Denialist Turkey, currently led by the
Turkish-speaking neo-cons, is no civilized Germany

By Appo K. Jabarian
Managing Editor / Executive Publisher
USA Armenian Life Magazine

Recently, Robert Fisk of the "Independent" newspaper,
wrote that Hrant Dink's assassination was "a
shattering reversal to Turkey's hope of joining the
European Union, a visionary proposal already
endangered by the country's broken relations with
Cyprus and its refusal to acknowledge the genocide .
Leading Turkish publishers say that there is now an
incendiary atmosphere in Turkey towards all writers
who want to tell the truth about the genocide, when
vast areas of Turkish Armenia were dispossessed of
their Christian populations."

The land-usurping denialists know that such truthful
statements will eventually lead to the return of these
stolen and forcibly turkified lands of Western Armenia
to the Armenians.

Fisk adds: "In fact, a book published in Turkey and in
the United States by Turkish scholar Taner Akcam gives
documentary details of the orders passed down from the
Ottoman government in what was then Constantinople for
the deliberate and industrialised killing of the
Armenians. Thousands were also suffocated in
underground caves in what were the world's first gas
chambers. "

On January 23, A. Engin Ansay, Consul general of
Turkey in Los Angeles, shamelessly wrote in the Los
Angeles Times: "Hugh Pope suggests that Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan try a 'grand gesture'
toward reconciliation with the Armenian government.
The Turkish government has already done so . Turkey's
invitation of Armenian officials to the funeral of
newspaper editor Hrant Dink, and the Armenian deputy
foreign minister's participation in this solemn event,
and the following statements of the high-level
officials from Armenia and Turkey seem to be positive
developments. Let us hope that fanaticism and
short-sightedness do not block the future."

Mr. Ansay and his fellow denialist Turkish-speaking
neo-con masters in Ankara should realize that the
Armenians who are demanding the return of the
Turkish-occupied Armenian lands, can not be equated
with Turkish denialists and occupiers who practice
"fanaticism and short-sightedness." Instead, Mr. Ansay
and his bosses should come clean, and honestly tell
the world that they are willing to go to any length -
criminal and denialistic - to avoid the return of the
Armenian lands. They know too well, that any
non-sabotaged and uninterrupted truthful discussion in
Turkey, of the historic facts of the Armenian
genocide, will lead to a higher level of public
awareness and eventual transformation and political
pressure on Ankara to do the right thing for Turkey
and its neighbors by making amends to the victims. Are
the Turkish neo-cons ready? Obviously not! Now, you
see why Mr. Ansay and the neo-con-led Turkish Deep
State targeted Dink.

In a Jan. 19 interview with the "Armenian Reporter"
Prof. Akcam said that Dink "was a thorn in the side of
the Turkish 'deep state.' His newspaper, including
columnists who openly challenged the official history,
was a visible reminder of what happened to the
Armenians in 1915. That is why Hrant personally and
'Agos' were targeted by Turkish officials and the
Turkish press. He wanted the historic truth to come
out . He said that 2007 was going to be a very tough,
very difficult year, especially for 'Agos' and for
people like us. He said it's now open season on
pro-democracy activists and people who want Turkey to
face its history."

Prof. Akcam continues: "Some months ago, Hrant Dink
was invited to the office of the governor of Istanbul
Province. The lieutenant governor and a senior
official of the Turkish secret service were present.
This official threatened Hrant, saying, 'We'll make
you pay for everything you've been doing.'"

So, who were behind the killing of Hrant Dink? Prof.
Akçam states: "Nobody should look for the murderer
anyplace else but at that meeting at the governor's
office in Istanbul. If our prime minister is an honest
man, he should give us the names of the officials who
were present at that meeting and openly threatened
Hrant. Follow the connections. They will lead to the
murderer."

There's no question that those responsible for the
murder, this new act of genocidal crime against an
unarmed, defenseless journalist, should be extradited
to the International Criminal Court, just like a broad
array of malefactors, including President Slobodan
Milosevic of Serbia, were brought to justice.

Is the Turkish neo-con leadership in Ankara suicidal
and out of control? Prof. Akçam underlines that,
"Dink's assassination is the culmination of an
ongoing, organized campaign against him and against
'Agos' . The same thing happened last year when a
judge was assassinated in an Ankara courtroom. The
impression was created of an attack by Islamist
fundamentalists, but it came out later that the crime
had been organized by a group controlled by the deep
state. The members of this group were retired army
officers . The Ottoman rulers killed their
modernizers. They eliminated democratic forces. This
is an important reason why Turkey today still
struggles for its democracy. And today these dark
forces, who fear freedom of speech and democracy, are
again attacking Turkish intellectuals and democrats
who want Turkey to be a democratic country. It is not
a coincidence that once again, they chose an Armenian.
I firmly believe that that was the reason they killed
him. . This is a very open threat against me. The
political circles who assassinated Hrant are sending
us a message: 'This can happen to you'" (too).

What's ahead for Turkey's foreign relations? Further
political isolation is imminent. That isolation may
well be stepped up to enforce political, economic and
military sanctions and orchestrate the breakup of the
last vestige of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.

So, what choices do the Turkish neo-cons have? Turkey,
as a whole, should muster enough courage and wisdom to
let the righteous Turks take the lead. Empower them to
embark on an ORGANIZED reduction-in-size, in order to
remedy the just demands of land return of Western
Armenia to their rightful owners, the Armenians.
Otherwise, the deadly denialism-practicing Turkish
leadership risks the complete, disorganized and
suicidal disappearance of the last vestige of the
Ottoman Turkish Empire. Turkey, the inheritor of the
Ottoman Empire, may well be subjected to the fate of
its infamous twin: the now-defunct Soviet Empire which
was implanted and imposed and for that reason it
eventually disappeared into oblivion.

Whether the victims - the Armenians, the righteous
Turks, the Arabs, the Kurds, the Assyrians, the
Greeks, and others - acknowledge or not, the magnitude
of their problem, inflicted by the Turkish neo-cons,
overpowers their current level of resources.

However, their individual and collective potential to
further develop their abilities warrants an inevitable
victory against the Turkish neo-cons in Ankara,
London, Washington and Tel Aviv. Let's elaborate: the
denialist Turkish neo-cons, masquerading as
nationalists and manipulating honest and ill-informed
Turks against others, will not weaken anytime soon. It
is the victimized population that needs to become
stronger, and force the denialist Turkish neo-cons,
the direct descendants of their genocidal
grandparents, to do what Germany did with a genuine
spirit of repentance and cooperation after WWII.

The victim peoples must also remember that Turkey
avoided its obligations to Armenians and other victims
as outlined in the Treaty of Sèvres with the active
help of its neo-con allies.

Denialist Turkey, currently led by the
Turkish-speaking neo-cons, is no civilized Germany.