enturies, we lived on the lands of an empire [i.e. the Ottoman Empire] that included many ethnic groups. We intermarried. We lived as neighbors and became also relatives.
“[…] In such a nation that lived in harmony, tolerance and peaceful relations, that can set an example for many other nations in the world, how can anybody go back, search, and find ‘pure blood’?
“[…] Those who have recently gone searching with a magnifying glass for Armenian blood in all those they dislike remind me of […]Nazi Germany. Because what ended in concentration camps and gas chambers there started exactly in this manner.
“As a society, we must raise our voices against a new kind of fascism.”
Post-war Germany acknowledged its guilt for the Holocaust. No German politician would now dream of smearing an opponent by accusing him of having Jewish blood, and working to a Jewish agenda against the interests of the German people. In the absence of any acknowledgement by the Turks for their responsibility for the Armenian Genocide, the same old poisons, instead of having been faced and expunged, are still circulating, ready to be called up by any unscrupulous politician.
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