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Talk:Armenian genocide denial

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Incredibly missional, and decent article. I'd say this is a coinflip, but I'm leaning towards Silver... CorruptUser 02:44, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Somebody needs to comb through and make sure there isn’t any more “kill all Turks” rhetoric from Summa left in here. Pizza SLICE.gifChef Moosolini’s Ristorante ItalianoMake a Reservation 03:25, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Committed by secular Turks ?[edit]

"The article also claims that the genocide, which was committed by the secular Young Turks, actually had been done out of Islamism." The Turks had engaged in mass rape of women of Christian ethnicities, while kidnapping children and forcibly converting them to Islam. How can this be motivated by "secular" turks ? Indianfreethinker (talk) 17:56, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Forced conversions are usually about religion, but in Turkey's case they were about the elimination of foreign peoples. It'd be like someone banning Islam, *cough*China*cough*, even if the Muslims didn't have to convert to your specific religion. CorSock (talk) 18:30, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
Very bad take. Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians had been living in Anatolia for far longer than the Turks. Calling them ¨foreign¨ gives the opposite impression.𝔖𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔞 𝔄𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔦𝔠𝔞 (𝔮𝔲𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔰) (𝔰𝔠𝔯𝔦𝔭𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔞) 15:25, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Insulting Turkishness[edit]

Article 301 was amended in 2008 to say "the Turkish nation" instead of "Turkishness" and now explicit permission from the Ministry is required to invoke it. (See the Wikipedia page.) Reference 11 points to a 2004 version of the law. So yeah. at least we have that going Bilge Adam Reis (talk) 20:57, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Memri.org as a source[edit]

MEMRI is known to deliberately mistranslate or badly translate Arab and Persian news programs (because it's an Israeli propaganda mill, but that's besides the point). Should we really be using them as a source? Vee (talk) 10:28, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Go ahead an swap em out. Pizza SLICE.gifChef Moosolini’s Ristorante ItalianoMake a Reservation 12:35, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
I'm just gonna remove the sentence entirely. If someone else can be bothered to find a better source, go ahead and re-add it. Vee (talk) 12:38, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
My reasoning being given that the source is MEMRI, I find the entire sentence to be a questionable inclusion into the article. Vee (talk) 12:40, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Anti-Turkish and Kurdish biased article[edit]