Category: Armenian Question

“The great Turk is governing in peace twenty nations from different religions. Turks have taught to Christians how to be moderate in peace and gentle in victory.”Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary

  • Armenian Intellectuals Appeal To Gul For Genocide Recognition

    Armenian Intellectuals Appeal To Gul For Genocide Recognition

     

     

     

     

     

    By Lilit Harutiunian

    Nearly 300 Armenian intellectuals and other public figures have appealed to Turkey to acknowledge that the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, saying that is a necessary condition for Turkish-Armenian reconciliation.

    In an open letter to Turkish President Abdullah Gul made public on Tuesday, they said modern-day Turkey bears “hereditary responsibility” for what they consider an “monumental crime against humanity.”

    “Genocide is a crime against humanity and present civilization values, and no individual, organization or even state authority can cast doubt on what happened,” the letter said, challenging Ankara’s vehement denial of any government policy to exterminate Ottoman Turkey’s Armenian population.

    “Your generation of Turkish leaders must accept the undeniable truth and recognize the fact of the Armenian Genocide … Only in that case can there be a sincere dialogue and a process of real reconciliation between our peoples,” it said.

    The letter was apparently initiated by prominent writers, musicians and artists close to Armenia’s ruling establishment, suggesting that it was approved by President Serzh Sarkisian. The latter has been instrumental in an unprecedented thaw in Turkish-Armenian relations observed in recent months. Sarkisian has won plaudits in the West for inviting Gul to visit Yerevan and watch with him a September match between Armenia’s and Turkey’s national soccer teams.

    The so-called “football diplomacy” was followed by a series of further negotiations between the Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers. It is still not clear, however, whether Ankara is ready to normalize relations with Yerevan before a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    The unprecedented open letter to Gul was welcomed on Tuesday by Giro Manoyan, a leading member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), a junior partner in the ruling coalition that has watched with unease Sarkisian’s diplomatic overtures to the Turks. “I think this letter is significant in the sense that it originated from Armenia and clearly reflects our public’s view that it is impossible to evade the issue of genocide recognition,” Manoyan told reporters.

    Dashnaktsutyun’s top governing body urged the Sarkisian administration last week to exercise caution in the ongoing rapprochement with Turkey, saying that Ankara is using it to scuttle recognition of the Armenian genocide by more countries, notably the United States.

    https://www.azatutyun.am/a/1598796.html

  • ATAA Sends Protest Letter to PBS

    ATAA Sends Protest Letter to PBS

    December 8, 2008

    To the Producers of Frontline and PBS Network,

    In a similar vein with Andrew Goldberg’s “The Armenian Genocide,” which many PBS stations aired in April 2006, the recent short documentary by George Kachadorian – Turkey: A Family Erased – amounts to little more than a paid advertisement for a single view on a genuine and unfinished historic debate.  Likewise, it adds little new to the study of the underlying controversy.  It is simply unremarkable and supports highly predictable theses.  Nevertheless, the broadcasting of this documentary disturbed the Turkish-American community to the utmost degree.

    As you may know, historians and legal scholars who are experts on the late Ottoman Empire, who have actually conducted the archival research and who are skilled in the languages necessary, do not share a doctrinal view on this issue.  For example, the following are among those respected experts who reject the label of genocide to describe the events of the period in question:  Bernard Lewis, Stanford Shaw, David Fromkin, Justin McCarthy, Guenther Lewy, Norman Stone, Kamuran Gurun, Michael Gunter, Gilles Veinstein, and William Batkay.  This is not an exhaustive list.  The ATAA will gladly provide more at your request.

    By no means does the ATAA seek to deny Armenians their voice to tell their story as they perceive it.  Yet many Armenian Americans work tirelessly to ensure that their view of history is the only view that is known.  If rewarded, these efforts will harm the fundamental right of all Americans, not just Turkish Americans, to learn about an historic controversy from a plurality of viewpoints and to reach their own conclusions.  Denying viewers the ability to observe the panel discussion following the program would clearly violate PBS’ standards of balance and objectivity and would eliminate the open dialogue that, as you have noted, is a crucial part of serving our democracy.

    Repeatedly showing documentaries reflecting on a single viewpoint vis-à-vis this complicated chapter in historical scholarship, while displaying a reluctant attitude or no interest at all on the other side of the same tragedy, which affected both Armenians and Muslims, is prejudicial. The PBS mission states that programs are aired that demonstrate multiple perspectives on such issues; PBS is also supposed to consider underserved audiences (i.e., Turkish-Americans), in making its broadcasting decisions.  What galls us most, however, is that PBS, partially with taxpayer funds, has been turned into an accomplice in the “Armenian genocide” industry.  Until PBS broadcasts a program that places the genocide issue in its proper historical perspective, it is failing in its mission as a publicly funded media organization.

    We wholeheartedly hope that you will also consider airing programs that portray other important dimensions of Turkey’s compelling history and urge you to consider airing programs that present views on both sides of the story on Armenian genocide allegations.  The ATAA can help suggest quality programming in this regard, much of which already exists and is ready to be aired.

    The ATAA is a District of Columbia tax-exempt, non-profit corporation comprising more than 50 local Turkish American community associations. Established in 1979, the ATAA promotes the interests of Turkish Americans in the United States. Among its goals is to ensure a balanced and accurate portrayal of Turkey and Turkish Americans in government, the media, and the public at large.

    Thank you for your consideration.

    Nurten Ural
    President
    Assembly of Turkish American Associations

    Contact Information:
    Nurten Ural, President, ATAA

    Onur Isci, Projects Coordinator, ATAA
    202.483.9090 PRESIDENT@ATAA.ORG

  • TURKEY IN EUROPE, IS IT THE END?- EUROPEAN ARMENIAN FEDERATION PRESS RELEASE

    TURKEY IN EUROPE, IS IT THE END?- EUROPEAN ARMENIAN FEDERATION PRESS RELEASE

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    EUROPEAN ARMENIAN FEDERATION
    For Justice & Democracy
    Avenue de la Renaissance 10
    B-1000 Bruxelles
    Tel/ Fax: +32 2 732 70 27/26
    Website :Eafjd

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    PRESS RELEASE

    For immediate release

    Monday 8 December 2008

    Contact : Varténie ECHO

    Tel. / Fax. : +32 (0) 2 732 70 27

    TURKEY IN EUROPE, IS IT THE END?

    – the draft report presented Tuesday in the European Parliament seems to definitely abandon the prospect of Turkey’s progress as well as its accession perspective

    – December 2009 set as a deadline date

    The Member of the European Parliament Ria Oomen-Ruijten (European Popular Party, Conservative, Netherlands) presented on Tuesday the draft version of her 2008 report on Turkey in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. Significantly, this presentation occurred late in front of a sparse assembly of Turkey’s supportive MEPs and of Anatolian journalists.

    From a general perspective, the draft resolution impresses through the resigned dissatisfaction it expresses: “concerns” and “regrets” are the main message delivered to Ankara while accession prospect is even no more mentioned, but to recall that it is subordinated to the “full compliance with all the Copenhagen criteria and EU integration capacity”.

    On the other hand, the report recalls its “concern to see in Turkey, for the third consecutive year, a continuous slowdown of the reform process” despite the strong mandate of the AKP government. It regrets too that the EC-Turkey Association Agreement and the Additional Protocol – which would be considered by Brussels as an implicit recognition of Cyprus by Turkey – “have not yet been implemented fully by the Turkish government” and it recalls that the non-fulfilment by Ankara of its commitment “by December 2009 will further seriously affect the process of negotiations”.

    “We are pleased to note the new tone of this report, compared to the previous year, which is now pointing out Turkey’s shortcomings rather than excusing them. Facing the countless failed pledges of Ankara, this report gives ground to the credibility of the EU political approach” stated Laurent Leylekian, executive director of the European Armenian Federation.

    About Human Rights and freedom of speech issues, the report regrets that “freedom of expression and freedom of the press are still not fully protected in Turkey”, that the amendment to Article 301 of the Penal Code was not sufficient, as people continue to be prosecuted” and it is now calling for the repeal of this article. It regrets also “the frequent website bans, the extent of which draws Turkey away from standards of a democratic, pluralistic society”.

    About minorities, the draft report expresses its concerns “about continuing hostility and violence” that they endure and about the fact that “Turkey has made no progress on ensuring cultural diversity and promoting respect for, and protection of, minorities”

    “These actual facts are very important to remind us, especially now, as Turkey is currently threatening even Europeans in Europe, especially those who dare to mention the Kurdish issue or the Armenian genocide – for instance columnists Alberto Rosselli, Dogan Özgüden or professor Ronald Mönsch” commented the director of the European Armenian Federation.

    About the various aspects of the Armenian issue, Mrs Oomen-Ruijten report “Welcomes the visit of President Gül to Armenia in September 2008 following an invitation from President Sarkisian, and hopes that it will indeed foster a climate favourable to the normalisation of relations between their countries”. The paragraph also “calls on the Turkish government to re-open its border with Armenia and to restore full economic and political relations with Armenia”. Lastly, Mrs Oomen-Ruijten restates her motto, calling “once again on the Turkish and Armenian governments to start a process of reconciliation, in respect of the present and the past, allowing for a frank and open discussion of past events; and calls on the Commission to facilitate this reconciliation process”.

    “This time again, Mrs Oomen-Ruijten keeps on to equalise victims and their butchers while genocide is an imprescriptible crime against Humanity that cannot be reduced to bilateral relations between two States” declared Laurent Leylekian. “We regret this outmoded attitude through which Turkey is encouraged to keep on its denial policy and through which she put in jeopardy Turkish intellectuals who are now less afraid to talk about the Armenian Genocide as such than some MEPs” he concluded.


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  • Armenian Activities in the Archive Documents 1914-1918

    Armenian Activities in the Archive Documents 1914-1918

    Turkish Armed Forces published archive documents about Armenian activities between 1914 and 1918. You can download those documents below. (In English, Turkish and original documents in Ottoman)

    Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5 | Volume 6

  • ABOUT INNOCENT ARMENIANS

    ABOUT INNOCENT ARMENIANS

    “As an  Armenian, I never condone terrorism, but there must be a reason behind this. Maybe terrorism will work. It worked for the Jews.

    They have  Israel.”

    Kevork Donabedian, the editor of the Armenian Weekly, an ethnic  newspaper published in the United States, reported in an  article in The  Christian Science Monitor, November 18, 1980

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    “We have first hand information and evidence of Armenian atrocities against our people (Jews). Members of our family witnessed the murder of 148 members of our family near Erzurum, Turkey, by Armenian neighbors, bent on destroying anything and anybody remotely Jewish and/or Muslim. Armenians should look to their own history and see the havoc they and their ancestors perpetrated upon their neighbors.

    Armenians were in league with Hitler in the last war, on his premise to grant themselves government if, in return, the Armenians would help exterminate Jews. Armenians were also hearty proponents of the anti-Semitic acts in league with the Russian Communists.”

    Signed Elihu Ben Levi, Vacaville, California.

    Source: Extracts from a letter dated December 11, 1983, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, as an answer to a letter that had been published in the same journal under the signature of one B. Amarian.

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    ERMENİLERİN YAPTIĞI KATLİAMLARDAN FOTOĞRAFLAR

    Balta ile Katliam: İzmit’in Kollar köyünden Ermeniler tarafından balta ile katledilen müslümanlardan bir kısmının olaydan sonra çekilen fotoğrafı; 1- Boşnak Malik 2- Abdulmecid oğlu Ali 3- Ali oğlu Seyid (14 yaşında) 4- Ömer oğlu Abdulgani 5- Abdulgani oğlu Mecid 6- Abdullah oğlu Hüseyin 7- Bekir oğlu Yusuf 8- Osman oğlu Ismail
    Kaynak : Ermeni Ayaklanmaları ve Ihtilal Hareketleri.

    Erzincan’da Ermeniler tarafından ırzına geçilerek öldürülen Pakize adlı bir Türk kadını.
    Kaynak :Massacre Exerted By The Armenian On The Turks During World War I Pictures.


    25 Nisan 1918’de, Subatan’da Ermeniler tarafından öldürülen Türk çocuklar, kadınlar ve karınları deşilerek bebekleri çıkarılan anneler.
    Kaynak:Massacre Exerted By The Armenian On The Turks During World War I Pictures.

    Erzincan’ın Odabaşı bölgesinde, Ermeniler tarafından oyularak katledilen bir Türk.
    Kaynak :Massacre Exerted By The Armenian On The Turks During World War I Pictures.

     


    Sivas’ta Ermeni çeteleri tarafından yapılan katliamda boğazı kesilerek öldürülen jandarma Mustafa.
    Kaynak : Ermeni Ayaklanmaları ve Ihtilal Hareketleri.


    Ordudan hava değişikliği için terhis edilen ve 23 Temmuz 1915 de Diyarbakır’ın Lice kazasına bağlı Kum ve Çom köyleri civarında elleri ayakları bağlanarak Ermeni komitecileri tarafından şehid edilen askerler.
    Kaynak : Ermeni Ayaklanmaları ve Ihtilal Hareketleri.

    Diyarbakır’ın Şark nahiyesine bağlı Hızır İlyas köyü Mersani deresi (23 Temmuz 1915). Hono ismindeki ermeninin başında bulunduğu çete tarafından hançer ve kurşunla şehit edilen erkek, kadın ve çocuklar.
    Kaynak : Ermeni Ayaklanmaları ve Ihtilal Hareketleri.

     

    29 Ağustos 1914 tarihinde Ermeni çeteleri tarafından Siverek-Urfa Yüksekyol ve Karacadağ civarında türbe ziyareti sırasında esir edilip canlı hedef yapılarak şehit edilen müslüman Türkler.
    Kaynak : Ermeni Ayaklanmaları ve Ihtilal Hareketleri.

     


    Silvan civarında, Beşnik ermeni köyüne Van ve Tolorya’dan gelip, Doryan Dano ve kardeşlerinin başında bulunduğu Ermeni çeteleri tarafından 11 Haziran 1915 tarihinde Şeytankaya mevkiinde şehit edilen milis subayı Hamid Efendi komutasında bulunan erzak kafilesi, jandarması ve subayları.
    Kaynak : Ermeni Ayaklanmaları ve Ihtilal Hareketleri.

    Erzincan Odabaşı bölgesinde, birbirlerine bağlanmış halde öldürülmüş kadın ve çocukların cansız bedenleri.
    Kaynak :Massacre Exerted By The Armenian On The Turks During World War I Pictures.

     

    16 Şubat 1918’de, Erzincan’ın Vagarir köyünde, Ermeniler tarafından şehit edilen ve bir evin arkasında bulunan şehit edilmiş Türkler.
    Kaynak :Massacre Exerted By The Armenian On The Turks During World War I Pictures.

      

    Hasankale’de, Ermeniler tarafından şehit edilen kadın ve çocuklar.
    Kaynak:Massacre Exerted By The Armenian On The Turks During World War I Pictures


    Düşmanım, düşmanlığından vazgeçinceye kadar, ben de onun amansız düşmanıyım.
    Gazi Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK

     


    Özkan BOSTANCI
  • The justice for 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic Jews, cold-bloodedly murdered by the Armenians

    The justice for 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic Jews, cold-bloodedly murdered by the Armenians

    From: yuce_neriman <yuce_neriman@yahoo.com>
    Bakin, bir ornek

    The justice for 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic
    Jews, cold-bloodedly murdered by the Armenians, is long overdue. And,
    here is the fascist Armenian reaction to the Armenian genocide of 2.5
    million Muslims and Sephardic Jews that took place between 1914 and 1920.

    The following is the complete text of a letter posted in 1990
    by _SDPA-Armenian Church_ in reaction to the 75th Kurdish, Azeri,
    Tartar, Jewish and Turkish public demonstrations which took place
    on the 75th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 2.5 million
    Muslim and Sephardic Jewish People.

    Source: SDPA-Armenian Church <8…@urartu.UUCP>

    _Oh! You low down creature Kurds, you dirty bastards of humanity.
    Like a flock of stupid cows, for the sake of your ulterior motives,
    you have even inoculated your cradled children with the poison of
    the snake. You spread your poison everywhere.

    Oh! You bunch of ungrateful pigs, degenerate profit seekers, betrayers
    of your race, you Tartars, problem of your race. You have been driven
    away from seven places. For fifty years you have been in the cradle of
    humanity, still you could not be human; you brainless jackasses.

    You say that the Armenians massacred you. You commit errors taller
    than your height. Who are you competing with? What do you want and
    from whom? You do not know what you want and from whom.

    Now, of all the races of the world, the Aryan Armenian, possessor of
    noble reputation, relying on the power of the gun and the Church, is
    waiting in line to slay a few million God damn Muslims and Jews.

    God damn Azeris, we are once and for all going to wipe you from the
    face of the earth. This is a legacy left to us by our holy Aryan
    Armenians — Dashnaks and Hunchaks.

    Oh! Christian world knows this well: The world will never have peace
    until we have destroyed these miserable Muslims and Jews on the face
    of the world.

    For the love of Jesus, if you kill one Muslim you will qualify for
    heaven.

    Oh! You fake, coward, Jews; you load mouth Jews. You enter a village
    where there is no dog, and strike left and right without a cane.

    Where are these jackass Turks? What are they waiting for? If you can,
    why don’t you take from Armenia Erivan, Djul, Alexandropol, Hadjin,
    and Hortye; you troublemakers. The Aryan Armenian power is waiting
    for you.

    In the very near future, with the help of Christ and the help of the
    Soviet Union, we will turn Karabag into a graveyard. This also you
    shall learn, that Jesus has placed the faith of the Kurdish people in
    the palm of the Aryan Armenian.

    You should know this well: Neither your swords, nor your Allah, nor
    any nation is able to save you from our hands.

    A few Kurds in Soviet Armenia are slaves in our hands; they are our
    sheep to be slaughtered.

    Oh! You Muslim fox hoards, your seven mosques represent all the Muslim
    mosques. We are going to destroy them over your head and hang your
    leaders by their feet.

    As to your religious leaders, we will spill their guts in the streets
    as we did during the World War I. Let the entire world be spectators
    and see the mighty power of Aryan Armenia which equals the power of
    the whole world.

    Oh! You ungodly miserables, either you are going to become Christian
    and accept the true religion, or we will eliminate you from the face
    of this earth.

    Now, this is your fate, don’t depend on the European and Middle Eastern
    nations, or the United States.

    Only we can bring you to the true fate.

    Only you know, very well, the sharp cutting edge of the Aryan Armenian
    sword.

    When you commemorate the memory of your martyrs, you can add this
    document as an announcement to the world._

    SDPA-Armenian Church <8…@urartu.UUCP>

    Notwithstanding his regular lectures all over the world, Dr. Artun
    also frequently appears on TV shows regarding the Armenian slaughtering
    of 2.5 million innocent Muslims and Sephardic Jews as well as the
    recent Armenian genocide of 1.1 million Azeri people. He is truly
    the just voice of the justice against the unspeakable crimes of
    the Armenians perpetrated against the Muslim and Jewish people
    as has also been amply admitted by the Russian Armenian Government.

    Avetis Aharonian, _From Sardarapat to Sevres and Lausanne_
    Armenian Review, Vol. 16, No. 3-63, Autumn,
    Sep. 1963, pp. 47-57.

    p. 52 (second paragraph).

    _Your three Armenian chiefs, Dro, Hamazasp and Kulkhandanian are
    the ringleaders of the bands which have destroyed Muslim villages
    and have staged massacres in Zangezour, Surmali, Etchmiadzin, and
    Zangibasar. This is intolerable. Look – and here he pointed to a
    file of official documents on the table – look at this, here in
    December are the reports of the last few months concerning ruined
    Muslim villages which my representative Wardrop has sent me. The
    official Tartar communique speaks of the destruction of 300 villages
    by the Armenians._

    p. 54 (fifth paragraph).

    _Yes, of course. I repeat, until this massacre of the Muslim is
    stopped and the three chiefs are not removed from your military
    leadership I hardly think we can supply you arms and ammunition._

    _It is the armed bands led by Dro, Hamazasp and Kulkhandanian who
    during the past months have raided and destroyed many Muslim villages
    in the regions of Surmali, Etchmiadzin, Zangezour, and Zangibasar.
    There are official charges of massacres by the Armenians._

    R. Korkmaz, _The Armenian Genocide of 2.5 Million Muslim People as
    Narrated by Living Eye Witnesses”, 1993, Kok Publishers.

    Prof F. Hertas, _Van Muslim Holocaust Museum: Muslim and Western
    Documents on the Genocide Committed by the Armenians
    Against the Muslims,_ 1984.

    p. 147.

    _Between 1914 and 1920, two and a half million Muslim people were
    murdered by the Armenians in Russian Armenia and Eastern Anatolia._

    Sahak Melkonian, _Preserving the Armenian Purity_ 1920

    _In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists a single Turkish
    soul. It is in our power to tear away the veil of illusion that
    some of us create for ourselves. It certainly is possible to severe
    the artificial life-support system of an imagined ‘ethnic purity’
    that some of us falsely trust as the only structure that can support
    their heart beats in this alien land._

    _San Francisco Chronicle_ (December 11, 1983) — Section B

    _We have first hand information and evidence of Armenian
    atrocities against our people (Jews). Members of our family
    witnessed the murder of 148 members of our family near Erzurum,
    Turkey, by Armenian neighbors, bent on destroying anything and
    anybody remotely Jewish and/or Muslim…Armenians were in league
    with Hitler in the last war, on his premise to grant themselves
    government if, in return, the Armenians would help exterminate
    Jews. Armenians were also hearty proponents of the anti-Semitic
    acts in league with the Russian Communists._

    Signed Elihu Ben Levi, Vacaville, California.

    The Jewish Times_ June 21, 1990 by Rachel Amado Bortnick

    _An appropriate analogy with the Jewish Holocaust might be the
    systematic extermination of the entire Muslim population of
    the independent republic of Armenia which consisted of at
    least 30-40 percent of the population of that republic. The
    memoirs of an Armenian army officer who participated in and
    eye-witnessed these atrocities was published in the U.S. in
    1926 with the title ‘Men Are Like That.’

    During the years of World War I, the Russian Armenian Government has
    planned and perpetrated the ‘Genocide’ of the Muslim and Sephardic Jewish
    people, which not only took the lives of 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic
    Jews, but was also the method used to empty the Turkish and Kurdish
    homeland
    of its inhabitants. To this day, Turkish and Kurdish historic lands remain
    occupied by the fascist Russian Armenia. In order to cover up the fact of
    its usurpation of the historic Muslim homeland, which is the crux of the
    Turkish and Kurdish political demands, fascist Russian Armenia continues
    its anti-Muslim/Jewish policy in the following ways:

    1. Russian Armenia denies the historical fact of the ‘Muslim Holocaust’
    in order to shift international public opinion away from its political
    responsibility.

    2. Russian Armenia, employing SDPA and Armenian Church, attempts to call
    into question the veracity of the ‘Muslim Holocaust’.

    3. Russian Armenia has also implemented state-sponsored terrorism through
    SDPA in an attempt to silence the Turkish, Azeri and Kurdish people’s
    vehement demands and protests.

    4. Using all its human, financial, and governmental resources, Russian
    Armenia and its tools in the United States attempt to silence through
    terrorism, censorship, bribery and other subversive methods, non-Muslim
    and non-Jewish supporters of the Turkish and Azeri Cause, be they
    political,
    governmental and humanitarian.

    Using all the aforementioned methods, the Russian Armenian Government
    is attempting to neutralize the international diplomatic community from
    making the Turkish and Azeri Case a contemporary issue.

    Yet despite the efforts of the fascist Russian Armenian Government and
    its criminal and revisionist organizations, in the last decades, thanks
    to the struggle of those whose closest ones have been systematically
    exterminated by the cowardly Armenians, the international wall of silence
    on this issue has begun to collapse, and consequently a number of
    governments
    and organizations have become supportive of the recognition of the ‘Muslim
    Holocaust’.

    With the full knowledge that the struggle for the Turkish, Kurdish and
    Azeri territorial demands are still in their initial stages, the Turkish,
    Azeri and Kurdish people will unflaggingly continue in this sacred
    struggle, therefore the victims of the ‘Muslim Holocaust’ demand:

    1. that the current Russian Armenian Government, as the heirs of the
    fascist ex-Russian Armenian Government, recognize the ‘Muslim Holocaust’;

    2. that Russian Armenia return the historic homeland to the Turkish, Azeri
    and Kurdish people;

    3. that the Russian Armenian Government make material reparations for
    their heinous and unspeakable crime to the victims of the ‘Muslim
    Holocaust’;

    4. that all World Governments, and especially the United States,
    officially
    recognize the ‘Muslim Holocaust’ and, Turkish and Azeri territorial rights
    and refuse to succumb to all Armenian political pressure;

    5. that the U.S. Government free itself from the friendly position it
    has adopted towards its unreliable and cowardly ally, Russian Armenia,
    and officially recognize the historical fact of the ‘Muslim Holocaust’
    as well as be supportive of the pursuit of Turkish and Azeri territorial
    demands;

    6. that the ex-Soviet Republics officially recognize the historical fact
    of the ‘Muslim Holocaust’ and include the cold-blooded extermination of
    2.5 million Muslim and Sephardic Jewish people in their history books.

    The awareness of the Turkish, Azeri, Kurdish and Sephardic Jewish people
    of the necessity of solidarity in the efforts to pursue the Muslim and
    Jewish Cause is seen by the victims of the first genocide of the 20th
    century, perpetrated by the Armenians, as a positive step. Furthermore,
    a new generation has risen — equipped with a deep sense of commitment,
    politically mature and conscious, who determinedly pursue the Muslim
    and Jewish Cause, through all necessary means, ranging from the political
    and diplomatic to the armed struggle. Therefore, the victims of the
    ‘Muslim
    Holocaust’ call upon all Sephardic Jews and Muslims in the United States
    and Canada to participate vigorously in the political, cultural and
    religious
    activities of the 80th Anniversary of the Armenian genocide of 2.5 million
    Muslim and Sephardic Jewish people.

    ——-

    On behalf of 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic Jews exterminated by the
    Armenians in ex-Russian Armenia and Eastern Anatolia between 1914 and
    1920, I wish to thank you for articulating the first genocide of this
    century in such a productive manner even though I found the tone of UTA’s
    letter rather strong.

    Leonard Ramsden Hartill, _Men Are Like That_ The Bobbs-Merrill
    Company, Indianapolis (1926).
    _Memoirs of an Armenian officer who participated in the Armenian
    genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people_

    p. 202 (first and second paragraphs)

    _We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as
    ways of escape for the Tartars and then proceeded in the work
    of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village.
    Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts
    into heaps of stone and dust and when the villages became untenable
    and inhabitants fled from them into fields, bullets and bayonets
    completed the work. Some of the Tartars escaped of course. They
    found refuge in the mountains or succeeded in crossing the border
    into Turkey. The rest were killed. And so it is that the whole
    length of the borderland of Russian Armenia from Nakhitchevan to
    Akhalkalaki from the hot plains of Ararat to the cold mountain
    plateau of the North were dotted with mute mournful ruins of
    Tartar villages. They are quiet now, those villages, except for
    howling of wolves and jackals that visit them to paw over the
    scattered bones of the dead._

    A. Lalayan, _Revolutsionniy Vostok (Revolutionary East)_
    No: 2-3, Moscow, 1936.
    -One of the architects of the Armenian genocide
    of 2.5 million Muslim people_

    _I killed Muslims by every means possible. Yet it is
    sometimes a pity to waste bullets for this. The best
    way is to gather all of these dogs and throw them into
    wells and then fill the wells with big and heavy stones,
    as I did. I gathered all of the women, men and children,
    threw big stones down on top of them. They must never live
    on this earth._

    _The New York Times_ November 7, 1914

    _Massacre of Muslims by Armenians Reported in Van_

    Stanford J. Shaw, _On Armenian Massacres of Muslims in 1914_
    (London, Cambridge University Press 1977). pp. 315-316.

    _In April 1915 Armenians from Russian Armenia organized a revolt in
    the city of Van, whose 33,789 Armenians comprised 42.3 percent of
    the population. Leaving Erivan on April 28, 1915, Armenian volunteers
    reached Van on May 14 and organized and carried out a general slaughter
    of the local Muslim population during the next two days._

    _U.S. Ambassador Bristol on the Armenian Genocide of 2.5 million Muslims_

    “U.S. Library of Congress” _Bristol Papers_ – General
    Correspondence Container #34.

    _While the Dashnaks [x-Russian Armenian Government] were in
    power they did everything in the world to keep the pot boiling
    by attacking Kurds, Turks and Tartars; by committing outrages
    against the Moslems; by massacring the Moslems; and robbing and
    destroying their homes. During the last two years the Armenians
    in Russian Caucasus have shown no ability to govern themselves
    and especially no ability to govern or handle other races under
    their power._

    _Bristol Papers_, General Correspondence: Container #32: Bristol
    to Bradley Letter of September 14, 1920.

    _I have it from absolute first-hand information that the
    Armenians in the Caucasus attacked Tartar (Muslim) villages
    that are utterly defenseless and bombarded these villages
    with artillery and they murder the inhabitants, pillage the
    village and often burn the village._

    On this occasion, we once again reiterate the unquestioned
    justice of the restitution of Turkish, Azeri, Sephardic Jewish
    and Kurdish rights and:

    — We demand that the puppet Russian Armenian Government admit
    its responsibility for the _Muslim Holocaust_, render reparations
    to the Muslim people, and return the land to its rightful
    owners. The recognition of the Genocide has become an issue
    which cannot be delayed further, and it is imperative that
    artificial obstacles created for political manipulations be
    removed.

    — We believe the time has come to demand from the the United
    States that it formally recognizes the _Muslim Holocaust_,
    adopts the principles of our demands and refuses to accede
    to Armenian pressures to the contrary.

    — As taxpayers of the United States, we express our vehement
    protest to the present U.S. Government policy of continued
    coddling, protection and unqualified assistance towards fascist
    Russian Armenia.

    — On the eve of 80th Anniversary Commemoration, the Turkish,
    Azeri and Kurdish communities are using every measure possible
    to render APRIL 23 as a day of official recognition in the
    countries in which they live. We are certain that the Turks,
    Azeris and Kurds in Turkiye and in the Diaspora would be greatly
    satisfied if APRIL 23 is officially designated a _Muslim Holocaust
    Day_ in ex-Soviet Muslim Republics.

    — During the 80th Anniversary, we come once again reiterate the unity
    of the Muslim and Sephardic Jewish People, the timelessness of the
    Turkish, Azeri and Kurdish Demands and the desire to pursue the
    struggle for that restitution — a struggle that unites all Muslims
    and Sephardic Jews.

    — Today, we appeal to all Turkish, Azeri, Jewish and Kurdish people
    in the United States and Canada to participate en masse in the
    Commemorative Events, be they cultural, political or religious.

    Crime of systematic cleansing by mass killing and extermination of
    Muslim population in Soviet Republic of Armenia, Karabag, Bosnia and
    Herzegovina is an ‘Islamic Holocaust’ comparable to extermination of
    2.5 million Muslims by Armenian Government during WWI and of over 6
    million European Jews during WWII.] (Tovfik Kasimov – September 25, ’92)