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  • BARRACK OBAMA AND ARMENIAN ALLEGATIONS

    BARRACK OBAMA AND ARMENIAN ALLEGATIONS

    Barack Obama on the Importance of US-Armenia Relations

    | January 19, 2008

    I am proud of my strong record on issues of concern to the one and a half million Americans of Armenian heritage in the United States. I warmly welcome the support of this vibrant and politically active community as we change how our government works here at home, and restore American leadership abroad.

    I am a strong supporter of a U.S.-Armenian relationship that advances our common security and strengthens Armenian democracy. As President, I will maintain our assistance to Armenia, which has been a reliable partner in the fight against terrorism and extremism. I will promote Armenian security by seeking an end to the Turkish and Azerbaijani blockades, and by working for a lasting and durable settlement of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict that is agreeable to all parties, and based upon America’s founding commitment to the principles of democracy and self determination. And my Administration will help foster Armenia’s growth and development through expanded trade and targeted aid, and by strengthening the commercial, political, military, developmental, and cultural relationships between the U.S. and Armenian governments.

    I also share with Armenian Americans – so many of whom are descended from genocide survivors – a principled commitment to commemorating and ending genocide. That starts with acknowledging the tragic instances of genocide in world history. As a U.S. Senator, I have stood with the Armenian American community in calling for Turkey’s acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide. Two years ago, I criticized the Secretary of State for the firing of U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, John Evans, after he properly used the term “genocide” to describe Turkey’s slaughter of thousands of Armenians starting in 1915. I shared with Secretary Rice my firmly held conviction that the Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence. The facts are undeniable. An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical facts is an untenable policy. As a senator, I strongly support passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106 and S.Res.106), and as President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide.

    Genocide, sadly, persists to this day, and threatens our common security and common humanity. Tragically, we are witnessing in Sudan many of the same brutal tactics – displacement, starvation, and mass slaughter – that were used by the Ottoman authorities against defenseless Armenians back in 1915. I have visited Darfurian refugee camps, pushed for the deployment of a robust multinational force for Darfur, and urged divestment from companies doing business in Sudan. America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides. I intend to be that President.

    I look forward, as President, to continuing my active engagement with Armenian American leaders on the full range of issues of concern to the Armenian American community. Together, we will build, in new and exciting ways, upon the enduring ties and shared values that have bound together the American and Armenian peoples for more than a century.

  • Official: Aliya from Turkey to double

    Official: Aliya from Turkey to double

    By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
    The number of Jews expected to immigrate to
    Israel from Turkey this year is likely to double compared to last year,
    but the level remains extremely low despite surging anti-Israel and
    anti-Semitic incidents in the predominantly Muslim country, a Jewish
    Agency for Israel official said Sunday.

    A
    Turkish demonstrator displays a shoe on a banner during a protest
    against Israel at the Kocatepe mosque in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday.
    Photo: AP

    Separately,
    the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Venezuela said Sunday that he doubted
    whether the South American country held any future for the Jewish
    community, following the Friday night vandalism of the oldest synagogue
    in the country.

    About 250 Turkish Jews are expected to immigrate to Israel this
    year, more than double the 112 who did so last year, said Eli Cohen,
    director-general of the Jewish Agency’s Immigration and Absorption
    Department in Jerusalem.

    The number of expected immigrants from Turkey this year makes
    up only 1 percent of the 25,000-strong Jewish community that traces its
    roots in the nation back more than five centuries, dating to the
    Spanish Inquisition.

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    “We
    would prefer that the main reason for aliya today [be] the ideology of
    those immigrants who come from Western countries, but we see that the
    anti-Semitic incidents, as well as the global economic crisis, are what
    is furthering aliya today,” Cohen said.

    He noted that many of the Turkish Jews seeking to make aliya
    were students or young couples wanting to study at Israeli universities
    or to live in Israel.

    Relations
    between Israel and Turkey hit a nadir last week after Turkish Prime
    Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been a leading and vitriolic
    critic of Israel’s recent military operation against Hamas in Gaza,
    stormed out of a panel discussion with President Shimon Peres at the
    World Economic Forum in Davos.

    At the same time, the Jewish Agency official said Sunday that
    there was “a large interest” in immigration to Israel among Jews living
    in Venezuela. About 14,500 Jews live there, and only 60 immigrated to
    Israel last year.

    All Israeli representatives were kicked out of the country last
    month during Operation Cast Lead, but the agency is in daily contact
    with Jewish groups there, Cohen said.

    Meanwhile, Rabbi Pynchas Brener of Venezuela said Sunday that
    he was doubtful that there was any future for the Jewish community
    there.

    “There is a psychological mechanism which makes people within
    the country think things are not as bad as they seem,” Brener told The Jerusalem Post
    in a telephone interview from Caracas. “For psychological reasons,
    people who live in the country tend to justify actions taken against
    them.”

    His comments came after the main Sephardi synagogue in Caracas was vandalized by a group of attackers.

    Two security guards were overpowered by about 15 people who
    ransacked the synagogue’s sanctuary and offices late Friday, shattering
    religious objects and leaving graffiti such as, “We don’t want
    murderers,” and “Jews, get out.”

    The incident forced the synagogue to cancel Saturday services.

    “Reason makes us believe that this was done with the consent –
    if not the instigation – of some central power in Venezuela,” he said.

    He noted that Israel and Jews were viewed as synonymous in the
    South American country, adding that an upcoming vote on whether the
    president could be reelected indefinitely could prove to be a harbinger
    of things to come.

    “I do not know if in this environment there will be a future for the Jewish community here,” he said.

    The New York-based Anti-Defamation League called the synagogue incident “a modern day Kristallnacht.”

    “This violent attack, occurring on the Jewish Sabbath, is
    reminiscent of the darkest days leading to the Shoah, when Jews were
    attacked and synagogues and Torahs vandalized and destroyed under the
    guard of the Nazi regime,” said ADL National Director Abraham H.
    Foxman.

    Foxman said the heinous anti-Jewish hate crime was not random,
    but was “directly related to the atmosphere of anti-Jewish intimidation
    promoted by President Hugo Chavez and his government apparatus.”

    The organization called for Chavez to “abandon the official
    government rhetoric of demonization of Israel and the Jews and to
    publicly denounce this wanton act of anti-Semitic violence.”

    Separately, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center said
    Sunday that Chavez’s attacks on Israel and the Jewish community had
    “set the stage” for the incident.

    “This was no mere hate crime from the margins of society, but a
    reflection of President Chavez’s campaign to demonize Israel and her
    supporters,” the organization said. “For this dangerous escalation of
    hate against a minority to stop, President Chav


    From: Haluk Demirbag,

    Subject: Official: Aliya from Turkey to double

    Israil senelerdir sayıları az bile olsa değerleri çok olan Turkiyeli Musevi

    kardeşlerimizi İsraile göçe itmek için çok yol denedi. Tayyip ve Simon

    amcaların danışıklı döğüş yapabileceğini neden kimse düşünemiyor?

    Bir taşla iki kuş vuruluyor:

    1. Tayyip secimler için müthiş bir hamle yapıyor
    2. Simon amca da, senelerdir danışmanlarının Israil’e çekebilmek için akla
    karayı seçtiği Türk milletinden ayrılmak istemeyen Türkiye Musevilerine,
    bilet kesiyor…

    Yakın zamanda Gürcistan’ı hatırlayalım…

    Siyonizmin güçlenmesi için sahte ve kontrollü anti-semitizm ispatlı ve iyi
    yazılmış çizilmiş bir yoldur.

    Eski tüfek Simon amca da Tayyip de ne yaptığını biliyor kendi hedefleri açısından…

    Türkiye’de olabilecek herhangi bir anti-semitizim çıkışına karşı
    herkesin duyarlı ve uyanık olması lazım. Biz asırlardır bağrımızda
    sakladığımız, koruyup kolladığımız sevgili Musevi dostlarımızı ve
    peygamberlerin torunlarını kimseye vermek istemiyoruz, Israil dahil,  onlar
    bize Osmanlı atalarımızın emaneti!!!

    Official: Aliya from Turkey
    to double

    ez’s hate campaign must be denounced by all leaders in the Americas and beyond.”

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  • PKK WEB SIDE: Joint Declaration: Enough with this Turkey!

    PKK WEB SIDE: Joint Declaration: Enough with this Turkey!

    Joint Declaration: Enough with this Turkey!

    On the occasion of the Dersim Conference held at European Parliament on November 13, 2008, five Brussels organisations belonging to different communities coming out from Turkey issued the following joint declaration:

    For three millennium, Anatolia has been the homeland or have passed through it countless people. It is a land where coexisted and coexist today Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Jews, Zazas, as well as a number of other minorities such as Lazes, Circassians, Pomaks, Yörüks, and others. Certain of these people and the majority have adopted the Apostolic Christianity, others have converted to Roman Catholicism or Orthodoxy, some became Nestorians or Chaldeans; while others turned Sunni Muslims, Shiites or Alevi Muslims; and still others remained Yezidis or Mazdeists or kept their shamanic beliefs.

    This coexistence naturally led to disputes – sometime very violent – but it led also and above all to a cultural closeness and to an ethnic intermingling which challenge all ideologies that are based on racial or linguistic purity: today, the overwhelming majority of Turkey’s inhabitants are of mixed origins.

    However, the Ottoman Empire and then after it the Kemalist republic have artificially reshaped the land’s multy-ethnic identity by reducing the dominated people into slavery, by denying their identity, and then by promoting the doctrine of the Turkish “race” as the “essential being”. This fascist like thinking has led the authorities perpetrate abominable mass murders such as:

    • The Armenian and Assyro-Chaldean Genocide (1915-1916)
    • The Koçkiri massacre of Kurds, Alevis and Kizilbachs (1919-1921)
    • The brutal expulsion of Greeks (1923-1924)
    • Massacres of Kurds and Assyrians after the revolt of Sheikh Said (1925-1928)
    • The Dersim Massacre of Kurds, Alevis and Kizilbachs (1935-1938)
    • The iniquitous laws and the deportations of Armenians, Jews and Greeks (1942)
    • Pogroms of lstanbul and Izmir against Greeks, Armenians and Jews (1955)
    • War against Kurds (since 1984)


    It has to be recalled, that since its creation, the Kemalist republic targets and represses all political opponents to the regime, whatever their ethnic origin, including Turkish democrats.

    Lastly, the ultranationalist and genocide denial policies of Ankara utilise the Turkish immigrants in the European countries and with the complicity of certain local European political leaders incite them to hatred towards the Armenian, Assyrian and Kurdish communities.

    Facing this ideology to hate and its bloody consequences, the peoples of Anatolia:

    • Rebuke the idea of any racial of religious supremacy and reaffirm their indefectible attachment to the individual fundamental rights of all the Turkish citizens as well as to the collective rights of the people living in this State;
    • Reject the fiction of a monolithic Turkey as extolled by the Turkish State and, on the contrary, call upon the State to pride on the ethnic wealth and diversity of the Anatolian people;
    • Ask again the Turkish State to rehabilitate itself in rehabilitating the victims of its past exactions, in committing itself on the path of the political recognition of these exactions and in giving an end to their denial or glorification;
    • Proclaim their conviction that the incapacity of Turkey to progress on the path of democracy, as well as the state of economical and social backwardness of its eastern provinces are closely linked to the war conducted by this State towards its own citizens;
    • Reaffirm their commitment to keep on the political struggle so that Turkey recognize, denounce and disassociate from its past and present crimes; to transform it into a democratic State which would respect its minorities as its various political forces, united in their diversity.


    Association of the Democrat Armenians of Belgium
    Associations of the Assyrians of Belgium
    Kurdish Institute of Brussels
    European Armenian Federation
    Info-Turk Foundation

    PKK WEB SITESINDEN DIGERALINTILAR

    Intellectuals Launch A Campaign To Apologize Armenians

    “My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to and the denial of the ‘Great Catastrophe’ that the Ottoman Armenians were subjected to in 1915. I reject this injustice and for my share, I empathize with the feelings and pain of my Armenian brothers, I apologize them.”

    This is the text of the campaign that was introduced by Journalist Ali Bayramoğlu, professors Baskın Oran and Ahmet İnsel and Dr. Cengiz Aktar, with the support of some the other academicians. The text will be opened for signature in the internet for one year, starting on the new years day.

    Aktar told Tülay Şubatlı of daily Vatan why they were apologizing:

    “We are apologizing for not being able to discuss, not talk openly about  this topic for such a long time, nearly one hundred years.”

    Aktar described the purpose of the campaign as such:

    “What happened to the Armenians is not well-known; people are forced to forget it, and the subject  is highly provocative. The Turks have heard this mostly from their elders, their grandfathers. But, the subject has not become an objective historical narrative. Therefore, today many people in Turkey, with all the good intentions, think that nothing happened to the Armenians .”

    “The official history has been saying that this incident happened through secondary, not very important, and even mutual massacres; they push the idea that it was an ordinary incident explainable by the conditions of the First World War. However, unfortunately, the facts are very different. Perhaps there is only one fact and it is that the Kurds and Turks are still here, but the Armenians are not. The subject of this campaign is the individuals. This is a voice coming from the individual’s conscience. Those who want to apologize can apologize, and those who do not should not.” (BIA, December 5, 2008)

    Nationalists react to intellectuals’ courageous apology

    Turkey’s nationalists have been incensed about a group of Turkish intellectuals who recently apologized publicly for the “great disaster Ottoman Armenians suffered in 1915” in a country where even discussing Armenian claims of genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire can be cause for arrest.

    The reaction to a petition initiated by a group of intellectuals, led by popular professors Baskın Oran and Ahmet İnsel and journalists Ali Bayramoğlu and Cengiz Aktar, personally apologizing for the forced deportation of Armenians from their homes in the Turkish heartland in 1915, has shown yet again how courageous one must be to publicly announce his or her unorthodox opinions in Turkey, particularly if those opinions contradict the official ideology.

    In a phone interview with Today’s Zaman, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy for Erzurum Zeki Ertugay accused the signatories of being in “a state of hysteria.” He stressed that it was not Armenians who suffered at the hand of Ottoman Turks, but Turks who were assaulted by Armenians. “Erzurum suffered most from that cruelty.

    Every house has memories of people butchered by Armenians. I regard apologizing to the Armenians as an insult to the Turkish nation. People who call themselves intellectuals have not even been enlightened about their own history. A stain of shame like genocide has never taken place in the history of the Turkish nation. If there is somebody who needs to apologize, it is the Armenians and the Western states that provoked the Armenians against the Turks by promising them a state of their own.”

    Behiç Çelik, a MHP deputy from Mersin, was equally enraged. “It is impossible to refer to these people as intellectuals. The so-called intellectuals trying to apologize to Armenians do not know the past. They don’t know history. There has never been any genocide in the history of the Turkish nation. Apologizing even for the deportation is not acceptable, because deportations have been carried out by many nations, not just Turkey. The US relocated Native Americans, Russia deported the Kazaks and the Crimean Tatars. Their intellectuals never apologized to anybody.”

    Ultranationalist media outlets and pundits were also furious. The Yeni Çağ (New Age) daily referred to the petition as a “campaign to smear Turkey.” Yusuf Halaçoğlu, a well-known ultranationalist who formerly headed the Turkish Historical Society (TTK), said the real target here was connected to Turkey’s new foreign policy initiative, started in early September with President Abdullah Gül and Foreign Minister Ali Babacan visiting Yerevan for a soccer match between the national teams of Turkey and Armenia. “The aim here is to foment public opinion to be able to take that earlier initiative to the next level,” Halaçoğlu said.

     He said only 22,000 people died before 1915, the year of the forced deportation. “Will they apologize for those, too? Or will the Armenians announce with whom they cooperated when the Ottoman Empire was fighting world powers? Are they going to publicly announce how many Armenians were part of the French and Russian armies at the time? Armenians, as people who cooperated with the enemy in their own countries, have lost this war. This is the state of affairs as it stands today,” he said.

    Historian Cemalettin Taşkıran was quoted in nationalist newspapers as saying, “This is the biggest betrayal that could be shown to our forefathers.” Taşkıran said the campaign was set up to hurt the unity of the Turkish nation and to prepare the way for Turkey’s eventual recognition of Armenian claims of genocide.

    The intellectuals’ group is calling on other people to sign the petition posted online, which reads as follows: “I cannot conscientiously accept the indifference to the great disaster that Ottoman Armenians suffered in 1915, and its denial. I reject this injustice and, acting of my own will, I share the feelings and pains of my Armenian brothers and sisters, and I apologize to them.”

    The organizers of the campaign have underlined that first they will collect signatures from intellectuals and they will then open a secure Web site to collect signatures.

    The Armenian population that was in Turkey before the establishment of Turkish Republic was forced to emigrate in 1915, and, according to some, the conditions of this expulsion are the basis of Armenian claims of genocide. (Zaman, E.BARIŞ ALTINTAŞ, ERCAN YAVUZ, 6 December 2008)

  • France’s white knight tarnished

    France’s white knight tarnished

    Lizzy Davies in Paris
    February 6, 2009

    ACCUSED of using his power to secure lucrative contracts with African dictators, France’s most popular politician and charismatic humanitarian activist has been forced to defend his reputation as a moral crusader.

    Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister, is portrayed as a money-loving hypocrite whose business dealings between 2002 and 2007, while out of ministerial office, tarnish his reputation for ethical practice.

    The thrust of the allegations made in a new book, The World According To K by the investigative journalist Pierre Pean, is that Mr Kouchner profited from an uncomfortable combination of public and private sector work, billing huge sums to the regimes of Gabon and Congo.

    Capitalising on his political clout as the government-appointed head of a public health body operating in Africa, Mr Kouchner also worked as a policy consultant for two French firms that charged €4.6 million for his reports into national health insurance schemes.

    Pean does not describe the activities as illegal but claims there was a clear conflict of interests. “[There is] a distortion between the general way in which he behaves and the image that the French people have of him,” he said. “That image is of a knight in shining armour fighting for morality …”

    Mr Kouchner, the founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres and a prized recruit of President Nicolas Sarkozy, has rejected the book as a “grotesque and sickening” attack motivated by jealousy from those who resent his success, and revenge from former Socialist allies who view him as a traitor.

    In the weekly Nouvel Observateur, he denied having had direct financial dealings with President Omar Bongo of Gabon or President Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo. Defending his right to work in the private sector, he insisted it stopped as soon as he took up his new job.

    Despite his characteristically vigorous denials, the allegations threaten his “whiter than white” reputation.

    Some opposition politicians urged him to set out his defence publicly. “It seems to me problematic that a minister has received money from African heads of state with debatable human rights records,” said a Socialist deputy, Arnaud Montebourg. Bernard-Henri Levy, the philosopher, criticised the “little men” who attacked Mr Kouchner.

    Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, February 6, 2009

  • TURKISH FORUM’S LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

    TURKISH FORUM’S LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

    TURKISH FORUM”S LETTER OF FACTS TO PRESIDENT BARRACK HUSEYIN OBAMA

    PO. Box 1104 Marblehead MA 01945 USA

    6 February 2009 cc:H.E James Jeffry Ambassador

    The Honorable Barack H. Obama
    President of the United States
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
    Washington, DC 20500
    USA

    Dear Mr. President:

    Please accept our congratulations and best wishes, Mr. President, for a very fruitful and rewarding term at the White House.  We sincerely hope that your presidency will bring the much needed change in the world political scene, away from polarizations and conflict, and towards compassion and peace.  I am sure you will agree, that the great leader and founding father of Republic of Turkey in 1923, ATATURK’s immortal words may best guide us all into the anxious future:  “Peace at Home, Peace in the World.”

    We urge you to be fair in your dealings with all, but especially with Turkey, given the increased pressure the Armenian lobby has been applying on you recently.  In this day and age of global village with internet and satellites, I am sure you will agree with me, Mr. President, that the old motto  “all politics is local” is no longer valid.  We sincerely hope that you will not offend and estrange Turkey on 24 April 2009 by using the term genocide to describe the human tragedy that affected all the people of Anatolia during WWI (Turks, Armenians, and others alike,) not just the Armenians.

    Mr. President, you are the leader of the free world now with tremendous responsibility.  You are no longer a candidate without any accountability.   Whatever you promised Armenians when you were a candidate cannot be allowed to hold the great American interests hostage to nagging Armenian squabbling.   An erroneous choice of words on your behalf can have lasting destructive effects on  the United States-Turkey relations for many decades to come.   I hope and trust that you realize the gravity of this situation.  No internal politics is worth losing the confidence and support of one of the greatest allies of America in the last 50+ years.

    The Turkish-Armenian conflict is one of inter-communal warfare fought by Muslim and Christian irregular forces against a backdrop of a world war.  This issue cannot be explained without acknowledging the Armenian propaganda, agitation, terrorism, raids, rebellions, treason, territorial demands, and Turkish suffering and losses caused by all of these factors, in that order, from 1890 to 1921,  where 1915 is a stop in that tragic journey.

    We urge you, Mr. President, to be on the side of dialog and peace; not polarization and conflict.  Please support more research, study, and debate on such complex historical events by impartial historians, not legislation of history by politicians.  Principles of fairness prevent the settlement of this matter by partisan groups with vested interests. We support, therefore, Turkey’s 2005 offer to Armenia to establish a Joint Historical Commission which is, so far, rejected by Armenia.

    As Turkish Forum, we look forward to meeting the challenges of a new chapter between the United States and Turkey and pledge to you our full support to improve and advance this relationship to the benefit of both of our nations.

    Truthfully Yours,

    Dr. Kaya Buyukataman, CEO
    President & Founder Turkish Forum

    Cc: Mr. M. Kaska, Chairman BOT
    Mr. Taner Ertunc, VP Turkish forum
    Dr. Robert B. McKay Advisor to President
    Mr. Sukru S. Aya Advisor to President
    Mr. Ergun Kirlikovali, Advisor to President
    BOD, Advisory Board, File, Members of Turkish Forum

    Attachments:  

    1- (File / Folder) Compiled 6-parts of “Documents discovered “as follows  

    a- Book: “WHY ARMENIA SHOULD BE FREE” Boston 1918 Auth: Arthur G. Pastermacian, Formerly terrorist in raiding Ottoman Bank, Elected representative of ERZURUM. Armenian revolution Lieder, USA ambassador for the Armenian Republic: Book outlines Armenian Massacres before the Relocation and prior to WWI, with references to General Dro, and Adranik administrated murders. Founding of free Armenian State under Ottoman protection. Armenian massacres to Ottomans Turks after the relocation.

    b- “THE ARMENIAN QUESTION Before the Peace Conference” Submitted By The Armenian Delegation Feb 26th 1929 (Clarification of all facts of treason, revolutions, braveries and asking in return more than half of Anatolia, (Free of non Christian people). [Question: Why are they asking Turkish lands if 1.5 million Armenian killed during relocation, who is going to occupy these lands“]. Also outlines previous formation of Free Armenian State by Ottomans, Their siding with Russia, and genocides committed by Armenian armed forces on Muslim population, after the formation Free Armenia by Ottomans.

    c- “ARMENIA and the Settlement ” Booklet for the minutes of Conference held in London on June 19th 1919 by prominent pro-Armenian Dignitaries, confessing anti-Turkism and support of British politicians. .. Booklet outlines how brave were Armenians in killing unarmed Muslim population, and how well they served Christian world.

    d- “NEAR EAST RELIEF REPORT” Joint resolution of the U.S. Senate & Congress, accepted unanimously on April 22nd, 1922. The contents of these official documents believe the arguments and reasons enlisted in HS-106. Though many other references were made in HS-106, “this one was overlooked or by-passed. WHY?” Resolution states that 1410 000. Armenians were alive and living in the lands of (with majority being in) Armenia, Syria, and Turkey, and they need 72 Million Dollars financial aid. (Question: if 1.5 million Armenian killed during relocation, where these people did came from). The 72 Million dollars were released by U. S. and distributed among Armenian population, no other race were given any financial aid or any help by U.S. officials send to above lands for that purpose.

    e- Documents: Adjustment of Payments due to United States by Turkey, Sept 1937. (No indemnity claims by USA is possible) Us requested originally 5 Million dollars and they settled 1 400 000 Dollars at The end. This was to cover all claims made by all U.S. citizens (MOSTLY ARMENIANS) from Turkish Government. “CASE CLOSED AND CANNOT BE OPENED AGAIN”.

    f- Order of the Court Case, European Court of Justice Dec. 17th 2003. Court unanimously rejected an application for < paying of indemnities and refusals of Turkey’s acceptance into E.U. unless she accepts the “genocide allegation” based on a decision of the European Parliament back in 1987>. Court resolved that 1987 resolution are political declarations that CAN CHANGE IN TIME. Cannot therefore have binding legal consequences for other institutions. Details are also posted in Turkish Forum web pages.

    2- (Book) “The Genocide of Truth” (Jan. 2008) Istanbul Commerce Univ. Pub. No.25 ISBN 978-975-6576-24-9 This 702 pages book does contain large number documents from reliable and non Turkish sources including National Archives of various countries, Author: S. S. Aya

    Note: Other documents compiled by non-Turkish or Turkish sources are also available through TURKISH FORUM if requested. Please place above documents to National Archives for all to see. < THE GENOCIDE OF TRUTH>.

  • Christofias: “Turkey cannot join EU until troops out – Cyprus”

    Christofias: “Turkey cannot join EU until troops out – Cyprus”

    Thu Feb 5, 2009 2:15pm GMT

    NICOSIA, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Cypriot President Demetris Christofias said on Thursday that Turkey would not be able to join the European Union as long as it kept troops stationed in northern Cyprus.

    “It’s not possible for Turkey to be accepted as a member of the union while continuing the occupation of Cyprus,” he told reporters. (Reporting by Michele Kambas; editing by Elizabeth Piper)

    Source:  Reuters, Feb 5, 2009