I am not a friend of any Turks, nor will I ever be..

REFORM’S WRECKAGE Serious reforms were first attempted during Ottoman Turkey’s Tanzimat (Reorganization) period of 1839 to 1876. Pushed by Europe, Turkey declared measures, quickly proven ineffective, to safeguard the rights of its subjects, including Armenians. A Turkish constitution was then declared in 1876 but suspended, along with parliament, just two years later. Article 61 of the Treaty of Berlin, signed in 1878 by the European powers, Turkey, and Russia, guaranteed the safety of Ottoman Armenians but was dead before the ink dried. Turkish “reforms” reached new levels in the 1890s with massacres of hundreds of thousands of Armenians. In 1908 came the “reformist” Young Turk party. Inspired by European ideals, it pledged liberty, equality, and fraternity. “Reform” culminated in the cataclysm of 1915. Turkey’s next European-inspired “reformer” was Kemal Ataturk, who all but finished off the country’s remaining Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christians, not to mention thousands of Muslim Kurds. He seized historical western Armenia, which Europe had promised to Armenians, and attacked the just-reborn Armenian Republic while Europe looked on. Ataturk’s “reformist” legacy endures to this day: Genocide denial, the blockade of Armenia, and 80 years of military coups, human rights abuses galore, and even massacres, all tolerated by Europe.

Well done Armenia. Solidarity from Ireland to theIstanbul protesters.

dzer dard@ toxats turkeri masin eq mtatsum. dzer dard@ latseq

Armenians should stay out of this one- this will be a fight between islamists and ultra-nationalists (the liberals are too few in Turkey) and both sides hate Armenians and other Christians.

It is NOT the job of Armenians to “reform” Turkey, as desirable as that may be. Armenians are not their psychiatrists or their nannies.

Armenia should not comment about this issue. Keep our nose out of Turkey's public affairs. It will only come back and bite us in the back.

I congratulate the Armenians. There are many Turks in Turkey and abroad who are friends with Armenians. We all grew up together and saw each other as one. Thank you for your support and concerns. You are not hated, by the Turkish people, believe me.

absolutely agree! new generation is coming who will not care about borders and artificially imposed identities. And the old people will probably die by fighting against each other. 100% support to the Freedom fighters in Turkey and please, take an example, you guys in Armenia!