Who’s talking???

Turkish MP Erdogan left the stage at the World Economic forum yesterday night after shouting at Israeli President Shimon Peres. Peres had been defending Operation Cast Lead when Erdogan shouted “You are killing people” and pointed his finger at him.
Shimon Peres pointed his finger back at Erdogan and said that he would have done the same if rockets had been hitting Istanbul. Peres continued saying “ Do you understand the meaning of a situation where hundreds of rockets are falling a day on women and children who cannot sleep quietly, who need to sleep in shelters? What is the matter with you? You don’t understand, and I am not prepared for lies.”

Who is talking?????”
I know people who do not want to go on holidays in Turkey because of the countries bad reputation when it comes to human rights.
One of the first widely acknowledged modern, systematic genocides was the Armenian genocide.
Towards the end of the Turkish (Ottoman) Empire the Armenians experienced a systematic, organized plan to eliminate them. They were forced to leave their homes and were driven to march thousands of kilometers without food and water. Rape and other kinds of sexual abuse were common and the ones who didn’t die during the march were massacred. The Armenians claim 1.5 million Armenians to have perished as a result of the genocide.
The Armenian communities in various places today are results of this genocide. There are still people living in Jerusalem who are survivors from this period. That happened a long time ago and most people have forgotten or have never even known. But in the Armenian soul it is still hurting. The Armenian genocide was an “example” to Hitler because the world so quikly forgot.
The Turks today live in a land earlier dominated by Armenians, Greek, Kurds and Arabs.
The Armenians are still struggling for the Turkish government’s recognition of these historic facts.
The Armenians were the first nation to accept Christianity. Together with them the Ottomans also persecuted the Greek and the Assyrian Christian communities.

The Kurds represents the biggest group of non Turks living in today’s Turkey. There are some 12 mill. of them in the southeastern region and they have had a centuries long struggle for a land to call their own. The Turkish army is responsible for burning almost 3000 Kurdish settlements and displacing two million people. More than 35.000 people have died in the Kurdish conflict with Turkey.

So, again……who was it that was speaking against Israel yesterday in Davos????

Elin Elkouby