The Boston Globe: The US government ought to emulate Germany’s example

The Boston Globe: The US government ought to emulate Germany’s example –

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Editorial staff of renowned American The Boston Globe daily newspaper called USA to emulate Germany’s example and officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

 The editorial titled “With moral force, Germany calls the Armenian massacres a genocide” reads:

“The resolution to which Turkey reacted with such sputtering fury acknowledged “the German Reich’s complicity in the events” of 1916-17, when Germany was a key ally of the Ottoman Empire. And it contained six explicit references to the Holocaust. Germany’s government never whitewashes the Nazi genocide; that is why its condemnation of Turkey’s century-old extermination of the Armenians carries noteworthy moral force.”

The newspaper’s editorial staff also touches upon tension in Turkish-German relations, EU-Turkey deal on refugees and difficult position of the German Chancellor, noticing that historical truth about the genocide was too important to sacrifice on the altar of political appeasement.

“Germany’s government isn’t the first to officially tag the slaughter of the Armenians as genocide. The US government ought to emulate Germany’s example. No American president has been willing to apply the “G-word” to Turkey’s attempt to annihilate the Armenians. Yet Washington has known the truth for a century,” the editorial reads.

The newspaper recalls the US ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau’s testimony and letters, where the American official reported about the systematic destruction and destitution of the Armenians.

“Morgenthau is long gone; so is the Ottoman regime. The facts of the Armenian genocide, however, are unchanged. Turkey’s official denial is an ongoing affront to the memory of the massacred Armenians. More than that, it is a grotesque disfigurement of Turkey’s own image on the world stage. It is long past time the Turks dealt honestly with their history, and for nations that consider themselves Turkey’s allies – like the United States – to stop subordinating truth to political expedience,” writes The Boston Globe.