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...Armenian Revenge...
Thank you for the brief history of the tragic Armenian-Turkish conflict of World War I [Aug. 23]. Articles like yours help people understand why the Armenians are resorting to violence. If the world had listened years ago instead of turning a deaf ear to the cries of the surviving Armenians, there would be no need for terrorist acts...
Your account is unfair to the Turkish people who have lived in peace with the Armenians since the 13th century. During World War I, when Turkey was struggling for its very existence, Armenians openly sided with Russia and became a threat to eastern Turkey. An ill-conceived attempt to secure the Russian front by deporting the Armenian population from the border provinces to the south resulted in many deaths. It was a desperate, chaotic time, when many Turks also starved and atrocities were committed by both sides. Labeling a wartime tragedy with terms such as genocide and holocaust will...
...leaders of the new republic were ousted and replaced by a Soviet regime. Badly battered and widely dispersed, Armenians in the West have usually led quiet, industrious lives, little noticed in their host countries. In recent times, there has been a renaissance of Armenian history and culture, which has helped spawn a small band of extreme nationalists, inflamed by old passions and grievances...
After the bloody Ankara airport assault, ASALA threatened to carry out terrorist attacks in the U.S., France, Britain, Canada, Switzerland and Sweden if Armenian prisoners were not released within seven days. Other extremists would like to see Turkish lands formerly inhabited by Armenians joined to the Soviet Armenian Republic. Such unrealistic demands, made in the name of a lost cause, seem likely to lead to nothing but more violence and vengeance in the future...