Turkey slams Netherlands' recognition of 1915 events as 'genocide'

[xizhimen]

Turkey slams Netherlands' recognition of 1915 events as 'genocide'​

BY DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES​

ISTANBUL EU AFFAIRS
FEB 26, 2021

Turkey condemned the decision of the Dutch House of Representatives to recognize the 1915 incidents as so-called “genocide” against Armenians, calling it null and void.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy said the decision is a null attempt to rewrite history with political motives.

“Councils are not venues to write history and trial it. Those who agree with this decision, instead of looking for what actually happened in 1915, are after votes as a populist,” Aksoy said.

He invited the signatories of the decision to examine the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948 and the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

“We invite you to support the efforts for a better understanding of a historical issue,” he said, adding that Turkey’s proposal for a joint History Commission, which was not answered by Armenia, was one such effort.

He said the Dutch House of Representatives is detached from reality as it has frequently been in recent years.

Aksoy invited the Dutch government to wage a struggle against racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia rather than discriminatory practices leading to the resignation of the government and instead of taking decisions against Turkey.

Turkey objects to presenting the 1915 incidents as “genocide,” rather calling them a tragedy in which both Turks and Armenians suffered casualties in the heat of World War I.

Ankara has repeatedly proposed the creation of a joint commission of historians from Turkey and Armenia under the supervision of international experts to examine the issue.

In 1915, the Ottoman Empire relocated Armenians in eastern Anatolia following revolts when some sided with invading Russians, which resulted in some Armenian casualties.

Yerevan has demanded an apology and compensation, while Turkey officially refuted the Armenian allegations over the incidents saying that although Armenians died during the relocation, many Turks also lost their lives in attacks carried out by Armenian gangs in Anatolia.

Turkey slams Netherlands' recognition of 1915 events as 'genocide'

Turkey condemned the decision of the Dutch House of Representatives to recognize the 1915 incidents as so-called “genocide” against Armenians, calling...

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[xizhimen]

China and Turkey should together sanction Dutch, who the hell do they think they are.

 

[Ryder]

The Butchers of Indonesians and the ones who set up apatheid in South Africa should be the last ones to talk about "genocide".

 

[Melkor]

The Butchers of Indonesians and the ones who set up apatheid in South Africa should be the last ones to talk about "genocide".

These types of decisions - when so much is truly up for debate and unproven - are another method of attack, not a defense of victims.

 

[GoatsMilk]

Give it enough time and they will claim this recent war in which armenia was crushed was another Turkish genocide.

The great irony of course is that if the Turks behaved like European imperial powers, changing religions, languages and cultures of those they conquered the world would be Turkish today.

Imagine just from the Ottomans alone up to Vienna the people would be speaking Turkish and Muslim. Let alone all the other Turkic empires that swept through europe.

 

[xizhimen]

The funny thing is many westerners still behave arrogantly as if they were still global masters entitled to pass their judgements around the world, but the reality now is they are nothing more than a bunch of feel good clowns.

 

[Oublious]

This is everytime when ther is a election, don't bother it.

 

[Deliorman]

Let them recognize whatever they want to... who cares.

 

[TR_123456]

Let them recognize whatever they want to... who cares.

I second that.

 

[Timur]

there was absolutly no genocide! its absolute bullshit!!!

we saw the real intriques lying hatred face of armenians in our lifetime! this is just a lie, the love of a lie, its politcs against another folk its racism its an act of hate..
this is pure destructive behavior and slams us the reality in our faces and shows us with what we are really dealing..
after the delusional hatredfilled massmurdering crimanal acts of armenia since the 90ties we see how legimate it is for europeans to kill muslims and the brown folks

you could talk to a bunch of monkeys with clothes and thell them to be civilized, beautiful cloathes are just beautiful clothes and monkeys are just monkeys they wont change their behavior.. so who cares?

 

[xizhimen]

China slams Dutch motion declaring genocide in Xinjiang​

Fri, 26 February 2021, 6:31 pm·1-min read


Rights groups believe at least one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been incarcerated in camps in the northwestern region
China on Friday condemned a motion passed by Dutch lawmakers declaring that Beijing's actions towards minority groups in Xinjiang amounted to genocide.

The Dutch parliament passed the motion on Thursday that "genocide is under way in China against the Uighur minority," joining countries including Canada and the United States in applying the label.

Rights groups believe at least one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been incarcerated in camps in the northwestern region, where China is also accused of forcibly sterilising women and imposing forced labour.

But Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on Friday hit back at the motion, accusing Dutch lawmakers of using Xinjiang as an excuse to "deliberately smear China and crudely interfere in China's internal affairs."

"The facts show that there has never been any 'genocide' in Xinjiang," Wang told reporters at a regular briefing.

The Netherlands is the first European country to accuse China of genocide, after Canadian MPs and the US State Department made similar statements.
After initially denying the existence of the Xinjiang camps, China later defended them as vocational training centres aimed at reducing the appeal of Islamic extremism.

Beijing said last week that its treatment of ethnic minorities there and in Tibet "stood out as shining examples of China's human rights progress."
Wang on Friday said he hoped the Netherlands would "immediately stop its wrongdoings and take concrete actions to safeguard the overall situation of bilateral relations."

He also said EU representatives were welcome to visit Xinjiang, and accused the EU of causing delays to the trip by demanding to meet with "criminals" sentenced for separatism.

China slams Dutch motion declaring genocide in Xinjiang

China on Friday condemned a motion passed by Dutch lawmakers declaring that Beijing's actions towards minority groups in Xinjiang amounted to genocide.

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