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Gunaysu: Kurdish MP challenges Turkish Parliament on Armenian Genocide
“During the last period of the Ottoman Empire, in 1915-16, the Union and Progress Party systematically pursued a policy of extermination of the Christians who had been the native peoples of the country for centuries.” Selahattin Demirtas These were the words articulated
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Gunaysu: ‘The tongue cannot describe what the eye sees’
“One day I was told to stand on one foot. After some time I collapsed. This was to be punished. They made me open the lid of the sewage near the wall and take a handful of excrement and put it in my mouth. I was ordered to stand at attention with the excrement in my mouth without moving and without
Gunaysu: Neither Yes, Nor No
I really cannot remember how many times I wrote that Turkey is a country full of paradoxes, where there is an unusually high number of questions you can neither say yes, nor no to. Furthermore, it generates paradoxes constantly. For example, the government’s initiative to resolve the “Kurdish issue,”
Gunaysu: The Impossibility of Discussing Giro Manoyan’s Comments in Turkey
On Fri., Sept. 4, the daily Taraf, the beloved newspaper of the democratic, anti-militarist, and liberal opposition circles in Turkey, including myself (despite several objections on certain issues and the language it uses from time to time), published an interview with Giro Manoyan, one of the top leaders
Gunaysu: Turkish Perception of the Recent US Court Ruling
Among thousands of news items showering down from international agencies, none of the Turkish dailies or TV channels skipped the news about a U.S. Federal Court of Appeals ruling against Armenian demands for unpaid insurance claims. Many headlines revealed a hardly concealed note of victory, reporting
Gunaysu: Armenians and Kurds
Kurds demonstrating in Turkey. (Photo by Mujgan Arpat) Lately there has been a hopeful atmosphere in Turkey for the settlement of the so-called “Kurdish issue,” which for around 30 years
Gunaysu: The Jews of Turkey and the Armenian Genocide
A groundbreaking book by independent scholar and historian Rifat Bali was published recently in Turkey, unearthing facts and first-hand accounts that unmistakably illustrate how the Turkish establishment blackmailed the leaders of the Jewish community—and through them Jewish organizations in the United
Blue Book Sent to Turkish Parliamentarians
In 2005, 550 members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) signed a letter addressed to the British Parliament arguing that the 1916 parliamentary “Blue Book,” titled The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-16, was wartime propaganda material—a mere fabrication—and
Kurds: ‘We remember, we share your grief’
The front page of the April 24, 2009 issue of Gunluk On April 24 this year, “Gunluk,” the Kurds’ only newspaper in Turkey printed in the Turkish language, featured a big headline above its logo that read: “We remember,
‘Death Wells’ and the Suppression of Truth
All suppressed truths become poisonous. — Friedrich Nietzsche in his Thus Spoke Zarathustra The Armenian Weekly April 2009 Magazine Suppressed truth poisons the suppressor; it also poisons those who are deprived of the knowledge of the truth. Not only that, but suppressed truth poisons the entire
