Dear TurkishPAC Members and Friends,
Below attached, please see the USCMO Statement on 1915 Turkish Armenian Events.
We thank USCMO for their valuable contribution towards the reconciliation of these unjust genocide claims being made against Ottomans and Turks by the US Armenian diaspora.
Regards
Demir Karsan PhD. PE
President TurkishPAC
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Ukrainian Folk Song – Хай живе, вільна Україна (Long live, free Ukraine!)
WE WISH AL THE SUCCESS FOR THE BRAVE UKRAINE PEOPLE ON THEIR FREEDOM FIGHT
Dear Honorable Members of the House of Commons,
Timothy Loughton MP’s private members bill which will have a second reading on the 18th of March 2022 regarding the recognition of “Armenian Genocide” is not supported by history and law.
Genocide is a legal term internationally defined by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Article 4 of the Convention classifies crime of genocide as committed by persons, not by a state. And according to article 6, this crime must be heard and proven by a specific court.
Without a fair judicial trial, parliaments – e.g., the House of Commons – has no legal and legislative authority for characterising a historical event as genocide.
Moreover, Timothy Loughton’s bill portrays Turkish Nation as perpetrator of genocide, contrary to the framework of the Convention and sadly demonstrates the characteristics of an anti-Turkish, anti-Muslim hate speech
Kissinger on Ukraine
UKRAINE CRISIS
By Henry Kissinger
PUBLIC discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation. But do we know where we are going? In my life, I have seen four wars begun with great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to end and from three of which we withdrew unilaterally. The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins.
Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other – it should function as a bridge between them.
Russia must accept that to try to force Ukraine into a satellite status, and thereby move Russia’s borders again, would doom Moscow to repeat its history of self-fulfilling cycles of reciprocal pressures with Europe and the United States.
The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country. Russian history began in what was called Kievan-Rus. The Russian religion spread from there. Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries, and their histories were intertwined before then. Some of the most important battles for Russian freedom, starting with the Battle of Poltava in 1709, were fought on Ukrainian soil. The Black Sea Fleet – Russia’s means of projecting power in the Mediterranean – is based by long-term lease in Sevastopol, in Crimea. Even such famed dissidents as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky insisted that Ukraine was an integral part of Russian history and, indeed, of Russia.
The European Union must recognize that its bureaucratic dilatoriness and subordination of the strategic element to domestic politics in negotiating Ukraine’s relationship to Europe contributed to turning a negotiation into a crisis. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities.
The Ukrainians are the decisive element. They live in a country with a complex history and a polyglot composition. The Western part was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler divided up the spoils. Crimea, 60 per cent of whose population is Russian, became part of Ukraine only in 1954 , when Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by birth, awarded it as part of the 300th-year celebration of a Russian agreement with the Cossacks. The West is largely Catholic; the East largely Russian Orthodox. The West speaks Ukrainian; the East speaks mostly Russian. Any attempt by one wing of Ukraine to dominate the other – as has been the pattern – would lead eventually to civil war or breakup. To treat Ukraine as part of an East-West confrontation would scuttle for decades any prospect to bring Russia and the West – especially Russia and Europe – into a cooperative international system.
Ukraine has been independent for only 23 years; it had previously been under some kind of foreign rule since the 14th century. Not surprisingly, its leaders have not learned the art of compromise, even less of historical perspective. The politics of post-independence Ukraine clearly demonstrates that the root of the problem lies in efforts by Ukrainian politicians to impose their will on recalcitrant parts of the country, first by one faction, then by the other. That is the essence of the conflict between Viktor Yanukovych and his principal political rival, Yulia Tymoshenko. They represent the two wings of Ukraine and have not been willing to share power. A wise U.S. policy toward Ukraine would seek a way for the two parts of the country to cooperate with each other. We should seek reconciliation, not the domination of a faction.
Russia and the West, and least of all the various factions in Ukraine, have not acted on this principle. Each has made the situation worse. Russia would not be able to impose a military solution without isolating itself at a time when many of its borders are already precarious. For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.
Putin should come to realize that, whatever his grievances, a policy of military impositions would produce another Cold War. For its part, the United States needs to avoid treating Russia as an aberrant to be patiently taught rules of conduct established by Washington. Putin is a serious strategist – on the premises of Russian history. Understanding U.S. values and psychology are not his strong suits. Nor has understanding Russian history and psychology been a strong point of U.S. policymakers.
Leaders of all sides should return to examining outcomes, not compete in posturing. Here is my notion of an outcome compatible with the values and security interests of all sides:
• Ukraine should have the right to choose freely its economic and political associations, including with Europe.
• Ukraine should not join NATO, a position I took seven years ago, when it last came up.
• Ukraine should be free to create any government compatible with the expressed will of its people. Wise Ukrainian leaders would then opt for a policy of reconciliation between the various parts of their country. Internationally, they should pursue a posture comparable to that of Finland.
That nation leaves no doubt about its fierce independence and cooperates with the West in most fields but carefully avoids institutional hostility toward Russia.
• It is incompatible with the rules of the existing world order for Russia to annex Crimea. But it should be possible to put Crimea’s relationship to Ukraine on a less fraught basis. To that end, Russia would recognize Ukraine’s sovereignty over Crimea. Ukraine should reinforce Crimea’s autonomy in elections held in the presence of international observers. The process would include removing any ambiguities about the status of the Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol.
These are principles, not prescriptions. People familiar with the region will know that not all of them will be palatable to all parties. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction. If some solution based on these or comparable elements is not achieved, the drift toward confrontation will accelerate. The time for that will come soon _enough.
• Henry Kissinger was secretary of state from 1973 to 1977.
The article was first published in Washington Post.
11:45-12:00PM (EST) ENTRY to ALL Registrants
Language: Bilingual Session-1 #Turkish Session-2 #English #IMLD2022
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First Session – in Turkish | Türkçe – 1. Bölüm
(1 hour 15minutes)
Opening Music byAKM Çocuk Korosu, Atatürk Çocukları Şarkısı, ATAMLA (Video: 3:11 min.)
Can Gözümoğulları, Eda Algür, Selin Ayşe Müdar and Kezban Aslan
Welcoming Remarks by
Mr. MAZLUM KOŞMA
President, Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA)
Introduction by
Ms. BİRCAN ÜNVER
Founder-President of The Light Millennium (LMGlobal)
Keynote Speaker
Ms. GÜLGÛN FEYMAN
Anchorwoman, Presenter, Writer, Diction Instructor
A surprise short Video to illustrate the Scope of the Digital Environment (~1.5 dk.)
Presentations by
Turkish Women’s League of America (TWLA) and
New York Atatürk School
Introductions by
Ms. Sermin Özçilingir, President, TWLA
Ayça Ergisi, Principal, NY Atatürk School (Video)
Mar Deniz Gömez-Koldemir, Alumna, NY Atatürk School (2018)
Efe Yenigün, Alumna, NY Atatürk School (2015)
Association of Turkish Americans of Southern California (ATASC)
Introduction by Nilay Senel-Nylund, President, (ATASC)
ATASC-San Diego Turkish School
Introduction by Ms. Didem Brott, President, ATASC-SD Turkish School
Reading performances by
Emre Brott, “Andımız“,
Duru Kıncal, “Selected quotes by Atatürk,
Derin Balcı and Ege Balcı “Why we should speak Turkish“;
Mert Arslan, Nazım Hikmet’s poem “Davet“;
Reyhan Sıdal Atatürk’s “Nutuk for Children; The speech of Atatürk for children“;
Anka Engin, “Learning Turkish language on a digital platform” and
Psychologist Gökçe Boz, “What does it feel like to be a graduate of Turkish School?“.
Empowering the Turkish American Community (ETAC-USA)
Presentations by
Ayla Sönmez Birer, ETAC Çocuk Kulübü üyesi (video 2 dk.12sn)
Atlas Yurdutemiz,ETAC Çocuk Kulübü üyesi (video 1dk.35sn)
Yağmur Yazıcı, ETAC Çocuk Kulübü üyesi (video 1dk.3sn)
Tutku Birik, “Selam” Poem by Ahmet Muhip Dranas, Student at ETAC Children’s Club
Turkish American Cultural Alliance (TACA)
Atatürk Elementary School
Introduction by Vildan Görener, President, TACA
Atatürk Okulu tanıtım – Ceren Cevher Rodriguez (1-1.5 dk)
Atatürk Okulu öğrencileri – Şiir okuma – “Mustafa Kemal’i Düşünüyorum”
Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan – Liyah ve Leila Taylor (1dk)
Video: Atatürk Okulu anasınıfı öğrencileri (1dk)
Turkish American Repertory Theater & Entertainment (TARTE)
Introduction by Ayşe Eldek, Founder/Artistic Director, TARTE
Turkish poems:
“Sessiz Gemi”, Yahya Kemal Beyatlıcited by Ayşe Eldek
“Gidisini Anlatıyorum”, Rıfat Ilgaz cited by Ezgi Cohen
“Tepeden”, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı cited by Feryal Kilisli
Special Project Chapter – Atatürk Memorials Chapter (ATAMLA)
Introduction by Vega Sankur, President, ATAMLA
Turkish Poem “Daha Güzel Bir Dünya” Rıfkı Kaymaz cited bySelin Ayşe Müdar
Moderator & Closing Remarks
Bİrcan Ünver
Founder-President of The Light Millennium,
Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization
END OF FIRST SESSION
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Second Session (In English)
(1 hour 15minutes)
Video: Transition to the 2nd Session – A TRT Production from 1987 | (3.27min)
Video (If time permits): Dr. Eda Algür, Alumna, New York Atatürk School
Moderator
Professor Sibel Erol
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
New York University
Keynote Speaker
Feride Hatiboğlu, PhD
President of the American Association of
Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT)
Panelists
Professor Timur Kocaoğlu
Professor of International Relations at
James Madison College, Michigan State University
Müge Satar, PhD
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL,
Newcastle University, UK
Güliz Kuruoğlu, PhD
Turkic Languages and linguistics
[Retired] Lecturer, UCLA
Interactive Session
Closing Remarks
Thank Yous…
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INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY #IMLD2022 #UNESCO
The theme of the 2022 International Mother Language Day is by UNESCO, “Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities”, encourages to explore the potential role of technology to advance multilingual education and support the development of quality teaching and learning for all.
The first session of the webinar will celebrate the Turkish mother language with renowned Turkish Anchorwoman, Presenter, Writer, Diction Instructor Gülgûn Feyman along with several Turkish-American Weekend-Elementary Schools from New York City to Chicago and to San Diego through short presentations by the contributing organizations, schools, students, alumni and performers both as live and via video.
The second session will be in English language. Its theme is adapted by UNESCO’s 2022 Theme for the IMLD as it is indicated in the prior paragraph into the following titled, “Learning Turkish and Turkic Languages on Digital Environment in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities.”
This session will be an academic panel discussion, which will explore on the UNESCO’s laid out theme and on the following two points:
Background: On 17 November 1999, under the leadership of Bangladesh, 21 February was recognized as the International Mother Language Day by the United Nations (UN) Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote cultural diversity and multilingualism, and the right to education in mother tongue and mother tongue has been guaranteed.
[In Turkish]
ULUSLARARASI ANA DİL GÜNÜNÜN TEMASI #IMLD2022 #UNESCO
UNESCO tarafından 2022 Uluslararası Anadili Günü’nün teması olan “Çokdilli öğrenme için teknolojiyi kullanmak: Zorluklar ve fırsatlar”, teknolojinin çok dilli eğitimi ilerletmedeki potansiyel rolünü tartışmaya ve herkes için kaliteli öğretim ve öğrenimin gelişimini desteklemeye teşvik ediyor.
Sanal oturumun ilk bölümü Türkçe ana dilinde sunulacak. Bu bölümde ünlü Türk Haber Spikeri, Sunucu, Yazar, Diksiyon Eğitmeni Gülgûn Feyman ile birlikte olacağız. Aynı zamanda, New York Şehri’nden Şikago’ya ve San Diego’ya kadar Amerika’nın doğusundan–batısına uzanan birçok Türk-Amerikan Hafta sonu-İlköğretim Okullarının öğrencileri, mezunları ve sanatçılar tarafından okunacak şiirler ve kısa seçkiler ile hem canlı hem de video sunumlarıyla Türkçe anadili Amerika’da kutlanacaktır. Aynı zamanda, bu oturuma katkıda bulunan kuruluşların temsilcileri de kısa sunumlar yapacak.
İkinci oturum ise İngilizce akademik bir panel formatında olacaktır. Teması ise UNESCO’nun 2022 IMLD Teması tarafından bir yukarıdaki ilk paragrafta belirtildiği gibi Türkçe ve Türk dilleri çerçevesine uyarlanmıştır: “Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nde Dijital Ortamda Türkçe ve Türk Dillerini Öğrenmek: Zorluklar ve Fırsatlar” Bu oturum, UNESCO’nun tanımlamış olduğu tema kapsamında, aşağıdaki iki noktaya odaklanacaktır:
• Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nde Türkçe ve Türk Dilleri öğretimi ile bağlantılı olarak üniversitelerde ki durum ile kaliteli çok dilli öğretim ve öğrenimin teşvik edilmesinde öğretmenlerin rolünün arttırılması;
• Sunulan zorluklarla birlikte çok dilli öğretim ve öğrenimi destekleme potansiyeli ve teknolojileri üzerine farklı üniversitelerden (Amerika ve İngiltere) katılacak akademisyenlerin tecrübeleri, durum değerlendirmesi ve zorluklara karşı önerileri.
Tarihçesi: 17 Kasım 1999’da, Bangladeş’in öncülüğünde, Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) Eğitim, Bilim ve Kültür Örgütü (UNESCO) tarafından kültürel çeşitliliği ve çok dilliliği desteklemek amacıyla 21 Şubat günü, Uluslararası Anadili Günü olarak kabul edilmiştir. Bu çerçevede, anadili ve anadilinde eğitim hakkı güvence altına alınmıştır.
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I AM DEPRESSED……..
I have been writing newsletters since 1980, and at one time, I had over 400,000 readers, including the Turkish Forum US. Then in 2012, something changed. Customers decided not to sell when I suggested they do. Suddenly, they knew more than I did, and something was entirely wrong.
The Dodd/Frank ACT made what illegal legal in 2010 was. Over two years, it took the financial authorities to determine what questions to give on their continuing exams for registered representatives, now called Financial Advisors. The test was not on basic information about securities but on protecting management from customer lawsuits.
Financial Advisors were not allowed to think for themselves anymore. Everything we did had to be approved by a manager or a superior, from telephone calls to mailings and, above all, any personal messages.
I was dead in the water, and I saw “the big one” coming and had to resign from my beloved profession to warn investors.
My observations of the 1940s to the 1960s showed that honest wealth was a poor choice except if you owned a company.
I had to downsize my lifestyle, and my son and daughter accomplished this visited me on the weekend and canceling my newspapers, renegotiating my several cable television packages and credit cards – you name it, they did it. Thank God!
My writings have met with comments like “that is a good idea, but nothing else happens that that is why I am depressed about my letters. And that is it. Nothing has changed. Am I whistling dixie all by my lonesome?
It all started with LBJ robbing the Social Security Trust. What HAPPENED? Nixon had to take us off the Gold Standard.
Bear Stearns had a monster margin call in the silver futures market, and Jami Dimon and JP Morgan bought them up, giving Jamie a window to amass a fortune in Gold and Silver by illegal means. The result is that The Federal Reserve Bank of NY removed Jamie from their Board of Directors. The bank has been convicted five times in the RICO Act, which was for the MAFIA NOT BANKERS. Big deal. Jamie is now a millionaire, JP Morgan has doubled its dividend, and the price has doubled.
Citizen Kane steps forward (Donald Trump). Everyone comes down on him, and he is impeached twice for minor violations. It is a crucifixion all over again
Part of the Communist/Socialist Mantra is to set citizens up in trials and sue them until they lose exhaustion and financial dismemberment. That happens in every country before the dictator takes over.
Our New President, Joe Biden, is as crooked as they come. Using Donald Trump as a guide for impeachment, he should impeach several guilty so often that his ashes are smoldering. Yet nothing has happened because his Vice President would be President, and the Speaker of the House would be next in line. They, too, are impeachable.
For starters – Inflation. Simple. Restart the Keystone Pipeline and stop interfering with the oil companies. Supply and demand will run their natural course. Meanwhile, over 6000 products that we use have an oil derivative, and that oil derivative reduced price will bring the overall cost down, which knocks a few pegs off the inflation stool.
Stop Congress from running the economy. That is causing a recession.
Since Donald Trump was President, no one has gone to prison. Instead, they have cushy jobs.
When some lie and try another cover-up for them, the lies start to morph and get so large that now everyone is lying, and Governments accustomed to not fabrication do not know when we are telling the truth or lying.
Foreign nations have removed the honor of holding their gold for them and now are holding their gold. Could this be that a former Secretary of The Treasury was selling gold short and using their gold to sell to a buyer? Then the Treasury repurchases the gold at lower prices and returns it to the foreign nation without them knowing it and pockets the profit. That is illegal and treasonable. Do we have a penalty for treason?
If Hunter Biden received a billion-plus dollars from China, what did uncle Joe give them? What has he been investing in if they gave him to invest? I do know this. The COMEX approved Depository in Delaware has been almost a daily delivery since Joe Biden has become President, and before that, it was dormant. Where are all those silver bars being delivered?
Almost everyone accepts the 2020 election and that President Trump lost. Why did Fox News go off the air election night? Did they know about the wrong about the election? At 7 pm, I turn to Fox TV News to watch the election results. Judging by the rally sizes during the campaign, I thought he would win by a significant margin. Fox News can not legally mention the name of George Soros on their television network just until a few days ago. (Newt Gingrich on FOX TV said George Soros and a compliance officer interrupted and told him to desist.) ( I believe because of a legal settlement.)
Today, almost everyone in Government is lying or, at the very least – fibbing.
Illegal immigrants are entering this country in droves, and the communist/socialist liberals are hoping that they will be abler to vote. Confident District Attorneys funded by George Soros will approve their voting status.
Law and order are just lip service because these politicians want to replace them with their National Guard.
Because LBJ robbed the Social Security Trust Fund, Congress backed him with IRAs to backstop Social Security. The Treasury has a $50 billion slush fund to support our markets. The whole purpose of Investing is to help free enterprise.
Congress demolished bond covenants. President Trump got into all kinds of trouble when he called the Puerto Rico Government crooks, and they were. Then a hurricane wiped the island out, and they are still trying to recover.
Here is the bottom line. Our debt does not hold water anymore because of the broken covenants. Bond covenants are a long-term deal – which means until all that bond debt has matured.
Foreign nations are too busy buying their debt instead of ours, so with the help of a few solvent insurance companies, the Federal Reserve is forced to buy our debt, plus they must buy debt that other charter banks want to sell tendered to them.
Sooner than later, our Federal Government will not have funds to pay the pledges over the years, plus all the money they want to spend right now.
There was, and I am not sure now, but I know one central banker, instead of buying debt, has bought over 15% of certain leading stocks. The central banker has not yet sold, and others will sell, and the central banker panics and sells that treasury slush fund could liquidate it.
Say goodbye to your IRAs. This Government owns silver bars, and so does Jamie Dimon, and I believe his compatriot(?) GS( That does not stand Goldman Saks).
WE have the makings a financial Hiroshima. The dead ones that hold securities: the few remaining will be avoided, shunned for surviving, and ostracized by the remaining public.
The winners will be the ones holding silver and gold coins for swapping to rebuild communist/socialist countries that could have a revolution where the people form democracies of their own.
Nations will hold Nuremberg-type trials to rid the world of all forms of dictatorships. Few will survive and become like the British Monarchy.
Federal employees must speak the English language and have a good idea of what their job entails. I suggest that all federal employees pass qualifying exams on whether they are qualified and at which level. Those underqualified should be given the opportunity to an education program after they are demoted to a lower position or even dismissed. All applicants must be US citizens or one pending approval of an application.
The security business is not like a casino. Still, an opportunity for a company or any municipality to gain funds from the public to IMPROVE their surroundings or expand their businesses could grow our economy.
Rating agencies should ascertain the amount of risk the investment would be.
There should be legal savings banks that conservative citizens can de[posit their savings without undue risk.
An excellent way to avoid this disaster is after a congressional election. The majority are new members without any coattails or obligations should be able to make draconian decisions as far as having IRA FUNDS CONVERTING BACK INTO THE Social Security Trust Fund without any gimmicks. ALL AMOUNTS OF Monies THE TRUST SHOULD BE BUYING US TREASURY BONDS ONLY.
That means we should be balancing our budgets. We should be canceling all entitlements programs where funds were not entitled to by taxes for individuals, as is our Social Security and Unemployment programs.
The Government should stop trying to manage our businesses and rely on entrepreneurs and the law of supply and demand.
The primary step to stop inflation is not higher interest rates but for Congress to reinstate the Keystone Pipeline and other gas programs to make the US an exporter and not an importer. It creates jobs for everyone and should lower the price of over 6000 products that use gas and oil as an ingredient again.
So my depression is the fact our ship of state is heading for the waterfall with no skipper.
Cheerio !!!
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IN GOD WE TRUST
Richard C De Graff
