Genocidal Axis Between Sudan And Turkey

International Scandal:

By Appo Jabarian Executive Publisher / Managing Editor USA Armenian Life Magazine
Friday,  February 27, 2009
In recent years, Turkey has been fast at work to project the image of a regional power in the Middle East and distant Africa on the one hand; and on the other, to derail the U.S. re-affirmation of the Armenian Genocide by resorting to all sorts of diplomatic and public relations activities in Washington, DC, and the Caucasus.   Ankara’s efforts to pursue these dual objectives range from rushing to the “rescue” of another genocidal state Sudan for economic gain to the over-amplification of recent telephone conversation of Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an with U.S. President Barack Obama, to the continuation of “Football Diplomacy,” originally initiated in Sept. ’08 by Armenia’s President Serge Sargsyan; and of course, to the “good-old” misguiding and defrauding “dialogue” with Armenians; to the “joint historical commission.”
Most of these futile efforts also serve the denialist Turkish officialdom’s intention to gain time for Turkey and to sabotage the imminent passage of the Armenian Genocide resolution in the U.S. Congress; and to ultimately escape from making amends to Armenians in the form of Western Armenian territorial and personal compensation. And from all this, teach Sudan How To Escape Punishment For Crime Of Genocide – Lesson 101!
That’s why, it would be counter-productive for President Obama and the U.S. Congress to delay re-affirmation of America’s record on the genocide using the excuse that “no action should be taken that would jeopardize the amelioration of the diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey.”
The U.S. re-affirmation can send a strong international message against the crime of the crimes by openly condemning Turkey’s creation of axis of genocide with the criminal government of Sudan.
“The genocidal Ankara and Khartoum regimes have grown markedly closer over the past two years, driven by Turkey’s increasingly brazen efforts to undermine the international community’s efforts to isolate Sudan’s genocidal regime. The main three areas of cooperation between the two countries have been: 1) Turkey’s sale of lethal weaponry directly to Sudan; 2) Turkish diplomatic support for the Sudanese government’s genocide denials; 3) Turkey’s use of its UN Security Council seat to block anti-genocide efforts,” informed a recent news alert by the Armenian National Committee of America.
The Sudanese President’s first foreign visit after his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on crimes of genocide was to Turkey.
Commenting on the Sudanese President’s warm welcome in Ankara, in an article titled “Bashir in Turkey: The Unanswered Questions,” former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Morton Abramowitz, traditionally a reliable surrogate for Turkey’s interests in Washington, wrote in 2008 that, “One would think Turkey’s leaders would be a little more careful before laying down the red carpet for the likes of President Omar al Bashir of Sudan. … Turkey has been trying to persuade the world, not very successfully, that there was no Armenian genocide in 1915. The picture of President Abdullah Gül smiling at a joint press conference is hardly going to convince skeptics that Turkey even knows what genocide means, and it will certainly raise doubts in supporters of Turkey.”
In order not to disrespect the tens of millions of victims of the Armenian, Greek, Jewish, Cambodian, American Indian, and Darfur genocides among many others, America’s official response should be loud and clear. The United States shall not be satisfied by any “Football Diplomacy” between Armenia and Turkey; by any “dialogue” or by any “Joint Historical Commission” between Armenians and Turks.
Even if Turkey recognizes the Genocide and makes amends to Armenians, America and the civilized world still have the duty to re-affirm their record on — or pass resolutions affirming their recognition of — the Armenian Genocide for the specific purposes of 1) Stopping the current genocide in Darfur; and of 2) Being an effective deterrence against the occurrence of future genocides anywhere.