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The article, as it can be inferred from the title too, focuses on the authors attitude towards the apology campaign conducted by the enlightened people of our society but mainly towards those people's opinions on the Armenian Genocide. The campaign is just a tool that the writer uses in order to criticize the ones who believe there has been genocide. The author chose to demonstrate an offensive and assailing approach to the issue of Armenian Genocide; it is evidently an arousing and tempting article for the ones who deny the genocide yet an insulting one for the people who admit it. Atiye Danış starts the article by condemning the enlightened people of The Republic of Turkey such as Baskın Oran and Ahmet Insel due to the campaign they conducted which aims to attract Turkish citizens in order to apologize from the Armenians. The author is of course free to express her opinions but the article would have been more influential if the arguments she makes were not inaccurate. It is so in this case because she merely criticizes the conductors of the campaign by using insulting words rather than stating the facts which prove that there was no genocide.

The issue is that the article is neither persuasive nor cogent because she does not compare the treachery Armenians have done during the World War One with what the enlightened people of our country is thinking, which would be a valid reasoning, but she simply says what the people who consider themselves as enlightened people are doing is totally redundant and vacuous. She even refers to those people as traitors. Later on, the author provides examples of the nations who are supposed to apologize from other nations such as USA from Japan, Cuba, Korea, Iraq and Iran, and Germany from Poland, Russia, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France and Austria, and claim that if those countries do not apologize, then how come we are supposed to apologize to Armenia. But would she accept to apologize if those