Cyprus criminalizes Armenian Genocide denial

[European Knight]

http://armenianow.com/genocide/62005/armenia_cyprus_genocide_resolution_recognition

The parliament of Cyprus on Thursday passed a law criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide.

The law was backed by 54 out of the 56 lawmakers who currently occupy seats in the 80-member Cypriot House of Representatives (30 percent of seats in the Cypriot parliament are allocated to the Turkish Cypriot community, but these have been vacant since 1964).

Under the law those who deny the Armenian Genocide will face five-year imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 euros (about $10,800).

The vote on the relevant bill presented jointly by all political parties of Cyprus in connection with the approaching 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was postponed on March 26, as some Cypriot MPs had reservations on the issue and some of them wanted the bill to concern only the denial of the Armenian Genocide.

Cyprus is the fourth European nation to have made denial of the Armenian Genocide after Greece, Slovakia and Switzerland.

The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs quickly welcomed the adoption by the Cypriot parliament of the law criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide on the threshold of the Centennial of the Genocide.

“By the adoption of this law Cyprus has made an important contribution to the lofty cause of prevention of genocides and crimes against humanity,” Minister Edward Nalbandian said in a statement.

Armenian Parliament Speaker Galust Sahakyan is on an official visit to the Republic of Cyprus these days.

It is remarkable that the Armenian National Assembly last month adopted a statement recognizing the genocide of Greeks and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire.

http://armenianow.com/sites/default/files/img/imagecache/600x400/600x350xparliament-of-Cypros.jpg.pagespeed.ic.v8g_t2Vh9T.jpg

[Drakoblare]

Wonderful news. May all 2 Armenians of TA rejoice!

[Anima Libera]

Hopefully my ancestors get justice once Turkey and Azerbaijan recognize their past's brutal crimes.

[Pahli]

Hopefully my ancestors get justice once Turkey and Azerbaijan recognize their past's brutal crimes.

They're too stubborn and "proud" of themselves to recognize the crimes they've commited.

[adsız]

(Reuters) - Denying that mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 were genocide is not a criminal offence, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday in a case involving Switzerland.

The court, which upholds the 47-nation European Convention on Human Rights, said a Swiss law against genocide denial violated the principle of freedom of expression.

The ruling has implications for other European states such as France which have tried to criminalize the refusal to apply the term "genocide" to the massacres of Armenians during the breakup of the Ottoman empire.

A Swiss court had fined the leader of the leftist Turkish Workers' Party, Dogu Perincek, for having branded talk of an Armenian genocide "an international lie" during a 2007 lecture tour in Switzerland.

Turkey accepts that many Armenians died in partisan fighting beginning in 1915 but denies that up to 1.5 million were killed and that it constituted an act of genocide - a term used by many Western historians and foreign parliaments.

"Genocide is a very narrowly defined legal notion which is difficult to prove," the court said.

"Mr Perincek was making a speech of a historical, legal and political nature in a contradictory debate."

The court drew a distinction between the Armenian case and appeals it has rejected against convictions for denying the Nazi German Holocaust against the Jews during World War Two.

"In those cases, the plaintiffs had denied sometimes very concrete historical facts such as the existence of gas chambers," the court said. "They denied crimes committed by the Nazi regime that had a clear legal basis. Furthermore, the facts they denied had been clearly been established by an international tribunal."

The judges cited a 2012 ruling by France's Constitutional Council which struck down a law enacted by then President Nicolas Sarkozy's government as "an unconstitutional violation of the right to freedom of speech and communication".

Switzerland has three months to appeal against the ruling.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/17/us-switzerland-turkey-genocide-idUSBRE9BG11J20131217

[Anima Libera]

Ya. I've heard that some of my dead family member's graves were torn down in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Baku was a diverse place in the USSR era. It consisted of a big Jewish, Russian, ukrainian, and an Armenian population. And there were fewer native Azeris living there. Many of my Russian ancestors dwelled there working in the factories, mining oil, living peacefully along with the Armenian family members. My Russian grandmother met my Armenian grandfather at the school dance there sixty years ago thus, they married and started a family.

Although I'm more Russian, I'll still support the recognition of the genocide.

[Proto-Shaman]

Ask any Turk, he will give you this answer:
http://i.hizliresim.com/b5g648.jpg

[Trun]

I wish Bulgarian deputies did the same.

[Musso]

Cypriots are our brothers, probably one of the most fraternal countries in the world for us.

[Partizan]

They're too stubborn and "proud" of themselves to recognize the crimes they've commited.

Well...

Kurds killed more Armenians than Turks have done ;)

[TheMagnificent]

Cypriots are our brothers, probably one of the most fraternal countries in the world for us.

They share the same genocide screaming behaviour with you when their ass gets kicked and their plans don't work out, true...

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmfaff/113/113we45.htm

[Proto-Shaman]

Well...

Kurds killed more Armenians than Turks have done ;)
Even confirmed by this Armenian:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kheQgbNWBU

[Kamal900]

Well...

Kurds killed more Armenians than Turks have done ;)

Blaming your crimes on the people that you despise, lol. And you might wonder why people can't take you seriously when you start preeching about Pan-Turanism all over the world. Unlike your kind, the Kurds are brave people in acknowleding about what happened to the Armenians in 1915:

Kurds Acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and Their Role In It

The hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide caused many world leaders to blink, notably President Barack Obama, who abandoned his old campaign promises–and fiery criticism of the Bush administration–by refusing to acknowledge it. Much of this moral cowardice emanates from Western politicians who wish to curry favor with the Turkish government. The Turks have been trying to erase the genocide from history, shortly after they gave up trying to erase the Armenians from history.

Kurdish leaders, however, have been frank in acknowledging the genocide, and the role their own people played as soldiers of the Ottoman Empire. Turkish journalist Uzay Bulut took a long look at the Kurdish recognition, and the desire of Turkish writers to break ranks with their government and acknowledge the past, for International Business Times.

Bulut lays out the background of the Kurds living under Ottoman rule and serving in its military. “During the 1915 genocide, some Kurdish tribes were also exploited and encouraged by the Turkish Ottoman regime to attack the deportation caravans of Armenians,” she writes. “However, it should be noted that there were many cases where Kurds refused to attack the Armenians and rescued them from certain death.”

Kurdish leaders are not soft-pedaling the former to emphasize the latter. “Without hesitation, I recognize the Armenian genocide,” said Selahattin Demirtas, co-chair of the Peoples’ Democrat Party.

Demirtas added that “everybody, including the Kurds” was involved, but responsibility lies with those who gave the orders, meaning the Ottoman regime. He rejected the official Turkish history that treats the genocide as nothing worse than a severe battlefield defeat for the Armenians–or, worse, an auto-genocide–and noted that since the current Turkish government is eager to claim the Ottoman legacy in other contexts, they should acknowledge the genocide, as well. “As long as such problems are not resolved in Turkey, democracy will never prevail in this country,” he warned.

Totalitarians of every stripe are keen on controlling historical memory; they seek to shape the future by rearranging the foundation of the past. The amount of thought control and speech suppression required to replace memory with official “history” is incompatible with democracy. Bulut illustrates that point at the end of her article by noting that the Turkish penal code is often invoked to silence dissidents under the aegis of avenging “insults” to Turkey or its current government. These laws have been used to crush honest discussion of the Armenian genocide in the past.

The Kurds, to put it delicately, are not always worried about raising the blood pressure of the Turkish government. They will be accused of harping on the Armenian genocide as a means of sticking it to the Turks, something they have not always done metaphorically.

Kurdish recognition of the Armenian plight has been heartfelt, and often self-critical, however. Bulut also relates the Kurdish restoration of the largest Armenian Christian church in the Middle East, Kurdish leaders paying respects at Armenian genocide memorials, and the inclusion of the Armenians in their own monument to the victims of genocide.

Bulut gives Kurdish leaders and activists great credit for learning that “recognition of the genocide, respecting the rights of its victims and extending your hand in remorse, humility and penance to the grandchildren of the survivors” is the right way to deal with the memory of such a monstrous deed.

A cynic–particularly a Turkish cynic–might observe that the Kurds are relentlessly on message when it comes to laying ultimate responsibility for the genocide at the feet of the Ottoman regime. Even the stirring speech delivered by a Kurdish mayor at the dedication of the genocide monument mentioned above took pains to mention the true culprits: “Despite the sovereigns that put us through all these sufferings, we will live together. We will not make one another suffer any more.”

But they are not wrong about who was calling the shots in 1915 or what those leaders sought to accomplish. They are not wrong to believe that the centenary is the best time for people around the world, concerned with such momentous calendar dates as we are, to come fully to terms with what happened to the Armenians, to understand how their fate has been echoed in subsequent horrors, and to admit that dreams of “solving” racial problems through genocide did not die with the passing of the twentieth century.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/04/24/kurds-acknowledge-the-armenian-genocide-and-their-role-in-it/

[Kamal900]

Cypriots are our brothers, probably one of the most fraternal countries in the world for us.

Because they were the latest victims of Turkey's pan-Turkism policies in the middle east and beyond to create their Turan empire.

[Partizan]

Blaming your crimes on the people that you despise, lol. And you might wonder why people can't take you seriously when you start preeching about Pan-Turanism all over the world. Unlike your kind, the Kurds are brave people in acknowleding about what happened to the Armenians in 1915:

Well, do they have to "pay" or "give" something for it? It is very easy to say, "ooooh we have done it!!!!!!" when you don't have a state and when Armenians don't want compensation(land and money) from you.

Kurds have killed Armenians and if someone has to pay "compensation" to Armenia, those are Kurds.

[meisje]

Because they were the latest victims of Turkey's pan-Turkism policies in the middle east

Kurds are also victims of Pan-Arabism in Iraq and Syria, They have been attacked

with Chemical gasses in North Iraq in 1988

as called Halabja Chemical Attack. It is so absurd ,your Arab blaming a Turk about

Nationalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Halabja_chemical_attack&oldid=661383785

[Kamal900]

They are also victims of Pan-Arabism in Iraq and Syria, They have been attacked

with Chemical gasses in North Iraq in 1988

as called Halabja Chemical Attack. It is so absurd ,your Arab blaming a Turk about

Nationalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Halabja_chemical_attack&oldid=661383785

http://i.ensonhaber.com/resimler/galeri/5471/11.jpg

http://i.ensonhaber.com/resimler/galeri/5471/10.jpg

Yes, and thats why i do speak against any pan-Ideologies, be it Arab, Turkish, African and etc. So, dont try to act as the victim here, ok? Saddam was a tyrant, and what he did to the persians and kurds was inexcusable.

[Böri]

Brotherhood of two loser, complexed, Turk haters, low quality people.

[Kamal900]

Well, do they have to "pay" or "give" something for it? It is very easy to say, "ooooh we have done it!!!!!!" when you don't have a state and when Armenians don't want compensation(land and money) from you.

Kurds have killed Armenians and if someone has to pay "compensation" to Armenia, those are Kurds.

The young Turks were a TURKISH ultra-nationalist group that took over the empire, and their dream is to create a racially pure state only for Turks. There were Kurdish soldiers working under them but so did Turkish ones as well, and the ethnic cleansing carried out in eastern Turkey was based on Turkish nationalism.

[meisje]

:picard1:

[Böri]

Brotherhood of low quality, genetically similar Levant shifts, hypocrite, Turk haters, liars nations.

[Musso]

They share the same genocide screaming behaviour with you when their ass gets kicked and their plans don't work out, true...

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmfaff/113/113we45.htm

We kicked Turks' asses in Eastern Armenia,,,during Battles of Sardarapat where Turkish armies were driven out of Armenia, and we had also won important battles up to the Bolshevik Revolution. The Bolsheviks changed the balance of power. And mind you not, Armenian political parties were very divided. There were even Armenians fighting in Ottoman Army up to 1915 against Russian Divisions which had Armenians from Caucasus. Also Armenians didn't have any formal army, while Ottomans had state organized army. It's one thing to defeat another nation in war. Armenia has been involved in plenty of invasions and wars in the past. We lost to the Persians, Arabs, Mongols in some point in our history, and were invaded, yet we never claimed Genocide against them, because they never systematically cleansed us from our native lands.

[Partizan]

The young Turks were a TURKISH ultra-nationalist group that took over the empire, and their dream is to create a racially pure state only for Turks. There were Kurdish soldiers working under them but so did Turkish ones as well, and the ethnic cleansing carried out in eastern Turkey was based on Turkish nationalism.

Well, Young Turks just deported Armenians and according to Tehcir Law, they were going to back to their homelands if Syria wouldn't be lost.

It was not a genocide but a peaceful deportation, Armenians should be thankful to Talat for how he cared about Armenian lives and deported them in order to prevent ethnic conflicts.

I repeat, Kurdish gangs on the migration road slain Armenians, not Turks.

[Pahli]

Well, Young Turks just deported Armenians and according to Tehcir Law, they were going to back to their homelands if Syria wouldn't be lost.

It was not a genocide but a peaceful deportation, Armenians should be thankful to Talat for how he cared about Armenian lives and deported them in order to prevent ethnic conflicts.

I repeat, Kurdish gangs on the migration road slain Armenians, not Turks.

Yeah right, its like blaming the Armenians for the Turks' defeat in WW1

[Böri]

Yeah right, its like blaming the Armenians for the Turks' defeat in WW1

They betrayed their own state, the people who gave freedom in religion and anything for 800 years siding with Russia. Massacring, molesting innocent villagers. The price they could pay could be higher but the Ottoman administration merciful. They were just deported.

[meisje]

Yeah right, its like blaming the Armenians for the Turks' defeat in WW1

Ottomans won the eastern front with Brest-Litovsk Agreement, Russia lost ww1 with Brest-Litovsk Agreement

http://hsfsortie1918.webs.com/Pages/Pictures/1918%20Europe.jpg

Also, Treaty of Moscow draw today's eastern borders

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treaty_of_Moscow_(1921)&oldid=575148558

[Kamal900]

Well, Young Turks just deported Armenians and according to Tehcir Law, they were going to back to their homelands if Syria wouldn't be lost.

It was not a genocide but a peaceful deportation, Armenians should be thankful to Talat for how he cared about Armenian lives and deported them in order to prevent ethnic conflicts.

I repeat, Kurdish gangs on the migration road slain Armenians, not Turks.

Yes yes, and you Turks shouldn't be complaining about the German nationalists doing the exact same thing to your kind as well. The difference is that Armenians are natives to eastern Turkey while Turks in Germany aren't, and to kick them out of their homes by sword is regarded as a crime against humanity. It wasn't a "peaceful" one, and the ones who carried out this systematic cleansing were themselves Turks. Again, stop putting all the blame on the peoples you despise.

[meisje]

The difference is that Armenians are natives to eastern Turkey while Turks in Germany aren't, and to kick them out of their homes by sword is regarded as a crime against humanity. It wasn't a "peaceful" one, and the ones who carried out this systematic cleansing were themselves Turks. Again, stop putting all the blame on the peoples you despise.

Keep crying , Imbecile, All Arab countries cannot match with small Israel

Your showing your hatred over another nations, Help your people in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria

before defending of Armenians

With the end of Petroleum age, All Middle east turn to Niger,

No doubt about that

[Weedman]

I know the Armenian genocide did happen and I support Armenians' and other's trying to get it officially recognized by national governments throughout the world, just as it should be, rightfully.

because it did really happen.


at the same time, no one should have to go to prison or pay a fine just for free speech, no matter what


if someone publically denies it happened, they maybe wrong,, but it's just their opinion ,and they shouldn't have to go to fucking prison, for fuck's sake, or pay a fine, or have anything done to them at all, just for expressing an opinion , or for simply disagreeing with something, and for free speech.

that is fucking retarded, and it's fucking crazy, and it's the dumbest shit that I have ever fucking heard of, in my whole life.

[Weedman]

They betrayed their own state, the people who gave freedom in religion and anything for 800 years siding with Russia. that's fucking stupid.

that's your justification for Ottomans committing the genocide?

no wonder half the fucking people in the Middle East hate the Ottomans

even in Iraq and Lebanon all they ever talk about is how Turk soldiers raped women and murdered some people sometimes and just treated everyone like shit
and then you fucking justify that and the Armenian genocide? the worst thing of all?

Middle Eastern immigrants in America talk about it.

I've noticed Turks are fucking self righteous when it comes to this shit, I can tell just by all the comments on this thread made by Turkish posters

"oh they should be grateful to us", -"Oh they didn't agree with the Ottoman state, they deserved it", etc...

you're sick fucks if you think anything in the whole fucking, goddamn world can ever justify how he Ottomans treated not only Armenians, who got the worst of it, but all other peoples under Ottoman rule in the Middle East

again, I have nothing against Turkish people as people, or anyone else, but in these discussions ,about these issues, I see it's no wonder people hate the fucking Turkish point of view and them trying to justify the massacre and the way they massacred other people.

it's fucking sick.

[King Niko]

CYPRUS THE AMAZING GREEK ISLAND DOES WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS TO DO!!

Love to my Armenian brothers!

[Armenian Bishop]

Well, Young Turks just deported Armenians and according to Tehcir Law, they were going to back to their homelands if Syria wouldn't be lost.

The deportation of Armenians into the Syrian Desert had nothing to do with repatriating Armenian men, women and children to their homes, at a later date, rather it was one gigantic cataclysmic looting and pillaging, to seize the homes and possessions of Armenians who perished in the genocide, a century ago:

"All the properties of the Armenians were confiscated, nominally to the state for the war fund. In this way all the Armenian houses, stores, shops, fields, gardens, vineyards, merchandise, household goods, rugs, were taken. The work was the charge of a commission, the members of which I met personally a number of times. It was commonly said that the commission did not actually receive enough for the government purposes to cover its expenses. Real estate was put up for rent at auction and was most of it bid in at prices ridiculously low by persons who were on the inside. This I know not only as a matter of common information but directly from a Turkish attorney who was in our employ and who provided himself with one of the best Armenian houses. Turks moved out of their more squalid habitations into the better Armenian houses whose owners had been 'deported.' All the property of the Armenians except some remnants left to the Armenians who had embraced Mohammedanism was thus plundered."

* Quoted from observations witnessed by Dr. George White, President of the Anatolia College, in Mersovan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confiscated_Armenian_properties_in_Turkey


It was not a genocide but a peaceful deportation, Armenians should be thankful to Talat for how he cared about Armenian lives and deported them in order to prevent ethnic conflicts.

Be careful skipping through the rose bushes, because roses have thorns; and, the Armenian Genocide, a century ago, had little to do with the fragrance of roses anyway, rather it was about the stench of burning flesh. That feel good language, proposed by Partisan, comes across a bit like these uncyclopedia quotes:

The supposed genocide began on the day now known as Red Sunday (for the simple reason that a lot of people wore red that day), in which around 250 Armenian notables, intellectuals and leaders were rounded up and deported to happy camps. They were never heard from again because they were having so much fun.
Following this, nobody began burning down entire villages of Armenian civilians. Witnesses said that the smell of human flesh must have been coming from the nearby biscuit factory and permeated the air for many days after. Many women and children were also taken out in boats and thrown into the Black Sea as part of a fun game that might have been a bit dangerous come to think of it, but the main thing is that we had a ruddy good time. Another unpopular method of extermination was the "Death March", wherein Armenians were ordered to simply march without rest or food, enduring torture, rape and robbery, until they died (sounds unlikely doesn't it?) It is said that the roads and the Euphrates are strewn with the corpses of exiles, but if that's true where are they, huh? You show me one and maybe I'll consider it.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Armenian_Genocide


I repeat, Kurdish gangs on the migration road slain Armenians, not Turks.

Turks, as well as Kurds perpetrated the conditions of a mass homicide against Armenians, a century ago. According to V. Jacks, an American Missionary who witnessed some of the events, Armenian Civilians were rounded up by both Turkish military units, and criminal elements recruited under the direction of Enver Pasha, and the Young Turks:

“When I was leaving Constantinople, massacres of Armenians had already started. The hellish plan of Armenians’ deportations was being implemented with horrible systematic methods. First, gendarmes disarmed the Armenian population in villages and towns, accompanied by atrocities and murders, perpetrated by chetes (irregular troops) of criminals, released from jails”

«Армянский Вестник», М., 1916, № 3, с. 7—10 [newspaper Armyanskiy Vestnik]
http://armeniangenocide100.org/en/issue-of-using-criminals-in-armenian-genocide-implementation/

[Kamal900]

that's fucking stupid.

that's your justification for Ottomans committing the genocide?

no wonder half the fucking people in the Middle East hate the Ottomans

even in Iraq and Lebanon all they ever talk about is how Turk soldiers raped women and murdered some people sometimes and just treated everyone like shit
and then you fucking justify that and the Armenian genocide? the worst thing of all?

Middle Eastern immigrants in America talk about it.

I've noticed Turks are fucking self righteous when it comes to this shit, I can tell just by all the comments on this thread made by Turkish posters

"oh they should be grateful to us", -"Oh they didn't agree with the Ottoman state, they deserved it", etc...

you're sick fucks if you think anything in the whole fucking, goddamn world can ever justify how he Ottomans treated not only Armenians, who got the worst of it, but all other peoples under Ottoman rule in the Middle East

again, I have nothing against Turkish people as people, or anyone else, but in these discussions ,about these issues, I see it's no wonder people hate the fucking Turkish point of view and them trying to justify the massacre and the way they massacred other people.

it's fucking sick.

Well said.

[Kamal900]

The deportation of Armenians into the Syrian Desert had nothing to do with repatriating Armenian men, women and children to their homes, at a later date, rather it was one gigantic cataclysmic looting and pillaging, to seize the homes and possessions of Armenians who perished in the genocide, a century ago:

"All the properties of the Armenians were confiscated, nominally to the state for the war fund. In this way all the Armenian houses, stores, shops, fields, gardens, vineyards, merchandise, household goods, rugs, were taken. The work was the charge of a commission, the members of which I met personally a number of times. It was commonly said that the commission did not actually receive enough for the government purposes to cover its expenses. Real estate was put up for rent at auction and was most of it bid in at prices ridiculously low by persons who were on the inside. This I know not only as a matter of common information but directly from a Turkish attorney who was in our employ and who provided himself with one of the best Armenian houses. Turks moved out of their more squalid habitations into the better Armenian houses whose owners had been 'deported.' All the property of the Armenians except some remnants left to the Armenians who had embraced Mohammedanism was thus plundered."

* Quoted from observations witnessed by Dr. George White, President of the Anatolia College, in Mersovan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confiscated_Armenian_properties_in_Turkey



Be careful skipping through the rose bushes, because roses have thorns; and, the Armenian Genocide, a century ago, had little to do with the fragrance of roses anyway, rather it was about the stench of burning flesh. That feel good language, proposed by Partisan, comes across a bit like these uncyclopedia quotes:

The supposed genocide began on the day now known as Red Sunday (for the simple reason that a lot of people wore red that day), in which around 250 Armenian notables, intellectuals and leaders were rounded up and deported to happy camps. They were never heard from again because they were having so much fun.
Following this, nobody began burning down entire villages of Armenian civilians. Witnesses said that the smell of human flesh must have been coming from the nearby biscuit factory and permeated the air for many days after. Many women and children were also taken out in boats and thrown into the Black Sea as part of a fun game that might have been a bit dangerous come to think of it, but the main thing is that we had a ruddy good time. Another unpopular method of extermination was the "Death March", wherein Armenians were ordered to simply march without rest or food, enduring torture, rape and robbery, until they died (sounds unlikely doesn't it?) It is said that the roads and the Euphrates are strewn with the corpses of exiles, but if that's true where are they, huh? You show me one and maybe I'll consider it.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Armenian_Genocide



Turks, as well as Kurds perpetrated the conditions of a mass homicide against Armenians, a century ago. According to V. Jacks, an American Missionary who witnessed some of the events, Armenian Civilians were rounded up by both Turkish military units, and criminal elements recruited under the direction of Enver Pasha, and the Young Turks:

“When I was leaving Constantinople, massacres of Armenians had already started. The hellish plan of Armenians’ deportations was being implemented with horrible systematic methods. First, gendarmes disarmed the Armenian population in villages and towns, accompanied by atrocities and murders, perpetrated by chetes (irregular troops) of criminals, released from jails”

«Армянский Вестник», М., 1916, № 3, с. 7—10 [newspaper Armyanskiy Vestnik]
http://armeniangenocide100.org/en/issue-of-using-criminals-in-armenian-genocide-implementation/

Here's a video(before the Syrian war) about the Armenians in the Syrian desert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d68GlxbVuE

[Kamal900]

CYPRUS THE AMAZING GREEK ISLAND DOES WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS TO DO!!

Love to my Armenian brothers!

Cypriots have huge balls in facing the Turkish army head on in the 1970's despite being outnumbered by the Turks.

[King Niko]

Cypriots have huge balls in facing the Turkish army head on in the 1970's despite being outnumbered by the Turks.

Yes, and the Greek people who held information of Greek Cypriot Military positions and stuff were held by chains in turk prisons in Cyprus and a 17 year old was killed by a turk because he refused to give out any information.
Cypriots wanted Enosis even if death was the only option. Cypriots are true soldiers.