Writers Union of Turkey has made a declaration after the US House of Representatives passed resolution to recognize the so-called Armenian genocide.
The declaration from the Writers Union of Turkey included the following views:
"The history of Europe and the history of America cannot be written without genocide. Destroying the 'other' is the systematic policy of Europe and America. Europe made this ethnic cleansing for centuries. Muslims were either deported from Spain or massacred. In fact, other European countries never had a Muslim population among them.
Europe also committed massacres in other countries of the world outside its continent. Even cataloging the massacres committed by "civilized" Westerners in the continents of America, Africa and Asia requires great effort. If there were a continent where Westerners massacre didn't take place, it would only be the one where people do not live.
Ethnic cleansing and genocide are the words which belong to Western languages. We use them exactly or through translation.
The continent of America was the homeland of indigenous tribes which were destroyed by the white. The barbarians who came with firearms largely destroyed the indigenous people of the continent who were devoid of this technology.
The United States of America is a state based on ethnic cleansing. The Native American population is only left to be a folkloric material today. What Masters of genocide do today is nothing but deceit.
The history of our nation does not recognize such cruel events. We have lived for centuries in this country together with those we have defeated. Nearly a quarter of Turkey's population at the beginning of this century consisted of non-Muslims. In the 19th century, the policies of Western imperialism on non-Muslim people made our country uninhabitable fort them. America and Western imperialism are responsible for the Armenian deportation. They have been provoking societies, which have been living with us together for centuries, against our State. It is impossible for them not to know what the result of this provocation will be.
Our nation has nothing to be ashamed of. There isn't anything we cannot give account for.
Instead of pursuing a dishonorable policy and retroacting their so-called genocide charges about the past, they should recognize the recent genocide of Karabakh, the Bosnian genocide, and they ought not to be late to stand by the oppressed people."
