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  • Armenia Resolution Won’t Get Full U.S. House Vote, Aide Says

    Armenia Resolution Won’t Get Full U.S. House Vote, Aide Says

    March 06, 2010, 12:01 AM EST

    By Peter S. Green and James Rowley

    March 6 (Bloomberg) — Democratic lawmakers bowed to concerns expressed by the Obama administration and agreed not to schedule a full House vote on a resolution that labels as genocide the killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, a congressional aide said.

    House leaders have no plans at this time for a chamber vote on the measure, which a House committee approved on March 4, the House Democratic leadership aide said yesterday. The aide spoke on the condition of anonymity.

    The resolution passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee on a 23-22 vote. Turkey responded by recalling its ambassador in Washington, Namik Tan, for consultations.

    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had spoken out against a full House vote on March 4 while attending a conference in Costa Rica. She reiterated yesterday that President Barack Obama’s administration “strongly opposes the resolution.”

    A full House vote would “impede the normalization process between Turkey and Armenia,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in Washington yesterday before word surfaced of the leadership’s decision. “The best way for Turkey and Armenia to address their shared past is through ongoing negotiations,” he said.

    The measure says the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor of modern-day Turkey, killed 1.5 million ethnic Armenians from 1915 to 1923. It asks the president to ensure that U.S. foreign policy reflects “appropriate understanding” of the atrocity and “the consequences of the failure to realize a just resolution.”

    Similar Recall

    Turkey, a U.S. ally and NATO member, had recalled its U.S. ambassador for a brief period in protest to a similar resolution passed by a House committee in 2007. That measure never came up for a full House vote.

    Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on his Web site that the March 4 committee vote was “one-sided and remote from historical realities,” and would hurt talks with Armenia.

    “We’ve worked at every level with the American administration on a variety of issues and we’ve always supported Mr. Obama’s vision of peace,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in Ankara yesterday. “We don’t expect this contribution of ours to be sacrificed to a few local political games.”

    The resolution showed a lack of “strategic vision” on the part of U.S. lawmakers who supported it, Davutoglu said.

    Iranian Trade

    Turkey has been expanding trade with Iran and Obama in December called the country an “important player” in efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear program.

    Turkey’s border and its trade relationship with Iran makes Turkish support vital for U.S. efforts to use sanctions to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, said Bulent Aliriza, Director of the Turkey Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

    While the Armenia-related resolution came from Congress and not the administration, Turkey may not see any difference, further hampering U.S. efforts to impose sanctions on Iran, said Henri Barkey, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

    “What is clearly very likely is that on Iran we are going to get less cooperation from them,” Barkey said before the aide disclosed that the resolution won’t get a full House vote.

    Turkey asserts that the resolution hurts Turkish and Armenian efforts to renew diplomatic relations that were broken over Armenia’s military intervention in Azerbaijan’s Nagorno- Karabakh region following the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.

    Clinton’s Intervention

    Turkey and Armenia agreed in October to renew relations after Clinton helped the countries overcome a last-minute dispute before a signing ceremony in Zurich. Under the accords, which are waiting to be approved by Turkey’s parliament, a historical commission would investigate the killings.

    After the French parliament in 2006 approved legislation making it criminal to deny that a genocide took place, Turkey said France had done “irreparable damage” to relations between the two countries.

    The chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America, a lobbying group in Washington, praised the House committee shortly after it passed its genocide resolution. “You cannot have a relationship or a reconciliation based upon lies,” Kenneth Hachikian said in an interview after the vote. “Turkey can’t come to the table and say let’s reconcile but we deny what the rest of the world acknowledges.”

    The House resolution noted that England, France and Russia called the killings a crime against humanity at the time, and that Turkey’s own government indicted the leaders of the massacres after World War I.

    –With assistance from Hans Nichols in Washington and Steve Bryant in Ankara. Editors: Don Frederick, Mike Millard.

    -0- Mar/06/2010 05:00 GMT

    To contact the reporters on this story: Peter S. Green in Washington at psgreen@bloomberg.net; James Rowley in Washington at jarowley@bloomberg.net

    To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jim Kirk at jkirk12@bloomberg.net

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    https://www.economist.com/united-states/2010/03/05/past-imperfect-present-tense

    The Armenian genocide


    Past imperfect, present tense

    Mar 5th 2010 | NEW YORK
    From Economist.com

    Congress reconsiders America’s official position on the Armenian genocide
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    TWO questions faced an American congressional panel on Thursday March 5th as it considered the mass killings of Armenians during and after the first world war by forces of the Ottoman Empire. First, was it genocide? The historical debate is as hot, and unsettled, as ever. Armenians continue to insist that it was the first genocide of the twentieth century, while Turks call the killings merely part of the chaos of the break-up of empire.
    But the second question on the minds of congressmen in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives was more urgent. What is more important, fidelity to history or concern for the present? The vote took place as warming relations between Turkey and Armenia have cooled again and those between Turkey and America are under increasing strain over Iran, Israel and other affairs in the region. Turkish diplomats and politicians gave warning before the vote that the consequences would be felt across the range of issues of shared concern to the two countries. In the end the panel narrowly decided against pragmatism and chose to set straight the historical records. A resolution recognising the killings as genocide was sent to the House by a vote of 23 to 22.
    When the same House committee passed a “genocide” resolution in 2007 the White House urged that the vote be scrapped. But this year, it had come with a twist; Barack Obama had promised during his election campaign to recognise the event as genocide. But before the vote his advisers said that while he acknowledges a genocide personally, he urged unsuccessfully that official interpretation be left to the parties involved. Congress is far more sensitive to lobbying than the president and to small but highly motivated groups of voters. Lobbyists working for both Armenians and Turks had been active before the vote and Armenians are concentrated in several Californian districts.
    But no fashioner of foreign policy–among whom the president is by far the most important–can ignore the strategic importance of Turkey. It is a vital American ally and has the second-biggest army in NATO. The country is home to an important American air base and is a crucial supply route for America’s forces in Iraq. Relations were difficult even before the beginning of the war in Iraq in 2003. The mildly Islamist government denied the Americans the ability to open a second front in Iraq through Turkey. Turkey’s relationship with Israel has deteriorated too. Israel’s two recent wars, in Lebanon and Gaza, have outraged Turkish public opinion. Mr Obama’s more even-handed approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict has improved America’s reputation in Turkey, but not by much.
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    Turkey itself is caught between forces that make the Armenia issue potentially dangerous. The country’s secular, Western-oriented politicians, among others, have been discouraged by the strict terms offered by the European Union for eventual Turkish membership. In part as a result there has been a gradual realignment in Turkish foreign policy towards its more immediate neighbours. Turkey’s government seeks peaceful relations with countries at its borders, which has meant some cosying up to Iran, despite the fact that most of Turkey’s NATO allies are pushing for more sanctions against the Islamic republic over its alleged efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.
    The vote comes at a sensitive time, too, for Turkey’s relations with Armenia. The pair have been at odds since Turkey closed the border in 1993, during Armenia’s war with Turkey’s ethnic cousins in Azerbaijan. Last year, protocols were agreed that foresaw an establishment of diplomatic relations and an opening of the border. But Armenia’s highest court then declared that the protocols were not in line with Armenia’s constitutionally mandated policy that foreign affairs conform to the Armenian view of the genocide. Turkey responded with fury and the protocols were endangered. The American vote will anger Turkey further and perhaps make it even more inclined to turn away from Europe, America and Armenia in favour of its Islamic neighbours.
    One hope is that Turkish anger will subside if, as happened in 2007, the House leadership stops the resolution from reaching a full vote. It may do so again. Turkey recalled its ambassador after Thursday’s vote just as in 2007. The Turkish government, in a spat with the country’s nationalist army, may play the foreign-insult card to bolster its domestic strength. But ultimately the Turks are unlikely to weaken their relationship with America lightly.

  • H. RES. 252 NARROWLY CLEARS THE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

    H. RES. 252 NARROWLY CLEARS THE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

    TURKEY CONDEMNS THE DEFAMATORY MOVE AND RECALLS ITS AMBASSADOR

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    Ergun KIRLIKOVALI

    Passage of the Turkey-Armenia protocols in the Turkish parliament now definitely thrown into disarray.

    Rapprochement endangered by a self-serving move by irresponsible politicians designed only to appease a few greedy, arrogant, and deceptive Armenian extremists.

    Turkey-USA relations and American interests in Iraq and Afghanistan may ALSO be negatively impacted.

    4 March 2010 – Los Angeles, California :

    The House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) voted 23-22 to narrowly accept the H. Res. 252, an incredibly dishonest and racist resolution which seems to be penned by the Armenian lobby but known to be rammed through the political process via irresponsible politicians whose survival depend on the Armenian support. Chairman Berman seemed determined to pass the resolution as he extended voting time stretching the rules and even strong armed wandering members to come in and vote. As soon as the Yes votes surpassed the No votes by one, Berman called the passage and ended the voting.

    Always the strongest lobby in Washington DC, the administration, was conspicuously absent this year in opposing the ill-informed, ill-advised non-binding resolution. Obama administration, unlike his predecessors, did not act until the very end and it was too little to late when Hillary Clinton finally made that call to Berman urging defeat of the resolution—perhaps afterthought triggered by Turkish President Gul’s phone call to Obama yesterday.

    Also absent in opposing the racist and dishonest resolution was the Jewish lobby, arguably as a result of Erdogan’s strongly worded criticism of Israeli policies in Lebanon and Gaza.

    Given the nonappearance of the above major players this year in the opposing side, it was expected that the deceptive and fraudulent resolution would easily clear the HFA. The race, however, was surprisingly close. So close, in fact, that Berman pulled all his dirty tricks out of the bag to extend the voting time to strong arm a few wandering members of HFAC for a last second victory by only one vote. After seeing that dirty politicking, one is reminded why politicians score at the bottom of public confidence and trust scales.

    Here is a case where America’s interests are trampled upon to appease a few loud constituents. Perhaps Berman, Schiff, Pallone and others pushing this racist resolution would care to share now with the rest of us their future response to the grieving families of the next group of US soldiers needlessly coming home body bags because they had to take more treacherous routes during evacuations due to closing of the safe route through Turkey by Turks outraged by the passage of this defamatory and fraudulent resolution.

    Berman, Schiff, Pallone and others pushing this racist resolution can be proud of their misdeed now: they falsified history, demonized a friend and an ally, threatened a peace process, and hurt American interests, all in one shot. They deserve a medal: the most loyal servants of the hate-cultivating Armenian lobby. I am sure they will be properly rewarded now. When America has friends in selfish politicians like these, why does America need enemies?

    Make no mistake: this is a blow to American interests and those members of the HFAC who voted yes must be held accountable for putting Armenia’s interests over America’s to mindlessly serve a single interest, polarizing, and vindictive ethnic lobby.

    Make no mistake also that the passage of this malicious Armenian propaganda, thinly veiled in a political resolution, will prove to be a devastating loss to the arrogant and hateful Armenian diaspora lobby and aggressive, irredentist and boastful Armenia.

    This was a determined wait by Turkey, with retaliatory measures standing by, sadly watching the unfortunate defamation efforts by a few misguided members of HFAC unfold. Turkey, whose sons fought shoulder to shoulder and died together with Americans in Korea, Bosnia, Somalia, Kosovo, and elsewhere are demonized by a few irresponsible politicians who play historians with falsified Armenian input. How do you like that? Values like honesty, loyalty, courage, determination, and pride in heritage are very important for Turks and Turkey, but apparently, not so for others.

    We, the members of the Turkish American community coast-to-coast, worked very hard to educate our elected officials and defeat the dishonest and racist bill, as those who read this column very well know. Umbrella organizations like ATAA in Washington DC, FTAA in New York, and USTN in Washington DC, as well as charitable educational organizations like Turkish Coalition of America rained down letters, emails, faxes, and phone calls on all members of the HFAC, as well as other members of the Congress and big media. HFAC members, responsible ones, were visited by groups of Turkish Americans urging a No vote.

    Turkish government sent a small number of members of Turkish parliament who talked to their counterparts in Washington DC. At the last minute, Turkish president Gul called Obama and Obama administration entered the picture with a phone call from Secretary Hillary Clinton to Chairman Berman urging defeat of the bill. Too little, too late.

    The propaganda machine worked against historical facts all the time. Remember the misleading CBS 60 Minutes piece, the falsifications produced and/or broadcast at PBS using Armenian money, the tall tales published in big media and blogosphere, the harassment and intimidation fielded by the unprincipled, deceitful, and unscrupulous Armenian lobby? They all converged to hatch this evil egg…

    To show how determined the Turkish Americans were, it suffices to take a look at what TCA alone has been able to achieve and multiply that by many times to arrive at total mobilization. I guess I owe a debt of gratitude to the chauvinistic and fraudulent Armenian lobby, after all, for bringing the Turkish American community together in a manner not achieved before. This might also give a clue to those “hungry chickens dreaming to be in a grain silo” about a few of the magic attributes that allowed Turks to create empire after empire for millennia: resourcefulness, adaptability, and creativity. As the brutal invaders of Turkey and their equally atrocious and treacherous domestic proxies during and after WWI found out in a costly way back in 1915-1922, just when you think Turks are finished, a sure-shot, slam-dunk, victory within plain sight, Turks COME BACK BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER! And where do Turks draw from in these impossible situations to pull a last second victory from the mouth of a lion? Form their inner strength… Want more insight? Hint: study the five thousand years of Turkish history stretching over three continents.

    Summary of impacts of H.Res. 252 passage:

    America lost…

    Armenia lost…

    Turkey lost…

    But Berman, Schiff, and Pallone definitely won…

    ***

    TCA Raises Public Awareness on H.Res.252:

    H.Res. 252 Does Not Speak for America :TCA ad in Roll Call, Politico, and the Hill, March 3, 2010

    Congress Should Do Its Job: Galveston County, March 3, 2010

    Dissing an Ally: The Hill, March 3, 2010

    Genocide Vote Unneeded: Rockford Register Star, March 3, 2010

    Congress Wasting Time on Genocide Resolution: The Citizen, March 3, 2010

    It’s Not Up to Congress to Write History of Turkey and Armenia: NJVoices, March 3, 2010

    Don’t Write History, Congress: Inside NOVA, March 2, 2010

    Congress Should Do Its Job, Not Write History: The StarPress, March 2, 2010

    Oppose Resolution: Nortwest Herald, March 2, 2010

    Congress Shouldn’t Write History: Charlotte Sun, March 2, 2010

    A Waste of Washington’s Time: Journal Standard, March 1, 2010

    Once Again, Quest for Armenian Genocide Resolution Begins: McClatchy, February 19, 2010

    Armenian, Turkish Groups React to Protocols: The Hill, October 10, 2009

    ATAA, FTAA Public Message: , The Washington Post, Roll Call, March 3, 2010

    04/03/10 14:23

    Bu Makale ile ilgili yorumlar:

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    * MECLISIMIZ GERCEK ABD -KIZILDERELI KATLIAMI KANUNU GECIRMELI…..ve diger ABD-KATLIAMLARI da TAKIP ETMELI…..ACILIS ICIN ABD KIZILDERELI PAPAZ ve PUSKULLU KIZILDERELI RUHSAL DANS GURUBU DAVET EDILMELI (olen dedeleri icin hediye olsun dunyaya ve dunya ilk kez GERCEK KATLIAMIN NE OLDUGUNU TESCILLI ILK KEZ GOREBILSIN…)

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    * Turkish lawmakers has to pass True Amerikan -Indians Genocide Bill and abroad ones to follow additionally….. FOR THE OPENING PRAYINGS AMERIKAN INDIAN PRIST and SPIRUTAL INDIAN DANS GRUBU MUST BE INVITED

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    Yazarimizin Diger Yazilari

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    LA CITY COUNCIL POLITICS AT ITS WORST 19/10/07 11:38
    WARTIME TARGEDY FOR ALL OTTOMANS OR A GENOCIDE FOR JUST THE OTTOMAN-ARMENIANS? 18/10/07 11:36
    HOW DO YOU REASON WITH A LYNCH MOB? 15/10/07 10:29
    WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN TODAY: NO TO H.R. 106 06/10/07 16:11
    Turkish State Archives Are Open: Scholars From 80 Countries Have Already Conducted Studies There Since 2003 22/05/07 12:51
    THE ARMENIAN LOBBY THREATENS THE LOS ANGELES TIMES 12/05/07 20:21
    INACCURACIES CONTAINED IN THE HOUSE RESOLUTION 106 19/03/07 17:22
    NO TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 106 11/02/07 19:13
    TURKEY’S COMPASSIONATE REACTION TO HRANT DINK’S MURDER SHATTERS MYTHS ABOUT TURKS 24/01/07 00:06
    Hrant Dink’s Assassination – Hrant Dink Suikasti 19/01/07 11:26
    STANFORD J. SHAW, PREEMINENT HISTORIAN, HONEST RESEARCHER, AND OMNIPOTENT SCHOLAR (1930-2006) 28/12/06 13:46
    STANFORD JAY SHAW: TARIHCILER YETISTIREN TARIHCI, DURUST ARASTIRMACI VE BUYUK BILIM ADAMI (1930 – 2006) 27/12/06 15:19
    “CENSORADOS” ARE LEARNING THE LAW 18/10/06 16:50
    ERECTING A HATE MONUMENT IN LAS VEGAS IS HIGHLY IMPROPER 27/09/06 14:35
    ARMENIAN SCHOLAR AT EASE WITH CENSORSHIP 12/05/06 18:12
    PRESENTING ONLY ONE SIDE OF A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE WHILE CENSORING THE OTHER SIDE IS UNSCHOLARLY, UNFAIR, UNETHICAL, AND UNCIVILIZED 09/05/06 14:17
    MISREPRESENTATION ON THE “ALLEGED” GENOCIDE CONTINUES UNABATED 30/04/06 08:25
    PARTISAN COVERAGE OF THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN CONFLICT AT KOCE-TV 19/04/06 15:33
    SETTLING HISTORY THE ARMENIAN WAY: BY HARASSMENT, CENSORSHIP, AND LEGISLATION 14/04/06 11:29
    BIASED COVERAGE OF “THE LAWSUIT” 07/02/06 15:35
    ONE MIND AT A TIME : HOW THE TRUTH CHANGES ATTITUDES IN AMERICA 07/02/06 15:23
    TURKS ARE THE PLAINTIFF, NOT THE DEFENDANT, IN THE ALLEGED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE (AAG) CASE 20/11/05 00:37
    A NEW TURKISH MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON D.C. FEATURING 10,000+ YEARS OF ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS ? 17/10/05 16:21
    A FUTURE WEAPON IN ARMENIAN ARSENAL : A MUSEUM OF DECEPTION 07/10/05 11:33
    THE ARMENIANS ARE OPENING A MUSEUM TO HONOR THE ?BOGUS? GENOCIDE 29/09/05 13:53
    THE A.F.A.T.H. PRESSURE ON THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER 10/09/05 19:09
    DISTORTION OF TURKISH HISTORY AT A CYBER-MUSEUM FEATURING THE SHOAH 06/09/05 00:30
    MISREPRESENTATION OF TURKISH HISTORY AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM OF WASHINGTON D.C. 30/08/05 15:54
    BIASED TREATMENT OF TURKISH-ARMENIAN HISTORY AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM OF HOUSTON 20/08/05 23:44
    INTOLERANCE AT THE MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE IN LOS ANGELES 07/08/05 01:45
    THREE HISTORICAL PERSONALITIES ; THREE INCREDIBLE DECEPTIONS 24/06/05 15:31
    ARMENIA: PUT UP OR SHUT UP! (Part III) 18/06/05 16:41
    ARMENIA: PUT UP OR SHUT UP! (Part II) 18/06/05 09:51
    ARMENIA: PUT UP OR SHUT UP! 12/06/05 21:55
    ??ARMENIAN SEPARATISTS WERE PLANNING ALLEGATIONS OF GENOCIDE EVEN IN THE 1890S?? 05/06/05 08:19
    CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS SURROUNDING THE AAG AND 100 BOOKS REVIEWED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUTH-SEEKERS 29/05/05 23:32
    CONNECTING THE DOTS ON THE ?ALLEGED” ARMENIAN GENOCIDE 20/05/05 19:17
    ARMENIA AND CHRISTIANITY : THE HOLY MESS (Epilogue) 16/05/05 21:17
    ARMENIA AND CHRISTIANITY : THE HOLY MESS (Part III) 14/05/05 21:06
    ARMENIA AND CHRISTIANITY : THE HOLY MESS (Part II) 09/05/05 18:32
    ARMENIA AND CHRISTIANITY : THE HOLY MESS (Part I) 08/05/05 20:59
    TOLERANCE OF THE TURKS TO ALL RELIGIONS THROUGHOUT HISTORY 08/05/05 00:06
    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF “ARMENIAN HATE “ 05/05/05 14:36
    TURKISH LAST NAMES : HONEST STORY TELLERS 02/05/05 17:55
    THE FORGOTTEN CALAM?TY THAT BEFELL TURKS 30/04/05 00:33
    ARMENIAN TERRORISM: THEN AND NOW – Part IV 21/04/05 17:07
    ARMENIAN TERRORISM: THEN AND NOW – Part III 19/04/05 15:59
    ARMENIAN TERRORISM: THEN AND NOW – Part II 18/04/05 13:41
    ARMENIAN TERRORISM: THEN AND NOW 17/04/05 08:28
    RACISM OVERTLY PRACTICED BY THE ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARIES 13/04/05 12:40
    GENOCIDES AROUND THE WORLD 11/04/05 11:47
    THE SUPREME TREASON BY THE OTTOMAN-ARMENIANS DURING WWI 10/04/05 21:24
    THE A.F.A.T.H. PROPAGANDA DURING W.W.I. 07/04/05 17:30
    FOUR MASTERS OF DISINFORMATION DURING WWI: TOYNBEE (1916), MORGENTHAU (1918), LEPSIUS (1918), ANDONIAN (1920) 05/04/05 15:07
    GERMAN SOURCES THAT REFUTE THE AAG 26/03/05 13:35
    ATROCITIES AND POGROMS PERPETRATED BY THE ARMENIANS IN THE CAUCASUS 22/03/05 14:24
    ATROCITIES AND POGROMS COMMITTED BY THE ARMENIAN NATIONALISTS IN ANATOLIA 20/03/05 21:23
    OTTOMAN & TURKISH SOURCES THAT REFUTE THE AAG 15/03/05 14:53
    ISRAELI & JEWISH SOURCES THAT REFUTE THE AAG 12/03/05 17:36
    SWEDISH SOURCES THAT REFUTE THE AAG 04/03/05 19:05
    RUSSIAN SOURCES THAT REFUTE THE AAG 02/03/05 11:43
    FRENCH SOURCES THAT REFUTE THE AAG 27/02/05 00:16
    BRITISH SOURCES REFUTING THE AAG 25/02/05 18:58
    ARMENIAN SOURCES REFUTING THE AAG 21/02/05 18:13
    AMERICAN SOURCES THAT REFUTE THE AAG 20/02/05 08:38
    ARMENIAN HISTORIAN SAYS THE HITLER QUOTE IS A HOAX 18/02/05 18:35
    THE INFAMOUS HITLER QUOTE : A FORGERY 16/02/05 09:25
    SWORN STATEMENT BY EDWARD TASHJI 12/02/05 17:56
    SWORN STATEMENT BY ALBERT J. AMATEAU 11/02/05 22:22
    THE MALTA TRIBUNAL : CASE CLOSED DUE TO LACK OF EVIDENCE 05/02/05 12:49
    PUBLIC DECLARATION BY 19 TURKISH ASSOCIATIONS 01/02/05 19:18
    THE MANIFESTO OF HOVHANNES KATCHAZNOUNI,
     30/01/05 10:55
    IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS THAT REFUTE THE AAG: #3 BOGHOS NUBAR?S LETTER TO THE TIMES OF LONDON DOCUMENTING SUPREME ARMENIAN TREASON

    24/01/05 19:30

    IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS THAT REFUTE THE AAG: #2 DECLARATION, SIGNED BY 125 TURKISH ACADEMICIANS

    22/01/05 08:59

    IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS THAT REFUTE THE AAG: #1 DECLARATION, SIGNED BY 69 PROMINENT AMERICAN ACADEMICIANS

    17/01/05 21:07

    SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN ISSUE, “A to Z” 05/01/05 21:32
    SOYKIRIM DEGIL, ?AHLAKKIRIM? ! 24/12/04 18:54
    THE ?SIX APOLOGIES? TURKS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SINCE WW1

    20/11/04 18:56

    ETHOCIDE, NOT GENOCIDE! 23/10/04 23:47
    BIAS IS ALIVE AND WELL AT LOS ANGELES TIMES, THANK YOU!

    10/10/04 17:46

    BIR SPOR SOHBETI 21/09/04 23:46
    THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY CANNOT BE SILENCED 25/07/04 09:46
    Kanada Parlamentosu?nu Bilgilendirme ve Protesto 07/07/04 06:57
    ALLEGATIONS OF AN “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE” IS POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, NOT HISTORICAL TRUTH 04/07/04 20:18
    DARE WE CALL IT BIASED?

    27/06/04 07:43

    Teach The Children Well ! 30/05/04 19:43

    Peace-Lovers Everywhere 25/05/04 23:57

  • DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER URGES DEFEAT OF H.RES. 252

    DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER URGES DEFEAT OF H.RES. 252

    The Honorable Howard Berman, Chairman

    The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , Ranking Member

    House Foreign Affairs Committee

    Washington DC

    March 2, 2010

    Dear Chairman Berman and Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen:

    This week, your Committee will consider H. Res. 252, a non-binding resolution
    that seeks to establish our country ‘ s position on a frequently debated historical event that
    took place in the Ottoman Empire during World War 1. This legislation, while not legally
    binding, will have very real and meaningful consequences internationally. Approval of
    this resolution has potential to damage our relationship with an important NATO ally,
    Turkey, Equally as concerning, it also threatens to undermine the current rapprochement
    between Turkey and Armenia.

    The United States is currently facing extremely difficult times, and we all see and
    hear the moving stories from Americans across the country, While we can and should
    debate the best ways to defeat extremism and help strengthen our struggling economy, we
    certainly should not be considering proposals that will only further damage our country
    both militarily and economically.

    Turkey plays an invaluable role in assisting our efforts to combat international
    terrorism, In Afghanistan, Turkey has provided hundreds of millions of dollars for
    reconstruction efforts and humanitarian aid and operates hospitals and schools that serve
    hundreds of thousands of individuals. Turkey also has helped train members of the
    Afghan National Police and the National Army, a vital task that will help transfer sole
    security responsibilities to the Afghan government.

    Economically, Turkey represents billions of dollars and thousands of American
    jobs to our country, In recent years the United States has exported more than $10 billion
    worth of goods there annually and this number continues to grow, In addition to exports,
    Turkish industries continue to grow and develop to the benefit of businesses in the United
    States in which they invest. Continuing to collaborate with Turkey economically will not
    only help to pull our nation out of recession, but ensure a partnership with a country that
    will play an increasingly larger role in the global economy in the years to come.

    More broadly, approving this resolution would adversely impact a wider range of
    important U.S.-Turkish initiatives, such as promoting regional energy security, and
    assisting in the Middle East peace process. So valued is this friendship that President
    Obama, during his first bilateral overseas European trip, described our relationship as a
    “Model Partnership.” We fear this resolution will place a significant strain on that
    partnership and on regional interests more generally.

    We also believe that H. Res. 252 will undermine the current rapprochement
    between Ankara and Yerevan, and may permanently derail the restoration of diplomatic
    ties and normal relations between the two nations. For some time, the United States,
    Switzerland, and other members of the international community have actively been
    supporting the normalization process between Turkey and Armenia. Those efforts have
    produced significant positive movement over the last ten months. Once ratified, these
    protocols will establish diplomatic relations, open common borders and foster commerce
    between these neighbors. These protocols are presently before both parliaments for
    ratification, so this process is at a sensitive stage. It would not serve U.S. interests to take
    any action which could jeopardize these positive developments.

    A vote on this resolution will do nothing to rectify the tragedies of the past, but it
    will most certainly have significant negative consequences on current and future relations
    with Turkey. We respectfully, but strongly urge you to reject this measure.

    Sincerely,

    Ed Whitfield, Member of Congress

    Steve Cohen, Member of Congress

    Kay Granger, Member of Congress

    Michael E. McMahon, Member of Congress

    Alcee L. hasting, Member of Congress

    Virginia Foxx, Member of Congress

    Ike Skelton, Member of Congress

    Bill Shuster, Member of Congress

    Jean Schmidt, Member of Congress

    Roy Blunt, Member of Congress

    John S. Tanner, Member of Congress

    Dan Burton, Member of Congress

    Eddie Bernice Johnson, Member of Congress

    Rodney Alexander, Member of Congress

    C. A. Dutch Ruppersburger, Member of Congress

    Heath Shuler, Member of Congress

    Pete Sessions, Member of Congress

    Pete Olson, Member of Congress

    John Boozman, Member of Congress

    Jeb Hensarling, Member of Congress

    Carolyn C. Kilpatrick, Member of Congress

    Christopher P. Carney, Member of Congress

    ACTION YOU CAN TAKE RIGHT NOW:

    1) Please send your comments to your elected representatives via TCA by clicking on this link:

    2) Also, if you have a few minutes, please send the “Dear Colleague” letter above to one or more of the the following media. Thank you:

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/03/01/US-measure-on-Armenia-angers-Turkey/UPI-71831267460766/

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/02/AR2010030202375.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-01-la-na-armenian1-2010mar01-story.html

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/62771-pro-turkey-lawmakers-gather-opposition-to-genocide-resolution/

  • WHO WOULD INSIST ON TEACHING ONLY ONE SIDE OF A CONTROVERSY?

    WHO WOULD INSIST ON TEACHING ONLY ONE SIDE OF A CONTROVERSY?

    Re: “In appeal, lawyer asserts genocide teaching skewed”, By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff / March 3, 2010,

    To: Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff, jsaltzman@globe.com .

    Dear Mr. Saltzman,

    Please take a good look at the photos here: www.ethocide.com . Do these people look like “poor, starving Armenians” to you?

    Do they, in your honest opinion, substantiate, in any way, shape, or form, that “unarmed, non-combatant, helpless Armenian cut down by the Turk” myth?

    You’ve been duped!

    We all have been duped by the Armenian falsifiers and Turk-haters (AFATH).

    WHO WOULD INSIST ON TEACHING ONLY ONE SIDE OF A CONTROVERSY?

    These photos of Armenian revolutionaries, armed-to-the-teeth, and their Turkish victims, censored in Boston and went untold for a hundred years, their suffering unacknowledged and un-commemorated, and un-grieved, explain why Turkish Americans strenuously object the racist and dishonest teachings forced on the education system by Armenian extremists of Massachusetts.

    First, let us all agree that it is a controversy. After all, if the debate still continues after a hundred years, what would you call it?

    Next, let us all agree that an issue is controversial because there are those who disagree with one side’s claims and produce their own facts, figures, and arguments. After all, if all agree on a given issue, would there be “the other side of the story”? And if there is no dispute, would there be controversy?

    Now that we all agree, without taking sides, that the Turkish-Armenian conflict is controversial, then the question begs to be asked is: “Why on earth would anyone want to teach our children only one side of it?

    Would you agree if only one side (the side that you oppose) of a controversy–like abortion, gun control, Iraq war, Afghanistan war, financial meltdown, poorly performing economy, health care, gay marriage, stimulus package, social security, unemployment, any one of million other issues–is forced down the throats of your children at school?

    That is where we are with this issue. The arrogant Armenian lobby mobilized the Armenian community in 1998 to force the legislature to force the education department to teach our children Armenian version of history only, based on distortions, hearsay, forgeries, hate and vengeance.

    When the responsible opposing views were also included, as they should in any civilized society, the Armenian intolerance and politicians’ weaknesses weighed in again to censor the other side of the story. This is nothing less than a frontal attack on free speech by Armenian hate groups.

    The question is, will you stomach it?

    A FRONTAL ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH BY ARMENIAN HATE GROUPS

    Selection of obviously biased contents, clearly provocative symbols, incredibly misrepresented people, locations, dates, causalities, all converging in a dishonest and racist version of history by Armenian pressure is hardly the civilized way of teaching history to our children. Schools are not meant for propaganda waged by the loudest or dominant political groups. That would change this country to Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, or Taliban’s Afghanistan. This is America where we, the people, can courageously take sides in controversies, freely present our opinion, and teach our children universal facts in a non-partisan, non-sectarian ways . Our freedom of speech is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, not to be stumped every time Armenian extremists make a racist demand.

    Most of the true scholars, researchers, and historians publicly rejected on 19 May 1985, in New York Times & Washington Post, the Armenian characterization of WWI events as genocide, instead called it “…inter communal warfare fought by Christian and Muslim irregulars…”. The signatories included world renown names like Prof. Bernard Lewis of Princeton, Prof. Stanford Shaw of UCLA, Prof. Justin McCarthy of Louisville, and many others.

    In fact, so many of the true scholars were refuting the Armenian claims that the Armenian lobby was forced to create new avenues to buy credibility: genocide scholars. These are mostly retired professionals, psychiatrists, lecturers on US Government, English teachers, writers, authors, and others, all posing as authorities in history although most are not even historians, and all organized through the Armenian lobby, financed in part by the Cafesjian Foundation and organized by the notoriously anti-Turkish Zoryan Institute (like Taner Akcam of formerly U. of Minnesota, now Clark U.)

    EVEN THE U.S. CONGRESS’ OWN RECORDS REFUTE ARMENIAN CLAIMS

    Even the U.S. Congress’ own records from those times and dates clearly corroborate the Turkish position on the conflict—though perhaps in an unintended way:

    a- “American Military Mission to Armenia” (General Harbord) Report 1920 and the Annex Report Nat. Archives 184.021/175 –which does not mention any “race extermination” but, on the contrary, refers to “…refinements of cruelty by Armenians to Muslims…”

    b- Joint U.S. CONGRESS RESOLUTION NO. 192, APRIL 22, 1922 relative to the activities of Near East Relief ending 31 December 1921 which has unanimously resolved that a total of 1,414,000 Armenians were alive (which makes killing of 1.5 million Armenians an impossibility, since the total Armenian population was around 1.5 million at the time.)

    c- George Montgomery, a member of the U.S. delegation at the Paris Conference, had presented a detailed tabulation in 1919, showing a total of 1,104,000 Armenians alive, apart from those who had already immigrated to other countries.

    NUMBERS DON’T LIE, ARMENIANS LOBBYISTS DO

    29 March 1919 report to the Paris Peace Conference by the subcommittee on atrocities, chaired by the U.S. secretary of State Lansing, lists Armenian losses as “…more than 200,000…” Even this number is exaggerated as they got their information from the Armenian church, not exactly an impartial source.

    After meticulous research through the archives, the Turkish Historical Society documented the deaths of 54,000 Armenians using Ottoman police reports filed on site, of which number only about 8,400 are reported as victims of massacres. The paragraphs a, b, and c jointly clearly point to the THS number being closer to reality.

    Who, then may have jacked this number of Armenian casualties from the original 54,000 first to 200,000 in 29 March 1919 (Paris Peace Conference;) then to 600,000 in May 1919 (in a poster created by Armenians soliciting money in U.S. churches;) and finally to the current 1.5 million?

    Take a guess!

    ARMENIAN FALSIFIACTIONS CONTINUE

    Armenians did not suffer alone, millions of Turks, Azeris, Kurds, Jews, Circassians, Persians also lost their lives during the same period from similar causes, including massacres by Armenian rebel bands. Take a look at the photos of Armenian revolutionaries, armed-to-the-teeth, here: www.ethocide.com . Do they look like the “poor, starving, unarmed, helpless Armenians” myth promoted deceptively and incessantly?

    The mound said to contain Armenian skulls was that Vereshagin painting of 1871 protesting the brutalities of the Prussian war, still hanging in a museum in Moscow today, with which the Armenians duped the world into thinking that those were the skulls of Armenians killed by Turks. When the Armenian lies were finally exposed by Prof. Turkkaya Ataov in 1983, no apology was issued by the Armenian lobbies.

    Same falsification with the alleged Hitler quote: it is also a shameless hoax. Even the most cursory search in the internet will readily reveal many sources showing Princeton historian Heath Lowry’s extensive work exposing the Armenian falsifications.

    That the frequently used infamous Hitler quote is a hoax is beyond suspicion. It suffices to read a few lines from the article “Historian of Armenian Descent Says Frequently Used Hitler Quote Is Nothing But a Forgery”, that appeared in The Armenian Reporter Vol. XVII, NO. 40, on August 2, 1984, where an Armenian historian advises his fellow Armenians not to use this fake quote again. “…Dr. Robert John, a historian of Armenian heritage from New York City stated, according the news article, that a commonly used quotation of an alleged statement by Adolf Hitler about the Armenian massacres was a forgery and should, therefore, not be used…” The complete article available at :

    Many other such fabrications, meticulously documented in recent a book by Ataov, are the reasons why we would be careful, if we were Massachusetts educators or Supreme Court judges, not to take any Armenian claims, let alone who lies in the alleged mass grave, at face value. (Would you buy a used car from someone who claims a bogus genocide with fabricated evidence?)

    OTTOMAN TOLERANCE AND THE “MILLET SYSTEM”

    It is a matter of historical record that the Ottomans had established one of the most tolerant administrations in history, with its “millet” system where the faith-based groups were organized in self-ruling, autonomous “millets”. When the Jews of Iberia were persecuted during the 1492 Spanish inquisitions and were told to convert to Catholicism, or leave, or get killed, no country in Europe would offer sanctuary to Jews for fear of retaliation by Catholic Rome. No country, except the Ottoman Empire, that is. Since than many other persecuted peoples have freely come to the Ottoman lands and prospered there in the centuries since.

    Turkey continued this fine tradition when German Jews in 1930, secular Iranians in 1980s, Iraqi Kurds in 1990s, and many others have also been saved. Armenians’ passionately deliberate misrepresentations, embrace of intimidation, harassment, and even terrorism directed at dissenters, and willingness to teach their children hate for all things Turkish speak volumes about the Armenian psyche and character, don’t they?

    Then there the forced comparison between the court-proven (Nuremberg, 1945) uniquely Jewish tragedy of Holocaust versus the long discredited, political, and unsubstantiated claim of genocide. Deportation is a misnomer, because the treasonous elements were moved from one part of the country to another temporarily, until the end of the war, hence the term TERESET, temporary resettlement. Therefore, mentioning the factual Jewish Holocaust in the same breath with the bogus Armenian genocide is an insult to the silent memory of six million Jews who were killed just for being Jews. Jews did not take up arms against their own government. They did not demand German territories to establish a Jewish state on them. They did not terrorize the German countryside. They did not kill their German neighbors to the tune of 524,000 German victims. They did not join the invading enemy armies during WWII. Armenian, on the other hand, committed all of those heinous crimes during WWI and got away with them. Judging by the Armenians’ ethocidal treatment of the conflict to this day, the Armenians are still getting away with murder.

    CURRENT ARMENIAN MATERIAL TEACHES OUR CHILDREN HOW TO HATE

    Current material fails to remind the impressionable students that Armenians actually resorted to a very bloody, very massive revolt in April 1915; killed more than 40,000 Muslims in cold blood; wrestled the city out of the Ottoman government forces , and turned it over to the invading enemy armies (Russians.) That was the equivalent of 9/11 for the Ottoman Empire. Why is it acceptable for the U.S. to cross the oceans to start a global war on terrorists in Afghanistan in 21st Century but not acceptable for the Ottoman Empire to move its terrorists from one corner of its land to another in the 20th Century?

    And the 24 April 1915, billed by the Armenian falsifiers as the start of a genocide is actually the equivalent of Guantanamo for the Ottoman Empire when known Armenian terrorists and their suspected accomplices were arrested and incarcerated for questioning. If it is good for the goose now, it should be good for the gander, shouldn’t it? Please, no more blatant double standards.

    Loaded terms like “death march”, “concentration camps” and claims like the Nazis learned from Turks, included in Armenian teachings, are more recent inventions and after thoughts by the Armenian lobby, not unlike the genocide scholars, genocide curriculums, genocide lectures at Holocaust museums and Jewish synagogues. All new, all cunning steps in a master propaganda scheme, all designed to establish “credibility by association”, all funded by the Armenian lobby.

    Morgenthau, the career diplomat , historian, writer, quoted in the documentary, was actually none of those. He was a real estate agent and a developer from upstate new York who raised the most funds for Wilson in 1912 presidential campaign and was rewarded for his services by an ambassadorial post. He was a rabid anti-Turks and a Muslim hater. His book, published in 1918, was actually ghost –written by a Pulitzer Prize winner for him. Morgenthau never left Istanbul (except once for Jerusalem) but never set foot in Anatolia from where he reported. He could speak none of the languages of the era and area (Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Ottoman) so he relied on the translations and reports of his two male Armenian secretaries, Schmavonian and Andonian, hardly impartial sources of information.

    Morgenthau simply relayed the embellished and exaggerated reports filed by Armenian revolutionaries, American missionaries and other biased parties who could not care less about Muslims’ suffering, either directly or through American consuls in the area. As any fair-minded, honest, truth-seeker can easily see, the deck was shuffled with a pro-Armenians and anti-Turkish bias from the start.

    Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s assassination of 2007 is also mentioned in Armenian teachings, but not surprisingly, no word about the thousands of Turks who took to the streets condemning it. No mention, either, of the murder of Turkish Consul General Kemal Arikan in 1982 in Los Angeles or the fact that Armenians took to the streets to “celebrate it”! This is important, because both men were the same age when assassinated under similar circumstances by brain-washed youths, both married, and both had kids, both victimized by a similar hate crime. Yet, the Armenian victim (Dink) is glorified while Turkish victim is forgotten, dismissed, or ignored. Also ignored are more than 70 victims of Armenian terrorism and hate crimes since 1973. What is even more incredible that four of those victims were murdered in cold blood on American soil! No word on any of this in Armenian version of history, because most Armenians seem to think that Turks, being of the wrong ethnicity and religion, are certainly expendable sub-humans who deserve death.

    BIAS & BIGOTRY IN THE TERM “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE”

    If one cherishes values like fairness, objectivity, truth, and honesty, then one should really use the term “Turkish-Armenian conflict”. Asking one “Do you accept or deny Armenian Genocide” shows anti-Turkish bias. The question should be re-phrased “What is your stand on the Turkish-Armenian conflict?”

    Turks believe it was an inter communal warfare mostly fought by Turkish and Armenian irregulars, a civil war which is engineered, provoked, and waged by the Armenian revolutionaries, with active support from Russia, England, France, and others, all eyeing the vast territories of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, against a backdrop of a raging world war.

    Armenians, on the other hand, totally ignoring Armenian agitation, raids, rebellions, treason, territorial demands, and Turkish victims killed by Armenians, unfairly claim that it was a one way genocide.

    GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS IGNORE “THE SIX T’S OF THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN CONFLICT”

    While some in unsuspecting public may be forgiven for taking the blatant and ceaseless Armenian propaganda at face value and believing Armenian falsifications merely because they are repeated so often, it is difficult and painful for someone like me, the son of Turkish survivors on both maternal and paternal sides.

    Those seemingly endless “War years” of 1912-1922 brought wide-spread death and destruction on to all Ottoman citizens. No Turkish family was left touched, mine included. Those nameless, faceless Turkish victims are killed for a second time today with politically motivated and baseless charges of Armenian genocide.

    ALLEGATIONS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ARE RACIST AND DISHONEST HISTORY

    They are racist because they ignore the Turkish dead: about 3 million during WWI; more than half a million of them at the hands of Armenian nationalists. And the allegations of Armenian genocide are dishonest because they simply dismiss the six T’s of the Turkish-Armenian conflict:

    THE SIX T’S OF THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN CONFLICT:

    1) TUMULT (as in numerous Armenian armed uprisings between 1877 and 1920)

    2) TERRORISM (by well-armed Armenian nationalists and militias victimizing Ottoman-Muslims between 1882-1920)

    3) TREASON (Armenians joining the invading enemy armies as early as 1914 and lasting until 1921)

    4) TERRITORIAL DEMANDS (where Armenians were a minority, not a majority, attempting to establish Greater Armenia, the would-be first apartheid of the 20th Century with a Christian minority ruling over a Muslim majority )

    5) TURKISH SUFFERING AND LOSSES (i.e. those caused by the Armenian nationalists: 524,000 Muslims, mostly Turks, met their tragic end at the hands of Armenian revolutionaries during WWI, per Turkish Historical Society. This figure is not to be confused with about 2.5 million Muslim dead who lost their lives due to non-Armenian causes during WWI. Grand total: more than 3 million, according to Prof. Justin McCarthy.)

    6) TERESET (temporary resettlement) triggered by the first five T’s above and amply documented as such; not to be equated to the Armenian misrepresentations as genocide.)

    VERDICT WITHOUT DUE PROCESS AMOUNTS TO LYNCHING

    Those who take the Armenian “allegations” of genocide at face value seem to also ignore the following:

    1- Genocide is a legal, technical term precisely defined by the U.N. 1948 convention (Like all proper laws, it is not retroactive to 1915.)

    2- Genocide verdict can only be given by a “competent court” after “due process” where both sides are properly represented and evidence mutually cross examined.

    3- For a genocide verdict, the accusers must prove “intent” at a competent court and after due process. This could never be done by the Armenians whose evidence mostly fall into five major categories: hearsay, mis-representations, exaggerations, forgeries, and “other”.

    4- Such a “competent court” was never convened in the case of Turkish-Armenian conflict and a genocide verdict does not exist (save a Kangaroo court in occupied Istanbul in 1920 where partisanship, vendettas, and revenge motives left no room for due process.)

    5- Genocide claim is political, not historical or factual. It reflects bias against Turks. Therefore, the term genocide must be used with the qualifier “alleged”, for scholarly objectivity and truth.

    HISTORY IS A MATTER OF SCHOLARSHIP, NOT CONVICTION, CONSENSUS, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

    History is not a matter of “conviction, consensus, political resolutions, political correctness, or propaganda.” History is a matter of research, peer review, thoughtful debate, and honest scholarship. Even historians, by definition, cannot decide on a genocide verdict, which is reserved for a “competent court” with its legal expertise and due process.

    POLITICAL LYNCHING OF THE TURKS BY ARMENIANS TODAY

    What we witness today amounts to lynching of the Turks by Armenians to satisfy the age old Armenian hate, bias, and bigotry. Values like fairness, presumption of innocence until proven guilty, objectivity, balance, honesty, and freedom of speech are stumped under the fanatic Armenian feet. Unprovoked , unjustified, and unfair defamation of Turkey, one of America’s closest allies in the troubled Middle East, in order to appease some nagging Armenian activists runs counter to American interests.

    Those who claim genocide verdict today, based on the much discredited Armenian evidence, are actually engaging in “conviction and execution without due process”. Last time I looked in the dictionary, that was the definition of “lynching”.

    Isn’t it time to stop fighting the First World War and give peace a chance?

  • BEYAZ SARAY VE SOZDE SOYKIRIM OYLAMASI

    BEYAZ SARAY VE SOZDE SOYKIRIM OYLAMASI

    Kritik oylama öncesi şok
    ‘Ermeni  iddialarına ilişkin tasarı, yarın ABD Temsilciler Meclisi Dışişleri Komitesi’nde görüşülmeden önce Beyaz Saray’dan yapılan son açıklama moralleri bozdu.

    Türkiye, ABD Temsilciler Meclisi Dışişleri Komitesi’nde yarın görüşülüp oylanacak 1915 yılı olaylarına ilişkin Ermeni iddialarına karşı çalışmalarını sürdürüyor.Ermeni tasarısının Dış İlişkiler Komitesi’nde oylanması öncesinde Beyaz Saray’dan ilk açıklama geldi.Vatan gazetesinin haberine göre; Beyaz Saray Ulusal Güvenlik Konseyi Basın Sözcüsü Mike Hammer, “Başkan Obama 24 Nisan 2009’da yayınlanan mesajında 1915’te yaşanan olaylar karşısındaki sürekli duruşunu vurgulamış ve bu konudaki görüşü de değişmemiştir. Gerçeklerin dürüst ve adilce kabulünden yanayız. Bu hedefe ulaşmanın en iyi yolunun Ermeni ve Türk halkının ilişkilerini normalleştirme çabaları dâhilinde geçmişte yaşananları da ele almaları olduğu yönündeki inancımız sürüyor. Bu çabaları gayretle desteklemeye devam edeceğiz” dedi.

    Türkiye bu açıklamaya rağmen Washington’da yoğun bir lobi faaliyeti sürdürüyor. Bir yandan iktidar ve muhalefet milletvekillerinden oluşan heyetler yoğun bir diplomasi sürdürüyor. Diğer yandan Türkiye’nin yeni Washington elçisi Namık Tan, kolları sıvadı. Tan, tasarıya karşı Türk tezlerini desteklemeleri için Yahudi lobisi ve derneklerine baskı yapmaya başladı.

    Tan’ın temaslarının ilk Yahudi kurumundan tasarıya karşı bir çıkış geldi. Merkezi Washington’da bulunan düşünce kuruluşu Ulusal Güvenlik İşleri Yahudi Enstitüsü (JINSA), Ermeni tasarısına karşı çıkılması ve tasarının kabul edilmemesi gerektiğini belirtti. JINSA’dan yapılan açıklamada “ABD Kongresi, başka zamanlarda başka halkların tarihinin tartışılacağı bir yer değildir. Türkiye ve Ermenistan bağımsız ülkeler. Kongre’nin işe karışması katkı sağlamayacaktır” ifadesi kullanıldı.

    Başbakan Erdoğan, Ankara’da yaptığı açıklamada “Her yıl bu sürecin tekrar tekrar yaşanmasını son derece anlamsız buluyoruz” dedi. Tarihçilere bırakılması gereken böyle bir mesele karşısında Temsilciler Meclisi’nin duyarlı davranmasını isteyen Erdoğan, “Türkiye-ABD işbirliği, tarihinin en başarılı dönemini yaşıyor. Bu işbirliğinin, bu tür girişimlerle zedelenmeyeceğini umuyorum. Başkan Obama’nın liderliğine ve sağduyusuna güveniyorum. Dışişleri Bakanı Clinton’la da aksi bir neticenin nelere mal olacağını görüştük. Herkesi, aklıselimle hareket etmeye çağırıyorum” dedi.

    SON DURUM: 25-21 KABUL

    Dış İlişkiler Komitesi’nde 46 milletvekili bulunuyor. 26’sı Obama’nın Demokrat Partisi’nden. 20’si ise Cumhuriyetçi. Ermeni seçmenine çok yakın olan Demokratların 18’inin tasarıya ’evet’oyu kullanması kesin gibi. Cumhuriyetçilerde ise evetçilerin sayısı 7. Tasarının 21’e karşı 25 oyla kabul edilerek genel kurula sevk edilmesi bekleniyor.Ancak genel kurul gündemine alınıp alınmaması kararı Meclis Başkanı Nancy Pelosi’ye ait. Ermeniler’in çok yoğun olarak yaşadığı California eyaletinden seçilen Pelosi, soykırım iddialarını güçlü bir şekilde destekliyor. Ancak son anda Başkan Obama’dan gelecek bir telefonun kararını değiştirebileceği belirtiliyor
  • A Look at the Snarled Past of Armenians and Turks

    A Look at the Snarled Past of Armenians and Turks

    Books of The Times

    By DWIGHT GARNER
    Published: March 2, 2010
    Christopher de Bellaigue’s new book begins with the story of a journalistic blunder, the author’s own. In 2001 Mr. de Bellaigue wrote a long essay for The New York Review of Books about Turkey’s tangled history. It was a topic he thought he knew something about. At the time he was living in Istanbul and working as a foreign correspondent for The Economist.
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    His essay had barely arrived on newsstands, though, before complaints began to pour in. It turns out that Mr. de Bellaigue, while describing the age-old ethnic conflict between Turks and Armenians, declared that “some half a million” Armenians “died during the deportations and massacres of 1915.” Unknowingly, he had stumbled into bitterly contested territory. James Russell, a professor of Armenian studies at Harvard, was among those who wrote to rebuke him. Three times that many Armenians “were murdered,” Mr. Russell replied, “in a premeditated genocide.” Mr. Russell’s letter to The New York Review of Books continued: “If a reviewer wrote that only a third of the actual number of Jewish victims of the Holocaust had died, or that their deaths came about because they had rioted, or elected to make war against the German government, would you print it?” Mr. de Bellaigue was appalled at the tone of Mr. Russell’s letter, he writes, and at the possibility that he had made serious mistakes. He was shattered when Robert Silvers, the venerable editor of The New York Review of Books, scolded him over the telephone for appearing to be an apologist for the Turks. Chastened, Mr. de Bellaigue — a talented British journalist and the author of “In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran” (2005) — set out to discover the truth about what happened nearly a century ago between the Turks and the Armenians. The result of that quest is “Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town,” a deeply unconventional book that is as much memoir as proper history. It’s a murky and uneven book, too, one that Mr. de Bellaigue’s twitchy intellect and acid prose can’t quite rescue. Mr. de Bellaigue lets us know early on that “Rebel Land” is not going to be, at bottom, a research project. “I would not pore over books in libraries and faculties,” he declares, nor will he “solicit help from the Kurdish and Armenian lobbies.” He decides to “go to the back of the vessel and mix it in steerage with the forgotten peoples. From them I would get the story, gritty and unfiltered, of their loves, their losses and their sins.” What this jaunty bit of cultural condescension (mix it in steerage?) means in practice is that Mr. de Bellaigue begins to spend a lot of time in a small town in southeastern Turkey named Varto, in a district (also named Varto) that was caught up in the turmoil of 1915. Thousands of Armenians once lived there, and the ruins of their churches linger still. This place is a far cry from the cosmopolitan Turkey that Mr. de Bellaigue knew and loved in Istanbul. Speaking of that urban Turkey, the one that mostly prefers to deny its complicated past, he writes, “I would now go behind its back and betray it.” So Mr. de Bellaigue goes to Varto and begins to poke around. Because he is a keen observer and a natural satirist — I would like to read a novel by him — the parts of “Rebel Land” that are akin to travel writing are shrewd. He is good on people, observing one man’s “flowery nose” and “grenadine complexion,” another’s “white parabola” of a mustache, yet another’s “precarious nail-bitten superiority.” Mr. de Bellaigue is a mordant sensualist, noting how a river flows into “curvaceous oxbows” and how boots “sucked and popped” through mud. He is particularly attentive to his meals, enjoying “mezes of superlative quality,” “a delicious apricot cake” and noting how one local man enjoys deep-fried local trout with rocket and radishes. He describes Varto itself as “this curious place with a name like a cleaning detergent.” There is Kafkaesque humor, too, in the way the local authorities trail him, and in the way he tries (and usually fails) to get the locals to trust and to talk to him. Mr. de Bellaigue’s peppery asides rub up awkwardly, however, against the main story he is trying to tell in “Rebel Land,” one that doesn’t lend itself to pithy aperçus. The arc of his narrative becomes lost amid the place names and rumors and dimly remembered family stories. He complains that he “might be told three or four versions” of every event, and the reader begins to feel his pain. This is a book that has a two-page dramatis personae at the front, of the kind that makes your heart sink. Mr. de Bellaigue does not do enough to separate all these living and historical people, to make them distinctive, and they become a jumble on the page. As his book progresses, Mr. de Bellaigue begins to limit his focus to the crucial questions, notably this one: what happened to the Armenians of Varto? His book becomes a kind of intellectual, emotional and forensic detective story. He delivers, piece by piece, a summary of the Armenians’ case against the Turks and he blasts the Turkish historians who, he feels, have whitewashed a portion of their country’s history. Ultimately, he writes, “the big historical question is not whether very large numbers of Anatolian Armenians met with a violent end in the spring and summer of 1915, but whether or not the killings took place by fiat.” In other words, was it genocide or merely the actions of a few bad men? Mr. de Bellaigue worries that “a genocide fixation” has blinded both sides to all shades of gray. “What is needed is a vaguer designation for the events of 1915, avoiding the G-word but clearly connoting criminal acts of slaughter, to which reasonable scholars can subscribe and which a child might be taught,” he suggests. “By raising knowledge about this great wrong, a way might be opened to a cultural and historical meeting between today’s Turks, Kurds and Armenians, for they were not alive in 1915, and need not live in its shadow.” The gimlet-eyed and sensible Mr. de Bellaigue proposes all this, and then immediately realizes his cosmic folly. “But no; this is the prattle of a naïf,” he writes, “laughable, unemployable.”