{"id":18050,"date":"2010-03-26T00:11:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=18050"},"modified":"2014-01-05T18:26:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T16:26:52","slug":"boston-turks-armenians-what-really-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/03\/26\/boston-turks-armenians-what-really-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"BOSTON : Turks &#038; Armenians: What Really Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Press\/Media Release<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Contact: Mr. Sefer Ozdemir<\/p>\n<p>Email: <span style=\"color: #24506b;\">bilgi@turkkulturevi.org<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Telephone: 617-833-1218<\/p>\n<p>There has been a great deal of  confusing information published about what took place on April 24, 1915 in the  region in which present day Turkey exists. Leading up to the events of 1915  various ethnic interest groups who were deceived by Russia, Britain and French  and were made part of a historical plot to destroy the Ottoman empire have  offered conflicting versions of the events.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ozdemir who is hosting the  lecture maintains that these powers bear overall responsibility\u00a0for the deaths  of Ermenians, Kurds as well as Turks\u00a0who lived in the area together for  thousands of years before and &#8220;<em>will have to continue to live together in the  future<\/em>.&#8221; Mr Ozdemir further proposes that the parties who have suffered  should join together and file for class action lawsuit against Russia, British  and French governments.<\/p>\n<p>These governments and others  to\u00a0this date still employ\u00a0same tactics (fueling hatred, pitting ethnic groups  against another) in order to financially benefit from the suffering of innocent  everyday people. &#8220;it\u00a0is our moral responsibility to shed light to\u00a0what really  happened and the parties responsible&#8221; Mr. Ozdemir says.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Turkkaya Ataov has  researched and found documentain that will show that;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>On April 24, 1915, 235 leaders out of 77,735  Armenians of Istanbul were moved to and placed under house arrest to the  Anatolian city of Chankiri. \u00a0They were free to move about the city in the day  time, and confined to house arrest at night. \u00a0All were eventually released. \u00a0One  died due to natural causes. \u00a0Two were murdered by two hooligans, who were tried  and executed for their crimes.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>In May 1915, many\u00a0Armenians in the eastern  provinces of the Ottoman Empire were relocated from the war zones in response to  the Armenian Revolt which reached its most destructive point in the Van Revolt  of March 1915. \u00a0In June 1915, the relocation reached port cities in Western  Anatolia, where Armenian rebels were importing and transporting arms and  ammunitions to Armenian nationalists in the east.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>In November 1915, the relocation ended. \u00a0The  relocation was a military response to a military problem. \u00a0Having initially  \u201cslaughtered about 120,000 non-Armenians\u201d in Eastern Anatolia, as recorded even  by the British, and seized control of the Ottoman city of Van, with the backing  of the invading Russians, the Armenians posed a great military danger to the  3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 4<sup>th<\/sup>, and the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Ottoman armies, as well as to the Ottoman  civilian Muslim and Jewish populations<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">There is absolutely no similarity between the Armenian case and the  Holocaust, as Jews never engaged in an armed revolt to create a Jewish state in  Germany. \u00a0To equate the Armenian case with genocide, is to dilute the definition  of genocide and\u00a0understate the suffering of the Jews.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Whether the events of 1915 constitute genocide is not a political  question, where truth may be sacrificed for election purposes at Congressional  district levels. \u00a0History and jurisprudence have their own methodologies that  should be respected by all.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a national speaking tour, Prof. Dr. Turkkaya,  a highly respected historian and professor will give a lecture on the political  landscape and events of April 24, 1915 which will serve to enlighten the general  public and especially those who receive communications from organizations whose  agendas include disruption of peaceful relations and bridge building.<\/p>\n<p>Details of this lecture are included herein.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Turkaya Ataov<br \/>\nCapital Forum and National Speakers Bureau  Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US-Canada Lecture Series<\/p>\n<p>Turks\u00a0&amp; Armenians: What Really Happened<\/p>\n<p>on April  24, 1915<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, March 27, 2010 &#8211; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boston  3:00-5:00pm<\/p>\n<p>15  Boston Street Courtyard, Andrew Square<br \/>\nSouth  Boston , 02127<br \/>\nOrganized by TurkBirDev  Association<br \/>\nInformation: 617.833.1218<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biographical Sketch of\u00a0 Prof. Dr. Turkkaya  Ataov<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkkaya Ata\u00f6v is Professor Emeritus in  International Relations at Ankara University, Turkey. He did his graduate work  in the United States, where he received two M.A.s (NYU &amp; Syracuse Univ. )  and a Ph.D. (1959, Syracuse U., NY ). He taught at Ankara Univ. for more than  four decades and lectured in several American, British, Russian, German, Dutch,  Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, African and Australian universities. He\u00a0is the  author of close to 140 books (most of which have been in foreign languages and  printed in Europe or in the<\/p>\n<div>Americas), a few hundred academic treaties, and a few thousand newspaper  articles. His writings have been translated into 20 languages and appeared in 17  European, 13 Asian, 5 African, and 3 American states\u00a0and Australia. He was  elected to central executive positions of UN-related international  organizations, dealing with racial discrimination, human rights, terrorism,  nuclear war, and exchange of prisoners of war.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ata\u00f6v  published 80 books or booklets on the Armenian issue, was invited (as &#8220;witness  of authority&#8221;) by the Paris court to the two (1984 &amp; 1985) trials of  Armenian terrorists, participated in the UN (1985) Geneva meetings of the Human  Rights Commission on the Genocide Convention, and partook in several meetings of  the European Parliament that dealt with the Armenian issue.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ata\u00f6v  received 17 academic awards or medals in recognition of his published works and  activities. They include two (Italian and Federal Yugoslavian) presidential  medals, two UN-affiliated awards, and several honorary doctorates and academic  citations.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press\/Media Release Contact: Mr. Sefer Ozdemir Email: bilgi@turkkulturevi.org Telephone: 617-833-1218 There has been a great deal of confusing information published about what took place on April 24, 1915 in the region in which present day Turkey exists. 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