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KUMAS: DON'T CALL IT 'GENOCIDE'
Milford Daily News
http://www.milforddailynews.com/opinions/letters_to_the_editor/x1596675681/Kumas-Dont-call-it-genocide
April 20 2011
NEWTON - President Obama - please do not use the term "genocide"
on April 24
As a Turkic-American, me and my family urge to resist and oppose
the requests for a presidential proclamation to designate April 24
as some "Armenian genocide" day. We ask Mr. President to not use
"genocide" or its Armenian language equivalent "Mets Yeghern" in the
April 24 proclamation. Unlike many other tragedies and massacres,
the Armenian allegations of genocide are hotly contested and have
been rejected by U.S. federal courts, as well as never accepted by
the UN courts (the only authority on designating a historic event as
"genocide"). Hence, we should not allow our state and our nation,
as well as strategic U.S. allies such as Turkey, to become pawns in
the hands of the Armenian propaganda and its high-priced lobbyists.
Moreover, in that tragic period of history, thousands of Turks and
other Muslims have violently died in the hands of Armenian military.
Indeed, according to Ottoman archives, some 523,000 Turks were
massacred by Armenian military in the period 1910-1922. Unfortunately,
massacres of Turks and the suffering by Turks and other Muslims of the
region are not well known and never acknowledged in any proclamation.
The Turkic-Americans are almost one million people, who also have
hopes of change of such one-sided attitude toward the suffering of
their ancestors. Thank you for keeping our concerns in your mind.
From: A. Papazian
Milford Daily News
http://www.milforddailynews.com/opinions/letters_to_the_editor/x1596675681/Kumas-Dont-call-it-genocide
April 20 2011
NEWTON - President Obama - please do not use the term "genocide"
on April 24
As a Turkic-American, me and my family urge to resist and oppose
the requests for a presidential proclamation to designate April 24
as some "Armenian genocide" day. We ask Mr. President to not use
"genocide" or its Armenian language equivalent "Mets Yeghern" in the
April 24 proclamation. Unlike many other tragedies and massacres,
the Armenian allegations of genocide are hotly contested and have
been rejected by U.S. federal courts, as well as never accepted by
the UN courts (the only authority on designating a historic event as
"genocide"). Hence, we should not allow our state and our nation,
as well as strategic U.S. allies such as Turkey, to become pawns in
the hands of the Armenian propaganda and its high-priced lobbyists.
Moreover, in that tragic period of history, thousands of Turks and
other Muslims have violently died in the hands of Armenian military.
Indeed, according to Ottoman archives, some 523,000 Turks were
massacred by Armenian military in the period 1910-1922. Unfortunately,
massacres of Turks and the suffering by Turks and other Muslims of the
region are not well known and never acknowledged in any proclamation.
The Turkic-Americans are almost one million people, who also have
hopes of change of such one-sided attitude toward the suffering of
their ancestors. Thank you for keeping our concerns in your mind.
From: A. Papazian