The Armenian resolution

Last week, the Republic of Turkey, which inherited the Ottoman Turk Empire that ruled most of the Middle East and parts of North Africa in the early decades of the 20th Century, signed a historic deal with neighbour and former subject of the Empire, Armenia, in a bid to normalise relations after close to a century of denial of what is generally believed to be the first genocide of the 20th Century.

By deflecting the world's attention away from calling for her apology and recognition of the wholesale slaughter of innocent and unarmed Armenian boys, girls, men and women by making an issue out of Armenian occupation of Turkic Azerbaijan lands, modern Turkey is once again sidestepping its role in the Armenian Genocide. 

The Armenians are a small community of Christians from pre-Islamic and Ottoman dispensations. Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, Anatolia, Antioch and Ephesus, Churches that pre dates Rome (and all in Armenia and present day Turkey), together with Alexandria (Egypt), Libya and Jerusalem were active Christian communities during the days of Christ and as a result of missionary work by the 1st Century disciples and apostles, especially Paul and his cohorts. 

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