Month: February 2010

Canadian recognizes 1915 events as “genocide”

Vice Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly Nevzat Pakdil stated that decision of Canadian House of Commons that recognizes 1915 events as “genocide” has saddened Turkish people.
Hosting Head of Canada-Turkey Interparliamentary Friendship Group Maurice Vellacott and the Canadian delegation with him, Vice Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly Nevzat Pakdil said that Turkey and Canada are two allied countries. Stressing that two countries do not have serious problems in their bilateral relations, Pakdil said, “But the decision of Canadian House of Commons disappointed Turkish people. Turkey did not commit such crime. We think that the decision was made due to lack of information. We will be pleased to see Canada to support the process of normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia.”

Calling Canadian politicians to leave the issue to historians, Pakdil said, “Turkey is towards leaving the issue to historians. We announced that we are ready to share all the documents and archives related to this issue. We hope that our Canadian friends will behave in accordance with the historical truths.”

“CANADA SUPPORTS NORMALIZATION PROCESS”

Responding to Pakdil, Head of Canada-Turkey Interparliamentary Friendship Group Maurice Vellacott said that Canada supports the process of normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia. Stressing that the genocide issue should be handled within the frames of the history science, Vellacott said that Canada is pleased with development of relations between Turkey and Armenia.

www.avim.org.tr

February 18, 2010
US, Turkish officials get physical in Qatar

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:06:21 GMT

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Hillary Clinton (L) and Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed regional issues in Doha.

A fight broke out between high-ranking US and Turkish officials at a meeting held between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Qatar.

The fight was reported between the US ambassador to Qatar and an advisor to the Turkish prime minister at the end of a 20-minute meeting between Clinton and Erdogan on Monday.

The altercation took place after the US envoy entered the room to remind those present to close the meeting as the time was over.

In response, Erdogan’s adviser said, “It is not for you to judge the importance of our meeting, you offend our country,” the Turkish daily Today’s Zaman reported.

The quarrel led to physical confrontation and the two diplomats were separated with difficulty.

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February 18, 2010
UK Parliament have recognized the 1915 Genocide

Another falsified claim by Armenians!

ERMENILERIN DUNYAYA YAYDIGI BU HABER DOGRU DEGIL…

ANOTHER FALSE PROPOGANDA ITEM BY ARMENIAN DIASPORA

Dear All,

This is bending the truth,

The current EDM has only 111 signatures and to get a total of 254 MP’s they are including all the EDM’S signed to date by various MP’s. They have also disguised this EDM by calling it Holocaust Memorial Day and joining it with the actual Genocide of the Jews.

Another falsified claim by Armenians!

Best regards

Servet Hassan

Armenia Solidarity
Nor Serount Cultural Association

c/o The Temple of Peace, King Edward VIIII Ave., Cathays Park, Cardiff
07718982732
[email protected]
The Majority of eligible Members of the UK Parliament have recognized
the 1915 Genocide

This week the number of MPs in the House of Commons who have signed
motions (called Early Day Motions) recognizing the 1915 Genocide of
Armenians and Assyrians has passed 250 this week, representing the
majority of all eligible MPs. Of the 646 MPs , only 495 of them are
eligible to express their own views on these motions, because the other
151 are part of the government or have other roles which preclude their
signatures.
The number of MPs who have signed (254 exactly) did so by signing
motions in 2007 and during this parliamentary year (2009-2010), put by
Dr. Bob Spink MP, an Independent MP, at our request. The current Early
Day Motion (number 287) contains a clause which states:: “This
House….condemns unreservedly denial and denigration of the memory of
the Holocaust, as well as of the 1915 Genocide of Armenians and
Assyrians in Turkey, and the politics of hatred and division which led
to these events” and also “….. and calls on hon. Members to respect
Holocaust Memorial Day and to ensure that the Holocaust, the 1915
Genocide and modern atrocities such as the 1988 Anfal Genocide are never
forgotten”
This UK-wide Recognition of Genocide follows the example of Welsh
MPs in 2006, and 2007, and Scottish and Irish MPs a few weeks ago.
Of the 349 Labour MPs (the party of Government), 225 are eligible
and 150 (two thirds ) have signed.
Also, the majority of all non-Conservative MPs have signed (222
Labour, Liberal Democrat, Irish, Welsh and Scottish Nationalist and
Independent MPs out of 442 total non-conservative voting MPs in
nparliament ) . Most Conservative MPs do not sign such motions without
the permission of their Party, and therefore do not express their own
opinions,
The figure of 635 Voting MPs discounts the 5 Irish Sinn Fein members,
who never took up their seats, not recognizing the authority of
parliament.
Armenia Solidarity Spokesman Eilian Williams said: “. The UK, and
the other countries of the European Union must now accept that Turkey’s
present borders are based on its succesful Genocide of its Armenian and
Assyrian population. The issue of Armenian and Assyrian Churches and
lands which were confiscated by the Turkish State in the 1923 “Law of
Abandoned Properties” should be given a high priority, before any
progress is made on Turkey’s accession to the E.U.”

February 18, 2010
Australian Tatars Mark 60th Anniversary Of First Immigrants

Tatar children dance at a celebration of the 60th anniversary of Tatar immigration to Australia in Adelaide.

February 13, 2010

ADELAIDE, Australia — Ethnic Tatars living in Australia marked the 60th anniversary of their immigration to Australia this week with a series of events, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.

The majority of the estimated 500 Tatar-Australians are concentrated in Adelaide, South Australia, where they came to settle after World War II.

Special events were held by Tatar organizations in Adelaide to mark the anniversary. Michael Atkinson, South Australia’s minister for multicultural
affairs, attended events along with other local officials.

Tatars also have a cultural center in Adelaide where children can study the Tatar language and culture.

https://www.rferl.org/a/Australian_Tatars_Mark_60th_Anniversary_Of_First_Immigrants/1957128.html

February 17, 2010
Linguists Urge Crimean Tatars To Switch To Latin Alphabet

February 17, 2010

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Crimean Tatar language experts have approved a move to stop using the Cyrillic alphabet and return to the Latin alphabet, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.
The issue was discussed by dozens of linguists and other language experts at a special seminar held in Simferopol, Ukraine, on February 15. The experts presented research outlining the grammar of the Crimean Tatar language using the Latin alphabet and agreed on orthographic rules for it to be written using Latin letters.
They have also recommended that the World Congress of Crimean Tatars (KTDK) formally approve the change.

Eden Mamut, the secretary-general of the Black Sea Regional Union of Universities and professor at Romania’s Ovidius University, said establishing a common orthography for Crimean Tatar based on the Latin alphabet is an important step in helping unite the some 1.4 million Crimean Tatars who live in several different countries, the majority in Turkey.

KTDK President Refat Chubarov stated at the seminar that “there is no other alternative for the creation of a productive, communicative system for understanding between all Crimean Tatars than returning to the Latin alphabet and developing a single Crimean Tatar language.”
Crimean Tatars are an indigenous people of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula who were deported by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to Central Asia in the 1940s. Many returned to Crimea after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Crimean Tatars used the Arabic alphabet before the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in 1917. They were then forced — as were all other Muslim minorities in the Soviet Union — to use the Latin alphabet. They were later ordered to use Cyrillic starting in the 1940s. Many Crimean Tatars abroad still use the Arabic and Latin alphabets, while those living in post-Soviet countries use Cyrillic.

https://www.rferl.org/a/Linguists_Urge_Crimean_Tatars_To_Switch_To_Latin_Alphabet/1960330.html

February 17, 2010
Use of term Genocide in Obama’s address is a matter of moral image of the U.S.

15.02.2010 18:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The impatience the international community and the Armenian public are waiting with whether the U.S. president use the term Genocide in his annual address to the Armenian community of the United States or not is disrespectful to the memory of Genocide victims, MP Tigran Torosyan, ex-Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia told a news conference in Yerevan.

According to Torosyan, whether Obama will use the Genocide term in his April 24 address is a question of moral image of the U.S and Armenia should not interfere with it.

The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million.

To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially recognized the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars and historians accept this view. The Armenian Genocide has been also recognized by influential media including The New York Times, BBC, The Washington Post and The Associated Press.

The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the Genocide survivors.

February 17, 2010