"There have been Armenians who have assassinated and killed many people"

..."seriously?"

YES, VERY SERIOUSLY. See:
http://www.ataa.org/reference/diplomats.html

...this information should be more well-known.

...and I know personally an individual who was a close personal friend of one of the INNOCENT murder victims. These Armenians agitating for a "genocide" label are not the humanitarians that they would have us believe them to be. They gave their silent assent to these murders, raised money for the legal defense of the murderers and have often have explicitly or implicitly referred to the murderers as heroes.

Since when do a few people account for the whole people? Just like Cohen supporting the Jewish Holocaust but denying the Genocide. Hypocrite. Look at the ADL, they're an educated group, who also support and call the act a Genocide. Just like the heads of the Ottoman Empire conducting genocide against 1.5million Armenians. That doesn't mean that modern day Turks are bad people. There is good and bad everywhere. Cohen is a bad one in my book. Shame on you!

Yes and the Turks committed the First Genocide of the 20th Century.

P.Connolly, Revenge is a Bitch!

Turks are guilty of GENOCIDE!

"Revenge is a Bitch"

-Well I'm not Turkish and am not even related to a single Turkish Individual so your desire for revenge has nothing to do with me in any sense.

Readers should note that such ethnic hatred is typical of the response coming from these Armenians agitating for a "genocide" label - visible in forums like this all over the internet. It should be only too clear that genocide will never be eliminated by yielding to people who hate and who pass-down ethnic hatred and thirst for revenge from one generation to the next.

Clay has essentially said addressing the needs of the black community in Memphis is less important than making Cohen understand that he isn't black.

An alternative interpretation is that Clay has essentially said that the CBC is less interested in the needs of the black community than it is in the power of black congressmen.

I am a bitch and a GENOCIDE DENIER!

Cohen may have been overstating, but he's factually correct -- Armenians did kill a certain number of people. More generally, many Armenian-Americans not inclined to be very fair and balanced in approaching folks who won't sign on with their positions.

That link doesn't give enough information to say if Cohen behaved badly or not, but I wouldn't jump to conclusions. A lot of Armenian-Americans can be really obnoxious about this stuff.

Doug M.

Yes, there were things that Armenians did in the 70s which were a response to the absolute neglect of the genocide of a people. Some of those things could have and should have been done differently.

This does NOT change the fact that a genocide occurred and those who are against what Armenians did in the 70s should not use that as a reason to disregard the genocide of 1915.

All this is not in reference to Steve Cohen necessarily but to the population in general.

Finally, Serwer is right and Connolly, I don't think you understood what he meant. Because Armenians did what they did in the 70s, does that suggest that all Armenians should be treated as though they're dangerous? That is where the "Serious?" comes up. By the same logic, Cohen should be afraid of his fellow Jews because of what the Lehi (Stern Gang) was doing in Palestine/Israel to the British authorities. That's obviously preposterous but so is what Cohen said. Get it?

Many in the Jewish community seem to believe that the murder of at least 1.5 million Armenians must never be given the name "genocide" for several reasons-

1) The current Turkish regime has been helpful to Israel.

2) Any focus on other genocides distracts the world from the Holocaust is thus inimical to Jewish interests.

3) It has often been claimed that many of the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide were actually Jews (as was true of the Soviet officials who caused the artificial famine that killed millions of Ukrainian gentiles during the 1930s, a genocide known as the Holodomor).

Lesson for the Armenians—the Jews always win.

Why are you setting up a win-lose situation re: Armenians and Jews, Anonymous?
Why do those of your stripe conveniently forget that some of those most helpful to the Armenians have been Jews e.g. Morgenthau, Boxer, Levin, Charney, etc. etc. etc. Stop painting the Jewish people with one brush if you want persons like Congressman Cohen not to paint Armenians with one brush.

Cohen is a genocide denier and a racist. He has been exposed.

Pointing to Turkish propaganda sites doesn't change the fact that 1.5 Million Armenians were systematically murdered in the first genocide of the twentieth Century. When Hitler's generals tried to dissuade him of his plans to begin his murderous campain, Hitler coldly replied, 'Who now remembers the Armenians' as proof that he would get away with the Holocaust. Cohen, who is on a Holocaust commission, should re-educate himself on genocide and the Armenian genocide in particular.

There is no resemblance with the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenians losing out a war they started against the Turks who themselves were the target of genocide from 1904- 1923.

Britain, France and Russia had all descended on the Turks to grab their land. Armenians took this opportunity to clear off some land for themselves by wiping out the Muslims of the area. They lost the war.

The only organized effort on the part of the dying Ottoman Empire was to relocate all Armenians to zones where they would pose less of a threat. Since when is self defence labeled as geno?

Under terrible war conditions, Armenians as well as Turks died in large numbers, due to typhoid, hunger and vengeance killing.

If any racial hatred it was harbored by Dashnaks against the Turks. They still are hate filled! Instead of accepting their responsibility, Dashnaks are still propagandizing against Turkish interests.