[lbo-talk] 'GENOCIDE' VOTE DRIVES WEDGE BETWEEN TURKEY, EUROPE

[Wendy Lyon]

On 10/14/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> To be technical, isn't it correct that the alleged
> genocide was committed not by Turkey, but by the
> Ottoman Empire, of which Turkey was only a small part
> (albeit with the capital city)? IIRC Turks weren't
> even a leading group in the Ottoman Empire, they were
> mostly second-class citizens. (Does anybody know about this?)

I don't know a lot about it, but unless I'm seriously mistaken, the
genocide took place after the Three Pashas took over what was left of
the Ottoman Empire, and the Three Pashas were Turks.  I'm fairly sure
the few contemporary references I've seen to the genocide also
attributed it specifically to the Turks ... although the Kurds in the
region bore their share of blame for it too.