Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has begun the process of groveling before Turkish dictator Erdogan. In the aftermath of the Biden administration’s formal recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Blinken has stated that Biden does not blame Turkey for the Ottoman perpetrated genocide. The reality is that the Ottomans alone are not responsible for Genocide.
The Genocide of the Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians began under the Ottomans but were completed in 1923 after the rise to power of the murderous Mustafa Kemal, the founder of the modern Turkish Republic. To suggest that modern Turkey in not complicit in Genocide is absolutely false and is demonstrative that the American foreign policy establishment is shamelessly groveling at the foot of the Turks.
Mustafa Kemal’s army systematically exterminated all Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians in territories that came under its control. This is historical fact. It is also true that Kemalist Generals such as the notorious Noureddin Pasha were responsible for the indiscriminate slaughter of civilian populatins. It was Noureddin Pasha who presided over the burning and destruction of the City of Smyrna. It was Noureddin Pasha who handed over Greek Archbishop Chrysostom to the Turkish mobs to be butchered.
Even after the war ended, Kemal presided over the mass ethnic cleansing of well over one million ethnic Greeks from Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace. Previous to this, panic had struck the Christian populations of Constantinople when it was still under the control of the Great Powers. The Christians within the city had become aware of the slaughter at Smyrna and at least 300,000 or so Greeks fled Constantinople in the belief a repetition of the slaughter at Smyrna would occur within the City.
During the Second World War, the Turkish Government imposed harsh taxes on Greeks, Armenians, and Jews. When members of these communities could not pay they were deported into the interior of Anatolia from which they never returned. In September 1955, the Turkish Government organized the pogroms against the Greek population of Constantinople and within a decade most Greeks had been ethnically cleansed.
In 1974, came the Turkish invasions and ethnic cleansing of Cyprus. Between 1984 and 1999, the Turkish military destroyed over 3,000 Kurdish villages in a dirty war against the Kurds. To suggest that modern Turkey is not guilty of Genocide is inaccurate and highly offensive. The Turkish Republic was born in Genocide.
Under the Erdogan regime, Turkey supported the Islamic State. The Islamic State perpetrated Genocide against Yazidis, Christians, and Shi’ite Muslims. Turkey aligns itself with the perpetrators of Genocide.
The Secretary of State is an utterly contemptible individual as are all State Department officials attempting to whitewash Turkey’s history of Genocide. This puts the Biden recognition in an entirely different light. Regrettably, what should have been a real achievement and a hope for progress in holding Turkey accountable for its long list of crimes against humanity has been cheapened by a foreign policy establishment bending over backwards to appease the murderous Turkish Republic.
In the future, all efforts in obtaining recognition of the Genocides perpetrated by Turkey against Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks should make it clear that the Turkish Republic is as much responsible for the extermination of Christians as the Ottoman Empire was.
3 replies on “Sucking Up To Turkey Again”
Blinken can say whatever he wants, the damage has been done in the relationship between America and Turkey.
I think so too. But the us foreign policy establishment still thinks turkey
can be salvaged.
When have they ever been right about anything? These Elites think they know so much, but they’ve been wrong so many times it’s appalling. And they never learn from their failures, they double-down on the false calculations which led them to the wrong analysis in the first place. Ignorant arrogance is all you can call it.