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    Santa Barbara Independent, CA
    Feb 2 2014

    Armenian Genocide Not Legally Founded

    Sunday, February 2, 2014
    By Vedat Alemdar, Omer Komili, and Artemis Ozten, Goleta


    We join the Turkish-American citizens of California, members of the
    Pax Turcica Institute, to oppose Assembly Bill 659. Introduced by
    Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian, AB 659 seeks to impose the one-sided
    and legally unfounded "Armenian genocide" narrative in the
    history-social science curricula of our public schools.

    As acts of crime, all genocides, including the Holocaust, Srebrenica,
    and Rwanda, have been determined through relevant court tribunals and
    verdicts. In contrast, the atrocities in the Ottoman Empire were never
    tried in any court. No legal ground to charge the crime of genocide
    was ever established. Last month, in the landmark Perincek vs.
    Switzerland decision, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that
    genocide is "a very narrowly defined legal notion which is difficult
    to prove" in the Armenian case. ECHR also doubted that there could be
    a general consensus on the alleged "Armenian genocide" as it remains a
    matter of historical debate. In 2012, then Secretary of State Hillary
    Clinton expressed the same position.

    Reputable American scholars, including Bernard Lewis, Stanford Shaw,
    Guenter Lewy, Justin McCarthy, Edward J. Erickson, and Michael Gunter,
    have rejected the characterization of the Ottoman Armenian tragedy as
    genocide.

    Furthermore, during World War I, over half a million Turks, Kurds, and
    other Muslims were massacred by the Armenian armed groups, fighting
    alongside the Russian, Greek, and French armies, with an aim to carve
    an ethnic Armenian state. While we share the pain of innocent
    Armenians who perished in World War I, memories of the non-Armenian
    victims are insulted by this bill.

    AB 659's advocacy of an unfounded allegation of a crime constitutes an
    educational malpractice. Therefore, we urge a vote against this bill
    when it comes to the floor. The young generations should have a choice
    not to be indoctrinated using a single disputed viewpoint.

    http://www.independent.com/news/2014/feb/02/armenian-genocide-not-legally-founded/?on


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