PM Erdoğan: No parliament can tarnish our history

  PM Erdoğan: No parliament can tarnish our history Marking the 95th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said no country's parliament can challenge Turkish history, in reference to decisions in various parliaments around the world declaring the 1915 killings of Armenians who lived under Ottoman rule “genocide.”

Erdoğan was in Çanakkale yesterday commemorating the soldiers killed during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli, which was won by the defending Ottoman army and laid the groundwork for the Turkish War of Independence and the foundation of the Turkish Republic eight years later under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

“I should underline that this country’s soldier is bigger than history and that this country’s history is as clean and clear as the sun. No country’s parliament can tarnish it,” Erdoğan said, speaking at the ceremony at the March 18 Stadium.

Erdoğan also said that if the events of eastern Anatolia in 1915 are to be illuminated, that will take place through archives, documents, memoirs, reports, letters and pictures, and “not the parliaments that are thousands of kilometers away,” adding that there are new documents, reports, letters and pictures emerging about the Battle of Gallipoli and that historians dedicate their whole lives to sharing this history.

Armenians around the world have been lobbying for a long time, claiming that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, but Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of a civil war and unrest. Erdoğan said some states that had imperialistic desires in Çanakkale then are now making “irresponsible announcements, passing unfair judgments” against Turkey, which “needs an apology.” “There is no genocide in our civilization. Our civilization is the civilization of love, tolerance and brotherhood,” Erdoğan added. “Those who stay in the past can never reach a bright future.”

Meanwhile, yesterday Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was in Ankara’s Cebeci Asri Cemetery commemorating March 18. He said the date gives Foreign Ministry officials an opportunity to remember the ministry’s martyrs.

Davutoğlu noted that Turkey has lost 39 of its foreign service officers in 28 terrorist attacks since 1973. “No country’s foreign service has ever had that many attacks. We have shown and we will show our decisiveness against all terrorist attacks, especially [Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia] ASALA,” he said.

ASALA was a terrorist organization that targeted Turkish diplomats in Europe during the 1970s and 1980s.

Noone supports these Armenian terror groups attacking Turkish diplomats. It's wrong and no reason can justify murdering someone over politics.

It doesn't change the fact that Turkey has not dealt with issue of its genocide of the Armenians and prefers to deny it.

“Those who stay in the past can never reach a bright future.”

I think this sentence I can agree with, but not in the way that Erdogan means it.

surely PM Erdogan said the only truth,turkish soldiers are so great soldiers who clean like water…ı respect all countries soldiers but no country can tarnish our great soldiers…all countries lost their people in world war 1 but no no country behaved like Armania,because they always say like,they and turkey lost their people in the war,we say it is war,we might lose our people,we lost our heros but they havent said it,ı think we should discus that why did Armenia people deceived ottoman empire in the war…did they afraid from that we ll die if we be with ottoman empire?ı prefer to die like a king instead of living like a coyote…

Erdogan is a man by the mean of the word!
fab,
u r the last one who can talk about any GENOCIDE!!!!!
U KNOW UR CRIMES WELL!

any sane person could understand the relationship of the Armenians to Russians after 1878.   Is it illogical that Armenians betrayed Ottomans to get the Lila part at the part, which was theirs at the end of the war?

u r the last one who can talk about any GENOCIDE!!!!!
U KNOW UR CRIMES WELL!

First of all, I've never killed a living soul.

Second, if we're talking about Israel, never has it mass murdered a population, forcing them out of their homes, while killing around 1.2 million of them. 

Anyway, there is a difference on both subjects: Most non-Turkish, and even certain Turkish historians, agree that a genocide took place during the WW1 of Armenians in Turkey.

No historian keeps this accusation up for Israel and the Palestinians. One population left voluntarily, the other was forced out and massacred, as well as starved to death on death marches through the deserts.

Anyway, there is a difference on both subjects: Most non-Turkish, and even certain Turkish historians, agree that a genocide took place during the WW1 of Armenians in Turkey.

one example?

No historian keeps this accusation up for Israel and the Palestinians. One population left voluntarily, the other was forced out and massacred, as well as starved to death on death marches through the deserts.

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2008/112608Lendman.shtml

 http://www.mediamonitors.net/francis1.html

 http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/sameh-a-habeeb/4088-iswas-there-a-genocide-in-palestine

“First of all, I’ve never killed a living soul.”
BUT U SUPPORT ZIONISM AND ALL KNOW WHAT THEY DID OF MASSACRES IN PALSTINE!!!
“*Second, if we’re talking about Israel, never has it mass murdered a population, forcing them out of their homes, while killing around 1.2 million of them. *”
THEN WHAT ISRAEL DID AND STILL DOING TO THE EXISTING MOMENT!

Tit for that attacks.

Palestinians fire rockets at Israeli civilians, Israel retaliates by bombing Hamas facilities in Gaza. A reaction to every action.

If Israel did what Turkey did, it would march into Gaza, force everyone out of their homes and march them without food or water into the Sinai desert.

@_MemoTheHu
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Credible sources, not random far leftist or pro-Palestinian rags.

Such people will use the word 'genocide' for anything to get attention. You'll have people calling the invasion of Iraq by the US called 'genocidal', even though it doesn't make sense.

The word 'genocide' gets misused today a lot, and honestly, especially for the Palestinians. If it were a genocide, it would be the most inefficient, slow and ineffective in the history of mankind. The number of Palestinians goes up, not down.