Urban Dictionary: Young Turk
Young Turk
Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. Young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations
The Young Turks of the Republican Party rallied to speak out against George Bush.
That's not good. Hopefully it's something he has grown out of from his youth.
So he did rescind the statements and admitted he was ignorant when he made those claims. I'm not really seeing what the issue is, especially since the criticism of the name of his show is an ignorance of the term Young Turk. I'd heard similar uses before. He probably felt it was a clever pun, being a Turk himself as well.
That he could have been confused about it without really looking into it isn't that surprising to me, Turkey officially denies it happening, doesn't teach people about it, and actively produces propaganda about it not happening. Even being a Turk within the U.S. he would have familial ties to people steeped in this tradition of denial, and access to the propaganda himself, likely, from being able to speak and read Turkish.
He had probably forgot all about it, it was a few letters from two decades ago, yet, once it was brought up he admitted he was wrong. I'm not seeing a major problem here. As for not mentioning it anymore, I don't tend to bring up all the dumb shit I did as a 21 year old all the time, either.
Why he WAS a genocide denier. To keep calling him that after he rescinded it is intellectually dishonest at best, slander at worst.
