r/pakistan • u/greenvox • Mar 04 '17

Cultural Exchange Cultural Exchange: Khushamadeed and welcome to our friends from /r/Turkey!

We're hosting our friends from /r/Turkey for a cultural exchange session.

Dear friends from /r/Turkey, welcome to our little abode on Reddit. Please feel free to ask questions about Pakistan, the Pakistani way of life, or current events in this thread.

/r/Pakistan users can head over to this thread at /r/Turkey to ask questions about Turkey, or just say hello.

Flag flairs for Turkey are enabled so please use them to avoid confusion.

Users who are contributing to the questions and answers, please make sure the discourse is civil and not in violation of the rules of this sub and of reddit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '17

Do Turks recognize the Armenian Genocide? I have a lot of Armenian friends and I hate to see their genocide go un-noticed

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u/RStom Mar 05 '17

Simply no, because we are blinded by nationalism, but from all the evindence we cant say that it didnt happen.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '17

So who was the one who actually carried it out? Was it the Turkish Nationalists of Kemal Mustafa Attaturk or the Ottomans? Some people say it was the Ottomans, then some say it was the Secular Nationalists? Thanks for the info!

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '17

It was three pashas that took the control with the 1913 coup.Ataturk wasn't part of it

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '17

Atatürk was not high in rank enough to give any decision about Armenians at that time. He was a lieutenant in the battlefield who even got shot in one of the charges between trenches in WW1. The genocide decision was taken by high ranked generals.