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ARMENIAN ‘GENOCIDE’ DOCUMENTARY SHOWN IN US CONGRESS

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Today’s Zaman
July 23 2010
Turkey

A US congressman has hosted the Capitol Hill premiere of a documentary
on the alleged genocide of Armenians at the hands of the late Ottoman
Empire in the beginning of the 20th century.

The premiere of “Aghet: A genocide” took place on Wednesday in a room
of the Rayburn House Office Building, close to the US Capitol. “I
am honored to host the screening of ‘Aghet: A genocide’ in order to
help educate my colleagues and their staff about the first genocide
of the 20th Century,” Rep. Adam Schiff, an active supporter of efforts
for US recognition of genocide claims, said.

The Armenian claims of genocide affect Turkish-US ties as well.

Several US congressmen have pushed for recognition of the alleged
genocide but such efforts have failed in the past after US
administrations intervened for the sake of protecting ties with Turkey.

Turkey denies genocide claims and says Armenians and Muslim Turks were
both killed when the Ottoman Empire quelled an Armenian revolt for
independence, backed by Russian forces then invading eastern Anatolia.

Analysts say Jewish groups in the US, which traditionally worked to
block Congress resolutions on the alleged genocide, are likely to
refuse to do so anymore amid a severe deterioration in Turkish-Israeli
ties following an Israeli raid on an aid ship that killed eight Turks
and one American on May 31. This, coupled with US disappointment over
a Turkish vote at the UN Security Council against sanctions on Iran,
may pave the way for the passage of a “genocide” resolution if it is
brought to the US Congress again.

A pre-screening reception and the actual screening were followed by
a panel discussion, featuring, among others, the documentary’s German
director, Eric Friedler and former US Ambassador to Armenia John Evans.


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9 responses to “ARMENIAN ‘GENOCIDE’ DOCUMENTARY SHOWN IN US CONGRESS”

  1. dr.yilmaz eryasa Avatar
    dr.yilmaz eryasa

    why not first to get a study done by independent historians

  2. jda Avatar
    jda

    and if the commission determines a genocide occurredto the christians. what will turjey do in response?

  3. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Erdogan made it clear in 2005, in writing, that if all open their archives, and an honest study of those archives are conducted by competent and non-partsian scholars, the the outcome shall be respected. Erdogan repeated that many times in his travels around the world, most recently in Munich, Germany. If that happens, all Turks will respect the outcome. If that happpens, the world will finally hear the whole story, not just the Armenian spins, fabrications, and misrepresentations. The world will finally see that those “poor, starving Armenians” actually took up arms against their own government, killed many of their Muslim neighbors, joined the invading enemy armies, demanded territories, BEFORE the first Armenian was temporarily relocated (TERESET). The world will be wide-eyed to see the photos of blood-thirsty Armenians gangs, both in and out of uniform (see http://www.ethocide.com), armed to the teeth. We will even show the Armenian books where they resort to violence and terrorism to undermine a millennium of harmonious co-habitation in Anatolia. Armenians suffer from unrealistic calculations of delusional leaders. They themselves have ruined their own prosperous way of life in Anatolia. Turks were only defending their home when the sanctity of their home was violated by their Armenian neighbors.

  4. jda Avatar
    jda

    Mr. Kirlikovali,

    The question before the house was what will the TR do if this comission concludes that a genocide occurred. You accurately quote Erdogan’s statement that this hypothetical conclusion will be “respected.”

    First, the commission idea is a stall, designed to reach no conclusion until the 2020’s, by which time Erdogan will not be in office. He cannot vouchsafe what people in 15 years will do.

    Second, the bland commitment to “respect” a conclusion is meaningless.

    Third, your a la carte anti-Armenian blather typifies why no Turkish scholar living in Turkey can possibly be independent unless he or she is very brave, as is the case with Derengil, Berktay, and a few others.

  5. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    JDA,

    Uh, “anti-Armenian blather”; “respect”. Are you serious? Man, you really are the clown that you KEEP proving yourself to be! Can you say…HYPOCRISY?!! How about ANTI-TURKISH BLATHER?!! The terms “respect”, dignity, ethics, honor, integrity are just some of the terms which do not exisit in the Armenian language.

    As for the rest of your typical useless rants, all I can say is…Yaaaaaaawwwnnn!!!!! Wake me when it’s over.

  6. Avatar
    Anonymous

    You are contradicting yourself several times within your own words. First you cannot trust Turkish scholars, then you can if they are brave. Such wholesale characterizations only show your racist attitides toward Turkish people. Our of 75 million people, you cannot trust anyone but those few who agree with you? What does that make you? A racist A bigot? An idiot? All?

    Turkish position is veru simple: Armenian took up arms agains their own government and resorted to revolts, treason and terrorism. Many Muslims, mostly Turks, were victimized by ultra-nationalist Dshnak Armenians and their willing or unwilling cohorts in the prosperous Armenian community. Turks were only defending their home like any decent citizen would do, Americans included, when the sanctity of their homne was violated. The world is slowly but surely seeing the turkish point of view, despite Armenian faslifications, propaganda, intimidation, and terrorism.

  7. jda Avatar
    jda

    Turkish position, as you summarize it, is very simple: kill all armenians, deny it, destroy all traces of their existence, deny that, and speak about them and to them as if they were subhumans.

    That is the turkish position, apparently.

    More turkish positions: repeat steps 1 and 2 as to Pontics, Greeks, Assyrians, Alevis, Kurds, liberals, Shi’a, Maronites.

    steal their wealth, squander it, declare the wealth forfeit.

    Ignore the brave Turks who resisted killing.

    whisper in the ear of the American Ambassador that you would like the insurance proceeds.

    Hit and run, pay and run.

  8. hally Avatar
    hally

    >>What does that make you? A racist A bigot? An idiot? All? <<

    I vote for ALL.

  9. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    JDA,

    As hard as it is for me to stay awake after reading your garbage, please tell us how many Kurds the dashnakian Armenians murdered during that time frame? As for the rest your whatever it is that you type, because you have no credibility and are nothing more than a babbling racist hypocritical Turkaphobe (you always like to prove this point ad nauseum), can you come up with a reason, any viable reason, why anyone should even bother to read anything that you post, given your background? And also, compare our sites (such as this one) with any of the Armenian sites (such as Armenian weekly, Azberaz, etc.). Then tell us all how they compare and differ. Pay special attention to their editorial board’s facist censorship and the ultimate deletion of posts made by any Turk or Turkic individual wishing to get the truth out via their posts! They deny us our 1st ammendment rights. Why? Because they can not take any chances of allowing the truth to deprogram any brainwashed dashnakian (then all of that money which Armenians spend to brainwash their kids, especially in those Hitler Youth-like “summer AYF camps”, will be wasted). No, the continuous lies as well as the century-old global Christian con job must be allowed to continue so that Armenia can still receive their usual handouts! How pathetic!!! BTW, how’s circus life treating you?

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