It is particularly ironic that many Kurds from Turkey’s southeastern provinces, having been promised Armenian property and a guaranteed place in heaven for killing infidels, were willingly complicit in the genocide. They later found themselves on the losing end of a long history of violence between their own separatist forces and the Turkish army, as well as being subjected to an ongoing policy of discrimination and forced assimilation.
尤为讽刺的是，许多曾向亚美尼亚人承诺杀害异教徒就能保证进入天堂并获得一笔财产的土耳其东南部库尔德人，对参与这场种族屠杀尤为积极。他们后来发现，在这场发生在他们自己的分裂势力和土耳其军队之间的长期武力斗争中，他们丝毫未沾任何便宜，还不得不屈服在一个歧视和被迫同化的政策之下。