Did the Armenian genocide actually happen?

[Böri]

Ottomans/Turks were not on side of Armenians and Kurds did their bidding too.
Not to mention the death marches.

And Russians were on the side of Armenians by the same logic.
When such stuff is discussed, however we never hear Russians being victim or so.

The truth it is that it was mainly a bloody Kurdo-Armenian civil war with a Kurdish victory and the wipping out of the Armenians where they lived for +2k years. Kurds immigrated to the region since 15th century.
İ agree that it is sad and horrible things happened. But will never accept the blame on my people nor on my state.
That would be falsification of history.

[Pahli]

And Russians were on the side of Armenians by the same logic.
When such stuff is discussed, however we never hear Russians being victim or so.

The truth it is that it was mainly a bloody Kurdo-Armenian civil war with a Kurdish victory and the wipping out of the Armenians where they lived for +2k years. Kurds immigrated to the region since 15th century.
İ agree that it is sad and horrible things happened. But will never accept the blame on my people nor on my state.
That would be falsification of history.

Your nation falsifies history to their own meta-ethnic advantage, nobody believed that bullshit nationalistic crap either.

Many Middle Eastern nations have done that, but not on such a scale as the genocides occuring during the late Ottoman and Young Turk era.

[Suinthila]

simple questions, simple answers please.

Did it?

[Cristiano viejo]

Happened.

[frdfgcg]

Happened.

Spanish conquerors killed 100 million South American Indians.
When will repent?

[Cristiano viejo]

Spanish conquerors killed 100 million South American Indians.
When will repent?

100? wow, interesting, when in all the continent (North, Central and South America) there were only 40 millions of Amerindians

[Bosniensis]

Happened.

We have a confirmation from a distant Spain that it happened.

Now that viejo has confrimed we can move on.

Spaniards posses a great knowledge on Balkan/Anatolian subjects.

[Annie999]

Any specific reason for that?

What other reason than to reckon something that is true? We didnt gain anything by that. There are monuments, street and squares in my city rememoring armenian people and the genocide.

[Aren]

The thing with the Armenian-Assyrian-Pontic genocide is that ancient settlements and lands were lost and people have no ties their former land whatsoever since they weren't allowed to return. Turkey(and NW Iran) is almost completely empty of Assyrians, the Hakkari Assyrians were once the most populous of all Assyrians pre 1914.
Not sure about Armenians in Turkey nowadays but I can't imagine their numbers being particularly high.

The Kurdish involvment is underplayed though, I've heard personally from Turkish Kurds who have mentioned several times that they've heard stories from their grandparents of how they participated in the murdering of Hakkari and Mardin Assyrians in hope of claiming their land. I can't imagine having a grandparent that was a straight out mass murderer who was living without consequences like an ordinary person.

[Odin]