuşoğlu is a total liar.
Raja says
Charles, you are not alone, my thoughts are the same…
Crusades Were Right says
Jesus wept! Turks practically INVENTED colonialism and genocide! Not one square centimetre of “Turkey” was Turkish or Mohammedan prior to the 11th Century AD. Turks were nomads in Central Asia who converted to Islam in the Middle Ages and descended on the West as one of the great Asiatic hordes – just like the Huns or Mongols – except that they still remain in much of the conquered (Christian) lands: Byzantine Greece, Armenia, Assyria, Cyprus. Centuries of aggression, plunder, rape, slavery, massacres and persecution eventually culminated in genocide and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Christian nations in the early 20th Century. And since Turkish authorities and other Turkish propagandists are still lying and concealing evidence of the crimes, we can reasonably regard them of being accomplices.
Shame on YOU, you liar, Minister Çavuşoğlu!
CRUSADER says
CWR,
You got that right!!!
mortimer says
Turkish Professor Ugur Ungor Details The Armenian Genocide – how it was done
CRUSADER says
Turkish professor from Amsterdam discusses the Armenian Genocide and property confiscation.
The Genocide Education Project hosted a presentation by Prof. Ugur Ungor. Ungor’s lecture was based on his two recent books, “The Making of Modern Turkey”, which addresses how Western Armenia became part of the Turkish state, and “Confiscation and Destruction”, about Turkey’s seizure of Armenian Property.
From 1913 to 1950, successive Turkish governments subjected the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire to a violent policy of ethnic homogenization. Based on a decade of research on a range of unexamined records, Üngör demonstrates that the Armenian genocide was part and parcel of this wider process. He offers insights into the economic ramifications of the genocide and describes how the plunder was organized on the ground. He concludes that this violent process destroyed historical regions and emptied multicultural cities, but also cleared the way for the modern Turkish nation state.
For teaching resources on the Armenian Genocide: http://www.TeachGenocide.com
James says
Denial is a brilliant way of making national atrocities unhappen…
GreekEmpress says
I really appreciate the postings that deal with the denial of the genocide the Turks committed. I had one Armenian ancestor, and he was murdered by the Turks. The children survived, which is why I’m here today. I wish more people were aware of what occurred, but Jihad Watch and a few other sites are doing their best to educate.
Thank you all for the comments and videos.
Grateful GreekEmpress.
gravenimage says
Everyone should know about this horrific history.
Hari Singh says
The Armenians-2million, the Slavs-4 million, Greeks-unknown. Turks in India between 50-100 million. African slaves I know in millions. Christians who were killed or enslaved along Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts from Greece to England Ireland and even Iceland. Turkish-ottoman policy is dripping with blood, it was just Jihad.
Wellington says
Graduated from the Joachim von Ribbentrop Institute of Foreign Policy.
gravenimage says
+1
Ren says
Turkey’s Foreign Minister: “We are proud because our history has never had any genocides and no colonialism”
Millions of people have been killed in the name of islam throughout history. What is he talking about?
kathleen 7546 says
Kind of like Obama declaring last year that his admin had no scandals.
CRUSADER says
Hey Turks!
Yeah, right….sure, sure….
gravenimage says
Turkey’s Foreign Minister: “We are proud because our history has never had any genocides and no colonialism”
………………….
Ah–right. Conquering much of the Middle East, the Levant, Greece, and the Balkans was not colonialism–and wiping out almost all of Turkey’s surviving Christians a century ago–over 1.5 million people–was not genocide. Try again…
gravenimage says
Spot on.
gravenimage says
This was a reply to Wellington, above.
Heidi says
I have nothing to add to this because it says it all http://www.acpr.org.il/pp/pp109-muhammads_monsters-israeli.pdf
Pal says
SHAME ON YOU TURKS!!
A DISGRACE TO HISTORY!!
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, alone, a few moments – RATHER THE TURKS’ GENOCIDE UPON THE ARMENIANS:
XX Century!
– children buried alive;
– children burned alive, en masse;
– children poisoned by “medicines” through arrangements of local physicians;
– children destroyed through mass drownings in Euphrates river;
– children’s bodies “opened”, pieces of flesh ripped off, internal organs taken out, kneecaps severed;
– children made orphan, thus conversion to islam simplified, and to “making” turks;
. . . . .
http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/online_exhibition_3.php
Carol the 1st says
Such gruesome pictures of love and endurance and then to read Cavusoglu’s present-day words clearly reveals the very, very creepy and ongoing mental train of ugly thought and feeling that lurks and endures behind it all. This aggressive man pretends to see muslims as the victims and truth-tellers as the ones who must be taught lessons e.g.:
““The terrorist assault in New Zealand has shown once again that intolerance, racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia pose a threat on our mutual humane values. Recent rise in racism has become a reflection of xenophobia and Islamophobia. A joint and firm fight in solidarity against all these threats is now a must…We should mobilize the entire world against such threat…”
A Canadian man once described to me how his Armenian father had, with utmost fervor, made sure he and his brothers knew what he and their dead relatives had endured during the genocide. it was obvious this father wanted to be sure that they knew – above all else in this lifetime – the truth, and that they would NEVER, NEVER forget it.
gravenimage says
Yes–horrifying images.
The Armenian Genocide was widely chronicled.
Pal says
“Our existence – that of Turkey and many of its inhabitants – requires the absence of another entity: the Christians. To accept the /Armenian, Greek, and other genocides/ means that Christians lived in this /today’s Turkish/ land which amounts to proclaiming our (Turkish) own non-existence, BECAUSE OUR EXISTENCE IS BASED ON THEIR ABSENCE, or disappearance”:
– T. Akcam, leading German-Turkish genocide researcher.
L. Marchand, G. Perrier, “Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide, 2015, p. x.
BegrensEuropa! says
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu statement is one more reason for not taking the Turks seriously except in the negative sense as genocidal, reality denying war mongerers, who will incompassionately deny human rights, including the right to live to anybody who is not fighting in their cause which is the establishment of a global caliphate.
black adder says
In other words the Turks are genocidal maniacs
Indiana Tom says
Turks are proud of their history because they have not committed any genocide or partaken in colonialism,
Yeah, and Hitler and the Nazis just taught Sunday School and were simply misunderstood. Really, they were all about peace and love. Same for Stalin and the Bolsheviks.
gravenimage says
+1
Steven says
Yeah… pig can fly
Giacomo Latta says
I guess if you can’t keep an empire, it’s not colonialism. Methinks he should check out the eastern part of Turkey.
jewdog says
And you never told the truth, either.
AnneM04031959 says
Just “read” his lips. Lying again.
Isntlam says
At least not for several years…
Golem 2 says
The Turks do not belong in NATO. They area s-hole Country
somehistory says
An interesting news story in my inbox re: Turkey
https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2019/04/12/photos-surface-revealing-2017-closed-door-meeting-between-rep-ilhan-omar-and-turkish-president-erdogan/
She even tweeted about the meeting in Somali:
full article on PJ Media
CRUSADER says
Verrrry Interestingkkk!!!
elee says
All corroborated and objectively true. So when will she be prosecuted under the Logan Act? If anybody’s overt act ever constituted a violation, her own texts admit that her acts that day did. Maybe your local Federal prosecutor’s office can explain to you why they aren’t acting on this.
somehistory says
elee
If a grand jury was convened, she would be looking at a trial and prison time…imo. There is enough evidence to say a crime has been committed..several actually…and that she is the person committing them.
There are the claims by MN State Rep that she used campaign funds to pay her divorce lawyer, when she was divorcing her brother, whom she had helped to come into the country and stay long enough to go to the same university she attended and then she lied to Congress when she said that she had not seen her brother **for years** when she had visited him and other family members in the U.K.
And then all of the fund raising she does with cair, and this secret meeting with erdogan. With photo evidence of the meeting, photo evidence of her “seeing” her brother and video of her speaking to raise funds for cair. A strong case could be made.
gabi says
“No colonialism”??? Everywhere ottoman army entered, when they managed to conquer a country/territory the next step was to displace the local population into Ottoman Empire’s land (ussualy Anatolia) and colonise the new Christian territories with ottoman Turks & Muslims, building mosques for them and giving them land. It is very well known “the Serbian Forest” near Constantinople, where many thousands of Serbian people were displaced after Belgrade’s conquer (1521) – and it’s only one example from many others! That’s why all Balkans are full of muslims and mosques and boils continuously! And this stupid damn’ Turkish moron says “no genocide”??? What about the Ottoman Army Corps called “Sipahis” (oh, all tourists enjoy their sword-dance, isnt’t it?) who where the most bloody thieves along Balkans and Danube Valley, the most criminal and genocidal ottoman army corps! They were finally destroyed by Romanian Prince Michael the Brave after the great battle&victory of Calugareni, 1595. But yeah, it’s so long time those sipahis were fortunately destroyed so today Mr. Cavusoglu can conveniently forget this! But Armenian genocide is not that old! (or others!)
Conclusion: Sorry to say, but Mr. Cavusoglu lies like a pagan! (“to lie like a pagan” = an old East European saying for someone who lies without fear of God).
Falsafa says
to the general public reading these distorted views of history (above and I am sure more to follow below); please read the history of the Ottoman Empire from reputable scholars such as Bernard Lewis, Lord Kinross, Caroline Finkel for a balanced historical evaluation.
also please visit turkishculture.org to get a sense of the value and contributions to humanity by all peoples from the Ottoman lands.
thank you
CRUSADER says
“THE PROMISE”
alex reid says
“Newspeak/Doublespeak” is alive & well in the World of Islam & believed to be the Truth by
our Western Leaders & the MSM. Turkey stomped all over the Balkans, Eastern Europe, [why doesn’t Poland/Hungary/Ukraine et al, take in these Muslim “Migrants’ – they’ve experienced Muslim Rule for 4Centuries], Northern Africa. The Armenian Massacre around WW1 time.. Their denial is pathetic. It makes the Speakers appear infantile instead of being men & they know it. FFS Turkey, face up to your past, warts & all. Nearly EVERY country in the World has dark passages in their History. Face up to it & accept it.
Rob Nellist says
Why are all muslems pathalogical liars – oh yes its part of their so called religion
Falsafa says
Bernard Lewis, Gunther Lewy, Lord Kinross, Norman Stone, Andrew Mango…read the works of these scholars to get a more balanced perspective on the history of the final days of the Ottoman Empire:
Bernard Lewis on the ‘Genocide’ allegations;
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG70UWESfu4&w=560&h=315%5D
gravenimage says
Nice try from “Falsafa” here. Bernard Lewis has said of the Armenian Genocide, “the terrible holocaust of 1915, when a million and a half Armenians perished”.
Saying that this was not a genocide because a few Armenians survived is like saying that the Holocaust was not a genocide because some Jews survived it.
Of course, “Falsafa” is likely equally enraged at members of either group of ‘filthy Infidels’ surviving.
ToaderO says
We live in a clown world.🤡🎈🤡🎈🤡 Turkey FM thinks nobody heard of Armenian genocide and Ottoman Empire that collapsed merely 100 ears ago.
CRUSADER says
World Turned Upside Down
elee says
This is the tune that Cornwallis’s bands played as the British marched to the surrender ceremony at Yorktown.
SuchindranathAiyerS says
Islam is farce when not deception as this claim by Turkey’s Foreign Minister demonstrates. Islam prospers from the ignorance of its intended victims like any predator.