Tag: genocide

  • Nancy Pelosi: “We are all Armenians!”

    Nancy Pelosi: “We are all Armenians!”


    House Speaker pledges to fight on for Genocide recognition

    by Emil Sanamyan

    Published: Wednesday April 21, 2010

    Speaker Pelosi speaking at April 21 congressional commemoration. The Armenian Reporter

    Washington – “Tonight we are all Armenians!” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declared as she began her address at the annual congressional commemoration of the Armenian Genocide on April 21.

    “We are tired of the story being told [about why Congress should not adopt an Armenian Genocide resolution] but we are not tired of fighting for the truth,” Pelosi insisted as she spoke in front of some 200 people, mostly Armenian Americans.

    Speaker noted the importance of last month’s House Foreign Affairs Committee vote on the Armenian Genocide resolution that “insisted on the truth” and expressed hope that the vote was “of some comfort” to Armenian Americans.

    Pelosi added that she and other supporters of affirmation would not rest until the federal government clearly recognizes the Armenian Genocide, but she made no commitments about bringing the House resolution to vote, a move that is opposed by the Obama Administration.

    She also referred to last year’s court decision in California that used the U.S. government position as justification to deny Armenian Americans an opportunity to collect on WWI-era insurance policies of their ancestors.

    The event organized by co-chairs of the Armenian caucus Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), included House Majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and more than a dozen other members of Congress, including two members of Armenian descents Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Jackie Speier (D-Calif.)

    The event also featured remarks by Armenia’s Ambassador to U.S. Tatoul Markarian, Artsakh’s Representative Robert Avetisyan, and invocations by the Armenian Church clergy, including Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan who offered an opening prayer for the House of Representatives earlier in the day.

  • CONDEMNING A BOGUS GENOCIDE AND THE FALSIFIERS PROMOTING IT

    CONDEMNING A BOGUS GENOCIDE AND THE FALSIFIERS PROMOTING IT

    Dear fair-minded, honest, truth-seeker,

    As you may be aware, members of the Armenia Caucus are circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter, signed by Berman, to counter the letter by the Turkey Caucus to Speaker Pelosi, the latter urging that the alleged Armenian Genocide Resolution (H. Res. 252), recently passed by the Foreign Affairs Committee, not be brought to the full House for a vote.

    The authors, i.e. Berman’s Armenian writers, would have you believe that passage of the bill by the House would do no “irrevocable harm” to U.S. national security, not “derail ongoing efforts” by Armenia and Turkey to normalize relations, or harm in any way the U.S. economy by putting American exports to and investment in Turkey at risk.

    I disagree with many points in the Armenian letter signed by Berman, but I take particularly strong exception to the use of the phrase ‘Armenian Genocide’ without the qualifier “alleged” before it. There is no court verdict supporting the Armenian claims which strive to pass a bogus genocide as settled history. We all know, beyond a shadow of doubt, that it is neither a genocide nor settled.

    In doing so, it flies in the face of the overwhelming weight of unimpeachable historical evidence and the virtually unanimous opinion of non-Armenian, non-partisan, and un-biased scholars, researchers, and historians, as well as many Turkish ones. In fact, the man who coined the term “genocide,” Rafael Lemkin, was duped by the Armenian propaganda, just like many in the unsuspecting public, to consider the World War I-era revolts, treason, and terrorism by Armenians and the mutual massacres and TERESET (temporary resettlement) that ensued the Armenian disloyalty and fifth column to constitute genocide.

    In 2003, I have coined a much needed companion term, ETHOCIDE, a short definition of which is “systematic extermination of ethics by malicious and repetitive mass deception for political and other gain”, simply to fill the vacuum where racist and dishonest Armenian falsifiers and Turk haters would abuse to pass their revolt as genocide. A simple search on the net for ETHOCIDE will reveal more extensive coverage of the term, its uses, and sources.

    I also reject the downplaying by the Armenian falsifiers and Turk haters the various national-security arguments cited by the Turkey Caucus letter. I believe that US-Turkish security relations should not to be distorted and downplayed into fodder for the greedy and tricky Armenian propagandists. The US-Turkish mutual interests should not be allowed to be destroyed by self-serving Armenian lobby and their irresponsible politician benefactors like Berman, Schiff, Pallone, or others.

    The US is not about to discard the immense benefits it derives from bilateral security relations for the sake of “rewarding” Armenia with a defamatory resolution. For example, would the US risk losing logistic support and real-time intelligence in America’s war on terrorism, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere? Highly doubtful. How about the delicate role of Turkey on the issues like Iran and its nuclear projects, Israel-Palestinian conflict, Pakistan, and the Balkans and Central Asia?

    Moreover, the acknowledgement of a racist and dishonest resolution promoting a bogus genocide by other governments and parliaments suggests that Armenian euphoria would be limited and short-lived, at most. It would start poisoning Turkey-US relations all over again the next year, and then the next, and the next, repeating an endless, meaningless cycle. Why? Because some dishonest and racist people actually derive their livelihood from the “genocide industry”, in terms of votes, dollars, book sales, speaker’s honorarium, film financing, panels, exhibitions, travel, etc. Think of Nazi propaganda machine only run by equally atrocious but much trickier Armenian lobby and their thinly-veiled Turk-hating partners.

    In addition, I dispute the argument that passing H. Res. 252 would not derail the Turkish-Armenian protocols. The protocols have been gathering dust in the Armenian parliament since they were signed in October, and particularly in light of the preconditions fabricated by the Armenian constitutional court and Armenian leadership. There is little likelihood that they will be ratified any time soon because Armenians still resist the world pressure to end their brutal military occupation of Karabagh and seven surrounding provinces, constituting 20% of Azerbaijan’s soil, and allow a million Azeris, mostly women and children, to return to their homes from which they were evicted 18 years ago by Armenian bombs and bayonets. (It is remarkable how Berman letter is shamefully silent about the 18-year-old-and-counting Azerbaijani suffering at the hands of Armenians.)

    Finally, I take issue with the assertion that passing the resolution would not harm the U.S. economy. It strains credulity to believe that the US, at a time when its economy is reeling from the effects of a deep seated crisis, would reject Turkish economic cooperation and investment and stop trading all Turkish products just to appease a few loud and selfish Armenian falsifiers and their self-serving, Turk-hating, irresponsible partners by letting the House adopt a racist and dishonest resolution appearing before us for the millionth time.

    In a more general sense, I am deeply disturbed by this morally-blind line of argument, as it could be used to justify inaction by Armenia in Karabakg and the seven provinces of Azerbaijan.

    I do not accept the arguments of those who expect no potential harm to U.S. national security should the House pass the alleged Armenian Genocide Resolution, totally disrespecting Turkish sensitivities and real politik of the region.

    What I can neither accept nor respect is any claim, direct or implied, that one of the greatest lies of modern history did actually happen.

    I say to those: PROVE IT!

    And if you cannot, then simply shut up!

    Sincerely,

    Ergun Kirlikovali

    PS: There are always two sides to any story. Don’t anyone ever forget that!

  • ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE

    ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE

    Not to be confused with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) which is the most common form of dementia. This degenerative and terminal disease was named after the psychiatrist and neuropathologist that first described it. In the early stages, the most commonly recognized symptom is memory loss. This is an incurable disease striking millions of aging people every year. This is not what I am talking about in ALZ”HYE”MER’S disease.
    ALZ”HYE”MER’S is more of a later stage, quirky disease that inexplicably develops in patients already suffering from BOGUS GENOCIDIS, a curable social disease with a commonly recognized symptom of severe “SELECTIVE MEMORY LOSS”. The ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE sufferers will hate Turks, Muslims, and anyone who disagrees with Armenians, forget only those facts that refute their claims.
    For instance, ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE sufferers will remember 1915, but not 1914 when the Armenians terrorists, revolutionaries, and ultra-nationalists took up arms against their own government, attacked the rear of their own army, garrisons, banks, schools, and even their neighbors causing wide spread death and destruction.
    ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE sufferers will remember temporary resettlement order of May 1915 but not the Van Revolt Armenians staged, killing 40,000 Muslims, mostly Turks and Kurds, and turning the city over to the invading Russian armies. They cannot appreciate that this Van Revolt was the equivalent of 9/11 for the Ottoman Government and the April 24 decision to arrest the leaders of Armenian insurgency, terrorism, and fifth column as the equivalent of Guantanamo.
    ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE sufferers will remember Morgenthau (who was a rabid Turk-hater allowing his Armenian secretaries to falsify events in diplomatic reports and who posed as a career diplomat, historian, and a writer, but in fact, he was none of those, other than a real estate agent and a developer who raised the most money for Wilson campaign in 1912 and was rewarded with an ambassadorial post) but not Bristol who replaced him and refuted his claims of one-sided massacres with no provocation. They will also not remember Harbord, Niles, and Sutherland, all honorable U.S. soldiers who were commissioned to tour the war torn areas and report on their findings and which findings also refuted Armenian tall tales of extermination.
    ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE sufferers will remember Armenian women and children marching to scorching deserts but not Muslim women and children marching to freezing mountains under threat of death by Armenians and/or Russians just prior to former. They will remember their march but not others’ marches at the same time, same area, and due to same wartime conditions. They will also not remember Armenian complicity in war crimes and hate crimes that resulted in the TERESET (temporary resettlement). They will totally forget the six T’s of the Turkish-Armenian conflict: tumult (as in many bloody revolts), terrorism, treason, territorial demands, Turkish dead, and TERESET.
    ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE sufferers will remember the fake claim of 1.5 million alleged Armenian dead, but not remember the March 29, 1919 Paris Peace conference report setting the loss of Armenians at “more than 200,000”. They will also not remember how, magically by a crooked Armenian printer, this number was tripled within two months, as seen in a poster soliciting American aid in churches claiming 600,000 Armenian dead. They will also forget how this shenanigans was further increased to 800,000 with the flick of a pen in a New York Times article and late to a million and even 1.5 million today. Armenian dead are the only known case in humanity where the DEAD MULTIPLY!
    ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE sufferers will remember to tell the world the shameless lies of Turks burning the city of Izmir in 1922 but not the 22 Armenian Dashnak terrorists dressed up as Turkish soldiers who started the fires to avenge Turkish victory and to leave no prize behind for the Turkish victors.
    As the ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE advances, symptoms include confusion, irritability, aggression, mood swings, language breakdown, threats, intimidation and even violence at the sight of a Turk. This disease, as strange and self-imposed as it is, is reversible if truth can be administered to aggressive, violent, and deceptive patients.
    First, shock the patient with the photos of Armenian murderers and their Turkish victims at www.ethocide.com and follow up with a generous dose of truth with the “Six T’s of the conflict”. Watch for signs of life. If the patient responds favorably, then introduce him to legendary Turkish hospitality. Watch for fake signs of recovery or early signs of relapse. Some patients can be very dangerous. That said, there is always hope for full recovery of the patients if they see Turkish doctors.
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    “HYE” IS THE CURSE
    Hye is “Armenian” in the Armenian language. This tiny word, “hye”, is almost always used in such embarrassing company, however, that the “hyes” prefer to call themselves some other word, Armenians, in English.
    When one takes the liberty to stretch the root “hy” fully as “hye”—as I am sure you will extend the courtesy to me to freely exercise of such an entertaining thought process—then one sees nothing but diseases, suffering, and morbid characters attached to the root “hye”. Check it out yourselves:
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    “HYE”STERIA
    A state of extreme or exaggerated emotion such as excitement or panic, especially among large numbers of people. ( Does this description remind you of some people in an otherwise normal and beautiful city called Glendale? I don’t know about you, but it sure reminds me of perennial resolutions, deceptive memorials, and overall obsession with hate, vengeance, and death. Brrr. )
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    “HYE”PE
    To agitate; to create interest in dramatic methods; to intensify (advertising, promotion, or publicity) by questionable claims, methods; to trick; to gull, to deceive, to trick, or to cheat; as a noun: swindle, deception, or trick; but also: a drug addict, esp. one who uses a hypodermic needle. ( Agitation, cheating, swindle, deception, trick? Hmmm… Why do these terms always come up when Armenian claims are discussed?)
    There are more jewels in the history of the term “HYE”PE: “excessive or misleading publicity or advertising,” 1967, Amer. Eng. (the verb is attested from 1937), probably in part a back-formation of hyperbole, but also from underworld slang sense “swindle by overcharging or short-changing” (1926), a back-formation of hyper “short-change con man” (1914), from prefix hyper- meaning “over, to excess.” Also possibly influenced by drug addicts’ slang hype, 1913 shortening of hypodermic needle. In early 18c., hyp “morbid depression of the spirits” was colloquial for hypochondria (usually as the hyp or the hyps).
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    “HYE”POCHONDRIA
    Often referred to as health phobia or health anxiet refers to an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. Often, “HYE”POCHONDRIA persists even after a physician has evaluated a person and reassured them that their concerns about symptoms do not have an underlying medical basis or, if there is a medical illness, the concerns are far in excess of what is appropriate for the level of disease. Many people suffering from this disorder focus on a particular symptom as the catalyst of their worrying, such as gastro-intestinal problems, palpitations, or muscle fatigue or Turks.
    “HYE”POCHONDRIA is often characterized by fears that minor bodily symptoms may indicate a serious illness, constant self-examination and self-diagnosis, and a preoccupation with one’s body. (Preoccupation? Could it be the pre-occupation with genocide lies and slanders?)
    Many individuals with “HYE”POCHONDRIASIS express doubt and disbelief in the doctors’ diagnosis, and report that doctors’ reassurance about an absence of a serious medical condition is unconvincing. Many “HYE”POCHONDRIACS require constant reassurance, either from doctors, family, or friends, and the disorder can become a disabling torment for the individual with “HYE”POCHONDRIASIS, as well as his or her family and friends. Some “HYE”POCHONDRIACAL individuals are completely avoidant of any reminder of illness, whereas others are frequent visitors of doctors’ offices. (Could these doctors be Schiff, Palone, Menendez, and Berman, et. al.?)
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    “HYE”NA
    This one is my favorite because the definition fits like a glove the character of Armenian falsifier and Turk-hater. Here it is:
    “Carnivorous but only for carrion, these ugly, smelly animals with their raucous voices and hysterical-sounding laughter are offensive in most ways. Doglike nocturnal mammal that feeds chiefly on carrion. Famed scavengers and often dine on the leftovers of other predators. The Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania actually leave their dead to be consumed by hyenas. In some areas they have been heavily hunted as destructive pests. Although hyenas appear similar to dogs, they are actually more closely related to cats. They live throughout much of Africa and eastwards through Arabia to India. Spotted hyenas live together in large groups called clans. Packs work together effectively to isolate a herd animal, sometimes one that is ill or infirm, and pursue it to the death. The victors often squabble over the spoils. Spotted hyenas are quite vocal and make a wide variety of sounds, including the “laughing resolutions” that has long been associated with their name.”
    (Wow, that’s what I call “hole in one”!)
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    THE ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARY FEDERATION: DEEP TERROR & PSYCHOSIS
    PSYCHOSIS , a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a ‘loss of contact with reality’, points to an abnormal condition of the mind. People suffering from psychosis are said to be psychotic.
    When I deal with Armenian falsifiers and Turk-haters (i.e. the AFATH community with some exceptions, of course) I am reminded of this psychiatric term. Loss of contact with reality is not a new phenomenon in the AFATH community. Even the first prime minister of the short-lived Armenia (1918-1920) described the same phenomenon in his address to the ARF convention in Bucahrest in July, 1923. Here are his words :
    “… We had created a dense atmosphere of illusion in our minds. We had implanted our own desires into the minds of others; we had lost our sense of reality and were carried away with our dreams. From mouth to mouth, from ear to ear passed mysterious words purported to have been spoken in the palace of the Viceroy; attention was called to some kind of a letter by Vorontzov-Dashkov to the Catholicos as an important document in our hands to use in the presentation of our rights and claims — a cleverly composed letter with very indefinite sentences and generalities which might be interpreted in any manner, according to one’s desire.

    “ We overestimated the ability of the Armenian people, its political and military power, and overestimated the extent and importance of the services our people rendered to the Russians. And by overestimating our very modest worth and merit we were naturally exaggerating our hopes and expectations.

    “ The deportations and mass exiles and massacres which took place during the Summer and Autumn of 1915 were mortal blows to the Armenian Cause. Half of historical Armenia —the same half where the foundations of our independence would be laid according to traditions inherited from the early eighties and as the result of the course adopted by European diplomacy — that half was denuded of Armenians: the Armenian provinces of Turkey were without Armenians. The Turks knew what they were doing and have no reason to regret today. It was the most decisive method of extirpating the Armenian Question from Turkey.

    Again, it would be useless to ask today to what extent the participation of volunteers in the war was a contributory cause of the Armenian calamity. No one can claim that the savage persecutions would not have taken place if our behavior on this side of the frontier was different, as no one can claim the contrary, that the persecutions would have been the same even if we had not shown hostility to the Turks. This is a matter about which it is possible to have many different opinions…” [1]
    That PSYCHOSIS, loss of touch with reality, a cultivated and treasured Armenian trait, has been evident in every phase of Armenian past and even more so at present. Armenia, a land-locked, poverty stricken, corrupt, aggressive and violent little regime still hopes to survive with all the Armenian war crimes and hate crimes unaddressed.
    They seriously believe that aggression in Karabakh, capture by brutal aggression of the seven provinces of Azerbaijan surrounding Karabakh, forcing a million Azeri men, women, and children out of their homes, into exile on their own soil, keeping the ethnically cleansed areas under a ruthless military occupation, passionately pursuing irredentist policies claiming territories of all neighbors (such as eastern Anatolia from Turkey, Javakheti region from Georgia, northwestern region from Iran, and who knows what from Russia and others) will somehow be kept away from the negations table just because Armenians says so. Dream on psychotics, dreaming is free. What is not free is breaking the isolation around Armenia. There is a cost for that: rollback to 1991. The Armenian aggression and ethnic cleansing will not stand, with or without protocols, and the sooner Armenia sees this, the better it is for Armenia. Otherwise Armenia will be relegated to dustbin of history soon as a distant, inaccessible, and inhospitable province of vast Russia. That possibility is not far fetched considering the facts that the Russians already own 80% of the country, including but not limited to transportation, energy, telecommunications, and more. Russians even stamp your passport as you enter the scary country and stand watch on its borders.
    [1] The Manifesto of Hovhannes Katchaznouni, First Prime Minister of the Independent Armenian Republic), Translated from the Original by Matthew A. Callender. Edited by John Roy Carlson (Arthur A. Derounian). Published by the Armenian Information Service, Suite 7D, 471, Park Ave., New York 22. 1955 Price 75c
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    Inflicted with ALZ”HYE”MER’S DISEASE, Armenians choose to selectively forget the other side of the story which involves Armenian revolts, terrorism, raids, assassinations, bomb attacks, treason, Turkish victims, and TERESET (temporary resettlements.) Then they display selective morality, grieving only for Armenian suffering, totally ignoring the suffering the Armenians caused others. Armenian psychosis , or ‘loss of contact with reality’, while pointing to an abnormal condition of the mind, will no longer be allowed to destroy peace in the Caucasus, the middle east, or the west.
    A healthy dose of truth and reality should spoil the free lunch of laughing hyenas still feeding on the Turkish corpses of the World War One after 100 years or precisely known Azeri corpses of Karabakh, the seven surrounding provinces of Azerbaijan, and Khodjaly, after 18 years.

  • Soyak: Armenian Diaspora Ready for Cooperation with Turkey

    Soyak: Armenian Diaspora Ready for Cooperation with Turkey


    SATURDAY, 03 APRIL 2010 10:38
    Giving an interview to TurkishNY, Co-chairman of the Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council Kaan Soyak said that contribution that bilateral trade between Turkey and Armenia can make should not be ignored in the process of normalization of relations.

    Stressing that there is political will towards normalization of relations both in Armenia and Turkey, Soyak said, “The most important factors for normalization of relations between two countries are considered as genocide resolutions and Nagorno-Karabakh problem. We want the economical dimension of the ties to come to the surface in shaping the relations between two countries.”
    Pointing out that the volume of trade between two countries is about $200 mln despite closed borders, Soyak implied that Armenian diaspora is ready to cooperate with Turkey and said, “It is important that a big part of Armenian diaspora supports opening of borders. In that case, businessmen of Anatolia will be able to cooperate with Armenian diaspora in Russia, Middle Asia, Arabian countries, Europe, North and South America and even Far East without having any communication problem.” Stressing that volume of trade between Turkey and Armenia might reach to $1 bln with opening of state border, Soyak said, “It would be inevitable for the region to turn into a trade center with the opening of borders. Commercial relations will be the factor that provides reconciliation between two communities.”
    Underscoring that Turkey should not ignore influence of Russia over Armenia and Azerbaijan in its efforts towards resettlement of Nagorno-Karabakh problem, Soyak said, “In my opinion, resettlement of Nagorno-Karabakh problem may be achieved in two years. Russia may solve the problem in some extent to relieve Turkish community on Nagorno-Karabakh problem, which would make normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia possible. On the other hand, even if such formula can be implented, the comprehensive solution to the problem will be dependent to the other developments in Caucasus, especially to the resolution of S. Ossetia and Abkhazia issues. Such a temporary solution for Nagorno-Karabakh is towards the interests of Russia as investments of Russia in Armenia cannot be operated because of closed borders.”
    The full text of the interview of Co-chairman of the Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council Kaan Soyak can be found in Turkishny.com in Turkish language.
  • BEGINNING OF THE END FOR ARMENIAN PROPAGANDA AND “HYE”STERIA  ?

    BEGINNING OF THE END FOR ARMENIAN PROPAGANDA AND “HYE”STERIA ?

    THIS CITY HAS RESCINDED THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
    DECLARING THE RESOLUTION NULL AND VOID

    According to the news article below that appeared on April 2, 2010, in the largest daily in Turkiye, Hurriyet, this Ukranian city of Izyum, population 60,000 and about 80 miles from the capitol of Harkov province, Ukraine, has rescinded on March 26, 2010 the genocide resolution that it passed in December 2009, thus no longer recognizing the Armenian claims at face value. Citing a report by the Crimean News Agency, the article heralds the first decision of its kind anywhere, which may indeed, be a turning point, a beginning of the end, for the diaspora Armenian propaganda efforts.

    Rehim Hümbetov, president of the Crimean-Azerbaijani Association, they worked hard to get the Armenian propaganda annulled, by suing the resolution on grounds that it violated Ukranian law, that it should be reviewed and rescinded, and won after intensive efforts.

    Rehim Hümbetov stated that the time has come to wage an international effort to overturn all such resolutions misrepresenting Armenian propaganda as settled history.

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    Wow! I wonder if the days of “hye”nas feeding on Turkish corpses of WWI may be over…

    Who knows?

    Anyway, Here is the original article:

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    BU KENT TANIDIĞI ‘SOYKIRIMI’ IPTAL ETTI

    A.A. / hurriyet.com.tr , 2 Nisan 2010

    Ukrayna’nın Harkov bölgesindeki bir yerel belediye meclisi, 1915 olaylarına ilişkin Ermeni iddialarıyla ilgili daha önce kabul ettiği kararını iptal etti.

    Kırım Haber Ajansı’nın haberine göre, İzyum Şehir Belediye Meclisi, Aralık 2009’da kabul ettiği Ermeni iddialarıyla ilgili kararı, 26 Mart’ta yapılan toplantıda iptal etti.

    Haberde, Ukrayna’da alınan bu iptal kararının, dünyada 1915 olaylarıyla ilgili ilk iptal örneği olduğu belirtildi.

    Karara ilişkin açıklama yapan ve iptal kararının alınması için çok çalıştıklarını belirten Kırım Azerbaycanlılar Derneği Başkanı Rehim Hümbetov, “Artık Ermeni iddialarına ilişkin kabul edilen kararların iptali için uluslararası düzeyde mücadele etme vaktinin geldiğini” söyledi.

    Hümbetov, belediye meclisinin daha önce aldığı kararın, Ukrayna kanunlarına aykırı olduğunu belirterek, incelenmesi ve iptali için İzyum savcılığına da başvurduklarını ve yoğun çabalar sonucunda kararın iptal edilmesini sağladıklarını belirtti.

    Yaklaşık 60 bin nüfuslu şehir, Harkov’un merkezinden 120 kilometre uzaklıkta bulunuyor.

  • Desperate Turkish Tactics to Woo  Diaspora on the Eve of April 24

    Desperate Turkish Tactics to Woo Diaspora on the Eve of April 24

    sassounian34

    [sassoun@pacbell.net]

    The Turkish government has been receiving a succession of bad news in recent weeks. Its persistent policy of denial of the Armenian Genocide suffered serious setbacks when the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Swedish Parliament, and Catalonia’s regional Parliament in Spain adopted resolutions acknowledging the Armenian Genocide.

    Turkish denialists are terrified by these official acknowledgments on the eve of the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. They are even more alarmed by the fact that the Parliaments of Bulgaria, Israel, Serbia, Spain, and Great Britain are about to consider similar resolutions in April.

    The Turkish leadership was under the mistaken impression that the Protocols signed with Armenia six months ago would end any further action on the Armenian Genocide by the international community. In fact, Turkey had viewed these Protocols as a last ditch effort to stem the tide of such acknowledgments in the future. Its devious strategy almost worked, as the genocide resolutions in both Spain and the U.S. Congress were adopted by a mere one vote majority. The opponents of these resolutions specifically cited the “reconciliation” between Armenia and Turkey as their reason for voting against them.

    Alarmed by these developments, and distracted by serious internal problems, the Turkish government has initiated, perhaps a little too late, a series of actions, hoping to prevent further defeats on the Armenian Genocide issue.

    These actions range from using harsh, bullying tactics against countries that dare to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, and a soft approach to mislead the international community into thinking that the Turkish government is being more accommodating towards Armenians.

    Among the Turkish bullying tactics against countries acknowledging the genocide are:

    — Recalling its ambassador;

    — Canceling military contracts; and

    — Boycotting the purchase of consumer goods.

    Last week, Turkish officials added a new twist, threatening to sue the more than 20 countries that have already acknowledged the Armenian Genocide. This is one of the many bluffs Turkish leaders use from time to time to discourage additional countries from acknowledging the Genocide. I truly hope that Turkey would carry out this threat, as it would create worldwide publicity for the mass crimes committed against Armenians. Any fair-minded non-Turkish court would immediately dismiss such a frivolous lawsuit!

    Turkey’s more clever tactics, using soft gloves at the advice of western public relations agents, include:

    — Renovating a couple of historic Armenian churches, while thousands of others are converted to mosques, stables, residences or simply ruined.

    — The “gracious” gesture of allowing religious services to be performed once a year for a limited number of people and limited duration to be determined by Turkish authorities, at the 10th century Holy Cross Armenian Church at Akhtamar Island, on Lake Van. This world famous house of worship is officially designated as a touristic site, not a church!

    — Reviewing the possibility of lifting the ban on children of refugees from Armenia to attend private Armenian schools in Istanbul.

    — A “show” meeting held last week between Prime Minister Erdogan and the head of Istanbul’s Sourp Prgich Armenian hospital, who was wrongly named as the leader of Turkey’s Armenian community. This meeting was more akin to a slave being summoned by his master. Afterwards, Bedros Shirinoglu dutifully told the Turkish media that “1915” was nothing more than a feud between two loving friends, instigated by third parties! He said that his grandfather was among the victims, but so were many Turks! Shirinoglu blamed himself and asked for Erdogan’s forgiveness for the latter’s threat to deport 100,000 Armenian refugees, saying that the inflated figure was his own fault, not the Prime Minister’s.

    — Finally, Foreign Minister Davutoglu came up last week with a new ploy to divide the Armenian Diaspora, after having limited success in his attempt to split the Diaspora from Armenia with the Protocols. Davutoglu announced that the Turkish authorities will initiate “dialog” with “reasonable Diaspora Armenians,” meaning Armenians who do not mind selling out the Armenian Cause for their own ego and personal gain. The Turkish Foreign Minister stated that contacts will be established with Armenian “intellectuals, universities, and civil societies.”

    Clearly, Turkish officials are resorting to all possible means, including the continued exloitation of the defunct Protocols, to discourage additional countries from acknowledging the Armenian Genocide.

    Armenia and the Diaspora must remain vigilant and united, especially in the weeks leading up to the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in order not to fall victim to Turkish machinations, inducements and entrapments.