Agos: Turkey Silent as Attacks Continue

Let’s all take a moment to make an analytical comparison of journalistic integrity not to mention Europe and US response to these atrocious killings taking place within a NATO member state not to mention a EU member hopeful, namely Turkey.

Last year, 3 Jewish children and one Jewish man were slain in France via a sudden attack by a crazed assailant. Please perform a search for “4 Jewish killings in France” and witness link after link after link of front page splashes of the NYTimes, LATimes, BBC, French papers, and many other major news outlets covering the story of said attacks.

Now please attempt to search for “Armenian elderly women killed in Turkey” and nearly all of the search results are from Armenian news outlets. Many, myself included, would not even know of these incidents had Armenian news outlets such as Asbarez not reported it. An 85-year old Armenian woman was stabbed 7 times, her throat slit, and a crucifix carved on her chest and there is not a even a peep out of these scumbags in Europe nor is there any sort of mention of deliberate hate crimes being committed within the borders of a potential EU member state and a NATO member. 2 other women are beat nearly to death within a month of each other and a SCHOOL TEACHER has his throat cut, again Armenian victims, and continued silence by the international community and news outlets.

And they wondered why it was that we set bombs and killed Turkish diplomats in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. The plight of Armenians and the hateful crimes against us were ignored, omitted in texts, played down, and glossed over by the “civilized nations” because we did not control their banks and financial institutions. They glossed over us because we did not in secret develop weapons of mass destruction and did not form spy networks within our own host countries to aid our own ethnic nation.

Everything that was happening to us and the down playing of our concerns on the international stage again is happening just as it did in in the 60’s and 70’s. It’s our passive aggressive stance all of these years that has allowed for the type of atmosphere to be created in which other ethnic groups feel it’s okay to butcher an elderly Armenian woman in the twilight of her life and it is okay for Europe and the USA to ignore such behavior and sweep it under the rug. After all, we have allowed ourselves to fall back into having a reputation of passive aggressive sheep.

Let’s forget the “passive” part and let’s light up the “aggressive” part once again. We need methods of disproportionate response against those that would hurt us, so that the world again begins to understand that if you hurt a single Armenian anywhere on the globe, you will be dealt with severely.

We don’t need roads in Arstzakh, we need Mig-29s and S-300 anti air missiles, that’s what they next 10 Thanksgiving day marathons should focus on, “ZENK HYERENIKI HAMAR” . Instead of formally protesting these recent killings, maybe it’s time to respond with an “eye for an eye” method. When a jew is killed, the assailant is targeted for assassination. After a few lessons such as these taught to our enemies, these incidents will not occur again and when we speak our voices will be taken more seriously.

Enough is enough fellow Armenians, if we let these occurrences slide with impunity, how can we demand justice for 1.5 million slaughtered in 1915 when our grandmothers are stabbed 7 times and their throats slit in 2012 without adequate vengeful punishment from our communities? Stop trying to be intellectuals all the time, these types of assaults on us cannot always be solved with pens.