Hail Turan!

[Avamtochto]

Такое ощущение, что весь армянский национализм построен на геноциде и ненависти к туркам

[meisje]

[Proto-Shaman]

Sorry Gooding, but if you lived here in Germany/Austria and could see how Turks act and behave in our lands, you'd write an ANTITHESIS to your poem! A pure antithesis. 'Dignity', 'Honor', 'Respect' are entirely unknown to them here.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

„Hört ihr nicht die Schritte? Sie kommen, die Kämpfer der Gerechtigkeit.
Im Namen des Barmherzigen, die Türken kommen“.

Vielleicht sind es auch diese Schritte der „Gerechtigkeit und Barmherzigkeit“, die den Deutschen Angst einjagen.

Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt: „Friedlich und kulturliebend ist an sich der Turanide und der Türke.“

August Ludwig von Schlözer: „Die Türken, ein edles Volk, ursprünglich aus Turkestan und den anliegenden Ländern, stark und leibe, schön von Antlitz, und stolz, treu, und tapfer von Gemütsart, find in vielerlei Betracht in der Universalhistorie wichtig: als wandernde Völker.“

[Gooding]

I confess that I jumped in the middle of this thing without knowing much of anything about it. I'm not a Greek, a Turk, an Armenian, an Azeri, a Georgian or any other class of Easterner, nor does my family have the experiences that your families have had. I'm not going to close this thread, but I want to take this opportunity to apologize for my interference. It's probably true that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions and " good intentions" are what got my country into so much trouble with the people of the Middle East to begin with. I'm sorry for interfering. A moderator can't erase 500 years of history, nor can he play an arbiter when members of two diametrically opposed ethnicities clash. I'm not sorry for praising a young lady when I read words that described her very negatively, nor can I apologize for that. I am sorry for trying to dig deeper and trying to root out and obliterate the cause for that hostility. If there's an olive branch to be offered, it can't be an Anglo- American doing the offering. I'm afraid it must come from one or more of the opposing camps. My people have been accused of hubris and arrogance, with reason. Even if it was unconscious, it was still arrogant. I apologize.