Erdogan should resign over Armenia row

in response to the previous poster who stated "Armenian atrocities of 1915, which have been in the last decades renamed genocide"

it's shocking how out of touch the turkish propaganda machine is when it comes to facts.

the word Genocide was coined in 1948 by Rafael Lemkin who studied the Armenian Genocide for the greater part of his life. see address below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=021ilh609gw

kudos on an excellent article

Excellent article by Michael. Erdogan has damaged Turkish foreign relations more than any other Turkish politician. He should resign.

As always, Turkey shows its true colors whenever it's past crimes are put under the spotlight.
After reading some of these comments, here's what I have to say:
Nagorno Karabakh has always been Armenian and will always be. It was Stalin that handed the area to Azerbaijan (which did not even exist prior to that time). The country of Azerbaijan did not exist, and once belonged to Iran. For Azerbaijan to cry over Karabakh is crazy. It is not surprising for Turkey to stand with its Turkic brothers, the Azeris in this matter. Both countries are continually finding ways to crush Armenia and its Christian population.
History is clear. I find it funny that the Turkish government continues to use the same tired line "leave history to the historians". But when it comes to looking at what those historians write, they start coming up with excuses.
Armenians have lived in those areas of current day Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan for thousands of years. Turkic people came from Mongolia and took much of the lands that belonged to others (natives like the Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians, Kurds, etc). So if anyone is to return any land, we know who it should be.
I am not here to prove that the Armenian Genocide happened. It is a well documented fact, and easily researchable for anyone who is outside of Turkey and Azerbaijan.

What I do want to say is this. Thank you France for doing this. Thank you for helping many Armenians during and after the genocide. You have been one of those countries that has oppened its doors and accepted refugees. I now wait for the U.S. and Israel to follow in France's footsteps. No time is better than now.

Finally -the Jewish Holocaust and Armenian Genocide are similar. Of course we all know that the holocaust was to a much greater extent. To state that the holocaust was unique (as denialists like Lewis and Lewy have stated) is outright immoral and unethical.

The term genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin who, based on his research on the Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, found a word (that is now a legal term) for describing the events.

To the anonymous coward stating "Armenia is a country that has invaded about 20 percent of its neighbor" - You forgot the first part: that was after "it's neighbor" invaded and threatened to commit a second genocide... AND more to the point, that was after a terrorist sea of nomads from Central Asia invaded Armenia and today continue to OCCUPY 80% of Armenian territories as a result of their Turkish/Azeri INVENTION OF GENOCIDE!!!!!

lol at the 1st comment "...which have been in the last decades renamed genocide " learn your history. It was never renamed as genocide. The person who invented the word "Genocide" brought the Armenian massacres as a clear example of a genocide.

And all you azeri tards stop whining about karabakh. It was never yours and it doesn't have anything to do with this article.

sylvie
can you give us references for the "well documented genocide".
I don't ask for such references saying "I researched it and it is genocide". I ask for documents which all these self-acclaimed experts use as basis when they reach to that conclusion.

this french bill is a thank you from french state to armenia. read below:
Translation of the Letter, dated 30 November 1919, from Boghos Nubar (Head
of Armenian National Delegation to Paris Peace Conference,1919) to the
French Foreign Minister:
“Dear Minister,
I have the honor, in the name of the Armenian National Delegation, of submitting
to Your Excellency the following declaration, at the same time reminding that:
The Armenians have been, since the beginning of the war, de facto
belligerents, as you yourself have acknowledged, since they have fought
alongside the Allies on all fronts, enduring heavy sacrifices and great suffering
for the sake of their unshakable attachment to the cause of the Entente:
In France, through their volunteers, who started joining the Foreign
Legion in the first days and covered themselves with glory under the
French flag;
In Palestine and Syria, where Armenian volunteers, recruited by the
National Delegation at the request of the government of the Republic itself,
made up more than half of the French contingent and played a large role
in the victory of General Allenby, as himself and his French chiefs have
officially declared;
In the Caucasus, where, without mentioning the 150,000 Armenians in
the Imperial Russian Army, more than 40,000 of their volunteers
contributed to the liberation of a portion of the Armenian vilayets, and
where, under the command of their leaders, Antranik and Nazarbekoff,
they alone among the peoples of the Caucasus, offered resistance to the
Turkish armies, from the beginning of the Bolshevist withdrawal right up
to the signing of the armistice.”