Chicago - USA
16 Mayis Pazar gunu Naperville’de yapilacak egitim programina tum genclerimiz davetlidir.
Program is free and open to all ages
Seminar covers pre-Islamic Turkish History (Islam oncesi Turk tarihi), Adopting Islam & Migration to Middle East (Islam’a gecis ve Orta Doguya goc); Ottomans and Ottoman Empire; ATATURK and Modern Turkey; and concludes with Turkey’s Geography and Strategic Importance.
13:00 – 16:30 PM
Naperville Public Library
2035 S. Naper Boulevard, Naperville, IL 60565
Turkish American Cultural Alliance of Chicago (TACA)
in collaboration with the
Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA)
Capital Forum and National Speakers Bureau Program
Proudly Presents
Prof. Türkkaya ATAÖV*
“Turks & Armenians: What Really Happened on April 24, 1915” (click here for presentation)
&
Ergun Kırlıkovalı*
“Advocacy: The art of influencing public policy through proactive public education”
Date: Saturday, April 10th 2010
Time: 2:00PM-5:00PM
Place: Baldwin Auditorium – Lurie Research Building
Northwestern University
302 E. Superior Street, Chicago 60611
Special parking rate available at 222 E. Huron ($7). For validation talk to us before or after the conference.
Sponsored by Turkish Coalition of America (more…)
Dear members of the Turkish American community and Friends of Turkey:
Call Your Congressman NOT to Co-Sponsor and to Vote AGAINST H.Res. 252
The so-called “Armenian Genocide Resolution,” H.Res. 252, has been scheduled for a vote at the House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 4, 2010.
We urge Turkish Americans and friends of Turkey to contact your member of Congress NOW and urge him/her NOT to co-sponsor and VOTE AGAINST this resolution.
TCA also urges all Turkish Americans to contact their community organizations and take the lead to activate the Turkish American grassroots by visiting members of Congress and their staff in their district offices and raise their concerns and objections on the issue. Factual information, such as articles by historians and other documents on the subject can be found here.
To send the already prepared letter to your representative please click here, simply add your name and address, and send the email. It will be matched and sent to your member of Congress automatically.
To send a custom letter, please first go to www.house.gov, enter your zip code (on the left corner of the top banner) to find your Representative, and click on his/her name to go to your Representative’s website. Once you go to your Representative’s web site just find and click on “E-mail” box, then fill out your name, address info and your message and send the email. To see a sample email by Erol Yorulmazoglu, M.D., click here.
It is a great disappointment to see that our Congress and our Government in Washington year after year dwell on the subject of the controversial and alleged Armenian Genocide, and holding the Republic of Turkey responsible for it. Our taxpayers’ contributions are being wasted in fruitless debates in our political arena at the expense of our national interests in the Near East. Our politicians are not historians but it is a great sadness to note that our politicians succumb to the pressures of certain lobbyist elements to accept their distorted historical events of Anatolia pertaining to the period of 1915-1916. If you must decide on this matter then I need to ask you to investigate this matter in an unbiased manner.
Please allow me to give certain undeniable historical facts to shed some light on this matter. Once these points become apparent, it will also become clear that the allegations do not have basis. However, it should be noted that no one can deny the fact that countless Armenians have suffered during the Great War (1914-1918). Yet, at the same time even greater number of Turks suffered casualties during this ugly war. All ethnic groups died for similar causes; Armenians were not an exception. The debate of specific cause for their losses is another subject matter that cannot be covered herein at this moment. Nonetheless, with this letter I will attempt to illustrate that the claims of the Armenian lobbyists are false in regards to the alleged Armenian genocide matter.
In the first part of this letter, I need to expose the historical falsehood for the alleged Armenian genocide; and this falsehood will show that the claims cannot be true based on historical information.
As you may know, the entire Armenian allegation of genocide is based on the information brought to the West by Morgenthau, the US Ambassador to Istanbul during 1915-1916. Yet, clearly Ambassador Morgenthau has admitted in his own book “Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story (1918)” that the information that he gathered came to him without investigation from his Armenian aides who worked for the goals of the Armenian Diaspora, which was scheming against the Ottoman Empire to create an independent state on the Turkish real estate. Thus, with this first fact (source of information) the credibility of this information is questionable. It should be noted that to this date there is no proven motive for the Ottoman State to commit such alleged crime as claimed by the Armenian Diaspora. (more…)
National Public Radio in South Dakota interviewed one of the Native American faculty members, Valerian Three Irons, who had participated on TCA’s trip to Turkey in November. Please check this page for clip of interview. Valerian will be speaking about his trip at South Dakota State University next week (January 15th). Please click here for press release.
Response to NBC’S Today’s Show and parent company General Electric GE with protest letter of distorted map of the Middle East and of the Republic of Turkey. (click here to watch the excerpt that aired on December 18, 2009)
General Electric’s / NBC’s Today’s Show become a tool for a PKK terrorist organization.
Mr.Jim Bell
Executive producer of Today Show
Today’s Show – NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N. Y. 10112
jim.bell@nbcuni.com
December 21, 2009
Dear Mr.Bell,
As a regular NBC’s Today’s show viewer, I have relied on your network for news and analysis, particularly concerning major local and international events. Yet on one recent program, I was taken aback strongly enough to take the trouble to bring the matter to your attention. NBC’s Today’s Show program on December 18, 2009 morning – relating to the story on Iran detaining 3 of our fellow Americans , presented a large territory on a map named “Kurdistan,” covering three nations, mostly Turkey. (Turkey was not named; Iran and Iraq were.) Since every nation would get upset with any kind of acknowledgement encouraging the idea of secession and the devaluing of territorial integrity, all three of these nations would have reason to feel wronged; but I would prefer to confine the discussion to what has been one of America’s staunchest allies through the years, Turkey. (more…)
You may have already seen the below Release. Please note President Obama refering to the Turkish American Community, highlighted in yellow. So we are and can make a difference. Yes we can. JOIN THE TACA GRASSROOTS EFFORTS in Chicago. Let us know if you are interested: grassroots@tacaonline.org.
For Immediate Release
December 07, 2009
Oval Office
1:25 P.M. EST
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I want to extend the warmest of welcomes to Prime Minister Erdogan. I’m glad that I, personally, and the American people have a chance to reciprocate the wonderful hospitality that was extended to me when I visited Turkey in April.
As I said when I had the great honor of addressing the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, I am strongly committed to creating the best possible relationship between Turkey and the United States.
Turkey is a NATO ally, which means that we are pledged to defend each other. There are strong ties between our countries as a consequence of the Turkish American community that has been established here. We have had the opportunity to work together during this recent financial crisis, given Turkey’s role as a member of the G20. And given Turkey’s history as a secular democratic state that respects the rule of law, but is also a majority Muslim nation, it plays a critical role I think in helping to shape mutual understanding and stability and peace not only in its neighborhood but around the world. (more…)