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  • Letter to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Closest Ally – Mr. Ali Najmi Advisor

    Letter to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Closest Ally – Mr. Ali Najmi Advisor

    Letter to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s  Closest Ally –  Mr. Ali Najmi 

    Mr. Ali Najmi 
    The Law Office of Ali Najmi
    32 Broadway Suite 1310
    New York, NY 10004

    April 4, 2026

    Dear Mr. Najmi,

    At the outset let me ask:  Are Christian Armenian lives more precious than the 2. 5 million Muslim lives to you and Mr. Mamdani that were  killed / lost in World War 1 ?

    I acknowledge your recent remarks concerning my position on the characterization of the events of 1915- World War 1, as well as the references made to my professional background. I respond to clarify the issues raised and to ensure the discussion remains grounded in principle, law, and evidentiary standards rather than insinuation.

     During our text messaging Sunday April 26, 2026 , rather than engaging with the facts, Mr. Najmi, you have chosen to rely on personal diversions that have no bearing on the historical and legal questions at hand. This approach prioritizes personal antagonism over evidence-based debate. I maintain that this discussion should be guided by judicially tested evidence and documentation, rather than irrelevant personal attacks.

    The central issue is not whether history can be studied or discussed by scholars, but whether the legal classification of grave international crimes such as genocide can be definitively established outside a competent judicial process. In my view, such determinations properly fall within the jurisdiction of established legal bodies, including international courts and tribunals or competent human rights mechanisms. Scholarly interpretation, particularly when selective or ideologically driven, should not substitute for formal legal adjudication where such serious legal characterizations are concerned. A determination of genocide requires rigorous evidentiary review, adversarial testing, and cross examination within an appropriate judicial framework.

    Sir, it is important to separate historical inquiry from legal adjudication. While historians may contribute to contextual understanding, legal determinations of this magnitude are ultimately the responsibility of impartial tribunals. This distinction is fundamental to the integrity of international law.

    Sir, no one disputes that the early 20th century was marked by immense human suffering across multiple communities during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the First World War. This includes significant losses experienced by 2.5 million Muslims as well as Armenians and others. A balanced historical understanding must acknowledge all such suffering without selective omission. The legal argument advanced here is often misunderstood. The absence of the 1948 Genocide Convention at the time of the events in question does not preclude accountability under international law. 

    Indeed, precedents such as the Nuremberg Trials demonstrate that mass atrocities were prosecuted as crimes against humanity under existing principles of international law. Furthermore, later international tribunals, including those for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, confirm that judicial mechanisms are routinely established after the fact to determine responsibility based on evidence and due process.

    Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan January 24, 2025, during a meeting with members of the Armenian diaspora in Zurich, Switzerland. said ” How is it that there was no agenda for the Armenian Genocide in 1939, and how is it that the agenda for the Armenian Genocide appeared in 1950? How did it happen?”

    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon April 16, 2015 said “Armenian deaths during World War I were not genocide”

     U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Armenian Allegations.

    European Court of Human Rights, ECHR on December 17, 2013 (Perincek vs Switzerland)  that the events of 1915 cannot be proven to be genocide or compared to Jewish Holocaust.

    The continued efforts by segments of the Armenian diaspora to advance interpretations of history that Türkiye considers inaccurate have long been a matter of concern. In this context, Türkiye’s 2005 proposal to establish a joint historical commission with Armenia remains unfulfilled. If the evidentiary basis is as clear as asserted, engagement with such an initiative would seem constructive.

    Perhaps, Mr. Najmi and Mr. Mamdani,  might consider taking a leading role in pursuing a legal avenue to definitively clarify the matter at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), International Criminal Court (ICC), International Court of Justice (ICJ) an effort that could, in your view, bring resolution and recognition to the Armenian position. You or Mr. Mamdani can Mr. Najmi become a hero to the Armenians.

    Mr Najmi,  Are Christian Armenian lives more precious than the 2.5 million Muslim lives to you and 

    Mr. Mamdani that were killed in World War 1

    Mr. Najmi, I am quite curious as to why you think that I, and many others in my position, do not deserve a right you so readily claim for yourself ?

    Finally, attempts to resolve or prejudge such deeply contested historical and legal issues outside of proper judicial forums risk undermining both legal standards and constructive dialogue. For that reason only competent international judicial bodies not selectively curated scholarly consensus or politically motivated narratives are appropriate forums for definitive legal determinations of genocide.

     Also, Using of the outdated term “Turkey” in official communication is a insult to a honorable people and Nation. The nation has formally adopted the name “Republic of Türkiye,” which has been recognized by the United Nations and numerous international bodies. Addressing countries by their chosen names is a basic element of diplomatic respect and cultural decency. Mr. Mamdani should, get it right !

    Accordingly, I respectfully decline to accept the characterization set forth in your statement and that of Mr. Mamdani.

    Until a verdict of genocide can be reached by a “competent tribunal ” after “due process” where both sides of the conflict are properly represented and evidence cross examined, the term genocide should be preceded by the qualifier “alleged”.

     WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS TRUTH AND HONESTY, NOT SELECTIVE MORALITY.

    Respectfully,

    Ibrahim Kurtulus

    Community Activist 

    From: EMI P
    Date: Thu, May 7, 2026 at 3:43 AM

    Back page of the French daily Le Petit Journal, dated 24 November1896 (Armenians attacking a mosque):
  • How to Rewrite History, Distortion of Reality: Armenian Lesson

    How to Rewrite History, Distortion of Reality: Armenian Lesson

    This book critically examines the global campaign to label the 1915 Ottoman relocation of Armenians as “genocide,” arguing that such a designation lacks both legal foundation and historical accuracy. Drawing upon primary academic sources, international law instruments, and archival documents, the study deconstructs the ideological mechanisms used to rewrite history through selective narratives and politicized memory.The book argues that the portrayal of the 1915 events as “genocide” is a product of political lobbying, diaspora activism, and a growing trend of parliaments assuming judicial roles in historical controversies. Relying on the Genocide Convention of 1948, the principle of non-retroactivity, and the doctrine of legal positivism, the study finds that the events fail to meet the definitional threshold of genocide under international law.Furthermore, the research explores how diaspora-driven narratives, coupled with terrorism and propaganda during the 20th century, have reshaped public memory and influenced parliamentary decisions in especially Western states. The misuse of legislative platforms to issue historically and legally non-binding declarations on “genocide” is identified as a distortion of both history and justice.This book provides a legal, historical, and political refutation of the genocide allegations by examining both Turkish and Western scholarly perspectives. It offers a “lesson” in how history can be manipulated for ideological ends, emphasizing the importance of juridical processes, objective scholarship, and archival integrity in confronting such claims.
    AYACADEMY

    Serkan KORKMAZ

  • OPEN LETTER to Dutch Councillors

    OPEN LETTER to Dutch Councillors

    GAME OVER!

    Mr./Mrs.
    Don Ceder, Kamerlid
    Chris Stoffer, Kamerlid
    Derk Boswijk, Kamerlid
    Isa Kahraman, Kamerlid
    Caroline van der Plas, Kamerlid

    It is with great concern and astonishment that I have learnt about your motion, submitted on behalf of your group on 10 April 2025, asking the Government to ensure that, by 24 April 2025 at the latest, ‘the Armenian GENOCIDE should no longer be referred to as the Armenian PROBLEM, but as the Armenian GENOCIDE’.

    In doing so, I would like to state in advance that you are committing a legal offense, especially in the following points.

    First issue:

    In your motion;

    Instead of the expression ‘Armenian PROBLEM’, which has been used in the talks up to this time, you demand that the ARMENIAN GENOCIDE be directly mentioned.

    In other words,

    You make a claim that “THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE HAPPENED”.

    The claimant is obliged to PROVE his claim.

    Otherwise, this constitutes a crime of slander and defamation. In addition, there is no CRIMINAL LAW that justifies this claim.

    Another fundamental principle in Criminal Law is based on the principle of non-retroactivity of the law.

    An act without criminal sanction at the time of the incident cannot be punished later.

    It is Article 7 of the Criminal Law of the European Convention on Human Rights that says this.

    So, what does Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights say?

    There can be no punishment without law.

    Article 1: “No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence under national or international law at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the criminal offence was committed.”

    In other words:

    Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege:

    “There can be no punishment without the law.” To cut to the chase:

    Was there a law on genocide in 1915, the year in which the so-called crime of genocide that you accuse the Ottomans [Turks] was committed?

    No.!!!

    Then you are rowing in vain.

    The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (the Convention) was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 (this is the international pillar of the law, as Article 7 ECHR) and entered into force on January 12, 1951.

    Let’s turn to domestic law;

    An act is punishable only if, before it is committed, criminal sanctions have been prescribed by law.

    Let’s assume that “genocide” was committed, since there was no law defining “genocide” at the time, you cannot impose sanctions under the name of “genocide”.

    Not in parliament, not at all.

    You MUST give this action another name!!!

    This new name you will give is not a crime of genocide.

    You [the Turks] occupied the Ottoman Empire, imposed the Treaty of Sevres on us and wanted to establish “Armenia” and “Kurdistan” in Anatolia, and we defended

    ourselves within the framework of the general rules of war.

    Who is LEGALLY right in this matter: Will Dutch politicians or Turkish politicians decide for this?

    Or do you want to suggest that the decision of a CHRISTIAN parliament is superior to the decision of independent courts of law?

    No problem, only then, we should not talk about the legal decision, but about the church’s decision of ENGISISM – SHERIA!!!

    As far as I know, due to the separation of powers in the Netherlands, politicians are not criminal judges.

    Criminal judges in the courts impose the sentence.

    Moreover, in order to prevent this unlawfulness, the rule of non-retroactivity of the law is also taken as a basis.

    Let’s assume that you apply the law retroactively, then again there is no problem and this time we should not talk about the Netherlands, which is a democracy, but about the

    REPUBLIC OF THE BANANA.

    Because if you disregard Article 7 of the ECHR and the Dutch Constitution, then everyone has the right to take their rights into their own hands.

    Second issue:

    Your motion constitutes a CRIME according to the Dutch Constitution and Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as according to the Dutch Constitution, which regulates the separation of powers (separating the powers of the politician from those of the judge and the police).

    Politicians are, according to the Dutch Constitution, only legislators and are strictly forbidden to exercise the power to act as judges or police officers.

    Moreover, you should know that by interpreting/assuming, distorting, and portraying the historical event as genocide, you are committing two kinds of CRIME, both politically and legally, in accordance with the basic principle that CRIMINAL LAW FORBIDS ANALOGY.

    According to the basic principle of “Nulla poena sine lege stricta” “Analogy is forbidden in criminal law”, a judge, let alone a politician, has no authority to make an analogy in his/her conscience, when sentencing someone, i.e. when accusing someone of being GENOCIDAL.

    Even if the judge finds the accused person guilty in his/her conscience, he/she cannot punish him/her according to his/her conscience if the act of the accused person does not fit the description in the law, the opposite situation/decision would be arbitrary and would constitute a crime of law.

    Back to the topic at hand.

    Since there was no penal code in 1915 defining the punishment for genocide, there can be no punishment based on this.

    Let alone a politician trying to impose punishment by comparing historical events, IN CRIMINAL LAW; a judge has no authority to interpret the law.

    But you put yourself in the place of the JUDGE, the COURT.

    This understanding of law may suit your understanding of Assyrian or Christian in the Netherlands, but according to international LAW NORMS, you have committed a crime.

    Moreover, even if the law in question is incomplete, the judge cannot make analogy in CRIMINAL LAW. And you!!!

    Who says that, the Dutch Constitution!!!!

    However, I have been living in Europe for more than 50 years and you have constantly nagged me, saying: “This is Europe, democratic laws apply here, adapt (integrate).”

    Your motion is based on the ALLEGATION that an act of genocide, which requires criminal sanctions, has been committed.

    In your motion, you also accuse the Ottoman Government [Turks] of genocide and hold the State of the Republic of Turkey, as the legal successor and heir of the Ottoman Empire, and its citizens responsible for the legal consequences of the genocide you claim.

    Accordingly, you are acting as if the crime attributed to the Ottoman Government has been PROVEN in a court of law, and in this sense, you are guilty of insult and slander under Articles 261 and 262 of the Dutch Criminal Code.

    Mr. Isa and your friends do not have such a final court decision?

    In this sense, making motions and passing resolutions in parliament without a court ruling to get someone to say “You are a murderer” or “You are a criminal” is the crime of slander and we reserve the right to file a lawsuit against these persons.

    And the result of the possible LIBEL case that will be concluded in our FAVOR will go down in the WORLD as an EXAMPLE DECISION, let it be known.

    Dear Dutch councilors,

    Not only we as ordinary citizens, but also the Dutch authorities or courts and especially YOU POLITICIANS are obliged to know these legal rules. Just to say:

    Ignorance of Articles 261 and 262 of the Dutch Criminal Code is not an excuse to escape a criminal offense: “Ignorantia legis non excuat” !!!

    It is a principle of law that a person’s ignorance of the law does not, by itself, absolve that person from responsibility.

    Now, I am going to talk about the FINAL DECISION of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which will upset all your imperial plans, which was taken on July 20, 1987, by the European Parliament, i.e. the whole of Europe, i.e. all of you, i.e. the 28 EU-member states, on the Armenian “genocide”, with the recommendation number “C 190”: “Turkiye cannot become a member of the EU unless it acknowledges the Armenian genocide”.

    Year 1999

    The EU and the then Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkiye, Mr. Bülent Ecevit, were at loggerheads over whether Turkiye could be a candidate for EU membership.

    Prime Minister Ecevit saw the challenge from you, the Europeans, and said: “We don’t want those who don’t want us” and finally, with the scenes you will remember, you invited

    Prime Minister Mr. Ecevit to Helsinki the very next day and decided on Turkiye’s candidacy for EU membership.

    Upon this, you have infuriated the Armenian Diaspora, with which you have religious sympathies, and your friend, the Armenian Diaspora, by becoming angry with you:

    – Referring to the July 20, 1987 European Parliament resolution C-190; by saying “Turkiye should first acknowledge the genocide it committed against Armenians and then be granted candidate status for membership, otherwise the EU would be undermining its extra-contractual responsibility” filed a lawsuit

    1-  against the European Parliament,

    2  – against the Council of the European Union and

    3  – against the European Commission,

    i.e. against ALL of you at the Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU].

    This case was dismissed by the First Chamber of the CJEU on December 17, 2003 with Judgment No. T-346/03.

    The Armenian Diaspora then appealed (challenged the judgment) and the appeal, which was heard by the Fourth Chamber of the CJEU, was again dismissed on 17.04.2004 with the final judgment C-18/04 P, in which your religious friends, the Armenians, were also ordered to pay court costs of €30,000.

    Evidence;

    I enclose the following in the attachment:

    1 – European Parliament Resolution “C 190” and

    2-   The judgment of the First Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Case No: T-346/03 and the finalized judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union, No.

    C-1804 P, in which the European Court of Justice sentenced the Armenian Diaspora to pay 30 thousand Euros in court costs in this case.

    [I can send you the Turkish translation of the aforementioned judgment of the ECJ, made by me as a sworn translator, to your address]

    And now I am telling you again:

    ”Don’t you think that the 28 EU states, including the Netherlands, legally humiliate yourselves by retaking the null and void political decision you took in 1987, now as the Netherlands, as a single state”?

    Or did you say that the Turks are incapable of understanding such LEGAL DETAILS and spoke in vain?

    Therefore, I demand that you immediately withdraw the above-mentioned motion, which has no legal basis.

    If you do not withdraw your motion, which has no legal basis, and despite everything, try to take a decision by submitting it to a vote in the Dutch Parliament and if a decision is taken on this issue, I would like to inform you that I reserve the right to initiate the necessary legal proceedings against the mover and the drafters of this motion in order to defend my legal rights, in order to ensure that the legislative, judicial and executive powers that exist on paper in the Netherlands are applied in practice.

    May 05, 2025.

    Mr. Isa Kahraman and his friends, I ask you now; “for all these reasons, am I on the wrong track?

    I would be grateful if you could enlighten me on this issue. With friendly greetings,

    Refik Mor
    [2003-2018 Neumünster Councillor-Germany] 
    Fehrsstr.8 24536 
    Neumünster-Germany 

    Additional Note

    Mr. Isa Kahraman and his party colleagues, on June 2, 2016, the German Bundestag, like you, made a LEGAL mistake and passed a resolution in the Bundestag stating that “The Armenian genocide happened”.

    However, as a result of the 6-page LEGAL CRIMINAL NOTICE I sent to all members of the Bundestag on June 2, 2016, the Bundestag held a press conference apologized in a way.

    As a result, to summarize;

    The so-called Armenian genocide allegation has reached a LEGAL resolution. A legally resolved problem is no longer a problem.

    The Turks have a RELIEVED CONSCIENCE in this matter!

  • Turkish Textbooks Brainwash Students By Denying Genocide Against Minorities

    Turkish Textbooks Brainwash Students By Denying Genocide Against Minorities

    Turkish investigative journalist Uzay Bulut published on the Gatestone Institute’s website an article titled, “Turkish Textbooks: Turning History on Its Head.”

    Bulut wrote: “Turkish government authorities have targeted their own indigenous peoples of Anatolia, namely the Pontic Greeks and Armenians. In the twentieth century, Ottoman Turkey largely exterminated these peoples through a genocide.”

    Bulut explained: “The government of Turkey, however, refers to the genocide as the ‘unfounded claims’ of Greeks and Armenians. The titles in the Turkish history textbooks were previously called the ‘Pontus Issue’ and the ‘Armenian Question.’ They are now changed to the ‘Unfounded Pontus Claims’ and the ‘Unfounded Armenian Claims.’”

    Turkey also denies that Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks are indigenous peoples of the land where Turks settled centuries later, occupied the land and exterminated those already living there.

    “Muslim Turks from Central Asia arrived in the Armenian highlands and Anatolia, which was the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire at the time, only during the 11th century. Through military invasions, Muslim Turks seized the towns and cities where indigenous Christians had lived for centuries. Ottoman Turks finally invaded Constantinople (today’s Istanbul) in the fifteenth century, bringing the destruction of the Byzantine Empire. After that, abuses against Christian religious and cultural heritage became widespread,” Bulut wrote.

    The sad part is that young Turkish schoolchildren, who have no idea about the real history of their country, are brainwashed with falsehoods about their country’s origin, and fed hatred about the remnants of the minorities. Consequently, these children become adults parroting the lies taught to them in their schools by denying that the Ottoman government committed genocide against indigenous Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. These Turkish children have no fault for not knowing the true history of their country nor the facts about the genocide committed against the minorities. They are fed the lies that the minorities lived happily in the Ottoman Empire for centuries until European powers instigated them to rebel against their government. On the contrary, minorities living in the Ottoman Empire were always oppressed, enslaved, attacked, robbed, kidnapped, raped, and massacred, culminating in the genocide of 1915. These minorities were not even considered to be second class citizens. They had no rights whatsoever and were at the mercy of their brutal rulers. Bulut correctly described the education of the Turkish schoolchildren as “misinformation, willful distortion, and historic revisionism.”

    This is not just a dispute between Armenians and Turks. The Turkish government knows better than anyone that the accusations of genocide are factual, since the Ottoman archives in its possession reveal the truth, even after being selectively cleansed of any incriminating evidence.

    In 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars issued a resolution, which said, in part: “It is the conviction of the International Association of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks.”

    According to Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, President of Genocide Watch, denial is the last stage of genocide: “Denial is a continuation of a genocide because it is a continuing attempt to destroy the victim group psychologically and culturally, to deny its members even the memory of the murders of their relatives.”

    More importantly, I suggest that the proud citizens of Turkey listen carefully to the truthful admission of the founder of the modern Republic of Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, who told the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper in an interview published on August 1, 1926: “These leftovers from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the lives of millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred.” I hope no Turkish citizen would be foolish enough to call Ataturk a liar, otherwise they will be jailed immediately if they live in Turkey and if they are currently outside the country, they will be promptly arrested upon returning home.

    The Turkish government, at long last, should face the truth and teach the innocent Turkish students the tragic facts of history about the massacres and genocide for which neither today’s young generation nor the current Turkish government were responsible for since they did not even exist during these murders. All nations have dark stains in their history, but instead of hiding them, they come clean and face their true history, including both the tragic and glorious episodes. Only then nations can overcome their shadowy pasts and move forward. Look at the example of Germany which accepted its guilt for the Holocaust and made amends. Otherwise, future generations of Turks will grow up trying to deny and lie about their ignominious past and will always have a guilty conscience for something they played no part in. However, their lies and denials make them accomplices of these crimes after the fact.

  • ARMENIAN DEPORTATION IS NOT A GENOCIDE….!

    ARMENIAN DEPORTATION IS NOT A GENOCIDE….!

    “The fact that there had ben massacres ( of Armenians) is obvious and clear. Everyone agrees on this. Essentially, nobody denies this fact. The important issue here is to define it ( as a genocide or not ). We will discuss this issue at meetings within our party to reach a decision jointly at the end of these discussions and will declare our decision openly ” said the newly appointed Minister of European Affairs Ali Haydar Konca of the HDP Party, of the newly established government which will rule until the Nov. 1st, 2015 elections, at the press meeting on his first day as Minister of European Affairs.

    Prof. Dr. S. Rıdvan Karluk
    Turgut Özal Üniversitesi

    Translated by: Şadi Dinlenç, New York
    21 October 2015

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  • THE UNFOUNDED MASS BURIALS OF THE SO-CALLED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    THE UNFOUNDED MASS BURIALS OF THE SO-CALLED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    According to some sources, The Armenian Genocide Appeals (the so-called
    Armenian Genocide or the Unfounded Armenian Claims) indicate that the
    Armenian deportation, which was carried out by the Ottoman State in Eastern
    Anatolia for internal security reasons from May to November 1915, was aimed
    at destroying the Armenian community in the region, Millions of Armenians
    are alleged to have been killed by this reason. In the early years of the First
    World War, the Ottoman State while fighting in many fronts with Allied Powers,
    the Armenians attacked the Ottoman army jointly with the Russian army in
    the region up to Central Anatolia in the East, and rebelled in many cities. In
    order to overcome these rebellions, the Ottoman State held a joint meeting with the Armenian Patriarchs, especially the Armenian Members of the Tanzimat Parliament, and the leaders of the Armenian community, and informed them that the Ottoman State would take countermeasures if the Armenians continued to kill local Muslim people in Eastern Anatolia. On the basis of this notion, the Ottoman State in April 24, 1915 arrested 235 people who had organized the rebellions and closed down all the Armenian Committees and local organizations that supported and organized the rebellions. The Ottoman State promulgatiated the Temporary Law of Deportation, in 27 May 1915. Accordingly, it was decided some of the Armenians in Eastern Anatolia would be displaced to Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.

    According to the Armenians’ claims, massacre and genocide were carried out under the deportation title and 1.5 million Armenians were killed.

    This article is about the mass graves of 1.5 million Armenians which would form the basis of the massacre allegations, the size, how and by whom they were dug, how the massacred Armenians buried and how the mass graves covered with soil. The paper is written to investigate whether there are mass graves or not.

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