Tuğçe Yılmaz, Herausgeberin von Bianet – einer türkischen Nachrichtenagentur, muss nach ihrem Interview mit armenischen Jugendlichen in Istanbul vor Gericht erscheinen und wegen „Beleidigung der türkischen Nation“ gemäß Artikel 301 angeklagt werden

Insulting the Turkish nation is a crime? 💀 I’m guilty af then

This is why I get confused when people comment here about how not racist Turkey is and how traveling there is safe. (I write this comment as some who will someday see my homeland.)

It’s safe if you keep your mouth shut and you don’t try to bring attention to our erasure and crimes against our families. Then yea…as long as shit isn’t hitting the fan. Sure. Just don’t get too uppity. Be silent.

I keep seeing comments from Turks on reddit about how they hate the diaspora and we are responsible for Turkey just having to keep the border closed. Their issue is that we don’t die quietly in the exile the survivors of our families were forced into. They want to silence our voices by threatening Armenia. „Shut up about what we did to you or we’ll choke out the last of you in the land we haven’t stolen….yet.“ It’s sick.

I used to wonder why a small population is „allowed“ in Istanbul. I know why now.

Here is a hint:

„Turkey made threats that the safety of Jews would be put in danger if the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) covered the Armenian genocide or if the 1982 International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in Tel Aviv, which included the Armenian genocide, was not cancelled.“

Baer, Marc D. (2020). Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-04542-3.

Edit: And before anyone thinks about saying „but it was 100 years ago. Why can’t you let it go?“ Multiple reasons. Clearly Turkey hasn’t let it go because this woman will be on trial for speaking of it so don’t „let’s just bury the hatchet,“ or „but I didn’t do it,“ or „stop playing the victim,“ or „why do you keep talking about it“ at me.

I also like the recent „you can normalize with us, but Azerbajian is too far gone.“ Oh how convenient no? Doesn’t the border „opening“ hinge on Azerbaijan? They the new Kurds now? Have someone else do the dirty work then turn around and place all the blame on them? That the plan?

Was the crime specifically about talking to armenain youth or was it about something like acknowledging the genocide