Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan
The Turkish Mission to the UN
821 UN Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Dear Ambassador,
I was invited and attended a symposium organized by Armenians at the UN building on 29 July 2010. It was presented to look like it was under the auspices of the UN.
It turned out to be neither. It was a political pep rally of the Armenians. Enclosed you will find the invitation, my response to the organizers and a letter I wrote to the UN Secretary General.
As a Turkish born citizen of the US I would like to suggest that we need to represent the Turkish view in a more proactive way than be just reactive. If the Turkish Mission would organize a similar symposium at the UN grounds and it may even give the illusion that it was sanctioned by the UN as the Armenians did, I would be willing the assist in any way I can. My dear friend Sukru Aya travels to the US from time to time. His book “The Genocide of Truth” is a valuable reference book. I could ask him to present a lecture Surely there are others who are willing. Turkish Forum is a good source.
I extend my best wishes to you and the entire Turkish staff.
Sincerely,
Demirtas Bayar, TurkishForum Seref Uyesi
White plains, NY
demirtas@celalbayar.org
August 10, 2010
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Dear Presenter,
I was invited and attended a meeting by the UN Armenian delegation at the UN building on 29 July 2010 billed as a seminar and suggested that it was under UN auspices. Neither was correct.
In a seminar one discusses statements made by other speakers. I asked to be heard about an incorrect statement made by the Presenter. I was not allowed to complete my sentence. This meeting then turned out to be a political pep rally where other true facts were not allowed to be presented.
The Presenter incorrectly stated that the deaths of Turks during WWI were due only to the battle conditions. The truth is that the destruction of 22 villages and the killing of 500,000 Turks, Kurds and Jews were committed by the Hinchak and Dashnak terrorist organizations. Excavations of mass graves since 1980 are still continuing. The names of the killed and the vanished families are known and are being classified. The background of the two Armenian terrorist organizations is clearly explained by William Langer [1] who received a Medal of Merit from President Truman and at the time was considered as the dean of historians. Katchaznouni, [2] the first prime minister of Armenia, in his report to the Dashnak Party conference in 1923 also describes their war efforts and puts the blame for the outcome of the failure to create an independent State to the Armenian extremists’ excesses and not on the Turks.
The speaker also made a summary judgment of her own in assigning the crime of Genocide to the Turks making it an Un-American statement. In the US and in all civilized Nations there is the concept of due process. We do not call a person criminal until the person is convicted in a court of law. We use the word alleged. In some cases the person is acquitted. At the end of WWI the western allied Nations occupied Turkey. The English prosecutors imprisoned more than 100 prominent Turks such as Governors, Cabinet members and Army Generals and sent them to Malta for trial accusing them of crimes against humans, war crimes and torturing Armenians. These trials were the same kind as the WWII trials in Nuremberg. For two years the prosecutors of the occupying Nations searched the archives of the Ottomans for evidence. They found none. They asked the US Government for evidence. The US Government’s reply was that they did not have any evidence either. The documents regarding these trials are available in the archives of the British and US archives. All one needs to do is to be willing to learn the truth. This then brings up the other unethical attitude of the Armenian speaker. In the US we have a concept called “double jeopardy” which prohibits a second trial after an acquittal.
Due process was applied by the Bosnians charging Serbia with genocide in the International Criminal Court. UN Human Rights Organizations did not announce that genocide was committed in Darfur but just recently charged El-Basher with genocide in Courts. An individual like the Presenter in this meeting cannot assume they represent the UN and make criminal accusations.
Another clearly incorrect statement by the Presenter was that 1-1.5 million Armenians were killed. At the Paris Conference in 1918 the Armenian representative Nubar Pasha suggested that the Armenians be recognized as a group who fought alongside the Allies and helped the Russians to advance into Turkey. At that conference on behalf of the Armenians Venizelos claimed that 2,100,000 Armenians (an exaggeration) were living before the War. In the US a relief organization to assist Armenians was approved by the President on Aug. 6, 1918 and the report on the “Near East Relief” [3] gives the status and audits up to Dec. 31, 1921. The report states that 400,000 Armenians fled Near East Cities such as Van and Kars and went to Transcaucases with the Russians when they retreated. Also stated is that in 1921 there were 1,000,000 (One Million) Armenians living in the Near East. Also stated is that 200,000 Armenians who joined the French returned after the French occupation of Cilicia ended but then left again. The US government is accounting for 1.6 million living Armenians in 1921 out of at most 2 million in 1912. Ottoman State census of 1905 puts the population of the Armenians in their territories at 1,294,851. The Armenians make an impossible claim that their population grew by 800,000 in 10 years. Those interested in learning more of the truth may read the works indicated below:
References:
[1]. “The Diplomacy of Imperialism,” by William L. Langer, published by A. Knoff, NY 1935. The author was awarded the Medal of Merit by President Truman.
[2] “There is nothing more the Tashnak Party Can Do,” by Hovhannes Katchaznouni, 1923. This report was written by the first Prime Minister of the Armenian Republic and was presented to the Tashnak Party conference in 1923.
[3] “Near East Relief,” Report Doc# 192, presented by Mr. Lodge on 67th session of Congress-Senate, on April 22, 1922” was printed in 1923 by US Government Printing Office. The relief organization was approved by the President on Aug. 6, 1918 and the report gives the status and audits up to Dec. 31, 1921.
[4] “The Armenians,” by C.F. Dixon-Johnson, published by G. Toulmin, UK 1916. The author was a Captain in the British Army and was designated as a hero in the Boer War. He wrote:
“Give a lie twenty-four hours’ start and it will take a hundred years to overtake it.”
[5] “Revisiting the Armenian Genocide,” by Guenter Lewy, Middle East Quarterly, 1925. Available on www.meforum.org/article/748.
[6] Admiral M. L. Bristol US High Commissioner in the near East after in depth investigation of the conditions in the region wrote in his report on 21 March, 1921 that “. . .such Armenian reports are absolutely false.” This shows that Morgenthau who did not visit any Anatolian provinces, relied solely on the unsubstantiated and biased interpretation of the events by his Armenian assistant.
[7] Most prominent historians such as Mango, McCarthy, Shaw, etc dispute the term genocide as it applies to the events of WWI.
Sincerely,
Demirtas Bayar (demirtas@celalbayar.org)
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YOU ARE INVITED TO A SYMPOSIUM
at
UNITED NATIONS
on
Preventing Genocide and Torture
Political, legal, and mind-body-spirit Perspectives
Thursday, 29 July, 11 AM – 12:30 PM
UNITED NATIONS Conf. room B, 46th street @ First Avenue, new building, kindly enter from visitor’s entrance
Honoring all victims and survivors
SPEAKERS: Hansdeep Singh, LLM, Legal Associate Director for Voices for Freedom
Martin Harrich, MBA, PhD cand. UN OCHA
Representative of Office of Prevention of Genocide
Dr Ani Kalayjian, ATOP of Meaningfulworld, Mind-Body-Spirit perspectives
Chair and Facilitator, Dr. Ani Kalayjian
26 June 1987, the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Punishment or Treatment came into force. June 26 is commemorated as the
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
UN Definitions: Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him/her, or a third person, information or a confession, punishing him/her for an act s/he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating them.
Gratitude for the following cosponsoring organizations: THE PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA TO THE UNITED NATIONS, Association for Trauma Outreach & Prevention ATOP of Meaningfulworld; Armenian American Society for Studies on Stress & Genocide; Voices for Freedom, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (INVITED); Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide (INVITED)
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