• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    So why do Turkish nationalists get so mad about the Armenian genocide being recognized?

    Why do Americans get pissy when you try to take down Confederate General statues or talk about Native American genocide?

    wasn’t this over a century ago and done by the no longer existing Ottoman Empire? Is it like one of those culture war things for them?

    A century ago, but still fresh in the minds of folks with a nationalist mentality. It's not as though the Turks have done a particularly good job of integrating their various ethnic sects since WW1.