{"id":823231,"date":"2023-10-27T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T11:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=823231"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:18:41","slug":"i-smell-a-rat-in-ararat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/10\/27\/i-smell-a-rat-in-ararat\/","title":{"rendered":"I Smell a Rat in Ararat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thank&nbsp;<strong>Enis Pinar<\/strong>&nbsp;for providing the heads up below.&nbsp; I wrote the following short response to POV.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suggest that everyone in this group write a paragraph or two in response.\u00a0 Together, let\u2019s show a strong \u00a0reaction to defamation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ergun KIRLIKOVALI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-turkish-forum-english wp-block-embed-turkish-forum-english\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mEN3ceJs1c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/10\/27\/turkiye-bashing-armenian-movie\/\">T\u00fcrkiye-bashing Armenian movie<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;T\u00fcrkiye-bashing Armenian movie&#8221; &#8212; Turkish Forum English\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/10\/27\/turkiye-bashing-armenian-movie\/embed\/#?secret=vxlISqVMri#?secret=mEN3ceJs1c\" data-secret=\"mEN3ceJs1c\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pbs-point-of-view.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-823233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pbs-point-of-view.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pbs-point-of-view-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From:\u00a0<\/strong>Ergun<br><strong>Sent:\u00a0<\/strong>Tuesday, October 24, 2023 1:14 PM<br><strong>To:\u00a0<\/strong>feedback@pov.org<br><strong>Subject:\u00a0<\/strong>I Smell a Rat in Ararat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I Smell a Rat in Ararat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a disgrace that America\u2019s most revered public TV succumbed to the relentless pressure of the deceitful Armenian lobby and aired a crude propaganda piece titled \u201cAurora&#8217;s Sunrise\u201d cultivating pure hatred against Turks.&nbsp; The animated movie was sprinkled with a generous dose of exaggerations, distortions, and&nbsp; fabrications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film relates the story of Arshaluys &#8220;Aurora&#8221; Madriganian, a female survivor of the so-called Armenian &#8220;genocide&#8221; \u2014a long-discredited political claim\u2014who after being depicted as the victim of multiple rapes and other brutalities at the hands of the Ottoman Turks escapes to America.&nbsp; She becomes the real-life star in a 1919 movie titled &#8220;Auction of Souls&#8221; produced by the Near East Relief organization, which allegedly raised $116 million dollars to help President Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s unsuccessful effort to establish an Armenian homeland in Western T\u00fcrkiye after WW1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s wrong with this picture?&nbsp; Well\u2026 uh\u2026.everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you get even a whiff of any of the following facts concerning time periods before, during, and after World War One?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Most Ottoman-Armenians took up arms against their own government.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most Ottoman-Armenians committed supreme treason by joining the invading enemy armies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most Ottoman-Armenians established terrorist organizations going back to 1870s, 1880s and 1890s (such as the Union of Salvation,\u00a0 The Black Cross Society, The Protectors of the Fatherland, Armenakan, The Hunchakian Revolutionary Party, The Armenian Revolutionary Federation, and in the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Century, Genesis, the Armenian Secret Army of Armenian Genocide, The Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide and many others.)\u00a0 These were no different than Hamas today killing old and young, women, children, and even the babies, triggering a tit-for-tat terrible war.\u00a0 Turks only defended their home against these blood-thirsty Armenian terrorists who chose to serve foreign invaders instead of their own government and homeland.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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?&nbsp; Yes, for a whopping 161 years and counting?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No, I do not get any whiff of the above, but I do smell the rat in Ararat in that Armenian-financed propaganda film.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn 1981, the centennial of Atat\u00fcrk&#8217;s birth, his memory was honored by the\u00a0United Nations\u00a0and\u00a0UNESCO, which declared it\u00a0<em>The Atat\u00fcrk Year in the World<\/em>\u00a0and adopted the\u00a0Resolution on the Atat\u00fcrk Centennial, describing him as &#8220;the leader of the first struggle given against\u00a0colonialism\u00a0and\u00a0imperialism&#8221; and a &#8220;remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here, you can hear the\u00a0sound recording of President John F. Kennedy\u2019s remarks\u00a0on the 25th anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, a brilliant military leader, reformist, visionary, and first President of the modern Republic of Turkey. In his speech, President Kennedy compliments Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s leadership, describes the United States\u2019 historical relationship with Turkey, and characterizes the Turkey\u2019s independence as an example of national self-reliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you wish to know more about this subject, please click on this link:\u00a0\u00a0www.MythsandRealities.com\u00a0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ergun KIRLIKOVALI<br>Researcher &amp; Writer<br>A concerned Turkish American<br>Son of Turkish Survivors of Armenian Brutalities during 1912-1922<br><em>(My home address and cell phone were entered here)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thank&nbsp;Enis Pinar&nbsp;for providing the heads up below.&nbsp; I wrote the following short response to POV.&nbsp; I suggest that everyone in this group write a paragraph or two in response.\u00a0 Together, let\u2019s show a strong \u00a0reaction to defamation. Ergun KIRLIKOVALI From:\u00a0ErgunSent:\u00a0Tuesday, October 24, 2023 1:14 PMTo:\u00a0feedback@pov.orgSubject:\u00a0I Smell a Rat in Ararat I Smell a Rat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4124,"featured_media":823233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[10853,10833],"class_list":["post-823231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ergun-kirlikovali","tag-auroras-sunrise","tag-pov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823231","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\/4124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}