After Germany's parliament voted to recognize the 1915 genocide of the Armenians, Turkey's president gave a speech slamming Germany as well as France. But is he suffering from historical amnesia?

As broadcast by the Turkish channel TRT Haber, on the 5th of June, Turkish President Erdogan gave a speech at the graduation ceremony of Istanbul University.

The Turkish leader decided to give a final lesson to the graduates, but quite an unuausal one. It seems he was deeply offended by German Bundestag, which several days ago dared to recognize Armenian genocide of 1915. So offended that at least part of his speech was more directed to European countries than to the graduates.

Firstly, to Germany:

Germany! I am telling you again: first, you have to give an account of the Holocaust. How you massacred more than 100,000 Namibians in Namibia; you should give an account of that too.

Then, the Turkish sultan started to slam France:

Who is behind the massacres in Rwanda? It is France. But this is not permissable to say.

And then he made a brilliant and unexpected conclusion:

At the moment we have no problems with our history. In our history, there was no massacre, our story is a story of mercy and compassion. This is the difference between us.

Wow, seriously? It looks like the Turkish sultan is suffering from historical amnesia.

Let’s take a look at some of the conflicts where the peace-loving Turks were involved:

Сountries conquered and enslaved by the Ottoman Empire (of course, not bloodlessly): Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Byzantium, Hungary, Greece, Cyprus, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, part of Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Jordan, Katar, Kuweit, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan, Egypt etc.;

12 Russo-Turkish wars or conflicts (including WWI);

Turkish invasion of Cyprus;

Armenian genocide 1915;

​There is even a list of massacres in Turkey and it is still expanding. You do not need to go far for examples of Turkey's peaceful intentions: shooting down of Russian Su-24, mass killings of Kurds in Turkey, assistance to ISIS terrorists, etc., etc.

After all that, it’s kind of strange to be reminding European countries about their sins, being no less innocent oneself. And even more weird is to see the members of the NATO military alliance, which actively promotes the "partnership for peace," arguing amongst themselves who has more blood on their hands.