Comments on: Blue Book Sent to Turkish Parliamentarians

By: Murat

Murat — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:42:57 +0000

The author of the Bluek Book himself had called the book a product of mostly propaganda. Turks and British were at each others throats at the time of its original publication! War did not end for another two years! How did Toynbee manage to conduct a serious research on the topic, access material and witnesses and documents in the middle of the Great War? He did not. In 1916, many Eastern Vilayets were invaded by Armenianans and Russians, Muslim populations decimated. Can we have a little reality check here?

By: Kay Mouradian

Kay Mouradian — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:50:41 +0000

I applaud Ara Sarafian for his courage and continual effort to herald the dignity of truth through his publications about the Armenian genocide. What a gift Sarafian has given the Armenian and Turkish communities in publishing the BLUE BOOK in Turkish. Now Turks can read in their own language the factual history about what transpired in 1915 and not the tempered history being rewritten in Turkey. I’ve read some of that Turkish history in a small museum in Igdir, Turkey, close to the Armenian border. The museum, part of a monument dedicated to the Turks killed by Armenians, contained several books written in English. As I read a statement in the first pamphlet I picked up, I was stunned at the depth of falsehood as the author stated, “Those Armenians who were deported were given homes comparable to the ones they left behind!” It is inevitable. Truth will prevail. Keep up the good work, Mr. Sarafian!

By: john

john — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:34:26 +0000

Are you going to convince the Nazi party that their beliefs and actions are wrong? As long as countries like the U.S. and England etc. don’t officially recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide, despite 40,000 pages in our own U.S archives depicting the ‘Systematic Armenian race extermination”, why would the perpetrating/denying Turks do so?
Turks are pure opportunists. Once they realize that there is no more opportunity in denial, that’s when it will miraculiously change. They are pretty predictable. An accurate historical document isn’t going to change their beleifs.

By: RootArmo

RootArmo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:48:51 +0000

Reality check: All 550 members of the Turkish Parliament are going throw the book into the garbage without reading a page.
(That is what I would do if some Turkish scholar sent me English translation of a Turkish book from 1916 proving that the Genocide did not happen).