"First we kill the Armenians, then the Greeks, then the Kurds."

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Aug 6, 2012 at 03:21

Dhimmi no more wrote :

"And by the way it is really tragic that the Kurdish tribes are now the victims of the Turks as would have been expected after all I'm sure that the next victim on the agenda of the Turks would have been the Kurds."

In his article from 1917 "Turkey - a past and a future" (p.29-30) Arnold J. Toynbee remarks with a footnote Foreign Office "Miscellaneous No. 31 (1916) , p.253 " :

"a Turkish gendarme in Armenia said to a Danish sister serving with the German Red Cross: 'First we kill the Armenians, then the Greeks, then the Kurds.' Every non-Turkish nationality in the Ottoman Empire is threatened with extermination."

Well , those who are the last to be exterminated helped in their ignorance and greed exterminate those who stood on the Turkish hit list before them. It has made the Turkish job of genocide much easier and more effective.

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