"Turkey reacted angrily today to a House committee vote in Washington on Wednesday to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in World War I as an act of genocide, calling the decision “unacceptable.”" So begins "Turkey Angry Over House Armenian Genocide Vote" in today's NY Times.
I congratulate the House committee for its vote, but we should have had that vote more than 80 years ago.
No one knows exactly how many (Christian) Armenians were massacred by the (Muslim) Turks, but the number is approximately 600,000.
We do know today that Adolf Hitler made reference to this slaughter on a number of occasions, but he used it as inspiration for the genocides he was planning.
There should be no question that the slaughter of Armenians between 1914 and 1918 was a genocide. The admission of Turkey into the European Union should be denied based on Turkey's denial of their historic culpability in the Armenian Genocide.
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