Articles in Turkish media
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- Published: 18 December 2008
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TurkishPAC supports the "I Do Not Apologize" campaign, launched two days ago against the "I apologize" campaign initiated by some misguided Turkish academicians. The latter was launched at the beginning of this week and led by some of the well known so called "Armenian Genocide" protoganists, including Ahmet İnsel and Cengiz Aktar. They ask visitors to sign under a text, which apologizes to their Armenian brothers and sisters, for their sufferings in 1915 are denied! Even though no one denies the sufferings of the Ottoman Population, including the Armenians, during the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire into 30 individual states, these demagogues shamelessly blame all of us for the denial of the Armenian sufferings.
The apologists, however, never mention the "Great Catastrophe" the Anatolian Turks, Kurds and Jews were subjected to by the Armenians and their foreign supporters, which started decades before 1915.
TurkishPAC condemns this hypocrisy and recommends that you enter the "I Do Not Apologize" web site, and enter your name as the supporter of this campaign.
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- Published: 04 December 2008
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CNN REPORT INCORRECTLY CHARACTERIZES ARMENIAN TRAGEDY
IMMEDIATE CORRECTION REQUIRED
Dear Turkish Americans and Supporters of U.S.-Turkish Relations. CNN will be broadcasting a program titled, "Scream Bloody Murder" on December 4, 2008, regarding genocides in the 20th century. Though CNN's program advertisement does not list the Armenian case, we have learned that a small segment will discuss the events of 1915 in Ottoman Anatolia as a case of genocide.
TurkishPAC encourages all Turkish Americans to write to CNN. The documentary program and reporter Ms. Christiane Amanpour's recent statements in The Armenian Reporter (November 29), that the events of 1915 constitute the crime of genocide, prejudices inquiry into this genuine historic and legal controversy by proclaiming a verdict when in fact the evidence has never been tested by a proper neutral arbiter. In applying the term genocide and associating the Turkish and Armenian tragedies during Word War I with later crimes against humanity, Amanpour enflames hatred against Turkish people and Muslims, while ignoring the current research that is piecing together a historical narrative that is revealing that Ottoman Armenians engaged in a bloody revolt and that multitudes of Ottoman Muslims perished from causes nearly identical to those which took the lives of so many Armenians. Please click on "read more" link below for a sample letter/email text, and for more dertails.
Dear Turkish Americans and Supporters of U.S.-Turkish Relations. CNN will be broadcasting a program titled, "Scream Bloody Murder" on December 4, 2008, regarding genocides in the 20th century. Though CNN's program advertisement does not list the Armenian case, we have learned that a small segment will discuss the events of 1915 in Ottoman Anatolia as a case of genocide.
TurkishPAC encourages all Turkish Americans to write to CNN. The documentary program and reporter Ms. Christiane Amanpour's recent statements in The Armenian Reporter (November 29), that the events of 1915 constitute the crime of genocide, prejudices inquiry into this genuine historic and legal controversy by proclaiming a verdict when in fact the evidence has never been tested by a proper neutral arbiter. In applying the term genocide and associating the Turkish and Armenian tragedies during Word War I with later crimes against humanity, Amanpour enflames hatred against Turkish people and Muslims, while ignoring the current research that is piecing together a historical narrative that is revealing that Ottoman Armenians engaged in a bloody revolt and that multitudes of Ottoman Muslims perished from causes nearly identical to those which took the lives of so many Armenians. Please click on "read more" link below for a sample letter/email text, and for more dertails.
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- Category: General Announcements
- Published: 04 November 2008
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Washington DC, November 3, 2008 - The
Turkish American Legal Defense Fund today requested the Attorney
General of Ohio, Nancy H. Rogers, to open a criminal investigation
under Ohio law into signature Armenian verbal thuggery employed by
Armenian American independent candidate David Krikorian against
Representative Jean Schmidt. The Congresswoman represents the 2nd
district of Ohio, and is running for re-election. The criminal lies
under that Krikorian recently splattered against Ms. Schmidt are
emblematic of the religiously and ethnically bigoted campaign tactics
that Armenian Americans celebrate, directly or indirectly, against
congressional candidates who refuse to salute their narrow,
close-minded, fanatical anti-Turkish agenda.
Read more: Armenian American Verbal Thuggery Provokes Criminal Investigation Request in Ohio
- Category: General Announcements
- Published: 20 November 2008
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Gündüz Suphi Aktan, Turkey's former ambassador to Greece, United Nations and Japan and a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, passed away on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at the age of 67, due to kidney tumor.
Gündüz Suphi Aktan was born in Safranbolu, on August 7, 1941. After graduating from the political science department of Ankara University, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1998. From 1998 to 2007, he wrote for the daily Radikal, Turkish Daily News and for a while directed the Turkish think tank Eurasia Strategic Research Center.
He was a well known and respected expert on the Armenian question and he wrote extensively on the subject. He was a member of track two diplomacy group Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission. He believed that normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations could only be possible after resolution of Armenian genocide claims and the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
A compilation of his articles can be found in his book "Açık Kriptolar: Ermeni Soykırım İddiaları, Avrupa'da Irkçılık ve Türkiye'nin AB Üyeliği (Open Encrypts: Armenian Genocide Claims, Racism in Europe and Turkey's EU Membership)".
TurkishPAC mourns the untimely loss of Gündüz Suphi Aktan and conveys its condolences to his family and Turkish People.
Gündüz Suphi Aktan was born in Safranbolu, on August 7, 1941. After graduating from the political science department of Ankara University, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1998. From 1998 to 2007, he wrote for the daily Radikal, Turkish Daily News and for a while directed the Turkish think tank Eurasia Strategic Research Center.
He was a well known and respected expert on the Armenian question and he wrote extensively on the subject. He was a member of track two diplomacy group Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission. He believed that normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations could only be possible after resolution of Armenian genocide claims and the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
A compilation of his articles can be found in his book "Açık Kriptolar: Ermeni Soykırım İddiaları, Avrupa'da Irkçılık ve Türkiye'nin AB Üyeliği (Open Encrypts: Armenian Genocide Claims, Racism in Europe and Turkey's EU Membership)".
TurkishPAC mourns the untimely loss of Gündüz Suphi Aktan and conveys its condolences to his family and Turkish People.
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- Published: 31 October 2008
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Yusif Babanly, Azerbaijani American Council's Vice President kindly sent the following message for the Republic Day:
"Our Dear Turkish brothers and sisters,
Congratulations on the Independence Day of Turkey! Through the hardships and battles, through misery and devastation, through suppression and injustice, the Turkish nation has fought its way out and has come out as the victor establishing one of the unique secular statehoods in the world. On this wonderful occasion of independence, I would like to congratulate all of you on extraordinary achievements, endless accomplishments and victories of the Turkish nation! We at Azerbaijani American Council (AAC) wish you much success in promoting Turkey and Turkish values at home and around the world!"
