http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/in-turkeys-last-armenian-village-a-place-to-get-away-from-it-all/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-turkeys-last-armenian-village-a-place-to-get-away-from-it-all Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/in-turkeys-last-armenian-village-a-place-to-get-away-from-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-22784 명숙 이 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=100128#comment-22784 http://youtu.be/SPKZ78cIH8c http://youtu.be/SPKZ78cIH8c

]]> http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/in-turkeys-last-armenian-village-a-place-to-get-away-from-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-22752 Colby Clifford Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:39:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=100128#comment-22752 Thomas, what would you suggest happened to them? What term would you use instead? Just so that we are all clear? Thomas, what would you suggest happened to them? What term would you use instead? Just so that we are all clear?

]]> http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/in-turkeys-last-armenian-village-a-place-to-get-away-from-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-22746 Thomas Humiston Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:56:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=100128#comment-22746 "Most ethnic Armenians, in what was then the Ottoman empire, fled or were killed or ethnically cleansed in 1915." As near as I can tell, to be "ethnically cleansed" means to be chased away or killed. Did Lisa Mullins really mean to imply that something else, some third fate, befell these people? As used on-air these days, the phrase already seems an unconscionably tidy euphemism for terrorism and murder; do we really need the reference made more hazy? “Most ethnic Armenians, in what was then the Ottoman empire, fled or were killed or ethnically cleansed in 1915.”
As near as I can tell, to be “ethnically cleansed” means to be chased away or killed. Did Lisa Mullins really mean to imply that something else, some third fate, befell these people? As used on-air these days, the phrase already seems an unconscionably tidy euphemism for terrorism and murder; do we really need the reference made more hazy?

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