The Armenian lobby is pushing Congress to vote on the so-called “Armenian Genocide Resolution,” H.Res. 252. There is a chance that it may come to a vote before Congress adjourns, today or tomorrow.
We urge Turkish Americans and friends of Turkey to contact your member of Congress by PHONE to urge him/her to VOTE AGAINST this resolution. Please click here and type-in your zip code to get to your Representative’s information. To send your message by E-MAIL, please click here.
Here are some discussion points:
** Bad for national security: Incirlik Airbase; partnership in Afghanistan; cooperation in Iraq, energy security, etc.
** Bad for foreign policy in the Balkans, Caucasus and Middle East, where Turkey continues to work with us on moderation.
** Highly negative for the bilateral commercial relationship where we have had billion dollar sales in commercial aviation and continue to have strong prospects for multi-billion dollar deals in aerospace alone. These are real American jobs. Nothing remotely comparable comes from Armenia commercial relations.
** Approval in the House will certainly result in the withdrawal of the Ambassador and an extended downturn in bilateral relations, with no benefits for any of the American people, apart from the Diaspora.
** The Obama Administration opposes Floor passage; both the Defense Department and State are active on Capitol Hill in their opposition.
** The Resolution was passed by the HFAC by the narrowest of margins — one vote. The American people and American interests deserve better than to be asked to deal with the destruction that will be left in the wake of this political grenade thrown by a leadership that is going out the door.
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…)
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…)
December 13, 2009
Contact Your Member of Congress Now!
To Support Rapprochement, Not Armenian Resolutions
Dear Friends and Members of the Turkish-American Community:
Please do your civic duty and help your community stand up for Turkish – Armenian peace, and against false accusations and anti-Turkish hatred. Do this for our future generation.
Extreme voices in the Armenian community are aiming to derail the critical rapprochement currently being undertaken by Armenia and Turkey. They are pushing for the passage of the infamous Armenian Resolution that falsely accuses Turkey, the Ottoman Empire and people of Turkish heritage of committing genocide.
To make it easy for you to correspond with your Member of Congress, you can use the Capwiz system provided by the Turkish Coalition of America(TCA). Four letter templates have been provided and randomly appear on the Action alert page. Please click here and enter your zip code; and your name and address information on the following page. Your letter will be faxed and emailed automatically to your Representative.
Pass this on to your friends and mail lists.
TACA Grassroots - Public Outreach Program Committee
Upon receiving thousands of emails and letters, CNN International realized how serious its mistake was and apologized for showing the fictitious map on Campbell Brown’s program on 21 August 2009 where large swaths of Turkey and her neighbors were labeled “Kurdistan”.
CNN’s fictitious map that aired on Campbell Brown’s program on 21 August 2009.
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Ask your California State Assembly Member to vote against SB 234 unless it is amended to explicitly permit the presentation of contra-genocide viewpoints in genuine historical controversies.
SB 234 would allow the California State Curriculum Commission to recommend adding an oral history component to the 2014 history-social science curriculum framework that relates to genocide. The Armenian Lobby has been heavily lobbying for this bill. Should it be passed, this will open the classroom doors to the lobby’s well organized campaign to demonize Turks today and to prevent an open, fair and truthful discussion of Ottoman-Armenian history. (more…)
