The expanded English edition of German sociologist Taner Akçam’s last book, The Young Turks’ Crime against Humanity. The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, was published last April. To analyze all the distortions, falsifications and other flaws of this book would mean writing a whole volume. However, some significant examples can be provided here.Mr. Akçam alleges (p. 203) that “the clearest statement that the aim of the government’s policies toward the Armenians was annihilation is found in a cable of 29 August 1915 from Interior minister Talat Pasha to the province of Ankara.” In fact, this telegram is mostly a list of interdictions of any vio...
In Türkiye, neither foreign intelligence agencies such as Mossad, the CIA, the BND that stir up the ethnic war, nor MİT and the General Staff can fight against the sociological realities. In 1826, Sultan Mahmud II’s going through the central system in Ottoman Empire under the effect of his French mother and his wife, Balkan and Middle Eastern nations in particular, the abolition of the autonomy of the Kurdish state, the introduction into circulation extreme Turkish nationalism virus copied from France, illiteracy, discrimination, racism, the culture of living by leaning against the state and parasitism, laziness and identity crisis are the ...
Analysis to the Current Politicization of Nationalism in the Post-Soviet SpaceIn the last few months’ several manifestations that we can categorize as nationalistic have happened across the post-soviet countries. Those unexpected events raise once more questions about the transitological stance of the fourth wave of democracy. Is the fourth wave (the post-soviet) reversing now that the fifth wave (the Arab Spring) is in progress? Or is the post-soviet experiencing a new type of phenomena?On August 14, 2011 the British newspaper The Guardian reported that “in a move that has upset the Greeks, Alexander the Great has made a huge comeback in Macedonia” (Smith, The Guardian) that,...
