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Would you still hate/discrimnate a Turkish person if they recognize the genocide?

Hello our armenian brothers and sisters, from Turkey,

I recently watched couple of Turkish youtubers vlogging about Armenia and their culture/people/food etc. And i couldnt help but notice the immideate discrimination, hateful looks or even insults when they learn they are from Turkey.

Armenia is a beautiful country, and Yerevan is probably one of the most beautiful atmosphered cities ive ever seen. And it just makes me sad that without knowing someones thoughts, just based on the past politics/conflicts/genocide to immideatly be hostile against them.

Unlike our government or past governments, i know and fully believe what our ancestors did to your people, and it was a terrible and evil thing to do. There are tons of videos, peoples soldier grandparents first hand experience that it happened, and refusing it is just plain stupid. I know ''burying the past'' is really not an easy thing to do, especially half the turks here deny the literal extinction of western armenia, i can kind of empathize with immideate bias. But there are non-nationalist Turks like me who accepts and despises the events.

So i just wanted to ask to you, would you (by you i mean people who discriminates us, not everyone thinks the same ofc) still be hostile towards me and people like me? I hope not. What are your thoughts on this?

I dont want to drag this topic much longer so i wish everyone there a beautiful life.

Posted Aug 22, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC

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