Hello, Greek Turkish Forum...I'm your newest member!

I'm actually not Greek or Turkish. I'm a Lebanese Armenian (with some Arab on my mother's side), but was born and live in the United States. My parents are from a suburb of Beirut called Burj Hammud. It was pretty much an Armenian ghetto with very few Arabs, until recently. But one of the well-known Arabs from there is Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (rumor has it he speaks Armenian).

Politically, I'm as left of left as you can get. I'm also an atheist. I oppose blind nationalism, racism, imperialism (and quite a few other -isms). I consider myself stateless.

Looking forward to joining the discussions!

Let me be the first to welcome you. We are looking forward to you joining the discussions as well.





P.S: Indeed, screw all the "-ism"s.

Anyway,welcome mechanicalghost.

Thanks for the welcome.

I should add that I don't speak/read/write Armenian very well, and only understand very little Arabic.

Interesting...anyway you will not need Armenian or Arabic here.

...but ull need some turkish to understand Reds whinning

Welcome!

Parew sireli yeghpayris.

Get yourself a drink and enjoy the party.

what's ur position re the Armenian Genocide?

Hope you don't mind if I call you MG since your nick is so long. Welcome to the forums.

It is similar to Halil Berktay's position. Have you heard/read him?

He spoke at the ATL (Armenians and the Left, now called APP, Armenians and Progressive Politics) conference in '07. He was encouraging Armenians and Turks to set up a historical commission, even though Armenians in the audience seemed to object to it, as well as Henry Theriault, a non-Armenian panelist...

Welcome!

Welcome

I also feel myself closer to Berktay's position. But you know, setting up a historical comission means different things to different people. The problem between two sides is how it will work. Turkish officials also say "let's set up a historical comission and leave history to historians". I've heard this sentence even from Halacoğlu the dumbfuck.








Again very glad to meet you BTW.

A small addition: This "historical commission" and "leaving the issue to historians" approaches were initially offered by the Armenian government [I think by Petrosyan circa 1993, but I'd need to check my facts on this], whose priority was to start economic relations with Turkey immediately. This was abruptly declined by the Turkish government at the time, although I don't remember under what exact pretext.