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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People rave about Turkey...but having spent time in Armenia, I can't get past the fact that Turkey committed attempted genocide against Armenia and still won't admit it.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html?onwardjourney=584162_v1

I just can't get past that.

Does anyone else have trouble visiting a country for social justice reasons?[/quote]

This is interesting. I am aware of the attempted genocide, but it was 100 years ago. Literally everyone who participated in it or committed it is dead, the government has turned over many times, so I view it as an unsavory piece of history. If you started disqualifying countries for unsavory historical episodes there would be nowhere to visit.

That said, there are certain (current) regimes that I wouldn’t support with my tourist dollars, even if my safety were guaranteed. Putin’s Russia, North Korea, and China, for example.
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But it’s kind of like holocaust denial. Imagine visiting Germany and having everyone deny that the holocaust existed, instead insisting that it was just a bureaucratic snafu or something. It’s about a country committing genocide and never taking any sort of moral responsibility for having done so. Those who do not learn from their mistakes, etc. [/quote]

Exactly. It is one thing fur current citizens to call out the sins of their forefathers. It is quite another to glorify or deny their actions (see Civil War monuments). [/quote]

Yes because civil war generals are definitely the same thing as Nazi war criminals. Not. [/quote]

I would put them in pretty similar categories. I don’t know that the institution of slavery much less violent, horrific, and evil than the Third Reich.

Back to the question in hand, I visited Turkey recently and their rampant blind nationalism is pretty offensive set against what they did to the Greeks, Armenians and Kurds. It definitely put me off going again.[/quote]

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