In a previous article (“ The Untold Stories of Turkey: An Armenian Island on the Bosphorus“), I had touched upon how a single family of Armenian architects, the Balyans, had shaped the skyline of Istanbul, particularly along the Bosphorus, with their creations of palaces, mansions, military barracks, and mosques. The Balyan Family Mausoleum (Photo: Daily Sabah) This article will focus not on the denial of genocide, but on the denial of the very existence of the Armenians and the many contributions they have made in the country. This wholesale denial of historic facts regarding the treatment of minorities by the state is nothing new, but with each act of denial, history keeps repeating itself with sickening regularity-the massacres of Armenians were followed by the massacres of Greeks, Assyrians, Alevis, and Kurds.
He said this without even batting an eye… Over the years, there has been an effort to deny the very existence of the Armenians and their contributions to Turkey
Last week, while criticizing Israel and the United States on President Trump’s recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated with great conviction, “There has never been any genocide, holocaust, massacre, ethnic cleansing, or torture in our history.”
