Category: America

  • Letter to Staten Island Advance News Paper Editor

    Letter to Staten Island Advance News Paper Editor

    Ibrahim Kurtulus 
    425 Jefferson Ave 
    Staten island, NY 10306 
    6462677488

    Letter to Staten island Staten Island Advance Editor 

    To the Editor :

    Republic of Türkiye (Former Name Turkey):  Global Diplomacy, Undermined by Congresswoman 

    Nicole Malliotakis

    Türkiye has long been a cornerstone of regional stability, bridging East and West through diplomacy, trade, and security. Its strategic significance to NATO and its role in counterterrorism, humanitarian efforts, and mediation cannot be overstated. Yet, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, through her positions and actions, consistently undermines U.S.-Türkiye relations, jeopardizing national interests.

    Türkiye’s diplomatic acumen has been repeatedly demonstrated. In the ongoing Gaza crisis, Türkiye is mediating the release of hostages through its intelligence and diplomatic channels. U.S. Ambassador Jeff Flake has praised Türkiye’s ability to “engage adversaries and mediate complex negotiations.” Similarly, Türkiye facilitated the release of American basketball star Brittney Griner in 2022, mediating between the U.S. and Russia. These examples highlight Türkiye’s role as an indispensable partner.

    Congresswoman Malliotakis’ actions, however, risk alienating this vital ally. She has supported resolutions criticizing Türkiye’s government, ignoring its importance in U.S. efforts to counter Russian aggression and ensure Middle Eastern stability. Former US Ambassador James Jeffrey has aptly noted, “Demonizing Türkiye is not the answer,” underscoring the need for constructive engagement.

    As a NATO member, Türkiye controls access to the Black Sea, playing a critical role in containing Russian aggression. It has also been pivotal in combating terrorism, targeting groups like ISIS and the PKK, recognized as a terrorist organization by both Türkiye and the U.S. Ambassador Flake acknowledged Türkiye’s contributions, stating, “Improved U.S.-Türkiye relations advance a range of issues essential for American National Interest and security.”

    Despite this, Malliotakis has aligned with groups sympathetic to the PKK/YPG, Radical Islamic Cleric Fethullah Gulen, undermining counterterrorism collaboration. Her policies jeopardizes joint security initiatives vital to U.S. national interests.

    Türkiye is an emerging economic power and a gateway for trade between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Strengthening economic ties with Türkiye offers significant opportunities for American and Staten Island businesses. Yet, Malliotakis’ divisive rhetoric obstructs such efforts, limiting growth and collaboration.

    Moreover, her approach risks emboldening adversaries like Russia and Iran, who exploit divisions within NATO. By sidelining Türkiye, Malliotakis compromises regional stability, endangering both American and allied interests.

    President Biden recently emphasized Türkiye’s role in Gaza negotiations. Trump to understands Turkiyes role. This reflects an understanding of Türkiye’s value as a partner in achieving global stability. Congresswoman Malliotakis, however, continues to promote policies that strain this relationship, prioritizing political agendas over national security.

    It’s time to recognize Türkiye as a trusted ally and reject the divisive narratives perpetuated by figures like Malliotakis. Strengthening U.S.-Türkiye relations ensures a safer, more prosperous future for both nations. Anything less undermines the very fabric of American diplomacy and security.

    Ibrahim Kurtulus

    Dongan Hills

  • Letter to Turkish Airlines, USA

    Letter to Turkish Airlines, USA

    Mr. Emre Ismailoglu
    Turkish Airlines New York Main Office
    350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
    New York, NY 10118
    November 22, 2024

     RE: Appeal for Zero-Fee Policy for Transporting Human Remains to Türkiye

    Dear Mr. Ismailoglu,

     I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to respectfully appeal to Turkish Airlines, one of the most esteemed airlines globally, to consider implementing a zero-fee policy for the transportation of human remains to Türkiye. Such a policy would significantly alleviate the emotional and financial burdens on grieving families, particularly those with limited resources, while reinforcing Turkish Airlines’ reputation as a compassionate and socially responsible organization.

     As highlighted by Imam Ahmet Dönmez, the current cost of nearly $2,250  for transporting human remains imposes a severe financial strain on families, especially those relying on modest incomes such as Social Security or government assistance programs like SNAP. These fees are often insurmountable for families already grappling with the devastating loss of a loved one. The Turkish-American community, through voices such as Amerikalı Türk and its editor, Deniz Çelik, has expressed a heartfelt plea for Turkish Airlines to address this pressing issue. This request is not merely logistical but deeply rooted in cultural and emotional values, calling for Turkish Airlines to exemplify the same social responsibility it has consistently demonstrated in other endeavors.

     Turkish Airlines is uniquely positioned to lead this initiative without significant financial strain. In 2023, the airline achieved extraordinary financial success, reporting a net profit exceeding $6 billion—more than double its 2022 profits—alongside revenues of $20.9 billion, reflecting a 13.6% year-on-year growth. 2023: For the first nine months, Turkish Airlines reported a net profit of $2.9 billion, surpassing its previous year’s performance for the same period.  

     By the third quarter of 2024, the airline maintained its remarkable trajectory, earning $1.3 billion in profits. These figures highlight the financial capacity to introduce a zero-fee policy for families in need, further elevating Turkish Airlines’ global standing.

     Pakistan International Airlines provides an excellent precedent by offering free transportation of human remains to grieving families. Such a policy demonstrates profound humanity and respect for families navigating immense loss. By adopting a similar measure, Turkish Airlines can alleviate hardship while enhancing its image as a compassionate and community-centered airline.

     A practical framework for such a policy could involve waiving fees for families with an annual income below $30,000 or those enrolled in government assistance programs like SNAP. This initiative would mirror the free funeral services offered by municipalities within Türkiye, reflecting the airline’s enduring role as a symbol of Turkish unity and care.

     It is worth noting that the Turkish community greatly values Turkish Airlines’ contributions to community events and sponsorships. These efforts have fostered deep admiration and loyalty among diaspora communities. However, implementing a zero-fee policy for the transportation of human remains would surpass all other initiatives, serving as a profound testament to the airline’s compassion and solidarity during families’ most difficult moments.

     As Imam Dönmez and others in our community have emphasized, Turkish Airlines is more than an airline; it is a bridge connecting the Turkish diaspora to their homeland. Adopting this policy would not only reflect respect for cultural values but also demonstrate a deep understanding of the emotional and financial challenges faced by families. Such a step would underscore the airline’s unwavering commitment to prioritizing humanity over profit, strengthening its bond with the global Turkish community.

    I join  Amerikalı Türk and its editor, Deniz Çelik and Imam Ahmet Dönmez kindly urge Turkish Airlines to consider this heartfelt appeal. By adopting a zero-fee or a deeper discount policy for the transportation of human remains, Turkish Airlines would exemplify leadership in corporate social responsibility, further endearing itself to the global Turkish community. We would also welcome a meeting with you to discuss other option.

     Thank you for your attention and consideration of this important matter.

    Respectfully,

    Ibrahim Kurtulus

    Community Activist

    646267488

  • A Fresh Example of Armenian Dirty Propaganda

    A Fresh Example of Armenian Dirty Propaganda

    By Azer HASRET

    We in Azerbaijan see and know what does mean Armenian fake propaganda because we face it at the everyday level and usually try to answer in a related manner. But the Armenian propaganda machine uses even any tiny shell to spread lies and fake information about Azerbaijan, Türkiye, and other Turkic countries…

    Now I’m providing an example of the fake propaganda action by Armenians once more.

    On August 1, 2024, there was a regular State Department Press Briefing at the White House. Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson made a brief introduction and afterwards answered the questions of journalists.

    Let’s see a question by a journalist (maybe Armenian, we don’t know):

    Question: “There are Armenian POWs in the jails of Azerbaijan for four years by now, and there are Armenian local politicians from Nagorno-Karabakh again in the prisons of Azerbaijan for nearly one year after Azerbaijan launched another unprovoked attack last fall. According to Freedom House, after Karabakh territory came under Azerbaijani control, Karabakh is the most unfree territory in the world. It’s worse than North Korea. It’s worse than Venezuela, Syria, Afghanistan, you name it”.

    This is the first part of the question. The person addressing the question claims that “there are Armenian POWs in the jails of Azerbaijan”.

    Are there any?

    Not of course! Because all POWs captured during the 44-day war of 2020 were returned to Armenia! Thus, Azerbaijan does not have any single Armenian POW at its disposal…

    But why does Armenian propaganda claim that Azerbaijan has the Armenian POWs?

    This is purely for propaganda purposes! Armenians know that they need to bring this issue to the attention of the world in a way where people can think that Azerbaijan is so inhumane and keeps POWs. Of course, many million people around the world do not know the realities in the region. Even most of them don’t know where Armenia is, who Armenians are, and so on. But propaganda works anyway…

    Then this very “journalist” quotes the Freedom House claiming that “Karabakh is the most unfree territory in the world. It’s worse than North Korea. It’s worse than Venezuela, Syria, Afghanistan”.

    Are we surprised?

    No!

    Because this very Freedom House is a propaganda tool as well to suppress new emerging democracies. This organization has been known for its pro-Armenian stance for dozens of years! It was and is supporting Armenian separatism while being silent about more than 250 thousand Azerbaijanis forcefully expelled from Armenia and those 750 thousand IDPs forced off from Karabakh by Armenian occupants!

    Just for a reminder, starting from 1988 Armenia expelled all Azerbaijanis from its territory. Hundreds of Azerbaijanis were killed, and their homes were looted by Armenians. This move served as the start of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict back in those years. Then Armenia occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijani lands early in the 1990s and forced out 750 thousand inhabitants! Azerbaijan managed to free its lands from Armenia’s occupation only after 30 years and during this movement, Armenian inhabitants (approximately 70 thousand people) voluntarily left Karabakh while Azerbaijan repeatedly asked them to stay…

    So why the Freedom House is claiming that Karabakh is the most unfree territory? Those 750 thousand Azerbaijanis need to return to Karabakh but can’t because Armenians have wiped off any single home in that territory. That’s why very few people live there and there can’t be any evolution regarding freedoms in that area. The lands freed from Armenian occupation are covered with landmines and even it’s dangerous to walk around.

    Let’s see why and how the Freedom House decided that “Karabakh is worse than North Korea”.

    Maybe because the Freedom House’s Vice President for Policy and Advocacy is Annie Wilcox Boyajian, whose husband is an Armenian for example?..

    This was the first part of the question of blackmailing Azerbaijan. But a “journalist” continues further with his attempt to blackmail Azerbaijan. Let’s see the second part of the question.

    Question: “So the question is whether you follow this situation with the collapse of liberties and civil society in Nagorno-Karabakh, if you have any comments on this, and is there anything that this administration can do to help the detained Armenians in – that are jailed in Azerbaijan, whether to – you can help them to release – to be released or assist in any other form? Thank you”.

    “Liberties and civil society in Nagorno-Karabakh”? Isn’t this a bit strange? Who can speak about the liberties and civil society in any territory that was under the occupation of a foreign country? In our case, we speak about the Azerbaijani Karabakh region which was under Armenia’s occupation for about 30 years and thus there couldn’t be any sign of liberties and civil society. But this Armenian propaganda mouthpiece claims that “liberties and civil society collapsed” in Karabakh…

    What is good, Vedant Patel’s answer was quite accurate, and the terms used were selected very carefully. Let’s see.

    MR PATEL: “So, on the context of the broader situation in the South Caucasus, this is something that the Secretary and the department continue to be deeply engaged on. I don’t have any updates for you as it relates to that process. And look, when it comes to detainees, we have been clear and consistent that any country needs to treat all detainees humanely, with dignity, and in accordance with international law, and needs to respect detainees’ human rights, and that continues to be true in this case as well”.

    No single word about the so-called POWs! And no mention of Azerbaijan!

    The State Department and the US Administration know quite well what is what in the South Caucasus!

    And now let’s be clear with those detainees to whom Vedant Patel is paying attention. Yes, Azerbaijan has Armenian detainees. But they are not the citizens of Armenia (except one) and none of them was captured during the war actions. All of them are tried for being a part of an organized crime against civilians which caused the killing of hundreds of people. At the same time, they are citizens of Azerbaijan of Armenian origin, and they need to answer for those killings before the court. This is very simple and understandable, and the US Administration and other major international actors have quite enough information about this…

    Now let’s pay attention to the report by Armenian media which claims that Vedant Patel spoke about “Armenian POWs”.

    The headline at the News.am reads: “Patel: US State Department is deeply engaged on matter of Armenian POWs held by Azerbaijan”.

    Further, the news reads: “On the context of the broader situation in the South Caucasus, the US Secretary of State and the Department continue to be deeply engaged on the matter of Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) being held in Azerbaijan. Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson of the US Department of State, noted about this at Thursday’s Department press briefing”.

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    Did Vedant Patel use the wording like “Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) being held in Azerbaijan”?

    Not of course!

    We have quoted Vedant Patel’s answer to this question in full and as we mentioned above, he was quite accurate in using the terms. But the Armenian fake propaganda machine claims, that Vedant Patel spoke about “Armenian POWs”…

    So, this is a way how Armenian propaganda works. Most people who read Armenian-style “news” usually don’t investigate the origins. It is usual and understandable for all people around the world. Because those not engaged in politics and news-making are not professionals and they used to believe the media. And Armenians use this opportunity for their ugly propaganda…

  • Armenian Genocide Lie, died and buried…

    Armenian Genocide Lie, died and buried…

    Oficina de Consultas al Parlamento 
    Cámara de Senadores 
    Av. de las Leyes s/n Montevideo CP 11.800

    Dear Madam-Sir;

    A few day ago Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a meeting held behind closed doors: “Turkey did not commit genocide against Armenians. The genocide claim was invented by the USSR to worsen Turkey-Armenia relations.” he said.

    Sad to say maintime On May 7, the Uruguayan Senate unanimously passed a bill declaring April 24 as “Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.”

    Please read this letter and keep it in your Parliament’s archive for the future bills about the same issue.

    Respectfully yours

    Oğuz Tolga
    Yeşerti Sokak 4B-9
    Beşiktaş İstanbul

    Armenian Genocide Lie, died and buried…

    I know you do not read the counter TRUTHS about Armenian issue but as a very close man to the god by your proffession please read this.

    As I see ,with your all ignorance you are provoking the workd people with a “Genocide lie with long tail” about the Turks..

    Please read this first and try to understand the matter clearly.Do never be funny in front of the history..

    Tell me What would USA do if they were fighting with United allies, Russia & Mexico in the fictious 3 WW to establish a NEW MEXICAN STATE tyo unify with Mexico?.

    What would USA do if American Hispanic USA citizens suddenly start to ware Mexican /French /Russian uniforms and kill women,old,children and handicapped Americans in their own homes in Texas and New Mexico when all men of the USA army were fighting in 14 fronts against the all the leding powers of the world…

    Tell me what would USA do?

    USA bombed Hirosima and Nagazaki killed 250.000Japanese people after a finished war for the revenge of PearlHarbour’s 2300 lost Americans.

    But,Turks only deported Liar-menian(armenians are LIARS) traitor betrayers to another Ottoman Turks province from Van Bitlis and Mus Cities only to another Ottoman Province in today’s Syria,Der Zor…

    Liar-menians have been insulting,spreading lies and slanders about “my People”” for 100years with a great inferiorty complex of beeing a traitor betrayer nation to their own state,Ottoman Empire in the beginning of the 20th Century with the provocations of Russians and British & French governments..

    They have collaborated with the enemies(Russians in 1878-79/1914-15-French army in 1914-15),and wore their military uniforms and killed their own neighbors who have been living with them for atleast 13 centuries in Anatolia.

    What should Turks do after those hostilities.?

    See the betrayal from USA newspapers..You can easly check them.

    ) “Armenian Insurgent Bands Attack Kurds Near Erzeroum” Daily Gazette, 17

    Nov 1899 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Residents Kill Turkish Gendarmes” Davenport Morning Tribune,

    Iowa, 9 Sep 1890 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Attack Turks” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 15 Jul 1920, Nov 02

    1895, Iowa NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Bands Attack Turks in Mush” Fort Wayne Sentinel, 22 Jan 1902

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) Armenian Army Wants Aid To Set Up New Nation, Out For Independence, Fort

    Wayne, Indiana, 14 Dec 1918 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Attack Tartar Village” Monitoba Free Press, 15 Nov 1905

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Destroy Seventeen Villages, Insurgents Are Active In Sassun

    Area” Post Standard, 19 May 1904, Syracuse, New York NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “French Attempt To Invest Asia Minor Frustrated By Turks” Armenian

    Volunteers Make Landing Possible Are Wiped Out, San Antonio Light 19 Apr

    1920 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Burn Turks, Constantinople” Tyrone Herald, Pennsylvania, Dec

    20, 1905 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Sassoun Massacre:Proof Of Assertion that Armenian Revolutionists Caused

    It” NewYorkTimes Aug 23, 1895 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “America And The Armenians” Reno Evening Gazette, Nov 14, 1915

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Begin Religious Assault:Attack Turks” ProgressReview, Nov 02

    1895, Iowa NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Destroy Village Massacre 400 Tartars” NewYorkTimes Nov 15,

    1905 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Attack Turks And Tartars” Daily Dorthwestern Oct 12, 1920

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Attack Turkish Villagers” Newport Daily Oct 25 1895

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians, Not Turks Set Smyrna Ablaze” Relief Worker Declares: San

    Antonio Express, 1923-01-22 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    “Armenian Army Approaching Erzerum” Bismark Daily Tribune, 13 Nov 1914

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Ready To Side With Russians” Elyria Evening Telegram, 13 Nov

    1914 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “General Antranik Ozanian, Famous Armenian General, Engaged In Many

    Battles Against the Turks, Dies ” Fresno Bee, 31 Aug 1927 NewsPaper’s

    Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Aiding Russians Besiege Turkish Town Van ” Manitoba Free

    Press, 7 Nov 1914 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Erzerum Taken From Turks By Armenian Corps, Aided By Detachment Of

    Armenian Volunteers” Oakland Tribune, 4 Apr 1918 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Insurgents, Uprising in Van” Post Standard Syracuse, 6 Sep

    1904 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Fresno Armenian Weekly Editor Welcomes Gen Antranik, Headed Armenian

    Volunteers Against Turks” Van Nuys News, 14 may 1920 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “Russian Troops Linked with Greek and Armenian Civillians As The

    Perpetrators” New York Times, 22 Oct 1915 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Rebels Advance” New York Times, 6 Sep 1904 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “5 Armenian Revolutionary Societies To Bring About The Ruin of The

    Ottoman Empire” New York Times, 24 Sep 1896 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot

    “170 Armenian Bombs Exhibited” New York Times, 23 Sep 1896 NewsPaper’s

    Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Bomb Factory was Discovered Near Kassim Pasha Cemetery” New

    York Times, 12 Sep 1896 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Are pardoned : Turkish Amnesty To Zeitoun” New York Times, 14

    Feb 1896 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Insurgents Massacred All The Turkish Soldiers at Zeitoun” New

    York Times, 21 Dec 1895 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians landed with Arms and Bombs” New York Times, 15 Dec 1895

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Aggression Of Armenians” New York Times, 2 Nov 1895 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) ” Mosque, School and Bazaar : Armenians Set Fire ” New York Times, 15

    Dec 1891 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Accused of Massacre. Tartar Complaints” The Times London, 19

    Mar 1920 Page 15 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “8.000+ Armenian Volunteers fighting for the Russians in Turkey”

    Armenian Red Cross To The Times Editor : The Times London 12 Jan 1915 Page

    7 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Welcomed Russians in Armenia Entered Turkey” Atlanta Constitution, 1914

    11 07 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Druse Tribe Revolt Spreads” Indiana Evening Gazette, 1925, August 13

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Volunteers in Victory Over Turks” Nevada State Journal, 1918,

    10 05 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Bands Preparing To Invade Ottoman Territory” Oakland Tribune,

    1905, May 10 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Istanbul Robert College Educated General Mesrob Azgapetian Titled For

    His War Services Against Turkey,” Republican And Times, 1922 02 0

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    “150 000 Armenian Volunteers in Russian Army Were The Only Forces

    Against Turks: Boghos Nubar, Paris” Times of London , 1919 Jan 30

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Threatening Letters From Armenian Revolutionionary Committee” Liverpool

    Courier, 1897 08-23 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Bomb Outrage in Constantinople Eight Armenians Arrested” Liverpool

    Courier, 1897 08-21 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Raiders From Turkish Territory on Turco-Persian Frontiers”

    Bristol Times And Mirror, 1897-09-29 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Reported Armenian Aggression – Terrible Barbarities” Liverpool Courier,

    1897-08-10 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Aid Russians Against Turks” Tyro Herald, 1914 12-10

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Four Hundred Cleveland Armenians Waiting to Call Back to Armenia To

    Fight Turkey” Lima Daily News, 1914 11-02 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Mahommedans Plan To Aid Co-Religionists – Barbarities By Armenians”

    NYT, 1905 June 26 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Four Villages Reduced To Ashes by Armenians” Lima Times Democrat 1906

    Sep 19 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Join Russians and Scatter Turks Near Feitun” Washington Post,

    1914 November 13 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Fight For Russia” Reno Evening Gazette London 1915 Jan 7

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) Russians Take Turks’ Fort Near Erzerum, In Pursuit of Turkish Cavalry

    Armenian Students Enthusiastic Volunteers in Petrograd” NYT, 1914 November

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Fighting Turks, Besieging Van Others Operating Turkish Army’s

    Rear” ” NYT, 1914 November 7 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Russians Win Van District” New Oxford, 1916-24-2 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    “(Armenians) From America To Fight” NYT, 1915 January 8 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Join Russians” Indianapolis Star, 1915-1-08 NewsPaper’s

    Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Aiding Russians in Campaign Against Turkey” Fort Wayne News,

    1914-11-07 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Active in European War” Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette,

    1914-11-13 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Volunteers Are To Increased to 15.000” Daily Kennebec Journal,

    1914 May 28 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    “Armenians in Revolt” Centralia Enterprise and Tribune, 1895-11-12

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 18 Oct 1915 : “Dangerous Rebel Armenians Betray Their Rulers, Take

    Refuge in Christian Missions : The Kind of Armenians A Turk Knows”

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 22 Nov 1915 : “Rebel Turk Djemal Pasha Orders 2 Turkish Band Chiefs

    Be Hanged For ill Treatment of Armenians” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 14 Nov 1920 : “Armenians Complain of French” NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 13 Nov 1914 : “Turkish Armenians Refuse To Join Turkish Army –

    Ready To Join Russian Invaders for Armed Revolt” NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 2 May 1928 : “Huncak (Agitates Against Turkish Rule) Editor S

    Sapah-Gulian Dead” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 15 Dec 1903 : “Armenian Revolt Likely” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 4 Aug 1940 “Armenian Military Hero, General Sebooh Arshak

    Nersesian, Who Fought Against The Turks In 1920, Died At 66″ NewsPaper’s

    Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 22 Jun 1935 “Armenian Patriot Miran Sevasly Dead: He Helped Raising

    10.000 Armenians To Fight Against Turkish Front In Armenian Legion “

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 8 Jan 1915 “Armenians From America, Arrived In Tiflis, To Serve

    With The Russian Army Against Turkey” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT: 9 Oct 1915 “Why We Aid Armenians: It’s Because We’re Bought by

    Anglo-French Gold” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) NYT 13 May 1947 “James Chankalian, Won Honors, in Organising 300

    Armenian Volunteers To Fight Against Turkey” NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot

    !

    ) NYT 29 Sep 1915: “Armenians Brought Reprisals on Themselves by Trying to

    Stir Up Rebellion Against Turkey” “ARMENIANS’ OWN FAULT-Bernstorff”

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    “Turkish Garrisons Attacked by Armenian Rebels” The Washington Post,

    1904 Aug 10 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Rebels Killed 20, Wounded 23, in Turkey” The News, 1904 May 2

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Aiding Russians In Campaign Against Turkey” Fort Wayne News,

    1914 Nov 7 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) 2532) “Armed Armenians Kill Many” Muscatine Journal 19 Dec 1905

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenian Rebels Attack Town, Turkish Troops Fight Insurgents” Reno

    Evening Gazette Sep 13 1904 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Kill Turks” Manitoba Free Press 1916-02-22 NewsPaper’s Actual

    ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Go To Europe To Fight For The Allies” Racine Journal-News

    1917-08-31 NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    ) “Armenians Kill Azeri Turks (Tartars)” La Crosse Tribune, 1906-09-19

    NewsPaper’s Actual ScreenShot !

    Armenian Rebellion: Feilding Star, 5 Sep 1905

    Turks Were Defeated By The Armenian Army: NYT 29 Jun 1918

    Armenian Priests Acted As Guides For Russian Army To Get To Van: Evening

    Post 9 Dec 1914

    Armenian Students Join Russian Army In Caucasus : Evening Post 4 Nov 1914

    “Armenia Wants US Against Hun” -Miami Metropolis 27-Mar-1919

    “Hentchakist Bands Invade Turkish Territory” NY Times 10-Nov-1903

    ” Tacitly Encouraged by Russia, Armenians Cross Turkish Frontier” NY Times

    17-May-1903

    “Boxes Of Rifles, Ammunition & Dynamite in Armenian Church”

    Feb13-31Jan1908-St.Petersburg Telegraph Agency

    “Future Glorious Armenia Should Not Be Limited To Turkish Land, But Must

    Cover Themselves & Russian Land” Nov11-29Oct-1903-Moscow-Paper

    “5000 Armenian Revolters in Adana Preparing For Aggressive Action” NY

    Times 15 Nov 1895

    “Armenians Prefer Sultan’s Rule Not Emperor Nicholas” NY Daily Tribune

    25-Aug-1907

    “Armenians Armed With Revolvers & Spiked Staves, Dragged Armenian

    Patriarch From Pulpit” NY Times 29-July-1890

    “Armenian Revolt With The Help & Encouragement From Trans-Caspian

    Armenians in Russia” NY Times 13-Oct -1903

    “Armenians Responsible For Premeditated Riots” NY Times 25-Oct-1895

    “Gen Spiridowitch Organizing Armenians In NewYork For A Revolt In Turkey”

    NY Times 20-May-1907

    “Turkish Armenians In Armed Revolt Ready To Join Russian Invaders, Having

    Drilled & Collected …” NY Times 13 Nov 1914

    “Armenian Riots” Clutha Leader – 11 Oct 1895

    “Sassoun Massacre -Proof – Armenian Revolitionists Caused It” NY Times 23

    Aug 1895

    “Armenian Bands Formed To Attack & Kill Turks or Kurds” NY Times 18 Jan 1894

    “Armenians Have Plotted To Arouse Sympathy” NY Times 4 Oct 1895

    “Turks Hang Kemal Bey For Armenian Massacres” NYT 14 Apr 1919

    “Turkish Garrisons Attacked By Armenian Rebels” Washington Post, 10th Aug

    1904

    “Fighting In Sasun -Armenian Rebels” The News, May 2 1904

    “False Info Circulated By The Armenian Agitators” NYT, Nov 3 1895

    “Armenian Question: England And America Cannot Afford To Throw Stones”

    NYT, 23rd Sep 1895

    “Armenian Rebels Taken In Hand” -Evening Bulletin, Hawaii, USA, May 16, 1903

    “26.000 ‘Christian’ Armenians In Revolt” -Guthrie Daily Leader, Oklahoma,

    Nov, 1 1895

    “Armenians In Van Rise In Arms Against Turks” -Washington Times, May 12, 1915

    ” Plot To Blow Up Foreign Consulates By Armenian Rebels’ Dastardly Plan”

    -San Francisco Call -20 Aug 1905

    ” Turks Battle With Rebels” -San Francisco Call -19 May 1904

    “Were The Armenian Stories Of Atrocities Only Fabrications? ” -Daily

    Bulletin, April 25, 1895

    After all these TRUTHS Here are some questions for you to ask to your Liar-menian friends..I know They will never answer them..But please try at least ,ones..

    1) Why was every single Ottoman official, incarcerated for war crimes during the nearly two-and-a-half years of the Malta Tribunals, finally acquitted?

    THIS IS THE QUESTION THAT WOULD PUT AN END TO THE “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE” MATTER, TO ANY LOGICAL MIND. I HAVE NOT SEEN THE MALTA TRIBUNALS REFERRED TO IN ANY OF THE ARMENIAN WEB SITES.

    2) The “Sick Man of Europe” was on her knees, financially broke and depleted of manpower (thanks to German-directed military mobilization) and needed resources. Why would the empire choose this most inopportune time to target the Armenians, who made the financial wheels turn and were clearly a vital resource to the country?

    3) The “Sick Man of Europe” was on her knees, financially broke. Why would she spend a fortune on resettling the Armenians?

    If the idea was to wipe them out, why didn’t they massacre them on the spot, as the Armenians did with the Turks?

    4) Could the Ottoman Turks have the TECHNOLOGICAL capacity to carry out a government-sponsored genocide on such a grand scale?

    5) If the idea of the resettlement program was to subject the Armenians to a slow, genocidal death, why did so many Armenians survive?

    If there was a true government sponsored policy of extermination, why leave the barely-living starved alive? In short, it all boils down to: how could the great majority…one million out of less than one and a half million… have survived?

    6) Why then, would the Turks fool around by going through the musical chairs of separating the men (remember, the Armenians claim the men were largely unarmed)?

    Also, why were there supposedly so many orphans?

    If a government has in mind to wipe out a race, why leave so many children alive?

    The Armenians didn’t intend to leave the Turkish children alive.

    7) Hitler began by targeting the Jews in Berlin. Why were the Armenians in Istanbul and other cities of the West such as Izmir, left alone for the most part?

    The Armenians say this was because these cities were under too much foreign observation. However, the Ottomans were aware, after generations of being subjected to capitulations, that foreign posts were set up even in the distant corners of the empire… as readily under foreign observation.(American consuls of these out-of-the-way distant provinces, such as Leslie Davis [the genocide-proving “big gun” highlighted in the PBS pro-Armenian programs covered at this site], were among them. In addition, the missionaries were everywhere.)

    😎 As a related point, “Talat Pasa allowed the American missionaries to do relief work among the Armenians, in spite of the fact that Turkey and the United States were on the opposing camps during the war.

    How many examples are there in history of a combatant country permitting the citizens of another country fighting in the other camp to stay, feed, cloth and educate the people it is accused of exterminating?

    9) The Armenian perspective never fails to offer the convictions Turkish courts laid out to their own officials immediately after the war, and the Sevres Treaty, which partly proclaimed a large chunk of Eastern Turkey to be part of Armenia.

    For a better proof of judging whether a genocide occurred, one must look at the Treaty of Leninakan (Gümrü) signed (December 3, 1920) by the Armenians and Turks, which closed the book on past ills, foregoing the issue of reparations.

    If the Armenians were truly outraged over the Turks’ Nazi-like evil campaign to exterminate them, how could they have agreed to such terms?

    “If the Ottoman Empire really did commit the crime of genocide from 1915-1919, as Armenians allege, then why would the newly established Armenia turn to the Ottoman Empire for help in 1918, 1919, or 1920?

    10) As yet another follow-up, why didn’t Armenian delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, Boghos Nubar Pasha, mention the “genocide” in his January 30, 1919 letter to The Times of London?

    Dear Sir,

    The Liar-menians havent decide the date and figures of the victims of the so-called genocide,yet and they haven’t got even a single original documents in the Yerevan Museum of Genocide..

    You need to ask some more questions to the Museum authorities too.

    -Did turks kill 1.500.000 of your people in 1915

    or

    -Did Turks kill 1.500.000 of your people from 1890s to 1920s?

    -If they killed your people all in 1915 how could they do it when they were fighting in 14 fronts in 1915 including Gallipoli and Dardanelles war with all the Allies.

    -Even Hitler could kill,burn and bury 1.200.000 Jews in Auchswitz in 3 years with a great technology and man power.

    -ANCA Made a discount of 500.000 on Genocide Victims recently hahahaha

    Look at their letter to Coca Cola…on 24.th of April,2013…

    “”””” Dear Members of the Coca-Cola Company’s Board of Directors:

    We are writing to express our profound concern regarding the Coca Cola Company’s association with an organization that has, for many years, orchestrated a hateful public campaign to deny the Armenian Genocide, a government sponsored campaign that killed over 1,000,000 men, women and children because of their Armenian ethnicity and Christian faith.”””

    Aram Hamparian

    Executive Director, Armenian National Committee of America”””””

    It was “Over 1.500.000 last year and this year they said Over 1.000.000.Who knows the figures of the next year’s campaign?

    -If the Turks killed Liar-menians one by one from 1890s to 1920 why at least 15.000Armenian public servants in Ottoman empire including Ministers,Ambassadors,Consuls, second Consuls and other servants did not move their even a single finger and warn USA or Europe for the GENOCIDE?

    Were Armenian Bureucrats in Ottoman Empire the collabrators of the Genocide?

    Those armenian pashas and bureaucrats worked for the ottoman empire between the years of 1900-1919…

    IMAGINE;you are an Armenian Bureaucrat and Turks kill 1.500.000 of your people one by one in 10 years and you keep working as a authorised bureaucrat…..for the EMPIRE to make their life easier.

    Particularly in the 19th century, twenty-nine Armenians were granted the highest governmental rank of Pashas.

    • There were twenty-two Armenian ministers in Ottoman Administration, including the Ministers of Foreign Affairs,

    Finance, Treasury, Trade and Post, with other Armenians holding high positions at the departments in charge of agriculture, economic development, and the census.

    • There also were thirty-three Armenian representatives appointed and elected to the Ottoman Parliament, seven ambassadors, eleven consuls-general and consuls, eleven university professors, and forty-one other officials of high rank.

    • In the beginning of the twentieth century, during the Balkan Wars, Mr. Gabriel Noradukyan, an Ottoman Armenian, served as the Foreign Minister of the Ottoman Empire.

    • Agop Kazakyan served as the Minister of Finance and Sakiz Ohannes Pasha as the Minister of Treasury.

    • lyas Çayan Efendi was the President of the Council of State.

    • Osgan Mardikyan was the Minister of Communication.

    • Ohannes Ferit Efendi (Van), Ohannes Asasyan (Elaziz, L. Ayciyan ve Ant Billoryan (Erzurum) served as the Deputy Governors in the eastern provinces of Turkey.

    THE LIST OF THE ARMENIAN BUREUCRATS AND CIVIL SERVANTS IN THE LATE OTTOMAN ERA:

    THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

    Gabriel Noradukyan (Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1912) Ohannes Kuyumcuyan (Deputy Undersecretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1909 and 1913)

    DEPUTY COUNSELLORS ON LEGAL AFFAIRS IN THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

    Edvar Bey(until 1908) Hirant Bey Abro (until 1917)

    CONSULS AND DIPLOMATS

    Hrant Düz (Messina/Italy)

    Hovsep Misakyan Efendi (The Hague/Netherlands)

    Ohannes Magakyan Efendi (Deputy Consul/Oziçe-Serbia)

    Mihran Kavafyan Efendi (Consul General/France)(in 1907 Counsellor – Plenipotentiary/ Belgium)

    Sekip Efendi (First Secretary Berlin/Germany)

    Harutyun Markaryan Efendi(First Secretary/Belgrade)

    Hovsep Azaryan Efendi (Consul General/Malta)

    Sarkis Balyan Efendi (Consul Bari/Italy)

    Dikran Hünkarbegendiyan (Deputy Consul Odessa/Russia)

    Levon Bey Yeremyan (Second Secretary/Paris)

    Diran Bey Dadyan (Second Secretary/Brussels)

    Levon Bey Yeremyan (Second Secretary/Paris)

    Minas Yeram Efendi (Deputy Consul /Zanta)

    Ohannes Nafilyan Efendi (Deputy Consul /Tbilisi)

    Hrant Bey Noradukyan (Deputy Consul /Galaç-Romania)

    Arsen Efendi (Deputy Consul/Newcastle/Britain Patras/Greece)

    MINISTRY OF TREASURY

    Sakiz Ohannes Pasha (Minister, between the years 1897 and 1908)

    MINISTRY OF FINANCE

    Agop Kazakyan (Minister).

    They have betrayed their own Empire State…

    The OTTOMAN EMPIRE was their own state too like Turks and they have backtabbed the Turks when all the Turkish men in the 14 fronts and fighting against the Allies…

    -How many Armenians have been killed?

    1.750.000 ?

    1.500.000 or 800.000 or 350.000?

    Noone knows but just telling lies..

    Why don’t you send an email and ask the Armenian Genocide Museum if they have a single original document about the genocide in the whole museum.

    Hayk Demoyan

    director@genocide-museum.am

    Suren Manukyan-

    science@genocide-museum.am

    British and French/Italian/Greek ,Russian and even USA armies occupied Istanbul and 4/5 of Turkey after 1WW and Armenian authorities searched and read all the archieved documents for 4 years..

    They have taken 144 people in and send them to Malta to judge as “So-called Armenian Genocide Suspects”..

    What happened then?

    Brits released them all after 3 years of investigation in Turkish Ottoman Archieves..

    Because they saw the realities and the Truths..

    The deception of the LIAR-menians ,now continues for 93 years, 2 months, and 27 days.

    The other side of the FALSIFIED GENOCIDE

    please visit http://www.tallarmeniantale.com/ to have more information.I know you will never do that but you have to know the Truth and the Genocide of the TRUTHS by LIAR-menians..

    There are thousands of Armenian web sites telling their story of inferiority agaist Turks.But there is only one website from the Turks make them mad.Why ?

    Why Armenian storytellers yelling this much .

    Let me tell you.

    If you are not familiar with this “”armenian fairy tale”” and read

    www.tallarmeniantale.com web site first other thousands zillions billions websites of “”funny armenian storytellers””look like Charlie Chaplin’s silent movies.

    A lot of actions but no sound.

    They all know that during Ottoman and Turks period of nearly 2000years in anatolia,Armenian anatolians were the number one important people to the sultans even more important than Turks.

    Because they are christians in a great community of moslems so they should be protected safely.This ended in the 1.world war.

    Armenian idiots united with Russian and French armies wore their uniforms and started killing moslems everywhere they found weak.

    Yes ottoman Turks were fighting with English,French,Italian,Greek,Russian and Arab armies in 14different fronts from Iran border to Libya,from Rumania to yemen.

    but armenians opened another front and killed Turks on their backs.

    Ottoman officials decided to deport them.On the ways they died because of that time’s misery and some small fights with dome kurdish tribes etc .

    Nobody killed them planned it is a terrible lie.

    All christian world knows this but all christian world has hypocratic face and dinayed this reality with cold blood.

    Even Armenian diaspora knows the truth but they are in a position to sell this “”so called fairy tale””for their future and never giveup.

    Poor armenian people in Armenia is very busy with this tale and forgotten all their daily needs and keep living in powerty and the government of Armenia is cheating their own people with using this instrument to rule them.

    of course armenian merchants of “”so called tale sellers””are not feeling comfortable in their seats.

    They realised that Turks left their old politics of “”silence” ” ; ;and started to show their real faces.

    They opened their all files of 2billios papers to all the historians and demanded the same thing from Armenian government.

    They refused to show even one document and they were right.

    Because if they open their files all the world historians will come and see the vodvils of the armenian story tellers and start fooling them .

    This is the all story.

    Other stories need proofs and they have none:))

    See their Case to European Court of Justice and the VERDICT of the Court below..

    C-18/04 P – Krikorian and Others [Case closed]

    Main proceedings

    Order – 29/10/2004 – Krikorian and Others

    Case C-18/04 P

    Reports of Cases

    Not published

    (Appeal Case before the General Court T-346/03)

    Proceedings for interim measures 1

    Order – 13/09/2004 – Krikorian and Others

    Case C-18/04 P

    Reports of Cases

    Not published

    (Appeal Case before the General Court T-346/03)

    http://www.topix.com/forum/world/

    armenia/TECB6U60MI5SPA8NN/p9#l astPost

    WHAT DID EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE SAY?

    WHAT WAS THE VERDICT OF THE COURT ABOUT GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS?

    “””European Court of Justice””” ” decided to reject

    Liarmenian Trial attempsts

    2 times in 2003

    and 2004

    with the reason of

    NO EVIDENTS NO PROOFS ALL POLITIC DECISIONS AND POLITICAL DECISIONS MAY BE CHANGED WITH EVERY NEW ELECTED PARLIEMENTS.

    17 December 2003.

    Trial Case nr.T-346/03

    Chancellor

    H.Jung

    President

    B.Vesterhoff

    Judge.

    P.Mengozzi

    Judge.E.Riberio

    Accuser.Name .

    Gregorie Kirkorian

    Suzanne Kirkorian

    European Union Of Armenian

    16 January 2004

    Trial Case Nr.of the Supreme Court of the European Court Of Justice was C-18/04

    If you are an puppet player and all the poor armenians are your puppets would you be happy .

  • Backdoor of the United States for the Aegean!

    Backdoor of the United States for the Aegean!

    Blinken’s second letter to Congress facilitates and serves Turkey to permanently challenge Greek sovereignty over islands and islets

    25.02.2024 • 22:03

    The Biden administration with not one, but two letters from the US Secretary of State Blinken to the Congress on the guarantees of the sale of F-16s to Turkey facilitates and authorizes it to permanently and completely question the Greek sovereignty over islands, islets and islets in the Aegean, with the Mitsotakis government not having realized the deadly/disastrous trap for Greek sovereignty in the Aegean and the opposition parties being in a criminal nirvana, which leads to a division of Greek sovereignty in the Aegean.

    From Kyra Adam

    The letter on the restrictions on the sale of F-16s to Turkey was presented journalistically as a Greek success, and this because none of the government or the competent experts understood the phrase “internationally recognized sovereignty. US Secretary of State Blinken sent his first secret letter to Congress on the approval of the sale of spare parts and new F-16s to Turkey, involving the Turkish F-16s with the Greek F-35s “to maintain the balance of power”.

    However, motivated by the pre-election period in the USA and the fierce votes of the Greek and Cypriot lobby, a group of American senators around Senator Bob Menendez and Greek-American actors demanded a second letter from Blinken to Congress, with the aim of making clear and clearly visible Turkey’s commitments to do not use the F-16s against Greece.

    This was the occasion for the State Department, with the cooperation and assistance of the pro-Turkish Legal Service of the US Department of State, at this time, to formulate the second Blinken letter to Congress, giving the right and authorization to Ankara from the US to fragment Greek sovereignty and all national Greek interests within the Athens FIR. A fact that allows Turkey to return to the era and actions of 1996, with the Declaration of Athens now looking like… rag paper.

    In particular, in this second letter Blinken states verbatim: “…If a NATO ally commits repeated violations within the internationally recognized borders of another ally, the US will try to resolve the situation diplomatically.” If the situation cannot be resolved through normal diplomatic channels, the US will use additional political and economic tools to resolve the situation. With the fancy term “internationally recognized borders” between NATO allies, in this case Greece and Turkey, the US is striking directly against Greek sovereignty at 10 p.m. of the national airspace in the Aegean, against Greekness and Greek sovereignty over the islets and rocky islets of the Aegean, while rendering the Athens FIR non-existent.

    In other words, they offer another gift to Erdogan, in his aspirations and claims against Greek sovereignty and Greek interests in the Aegean, now openly and directly supporting Turkish positions at the expense of Greece. And, in fact, through an official letter to Congress, which aimed to prohibit Turkey from using the American-made F-16s it will receive at the expense of Greece.

    Secret document ‘nullifies’ Athens FIR and 10 miles of national airspace

    It is noted that the second Blinken letter:

    • Firstly, it takes advantage of the fact that Greece from the mouth of the Evros to the east of Kastellorizos has no continuous sea border with Turkey, only the middle line between the Greek islands and the coast of Turkey.

    But even this middle line is not agreed upon between Greece and Turkey both through fault and because of Turkey’s views. However, between Samothraki and Lemnos, Lemnos and Lesvos, Lesvos and Chios, Chios and Samos, Rhodes and Kastelorizo, etc. there are no Greek-Turkish borders at all, nor can they ever be defined, since the distances from the Turkish coasts to the Greek islands are greater than the territorial waters of the two countries (6+6=12 nm) and there is no middle line.

    With the American wording-Trojan horse, which is misleadingly presented as protection of Greek sovereignty, “within internationally recognized borders”, Turkey is granted the right to enter the Aegean with the American F-16s unchecked through international airspace, e.g. between Lemnos and Lesvos and without filing a flight plan, to thresh in the international airspace of the Aegean, and to exit the international sea and the international airspace between Rhodes – Kastellorizos, thus having operational control (with all Turkish military aircraft) throughout the international airspace of the Aegean and the Mediterranean.

    And this is because according to the Blinken letter and pursuant to this letter, Turkey does not violate internationally recognized borders, given that the international sea and international airspace do not constitute recognized borders under International Law. At the same time, with regard to military aircraft – namely the American-made F-16 – the Athens FIR, which is not a recognized Greece-Turkey border, is also abolished.

    • Secondly, according to the Chicago Convention and the Law of the Sea, but also the statements of Mitsotakis – Gerapetritis that Greece has 6 nautical miles. sovereignty, it is proved that the islands of Samothraki, Lemnos, Lesbos, Rhodes, Kastellorizo, etc. they have internationally recognized sovereignty at 6 nautical miles, which NATO also accepts and applies.

    Thus, with the second Blinken letter, the airspace on the islands beyond 6 n.m. ( 6-10 n.m.) is not internationally recognized Greek sovereignty, with the result that Turkish F-16s and UAVs can fly at 6-9 n.m. from the islands, “approaching” Greek sovereignty, without any compensation for the Mitsotakis government and much more for Greece.

    • Thirdly, Turkey’s disputes and claims against Greece, as a single and continuous event, and against Greece’s sovereignty and national interests are a controllable and manageable problem. However, they turn into a dangerous threat when the Mitsotakis government cannot legally and indeed in an international context – support Greek sovereignty itself.

    In particular, Turkey questions the Greekness of a large number of islets and islets in the Aegean. He even sent a letter to the UN, in which he questions the sovereignty over islands, islets and islets in the Aegean. However, the Mitsotakis government has been found incapable of ensuring the Greekness of islets and islets in the Aegean.

    This is proven by the fact that the Mitsotakis government sent a reply letter to the UN under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dendias, in which it is stated that islets and rocky islets in the Aegean were granted to Greece by the Lausanne and Paris Treaties. However, in these two Treaties, nowhere is it written that the islets and islets were granted to Greece by the Treaties, nor do they even mention the words “islands” and “rock islets”.

    This fact constitutes a criminal indifference on the part of the government to the detriment of Greek sovereignty, since the islets and islets, although they are completely Greek, the government, whether out of indifference or weakness or purposefulness (?), does not legally support them, with the result that country to become internationally resilient and reduce Greek sovereignty in the Aegean. And this is because the Greekness of the rocky islands is not stated in the Treaties, but in international agreements signed by Turkey, which, unfortunately, the government does not bother to identify, in order to ensure Greek sovereignty in the Aegean.

    Based on the second letter, the US government ensures Greek sovereignty from Turkish F-16s only from the mouth of the Evros to Didymoteicho, because there is a Greek-Turkish border, internationally recognizing Greek sovereignty based on the Treaty of Lausanne. From Evros to Kastelorizo, the US is putting the Aegean at the mercy of Erdogan, because there is no sovereignty in the international sea.

    Blinken’s second “carmaniola” letter about Greek sovereignty and national interests in the Aegean cannot be a surprise, as it follows to the letter the Report of the Congressional Research Directorate on US-Turkish relations in 2023. This pitiful report, to which the Greek government did not react at all, officially characterizes Greek islands in the Aegean as non-Greek, but disputed, arguing that Turkish overflights do not violate Greek sovereignty over the islands, because they are not Greek, but disputed.

    In the relevant Map of the Congress Report, cited by the “Sunday democracy” as a presumption for the Biden administration, from 2023 the islands, islets and islets are not Greek (in pink on the Map):

    • In the area of Crete: Gavdos, Chrysi, Koufonisi, Dia, Dragonada, Elassa.
    • In the area of Karpathos: Astakida, Zafora, Pacheia, Makra.
    • As well as the islets and rocky islets of Stefania, Pontikousa, Giali, Imia, Pserimos, Lipsi, Farmakonisi, Arkioi, Agathonisi, Agrelousa, Hatapodia, Melabioi, Donousa, Kalogeri, Antipsara, Oinuses, Tzourafa, Strogyli and Khina.

    Namely, 29 Greek islands, islets and rocky islets according to the Biden administration and Turkey, at the same time do not have Greek sovereignty, they are disputed and stray, without ownership status, since they do not belong to either Greece or Turkey. And this second Blinken letter to Congress is a second godsend to Erdogan, who is “liberated” to fragment Greek sovereignty with the thumb of the Biden administration.

    amerikan kongre raporu ege adalari

    On the map of the Report of the American Congress, 29 of our islands are colored pink and are marked as disputed. On the same map we see the almost daily violations of Greek sovereignty by Turkish UAVsTurkey continues to run almost daily with UAVs undisturbed through Greek sovereignty in the Aegean, from Rhodes to Thassos, and back, occupying Greek islands, islets and rocky islets, issuing the relevant illegal international notice in the Athens FIR (see map ).

  • Sarbanes Letter to President Biden

    Sarbanes Letter to President Biden

    Sarbanes, Hellenic Caucus Leaders Urge President Biden to Formally Invite the President of Cyprus to the White House to Mark 50th Anniversary of Turkish Invasion of Cyprus

    January 18, 2024

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman John Sarbanes (D-MD) joined Congressional Hellenic Caucus co-chairs Chris Pappas (D-NH) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and vice co-chairs Dina Titus (D-NV) and Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) in sending a letter to President Biden requesting he observe the 50th anniversary of Turkey’s invasion and ongoing occupation of the Republic of Cyprus by formally inviting Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides to the White House and taking other measures to strengthen the strategic partnership between the United States and Cyprus.

    Read the full letter linked here and below:

    Dear President Biden:

    This year we mark the 50th observance of Turkey’s brutal invasion and ongoing occupation of the Republic of Cyprus. From your earliest days in the Senate, few elected officials have matched your understanding of this unforgiving tragedy, and even fewer have equaled your level of unwavering support for reunification of the island as a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation.   

    As members of the Congressional Hellenic Caucus, we urge your administration to mark this sober year of remembrance with meaningful actions that will materially elevate the United States’ relationship with one of our most reliable strategic partners. We agree with your recent statement that American leadership is what holds the world together, that American alliances are what keep us, America, safe. Affirming our bond with key partners — in this case, the Republic of Cyprus — is critical to projecting American values and bolstering international collaboration on the world’s most pressing challenges.

    On July 20, 1974, Turkish forces descended upon Cypriot towns and villages, sending their rightful inhabitants fleeing for their lives. Since that time, Cypriots have endured a massive Turkish occupation in an ongoing affront to their sovereignty and democratic liberties. Your observation that we know that our allies and, maybe most importantly, our adversaries and competitors, are watching could not be more applicable than to Turkey’s actions in Cyprus.

    In 2014, you became the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Cyprus since then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1962. During that visit, you recognized Cyprus’ important role as an ally, observing: “Cyprus can be a growing force for peace, prosperity and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean and that would benefit the world.” Almost a decade later, Cyprus has consistently proven to be the stabilizing and peaceful force in the region you rightly predicted, having aligned its policies with U.S. interests and collaborated with the larger Eastern Mediterranean region. Cyprus has worked to combat Russian money laundering, captured tons of Iranian explosives and shown itself to be a compassionate and reliable partner by treating wounded U.S. Marines prevented from receiving care at the U.S. Incirlik Base in Turkey. Most recently, in response to Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli civilians, Cyprus rescued thousands of innocent Americans and others fleeing from Israel and is currently leading efforts to establish a humanitarian aid corridor to Gaza. Beyond this demonstrated vital partnership, our nations have found key areas of collaboration through the 3+1 Eastern Mediterranean Cooperation Framework, including its development of CYCLOPS, a facility that hosts joint training on maritime and border security, counterterrorism and cybersecurity between the U.S., Cyprus and other regional allies. 

    It is with this convincing record of collaboration in mind that we propose your consideration of several key actions that will signal America’s appreciation of Cyprus’ vital role and also act to further strengthen the U.S.-Cypriot strategic partnership. This partnership has already catalyzed greater cooperation, innovation and security amongst our friends and allies in the Eastern Mediterranean region.

    First, we urge you to formally welcome Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides to the White House. A formal state visit will shine a powerful light on the peace building that remains to be done in Cyprus and will demonstrate America’s broad interest in peaceful conflict resolution across the globe. It will be an important statement to allies under threat of authoritarian control that the United States is a resolute world leader committed to the preservation and promotion of democratic liberties. You have done more than any American President in recent memory to raise the alarm about the threats to democracy at home and abroad. Demonstrating solidarity with the Republic of Cyprus, a key partner in that continuing struggle, will reaffirm your unwavering commitment to strengthening democratic principles at this critical moment.   

    Second, we ask that you leverage the power of the 3+1 Framework to further the shared strategic interests of the United States and Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean region by expeditiously convening a 3+1 Foreign Ministerial meeting. During a time of rising global tensions, it is more important than ever to promote regional stability and enhance collaboration among key partner nations on mutual economic and political goals by facilitating these regional talks. 

    Third, we applaud initial steps to add Cyprus to the Visa Waiver Program alongside many of its European Union neighbors. This Program serves to strengthen people-to-people ties between nations and the inclusion of Cyprus is the right policy. We urge a smooth and efficient admission of Cyprus into the Program once the necessary security steps are completed by your administration. 

    Finally, we wish to thank you for fully lifting the arms embargo on Cyprus through 2024. This decision is a testament to the reforms Cyprus has implemented consistent with the Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act of 2019, to thwart Russian influence and money laundering. While we believe this is an important first step in recognition of Cyprus’ ongoing commitment to these reforms, we urge you to extend this lifting of the arms embargo beyond a one-year time frame which will allow for advanced planning and ensure interoperability with allies. 

    Your long-standing record of support for the U.S.- Cyprus relationship is deeply appreciated by all who have worked over these last five decades to achieve justice for the Cypriot people. We know that you feel the gravity of this moment as acutely as we do and ask you to mark this sober occasion with concrete, meaningful actions that can advance a just solution in Cyprus.  

    Sincerely,

    Chris Pappas, Co-Chair, Hellenic Caucus

    Gus Bilirakis, Co-Chair, Hellenic Caucus

    Dina Titus, Vice Co-Chair, Hellenic Caucus

    Nicole Malliotakis, Vice Co-Chair, Hellenic Caucus

    John P. Sarbanes, Member, Hellenic Caucus