History has been written onto books by historians and storytellers. I know that not everything i see or hear from Turkey is true. I advise you to do the same from your country. So I’m asking you the Armenian people, what makes you think that your so right about your perception of history? Because you’ve read books about it or did you choose to believe that what you have read? To that what happened a century ago, why almost all Armenians say one thing and almost all Turks say the contrary? Everyone will always say that their country is with no sin and the best place on Earth and that’s called nationalism. Its not a bad thing, everyone should be proud of their country and culture. But unfortunately, this doesn’t have anything to do with the truth. If your asking yourselves what about the other countries that say the same as Armenia, well lets take one country as an example: Canada. Turkey was at war at WW1 with France, England, Italy, Greece and others. It should have been an easy victory for that union but judging from their losses, you can easily say that these countries regretted going to war with the Ottomans. A few years ago Canada just openly recognized the genocide and even will teach in history class. Canada is nothing but a British colony in hide. France just recently wanted to make it a law to admit there was a genocide with consequences if refused. You can say that to this they still hold a grudge. To think there was a force so different in religion and culture in the middle east for centuries that has threatened the very existence of those countries is in a way an humiliation in its own for them. The people coming from that union will only take on your side of the story not because its true but to belittle Turkey. Now you may or may not (will probably not ) listen to my words, but the reason I’m mentioning all this is quit simple. I am amongst those who believe that Armenia and Turkey can and should be like brothers. A few years ago the prime minister of Turkey suggested a solution to this dilemma, from mysteries to facts, open all the national archives of both countries and to be fare, we could find a third neutral party so that everything goes without any wrong doing. This could have been the very beginning something wonderful. It blew my mind away that such an offer was brushed aside by the Armenian side. This was an occasion and it was declined. How can those who want peace forgive this. In any case, its sad that people are reduced to such mediocre ways as disclosed in this article to achieve peace. I say mediocre not to belittle the action but it feels unrealistic that such an action would give fruit to peace between two countries who are so reluctant to keep things the way they are.

I hope some of the things i wrote down may give you a different opinion about the Turkish people. Because as Milena has mentioned, we do need to be enlightened about each others neighbors. I also hope these words are welcome to all. Peace be with you.

Sure, there are some that would like for there to be an “Armenian Genocide industry,” but most of us would also like to commemorate this historical tragedy and all we would like is for your government to acknowledge it.

Let us also remember that the end of the 19th century was also the period of the Hamidian massacres. Who exactly was doing most of the “very wildly” killing, Asli?