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    TURKISH ORGANIZATIONS REACT TO US TV CHANNEL FOR PROGRAM

    Today's Zaman
    http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-20298 5-100-turkish-organizations-react-to-us-tv-channel -for-program.html
    March 1 2010
    Turkey

    Two Turkish organizations reacted on Sunday to a US TV channel for
    broadcasting a program regarding incidents of 1915.

    The Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA) and the
    Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) sent a letter to
    executives of the US CBS TV channel to show their reaction to the
    biased broadcasting of the channel.

    Also, Turks living in the United States have launched a campaign to
    protest the TV channel by letters, fax and e-mail messages.

    The broadcast came only a few days before the Committee on Foreign
    Affairs of the US House of Representatives is to discuss a resolution
    on the incidents of 1915.

    The committee is due to debate the resolution on March 4. Members
    of the Turkish Parliament are actually visiting Washington D.C. to
    prevent adoption of the resolution.

    "We are sorry to see that a program that will lobby for the Armenians
    has been broadcast on a TV channel in a period when Turkey and Armenia
    are trying to ease their diplomatic relations with mutual protocols,"
    FTAA's President Can Kaplan said.

    ATAA's President Ali Cinar said they would continue their campaign
    against the CBS until the TV channel apologized.

    In "60 Minutes" program, the CBS channel claimed that there was
    "the biggest Armenian graveyard in Deir ez-Zor in Syria" related
    with the incidents of 1915, and "bones had still been unearthed from
    the graveyard".

    The channel also said "whatever Auschwitz meant for the Jews, Deir
    ez-Zor meant the same for the Armenians."
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