The antisemitism record on Turkey includes: A Turkish nominee for a top Constitutional Court called for the destruction of Israel In 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was enraged over a Kurdish referendum on independence from Iraq. He blamed “the Jew” for it, and threatened war. In 2018, the Turkish daily newspaper Yeni Şafak, which is […]
What Lies Beneath: Biden’s Deceptive Acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide
Joe Biden’s April 24 statement acknowledging the Armenian Genocide (1915–1923+) carried out by Turkey was welcome, but flawed. Indeed, “Turkey” appears nowhere in the document. Moreover, the State Department swiftly undermined Biden’s virtuous-sounding words. American acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide isn’t even new. The U.S. House has passed several resolutions on the Genocide. And […]
Turkish MP Threatens Armenian MP with Murder
As human rights advocates across the world commemorated on April 24 the 106th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide committed by Ottoman Turkey, a Turkish nationalist MP was threatening an Armenian MP with murder. On April 27, Umit Ozdag, an independent member of Turkey’s parliament and a professor of political science, retweeted a statement […]
Turkey: Armenian Apostolic Church sues government for return of its historic seat, seized during Armenian Genocide
“This is the time that we move from the stage of [Genocide] recognition to reparation.” Bravo. Free people may hope that the Church will prevail in the European Court of Human Rights, but it’s likely that the Turks will simply refuse to recognize their ruling if it goes against them. Still, any pushback against the […]
Even Biden’s Handlers’ Recognition of Armenian Genocide Plays Into Iran’s Hands
My latest in PJ Media: Old Joe’s Biden’s handlers appear hell-bent on appeasing Iran. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that “the Biden administration is considering a near wholesale rollback of some of the most stringent Trump-era sanctions imposed on Iran in a bid to get the Islamic Republic to return to compliance with a landmark 2015 […]
Realpolitik, Which Once Prevented Israel From Recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Now Points in the Other Direction
Israel for years was a close military ally of Turkey, the Jewish state’s one friend in the Arab and Muslim world, Both countries benefitted from the alliance, and Israel for a long time was reluctant to damage that relationship by recognizing the Armenian Genocide. But many things have happened to change that calculation: the […]
Why Israel Has Not Yet Recognized the Armenian Genocide, and Why It Should Now
One country, Israel, whose people are intimately familiar, as victims, with genocide – with the greatest of all genocides, the Holocaust — refuses until today to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Now that America has done so, it’s even more important for Israel to follow suit. “Why has Israel not yet recognized the Armenian Genocide?,” by […]
For Israel, It’s Time to Recognize the Armenian Genocide
The recognition by the United States of the Armenian Genocide now puts more pressure on those nations that have yet to do so, and especially on Israel, that has until now refused, for reasons of misplaced — and increasingly nonsensical — realpolitik. A report on why Israel has for so long refused to recognize […]
Turkey’s foreign ministry summons US Ambassador to protest recognition of Armenian Genocide
Islamic supremacists never, ever take responsibility for what they have done. “Turkey Summons US Ambassador Over Genocide Announcement,” by Zeynep Bilginsoy, NECN, April 25, 2021 (thanks to Tom): Turkey’s foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. Ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire […]
Biden’s handlers recognize Armenian Genocide
This is an extremely positive development, long overdue, and Biden’s handlers deserve kudos for getting this one right. We can only hope that this will herald a new vigor in opposing Turkish neo-Ottoman jihadist aggression and expansionist ambitions. “Breaking With Predecessors, Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide,” by Katie Rogers and Carlotta Gall, […]