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Turkey Before the Gates Of Hell in Kurdistan

Submitted by Aziz Baran, Oct 30, 2007 06:46

Mr Ibrahim ought to be congratulated for expending a lot of time & effort to present facts & figures in a logical, coherent, clear & concise manner to all of us - your readers.

I'd like to draw attention to a paragraph penned by American Consul, Mr George Horton, in 1922 in the Turkish city of Smyrna (Izmir), a mere 6-7 years after the Armenian Genocide:

"One of the keenest impressions which I brought away with me from Smyrna was a feeling of shame that I belonged to the human race. ...the Turks were glutting freely their racial and religious lust for slaughter, rape and plunder within a stone's throw of the Allied and American battleships because they had been systematically led to believe that they would not be interfered with...Christians were abandoned as no Christian power desired to offend the Turk, from whom great benefits were expected...It is a curious fact that the Turk is still able to deceive Europeans, despite long observation of his tactics..." (Report on Turkey, USA Consular Documents)

Thank you Mr Ibrahim. Do you think any state will desire to offend the Turkish generals today?

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