Reply #19: There's a few things about the culture here that you'd have to know to understand. [View All]

[awaysidetraveler]

I agree that the Armenian Genocide occurred and was horrible.

The discussion of that genocide means something different in Turkey than it does in America.

It's normal here for feuds between families to go on for centuries.

Part of the reason the media here censors the Armenian genocide is to force a discontinuation of those feuds.

Armenians and Kurds come to my house here. A friend of Mustafa is Kurdish, and he's marrying a Turkish model.

Armenians and Kurds run for office and win, and they work in the parliament.

Is there another, more democratic nation in the Middle East?