Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Turkey
Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Turkey 10 The Armenian Genocide Is Denied, And The US Plays Along On a state level, Turkey ignores the genocide of 1.5 million people perpetrated in 1915, going so far to expunge any mention of the events from school textbooks. [1] The US consul at the time wrote, “That which took place around beautiful Lake Goeljuk in the summer of 1915 is almost inconceivable. Thousands and thousands of Armenians, mostly innocent and helpless women and children, were butchered on its shores and barbarously mutilated.” In spite of that, the US does not recognize the genocid...
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