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 Adding comments as a preface to an existing chain may appear presumptuous, however, I would like to add a frame of reference to the ensuing discussion. Germany was plunged into an economic, political and social abyss after World War I, which created the opportunity for nazism to flourish, leading to World War II and subsequently to the Jewish Holocaust, the genocide of gypsies, etc. The international community, starting from the trials at Nuremburg, has never allowed (and rightly so!) the destitute and depressed condition of the German people to be used as a mitigating circumstance to soften the vehement, often confrontational, and always powerful condemnation of the atrocities committed in Nazi Germany. The German people, as a nation, have never used their ""baggage"" (i.e., post-WWII economic depression, outcast status in Europe, political instability) as a reason for shoving denialist and apologist rhetoric down Jewish throats.  Denying the Holocaust would be unfathomable, no one would suggest any ""legitimate"" reasons to deny it. So what makes it  acceptable to look for ""legitimate"" reasons to deny the Armenian genocide? Respectfully, A.N. 

 :Why don't you give a country the right to defense itself from accusations that are far beyond any credible facts? In the article is written such nonsense like that the red crescent killed armeniens with morphium injections and gassed and burned armenian children. Thank you. By the way, do you know Sabiha Gökcen? 

 ::why don't you write an article about her?   

 :::To make clear that the turks did and do not hate armenians. Turks are not racist, that would make in no way any sense because turkey is a multiethnic country. The turkish nationalism is not based on race but on patriotism. That is the difference between the racistic armenian nationalism and it was the armenian racist nationalism that led to this catastrophe.   

 :She was the first female war fighter pilot in the world. She was Armenian. In the turkish army. And she is treaten like a hero in Turkey, an airport in Istanbul is also named after her. But don't dare to mention her name in armenian forums! ;-)  Greetings from Turkey.   

 ::Whether Sabiha Gokcen was Armenian or not (which doesn't mean any difference to me) was highly debated in 2004. I have Turkish references supporting both claims, and when I have time I will translate them and add them into Sabiha Gokcen article. - Cansın 1.41 20 May 2005 (UTC) 

  

 == Recent Developments on The Freedom of Speech Issue == 
 Ironically, the following developments have occured just after the we discussed about freedom of speech in Turkey on the Armenian issue: 
 - Belgian parliament passed a new law that classified denial of Armenian ""genocide"" as a crime with a penalty of 1 to 12 months of imprisonment 
 - French ""socialists"" proposed a similar law to the French Parliament 
 - A Swiss court granted an arrest warrant for Yusuf Halacoğlu, a Turkish historian and bureocrat, for rejecting the genocide claims