Turkey, Armenia and Genocide Fiction

Since ancient times humans have struggled to surround themselves with prosperity, security and safety. Then of course came desire of wealth creating greed, wars, death and destruction. Due to domination of agriculture in economic growth, prosperity depended, to a great extend on the amount of territory a certain kingdom or empire controlled and therefore could gather wealth from. Wars were the only mean available to powerful rulers in their quest for more control and wealth. Lands changed hands, people died and were enslaved, and mankind went about its normal course of development.

It should then come as no surprise that Armenia is not a self-sustaining state, because it is a landlocked small state. Even though Armenia's economy grew by 13 per cent in 2007 its GDP per capita ( PPP ) $5,800 remains in par with Albanians and is lower than Jamaica's GDP per capita ( PPP ). Armenia's future also remains uncertain in the Caucasus, because Armenia depends exclusively on Russia and 70 per cent of Armenia's land territory is under an economic blockade by Turkey and Azerbaijan, after Armenia illegally occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan's territory.

Armenia is well aware of these aforementioned facts. That is why Armenia is desperately seeking for Western countries to accept the so called Armenian genocide in their parliaments, so it can gain a leverage over Turkey and expand her territory. But what Armenia doesn't realize is how resilient the Turkish Republic is. Even if the whole world recognizes the so called Armenian Genocide, only around 30 countries out of a 192 have so far recognized the Armenian fiction, Turkey will not bulge and give Armenia compensations, because a vast majority of Turks believe that the deportations were necessary to preserve the Ottoman state. It should never be forgotten that it was the Armenians who rebelled against the Ottoman Empire and wanted to carve out a homeland in what is now Eastern Turkey.

In conclusion, Turks are proud of their vast history. And no amount of Armenian lies and propaganda will make Turks shift to feel ashamed of their past by accepting such horrendous accusations.