{"id":23231,"date":"2010-10-12T23:54:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=23231"},"modified":"2014-01-05T20:59:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T18:59:04","slug":"another-legal-victory-for-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/10\/12\/another-legal-victory-for-freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER LEGAL VICTORY FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23259\" title=\"ergun_s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ergun_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>The tables are slowly but surely turning and Armenians are in visible panic. All this because of a recent legal defeat. Prof. Guenter Lewy is cleared of all defamations dished out by Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), perhaps a hapless tool in the Armenian propaganda. If this intrigues you, then fasten your seatbelt for what follows.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of America\u2019s revered civil rights organizations, accused in 2008 Professor Guenter Lewy of being part of a network of academicians financed by the Turkish government, based on input from SPLC, we now understand that an Armenian employee misled SPLC with falsified information (why am I not surprised?)<\/p>\n<p>SPLC even compared Prof. Lewy and Neo-Nazis, even though Prof. Lewy had been harassed by Nazi thugs on Kristallnacht in 1938 and later joined the British Army\u2019s Jewish Brigade in World War II to fight Nazis. Armenian fanaticism, deception, and misrepresentations know no ends, in the true tradition of the master falsifier Aram Andonian of fake Tallat telegrams, and the above article is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>The court battle forced the SPLC to publish an embarrassing apology and retraction, perhaps a first in their history, as a small price for trusting Armenian falsifiers and Turk haters in matters relating to the Turkish Armenian conflict. Reportedly, SPLC will also provide Prof. Lewy a monetary settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Lewy was still kind when he commented, &#8220;The SPLC has made important contributions to the rule of law and the struggle against bigotry. Thus I took no pleasure in commencing legal action against it. But the stakes, both for my reputation as a scholar and for the free and unhindered discussion of controversial topics, were compelling. It must be possible to defend views that contradict conventional wisdom without being called the agent of a foreign government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Saltzman, one of Lewy\u2019s co-counsel from the TALDF was more to the point when he said, &#8220;Academic freedom requires that scholars not work under a cloud of suspicion of their motives. Professor Lewy has been transparent and objective in his work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Fein, Lewy\u2019s other co-counsel reinforced this by stating, \u201cSPLC did the right thing by admitting and correcting their errors\u201d whereby they rescued Professor Lewy\u2019s reputation and \u201c\u2026 advanced a common goal of free inquiry as the best method of discovering truths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln McCurdy, president of Turkish Coalition of America, perhaps put it best when he observed, &#8220;Reconciliation between the Turkish and Armenian peoples will require a full accounting of history. TCA supports an open dialogue and unfettered academic inquiry into this controversial period of Ottoman-Armenian history and tragedy. We are proud of TALDF\u2019s hard work which hopefully will contribute to this open debate and offer our congratulations to Professor Lewy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>THE FACTS ARE CLEAR FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO KNOW THE TRUTH<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Holocaust is supported by due process and a court verdict by a competent tribunal (Nuremberg, 1945.) What due process and court verdict support Armenian claims of genocide? The answer might surprise you: none!<\/p>\n<p>Armenian claims are based on a racist and dishonest version of history, not law or the truth. They are racist because they ignore the Turkish victims at the hands of Armenian revolutionaries (120,000 in the year 1914 alone, according to the dictionary of World War One, by Stephen Pope and Elizabeth-Anne Wheal, 2003, page 34.) And they are dishonest because they simply dismiss the six T\u2019s of the Turkish-Armenian conflict. The \u201cpoor, starving Armenians myth\u201d needs to be reconciled with these photos of the Armenian ultra-nationalists armed to the teeth (www.ethocide.com .)<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the picture is crystal clear: Armenians took up arms against their own government. After a millennium of harmonious cohabitation, Armenians, thus chose to resort to revolts, terrorism, supreme treason, and territorial demands, causing countless Muslim\/Turkish casualties, all of which triggered the TERESET (temporary resettlement of 1915). These are the plain facts.<br \/>\nArmenians must face up to their own unspeakable crimes against humanity before any closure can occur. If you are still in doubt, let me refer you to an Armenian source to see photos of Armenian murderers, gun-toting Armenian clergy, their Muslim, mostly Turkish, victims: Houshamatyan of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Centennial, Album-Atlas, Volume I, Epic Battles, 1890-1914 (The Next Day Color Printing, Inc., Glendale, CA, U.S.A., 2006)<\/p>\n<p>These facts contradict with the embellished and falsified Armenian narrative, which in turn, creates &#8220;cognitive dissonance&#8221; in Armenian people. Modern psychology informs us that this trauma can be resolved in two ways:<\/p>\n<p>1) accept the new facts and change your attitude accordingly, or<\/p>\n<p>2) ignore\/dismiss the new facts and demonize all dissenters.<\/p>\n<p>Most Armenians, unfortunately, seem to still choose the latter, hence no closure after a century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tables are slowly but surely turning and Armenians are in visible panic. All this because of a recent legal defeat. Prof. Guenter Lewy is cleared of all defamations dished out by Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), perhaps a hapless tool in the Armenian propaganda. 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