"Radio Free Europe", "voice of America" have been tools of info war, psyops during the Cold War. The voice of the West, thus the image of reporting/editing standards established with universal journalistic ethics, the search for the truth & unspoken. Strong doubts here.
Then, another capital learned the use of news & media in the way it was targeted, also benefiting boom of social media. And now it is almost funny If it weren't tragic how the originals and copy cats of mass manipulating media are on the same page of 1915.
ria.ru/amp/20210424/g…
The first time my generation heard abt fratricide, massacres by/of & deportation of Armenians in 1915 when terrorist attacks targeted Turkish diplomats.Looking back to ASALA & JCAG, it is clear that Soviets had a good plan to divide NATO & the West acted late on our cost & blood.
W/out ASALA & JCAG intel files of our allies; the court archives on ASALA & archives of ARF, Cold War past of the relationship between Armenian diasporas in now Russia and in now NATO & EU will never be clear. Tail wags the dog no doubt. It just may be another dog's tail.
Infamous Devedjian defense of murderers of Turkish diplomats needs to be put on a wall at the MFA/ Turkey. He was a French bureaucrat and politician too.( Our diplomacy kept an Eastern tradition of not embarassing the French guests.) turksandarmenians.marmara.edu.tr/en/asala-and-c…
We must remember everything, particularly the pardoning of unrepentant Sasunian, ASALA killer of Turkish Consul General in LA. Because, now the game is not only about Turkey anymore but again will be on our cost. It will be about Armenia and its ownership.
PS- memo:🗻 is ours.
So, I invite all commentators in the West who have been intensively writing about Turkey this weekend to rub it in now to focus on Armenia, as well as the multiple diaspora groups who race to exploit the post war frustration, vacuum and dismay in the weakest chain of Caucasus.

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26 Apr
This is a perfect example of use of selective historical referencing by journalism with bias. Each parag. can well be counter debated.Look at the Van section, where it partially refers to Nogales memoir and intentionally omit mass murder of Muslims.
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This has no reference to MacCarthy's findings on Van 1915; no reference to Dashnaksütyun, no reference to terrorist attacks in Istanbul of 1896-Ottoman Bank-or of Dr. Pastermadjian who were among those Dashnak terrorists, yet became a member of Ottoman Parliament in 1908. +
Such ⬆️bias feeds ignorance, kills empathy, fuels enmity.Denial of Muslim sufferings caused by Armenian insurgents, while adressing events of 1915, with the pretext of "rejection of what aboutism" is bias. It is simply saying "YOUR dead & living, past & future does not matter."+
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24 Apr
1979, TRT Turkish public broadcaster held the first 23 April International Children's Day festival. We were just kids glued to the 1& only, B&W TV channel for hours, envious of the Ankara families hosting guest children, never aware that this was part of the Cold War diplomacy.
But, in conflict prevention/ resolution diplomacy, bringing children together is not enough. 1979, participation of Bulgarian kids in TRT fest did not/ could not have prevent (ed) oppression campaign against & forced deportation of Bulgarian Turks in 1980's.
Without real GOV strategies, tactical approaches i.e public diplomacy, culture/science/sports/youth etc meetings or passing bills for healing historical traumas, remain as futile bureaucratic exercise, if they are not in fact tactics of withholding from real engagement.
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10 Apr
@NicholasAHeras @SquizzRadical The way I'd read it, it says EU should probe into how 🇬🇷 has reengaged itself with violent extremist & terrorist groups i.e PKK, DHKP/C although it had pledged to stop it after 🇬🇷 state was caught red handed when PKK terrorist leader Ocalan was caught in Kenya with a 🇬🇷 passport.
@NicholasAHeras @SquizzRadical The 🇬🇷 deep state infection with racial hatred against 🇹🇷 leads to this policy to harbor & support anyone who they think can be used against TR. A brief inquiry of DHKP/C will tell how it works. The comfort Gulenist 🚁thief coup pilots found in 🇬🇷 reveals surely a "good"neighbor.
@NicholasAHeras @SquizzRadical "The cradle of democracy" Greece helped coup plotters of Fethulah Gulen cult escape justice & has been pushing back Syrian refugees to die in the Aegean, while helping illegal immigration networks if they smuggle PKK, Left revolutionary or FETÖ militants. Is this EU standard?
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29 Mar
"Kurdish Forces" is PKK/YPG . PKK, like other terror groups knows how to run camps for recruitment & training. It now fights its own kind, as a hired gun of the West, which avoids the dirty work.2 infamous PKK camps as such have been Lavrion (Greece) & Mahmour (N.Iraq) 1/
This is the story of a 19 yrs old girl who was directed by PKK recruiters to illegal crossing to Greece, got placed in Lavrion, got training in the camp and was allowed to fly to Iraq w/ a fake passport, frm Greece. This happens in 2019. In the EU. aa.com.tr/tr/turkiye/yun… 2/
Here is a 2014 piece frm FT (authors question terrorist adjective for PKK- 🙄what FT editors were thinking 🙄. ) which displays the extend of PKK control over a what was supposed to be UNHCR run camp. This has a long story.👇 3/ ft.com/content/4a6e5b…
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25 Mar
So many things to write about this case: Ciçek Kobane is code name of the girl. Her real name is Dozgin Temo. Start with asking why this girl is given an alias as all PKK/YPG recruits. In all terrorist groups, this is the 1st step to a new identity & strip off other loyalties 1/
She was shooting to kill, aware of the fact that there could be Turkish armed forces among her targets. She was captured wounded, given medical care &brought before a court. Her mother is luckier than mother of Çiçek Botan code Besma Heyder, another PKK/YPG recruit.👇 2/
+ Why Çiçek Kobane's mother is luckier than Çiçek Botan's mother? Because the latter died
in PKK/YPG hands & how is in the dark. Her mother will forever seek the truth or the freedom to tell it. The PKK will pressure her to silence, like many before. 3/ ➡️
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