I was born and raised in Turkey, went through the whole education system there. I've been in USA for the last 6 years. Anyway growing up there, when I was a kid, there were some kids in the neighborhood and elementary school having different (non Turkish) names, I used to hear that there were Armenians or Jewish or etc. Didn't mean much to me, basically we were friends and thats about it. Isn't that nice that kids don't have prejudice but unfortunately this ends pretty quick, just starting elementary school, we learn all those bad stuff about what Greeks did and how good we are and all that. So as a Turk if you've never seen Greek before, by the time you graduate high school, you have some bad thoughts about them (thats the same for Greeks too). When I was 16 I went to England for a language school where I met some Greek friends. Well the first time we met, conversion quickly turned into historical stuff (strong discussions), which made me realize that we learned stuff differently. So I don't trust or believe Turkish history that's been taught in school or Greek history that's been taught in Greece. They are sided and making the nations hate each other or at least develop prejudice. Interesting thing we don't have much about Armenians in our history books, you call it denial, cover up, I don't know (probably). So any Turkish who doesn't heard this genocide stuff in the news or anywhere else. They will be oblivious but on the other hand Armenia have lots bad stuff about Turks, so most of the Armenians naturally grow up to hate Turkish people. Anyway at this point I don't know the exact truth about what happened, who to believe, who is objective about the truth. But if the movie is correct, war does not justify killing innocent people, kids (it doesn't matter where they are from) and it's a shame of human race. Anyway my question is, if Turkey recognizes this and apologizes, will Armenians still hate us and have prejudice towards us, are we going to get over this past historical issue and be friends ?
