Letter to Congress on HR252

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…)

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Response to display of erroneous map by NBC’S Today’s Show

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…)

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Response to Sabrina Tavernise’s article on NYT

In your article on March 9th, 2009, titled “Nearly a Million Genocide Victims, Covered in a Cloak of Amnesia “, you write:

“This argument is rejected by most scholars, who believe that the small number of Armenian rebels were not a serious threat to the Ottoman Empire, and that the policy was more the product of the perception that the Armenians, non-Muslims and therefore considered untrustworthy, were a problem population.”

I and the Turkish community I represent would be intrigued to learn who these “most” scholars are, and what this “small” number of Armenian rebels constitute? To rectify your statements I would like to refer to this document which includes evidence put forth by British, French and Armenian sources. These documents corroborate that “small number of Armenian rebels” you write in your article, was an organized army of at least 200,000.

You also make assumptions with no ground about what Bardakci’s numbers of missing people represent. The documents in Bardakci’s book don’t signify how many Armenians died. It cannot be assumed that this number does not include the relocated Armenian families. Some of these people died, but streching the truth is not worthy of reputable historians.

This is a highly disputed issue, which has no room for insensitive statements with no evidence. I urge you, on behalf on the Turkish community I represent, to reveal the sources of your statements and further investigate the documents I have sent before you ignore the facts they present, as a responsible journalist would do. Here is a detailed explanation of the documents.

In the first page, you will see the cover page of a book, published by British “Pen and Sword Military Classics”, which writes that in Armenian nationalists slaughtered 120,000 non-Armenians in 1914, and another 50,000 in 1917.

In the second page, you will see the document by an Armeno-American source, printed in the United States in 1926, which acknowledges more than 200,0000 Armenians fought against the Turks in the Russian Army. They also fought agains the Turks in the British Army.
For further evidence of Armenian armed forces fighting against Ottomans behind the war lines you can refer to the other pages in the document. There are excerpts from four Armenian books, including pictures, military achievements, and brief biographical information of several known Armenian army officials. It’s stated in these books how the Armenian’s affected the outcome of the WW1 by siding with the Allies, namely the Russians, British and French. (See pages 3. 21 and 22).

“Most scholars” – using your words – dispute the credibility of the Armenian sources. Please take a look at pages 25, 26 and 27. These are articles written by the same author (Veronique Brocard) in 3 consecutive years, and the number of Armenians perished during WW1 are given as 1 million, 1.5 million and 2.5 million in each article. Obviously these numbers are made up, and when no one confronts the source or the author, these numbers are accepted as facts. Sometimes journalists tend to distort the truth, please do not be one of them.

Thank you,

Sincerely,

Naile Berna Kovuk
TACA Grassroots
Chicago, IL

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