I thank Enis Pinar for providing the heads up below. I wrote the following short response to POV.
I suggest that everyone in this group write a paragraph or two in response. Together, let’s show a strong reaction to defamation.
Ergun KIRLIKOVALI
From: Ergun
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 1:14 PM
To: feedback@pov.org
Subject: I Smell a Rat in Ararat
I Smell a Rat in Ararat
It’s a disgrace that America’s most revered public TV succumbed to the relentless pressure of the deceitful Armenian lobby and aired a crude propaganda piece titled “Aurora’s Sunrise” cultivating pure hatred against Turks. The animated movie was sprinkled with a generous dose of exaggerations, distortions, and fabrications.
The film relates the story of Arshaluys “Aurora” Madriganian, a female survivor of the so-called Armenian “genocide” —a long-discredited political claim—who after being depicted as the victim of multiple rapes and other brutalities at the hands of the Ottoman Turks escapes to America. She becomes the real-life star in a 1919 movie titled “Auction of Souls” produced by the Near East Relief organization, which allegedly raised $116 million dollars to help President Woodrow Wilson’s unsuccessful effort to establish an Armenian homeland in Western Türkiye after WW1.
What’s wrong with this picture? Well… uh….everything.
Do you get even a whiff of any of the following facts concerning time periods before, during, and after World War One?
- Most Ottoman-Armenians took up arms against their own government.
- Most Ottoman-Armenians committed supreme treason by joining the invading enemy armies.
- Most Ottoman-Armenians betrayed at the worst possible time in the life of the Ottoman Empire: when the most powerful allied fleet attacked it from the West (remember Gallipoli?) and the equally formidable Tsarist Russian armies, from the East (remember Van rebellion by traitor Armenians?)
- Most Ottoman-Armenians established terrorist organizations going back to 1870s, 1880s and 1890s (such as the Union of Salvation, The Black Cross Society, The Protectors of the Fatherland, Armenakan, The Hunchakian Revolutionary Party, The Armenian Revolutionary Federation, and in the 20th Century, Genesis, the Armenian Secret Army of Armenian Genocide, The Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide and many others.) These were no different than Hamas today killing old and young, women, children, and even the babies, triggering a tit-for-tat terrible war. Turks only defended their home against these blood-thirsty Armenian terrorists who chose to serve foreign invaders instead of their own government and homeland.
- Do you get any indication of Armenian agitation, intimidation, and terror (in that order), treason, territorial demands, and the Turkish suffering at the hands of Armenian terrorists, since 1862? Yes, for a whopping 161 years and counting?
- No, I do not get any whiff of the above, but I do smell the rat in Ararat in that Armenian-financed propaganda film.
And about the unfortunate and baseless slanders defaming Ataturk, I will only remind the reader a couple of simple things that anyone can easily appreciate:
“In 1981, the centennial of Atatürk’s birth, his memory was honored by the United Nations and UNESCO, which declared it The Atatürk Year in the World and adopted the Resolution on the Atatürk Centennial, describing him as “the leader of the first struggle given against colonialism and imperialism” and a “remarkable.”
And here, you can hear the sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks on the 25th anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a brilliant military leader, reformist, visionary, and first President of the modern Republic of Turkey. In his speech, President Kennedy compliments Atatürk’s leadership, describes the United States’ historical relationship with Turkey, and characterizes the Turkey’s independence as an example of national self-reliance.
If you wish to know more about this subject, please click on this link: www.MythsandRealities.com .
Ergun KIRLIKOVALI
Researcher & Writer
A concerned Turkish American
Son of Turkish Survivors of Armenian Brutalities during 1912-1922
(My home address and cell phone were entered here)