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\nBy Appo Jabarian<\/p>\n
\nBy Appo Jabarian<\/p>\n
USA Armenian Life Magazine
\nMarch 24, 2010<\/p>\n
In early March, the political wrangling between the righteous and
\ncorrupt politicians in Washington before, during and after the voting
\nby the House Foreign affairs committee sparked a series of articles
\ncritical of genocide-denying corrupt U.S. politicians both in the
\nHouse and the White House.<\/p>\n
In a 12 March article in Huffington Post, Stephen Zunes wrote<\/strong> that “Some opponents of the resolution argue that it is pointless for Yet there were no such complaints regarding resolutions commemorating Opponents of the resolution also falsely argue that its passage by the The Obama administration, also controlled by the neo-cons, insists that However, it was also considered a ‘bad time’ to pass the resolution In 1981, at a time when the neo-cons failed to control the White How come U.S. acknowledgement of the Jewish Holocaust does NOT upset “Obama is sending a message to future tyrants that they can commit s In a March 16 HuffingtonPost.com article, titled “Why the Armenian She outlined: “Take a look at a map of pre-genocide Armenia here, here She revealed: “In 1913, three so-called Young Turks took over the Gennet asserted: “Judging from Turkey’s recalcitrance to discuss or Turkish writer Lale Kemal interestingly wrote in Today’s Zaman: Speaking of the Turkish-occupied Armenian lands, Kemal wrote: “But “<\/strong>While awareness of anti-Semitism is fortunately widespread enough The U.S. congressional mid-term elections in November is the number Armenian Americans and their friends across the nation should move to By Appo Jabarian USA Armenian Life Magazine March 24, 2010 In early March, the political wrangling between the righteous and corrupt politicians in Washington before, during and after the voting by the House Foreign affairs committee sparked a series of articles critical of genocide-denying corrupt U.S. politicians both in the House and the White House. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2317,145,997,1571,78,151,120,204,1153,1018,2129],"class_list":["post-18066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","tag-genocide-resolution","tag-barack-obama","tag-davos","tag-ahmet-davutoglu","tag-ergenekon","tag-genocide","tag-gulen","tag-nagorno-karabakh","tag-politics","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey-and-armenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfailure to acknowledge the genocide<\/strong> “is a tragic affront to the
\nrapidly dwindling number of genocide survivors as well as their
\ndescendents. It’s also a disservice to the many Turks <\/strong>who opposed
\nthe Ottoman Empire’s policies and tried to stop the genocide, as
\nwell as the growing number of Turks today who face imprisonment by
\ntheir U.S.-backed regime for daring to publicly concede the crimes
\nof their forebears. For example, Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist
\nwho … was prosecuted and fled into exile to escape death threats
\nafter making a number of public references to the genocide.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nCongress to pass resolutions regarding historical events.<\/p>\n
\nthe Holocaust, nor are there normally complaints regarding the
\nscores of dedicatory resolutions passed by Congress in recent years,”
\nadded Zunes.<\/p>\n
\nCongress can harm the U.S.-Turkey relations. “The United States has
\ndone much greater harm in its relations with Turkey through policies
\nfar more significant than a symbolic resolution acknowledging a
\ntragic historical period. The United States clandestinely backed
\nan attempted military coup by right-wing Turkish officers in 2003,
\narming Iraqi and Iranian Kurds with close ties to Kurdish rebels in
\nTurkey who have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Turkish
\ncitizens. The United States also invaded neighboring Iraq. As a result,
\nthe percentage of Turks who view the United States positively declined
\nfrom 52 percent to only 9 percent,” asserted Zunes.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n“this is a bad time to upset the Turkish government.<\/p>\n
\nback in 2007, on the grounds that it not jeopardize U.S. access to
\nTurkish bases as part of efforts to support the counter-insurgency
\nwar by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq. It was also considered a ‘bad
\ntime’ when a similar resolution was put forward in 2000 because the
\nUnited States was using its bases in Turkey to patrol the ‘no fly
\nzones’ in northern Iraq. And it was also considered a ‘bad time’
\nin 1985 and 1987, when similar resolutions were put forward because
\nU.S. bases in Turkey were considered important listening posts for
\nmonitoring the Soviet Union during the Cold War. For deniers of the
\nArmenian genocide, it’s always a ‘bad time,'” he pointed out.<\/p>\n
\nHouse, President Ronald Reagan brushed off strong diplomatic protests
\nfrom Turkey and used the term genocide in relation to Armenians,
\nyet U.S.-Turkish relations did not suffer.<\/p>\n
\nthe German government, which also hosts critical U.S. bases?<\/p>\n
\ngenocide without acknowledgement by the world’s most powerful
\ncountry.” In 1994, the Clinton administration “refused to use the word
\n‘genocide’ in the midst of the Rwandan government’s massacres of over
\nhalf that country’s Tutsi population, a decision that contributed to
\nthe delay in deploying international peacekeeping forces until after
\nthe slaughter of 800,000 people. … The Obama administration’<\/p>\n
\nposition on the Armenian genocide isn’t simply about whether to
\ncommemorate a tragedy that took place 95 years ago. It’s about where
\nwe stand as a nation in facing up to the most horrible of crimes,”
\nconfronted Zunes.<\/p>\n
\nGenocide Matters,”, Writer of words and music, rider of waves, world
\ntraveler Robbie Gennet wrote: “You may ask yourself why the Armenian
\ngenocide currently matters, or more accurately, why Turkey is so
\nresolute against it being recognized as such. One would think after
\nalmost a hundred years, an official apology for killing or displacing
\n2 million Armenians would be a welcome and long overdue occasion for
\nTurkey to make peace with Armenia<\/strong>. … Germany has made great steps to
\npublicly acknowledge and profusely apologize for the Jewish Holocaust,
\neven paying reparations, making holocaust denial and the display of
\nsymbols of Nazism a criminal offense and establishing a National
\nHolocaust Memorial Museum in Berlin. But Turkey? They won’t even
\nallow the US to label the Armenian genocide as such or acknowledge
\nit in any way. Here is why: land.”<\/p>\n
\nand here. What you will notice is that a huge chunk of what is now
\nTurkey was then considered Armenia. If the 1915 Turkish actions were
\nindeed recognized as a genocide, current day Armenia could potentially
\npetition for the return of its land. Note that this may even include
\nthe area known as Cilicia, a separate but ethnically connected entity
\nbordering the Mediterranean Sea that dates back to the Kingdom of
\nCilician Armenia in the early part of the second Millenium. These
\nhistorically grounded lands could rightfully be considered Armenian if
\nthey could establish that they were unlawfully taken from them via the
\ngenocide.<\/strong> The evidence is there and so is the history. Armenia itself
\nwas officially named way back in 512 BC when it was annexed to Persia,
\nwhile Cilicia was established as a principality it 1078. After years
\nof struggle under Turkish, Kurdish and Mongol rule, the Ottoman Empire
\nruled Armenia from 1453-1829, after which the Russian Empire ruled
\nthrough the rest of the 19th century. After the Genocide and WWI,
\nwhat’s left of Armenia was annexed by Bolshevist Russia and became
\npart of the Soviet Union from 1922-1991, after which Armenia declared
\nits independence. But let’s back up for a moment for a glimpse at
\nwhat happened during WWI”.<\/p>\n
\nTurkish government via a coup with a goal of uniting all of the
\nTurkic peoples in the region and creating a new Turkish empire called
\nTuran with one language and one religion. They wanted to expand their
\nborders eastward but standing in their way was historic Armenia. Hence,
\nthe Armenian Genocide.”<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nacknowledge it, that stain may never go away. But that doesn’t mean
\nit will ever be forgotten, no matter how much Turkey wishes it would
\nfade into history. Though they would like to take advantage of the
\nworld’s collective amnesia, the internet has made it impossible to
\nforget and erase” the facts of the genocide by Turkey. In answer to
\nAdolph Hitler’s infamous quote, “Who still talks nowadays about the
\nArmenians?” she rebutted: “We all do, Mr. Hitler, and long after your
\ngenocidal dreams have faded, long after the last survivors of those
\ninflicted generations have passed, they will not be forgotten.”<\/p>\n
\n“Turkey has currently been paying the price of sweeping under the
\ncarpet its chronic and historic problems, such as the events of 1915,<\/strong><\/span>
\nin which, it is claimed, over 1 million Armenians were subjected
\nto a genocide campaign under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, the
\npredecessor to modern Turkey. <\/strong>… The Armenian Diaspora has moved
\ntobring this topic to the agenda of the Spanish Parliament after the
\nregional Catalonian Parliament passed a bill recognizing the events
\nas Armenian genocide. … The adoption of the genocide resolution
\nby the Committee on Foreign Affairs has already set an encouraging
\nexample for Sweden to be followed by Britain.”<\/p>\n
\nAnkara believes that adoption of such a resolution by the full US House
\nwould have a snowball effect, raising the danger that Armenians will
\ninitiate legal measures seeking land and compensation from Ankara.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nto marginalize those who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust,
\ntolerance for anti-Armenian bigotry appears strong enough that it’s
\nstill considered politically acceptable to deny their genocide,”
\nlamented Zunes.<\/p>\n
\none source for pre-occupation among the incumbent congressional
\ncandidates in battle-ground districts and states.<\/p>\n
\npolitically punish the deniers. Denial of the crime of any genocide –
\nfrom Turkish-occupied Western Armenia and Cilicia to Darfur, should
\nbe made politically unaffordable. The neo-cons and their lackeys do
\nnot understand the language of morality. But they readily comprehend
\nthe language of deterrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"