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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…)
TACA Public Outreach Program
proudly presents
Turkey’s Role, 2010 and Beyond: Challenges & Opportunities
Prof. Emre Kongar
Former Undersecretary of Culture
Professor of Sociology & Writer
Saturday, September 12, 2009
University of Chicago, Social Sciences Auditorium
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| March 6, 2009 | How to Come to Terms With One’s Own Past: A Probe into History (link to presentation materials) Guest Speaker: Prof. Turkkaya ATAOV Place: Room 250, Kellogg, Northwestern University – 340 E. Superior Street, Chicago |
TACA Grassroots organized a discussion on “How to Come to Terms With One’s Own Past: A Probe into History and Turkish Identity” on March 6th [read more]. Over 45 people attended Prof. Turkkaya Ataov’s lecture at Kellogg, Chicago. Prof. Ataov provided numerous sources that explain the events that took place in eastern Anatolia during first World War.
The presentation documents can be accessed here.
| April 25, 2009 | Diversity & Solidarity in Turkey: Facts & Prospects Lecturers / Konusmacilar: Hon. U. Kenan Ipek, Turkish Consul General in Chicago Justin McCarthy, Professor of History, University of Louisville Gunay Evinch, ATAA President Elect |
TACA Grassroots organized a discussion on “Diversity & Solidarity in Turkey: Facts & Prospects” on April 25th.
The Turkish Coalition of America for months maintained Google Ads for its website, www.turkishcoalition.org, without protest or incident. But after an aggressive campaign by an Armenian American group Google suddenly and without a chance for the Turkish Coalition of America (TCA) to respond suspended the ads saying that they violated its “Anti” policy. Google also said that it could not accept ads for websites that, “suggest revisions to history.”
The Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) condemns the hate crimes and killings that have occurred against Uighur Turks in the Xinjiang province of China. Since Sunday, ethnic Hans, armed with clubs lead pipes, shovels and meat cleavers, have killed over 150 and seriously wounded over 1000 Uighurs. [ read ]