Damn I love Turkey.
Sitting there as it does at the crossroads between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, it’s cultivated an international presence that might be summed up as conditional cooperation with or opposition to anybody, and absolute loyalty or submission to nobody. It’s the national embodiment of playing both (all) sides against the middle, and it just regularly amuses the hell out of me.
Except never acknowledging the Armenian Genocide that they perpetrated.
Well… yeah. There is that.
Like the US and slavery and institutional racism and Manifest Destiny and such, I don’t understand what the problem is with admitting to it and facing up to it.
It’s not even so much from a moral standpoint (though that is of course a factor) as from a practical one - the people who avoid facing up to it are apparently driven by a desire to not be haunted by it - to effectively put it behind them and clear the slate. But not admitting to it guarantees that that won’t and in fact can’t happen, so it’s actually directly contrary to their apparent goals.
The people who want it to not matter going foward should be the ones most eager to drag it out into the open and fully expose all of the ugliness. It’s like lancing a boil - yeah, it’ll be painful and messy, but then it’s over and done with and you can get on with healing rather than just dragging it on and on and on and on …
