Comments on: Freedom of Speech and European Hypocrisy http://aydin.net/blog/2006/09/28/freedom-of-speech-and-european-hypocrisy/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:12:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Mike http://aydin.net/blog/2006/09/28/freedom-of-speech-and-european-hypocrisy/#comment-6864 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:48:01 +0000 http://aydin.net/blog/2006/09/28/freedom-of-speech-and-european-hypocrisy/#comment-6864 I don't think there is much hipocricy involved: if a member of a party does not agree with its official guidelines for membership, then the party is entitled to expel them. On the substantive issue: most scholars and historians are agreed about the extent of the Armenian genocide, and there is much evidence that the genocide was -at the very least- initiated by Turkish officials and officers. I really do not understand why the Turkish people are so reluctant to recognize this well-established truth. It is not their fault that some of their ancestors caused so many deaths. I don’t think there is much hipocricy involved: if a member of a party does not agree with its official guidelines for membership, then the party is entitled to expel them.

On the substantive issue: most scholars and historians are agreed about the extent of the Armenian genocide, and there is much evidence that the genocide was -at the very least- initiated by Turkish officials and officers.

I really do not understand why the Turkish people are so reluctant to recognize this well-established truth. It is not their fault that some of their ancestors caused so many deaths.

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