Letters to the Editor
The Boston GlobeBoston,
Massachusetts
Re: Jackie Abramian April 23, 2002 Op-Ed, "Why is Armenian Genocide unrecognized?"
To the Editor:
Jackie Abramian's Armenian genocide polemic against Turkey neglects a mountain of discrediting facts. Even before World War I commenced, Ottoman Armenians became de facto belligerents against the Empire every bit as much as Al Qaeda is a belligerent against the United States. In a classic case of treason, hundreds of thousands of Armenians defected to fight, spy, and plunder for the enemies of the Ottomans, slaughtering civilians and soldiers indiscriminately in places such as Van and Bitlis. They boasted of their gruesome Muslim bucheries and wartime perfidy at the Paris Peace Conference in hopes of winning an independent state. For every Armenian tragedy during the Great War, Ottoman Muslims have two or three to match.Princeton Professor, Bernard Lewis, the gold standard for impartial Middle East studies, staunchly denies the genocide claim. He is joined by other acclaimed academics such as Stanford Shaw of U.C.L.A. and Justin McCarthy of the University of Louisville. And a human rights organ of the United Nations has twice refused to endorse the genocide story, most recently on October 5, 2000.Tens of thousands of Armenians were left undisturbed outside militarily sensitive zones, such as Istanbul and Izmir.Ambassador Henry Morgenthau's views were disputed by Secretary of State Robert Lansing and his successor as Ambassador to Turkey, Rear Admiral Mark Bristol.Ottoman officials prosecuted and punished more than 1,400 soldiers for maltreatment of Armenians (and 62 were executed).The highest legal authorities in Great Britain convincingly advised against any prosecution of Ottoman officials (more than 100 detained on Malta) for want of reliable evidence of complicity in Armenian massacres. The British meticulously investigated for more than two years, including a request for U.S. State Department records and reports and a reveiw of Ottoman archives, and turned up nothing incriminating that could withstand court scrutiny.
Sincerely,
Bruce Fein
General Counsel
Assembly of Turkish American Associations
Washington, D.C.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Armenian Terrorism
January, 27, 1973.
THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA,
Santa Barbara, California: 78 years old Armenian immigrant Gurgen Janikjan assassinates Mehmet Baidar, Turkish general consul in Los Angeles and Bahadyr Demir Turkish consul in Los Angeles. The murders were accomplished in hotel "Belamor " in Santa Barbara California. These murders marked the opening of an era of Armenian terrorism, which has since fledged and claimed thousands more innocent lives.
April, 4, 1973. France, Paris. Two bombs were detonated on this date. The Turkish consulate and the Turkish air transport company were targeted. Although no one was seriously injured a the bombs caused significant destructions to both buildings. No one was arrested.
October, 26, 1973. THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA, New York, New York. A Turkish information services company receives a parcel containing a bomb and the letter. The letter is addressed to the Turkish General Consul from the group calling themselves "Group Janikjan", after Gurgen Janikjan the murderer of Turkish citizens in Santa Barbara California in January 1973.
January, 27, 1973 in Santa Barbara, staff (state) California. The bomb was neutralized by police.
January, 20, 1975. Lebanon, Beirut: During press conference of 1978 speaking on behalf Armenian Confidential the Armies and Clearing of Armenia (ASALA) has declared, The first operation of this group has taken place on the same date, January, 20, 1975. On this date Beirut establishments of the World Church Cathedral was blown up.
February, 7, 1975. Lebanon, Beirut. Bombs were planted in buildings of Turkish news agency and the Bureau on tourism. When attempting to neutralize the bombs the Lebanese policeman was wounded. ASALA and "The group of Gurgena Janikjana" took the responsibility for the explosions.
February, 20, 1975. Lebanon, Beirut: Before a building of the Turkish airtransport company in Beirut the kilogram bomb that has resulted in significant destructions has blown up. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group ASALA of the prisoner Gurgena Janikjana.
October, 22, 1975. Austria, Vienna: Three armed terrorists, rushed into Turkish embassy in Vienna, and killed the ambassador of Turkey Tunalidjil. The three managed to disappear after the shooting. They were armed with the automatic weapons made in Israel, the Great Britain and Hungary. The group called "Armenian Victorious Army" took the responsibility for the murde
October, 14, 1975. France, Paris: the Ambassador of Turkey in France Izmail Erez was assassinated in the automobile near the Turkish embassy. The attackers also killed the driver of the ambassador Talin Ener. First the responsibility on itself the group under the name " has taken Landing group of avengers for a genocide of Armenian people ". Subsequently somebody who have called in agency Frans Press, has declared, that murder - business of hands of the Armenian Confidential Army, for clearing of Armenia (ASALA).
October, 28, 1975. Lebanon, Beirut: Rocket was fired at the Turkish embassy in Beirut and has caused significant destructions. ASALA has claimed the responsibility for the attack.
February, 16, 1976. Lebanon, Beirut. The first secretary of the Turkish embassy in Beirut, Oktar Sirit was killed by the Terrorist while he was at the reception on Hamra street. The murderer has not been apprehended. ASALA has claimed the responsibility for the attack.
May, 17, 1976. Federal Republic of Germany, Frankfurt, Essen, Cologne: the Theme of discussion in turkish consulates of three German cities became the explosions which have entailed behind self significant destructions. In spite of the fact that any group has not accepted responsibility for, anonymous phone call has named criminals - Armenians.
May, 28, 1976. Switzerland, Zurich, The explosion of two bombs destroys the Swiss branch of Turkish bank "Garanti" and the building where the Turkish business attaché was housed. The third bomb the Turkish bureau on tourism was neutralized before explosion. Although no group claimed responsibility for the explosions, law enforcement officials believe that the Armenian terrorist organization called " Group of justice for a genocide of Armenian people " (further DjSAG) was responsible.
March, 2, 1977. Lebanon, Beirut: Owing to powerful explosion the automobiles belonging to the militarian the attache of Turkey (Nahit Karakay) and the attache of Turkey on administrative questions (Ilhan Ozbabakan) were put out of action. For explosion the responsibility on itself has taken ASALA.
May, 14, 1977. France, Paris: An explosion in a building of the Turkish bureau on tourism in Paris injures the doorman. Two groups claimed responsibility for the attack "New Armenian Resistance", "Group of performances (statements) of youth ".
May, 29, 1977. Turkey, Istanbul: A powerful explosion at Istanbul airport Eshilkej kills 5 and injures 42 people, among them a citizen of the USA. Same day a similar bomb exploded in Istanbul's Sirkeci station, killing one and injuring 10. An anonymous caller to France Press news-agency in Athens, Greece, indicated that the "Armenian organization in the name ofMay, 28 " accepts the responsibility for explosion.
June, 6, 1977. Switzerland, Zurich: As a result of powerful explosion the shop belonging to Huseyn Bulbul, a Turkish national was destroyed. No one took the responsibility for the explosion.
June, 9, 1977. Italy, Vatican: Taha Brown, the ambassador of Turkey in the Cathedral (where Daddy serves) was killed by two terrorists before an own residence. Called in news agency in Beirut, the Group of justice for a genocide of Armenian people (DjSAG) has accepted responsibility for an attack.
October, 4, 1977. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: there Was an explosion of a bomb before the house of professor Standorda of Show, the American professor - Jew engaged in a turkish history at the Californian university, Los Angeles. In spite of the fact that nobody has suffered, explosion has involved behind itself significant destructions. Anonymous phone call in News agency Junajted Press Interneshnl (UPI), has informed, that the responsibility and explosion are incured " by the Armenian group - 28 ".
January, 2, 1978. Belgium, Brussels: As a result of a bomb explosion the buildings of a Turkish bank was destroyed. Armenian terrorist group called " New Armenian Resistance" claimed the responsibility for the attack.
June, 2, 1978. Spain, Madrid: Three terrorists armed with the automatic weapon attacked the car of the Turkish ambassador Convicts Kjuneral'p when he was leaving the embassy. Terrorists also killed the wife of the ambassador Nekla Kjuneral'p and the former ambassador Beshir Balsoglu. Driver Antonio Torres a Spaniard citizen received multiple wounds and died shortly after the attack in the hospital. On June 3rd, an anonymous caller indicated that ASALA takes the responsibility for the attack.
December, 6, 1978. Switzerland, Geneva: An explosion causes a great damage to the building of the Turkish consulate. The responsibility is claimed by "Group of new Armenian resistance."
December, 17, 1978. Switzerland, Geneva: Has taken place having dug in a building of the turkish airtransport company in Geneva that has resulted in significant destructions. The responsibility on itself has taken ASALA.
July, 8, 1979. France, Paris: In capital of France 4 explosions of turkish establishments were made: 1. The first bomb has blown up in a building of the turkish airtransport company. 2. The second - in a building the attache on questions of work. 3. The third - in a building of a turkish bureau on tourism. 4. The fourth bomb incorporated in a building of a permanent representative of Turkey on affairs of the Organization of economic cooperation and development, was neutralized by police before explosion. The anonymous caller to France Press news agency has informed, that the terrorist organization DjSAG takes the responsibility for the explosions.
August, 22, 1979. Switzerland, Geneva: A bomb was placed under the car of the Turkish consul in Geneva Niyazi Adaly. Two passers buy were injured. ASALA took the responsibility for explosion.
August, 27, 1979. Federal Republic of Germany, Frankfurt: As a result of an explosion office of a Turkish transportation company in Frankfurt is destroyed. The passenger in a tram passing past has been injured. ASALA took the responsibility for the attack.
October, 4, 1979. Denmark, Copenhagen: As a result of an explosion of the bomb left in a waste basket near the Turkish airlines two people have been injured; explosion has also caused significant damages to the building. ASALA took the responsibility for the attack.
October, 12, 1979. Netherlands, Hague: Ahmet Banler, the 27-years son of the Turkish ambassador (Ozdemir Benler) was killed in his car on a crossroad. Murder Doctor Technical University in Delft has taken place on eyes at 10 eyewitnesses. The criminal has disappeared. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken two terrorist organizations - DjSAG and ASALA.
October, 30, 1979. Italy, Milan: A powerful explosion almost destroys the building of the Turkish airlines. ASALA took the responsibility for the attack.
November, 8, 1979. Italy, Rome: As a result of a powerful explosion the building of the Turkish tourism attaché was seriously damaged. ASALA took the responsibility for the attack.
November, 18, 1979. France, Paris: Three explosions shook the three buildings housing three airlines, Turkish airlines, "KLM", Danish airline company and "Lufthansa" the German airlines. Two French policemen were seriously injured during the attacks. ASALA took the responsibility for all three attacks.
November, 25, 1979. Spain, Madrid: there Were explosions before buildings of the Madrid branch of the American airtransport company and company " British airlines ". Organization ASALA which has accepted responsibility for these explosions has informed, that it was the prevention(warning) to Polu John Polju about that it(he) has cancelled the planned visit to Turkey.
December, 9, 1979. Italy, Rome: In the Centre of Rome there were two explosions as a result of which buildings of American airtransport company " Panama ", the company " WORLD AIR LINES ", companies " British airlines " and companies " Philippine airlines " were damaged(injured). In a result 9 person have received wounds. The responsibility for these explosions was recognized by the group calling " New Armenian Resistance ".
December, 17, 1979. The incorporated Kingdom Great Britain, London: As a result of explosion before the London branch of the turkish airtransport company significant damages were put. The responsibility on itself the group called " has taken Front for clearing of Armenia ".
December, 22, 1979. France, Paris: the Attache on tourism in turkish embassy Elmaz Sholpan, walking on street in people Chance Alice, was killed by the gangster. The responsibility for murder some groups, among them
ASALA, DjSAG and " have undertaken Group of the Armenian insurgents against a genocide ".
December, 22, 1979. Netherlands, Amsterdam: Significant destructions have taken place owing to explosion before a building of the turkish airtransport company. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
December, 23, 1979. Italy, Rome: there Was an explosion before a building of the Centre on questions of refugees at the World Advice(council) of Churches (a board the Dyne) in Rome. This centre was used in quality of "transshipment" item(point) for the Armenian refugees from Lebanon. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA, having warned the Italian authorities about the termination(discontinuance) of activity " Armenian Diaspora ".
December, 23, 1979. Italy, Rome: there Were 3 explosions before buildings of the Roman branch of the French airtransport company and the American airtransport company Trance WORLD AIR LINES owing to what the set of passing by people has received wounds. Having accepted responsibility for explosions, ASALA has declared, that bombs were enclosed(laid) " as a reciprocal measure on repressive attacks of the French authorities against the Armenians living in France ".
January, 10, 1980. Iran, Teheran: there Was an explosion before a building of the turkish airtransport company, entailed for itself significant destructions. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
January, 20, 1980. Spain, Madrid: the Series of the explosions which have entailed behind self set of wounds, has taken place before buildings of the American airtransport company " Trance WORLD AIR LINES ", companies " British airlines ", and also the companies " Swiss Air " and "Sabena". The responsibility for explosions was undertaken by the group calling " Group of justice for a genocide of Armenian people ".
February, 2, 1980. Belgium, Brussels: In the Centre of Brussels before buildings of the turkish airtransport company and Soviet Aeroflot two bombs (within 5 minutes) have blown up. In a communique " the group " has declared New Armenian resistance, that accepts responsibility for both explosions.
February, 6, 1980. Switzerland, Bern: Before a building of Turkish embassy in Bern the terrorist has opened fire on the ambassador of Turkey Dogan Turkmen sitting in the own automobile. The ambassador has received easy wounds. Assumed(prospective) the murderer, the Armenian by name Max Klindjyan, subsequently was arrested in Marseilles and returned to Switzerland for realization of consequence(investigation). The responsibility for an attack was undertaken with terrorist organization DjSAG.
February, 18, 1980. Italy, Rome: As a result of two explosions buildings of three airtransport companies (" Swiss Air ", " Ale Al " and "Lufthansa") were damaged(injured). The responsibility for explosions has undertaken ASALA. Anonymous phone call in the Roman News agency has informed, that three airlines became objects for an attack for the following reasons: a) " Swiss Air " - as the prevention(warning) to the Swiss government to not imprison innocent Armenians. b) "Lufthansa" - to punish the German government which promotes turkish fascism. c) " Ale Al " - in connection with zionist…
March, 10, 1980. Italy, Rome: Buildings of the turkish airtransport company and a turkish bureau on tourism in Rome on Piacjsa Della Republic became objects of two powerful explosions. As a result of a strong blast wave two Italians were lost and 14 have received wounds. The responsibility for explosions the Group has undertaken " new Armenian resistance ".
April, 17, 1980. Italy, Rome: Three Armenian terrorists shot at the ambassador of Turkey in the Cathedral where Daddy serves, Wesdy Turella. The ambassador came near to the residence in the own automobile, it(him) slightly has wounded. At attempt protection and driver Tahsyn Gjuvenchi also have received wounds. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken DjSAG.
May, 19, 1980. France, Marseilles: the rocket aimed at turkish consulate in Marseilles was found out and neutralized. The responsibility on itself has taken ASALA and the group calling " Black April ".
July, 31, 1980. Greece, Athenes: the Attache on questions of management in turkish embassy in Athenes Galib Ozman and his(its) family, being in the machine, have undergone to an attack of the Armenian terrorists. Galib and his(its) 14-years daughter Neslihan were lost. His(its) wife Sevil' and 16-years son Kaan have received wounds. The responsibility for two murders has undertaken ASALA.
August, 5, 1980. France, Lyons: Two terrorists have rushed into a building of turkish consulate in Lyons and have demanded from the door-keeper to show them a site of the consul. Then they have opened fire, therefore two eyewitnesses was lost and have a little received wounds. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken ASALA.
August, 11, 1980. United States of America, New York: " Two false bombs " were thrown before a building of turkish establishment (where the turkish delegation of the United Nations on rights of turkish consulate in New York has settled down). In the letter attached to one of "bombs", it was spoken that the purpose of the given action(share) - " to remind the imperialistic turkish government of the crimes accomplished by them against Armenian people ". The letter was signed: " the Armenian group ".
September, 26, 1980. France, Paris: Twice shot at the adviser of turkish embassy for questions of press in Paris Seljug Bakalbashi when that came to itself(himself) home. Bakalbashi has survived, but owing to wounds appeared paralysed. The responsibility for an attack have undertaken ASALA and the group called " Organization of the Armenian confidential army ".
October, 3, 1980. Switzerland, Geneva: As a result of explosion have received wounds of 2 Armenian terrorists which prepared for a bomb in hotel number in Geneva. The Swiss police has arrested both: Susy Makhseredjyan from Canosa Park, California and Alexander Enikomechijana. Their arrest became an occasion for formation(education) of new "branch" ASALA (groups to which they belonged), named " the Organization October, 3 " which subsequently made attacks on the Swiss establishments worldwide.
October, 3, 1980. Italy, Milan: Two Italians have received wounds as a result of explosion before a building of the turkish airtransport company. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
October, 5, 1980. Spain, Madrid: As a result of explosion buildings of the Italian airline " were destroyed Is scarlet Italy ". 12 person have received wounds. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken " by Confidential Army for Clearing of Armenia ".
October, 6, 1980. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: the House of the turkish general consul in Los Angeles mister Kemalja Arikana have thrown ignite mixes that has resulted in insignificant damages of this building. Anonymous phone call has informed, that explosion was accomplished in a name of Armenians.
October, 10, 1980. Lebanon, Beirut: In the Western Beirut before the Swiss establishments explosions were made. Some days after the group calling " the Organization October, 3 " has taken the responsibility for explosions that other groups making similar actions(shares) in the Swiss establishments of England have made also.
October, 12, 1980. United States of America, New York, staff(state) New York: the Bomb enclosed(laid) in stolen automobile, has blown up before turkish hotel in New York where this machine was parked. As a result of explosion have received wounds 4 Americans, significant damages were put to the next buildings. Group DJCAG, having called representatives of mass media, has accepted responsibility for explosion.
October, 12, 1980. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: As a result of explosion the building of Agency of travel in Hollywood, headed by turk the American origin was destroyed. Terrorist organization DjSAG has accepted responsibility for explosion.
October, 12, 1980. The incorporated Kingdom Great Britain, London: As a result of explosion buildings of a turkish bureau on tourism and information in London were damaged(injured). The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
October, 12, 1980. The incorporated Kingdom Great Britain, London: As a result of explosion the Swiss trading complex in the centre of London was damaged(injured). From phone calls in cable agencies it was found out, that explosion - work " the Organization October, 3-rd ".
October, 13, 1980. France, Paris: As a result of explosion the building of the Swiss bureau on tourism in Paris was damaged(injured). The responsibility on itself was taken by group under the name " the Organization October, 3-rd ".
October, 21, 1980. Switzerland, Interlaken: In the Swiss train following from Paris in Interlaken, not blown up delayed-action bomb was found. Bodies of the law and order believe, that the bomb was enclosed(laid) " by the Organization October, 3-rd ".
November, 4, 1980. Switzerland, Geneva: the Building of the Swiss court in Geneva was strongly damaged(injured) as a result of explosion. The Swiss authorities have declared, that, in their opinion, the bomb is a business of hands of two terrorists from ASALA (Susy Makhseredjyan and Alexander Enikomechijana), prisoners
October, 3, 1980. Subsequently the responsibility for having dug was undertaken " with the Organization October, 3-rd ". November, 9, 1980. France, Strasbourg: As a result of explosion the building of Turkish consulate in Strasbourg was strongly damaged(injured). The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA, working together with the group calling " Turko-kurdish working party(set) ".
November, 10, 1980. Italy, Rome: 5 person have received wounds as a result of explosions of buildings of the Swiss airtransport company in Rome and the Swiss bureau on tourism. The responsibility for explosions was undertaken at once " with the Organization October, 3-rd ". Subsequently the same have made ASALA and " Turko-kurdish working group ".
November, 19, 1980. Italy, Rome: As a result of explosion buildings in which representatives of a bureau on tourism of Turkish embassy and the turkish airtransport company settled down were damaged(injured). The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
November, 25, 1980. Switzerland, Geneva: As a result of explosion damages were put to a building of Association of the Swiss banks in Geneva, thus one person has suffered. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken " with the Organization October, 3-rd ".
December, 5, 1980. France, Marseilles: In Marseilles the police expert has neutralized a bomb enclosed(laid) in the Swiss consulate. Bodies of the law and order believe, that the bomb was incorporated " by the Organization October, 3-rd ".
December, 25, 1980. Switzerland, Zurich: As a result of explosion the control device of radar-tracking installation at airport Kloten (Zurich) was put out of action. The second bomb incorporated on the main runway of the airport, was neutralized by special group of experts. The responsibility was undertaken " with the Organization October, 3-rd ".
December, 29, 1980. Spain, Madrid: the Spanish reporter, participated Has received serious wounds at investigation of the reasons of explosion in a building of the company " Swiss Air " in Madrid (when it(he) told by the phone of data in the newspaper, the second bomb has blown up, just near to that pay phone where it(he) was). The responsibility for two explosions was undertaken " with the Organization October, 3-rd ".
December, 30, 1980. Lebanon, Beirut: In Beirut buildings of company " credit - Suis " were blown up. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken " with the Organization October, 3-rd ".
January, 2, 1981. Lebanon, Beirut: In a communique in press ASALA has acted with threat " fulfilment of attacks on the Swiss diplomats worldwide ". This application was made in reply to ostensibly bad attitude(relation) to " Susy and Alex ", to two terrorists from ASALA, imprisoned in Switzerland. January, 4 ASALA has published the application that they are going to postpone all measures planned by them which do not answer interests Swisses, till
January, 15, 1981 January, 14, 1981. France, Paris: there Was an explosion in the machine of the adviser for the finance of Turkish embassy in Paris Ahmet Erbeyli. Itself Erbeyli has not suffered, but explosion has completely put out of action his(its) machine, and also serious damages were put to the next buildings. The group calling by "Group Aleksa Enikomechijana", has taken the responsibility for explosion.
January, 27, 1981. Italy, Milan: As a result of explosions buildings of the company " Swiss Air " and a bureau on tourism in Milan were damaged(injured). Two passing by Italians have received wounds. Having called to local representatives of mass media, " the Organization October, 3-rd " has accepted responsibility for explosion.
February, 3, 1981. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: the Special group of experts from Los Angeles neutralized a bomb enclosed(laid) under ladders at an input(entrance) in Swiss consulate. Anonymous phone call has let know, that it is work " the Organization October, 3-rd ", and also has promised, that similar actions(shares) will proceed up to those, yet will not release " our friend " (Susy Makhseredjyan).
February, 5, 1981. France, Paris: As a result of explosions of the bombs enclosed(laid) in buildings of the American airtransport company in Paris (" Grand World Air Lines ") and the French airline, one person has received wound, and also significant damages were put. The group naming " the Armenian National Movement
October, 3-rd ", has accepted responsibility for explosions.
March, 4, 1981. France, Paris: Two terrorists have opened fire on to Roshat Morals (the attache on questions of work in Turkish embassy in Paris), Tesell Ari (the responsible(crucial) person on affairs of religion in embassy) and Ilkay Karakosh (to the representative " Anadolu Bank " in Paris) when they left from Morals and sat in the machines. The first bullet has overtaken Teselli Ari. Morals and Karakosh have tried to be rescued by flight. Morals which wanted was to hide in cafe, was will push out on street the owner and it is shot by terrorists while Karakosh it was possible to be rescued. Terrorists who were seen with many passing by people, have disappeared. Teselli Ari which have seriously wounded right at the beginning of an attack, has died next day in the Parisian hospital. The group from ASALA " Shakhan Natali " has accepted responsibility for murder.
March, 12, 1981. Iran, Teheran: the Group of terrorists has attacked turkish embassy in Teheran; two escorts were killed. Two from criminals were caught by local authorities and later are executed. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken ASALA.
April, 3, 1981. Denmark, Copenhagen: the Attache on questions of work in turkish embassy in Copenhagen Kavit Demir, coming late at night to itself home, was executed by shooting the terrorist. After series of operations seriously wounded Demir has recovered. The responsibility for an attack was undertaken by the Armenian terrorists both from ASALA, and from DjSAG.
June, 3, 1981. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: Explosion of the bomb enclosed(laid) in " the Centre Anaheim konven " has suspended representation which the Turkish ensemble of national dance gave. The next days threat of similar explosions in San Francisco has made also impossible representation of group of Northern California.
June, 9, 1981. Switzerland, Geneva: the Secretary of Turkish consulate in Geneva Mehmet Savash Eryuz, leaving from consulate, was killed by the terrorist. The murderer, the Armenian by name Martit Djamgochyan, was arrested by authorities. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken ASALA. Arrest Djamgochyan has served as an occasion for formation(education) of the new group ASALA named " the Organization June, 9 " in which active subsequently there were some explosions of the Swiss establishments both in Switzerland, and in other European countries.
June, 11, 1981. France, Paris: the Group of the Armenian terrorists headed by Aroy Toranyan, has borrowed(occupied) a building of the Turkish airtransport company in Paris. If in the beginning authorities did not pay to them special attention then terrorists, supporters ASALA, were turned out from the places seized by them for what official protests from Turkish embassy have followed.
June, 19, 1981. Iran, Teheran: Explosion of a small bomb in a building of the Teheran branch of the company " Swiss Air " has caused easy damages. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group from ASALA " the Organization June, 9-th ".
June, 26, 1981. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: Before a building of the Swiss corporation of banks in Los Angeles there was an explosion of a small bomb. The responsibility for it was undertaken " with the Organization June, 9-th ".
July, 19, 1981. Switzerland, Bern: there Was an explosion of the bomb put in a garbage can in a building of the Swiss parliament in Bern. Subsequently the anonymous bell has informed, that it is work " the Organizations
June, 9-th ". July, 20, 1981. Switzerland, Zurich: there Was an explosion in the photoautomatic device at the International airport in Zurich. The responsibility was undertaken " with the Organization June, 9-th ".
July, 21, 1981. Switzerland, Lausanne: As a result of explosion in a department of lady's wear of department store of Lausanne of 20 customers have received wounds. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group ASALA " the Organization June, 9-th ".
July, 22, 1981. Switzerland, Geneva: 4 persons have received wounds as a result of explosion of the bomb enclosed(laid) in an automatic left-luggage office at station in Geneva. Bodies of the law and order make responsible for this action(share) on " the Organization June, 9-th ".
August, 11, 1981. Denmark, Copenhagen: As a result of explosion of two bombs the building of the company " Swiss Air " in Copenhagen was destroyed. One American tourist is wounded. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken " the Organization June, 9-th ".
August, 20, 1981. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: there Was an explosion of a small explosive before a building of the Swiss corporations of exact devices in Los Angeles. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group from ASALA " the Organization June, 9-th ".
August, 20, 1981. France, Paris: Early in the morning there was an explosion which has resulted(brought) in damage of a building of the Parisian branch of the company " Is scarlet Italy " " Air Lines ". Anonymous phone call has informed, that the responsibility for explosion is incured " with the Organization of the Armenian movement October, 3-rd ".
August, 22, 1981. France, Paris: Early in the morning there was an explosion before a building of the Parisian branch of the company " Olimpic Air Lines, ". Anonymous phone call has informed, that the responsibility is incured " with the Armenian Organization October, 3-rd ".
September, 15, 1981. Denmark, Copenhagen: Two persons have received wounds (one of them - serious) as a result of explosion before a building of the turkish airtransport company in Copenhagen. The police managed to neutralize before explosion the second bomb. The responsibility was undertaken by group under the name " the Sixth Armenian liberation army ".
September, 17, 1981. Iran, Teheran: As a result of explosion the building of the Swiss embassy in Teheran was damaged(injured). The responsibility on itself was taken by group from ASALA " the Organization June, 9-th ".
September, 24, 1981. France, Paris: Four Armenian terrorists have borrowed(occupied) Turkish consulate in Paris. Entering in consulate, they have seriously wounded consul Kaja Inala and of the representative of security service Semalja Ozena. Terrorists have grasped 56 hostages. Two criminals thus have received easy wounds. In a result terrorists have allowed to send wounded Inal and Ozen in hospital where Ozen has died from wounds. When the requirement of terrorists to release(exempt) " the Armenian political prisoners in Turkey " was rejected, they have asked " the status of political prisoners " and have surrendered to the French authorities. All four terrorists appeared Armenians from Lebanon, members ASALA.
October, 3, 1981. Switzerland, Geneva: As a result of explosion buildings Post Office and City court of Geneva were destroyed. Appeared, that in this court litigation on business about the murder, accomplished(perfect) by one of members ASALA should be held. The responsibility for explosion at which one person has received easy wounds, the group from ASALA " the Organization June, 9-th " has undertaken.
October, 25, 1981. Italy, Rome: the Terrorist accomplished attempt at the second secretary of Turkish embassy in Rome Erberk Ergenekon. Wounded in hand Ergenekon has left the machine and has opened reciprocal fire on the terrorist. The terrorist, being wounded, has managed to disappear from a place of incident. ASALA has accepted responsibility for the attempt accomplished in honour " Group of condemned men September, 24-th ", that is in honour of terrorists ASALA which has borrowed(occupied) Turkish consulate in Paris.
October, 25, 1981. France, Paris: As a result of explosions at luxurious French restaurant " Fuks " on Shame Elize (Eliseyskie fields) have received wounds three workers. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group " September France ".
October, 26, 1981. France, Paris: there Was an explosion of a bomb in the machine specially enclosed(laid) by luxurious pharmaceutical shop on Shame Elize (Eliseyskie fields). The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group " September France ".
October, 27, 1981. France, Paris: As a result of explosion on parking of automobiles at Parisian airport " Ruasi " the machine facing to a number(line) was put out of action. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group " September France ".
October, 27, 1981. France, Paris: the Second bomb has blown up in a urn about the escalator overflown with people at airport " Ruasi ". Victims as a result of explosion was not. The responsibility on itself was taken by group " September France ".
October, 28, 1981. France, Paris: Three persons have received wounds as a result of explosion at the Parisian cinema overflown with people. The responsibility on itself was taken by group " Sepmetber France ".
November, 3, 1981. Spain, Madrid: Three persons have received wounds as a result of explosion before a building of the company " Swiss Air " in Madrid. The responsibility for the explosion which has resulted(brought) in damage of the next buildings, has undertaken ASALA.
November, 5, 1981. France, Paris: At the Parisian station " Gar de Lyons " has taken place explosion as a result of which one person has received wounds; left-luggage offices of luggage were considerably damaged(injured). Subsequently the responsibility for explosion was taken with the Armenian terrorist organization calling " Organization Orli ".
November, 12, 1981. Lebanon, Beirut: bombs before three French establishments in Beirut Simultaneously have blown up: a) The French cultural centre; b) A building of the company " Air France "; c) The house of the French consul. Thus nobody has suffered, the significant material damage only was put. The responsibility on itself " Organization Orli " (named so in honour of the Armenian has taken, the prisoner at French airport Orli on accusation of use of false documents) and have demanded immediate clearing from under guards of Squanderer Melkonjana, of the Armenian of the American origin detained in France accused of diversions.
November, 14, 1981. France, Paris: As a result of explosion the machine facing about Tour d'Eiffel in Paris was damaged(injured). By the phone it was informed, that the responsibility for explosion lays on " Organization Orli ", and that it was " the first prevention(warning) ".
November, 14, 1981. France, Paris: the Group of tourists landed on a coast after travel on the river Hay, was met by squall a pomegranate. Nobody has suffered. The responsibility for an attack was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
November, 15, 1981. France, Paris: " Organization Orli ", having acted in press, was threatened to blow up in air the plane, belonging company " Air France ".
November, 16, 1981. France, Paris: Two persons have received wounds as a result of explosion of the bomb enclosed(laid) in a left-luggage office of luggage in a building of the Parisian station " Gar de Lest ", that also has brought a material damage. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
November, 18, 1981. France, Paris: " Organization Orli " has declared that in a building of the Parisian station " Gar du the North " the bomb is enclosed(laid). However any explosives there it was revealed not .
November, 20, 1981. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: As a result of explosion the building of Turkish consulate in Beverli Hill was destroyed, that has put a significant material damage. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken with Armenian terrorist organization DjSAG.
January, 13, 1982. Canada, Toronto: As a result of explosion the building of Turkish consulate in Toronto was damaged(injured). The responsibility on themselves was taken by terrorists from ASALA.
January, 17, 1982. Switzerland, Geneva: In Geneva about parking motor vehicles two bombs have blown up. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group from ASALA " the Organization June, 3-rd ".
January, 17, 1982. France, Paris: In branch of Association of the Parisian banks there was an explosion: the second explosive was neutralized in branch " the Credit Lyons ". The responsibility was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
January, 19, 1982. France, Paris: In Paris in a building of the company " Air France " in the Palace of the Congress there was an explosion, the responsibility for which was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
January, 28, 1982. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: On road for work the turkish General consul in Los Angeles Kemal Arikan was killed by two terrorists. One of murderers Hamtig Sasunjan (the 19-years immigrant from Lebanon), was arrested, is condemned and recognized guilty of a crime later. Now it(he) leaves life imprisonment in the Californian prison a dignity - Kventin. His(its) accomplice, under assumptions Krikor Saliba, has escaped to Lebanon. The responsibility for murder was undertaken with terrorist Armenian organization DjSAG.
March, 22, 1982. United States of America, Cambridge, staff(state) of Massachusettses. Was blown up gift shop Orana Gjundjuza, the honourable Turkish consul in Boston; as a result of explosion Gunduz was seriously wounded. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken DjSAG.
March, 26, 1982. Lebanon, Beirut: In the Armenian quarter as a result of powerful explosion the cinema (in which turkish films frequently were shown) was destroyed; two persons are killed and more than 16 have received wounds. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
April, 8, 1982. Canada, Ottawa: Kani Gungor, the trading attache in Turkish embassy in Ottawa, was seriously wounded by the Armenian terrorists who have attacked him(it) in garage at his(its) apartments. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken ASALA.
April, 24, 1982. Federal Republic of Germany, Dortmund: As a result of explosion significant damages have received buildings of several turkish business concerns. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken with " the Organization of new Armenian resistance ".
May, 4, 1982. United States of America, Cambridge, staff(state) of Massachusettses: Orhan Gunduz, the honourable turkish consul in Boston, was killed in the own machine by the Armenian terrorist. The responsibility for an attack was undertaken by group DzhSaG. In spite of the fact that the president of USA Ronald Rejgan has called for prosecution of all persons who have made murders, nevertheless, nobody was arrested.
May, 10, 1982. Switzerland, Geneva: there Were explosions in two Geneva banks. The responsibility for the explosions which have put a significant material damage, is recognized the Armenian group calling " Organization of general payment ".
May, 18, 1982. United States of America, Tampa, staff(state) Florida: Nesh Karahan, the honourable turkish consul in Tampa, has reflected attempt of two Armenian terrorists to penetrate into a building of consulate (having in stock the weapon).
May, 26, 1982. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: As a result of explosion the building of the Swiss corporation of banks was damaged(injured). It is supposed, that 4 Armenians were involved in this action(share) from Southern California (Viken Charkatun, Khrach Kozibukyan, Stranich Kozibukyan and Vrant Chirinyan): all four were accused that were members ASALA.
May, 30, 1982. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: Three Armenians of the American origin, members ASALA, were arrested in connection with put forward against them accusation that they enclosed(laid) an explosive before a building of cargo branch of the company " Air Canada " at the international airport of Los Angeles. Bombs the police of Los Angeles was neutralized by members of branch special group.
June, 7, 1982. Portugal, Lisbon: Before the own house the terrorist were killed the attache on administrative questions of Turkish embassy in Lisbon Erkut Akbay and his(its) wife Nadida Akbaj. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken DjSAG.
July, 1, 1982. Netherlands, Rotterdam: Four Armenian terrorists (one of which was detained by the Danish police) shot at the turkish general consul in Amsterdam Kemalettin Demirer, directed to the machine in consulate Demirer has not suffered. The responsibility for attempt was undertaken earlier by the unknown group calling " Armenian Red Army "
July, 21, 1982. France, Paris: 16 person have received wounds as a result of explosion about the Parisian cafe overflown with people on area Sent Sevrin. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken with " Organization Orli " which has declared, that it was payment that the French authorities have not constrained the " the promise to give a political asylum to four terrorists, grasping
September, 24, 1981 turkish consulate ".
July, 26, 1982. France, Paris: Two women have received wounds as a result of explosion in Parisian " Pub Saint German ". The responsibility was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
August, 2, 1982. France, Paris: Pierre Gulumjan, under the assumption the Armenian terrorist, was lost in the Parisian apartment (probably, at explosion of a bomb which itself prepared).
August, 7, 1982. Turkey, Ankara: airport "Esenboga " in which two Armenian terrorists armed with a pistol and pomegranates, have opened fire in a waiting room of passengers where there was a weight to people Has undergone to attack Ankara. At restaurant of the airport one of terrorists has grasped more than 20 hostages, and another in the meantime was seized by police. During firing with the terrorist, grasping hostages, were killed 9 person (among their one American and the citizen of Germany). 82 persons have received wounds. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken ASALA. Detained terrorist Levon Ekmekdzhjan subsequently was involved in the judicial responsibility, recognized guilty and executed for participation in an attack.
August, 8, 1982. France, Paris: French group successfully neutralized a bomb found about the telephone centre in Parisian " the seventeenth area ". The responsibility was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
August, 12, 1982. France, Paris: the Armenian terrorists have opened fire on a policeman, put to protect turkish the attache on tourism in Paris. However the policeman has not suffered. Any group on itself has not taken the responsibility for an attack.
August, 27, 1982. Canada, Ottawa: the Military attache in turkish embassy in Ottawa colonel Atilla Altikat was killed at bombardment of his(its) machine stopped at a traffic light in Ottawa. The responsibility for murder was undertaken with Armenian terrorist organization DjSAG.
September, 9, 1982. Bulgaria, Burgas: Pine forest Suelkan, the attache on administrative questions in turkish consulate in Burgas was killed by the terrorist before the own house. The murderer has disappeared, thus having left after themselves a sheet of a paper on which the following words were written: " the Turkish diplomat was killed by we: combat parts of justice against a genocide of Armenian people ". Anonymous phone call in news agency Assoshiejted Press in London has informed that murder was accomplished ASALA.
October, 26, 1982. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: Five persons of the Armenian origin were brought to trial on accusation of preparation of explosion at consulate of Turkey in Philadelphia, staff(state) Pennsylvania. Into their plan entered to enclose(lay) an explosive in a study of consul Kanot Arbej. Five detained Armenians - natives of Los Angeles, earlier arested for an accessory(a belonging) to Armenian terrorist organization DjSAG.
December, 8, 1982. Greece, Athenes: Two Armenians on a motorcycle have thrown a bomb in branch of airlines of Saudi Arabia in Athenes. As a result of explosion of a bomb one of terrorists was lost. His(its) accomplice, the Armenian of the Iranian origin by name Vakhekh Kontaverdiyan, was arrested on accusation of the organization of explosion. However it(he) has refused to give the further indications.
January, 21, 1983. United States of America, Anaheim, staff(state) California: nine "self-made" ignite bombs it was confiscated from the pekarja-Armenian in Anaheim after one of detonators was spontaneously ignited, having caused a fire. The owner, the Armenian by name Khagop Andisyan, has declared, that it(he) was not frightened.
January, 22, 1983. France, Paris: the French police has found out 1 kg of explosive in cash department of turkish airlines at airport Orli in Paris. ASALA has accepted responsibility for this action(share).
January, 22, 1983. France, Paris: Two terrorists have thrown manual pomegranates branch of turkish airlines in Paris. As a result of explosions nobody has suffered, and one of terrorists was arrested. ASALA has taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
February, 2, 1983. Belgium, Brussels: explosions in representations of turkish airlines in Brussels were made. " The New Armenian Organization of Resistance " is responsible(crucial) for this action(share).
February, 28, 1983. Luxembourg: the Explosive incorporated before embassy of Turkey, was revealed and is neutralized. The Armenian reporter in the Armenian newspaper in New York has informed, that the group known as " New Armenian Organization of Resistance ", in the the communique takes the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
February, 28, 1983. France, Paris: the Bomb which has been blown up in branch of turkish firm " Marmara Travel Agency " in Paris has killed to Rhone Morina - the French secretary, and also has wounded other nine French. As a result of explosion the building has seriously suffered. In some minutes after explosion ASALA has taken the responsibility for the action(share) on itself.
March, 9, 1983. Yugoslavia, Belgrade: In the centre of Belgrade two Armenian terrorists have prepared an attack on the turkish ambassador as a result of whom was lost Galip Balkar - the ambassador of Turkey in Belgrade. His(its) driver Nekati Kejer was wounded in a stomach. At attempt to disappear, terrorists were detained by citizens of Yugoslavia. One of terrorists a shot has wounded the Yugoslavian colonel, in turn the terrorist too was wounded and detained by a policeman in civil clothes. The second terrorist, has opened fire on the citizens, trying to detain it(him), in result one student was lost and the girl is wounded. For this action(share) the responsibility has undertaken DjSAG. Both terrorists Krikor Levonjan and Rafi El'bekjan were brought to trial and condemned by the Yugoslavian authorities.
March, 31, 1983. Federal Republic Germany, Frankfurt: In the German branch of turkish newspaper "Tercuman?" in Frankfurt the anonymous bell from ASALA was distributed. Calling threatened to arrange explosion if not publications against " the Armenian affair " will be stopped.
May, 24, 1983. Belgium, Brussels: explosions before cultural - information centres of Turkish embassy, and also turkish travelling agency ("Marmara" in Brussels were carried out. The director of agencies of travel, the Italian on a nationality, was wounded as a result of explosion. ASALA it is responsible(crucial) for this action(share).
June, 16, 1983. Turkey, Istanbul: the Armenian terrorists have undertaken the action(share) on world famous " a covered Istanbul market ". They were armed with manual pomegranates and the automatic weapon. As a result of this action(share) were lost: two turk and one terrorist, and also twenty one person were wounded. ASALA has taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
July, 8, 1983. France, Paris: the Armenian terrorists attacked a building of the British embassy (Official British cultural representation), made to the protest concerning court a hell the Armenian terrorists in London.
July, 14, 1983. Belgium, Brussels: the Attache at embassy of Turkey in Brussels Dursun Aksoy was shot in the machine. Three groups - ASALA, DjSAG and hitherto the unknown organization " the Armenian Revolutionary Army ", have accepted responsibility for this murder.
July, 15, 1983. France, Paris: At cash department of turkish airlines in Paris at airport Orli as a result of explosion was lost 8 person. Among them four French, two turks, one American, one Swede. Besides 60 person have received wounds. 29 old years the syrian Armenian by name Varodjan Garabedyan which is the chapter of French branch ASALA, has recognized the participation in the organization of explosion, and also that the bomb should be blown up onboard the plane.
July, 15, 1983. The incorporated Kingdom Great Britain, London: the Bomb, same, as well as that was blown up in Orli, is found out and neutralized before explosion. ASALA has declared the responsibility for this action(share).
July, 18, 1983. France, Lyons: threat from ASALA in which they warned of the organization of explosion by the Lyons railway Has acted(arrived).
uly, 20, 1983. France, Lyons: threat from the Armenian terrorists has acted(arrived) to blow up station Perash by the Lyons railway that has caused hasty evacuation. ASALA it is responsible(crucial) for these threats.
July, 22, 1983. Iran, Teheran: two explosions in the French embassy and in representation " Air France " in Teheran were made. ASALA has declared, that " Organization Orli " is responsible(crucial) for the action(share).
July, 27, 1983. Portugal, Lisbon: the Group of five Armenian terrorists has made attempt to take storm Turkish embassy in Lisbon. However having failed to break and having remained in desperate position, they have borrowed(occupied) an apartment of deputy head of mission, having taken in hostages his(its) wife and children. When the explosive was established, Kahid Mihcioglu (the wife of the assistant) was killed together with four terrorists. Assistant Jurtiv Mihchioglu and his(its) son Agasoj were wounded. The fifth terrorist was killed in firing with representatives of turkish forces of safety. One Portuguese policeman also was killed, and another is wounded. ARA it is responsible(crucial) for this action(share).
July, 28, 1983. France, Lyons: threat that at station Perrash of the Lyons railway the explosive is incorporated Once again has acted(arrived). It has resulted in evacuation of the population. Calling has specified, that for the action(share) it is responsible(crucial) ASALA. After a long search it was not possible to find any explosive.
July, 29, 1983. Iran, Teheran: threat to blow up embassy of France in Teheran rocket attack Has acted(arrived). The Teheran authorities had to strengthen protection. Threat has acted(arrived) from " Organization Orli " which demands clearing 21 Armenian prisoners in France.
July, 31, 1983. France, Lyons and Rhein: Threat about explosion of the bomb, acted(arrived) from the Armenian terrorists, has forced authorities in an extra hurry arrived two planes which are carrying out flight on internal airlines with 424 passengers onboard. Planes have landed in Lyons and Rhein. At a search of planes of explosives it was revealed not .
August, 10, 1983. Iran, Teheran: the machine Filled by an explosive was blown up at the French embassy in Teheran. ASALA it is responsible(crucial) for this action(share). August, 17, 1983. Iran, Teheran: the Representative " Air France " in Teheran was executed by shooting in the automobile from the automatic weapon. ASALA it is responsible(crucial) for this action(share).
August, 27, 1983. Federal Republic Germany: Branches of the French consulate have strongly suffered as a result of explosion of a bomb. By a blast wave it was killed two persons and twenty three were wounded. ASALA the responsibility for this explosion on itself is languid.
September, 9, 1983. Iran, Teheran: In Teheran two ambassadorial machines were blown up. As a result of this action(share) two employees of embassy have suffered. ASALA has taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
October, 1, 1983. France, Marseilles: As a result of explosion of a bomb by a blast wave pavilions of the USSR, USA and Algeria on the International trade fair were damaged(injured). In result one person was lost and twenty six were wounded. " Organization Orli " has taken the responsibility on itself.
October, 6, 1983. Iran, Teheran: the Automobile of the French embassy was blown up in Teheran. Two passengers have received wounds as a result of explosion. " Organization Orli " has accepted responsibility for this action(share).
October, 29, 1983. Lebanon, Beirut: the automobile has approached(dropped in) On the French embassy in Beirut, he(it) was left by the person and has stopped manual to a pomegranate on a ladder platform at an input(entrance) of embassy. The terrorist was detained by representatives of security services, but his(its) accomplices managed to run. ASALA has taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
February, 8, 1984. France, Paris: the prevention(warning) from the terrorist in whom it is spoken Has acted(arrived), that the explosive is incorporated in the plane " Air France ", taking off at 13 to New York. Flight were compelled to detain on one and a half. The careful search has not revealed an explosive.
March, 28, 1984. Iran, Teheran: a series of the planned attempts at diplomats of Turkey in the Iranian capital Teheran was undertaken. The following incidents took place: a) Two Armenian terrorists have fired and have hardly wounded Ismail Pamukchu. The senior sergeant was delivered in branch of the turkish militarian the attache in Teheran. ASALA has accepted responsibility for performance of this action(share); b) Hasan Servet Oktem, the first secretary of the ambassador of Turkey, was easily wounded as a result of the attempt of attempt undertaken by terrorists when it(he) left the house; c) Ibrahim Ozdemir - the administrative attache of embassy of Turkey has informed the Iranian policeman about two persons of a suspicious exterior worth opposite his(its) houses. They were detained by the Iranian authorities; d) At two o'clock in the afternoon by the Iranian police were detained three Armenian terrorists who are taking place before representation of Turkish embassy; e) The Armenian terrorist was lost as a result of premature explosion of a bomb which it(he) tried to build in in the automobile of the assistant to the adviser for financial questions at Turkish embassy. Adviser Ishil Unel' has not suffered. The lost terrorist was identified, as the Armenian by name Sultan Gregorjan Semaperdan.
March, 29, 1984. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: In turkish consulate in Los Angeles the letter containing threat of punishment above turkish sportsmen in case of their participation in Los-Angeles to Olympiad was delivered. Threat is signedASALA.
April, 8, 1984. Lebanon, Beirut: In Beirut ASALA has let out the communique in which warns all international airlines having flights to Turkey that they will be regarded as military targets.
April, 26, 1984. Turkey, Ankara: it was declared, that the prime minister of Turkey Turgut Ozal has received the letter with threat. In the letter of it(him) warn that if it(he) will not refuse the planned visit to Teheran, ASALA will undertake a number(line) of acts of terrorism against his(its) country.
April, 28, 1984. Iran, Teheran: Two Armenian terrorists on a motorcycle have opened fire on the machine behind which rudder was Ishyk Yonder which carried wife Sadije Jonder in embassy where she(it) worked as the secretary. As a result of this attempt was lost Ishyk Yonder. The responsibility for murder has undertaken ASALA.
June, 20, 1984. Austria, Vienna: the Automobile belonging Erdogan Ozen, to the valid assistant to the adviser for social questions at turkish embassy in Vienna, was blown up. As a result of explosion was lost Ozen, and other five citizens (including two Austrian policemen) were seriously wounded. For this action(share) the responsibility was undertaken with terrorist organization ARA.
June, 25, 1984. United States of America: the Agency of news in Paris has received the letter signed ASALA in which she(it) threatens with strikes on all governmental organizations and the companies which somehow will promote participation of Turkey in Olympic games in Los Angeles.
August, 13, 1984. France, Lyons: At the Lyons railway station the explosion causing insignificant damage was made. ASALA has taken the responsibility for execution(performance) of this action(share) on itself.
September, 1984. Iran, Teheran: Some the turkish companies in Iran were subjected to attacks after they have received a number(line) of letters - threats in which them warned, that they are a target. First such action(share) was undertaken against the largest turkish building company " Sezai Turkish Fevzi Akkaya Company ". In branch of this company the explosive charge was thrown. The turkish worker has suffered during struggle against fire caused by a blast wave.
September, 1, 1984. Iran, Teheran: the Iranian authorities have declared, that they open the plan of attempt of the Armenian terrorists for the turkish ambassador in Iran Ismet Birsel.
September, 3, 1984. Turkey, Istanbul: Explosion of the machine parked near of a palace Trestle beds in Istanbul, has killed two Lebanese Armenians. The investigation carried out(spent) by authorities has shown, that they were killed as a result of premature explosion of a bomb which tried to put in pawn. Terrorist organization
ARA bears the responsibility for this explosion.
November, 19, 1984. Austria, Vienna: Turk on nationality Enver Ergun, working in the Viennese branch " the Centre on social and to humanitarian questions of the United Nations ", was killed in the automobile at a traffic light when it(he) waited green light. In the automobile the piece of a material with initials ARA which was thrown in the machine was found out.
December, 1984. Belgium, Brussels: the Belgian authorities are compelled to continue investigation of attempt of explosion of apartment Seljug Inchiu, the employee of turkish embassy in Brussels. The police has found out an explosive opposite to an apartment. Any group has not declared the responsibility for this action(share).
December, 25, 1984. Lebanon, Beirut: Two French buildings in east Beirut were undermined. ASALA has taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
December, 29, 1984. France, Paris: After receipt from ASALA threats about explosion of the plane " Air France ", the police has strengthened protection of the airport " Charles De Gol " in Paris.
January, 3, 1985. Lebanon, Beirut: Branches of agency Frans-Press in the Western Beirut were seriously damaged(injured) as a result of explosion. ASALA has declared the responsibility for this action(share).
January, 3, 1985. Lebanon, Beirut: the Group of military sappers has found out and has neutralized 6 pounds of the explosive burried at an input(entrance) in " the ex - Lebanese bank " in area Ramlet of scarlet - Bajda Western Beirut. ASALA has declared the responsibility for this action(share).
March, 3, 1985. France, Paris: the Anonymous bell belonging to representative ASALA, threatens with prosecution of the French interests worldwide. The bell which was given out in Agency Frans-Press, is addressed to the French authorities in connection with adjudgment to three terrorists participating in actions(shares) in Orli.
March, 12, 1985. Canada, Ottawa: Three Armenian terrorists armed up to teeth stormed Turkish embassy in Ottawa, having killed the Canadian agents of security service of agency " Pinkerton " during firing. Then, having blown up a street door an explosive, armed people have rushed into a building. Ambassador Dzhoshkunu Kirsa managed to jump out of a window of the second floor. Having received a serious trauma at falling, it(he) has remained to lay on the ground within four hours surround. At last stay (among which there was a wife and the daughter of the ambassador), taking place in hostages, were released(exempted) safe. Terrorists were surrounded. ARA has declared the responsibility for this action(share). Three above mentioned terrorists expect court in Canada. March, 26, 1985. Canada, Toronto: Threat to blow up system of transportations in Toronto has acted(arrived) from the Armenian terrorist organization. It has resulted in mass amplification(strengthening) of security measures in Toronto. Movement of transport in rush hours during inspection by police of the underground in searches of an explosive. The responsibility for this threat lays on the organization calling " the Armenian Confidential Army for Clearing of the native Land ".
November, 1985. Belgium, Brussels: the Special group of the Belgian police on struggle against terrorism has arrested two suspicious Armenian terrorists (having the Portuguese passports) at an apartment of osmanli Turk Orkeja, of the representative of Turkey in the NATO in Brussels. Investigation proceeds.
November, 28, 1985. France, Paris: the French police has arrested the American Armenian, the leader of the terrorist organization known as " the Armenian Confidential Army for Clearing of Armenia - revolutionary movement " (ASALA - .) Monte Melkonyan. Melkonyan from area the Frino staff(state) California, in the past was aide-de-camp Hagol Hagopjana (founder ASALA), then, outlet from numbers(lines) ASALA it(he) has created ASALA - ., assisting ASALA in operation at airport Orli. With Arabian and middle East political prisoners (KSAMEPP) has lead(carried out) four explosions in various areas of the French capital. Demand clearing from the conclusion of terrorist ASALA Varodjan Garabedyan which the conclusion in France leaves. Most likely, is rather strong ally of the Armenian and Arabian terrorists.
March, 17, 1986. France, Lyons: In the express train Lyons - Paris, the bomb was blown up. KSAMEPP and ASALA have taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
March, 20, 1986. France, Paris: the explosive incorporated in a building Parisian trading Centre Is blown up. Two was lost and about(near) 30 it is wounded. For this action(share) it is responsible(crucial) KSAMEPP, again repeated the requirement to let out Varodjan Garabedyan, condemned on business about explosion at cash department of turkish airlines at airport Orli.
September, 4, 1986. France, Paris: the Detonator of the explosive incorporated in the Parisian train, has not worked, and the explosive was neutralized, after all passengers were evacuated. KSAMEPP has declared the responsibility for this action(share), again having repeated the requirement to release(exempt) three terrorists ASALA, switching Varodjan Garabedyan.
September, 9, 1986. France, Paris: the Building " Paris City Hall " shivered from explosion. The worker of post service was killed, other 18 citizens are wounded. For this explosion the responsibility has undertaken KSAMEPP, again declared about the requirement to let out from under conclusion Varodjan Garabedyan and two other terrorists KSAMEPP.
September, 10-15, 1986. France, Paris: a Series of explosions of bombs in Paris has resulted in death of two and wound hundred person. KSAMEPP has taken the responsibility for these explosions on itself.
September, 16, 1986. France, Paris: Five person are killed and 52 are wounded as a result of explosion of the bomb incorporated by terrorists KSAMEPP in quarter Monparnass of the French capital. Terrorists have repeated the requirement to release(exempt) from the conclusion of terrorist ASALA Varodjan Garabedyan and two other terrorists from organization KSAMEPP.
October, 9, 1986. Lebanon, Beirut: the Armenian Confidential Army for Clearing of Armenia (ASALA) has delivered in the western agency of news in Beirut the handwritten application warning of toughening of measures, directed against France in case Varodjan Garabedya and other two middle East terrorists will not be released(exempted). In the document it is underlined, that ASALA will direct the impacts on the French planes, the airports, the ships, trains and diplomats in for police roads on apartments of Armenians in France. Further they foretell France shiver her(it) " the additional explosions cause some more the big damage and horrifying consequences " if Garabedyan it will not be issued on freedom. No, that threats ASALA could be executed, - it is not necessary to forget, that this Armenian terrorist organization has taken part in preparation of set of actions(shares), shivered Paris in September, lossed lifes tens people and wounded more than 160.
October, 15, 1986. Lebanon, Beirut: Three terrorists ASALA led by the representative of organization Mikhran Mikhranyan have met the French journalist in capital of Lebanon where they have repeated the threat that actions(shares) against France will continue in case their made comrades will not be released(exempted). They have declared negotiations with French to authorities and their representative Mihran Mihranjan has specified: " we wait for execution(performance) by the French authorities of the promise (to release(exempt) Garabedyan). Otherwise we shall continue our actions(shares) which, we can you to assure, will be even more severe. ASALA already has declared the French representatives in the world military enemies. We challenge Shirac and we promise Mitteran accidents, in a case not performance of the promise given to him(it), that political prisoners will be released(exempted) ".
November, 1986. France, Paris: the Wool of the Armenian terrorists from " the Armenian Revolutionary Army " (ARA) Canada " in Paris occupied a building " Air as a token of the protest against adjudgment to three Armenian terrorists in Canada. They barricaded in a building and only in one hour polices have surrendered.
November, 23 1986. Australia, Melbourne: the machine Filled by an explosive was blown up at Turkish consulate in this Australian city. As a result of explosion one person was lost and the significant damage is caused to a five-floor building. Subsequently the identified victim appeared a criminal of Armenian origin Kharop Levonyan His(its) accomplice Levon Demirjan from Victoria, was arrested on accusation of installation of a bomb later. For this act of terrorism the responsibility was undertaken by the group naming " Greko-Bolgaro-Armjansky front (GBAF) ". It was the first case of a mention of the Armenian terrorist organization under such name.
January, 19, 1987. Australia, Brisbane: In post sorting branch the package with a bomb therefore has suffered six person was blown up. The responsibility for this action(share) the group, called has undertaken "Greko-Bolgaro-Armjansky front".
January, 20, 1987. Greece, Athenes: On the occasion of twelfth anniversary ASALA addressed from the staff in Athenes the reference(manipulation) to Armenians. The message proceeding apparently from political management(manual) ASALA, located in Athenes of " Modern Armenian movement ", names names of enemies of Armenian people in the person " the Turkish fascist state and forces of the international imperialism supporting it(him) and zionism … ". Message ASALA has received a wide circulation in the Greek press, switching government the English-speaking daily newspaper of " Athenes News " which publishes fragments from communique ASALA.
February, 11, 1987. Lebanon, Beirut: the Communique, issued in capital of Lebanon, confirms responsibility ASALA for explosions in Paris in 1986. In the printed application delivered to address of the Western news agency, the Armenian terrorist organization has declared: " France should take steps and necessary procedures for clearing the Armenian and Arabian patriots. Cease-fire as between us and the French government, the public opinion should assure of our respect for interests of safety of France and its(her) people the period of calm. Renewal of a wave of explosions in streets of France, at the French factories, airlines, sea object will be regarded as sabotage. Further ASALA takes up the responsibility for explosions in Paris in 1986 and once again repeats the requirement about clearing Varodjan Garabedy
February, 26, 1992 Azerbaijan - Khojaly In February of 1992, exactly 10 years ago, the name of a little -known Azerbaijani town of Khojaly became a symbol of brutality and another name for a crime against humanity. On February 26, Armenian forces backed by the Russian military committed what the Human Rights Watch called the "largest massacre of the conflict to date." The New York Times wrote about "truckloads of bodies" and reported instances of "scalping." Murder of hundreds of innocent civilians in Khojaly, the unprecedented cruelty of the massacre made the revealed the true nature of Armenian chauvinism. Today, survivors of Khojaly are still scattered throughout Azerbaijan among the one million refugees, who fled Armenia's policy of occupation and ethnic cleansing. Thomas Goltz, an American writer and an acute observer of the region, was among the few, who witnessed first hand and told the world about the last days of Khojaly. He later wrote about it in his brilliant account of the first painful years of Azerbaijan's independence - the Azerbaijan Diary. Mr. Goltz has agreed to share his memories of Khojaly ten years later.
THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA,
Santa Barbara, California: 78 years old Armenian immigrant Gurgen Janikjan assassinates Mehmet Baidar, Turkish general consul in Los Angeles and Bahadyr Demir Turkish consul in Los Angeles. The murders were accomplished in hotel "Belamor " in Santa Barbara California. These murders marked the opening of an era of Armenian terrorism, which has since fledged and claimed thousands more innocent lives.
April, 4, 1973. France, Paris. Two bombs were detonated on this date. The Turkish consulate and the Turkish air transport company were targeted. Although no one was seriously injured a the bombs caused significant destructions to both buildings. No one was arrested.
October, 26, 1973. THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA, New York, New York. A Turkish information services company receives a parcel containing a bomb and the letter. The letter is addressed to the Turkish General Consul from the group calling themselves "Group Janikjan", after Gurgen Janikjan the murderer of Turkish citizens in Santa Barbara California in January 1973.
January, 27, 1973 in Santa Barbara, staff (state) California. The bomb was neutralized by police.
January, 20, 1975. Lebanon, Beirut: During press conference of 1978 speaking on behalf Armenian Confidential the Armies and Clearing of Armenia (ASALA) has declared, The first operation of this group has taken place on the same date, January, 20, 1975. On this date Beirut establishments of the World Church Cathedral was blown up.
February, 7, 1975. Lebanon, Beirut. Bombs were planted in buildings of Turkish news agency and the Bureau on tourism. When attempting to neutralize the bombs the Lebanese policeman was wounded. ASALA and "The group of Gurgena Janikjana" took the responsibility for the explosions.
February, 20, 1975. Lebanon, Beirut: Before a building of the Turkish airtransport company in Beirut the kilogram bomb that has resulted in significant destructions has blown up. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group ASALA of the prisoner Gurgena Janikjana.
October, 22, 1975. Austria, Vienna: Three armed terrorists, rushed into Turkish embassy in Vienna, and killed the ambassador of Turkey Tunalidjil. The three managed to disappear after the shooting. They were armed with the automatic weapons made in Israel, the Great Britain and Hungary. The group called "Armenian Victorious Army" took the responsibility for the murde
October, 14, 1975. France, Paris: the Ambassador of Turkey in France Izmail Erez was assassinated in the automobile near the Turkish embassy. The attackers also killed the driver of the ambassador Talin Ener. First the responsibility on itself the group under the name " has taken Landing group of avengers for a genocide of Armenian people ". Subsequently somebody who have called in agency Frans Press, has declared, that murder - business of hands of the Armenian Confidential Army, for clearing of Armenia (ASALA).
October, 28, 1975. Lebanon, Beirut: Rocket was fired at the Turkish embassy in Beirut and has caused significant destructions. ASALA has claimed the responsibility for the attack.
February, 16, 1976. Lebanon, Beirut. The first secretary of the Turkish embassy in Beirut, Oktar Sirit was killed by the Terrorist while he was at the reception on Hamra street. The murderer has not been apprehended. ASALA has claimed the responsibility for the attack.
May, 17, 1976. Federal Republic of Germany, Frankfurt, Essen, Cologne: the Theme of discussion in turkish consulates of three German cities became the explosions which have entailed behind self significant destructions. In spite of the fact that any group has not accepted responsibility for, anonymous phone call has named criminals - Armenians.
May, 28, 1976. Switzerland, Zurich, The explosion of two bombs destroys the Swiss branch of Turkish bank "Garanti" and the building where the Turkish business attaché was housed. The third bomb the Turkish bureau on tourism was neutralized before explosion. Although no group claimed responsibility for the explosions, law enforcement officials believe that the Armenian terrorist organization called " Group of justice for a genocide of Armenian people " (further DjSAG) was responsible.
March, 2, 1977. Lebanon, Beirut: Owing to powerful explosion the automobiles belonging to the militarian the attache of Turkey (Nahit Karakay) and the attache of Turkey on administrative questions (Ilhan Ozbabakan) were put out of action. For explosion the responsibility on itself has taken ASALA.
May, 14, 1977. France, Paris: An explosion in a building of the Turkish bureau on tourism in Paris injures the doorman. Two groups claimed responsibility for the attack "New Armenian Resistance", "Group of performances (statements) of youth ".
May, 29, 1977. Turkey, Istanbul: A powerful explosion at Istanbul airport Eshilkej kills 5 and injures 42 people, among them a citizen of the USA. Same day a similar bomb exploded in Istanbul's Sirkeci station, killing one and injuring 10. An anonymous caller to France Press news-agency in Athens, Greece, indicated that the "Armenian organization in the name ofMay, 28 " accepts the responsibility for explosion.
June, 6, 1977. Switzerland, Zurich: As a result of powerful explosion the shop belonging to Huseyn Bulbul, a Turkish national was destroyed. No one took the responsibility for the explosion.
June, 9, 1977. Italy, Vatican: Taha Brown, the ambassador of Turkey in the Cathedral (where Daddy serves) was killed by two terrorists before an own residence. Called in news agency in Beirut, the Group of justice for a genocide of Armenian people (DjSAG) has accepted responsibility for an attack.
October, 4, 1977. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: there Was an explosion of a bomb before the house of professor Standorda of Show, the American professor - Jew engaged in a turkish history at the Californian university, Los Angeles. In spite of the fact that nobody has suffered, explosion has involved behind itself significant destructions. Anonymous phone call in News agency Junajted Press Interneshnl (UPI), has informed, that the responsibility and explosion are incured " by the Armenian group - 28 ".
January, 2, 1978. Belgium, Brussels: As a result of a bomb explosion the buildings of a Turkish bank was destroyed. Armenian terrorist group called " New Armenian Resistance" claimed the responsibility for the attack.
June, 2, 1978. Spain, Madrid: Three terrorists armed with the automatic weapon attacked the car of the Turkish ambassador Convicts Kjuneral'p when he was leaving the embassy. Terrorists also killed the wife of the ambassador Nekla Kjuneral'p and the former ambassador Beshir Balsoglu. Driver Antonio Torres a Spaniard citizen received multiple wounds and died shortly after the attack in the hospital. On June 3rd, an anonymous caller indicated that ASALA takes the responsibility for the attack.
December, 6, 1978. Switzerland, Geneva: An explosion causes a great damage to the building of the Turkish consulate. The responsibility is claimed by "Group of new Armenian resistance."
December, 17, 1978. Switzerland, Geneva: Has taken place having dug in a building of the turkish airtransport company in Geneva that has resulted in significant destructions. The responsibility on itself has taken ASALA.
July, 8, 1979. France, Paris: In capital of France 4 explosions of turkish establishments were made: 1. The first bomb has blown up in a building of the turkish airtransport company. 2. The second - in a building the attache on questions of work. 3. The third - in a building of a turkish bureau on tourism. 4. The fourth bomb incorporated in a building of a permanent representative of Turkey on affairs of the Organization of economic cooperation and development, was neutralized by police before explosion. The anonymous caller to France Press news agency has informed, that the terrorist organization DjSAG takes the responsibility for the explosions.
August, 22, 1979. Switzerland, Geneva: A bomb was placed under the car of the Turkish consul in Geneva Niyazi Adaly. Two passers buy were injured. ASALA took the responsibility for explosion.
August, 27, 1979. Federal Republic of Germany, Frankfurt: As a result of an explosion office of a Turkish transportation company in Frankfurt is destroyed. The passenger in a tram passing past has been injured. ASALA took the responsibility for the attack.
October, 4, 1979. Denmark, Copenhagen: As a result of an explosion of the bomb left in a waste basket near the Turkish airlines two people have been injured; explosion has also caused significant damages to the building. ASALA took the responsibility for the attack.
October, 12, 1979. Netherlands, Hague: Ahmet Banler, the 27-years son of the Turkish ambassador (Ozdemir Benler) was killed in his car on a crossroad. Murder Doctor Technical University in Delft has taken place on eyes at 10 eyewitnesses. The criminal has disappeared. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken two terrorist organizations - DjSAG and ASALA.
October, 30, 1979. Italy, Milan: A powerful explosion almost destroys the building of the Turkish airlines. ASALA took the responsibility for the attack.
November, 8, 1979. Italy, Rome: As a result of a powerful explosion the building of the Turkish tourism attaché was seriously damaged. ASALA took the responsibility for the attack.
November, 18, 1979. France, Paris: Three explosions shook the three buildings housing three airlines, Turkish airlines, "KLM", Danish airline company and "Lufthansa" the German airlines. Two French policemen were seriously injured during the attacks. ASALA took the responsibility for all three attacks.
November, 25, 1979. Spain, Madrid: there Were explosions before buildings of the Madrid branch of the American airtransport company and company " British airlines ". Organization ASALA which has accepted responsibility for these explosions has informed, that it was the prevention(warning) to Polu John Polju about that it(he) has cancelled the planned visit to Turkey.
December, 9, 1979. Italy, Rome: In the Centre of Rome there were two explosions as a result of which buildings of American airtransport company " Panama ", the company " WORLD AIR LINES ", companies " British airlines " and companies " Philippine airlines " were damaged(injured). In a result 9 person have received wounds. The responsibility for these explosions was recognized by the group calling " New Armenian Resistance ".
December, 17, 1979. The incorporated Kingdom Great Britain, London: As a result of explosion before the London branch of the turkish airtransport company significant damages were put. The responsibility on itself the group called " has taken Front for clearing of Armenia ".
December, 22, 1979. France, Paris: the Attache on tourism in turkish embassy Elmaz Sholpan, walking on street in people Chance Alice, was killed by the gangster. The responsibility for murder some groups, among them
ASALA, DjSAG and " have undertaken Group of the Armenian insurgents against a genocide ".
December, 22, 1979. Netherlands, Amsterdam: Significant destructions have taken place owing to explosion before a building of the turkish airtransport company. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
December, 23, 1979. Italy, Rome: there Was an explosion before a building of the Centre on questions of refugees at the World Advice(council) of Churches (a board the Dyne) in Rome. This centre was used in quality of "transshipment" item(point) for the Armenian refugees from Lebanon. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA, having warned the Italian authorities about the termination(discontinuance) of activity " Armenian Diaspora ".
December, 23, 1979. Italy, Rome: there Were 3 explosions before buildings of the Roman branch of the French airtransport company and the American airtransport company Trance WORLD AIR LINES owing to what the set of passing by people has received wounds. Having accepted responsibility for explosions, ASALA has declared, that bombs were enclosed(laid) " as a reciprocal measure on repressive attacks of the French authorities against the Armenians living in France ".
January, 10, 1980. Iran, Teheran: there Was an explosion before a building of the turkish airtransport company, entailed for itself significant destructions. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
January, 20, 1980. Spain, Madrid: the Series of the explosions which have entailed behind self set of wounds, has taken place before buildings of the American airtransport company " Trance WORLD AIR LINES ", companies " British airlines ", and also the companies " Swiss Air " and "Sabena". The responsibility for explosions was undertaken by the group calling " Group of justice for a genocide of Armenian people ".
February, 2, 1980. Belgium, Brussels: In the Centre of Brussels before buildings of the turkish airtransport company and Soviet Aeroflot two bombs (within 5 minutes) have blown up. In a communique " the group " has declared New Armenian resistance, that accepts responsibility for both explosions.
February, 6, 1980. Switzerland, Bern: Before a building of Turkish embassy in Bern the terrorist has opened fire on the ambassador of Turkey Dogan Turkmen sitting in the own automobile. The ambassador has received easy wounds. Assumed(prospective) the murderer, the Armenian by name Max Klindjyan, subsequently was arrested in Marseilles and returned to Switzerland for realization of consequence(investigation). The responsibility for an attack was undertaken with terrorist organization DjSAG.
February, 18, 1980. Italy, Rome: As a result of two explosions buildings of three airtransport companies (" Swiss Air ", " Ale Al " and "Lufthansa") were damaged(injured). The responsibility for explosions has undertaken ASALA. Anonymous phone call in the Roman News agency has informed, that three airlines became objects for an attack for the following reasons: a) " Swiss Air " - as the prevention(warning) to the Swiss government to not imprison innocent Armenians. b) "Lufthansa" - to punish the German government which promotes turkish fascism. c) " Ale Al " - in connection with zionist…
March, 10, 1980. Italy, Rome: Buildings of the turkish airtransport company and a turkish bureau on tourism in Rome on Piacjsa Della Republic became objects of two powerful explosions. As a result of a strong blast wave two Italians were lost and 14 have received wounds. The responsibility for explosions the Group has undertaken " new Armenian resistance ".
April, 17, 1980. Italy, Rome: Three Armenian terrorists shot at the ambassador of Turkey in the Cathedral where Daddy serves, Wesdy Turella. The ambassador came near to the residence in the own automobile, it(him) slightly has wounded. At attempt protection and driver Tahsyn Gjuvenchi also have received wounds. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken DjSAG.
May, 19, 1980. France, Marseilles: the rocket aimed at turkish consulate in Marseilles was found out and neutralized. The responsibility on itself has taken ASALA and the group calling " Black April ".
July, 31, 1980. Greece, Athenes: the Attache on questions of management in turkish embassy in Athenes Galib Ozman and his(its) family, being in the machine, have undergone to an attack of the Armenian terrorists. Galib and his(its) 14-years daughter Neslihan were lost. His(its) wife Sevil' and 16-years son Kaan have received wounds. The responsibility for two murders has undertaken ASALA.
August, 5, 1980. France, Lyons: Two terrorists have rushed into a building of turkish consulate in Lyons and have demanded from the door-keeper to show them a site of the consul. Then they have opened fire, therefore two eyewitnesses was lost and have a little received wounds. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken ASALA.
August, 11, 1980. United States of America, New York: " Two false bombs " were thrown before a building of turkish establishment (where the turkish delegation of the United Nations on rights of turkish consulate in New York has settled down). In the letter attached to one of "bombs", it was spoken that the purpose of the given action(share) - " to remind the imperialistic turkish government of the crimes accomplished by them against Armenian people ". The letter was signed: " the Armenian group ".
September, 26, 1980. France, Paris: Twice shot at the adviser of turkish embassy for questions of press in Paris Seljug Bakalbashi when that came to itself(himself) home. Bakalbashi has survived, but owing to wounds appeared paralysed. The responsibility for an attack have undertaken ASALA and the group called " Organization of the Armenian confidential army ".
October, 3, 1980. Switzerland, Geneva: As a result of explosion have received wounds of 2 Armenian terrorists which prepared for a bomb in hotel number in Geneva. The Swiss police has arrested both: Susy Makhseredjyan from Canosa Park, California and Alexander Enikomechijana. Their arrest became an occasion for formation(education) of new "branch" ASALA (groups to which they belonged), named " the Organization October, 3 " which subsequently made attacks on the Swiss establishments worldwide.
October, 3, 1980. Italy, Milan: Two Italians have received wounds as a result of explosion before a building of the turkish airtransport company. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
October, 5, 1980. Spain, Madrid: As a result of explosion buildings of the Italian airline " were destroyed Is scarlet Italy ". 12 person have received wounds. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken " by Confidential Army for Clearing of Armenia ".
October, 6, 1980. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: the House of the turkish general consul in Los Angeles mister Kemalja Arikana have thrown ignite mixes that has resulted in insignificant damages of this building. Anonymous phone call has informed, that explosion was accomplished in a name of Armenians.
October, 10, 1980. Lebanon, Beirut: In the Western Beirut before the Swiss establishments explosions were made. Some days after the group calling " the Organization October, 3 " has taken the responsibility for explosions that other groups making similar actions(shares) in the Swiss establishments of England have made also.
October, 12, 1980. United States of America, New York, staff(state) New York: the Bomb enclosed(laid) in stolen automobile, has blown up before turkish hotel in New York where this machine was parked. As a result of explosion have received wounds 4 Americans, significant damages were put to the next buildings. Group DJCAG, having called representatives of mass media, has accepted responsibility for explosion.
October, 12, 1980. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: As a result of explosion the building of Agency of travel in Hollywood, headed by turk the American origin was destroyed. Terrorist organization DjSAG has accepted responsibility for explosion.
October, 12, 1980. The incorporated Kingdom Great Britain, London: As a result of explosion buildings of a turkish bureau on tourism and information in London were damaged(injured). The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
October, 12, 1980. The incorporated Kingdom Great Britain, London: As a result of explosion the Swiss trading complex in the centre of London was damaged(injured). From phone calls in cable agencies it was found out, that explosion - work " the Organization October, 3-rd ".
October, 13, 1980. France, Paris: As a result of explosion the building of the Swiss bureau on tourism in Paris was damaged(injured). The responsibility on itself was taken by group under the name " the Organization October, 3-rd ".
October, 21, 1980. Switzerland, Interlaken: In the Swiss train following from Paris in Interlaken, not blown up delayed-action bomb was found. Bodies of the law and order believe, that the bomb was enclosed(laid) " by the Organization October, 3-rd ".
November, 4, 1980. Switzerland, Geneva: the Building of the Swiss court in Geneva was strongly damaged(injured) as a result of explosion. The Swiss authorities have declared, that, in their opinion, the bomb is a business of hands of two terrorists from ASALA (Susy Makhseredjyan and Alexander Enikomechijana), prisoners
October, 3, 1980. Subsequently the responsibility for having dug was undertaken " with the Organization October, 3-rd ". November, 9, 1980. France, Strasbourg: As a result of explosion the building of Turkish consulate in Strasbourg was strongly damaged(injured). The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA, working together with the group calling " Turko-kurdish working party(set) ".
November, 10, 1980. Italy, Rome: 5 person have received wounds as a result of explosions of buildings of the Swiss airtransport company in Rome and the Swiss bureau on tourism. The responsibility for explosions was undertaken at once " with the Organization October, 3-rd ". Subsequently the same have made ASALA and " Turko-kurdish working group ".
November, 19, 1980. Italy, Rome: As a result of explosion buildings in which representatives of a bureau on tourism of Turkish embassy and the turkish airtransport company settled down were damaged(injured). The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
November, 25, 1980. Switzerland, Geneva: As a result of explosion damages were put to a building of Association of the Swiss banks in Geneva, thus one person has suffered. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken " with the Organization October, 3-rd ".
December, 5, 1980. France, Marseilles: In Marseilles the police expert has neutralized a bomb enclosed(laid) in the Swiss consulate. Bodies of the law and order believe, that the bomb was incorporated " by the Organization October, 3-rd ".
December, 25, 1980. Switzerland, Zurich: As a result of explosion the control device of radar-tracking installation at airport Kloten (Zurich) was put out of action. The second bomb incorporated on the main runway of the airport, was neutralized by special group of experts. The responsibility was undertaken " with the Organization October, 3-rd ".
December, 29, 1980. Spain, Madrid: the Spanish reporter, participated Has received serious wounds at investigation of the reasons of explosion in a building of the company " Swiss Air " in Madrid (when it(he) told by the phone of data in the newspaper, the second bomb has blown up, just near to that pay phone where it(he) was). The responsibility for two explosions was undertaken " with the Organization October, 3-rd ".
December, 30, 1980. Lebanon, Beirut: In Beirut buildings of company " credit - Suis " were blown up. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken " with the Organization October, 3-rd ".
January, 2, 1981. Lebanon, Beirut: In a communique in press ASALA has acted with threat " fulfilment of attacks on the Swiss diplomats worldwide ". This application was made in reply to ostensibly bad attitude(relation) to " Susy and Alex ", to two terrorists from ASALA, imprisoned in Switzerland. January, 4 ASALA has published the application that they are going to postpone all measures planned by them which do not answer interests Swisses, till
January, 15, 1981 January, 14, 1981. France, Paris: there Was an explosion in the machine of the adviser for the finance of Turkish embassy in Paris Ahmet Erbeyli. Itself Erbeyli has not suffered, but explosion has completely put out of action his(its) machine, and also serious damages were put to the next buildings. The group calling by "Group Aleksa Enikomechijana", has taken the responsibility for explosion.
January, 27, 1981. Italy, Milan: As a result of explosions buildings of the company " Swiss Air " and a bureau on tourism in Milan were damaged(injured). Two passing by Italians have received wounds. Having called to local representatives of mass media, " the Organization October, 3-rd " has accepted responsibility for explosion.
February, 3, 1981. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: the Special group of experts from Los Angeles neutralized a bomb enclosed(laid) under ladders at an input(entrance) in Swiss consulate. Anonymous phone call has let know, that it is work " the Organization October, 3-rd ", and also has promised, that similar actions(shares) will proceed up to those, yet will not release " our friend " (Susy Makhseredjyan).
February, 5, 1981. France, Paris: As a result of explosions of the bombs enclosed(laid) in buildings of the American airtransport company in Paris (" Grand World Air Lines ") and the French airline, one person has received wound, and also significant damages were put. The group naming " the Armenian National Movement
October, 3-rd ", has accepted responsibility for explosions.
March, 4, 1981. France, Paris: Two terrorists have opened fire on to Roshat Morals (the attache on questions of work in Turkish embassy in Paris), Tesell Ari (the responsible(crucial) person on affairs of religion in embassy) and Ilkay Karakosh (to the representative " Anadolu Bank " in Paris) when they left from Morals and sat in the machines. The first bullet has overtaken Teselli Ari. Morals and Karakosh have tried to be rescued by flight. Morals which wanted was to hide in cafe, was will push out on street the owner and it is shot by terrorists while Karakosh it was possible to be rescued. Terrorists who were seen with many passing by people, have disappeared. Teselli Ari which have seriously wounded right at the beginning of an attack, has died next day in the Parisian hospital. The group from ASALA " Shakhan Natali " has accepted responsibility for murder.
March, 12, 1981. Iran, Teheran: the Group of terrorists has attacked turkish embassy in Teheran; two escorts were killed. Two from criminals were caught by local authorities and later are executed. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken ASALA.
April, 3, 1981. Denmark, Copenhagen: the Attache on questions of work in turkish embassy in Copenhagen Kavit Demir, coming late at night to itself home, was executed by shooting the terrorist. After series of operations seriously wounded Demir has recovered. The responsibility for an attack was undertaken by the Armenian terrorists both from ASALA, and from DjSAG.
June, 3, 1981. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: Explosion of the bomb enclosed(laid) in " the Centre Anaheim konven " has suspended representation which the Turkish ensemble of national dance gave. The next days threat of similar explosions in San Francisco has made also impossible representation of group of Northern California.
June, 9, 1981. Switzerland, Geneva: the Secretary of Turkish consulate in Geneva Mehmet Savash Eryuz, leaving from consulate, was killed by the terrorist. The murderer, the Armenian by name Martit Djamgochyan, was arrested by authorities. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken ASALA. Arrest Djamgochyan has served as an occasion for formation(education) of the new group ASALA named " the Organization June, 9 " in which active subsequently there were some explosions of the Swiss establishments both in Switzerland, and in other European countries.
June, 11, 1981. France, Paris: the Group of the Armenian terrorists headed by Aroy Toranyan, has borrowed(occupied) a building of the Turkish airtransport company in Paris. If in the beginning authorities did not pay to them special attention then terrorists, supporters ASALA, were turned out from the places seized by them for what official protests from Turkish embassy have followed.
June, 19, 1981. Iran, Teheran: Explosion of a small bomb in a building of the Teheran branch of the company " Swiss Air " has caused easy damages. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group from ASALA " the Organization June, 9-th ".
June, 26, 1981. United States of America, Los Angeles, California: Before a building of the Swiss corporation of banks in Los Angeles there was an explosion of a small bomb. The responsibility for it was undertaken " with the Organization June, 9-th ".
July, 19, 1981. Switzerland, Bern: there Was an explosion of the bomb put in a garbage can in a building of the Swiss parliament in Bern. Subsequently the anonymous bell has informed, that it is work " the Organizations
June, 9-th ". July, 20, 1981. Switzerland, Zurich: there Was an explosion in the photoautomatic device at the International airport in Zurich. The responsibility was undertaken " with the Organization June, 9-th ".
July, 21, 1981. Switzerland, Lausanne: As a result of explosion in a department of lady's wear of department store of Lausanne of 20 customers have received wounds. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group ASALA " the Organization June, 9-th ".
July, 22, 1981. Switzerland, Geneva: 4 persons have received wounds as a result of explosion of the bomb enclosed(laid) in an automatic left-luggage office at station in Geneva. Bodies of the law and order make responsible for this action(share) on " the Organization June, 9-th ".
August, 11, 1981. Denmark, Copenhagen: As a result of explosion of two bombs the building of the company " Swiss Air " in Copenhagen was destroyed. One American tourist is wounded. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken " the Organization June, 9-th ".
August, 20, 1981. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: there Was an explosion of a small explosive before a building of the Swiss corporations of exact devices in Los Angeles. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group from ASALA " the Organization June, 9-th ".
August, 20, 1981. France, Paris: Early in the morning there was an explosion which has resulted(brought) in damage of a building of the Parisian branch of the company " Is scarlet Italy " " Air Lines ". Anonymous phone call has informed, that the responsibility for explosion is incured " with the Organization of the Armenian movement October, 3-rd ".
August, 22, 1981. France, Paris: Early in the morning there was an explosion before a building of the Parisian branch of the company " Olimpic Air Lines, ". Anonymous phone call has informed, that the responsibility is incured " with the Armenian Organization October, 3-rd ".
September, 15, 1981. Denmark, Copenhagen: Two persons have received wounds (one of them - serious) as a result of explosion before a building of the turkish airtransport company in Copenhagen. The police managed to neutralize before explosion the second bomb. The responsibility was undertaken by group under the name " the Sixth Armenian liberation army ".
September, 17, 1981. Iran, Teheran: As a result of explosion the building of the Swiss embassy in Teheran was damaged(injured). The responsibility on itself was taken by group from ASALA " the Organization June, 9-th ".
September, 24, 1981. France, Paris: Four Armenian terrorists have borrowed(occupied) Turkish consulate in Paris. Entering in consulate, they have seriously wounded consul Kaja Inala and of the representative of security service Semalja Ozena. Terrorists have grasped 56 hostages. Two criminals thus have received easy wounds. In a result terrorists have allowed to send wounded Inal and Ozen in hospital where Ozen has died from wounds. When the requirement of terrorists to release(exempt) " the Armenian political prisoners in Turkey " was rejected, they have asked " the status of political prisoners " and have surrendered to the French authorities. All four terrorists appeared Armenians from Lebanon, members ASALA.
October, 3, 1981. Switzerland, Geneva: As a result of explosion buildings Post Office and City court of Geneva were destroyed. Appeared, that in this court litigation on business about the murder, accomplished(perfect) by one of members ASALA should be held. The responsibility for explosion at which one person has received easy wounds, the group from ASALA " the Organization June, 9-th " has undertaken.
October, 25, 1981. Italy, Rome: the Terrorist accomplished attempt at the second secretary of Turkish embassy in Rome Erberk Ergenekon. Wounded in hand Ergenekon has left the machine and has opened reciprocal fire on the terrorist. The terrorist, being wounded, has managed to disappear from a place of incident. ASALA has accepted responsibility for the attempt accomplished in honour " Group of condemned men September, 24-th ", that is in honour of terrorists ASALA which has borrowed(occupied) Turkish consulate in Paris.
October, 25, 1981. France, Paris: As a result of explosions at luxurious French restaurant " Fuks " on Shame Elize (Eliseyskie fields) have received wounds three workers. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group " September France ".
October, 26, 1981. France, Paris: there Was an explosion of a bomb in the machine specially enclosed(laid) by luxurious pharmaceutical shop on Shame Elize (Eliseyskie fields). The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group " September France ".
October, 27, 1981. France, Paris: As a result of explosion on parking of automobiles at Parisian airport " Ruasi " the machine facing to a number(line) was put out of action. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group " September France ".
October, 27, 1981. France, Paris: the Second bomb has blown up in a urn about the escalator overflown with people at airport " Ruasi ". Victims as a result of explosion was not. The responsibility on itself was taken by group " September France ".
October, 28, 1981. France, Paris: Three persons have received wounds as a result of explosion at the Parisian cinema overflown with people. The responsibility on itself was taken by group " Sepmetber France ".
November, 3, 1981. Spain, Madrid: Three persons have received wounds as a result of explosion before a building of the company " Swiss Air " in Madrid. The responsibility for the explosion which has resulted(brought) in damage of the next buildings, has undertaken ASALA.
November, 5, 1981. France, Paris: At the Parisian station " Gar de Lyons " has taken place explosion as a result of which one person has received wounds; left-luggage offices of luggage were considerably damaged(injured). Subsequently the responsibility for explosion was taken with the Armenian terrorist organization calling " Organization Orli ".
November, 12, 1981. Lebanon, Beirut: bombs before three French establishments in Beirut Simultaneously have blown up: a) The French cultural centre; b) A building of the company " Air France "; c) The house of the French consul. Thus nobody has suffered, the significant material damage only was put. The responsibility on itself " Organization Orli " (named so in honour of the Armenian has taken, the prisoner at French airport Orli on accusation of use of false documents) and have demanded immediate clearing from under guards of Squanderer Melkonjana, of the Armenian of the American origin detained in France accused of diversions.
November, 14, 1981. France, Paris: As a result of explosion the machine facing about Tour d'Eiffel in Paris was damaged(injured). By the phone it was informed, that the responsibility for explosion lays on " Organization Orli ", and that it was " the first prevention(warning) ".
November, 14, 1981. France, Paris: the Group of tourists landed on a coast after travel on the river Hay, was met by squall a pomegranate. Nobody has suffered. The responsibility for an attack was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
November, 15, 1981. France, Paris: " Organization Orli ", having acted in press, was threatened to blow up in air the plane, belonging company " Air France ".
November, 16, 1981. France, Paris: Two persons have received wounds as a result of explosion of the bomb enclosed(laid) in a left-luggage office of luggage in a building of the Parisian station " Gar de Lest ", that also has brought a material damage. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
November, 18, 1981. France, Paris: " Organization Orli " has declared that in a building of the Parisian station " Gar du the North " the bomb is enclosed(laid). However any explosives there it was revealed not .
November, 20, 1981. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: As a result of explosion the building of Turkish consulate in Beverli Hill was destroyed, that has put a significant material damage. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken with Armenian terrorist organization DjSAG.
January, 13, 1982. Canada, Toronto: As a result of explosion the building of Turkish consulate in Toronto was damaged(injured). The responsibility on themselves was taken by terrorists from ASALA.
January, 17, 1982. Switzerland, Geneva: In Geneva about parking motor vehicles two bombs have blown up. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken by group from ASALA " the Organization June, 3-rd ".
January, 17, 1982. France, Paris: In branch of Association of the Parisian banks there was an explosion: the second explosive was neutralized in branch " the Credit Lyons ". The responsibility was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
January, 19, 1982. France, Paris: In Paris in a building of the company " Air France " in the Palace of the Congress there was an explosion, the responsibility for which was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
January, 28, 1982. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: On road for work the turkish General consul in Los Angeles Kemal Arikan was killed by two terrorists. One of murderers Hamtig Sasunjan (the 19-years immigrant from Lebanon), was arrested, is condemned and recognized guilty of a crime later. Now it(he) leaves life imprisonment in the Californian prison a dignity - Kventin. His(its) accomplice, under assumptions Krikor Saliba, has escaped to Lebanon. The responsibility for murder was undertaken with terrorist Armenian organization DjSAG.
March, 22, 1982. United States of America, Cambridge, staff(state) of Massachusettses. Was blown up gift shop Orana Gjundjuza, the honourable Turkish consul in Boston; as a result of explosion Gunduz was seriously wounded. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken DjSAG.
March, 26, 1982. Lebanon, Beirut: In the Armenian quarter as a result of powerful explosion the cinema (in which turkish films frequently were shown) was destroyed; two persons are killed and more than 16 have received wounds. The responsibility for explosion has undertaken ASALA.
April, 8, 1982. Canada, Ottawa: Kani Gungor, the trading attache in Turkish embassy in Ottawa, was seriously wounded by the Armenian terrorists who have attacked him(it) in garage at his(its) apartments. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken ASALA.
April, 24, 1982. Federal Republic of Germany, Dortmund: As a result of explosion significant damages have received buildings of several turkish business concerns. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken with " the Organization of new Armenian resistance ".
May, 4, 1982. United States of America, Cambridge, staff(state) of Massachusettses: Orhan Gunduz, the honourable turkish consul in Boston, was killed in the own machine by the Armenian terrorist. The responsibility for an attack was undertaken by group DzhSaG. In spite of the fact that the president of USA Ronald Rejgan has called for prosecution of all persons who have made murders, nevertheless, nobody was arrested.
May, 10, 1982. Switzerland, Geneva: there Were explosions in two Geneva banks. The responsibility for the explosions which have put a significant material damage, is recognized the Armenian group calling " Organization of general payment ".
May, 18, 1982. United States of America, Tampa, staff(state) Florida: Nesh Karahan, the honourable turkish consul in Tampa, has reflected attempt of two Armenian terrorists to penetrate into a building of consulate (having in stock the weapon).
May, 26, 1982. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: As a result of explosion the building of the Swiss corporation of banks was damaged(injured). It is supposed, that 4 Armenians were involved in this action(share) from Southern California (Viken Charkatun, Khrach Kozibukyan, Stranich Kozibukyan and Vrant Chirinyan): all four were accused that were members ASALA.
May, 30, 1982. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: Three Armenians of the American origin, members ASALA, were arrested in connection with put forward against them accusation that they enclosed(laid) an explosive before a building of cargo branch of the company " Air Canada " at the international airport of Los Angeles. Bombs the police of Los Angeles was neutralized by members of branch special group.
June, 7, 1982. Portugal, Lisbon: Before the own house the terrorist were killed the attache on administrative questions of Turkish embassy in Lisbon Erkut Akbay and his(its) wife Nadida Akbaj. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken DjSAG.
July, 1, 1982. Netherlands, Rotterdam: Four Armenian terrorists (one of which was detained by the Danish police) shot at the turkish general consul in Amsterdam Kemalettin Demirer, directed to the machine in consulate Demirer has not suffered. The responsibility for attempt was undertaken earlier by the unknown group calling " Armenian Red Army "
July, 21, 1982. France, Paris: 16 person have received wounds as a result of explosion about the Parisian cafe overflown with people on area Sent Sevrin. The responsibility for explosion was undertaken with " Organization Orli " which has declared, that it was payment that the French authorities have not constrained the " the promise to give a political asylum to four terrorists, grasping
September, 24, 1981 turkish consulate ".
July, 26, 1982. France, Paris: Two women have received wounds as a result of explosion in Parisian " Pub Saint German ". The responsibility was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
August, 2, 1982. France, Paris: Pierre Gulumjan, under the assumption the Armenian terrorist, was lost in the Parisian apartment (probably, at explosion of a bomb which itself prepared).
August, 7, 1982. Turkey, Ankara: airport "Esenboga " in which two Armenian terrorists armed with a pistol and pomegranates, have opened fire in a waiting room of passengers where there was a weight to people Has undergone to attack Ankara. At restaurant of the airport one of terrorists has grasped more than 20 hostages, and another in the meantime was seized by police. During firing with the terrorist, grasping hostages, were killed 9 person (among their one American and the citizen of Germany). 82 persons have received wounds. The responsibility for an attack has undertaken ASALA. Detained terrorist Levon Ekmekdzhjan subsequently was involved in the judicial responsibility, recognized guilty and executed for participation in an attack.
August, 8, 1982. France, Paris: French group successfully neutralized a bomb found about the telephone centre in Parisian " the seventeenth area ". The responsibility was undertaken with " Organization Orli ".
August, 12, 1982. France, Paris: the Armenian terrorists have opened fire on a policeman, put to protect turkish the attache on tourism in Paris. However the policeman has not suffered. Any group on itself has not taken the responsibility for an attack.
August, 27, 1982. Canada, Ottawa: the Military attache in turkish embassy in Ottawa colonel Atilla Altikat was killed at bombardment of his(its) machine stopped at a traffic light in Ottawa. The responsibility for murder was undertaken with Armenian terrorist organization DjSAG.
September, 9, 1982. Bulgaria, Burgas: Pine forest Suelkan, the attache on administrative questions in turkish consulate in Burgas was killed by the terrorist before the own house. The murderer has disappeared, thus having left after themselves a sheet of a paper on which the following words were written: " the Turkish diplomat was killed by we: combat parts of justice against a genocide of Armenian people ". Anonymous phone call in news agency Assoshiejted Press in London has informed that murder was accomplished ASALA.
October, 26, 1982. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: Five persons of the Armenian origin were brought to trial on accusation of preparation of explosion at consulate of Turkey in Philadelphia, staff(state) Pennsylvania. Into their plan entered to enclose(lay) an explosive in a study of consul Kanot Arbej. Five detained Armenians - natives of Los Angeles, earlier arested for an accessory(a belonging) to Armenian terrorist organization DjSAG.
December, 8, 1982. Greece, Athenes: Two Armenians on a motorcycle have thrown a bomb in branch of airlines of Saudi Arabia in Athenes. As a result of explosion of a bomb one of terrorists was lost. His(its) accomplice, the Armenian of the Iranian origin by name Vakhekh Kontaverdiyan, was arrested on accusation of the organization of explosion. However it(he) has refused to give the further indications.
January, 21, 1983. United States of America, Anaheim, staff(state) California: nine "self-made" ignite bombs it was confiscated from the pekarja-Armenian in Anaheim after one of detonators was spontaneously ignited, having caused a fire. The owner, the Armenian by name Khagop Andisyan, has declared, that it(he) was not frightened.
January, 22, 1983. France, Paris: the French police has found out 1 kg of explosive in cash department of turkish airlines at airport Orli in Paris. ASALA has accepted responsibility for this action(share).
January, 22, 1983. France, Paris: Two terrorists have thrown manual pomegranates branch of turkish airlines in Paris. As a result of explosions nobody has suffered, and one of terrorists was arrested. ASALA has taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
February, 2, 1983. Belgium, Brussels: explosions in representations of turkish airlines in Brussels were made. " The New Armenian Organization of Resistance " is responsible(crucial) for this action(share).
February, 28, 1983. Luxembourg: the Explosive incorporated before embassy of Turkey, was revealed and is neutralized. The Armenian reporter in the Armenian newspaper in New York has informed, that the group known as " New Armenian Organization of Resistance ", in the the communique takes the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
February, 28, 1983. France, Paris: the Bomb which has been blown up in branch of turkish firm " Marmara Travel Agency " in Paris has killed to Rhone Morina - the French secretary, and also has wounded other nine French. As a result of explosion the building has seriously suffered. In some minutes after explosion ASALA has taken the responsibility for the action(share) on itself.
March, 9, 1983. Yugoslavia, Belgrade: In the centre of Belgrade two Armenian terrorists have prepared an attack on the turkish ambassador as a result of whom was lost Galip Balkar - the ambassador of Turkey in Belgrade. His(its) driver Nekati Kejer was wounded in a stomach. At attempt to disappear, terrorists were detained by citizens of Yugoslavia. One of terrorists a shot has wounded the Yugoslavian colonel, in turn the terrorist too was wounded and detained by a policeman in civil clothes. The second terrorist, has opened fire on the citizens, trying to detain it(him), in result one student was lost and the girl is wounded. For this action(share) the responsibility has undertaken DjSAG. Both terrorists Krikor Levonjan and Rafi El'bekjan were brought to trial and condemned by the Yugoslavian authorities.
March, 31, 1983. Federal Republic Germany, Frankfurt: In the German branch of turkish newspaper "Tercuman?" in Frankfurt the anonymous bell from ASALA was distributed. Calling threatened to arrange explosion if not publications against " the Armenian affair " will be stopped.
May, 24, 1983. Belgium, Brussels: explosions before cultural - information centres of Turkish embassy, and also turkish travelling agency ("Marmara" in Brussels were carried out. The director of agencies of travel, the Italian on a nationality, was wounded as a result of explosion. ASALA it is responsible(crucial) for this action(share).
June, 16, 1983. Turkey, Istanbul: the Armenian terrorists have undertaken the action(share) on world famous " a covered Istanbul market ". They were armed with manual pomegranates and the automatic weapon. As a result of this action(share) were lost: two turk and one terrorist, and also twenty one person were wounded. ASALA has taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
July, 8, 1983. France, Paris: the Armenian terrorists attacked a building of the British embassy (Official British cultural representation), made to the protest concerning court a hell the Armenian terrorists in London.
July, 14, 1983. Belgium, Brussels: the Attache at embassy of Turkey in Brussels Dursun Aksoy was shot in the machine. Three groups - ASALA, DjSAG and hitherto the unknown organization " the Armenian Revolutionary Army ", have accepted responsibility for this murder.
July, 15, 1983. France, Paris: At cash department of turkish airlines in Paris at airport Orli as a result of explosion was lost 8 person. Among them four French, two turks, one American, one Swede. Besides 60 person have received wounds. 29 old years the syrian Armenian by name Varodjan Garabedyan which is the chapter of French branch ASALA, has recognized the participation in the organization of explosion, and also that the bomb should be blown up onboard the plane.
July, 15, 1983. The incorporated Kingdom Great Britain, London: the Bomb, same, as well as that was blown up in Orli, is found out and neutralized before explosion. ASALA has declared the responsibility for this action(share).
July, 18, 1983. France, Lyons: threat from ASALA in which they warned of the organization of explosion by the Lyons railway Has acted(arrived).
uly, 20, 1983. France, Lyons: threat from the Armenian terrorists has acted(arrived) to blow up station Perash by the Lyons railway that has caused hasty evacuation. ASALA it is responsible(crucial) for these threats.
July, 22, 1983. Iran, Teheran: two explosions in the French embassy and in representation " Air France " in Teheran were made. ASALA has declared, that " Organization Orli " is responsible(crucial) for the action(share).
July, 27, 1983. Portugal, Lisbon: the Group of five Armenian terrorists has made attempt to take storm Turkish embassy in Lisbon. However having failed to break and having remained in desperate position, they have borrowed(occupied) an apartment of deputy head of mission, having taken in hostages his(its) wife and children. When the explosive was established, Kahid Mihcioglu (the wife of the assistant) was killed together with four terrorists. Assistant Jurtiv Mihchioglu and his(its) son Agasoj were wounded. The fifth terrorist was killed in firing with representatives of turkish forces of safety. One Portuguese policeman also was killed, and another is wounded. ARA it is responsible(crucial) for this action(share).
July, 28, 1983. France, Lyons: threat that at station Perrash of the Lyons railway the explosive is incorporated Once again has acted(arrived). It has resulted in evacuation of the population. Calling has specified, that for the action(share) it is responsible(crucial) ASALA. After a long search it was not possible to find any explosive.
July, 29, 1983. Iran, Teheran: threat to blow up embassy of France in Teheran rocket attack Has acted(arrived). The Teheran authorities had to strengthen protection. Threat has acted(arrived) from " Organization Orli " which demands clearing 21 Armenian prisoners in France.
July, 31, 1983. France, Lyons and Rhein: Threat about explosion of the bomb, acted(arrived) from the Armenian terrorists, has forced authorities in an extra hurry arrived two planes which are carrying out flight on internal airlines with 424 passengers onboard. Planes have landed in Lyons and Rhein. At a search of planes of explosives it was revealed not .
August, 10, 1983. Iran, Teheran: the machine Filled by an explosive was blown up at the French embassy in Teheran. ASALA it is responsible(crucial) for this action(share). August, 17, 1983. Iran, Teheran: the Representative " Air France " in Teheran was executed by shooting in the automobile from the automatic weapon. ASALA it is responsible(crucial) for this action(share).
August, 27, 1983. Federal Republic Germany: Branches of the French consulate have strongly suffered as a result of explosion of a bomb. By a blast wave it was killed two persons and twenty three were wounded. ASALA the responsibility for this explosion on itself is languid.
September, 9, 1983. Iran, Teheran: In Teheran two ambassadorial machines were blown up. As a result of this action(share) two employees of embassy have suffered. ASALA has taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
October, 1, 1983. France, Marseilles: As a result of explosion of a bomb by a blast wave pavilions of the USSR, USA and Algeria on the International trade fair were damaged(injured). In result one person was lost and twenty six were wounded. " Organization Orli " has taken the responsibility on itself.
October, 6, 1983. Iran, Teheran: the Automobile of the French embassy was blown up in Teheran. Two passengers have received wounds as a result of explosion. " Organization Orli " has accepted responsibility for this action(share).
October, 29, 1983. Lebanon, Beirut: the automobile has approached(dropped in) On the French embassy in Beirut, he(it) was left by the person and has stopped manual to a pomegranate on a ladder platform at an input(entrance) of embassy. The terrorist was detained by representatives of security services, but his(its) accomplices managed to run. ASALA has taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
February, 8, 1984. France, Paris: the prevention(warning) from the terrorist in whom it is spoken Has acted(arrived), that the explosive is incorporated in the plane " Air France ", taking off at 13 to New York. Flight were compelled to detain on one and a half. The careful search has not revealed an explosive.
March, 28, 1984. Iran, Teheran: a series of the planned attempts at diplomats of Turkey in the Iranian capital Teheran was undertaken. The following incidents took place: a) Two Armenian terrorists have fired and have hardly wounded Ismail Pamukchu. The senior sergeant was delivered in branch of the turkish militarian the attache in Teheran. ASALA has accepted responsibility for performance of this action(share); b) Hasan Servet Oktem, the first secretary of the ambassador of Turkey, was easily wounded as a result of the attempt of attempt undertaken by terrorists when it(he) left the house; c) Ibrahim Ozdemir - the administrative attache of embassy of Turkey has informed the Iranian policeman about two persons of a suspicious exterior worth opposite his(its) houses. They were detained by the Iranian authorities; d) At two o'clock in the afternoon by the Iranian police were detained three Armenian terrorists who are taking place before representation of Turkish embassy; e) The Armenian terrorist was lost as a result of premature explosion of a bomb which it(he) tried to build in in the automobile of the assistant to the adviser for financial questions at Turkish embassy. Adviser Ishil Unel' has not suffered. The lost terrorist was identified, as the Armenian by name Sultan Gregorjan Semaperdan.
March, 29, 1984. United States of America, Los Angeles, staff(state) California: In turkish consulate in Los Angeles the letter containing threat of punishment above turkish sportsmen in case of their participation in Los-Angeles to Olympiad was delivered. Threat is signedASALA.
April, 8, 1984. Lebanon, Beirut: In Beirut ASALA has let out the communique in which warns all international airlines having flights to Turkey that they will be regarded as military targets.
April, 26, 1984. Turkey, Ankara: it was declared, that the prime minister of Turkey Turgut Ozal has received the letter with threat. In the letter of it(him) warn that if it(he) will not refuse the planned visit to Teheran, ASALA will undertake a number(line) of acts of terrorism against his(its) country.
April, 28, 1984. Iran, Teheran: Two Armenian terrorists on a motorcycle have opened fire on the machine behind which rudder was Ishyk Yonder which carried wife Sadije Jonder in embassy where she(it) worked as the secretary. As a result of this attempt was lost Ishyk Yonder. The responsibility for murder has undertaken ASALA.
June, 20, 1984. Austria, Vienna: the Automobile belonging Erdogan Ozen, to the valid assistant to the adviser for social questions at turkish embassy in Vienna, was blown up. As a result of explosion was lost Ozen, and other five citizens (including two Austrian policemen) were seriously wounded. For this action(share) the responsibility was undertaken with terrorist organization ARA.
June, 25, 1984. United States of America: the Agency of news in Paris has received the letter signed ASALA in which she(it) threatens with strikes on all governmental organizations and the companies which somehow will promote participation of Turkey in Olympic games in Los Angeles.
August, 13, 1984. France, Lyons: At the Lyons railway station the explosion causing insignificant damage was made. ASALA has taken the responsibility for execution(performance) of this action(share) on itself.
September, 1984. Iran, Teheran: Some the turkish companies in Iran were subjected to attacks after they have received a number(line) of letters - threats in which them warned, that they are a target. First such action(share) was undertaken against the largest turkish building company " Sezai Turkish Fevzi Akkaya Company ". In branch of this company the explosive charge was thrown. The turkish worker has suffered during struggle against fire caused by a blast wave.
September, 1, 1984. Iran, Teheran: the Iranian authorities have declared, that they open the plan of attempt of the Armenian terrorists for the turkish ambassador in Iran Ismet Birsel.
September, 3, 1984. Turkey, Istanbul: Explosion of the machine parked near of a palace Trestle beds in Istanbul, has killed two Lebanese Armenians. The investigation carried out(spent) by authorities has shown, that they were killed as a result of premature explosion of a bomb which tried to put in pawn. Terrorist organization
ARA bears the responsibility for this explosion.
November, 19, 1984. Austria, Vienna: Turk on nationality Enver Ergun, working in the Viennese branch " the Centre on social and to humanitarian questions of the United Nations ", was killed in the automobile at a traffic light when it(he) waited green light. In the automobile the piece of a material with initials ARA which was thrown in the machine was found out.
December, 1984. Belgium, Brussels: the Belgian authorities are compelled to continue investigation of attempt of explosion of apartment Seljug Inchiu, the employee of turkish embassy in Brussels. The police has found out an explosive opposite to an apartment. Any group has not declared the responsibility for this action(share).
December, 25, 1984. Lebanon, Beirut: Two French buildings in east Beirut were undermined. ASALA has taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
December, 29, 1984. France, Paris: After receipt from ASALA threats about explosion of the plane " Air France ", the police has strengthened protection of the airport " Charles De Gol " in Paris.
January, 3, 1985. Lebanon, Beirut: Branches of agency Frans-Press in the Western Beirut were seriously damaged(injured) as a result of explosion. ASALA has declared the responsibility for this action(share).
January, 3, 1985. Lebanon, Beirut: the Group of military sappers has found out and has neutralized 6 pounds of the explosive burried at an input(entrance) in " the ex - Lebanese bank " in area Ramlet of scarlet - Bajda Western Beirut. ASALA has declared the responsibility for this action(share).
March, 3, 1985. France, Paris: the Anonymous bell belonging to representative ASALA, threatens with prosecution of the French interests worldwide. The bell which was given out in Agency Frans-Press, is addressed to the French authorities in connection with adjudgment to three terrorists participating in actions(shares) in Orli.
March, 12, 1985. Canada, Ottawa: Three Armenian terrorists armed up to teeth stormed Turkish embassy in Ottawa, having killed the Canadian agents of security service of agency " Pinkerton " during firing. Then, having blown up a street door an explosive, armed people have rushed into a building. Ambassador Dzhoshkunu Kirsa managed to jump out of a window of the second floor. Having received a serious trauma at falling, it(he) has remained to lay on the ground within four hours surround. At last stay (among which there was a wife and the daughter of the ambassador), taking place in hostages, were released(exempted) safe. Terrorists were surrounded. ARA has declared the responsibility for this action(share). Three above mentioned terrorists expect court in Canada. March, 26, 1985. Canada, Toronto: Threat to blow up system of transportations in Toronto has acted(arrived) from the Armenian terrorist organization. It has resulted in mass amplification(strengthening) of security measures in Toronto. Movement of transport in rush hours during inspection by police of the underground in searches of an explosive. The responsibility for this threat lays on the organization calling " the Armenian Confidential Army for Clearing of the native Land ".
November, 1985. Belgium, Brussels: the Special group of the Belgian police on struggle against terrorism has arrested two suspicious Armenian terrorists (having the Portuguese passports) at an apartment of osmanli Turk Orkeja, of the representative of Turkey in the NATO in Brussels. Investigation proceeds.
November, 28, 1985. France, Paris: the French police has arrested the American Armenian, the leader of the terrorist organization known as " the Armenian Confidential Army for Clearing of Armenia - revolutionary movement " (ASALA - .) Monte Melkonyan. Melkonyan from area the Frino staff(state) California, in the past was aide-de-camp Hagol Hagopjana (founder ASALA), then, outlet from numbers(lines) ASALA it(he) has created ASALA - ., assisting ASALA in operation at airport Orli. With Arabian and middle East political prisoners (KSAMEPP) has lead(carried out) four explosions in various areas of the French capital. Demand clearing from the conclusion of terrorist ASALA Varodjan Garabedyan which the conclusion in France leaves. Most likely, is rather strong ally of the Armenian and Arabian terrorists.
March, 17, 1986. France, Lyons: In the express train Lyons - Paris, the bomb was blown up. KSAMEPP and ASALA have taken the responsibility for this action(share) on itself.
March, 20, 1986. France, Paris: the explosive incorporated in a building Parisian trading Centre Is blown up. Two was lost and about(near) 30 it is wounded. For this action(share) it is responsible(crucial) KSAMEPP, again repeated the requirement to let out Varodjan Garabedyan, condemned on business about explosion at cash department of turkish airlines at airport Orli.
September, 4, 1986. France, Paris: the Detonator of the explosive incorporated in the Parisian train, has not worked, and the explosive was neutralized, after all passengers were evacuated. KSAMEPP has declared the responsibility for this action(share), again having repeated the requirement to release(exempt) three terrorists ASALA, switching Varodjan Garabedyan.
September, 9, 1986. France, Paris: the Building " Paris City Hall " shivered from explosion. The worker of post service was killed, other 18 citizens are wounded. For this explosion the responsibility has undertaken KSAMEPP, again declared about the requirement to let out from under conclusion Varodjan Garabedyan and two other terrorists KSAMEPP.
September, 10-15, 1986. France, Paris: a Series of explosions of bombs in Paris has resulted in death of two and wound hundred person. KSAMEPP has taken the responsibility for these explosions on itself.
September, 16, 1986. France, Paris: Five person are killed and 52 are wounded as a result of explosion of the bomb incorporated by terrorists KSAMEPP in quarter Monparnass of the French capital. Terrorists have repeated the requirement to release(exempt) from the conclusion of terrorist ASALA Varodjan Garabedyan and two other terrorists from organization KSAMEPP.
October, 9, 1986. Lebanon, Beirut: the Armenian Confidential Army for Clearing of Armenia (ASALA) has delivered in the western agency of news in Beirut the handwritten application warning of toughening of measures, directed against France in case Varodjan Garabedya and other two middle East terrorists will not be released(exempted). In the document it is underlined, that ASALA will direct the impacts on the French planes, the airports, the ships, trains and diplomats in for police roads on apartments of Armenians in France. Further they foretell France shiver her(it) " the additional explosions cause some more the big damage and horrifying consequences " if Garabedyan it will not be issued on freedom. No, that threats ASALA could be executed, - it is not necessary to forget, that this Armenian terrorist organization has taken part in preparation of set of actions(shares), shivered Paris in September, lossed lifes tens people and wounded more than 160.
October, 15, 1986. Lebanon, Beirut: Three terrorists ASALA led by the representative of organization Mikhran Mikhranyan have met the French journalist in capital of Lebanon where they have repeated the threat that actions(shares) against France will continue in case their made comrades will not be released(exempted). They have declared negotiations with French to authorities and their representative Mihran Mihranjan has specified: " we wait for execution(performance) by the French authorities of the promise (to release(exempt) Garabedyan). Otherwise we shall continue our actions(shares) which, we can you to assure, will be even more severe. ASALA already has declared the French representatives in the world military enemies. We challenge Shirac and we promise Mitteran accidents, in a case not performance of the promise given to him(it), that political prisoners will be released(exempted) ".
November, 1986. France, Paris: the Wool of the Armenian terrorists from " the Armenian Revolutionary Army " (ARA) Canada " in Paris occupied a building " Air as a token of the protest against adjudgment to three Armenian terrorists in Canada. They barricaded in a building and only in one hour polices have surrendered.
November, 23 1986. Australia, Melbourne: the machine Filled by an explosive was blown up at Turkish consulate in this Australian city. As a result of explosion one person was lost and the significant damage is caused to a five-floor building. Subsequently the identified victim appeared a criminal of Armenian origin Kharop Levonyan His(its) accomplice Levon Demirjan from Victoria, was arrested on accusation of installation of a bomb later. For this act of terrorism the responsibility was undertaken by the group naming " Greko-Bolgaro-Armjansky front (GBAF) ". It was the first case of a mention of the Armenian terrorist organization under such name.
January, 19, 1987. Australia, Brisbane: In post sorting branch the package with a bomb therefore has suffered six person was blown up. The responsibility for this action(share) the group, called has undertaken "Greko-Bolgaro-Armjansky front".
January, 20, 1987. Greece, Athenes: On the occasion of twelfth anniversary ASALA addressed from the staff in Athenes the reference(manipulation) to Armenians. The message proceeding apparently from political management(manual) ASALA, located in Athenes of " Modern Armenian movement ", names names of enemies of Armenian people in the person " the Turkish fascist state and forces of the international imperialism supporting it(him) and zionism … ". Message ASALA has received a wide circulation in the Greek press, switching government the English-speaking daily newspaper of " Athenes News " which publishes fragments from communique ASALA.
February, 11, 1987. Lebanon, Beirut: the Communique, issued in capital of Lebanon, confirms responsibility ASALA for explosions in Paris in 1986. In the printed application delivered to address of the Western news agency, the Armenian terrorist organization has declared: " France should take steps and necessary procedures for clearing the Armenian and Arabian patriots. Cease-fire as between us and the French government, the public opinion should assure of our respect for interests of safety of France and its(her) people the period of calm. Renewal of a wave of explosions in streets of France, at the French factories, airlines, sea object will be regarded as sabotage. Further ASALA takes up the responsibility for explosions in Paris in 1986 and once again repeats the requirement about clearing Varodjan Garabedy
February, 26, 1992 Azerbaijan - Khojaly In February of 1992, exactly 10 years ago, the name of a little -known Azerbaijani town of Khojaly became a symbol of brutality and another name for a crime against humanity. On February 26, Armenian forces backed by the Russian military committed what the Human Rights Watch called the "largest massacre of the conflict to date." The New York Times wrote about "truckloads of bodies" and reported instances of "scalping." Murder of hundreds of innocent civilians in Khojaly, the unprecedented cruelty of the massacre made the revealed the true nature of Armenian chauvinism. Today, survivors of Khojaly are still scattered throughout Azerbaijan among the one million refugees, who fled Armenia's policy of occupation and ethnic cleansing. Thomas Goltz, an American writer and an acute observer of the region, was among the few, who witnessed first hand and told the world about the last days of Khojaly. He later wrote about it in his brilliant account of the first painful years of Azerbaijan's independence - the Azerbaijan Diary. Mr. Goltz has agreed to share his memories of Khojaly ten years later.
The Letter to The Edinburg City Council
The Edinburgh City Council,
City Chambers,
Edinburgh,
EH1 1YJ
17th November 2006
Subject : The anniversary of ECC motion of shame
Dear Councillor,
Turks all around the world and the Turkish community in Scotland, remember the date of
17th November 2005 with great sadness and disappointment.
On that day, Edinburgh City Council (ECC) members passed a motion to recognise the so-called Armenian genocide. Unfortunately, all our efforts to inform you about ‘the events of 1915 Ottoman Turco – Armenian War Tragedy’ were ignored and the basic principles of law and respect for truth were brushed aside; instead animosity towards Turks was displayed by the majority of Labour and Liberal councillors who acted on hearsay instead of historical research.
We commend the Conservative Party group and those councillors who voted against the
said motion; for upholding a basic fundamental principle that local councils do not have the necessary resources, expertise or jurisdiction; therefore lack authority to pass judgement on
this highly disputed international historical and legal matter.
The Turkish community will remember how Lord Provost so unjustly forced the Turkish delegation to present its deputations first and then allowed the Armenians to have the last word at the Full Council Meeting, denying the Turkish delegation of the chance and the right to respond to their accusations. Such unfair treatment has left a black mark on the once untainted reputation of the ECC.
On that day, the ECC members passed, without any regard to truth, a motion that was not only unjust and contradictory but also contained material inaccuracies (such as the percentage of votes in the European parliament, a simple mathematical matter). This demonstrated to the Turkish community that the ECC does not care about the misrepresentation of facts and is poorly informed about the matters it passes judgement on.
We will always remember how the ECC leader Cllr. Donald Anderson reneged on his promises to the Turkish community and delayed the proposed amendments to the last minute denying Turkish representation the opportunity to address the revised motion. We were shocked at ECC members’ unwillingness to challenge Mr Anderson as to why he proposed so many amendments to the motion at the last minute despite being so sure of the facts it contained in the first place. This is further proof that the ECC is indifferent about the accuracy or consistency of the motions under its consideration.
On that day, the Turkish delegation witnessed how councillors preferred to focus on the daily politics of present day Turkey instead of on the historical events of 1915-18 during the Ottoman period, which was purportedly the subject of the motion. Furthermore, they made humiliating remarks about Turks and Turkey that had no bearing on the issue in question. We will always remember this discriminatory attitude as well as how readily some respected councillors exposed their own ethnic and religious prejudices while preaching to others about fairness and human rights.
The Turkish community in Scotland follows with great interest the candidacy of Mr. Anderson;
the architect of the said motion, for Edinburgh South and will inform the members of the Turkish community about his hostile manner towards Turks and Muslims. We will not forget how he took advantage of this motion, presenting it to the media as an international success and using it as a stepping-stone to launch his candidacy for Holyrood.
The 17th day of every November, will remind us of how the councillors preferred prejudice against and hatred towards us over truth and friendship and how they turned unsubstantiated historical accusations into public condemnation of Turks and Turkey, damaging the prestige of the city of Edinburgh in the eyes of the Turkish community. Until this appalling decision by the ECC is reversed and the truth brought to light at the Edinburgh City Council, the Turkish community will neither forget nor forgive.
Yours faithfully,
Şener Sağlam ( Mr )
President
FTA UK
City Chambers,
Edinburgh,
EH1 1YJ
17th November 2006
Subject : The anniversary of ECC motion of shame
Dear Councillor,
Turks all around the world and the Turkish community in Scotland, remember the date of
17th November 2005 with great sadness and disappointment.
On that day, Edinburgh City Council (ECC) members passed a motion to recognise the so-called Armenian genocide. Unfortunately, all our efforts to inform you about ‘the events of 1915 Ottoman Turco – Armenian War Tragedy’ were ignored and the basic principles of law and respect for truth were brushed aside; instead animosity towards Turks was displayed by the majority of Labour and Liberal councillors who acted on hearsay instead of historical research.
We commend the Conservative Party group and those councillors who voted against the
said motion; for upholding a basic fundamental principle that local councils do not have the necessary resources, expertise or jurisdiction; therefore lack authority to pass judgement on
this highly disputed international historical and legal matter.
The Turkish community will remember how Lord Provost so unjustly forced the Turkish delegation to present its deputations first and then allowed the Armenians to have the last word at the Full Council Meeting, denying the Turkish delegation of the chance and the right to respond to their accusations. Such unfair treatment has left a black mark on the once untainted reputation of the ECC.
On that day, the ECC members passed, without any regard to truth, a motion that was not only unjust and contradictory but also contained material inaccuracies (such as the percentage of votes in the European parliament, a simple mathematical matter). This demonstrated to the Turkish community that the ECC does not care about the misrepresentation of facts and is poorly informed about the matters it passes judgement on.
We will always remember how the ECC leader Cllr. Donald Anderson reneged on his promises to the Turkish community and delayed the proposed amendments to the last minute denying Turkish representation the opportunity to address the revised motion. We were shocked at ECC members’ unwillingness to challenge Mr Anderson as to why he proposed so many amendments to the motion at the last minute despite being so sure of the facts it contained in the first place. This is further proof that the ECC is indifferent about the accuracy or consistency of the motions under its consideration.
On that day, the Turkish delegation witnessed how councillors preferred to focus on the daily politics of present day Turkey instead of on the historical events of 1915-18 during the Ottoman period, which was purportedly the subject of the motion. Furthermore, they made humiliating remarks about Turks and Turkey that had no bearing on the issue in question. We will always remember this discriminatory attitude as well as how readily some respected councillors exposed their own ethnic and religious prejudices while preaching to others about fairness and human rights.
The Turkish community in Scotland follows with great interest the candidacy of Mr. Anderson;
the architect of the said motion, for Edinburgh South and will inform the members of the Turkish community about his hostile manner towards Turks and Muslims. We will not forget how he took advantage of this motion, presenting it to the media as an international success and using it as a stepping-stone to launch his candidacy for Holyrood.
The 17th day of every November, will remind us of how the councillors preferred prejudice against and hatred towards us over truth and friendship and how they turned unsubstantiated historical accusations into public condemnation of Turks and Turkey, damaging the prestige of the city of Edinburgh in the eyes of the Turkish community. Until this appalling decision by the ECC is reversed and the truth brought to light at the Edinburgh City Council, the Turkish community will neither forget nor forgive.
Yours faithfully,
Şener Sağlam ( Mr )
President
FTA UK
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
PRESS RELEASE FOR THE ALLEGED GENOCIDE
Yusuf Selcuk Ateskan
ateskan@yahoo.com
As Turkish students in southern California, we do mourn for both Armenian and Turkish people, who perished during continual warfare before, during and after World War I. However, we do not accept the distortion of the historical facts to promote hatred toward a nation. We believe that these allegations are unjust accusations to a nation represented by hundreds of millions of people in the world and particularly for the Turkish community in southern California. Armenian extremists use distortions to offer one-sided misrepresentations of the events that took place between the Turkish and Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I. They claim that the Ottoman Empire instigated a policy of genocide against its Armenian citizens, but scholars have proven that these allegations are not based on historical facts but on myths, fake documents and forgeries. Despite the heavy pressure, most American scholars refuse to regard the events as genocide. Sixty-nine American scholars specializing in Turkish, Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies published an open letter to Congress in the New York Times and Washington Post on May 19, 1985, disputing Armenian characterizations of the events of World War I. They concluded that what the Armenians claim to be genocide is in fact inter-communal warfare, perpetrated by Muslim and Christian irregular forces that victimized both sides. Focusing on Armenian suffering alone and dismissing Turkish suffering is simply unscholarly and incorrect. Armenian extremists, who were not capable of proving their case in legitimate ways, resorted to terrorist acts. Armenian terrorists assumed the responsibility of 70 bombings, 39 armed attacks and occupations in 21 countries, including the United States, between 1973 and 1995. Fifteen of the 110 terrorist acts took place in California, the second most Armenian-populated region in the world. Armenian terrorists bombed UCLA professor Stanford J. Shaw’s house in 1977. Professor Shaw had to go into hiding after other harassment and disruptions of his class at UCLA. Apparently, freedom of speech exists only if one agrees with the Armenians. Shaw was just one of the academicians who were threatened, harassed, assaulted or attacked by Armenians because of his views against the alleged Armenian genocide. Bernard Lewis, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, agrees with Professor Shaw. He said, “There is no evidence of a decision (of Ottoman government) to massacre. On the contrary, there is considerable evidence of attempt to prevent it.” Since Armenian allegations lack the support of academic evidence, Armenian lobbies try to legislate their version of history by forcing the U.S. Congress to pass resolutions acknowledging their claims. We believe that the proper position for the Congress and other legislative branches to take on this and related issues is to encourage full and open access to all historical archives and not to make charges on historical events before they are fully understood.We expect that the debate should be continued by independent historians who specialize in the subject, not the politicians. Armenians and Turks are living together as one in Turkey. For instance Kirkor Ohanoglu, a student of Armenian descent, competed in a soccer match between elementary school students and the Turkish senators that commemorated Children’s day in Turkey and scored the goal of the Children’s team, which shows that both groups can get along. Armenians have their own schools, newspapers and churches in Turkey. We are concerned that the commemorations turn into demonstrations of hatred toward Turkey and Turkish people.We hope that the blind hate of extremist Armenians is not transferred to their next generation and that neither community lives through those horrible times again.
31/03/05 09:33
ateskan@yahoo.com
As Turkish students in southern California, we do mourn for both Armenian and Turkish people, who perished during continual warfare before, during and after World War I. However, we do not accept the distortion of the historical facts to promote hatred toward a nation. We believe that these allegations are unjust accusations to a nation represented by hundreds of millions of people in the world and particularly for the Turkish community in southern California. Armenian extremists use distortions to offer one-sided misrepresentations of the events that took place between the Turkish and Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I. They claim that the Ottoman Empire instigated a policy of genocide against its Armenian citizens, but scholars have proven that these allegations are not based on historical facts but on myths, fake documents and forgeries. Despite the heavy pressure, most American scholars refuse to regard the events as genocide. Sixty-nine American scholars specializing in Turkish, Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies published an open letter to Congress in the New York Times and Washington Post on May 19, 1985, disputing Armenian characterizations of the events of World War I. They concluded that what the Armenians claim to be genocide is in fact inter-communal warfare, perpetrated by Muslim and Christian irregular forces that victimized both sides. Focusing on Armenian suffering alone and dismissing Turkish suffering is simply unscholarly and incorrect. Armenian extremists, who were not capable of proving their case in legitimate ways, resorted to terrorist acts. Armenian terrorists assumed the responsibility of 70 bombings, 39 armed attacks and occupations in 21 countries, including the United States, between 1973 and 1995. Fifteen of the 110 terrorist acts took place in California, the second most Armenian-populated region in the world. Armenian terrorists bombed UCLA professor Stanford J. Shaw’s house in 1977. Professor Shaw had to go into hiding after other harassment and disruptions of his class at UCLA. Apparently, freedom of speech exists only if one agrees with the Armenians. Shaw was just one of the academicians who were threatened, harassed, assaulted or attacked by Armenians because of his views against the alleged Armenian genocide. Bernard Lewis, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, agrees with Professor Shaw. He said, “There is no evidence of a decision (of Ottoman government) to massacre. On the contrary, there is considerable evidence of attempt to prevent it.” Since Armenian allegations lack the support of academic evidence, Armenian lobbies try to legislate their version of history by forcing the U.S. Congress to pass resolutions acknowledging their claims. We believe that the proper position for the Congress and other legislative branches to take on this and related issues is to encourage full and open access to all historical archives and not to make charges on historical events before they are fully understood.We expect that the debate should be continued by independent historians who specialize in the subject, not the politicians. Armenians and Turks are living together as one in Turkey. For instance Kirkor Ohanoglu, a student of Armenian descent, competed in a soccer match between elementary school students and the Turkish senators that commemorated Children’s day in Turkey and scored the goal of the Children’s team, which shows that both groups can get along. Armenians have their own schools, newspapers and churches in Turkey. We are concerned that the commemorations turn into demonstrations of hatred toward Turkey and Turkish people.We hope that the blind hate of extremist Armenians is not transferred to their next generation and that neither community lives through those horrible times again.
31/03/05 09:33
Allegations and supporting documents
Allegations and supporting documents repudiated by some academicians
Yusuf Selcuk Ateskan
Armenian terrorists bombed UCLA professor Stanford J. Shaw’s house in 1977. Professor Shaw had to go into hiding after other harassment and disruptions of his class at UCLA. Apparently, freedom of speech exists only if one agrees with the Armenians. Shaw was just one of the academicians who were threatened, harassed, assaulted or attacked by Armenians because of his views against the alleged Armenian genocide. Armenian extremists use distortions to offer one-sided misrepresentations of the events that took place between the Turkish and Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I. They claim that the Ottoman Empire instigated a policy of genocide against its Armenian citizens, but scholars have proven that these allegations are not based on historical facts but on myths, fake documents and forgeries. Despite the heavy pressure, most American scholars refuse to regard the events as genocide. Sixty-nine American scholars specializing in Turkish, Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies published an open letter to Congress in the New York Times and Washington Post on May 19, 1985, disputing Armenian characterizations of the events of World War I. They concluded that what the Armenians claim to be genocide is in fact inter-communal warfare, perpetrated by Muslim and Christian irregular forces that victimized both sides. Focusing on Armenian suffering alone and dismissing Turkish suffering is simply unscholarly and incorrect. Armenian extremists, who were not capable of proving their case in legitimate ways, resorted to terrorist acts. Armenian terrorists assumed the responsibility of 70 bombings, 39 armed attacks and occupations in 21 countries, including the United States, between 1973 and 1995. Fifteen of the 110 terrorist acts took place in California, the second most Armenian-populated region in the world. The mastermind behind the initiation of these horrible attacks was a Santa Barbara resident of Armenian descent, Gourgen Yanikian. He killed Turkish Consul General Mehmet Baydar and Turkish Consul Bahadir Demir in Santa Barbara in January 1973. While some Armenians did not approve of the killings of Turkish officials, there were many Armenians who did not shy away from expressing their open support for the terrorists. During his trial in Santa Barbara in 1973, Yanikian was regarded as a “hero” by the crowd of Armenians in the courtroom, and funds were raised for his defense. Yanikian was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released, however, on the order of the then-California governor, George Deukmejian, a few months before his death. Turkish Consul-General Kemal Arikan was shot to death by Armenian terrorists on Wilshire Boulevard when he stopped at a traffic light on Jan. 28, 1982. This was the third attack toward Arikan, whereby previously his house was bombed at two different occasions. Hampig Sassounian was found guilty of murdering Arikan. A campaign to provide funds for his defense raised $250,000 in donations from Armenians throughout the United States. After Sassounian’s prosecution in Los Angeles, some Armenians in Boston announced: “What occurred throughout Hampig’s trial was a mockery of justice, an attempt to stop the Armenian people from actively pursuing their cause.” Armenian terror organizations also committed more than 20 attacks toward many international airline offices, Swiss, French and Canadian companies, and diplomatic missions in several major cities. Armenian terrorists blamed these governments for prosecuting Armenian terrorists. Unfortunately, top Armenian community leaders are also linked with Armenian terrorist activities. According to federal authorities in Ohio, a prominent Armenian-American once used Camp Haiastan in Franklin, as a training ground for terrorism aimed at the Turkish government. Mourad Topalian, the chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America and the director of the youth camp “Haiastan,” was arrested on a five-count indictment charging him with conspiracy, concealing and storing stolen explosives and possession of machine guns and firearms with defaced serial numbers. He was accused of plotting attacks against Turkish targets in the United States and was suspected of links to two 1981 bombings in California and a car bombing that injured three people outside the Turkish mission to the United Nations in New York City in 1980. According to the indictment, Topalian had sent people to Massachusetts and Beirut, Lebanon, for weapons and bomb training. He was sentenced to 37 months in prison. The Topalian case shows how the hatred carried along with the “alleged genocide claims” could simply turn into terrorist activities. Today, the Armenians are counting on people’s scant sense of history. They rely on the wartime propaganda materials long refuted by the United States, the British and the French authorities; and on yellow journalism, fictions as well as add-on stories. They have romanticized their history and embellished the truth. The Armenians obstinately ignore or refuse to believe the preponderance of evidence that shatters their mythical convictions and use threats, harassment and even terrorist acts. They promote hatred toward a whole nation with false allegations. There is no need to go far away for examples of hatred. Outraged Armenian fanatics disrupted the annual Turkish nights at USC twice. For instance, in 2000, officers from the Department of Public Safety and LAPD were needed to ensure the safety of our guests. As Turkish students at USC, we do mourn for both Armenian and Turkish people, who perished during continual warfare before, during and after World War I. However, we do not accept the distortion of the historical facts to promote hatred toward a nation. We hope that the blind hate of extremist Armenians is not transferred to their next generation and that neither community lives through those horrible times again.
Daily Trojan,
22 April 2003
Yusuf Selcuk Ateskan
Armenian terrorists bombed UCLA professor Stanford J. Shaw’s house in 1977. Professor Shaw had to go into hiding after other harassment and disruptions of his class at UCLA. Apparently, freedom of speech exists only if one agrees with the Armenians. Shaw was just one of the academicians who were threatened, harassed, assaulted or attacked by Armenians because of his views against the alleged Armenian genocide. Armenian extremists use distortions to offer one-sided misrepresentations of the events that took place between the Turkish and Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I. They claim that the Ottoman Empire instigated a policy of genocide against its Armenian citizens, but scholars have proven that these allegations are not based on historical facts but on myths, fake documents and forgeries. Despite the heavy pressure, most American scholars refuse to regard the events as genocide. Sixty-nine American scholars specializing in Turkish, Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies published an open letter to Congress in the New York Times and Washington Post on May 19, 1985, disputing Armenian characterizations of the events of World War I. They concluded that what the Armenians claim to be genocide is in fact inter-communal warfare, perpetrated by Muslim and Christian irregular forces that victimized both sides. Focusing on Armenian suffering alone and dismissing Turkish suffering is simply unscholarly and incorrect. Armenian extremists, who were not capable of proving their case in legitimate ways, resorted to terrorist acts. Armenian terrorists assumed the responsibility of 70 bombings, 39 armed attacks and occupations in 21 countries, including the United States, between 1973 and 1995. Fifteen of the 110 terrorist acts took place in California, the second most Armenian-populated region in the world. The mastermind behind the initiation of these horrible attacks was a Santa Barbara resident of Armenian descent, Gourgen Yanikian. He killed Turkish Consul General Mehmet Baydar and Turkish Consul Bahadir Demir in Santa Barbara in January 1973. While some Armenians did not approve of the killings of Turkish officials, there were many Armenians who did not shy away from expressing their open support for the terrorists. During his trial in Santa Barbara in 1973, Yanikian was regarded as a “hero” by the crowd of Armenians in the courtroom, and funds were raised for his defense. Yanikian was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released, however, on the order of the then-California governor, George Deukmejian, a few months before his death. Turkish Consul-General Kemal Arikan was shot to death by Armenian terrorists on Wilshire Boulevard when he stopped at a traffic light on Jan. 28, 1982. This was the third attack toward Arikan, whereby previously his house was bombed at two different occasions. Hampig Sassounian was found guilty of murdering Arikan. A campaign to provide funds for his defense raised $250,000 in donations from Armenians throughout the United States. After Sassounian’s prosecution in Los Angeles, some Armenians in Boston announced: “What occurred throughout Hampig’s trial was a mockery of justice, an attempt to stop the Armenian people from actively pursuing their cause.” Armenian terror organizations also committed more than 20 attacks toward many international airline offices, Swiss, French and Canadian companies, and diplomatic missions in several major cities. Armenian terrorists blamed these governments for prosecuting Armenian terrorists. Unfortunately, top Armenian community leaders are also linked with Armenian terrorist activities. According to federal authorities in Ohio, a prominent Armenian-American once used Camp Haiastan in Franklin, as a training ground for terrorism aimed at the Turkish government. Mourad Topalian, the chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America and the director of the youth camp “Haiastan,” was arrested on a five-count indictment charging him with conspiracy, concealing and storing stolen explosives and possession of machine guns and firearms with defaced serial numbers. He was accused of plotting attacks against Turkish targets in the United States and was suspected of links to two 1981 bombings in California and a car bombing that injured three people outside the Turkish mission to the United Nations in New York City in 1980. According to the indictment, Topalian had sent people to Massachusetts and Beirut, Lebanon, for weapons and bomb training. He was sentenced to 37 months in prison. The Topalian case shows how the hatred carried along with the “alleged genocide claims” could simply turn into terrorist activities. Today, the Armenians are counting on people’s scant sense of history. They rely on the wartime propaganda materials long refuted by the United States, the British and the French authorities; and on yellow journalism, fictions as well as add-on stories. They have romanticized their history and embellished the truth. The Armenians obstinately ignore or refuse to believe the preponderance of evidence that shatters their mythical convictions and use threats, harassment and even terrorist acts. They promote hatred toward a whole nation with false allegations. There is no need to go far away for examples of hatred. Outraged Armenian fanatics disrupted the annual Turkish nights at USC twice. For instance, in 2000, officers from the Department of Public Safety and LAPD were needed to ensure the safety of our guests. As Turkish students at USC, we do mourn for both Armenian and Turkish people, who perished during continual warfare before, during and after World War I. However, we do not accept the distortion of the historical facts to promote hatred toward a nation. We hope that the blind hate of extremist Armenians is not transferred to their next generation and that neither community lives through those horrible times again.
Daily Trojan,
22 April 2003
Scholars dispute genocide claims
Yusuf Selcuk Ateskan
ateskan@yahoo.com
Armenian terrorists bombed UCLA professor Stanford Shaw’s house in 1977 when Shaw’s research revealed that Armenian allegations about the genocide could not be supported by historical evidence. Turkish diplomats were also victims of Armenian extremists; Gurgen Yanikian initiated a series of terrorist acts toward Turkish diplomats in southern California, assassinating Turkish Consul General Mehmet Baydar and Consul Bahadir Demir in Santa Barbara on Jan. 27, 1973. Kemal Arikan, Turkish Consul General at Los Angeles, was another victim of the terrorist attacks. Armenian militant Hampig Sasunian killed him on Wilshire Boulevard when he stopped at a traffic light on Jan. 28, 1982. Between 1973 and 1995, Armenian terrorists committed 110 acts of terror (70 bombings, 39 armed attacks and one occupation) in 38 cities in 21 countries, according to various newspaper reports. In these attacks, 42 Turkish diplomats and four foreign nationals were killed, while 15 Turks and 66 foreign nationals were wounded. These groups targeted Shaw with the intent of destroying his evidence and documents because he revealed the facts do not match Armenian horror tales. The terrorists killed Turk diplomats, including Baydar, Demir and Arikan, just because they represented the government that the groups blame for the alleged genocide between 1915 and 1923. Throughout the United States - including in front of Tommy Trojan - various Armenian groups will be gathering April 23 and 24 to commemorate the alleged genocide. Most of them will use distortions to offer one-sided misrepresentations of the events that took place between the Turkish and Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I. They will claim that the Ottoman Empire instigated a policy of genocide against its Armenian citizens. But scholars have proven that these allegations are not based on historical facts but on myths, fake documents and forgeries. Bernard Lewis, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, said, “There is no evidence of a decision (of Ottoman government) to massacre. On the contrary, there is considerable evidence of attempt to prevent it.” For decades, Armenian groups perpetuated their childhood horror stories. Yet many incidents of fake documents that these groups use to support their claims - such as the infamous Talat Pasha telegrams ordering the murder of Armenians, or the quote from Hitler allegedly acknowledging the “extermination of the Armenians” - have been revealed as forgeries or debunked by history scholars. For instance, on Aug. 2, 1984, an article in America’s leading Armenian newspaper, “Reporter,” reported: “Historian of Armenian descent (Dr. Robert John) says (the) frequently used Hitler quote is nothing but a forgery” and therefore “should not be used” as the evidence of genocide. Despite the heavy pressure, most American scholars refuse to call the events a genocide. More than 70 American scholars who specialize in Turkish, Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies published an open letter to the U.S. Congress in the New York Times and Washington Post on May 19, 1985 disputing Armenian characterizations of the events of WWI. History professor Justin McCarthy summarized the findings of his research on the Armenian allegations in his testimony in front of the House International Committee: “Assuming one-sided evil has led to an unfortunate approach to the history of the Armenians and the Turks. Instead of investigating the history of the time without prejudice, all the guilt has been attached to one side. Once the Turks were assumed to be guilty, the search was on to find proof. The process has been one of assertion and refutation. “It was asserted that Talat Pasha, the Ottoman Interior Minister, had written telegrams ordering the murder of Armenians, but these proved to be forgeries. “It was asserted that letters published during WWI by the British Propaganda Office showed Turkish guilt, but these have proven to have been sent by missionaries and Armenian revolutionaries, both of whom were less than neutral sources. “It was asserted that courts martial by a post-war Turkish government proved that Turks had engaged in genocide, although careful examination of the records shows that the charges were included among long lists of crimes brought by a government under control of British occupiers lists that include all sorts of actions that are demonstrably false and include anything that would please the conquerors.” Since Armenian claims lack the support of academic research, they have developed a strategy to legislate their version of history by heavily lobbying the U.S. Congress to pass resolutions recognizing their allegations. Furthermore, scholars who attempt to independently and objectively research Armenian claims - such as UCLA’s Shaw - were subject to threats, harassment, intimidation and outright attacks. Turkish students and their guests at USC have also experienced these hostile manners. Outraged Armenian fanatics disrupted the annual Turkish nights twice, in April 1994 and 2000. Turkish night is intended to be merely a cultural event, with no political motivations, yet demonstrators appeared to protest the alleged genocide. Nobody was hurt physically, thanks to the prompt action of the Department of Public Safety and the Los Angeles Police Department, who escorted us to our residences. However, it is not possible to express the extent of our emotional distress due to these offensive acts. As Turkish students at USC, we do mourn for both Armenian and Turkish people who perished during continual warfare before, during and after WWI. However, we do not accept the distortion of the historical facts to promote hatred toward a nation. Let us overcome the prejudice and do our part to create a peaceful world.
USC Daily Trojan
April 23, 2002
ateskan@yahoo.com
Armenian terrorists bombed UCLA professor Stanford Shaw’s house in 1977 when Shaw’s research revealed that Armenian allegations about the genocide could not be supported by historical evidence. Turkish diplomats were also victims of Armenian extremists; Gurgen Yanikian initiated a series of terrorist acts toward Turkish diplomats in southern California, assassinating Turkish Consul General Mehmet Baydar and Consul Bahadir Demir in Santa Barbara on Jan. 27, 1973. Kemal Arikan, Turkish Consul General at Los Angeles, was another victim of the terrorist attacks. Armenian militant Hampig Sasunian killed him on Wilshire Boulevard when he stopped at a traffic light on Jan. 28, 1982. Between 1973 and 1995, Armenian terrorists committed 110 acts of terror (70 bombings, 39 armed attacks and one occupation) in 38 cities in 21 countries, according to various newspaper reports. In these attacks, 42 Turkish diplomats and four foreign nationals were killed, while 15 Turks and 66 foreign nationals were wounded. These groups targeted Shaw with the intent of destroying his evidence and documents because he revealed the facts do not match Armenian horror tales. The terrorists killed Turk diplomats, including Baydar, Demir and Arikan, just because they represented the government that the groups blame for the alleged genocide between 1915 and 1923. Throughout the United States - including in front of Tommy Trojan - various Armenian groups will be gathering April 23 and 24 to commemorate the alleged genocide. Most of them will use distortions to offer one-sided misrepresentations of the events that took place between the Turkish and Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I. They will claim that the Ottoman Empire instigated a policy of genocide against its Armenian citizens. But scholars have proven that these allegations are not based on historical facts but on myths, fake documents and forgeries. Bernard Lewis, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, said, “There is no evidence of a decision (of Ottoman government) to massacre. On the contrary, there is considerable evidence of attempt to prevent it.” For decades, Armenian groups perpetuated their childhood horror stories. Yet many incidents of fake documents that these groups use to support their claims - such as the infamous Talat Pasha telegrams ordering the murder of Armenians, or the quote from Hitler allegedly acknowledging the “extermination of the Armenians” - have been revealed as forgeries or debunked by history scholars. For instance, on Aug. 2, 1984, an article in America’s leading Armenian newspaper, “Reporter,” reported: “Historian of Armenian descent (Dr. Robert John) says (the) frequently used Hitler quote is nothing but a forgery” and therefore “should not be used” as the evidence of genocide. Despite the heavy pressure, most American scholars refuse to call the events a genocide. More than 70 American scholars who specialize in Turkish, Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies published an open letter to the U.S. Congress in the New York Times and Washington Post on May 19, 1985 disputing Armenian characterizations of the events of WWI. History professor Justin McCarthy summarized the findings of his research on the Armenian allegations in his testimony in front of the House International Committee: “Assuming one-sided evil has led to an unfortunate approach to the history of the Armenians and the Turks. Instead of investigating the history of the time without prejudice, all the guilt has been attached to one side. Once the Turks were assumed to be guilty, the search was on to find proof. The process has been one of assertion and refutation. “It was asserted that Talat Pasha, the Ottoman Interior Minister, had written telegrams ordering the murder of Armenians, but these proved to be forgeries. “It was asserted that letters published during WWI by the British Propaganda Office showed Turkish guilt, but these have proven to have been sent by missionaries and Armenian revolutionaries, both of whom were less than neutral sources. “It was asserted that courts martial by a post-war Turkish government proved that Turks had engaged in genocide, although careful examination of the records shows that the charges were included among long lists of crimes brought by a government under control of British occupiers lists that include all sorts of actions that are demonstrably false and include anything that would please the conquerors.” Since Armenian claims lack the support of academic research, they have developed a strategy to legislate their version of history by heavily lobbying the U.S. Congress to pass resolutions recognizing their allegations. Furthermore, scholars who attempt to independently and objectively research Armenian claims - such as UCLA’s Shaw - were subject to threats, harassment, intimidation and outright attacks. Turkish students and their guests at USC have also experienced these hostile manners. Outraged Armenian fanatics disrupted the annual Turkish nights twice, in April 1994 and 2000. Turkish night is intended to be merely a cultural event, with no political motivations, yet demonstrators appeared to protest the alleged genocide. Nobody was hurt physically, thanks to the prompt action of the Department of Public Safety and the Los Angeles Police Department, who escorted us to our residences. However, it is not possible to express the extent of our emotional distress due to these offensive acts. As Turkish students at USC, we do mourn for both Armenian and Turkish people who perished during continual warfare before, during and after WWI. However, we do not accept the distortion of the historical facts to promote hatred toward a nation. Let us overcome the prejudice and do our part to create a peaceful world.
USC Daily Trojan
April 23, 2002
Monday, November 20, 2006
ARMENIAN SCHOLAR AT EASE WITH CENSORSHIP
SYNOPSIS: From Ergun KIRLIKOVALI to several African-American students who wanted more information about the Turkish views after the biased lecture by the Armenian professor : “Today, you witnessed with your own eyes how the views of a group of people party to a controversial issue were censored by the organizers and the lecturer. Ask yourselves: How can this happen in the 21st Century at an institute of higher learning in the most advanced and richest state in the Union, California? And next time someone gives you a lofty lecture about the freedom of speech in America, please remember today!”
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PART 1: THE MISLEADING INVITATION
It all started with an innocuous looking invitation to the faculty members at El Camino College in Torrance (near Los Angeles, California): “ The History Department invites you and your students to attend a free lecture: Dr. Levon Marashlian on the Armenian GenocideTuesday, May 9, at 1:00 in the Campus Theater “Shouldn’t that have read the “alleged” Armenian Genocide? Isn’t Genocide a special legal term with a very precise definition, arrived at after many years of diplomatic negotiations, until it was concluded in the 1948 convention in the United Nations? Isn’t it true that the genocide convention was one of the longest negotiated issues in the UN history? Doesn’t it require that a genocide charge must be proven at a “competent tribunal” after proper “due process” before the label of genocide can be used to characterize a certain tragic event after 1948? Isn’t it true that this law, like all proper laws, is not retroactive? For example, we know that the Holocaust is an incontrovertible fact, not because of those numerous Hollywood movies, but because the charges of crimes against humanity leveled against the German Nazis were subjected to a proper and rigorous “due process” at Nuremberg Tribunal after the World War II. The prosecutors introduced supporting evidence, facts, figures, eye witnesses and more and the defendants were allowed to cross examine them before the final verdict was reached: what Nazis did to Jews during WWII was a genocide ( as Rafael Lemkin, the creator of the term, intended the term to mean). This term now seems to be deliberately misused by partisans to misrepresent almost every human tragedy. Is every killing a genocide? Is every my-grandma-told-me-story, family photo, or crying eye witness account a genocide? Of course, not. There are other laws that deal with such crimes. Genocide is a very special concept where a government acts with “premeditation” to exterminate directly or indirectly part or whole of a group of people for national, ethnic, racial, and/or religious reasons. While individual can take part in a genocide, only governments can launch and conduct genocide. “Intent” is the key word here. Intent to exterminate must be proven at a “competent tribunal” before anyone can use the genocide label. Just because Armenian lobbyists shout the loudest doesn’t make a civil war a genocide. Where then was this “competent tribunal” for the Armenian allegations of genocide held? And when? Who held them? Was due process allowed to run its course? How come we didn’t hear about it? After all, Turks are a party to this issue and they must have been heard at such a tribunal, right? Turks should have cross-examined the Armenian evidence and present counter evidence, right? Isn’t this what “due process” is all about? Turks can easily prove that most of the Ottoman-Armenians were brutal insurgents, armed to the teeth by the Western allies during WWI, all of whom were intent on destroying the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman-Armenians did cause the deaths of 523,000 of their Muslim neighbors, mostly Turks, between 1914-1923. Those insurgents did not shy away from using their own wives, kids, elders as “human shields” after their bloody attacks on Turks to escape Turkish investigations or retaliations. As one can easily see, the baseless charges of genocide would be turned on its end and Armenians would be proven to be the bogus victims of a nonexistent genocide. Didn’t a human tragedy take place there? Of course it did, but that human tragedy victimized all peoples of the area, without discriminating them on the basis of ethnicity, nationality, language, or religion. Why cherry-pick the Armenian suffering and losses from the lot and totally ignore or dismiss the much larger Muslim suffering and losses? Is this what genocide meant to be? A selective morality? Applied only to the Christian dead by Christians? I think not. Could this Armenian lecturer perhaps mean the Ottoman courts martial of 1915-1916 as the “competent tribunal” that rendered a verdict of genocide? Nope, he couldn’t. Those trials prove exactly the opposite of genocide charges where the Ottoman government tried and convicted actually some of its own who did abuse the government’s temporary resettlement order. Most of the defendants in those trials did commit crimes ranging from theft to murder; they were tried, found guilty, and punished severely, some even with death. These court proceedings clearly show that the Ottoman government had no intention of systematically exterminating its Ottoman-Armenians as alleged. On the contrary, they genuinely wanted to temporarily re-settle those Ottoman-Armenian who took up arms against their own government, resorted to insurgency, terrorism, and treason at a time of war of survival. ( Can anyone remember the German-Nazi courts trying German-Nazi officers for mistreating, robbing, and/or killing Jews? Even the most biased Armenian can see how absurd it is for the Armenian lobbyists and their sympathizers to compare the factual Jewish Holocaust with the fictional Armenian genocide. ) Could this Armenian lecturer possibly mean the court proceedings of 1919-1920 as the “competent tribunal” that rendered a verdict of genocide, where the leaders of Union and Progress were all convicted and sentenced to death ? Nope, he couldn’t do that either, because those trials were held in occupied Istanbul, by partisans with an anti-Unionist agenda who happily accepted hearsay and questionable press reports as evidence, allowed no cross examination of such shaky evidence, and violated almost every aspect of the “due process”. These Kangaroo courts were so biased that the embarrassed occupiers, the British, asked the crown courts to step in and take over the prosecution. The Ottoman leaders were exiled to the Island of Malta awaiting trials there when the British desperately wanted to find the evidence which could stand the scrutiny of the crown courts to convict the Turks of the alleged war crimes. Result? No such evidence was found and the Turks were let go free after two years of incarceration without filing a single charge against any Turkish leader. Imagine this outcome, in spite of the following facts: 1-The director of the Ottoman archives was an Ottoman-Armenian who scanned the Ottoman archives with a fine tooth comb to fined at least one “smoking gun” among a body of some one million documents; 2- The British had access to all Armenian records, Ottoman or Russian, clergy or lay, all claims of smoking guns”, all “crying survivors” and “sobbing witnesses”, and more; 3- The British had the Blue Book (a major source still used by Armenians today to prove their genocide claims) at their disposal , having written the book themselves, which book is a compilation of wartime propaganda material and falsified and/or embellished accounts of wartime atrocities all of which were allegedly committed by the Ottoman-Turks; 4- The British had unfettered access to the U.S. ambassador Morgenthau’s and U.S. Consuls’ diplomatic reports and communications; 5- The British had unlimited access to the state archives of their wartime ally, France; 6- The British had easy access to the state archives of their wartime ally, Russia; 7- And more. Imagine all this enormous body of data, records, books, films, witnesses, diplomats, soldiers, politicians, produced nothing, not one shred of evidence. Malta, technically speaking, marks the end of all speculations about allegations of systematic extermination of Ottoman-Armenians by Ottoman-Turks. That’s why today, after 91 years, Britain still refuses to label the human tragedy that engulfed the Eastern Anatolia victimizing all of its inhabitants, Armenian, Turk, and others, despite Armenian political pressure, threats, and terrorism. That’s why today, after 91 years, only a handful of states recognize the “alleged” Armenian Genocide, as an unfortunate but clear extension of their anti-Turkish historical bias, more than anything. After all, how can politicians decide a controversial debate pitting historian against historian? Wouldn’t short sighted, fascist laws mandating a certain view and censoring all others stifle further research, free exchange of information and thought, and destroy freedom of speech? Didn’t Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Taliban try similar laws dictating their views to be taught all children to the exclusion of all other views, ideas, and teachings? Did legislating K-12 education along fascist lines in Massachusetts and California to teach Armenian “allegations” of genocide as “settled history”, after tremendous pressure from the Armenian lobby in the last two decades, work for America? Jury is out here. The former is being sued and latter may be next. And if some short-sighted and ignorant French parliamentarians don’t check their attempts to appease their arrogant Armenian constituents (and French bias and bigotry) and pass the anti-Turkish racist law banning freedom of speech on refuting Armenian claims, then France is in for a lot more than it bargained for. If it is not the courts martial of 1915-1916, or the Kangaroo courts of 1919-1920 in occupied Istanbul, or the 1919-1921 Malta Tribunal that never was, then what court verdict could this Armenian lecturer be basing his “genocide verdict” on? I decided to ask him this very question after his “presentation”. The inevitable conclusion, therefore, must be this: either the Armenian professor produces a court verdict given by a “competent tribunal” as specified by the 1948 U.N. convention, stating that Turkish-Armenian conflict during the World War I is genocide or he starts using the qualifier “alleged” before the term genocide in his writings and lectures until such a genocide verdict is at hand. Scholarly honesty demands this from him. Either show a court verdict or say “alleged genocide”. It is as simple as that! Let’s continue reading the invitation sent by The History Department of El Camino College: “…The Armenian genocide in 1915 was the first genocide of the twentieth century…”No, not really. The first genocide, or systematic and wholesale massacre (since the term genocide was not invented until 1943 by Rafael Lemkin and therefore can not be used retroactively) was the killing of the Herreros of Southwest Africa (Namibia) by the German colonialists in 1904. The second systematic and wholesale massacre was the killing of the Ottoman-Muslims, mostly Ottoman-Turks, by the Ottoman-Christians during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, where my father’s entire village of Kirlikova was annihilated leaving my father, a one year old baby then, as the sole survivor (you can read more about this tragic story in the archives below.) So, the Armenian professor is wrong again. Where does the tragedy of the Ottoman-Armenians come on this list? No where. Civil wars do not qualify under systematic-and-wholesale-massacre category ( a precursor to post 1948 genocide category.) After all, deaths of 523,000 Ottoman-Muslims, mostly Ottoman-Turks, are directly attributable to wartime atrocities committed by the Armenian nationalists armed by France, Britain, and Russia. (Though the term “nationalist” is not always necessarily a negative one, the Armenian version of nationalism is, as it meant wholesale death and destruction to the Ottoman-Muslims in Eastern Anatolia between 1890-1920.) Back to the invitation by The History Department: “… and resulted in about one and a half million deaths; nevertheless, it is often called the Forgotten Genocide…”In my son’s history classroom during the last open day, I noticed a poster dated 1919 on the wall among many other historical artifacts from different years and subjects. This one solicited funds for the starving Armenians of the Middle East. What really attracted my attention was the number given as the total for the Ottoman-Armenian casualties: 600,000. Knowing full well that even this number is more than double the actual number of casualties ( as Kamuran Gurun gives the figure of 300,000 in his book “The Armenian File” and please compare this with Turkish casualties of 528,000 who met their end at the hands of Armenians, so that you can put this whole civil war reality in perspective), how did this Armenian professor and others like him manage to come up with this figure of 1.5 million? Do dead multiply? I guess Armenian dead do… Is there any other explanation? Then there is this: the entire Ottoman-Armenian population, according to the official Ottoman government sources, was 1,295,000. How can more people than the entire population die? Did some die twice? Even that doesn’t explain where the Armenian Diaspora today came from? If the entire population was killed (and some were killed twice) then where did the Armenians we see today in America, France, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere come from? You see, the Armenian numbers don’t add up. They never did. Just like the non-existing court verdict of genocide, 1.5 million dead do not exist. The inaccuracies in the invitation continue: “… Not only is little known outside the Armenian community about the Turkish attempt to destroy the Armenian people, but today Turkey denies that it ever took place…”“Little known?” Honestly, can anyone watch on TV, hear on radio, read in the press anything other than bogus Armenian claims? What exactly is this professor’s concept of “little known?” Turkish attempt was not to destroy the Armenian people but to defend herself against the fifth column activities of the Eastern Anatolia Armenians at a time of war of survival. Turkey can not deny something that doesn’t exist. The invitation reads: “…This issue has become especially important as Turkey seeks entry into the European Union, since France and other nations have called for Turkey's recognition of the Armenian genocide…” France is one of the six parties that Turks expect to hear apologies from since the end of WWI. France was not invited to Anatolia and did not come bearing flowers or to have a peaceful picnic there. France, along with other allies, rained death and destruction on my people, Turks. Not content, France secretly divided up Ottoman Empire between France and Britain (Sykes-Picot agreement) and used Ottoman-Armenians to kill their Ottoman-Muslim neighbors. France donned French uniforms on Ottoman-Armenian citizens and watched as neighbor killed neighbor. Thus, France, along with her allies, ruthlessly destroyed a “millennium of harmonious co-habitation” between the Turks and Armenians in Anatolia. Such shameless and evil schemes staged in the name of advancing political French interests, fine tuned by the French colonialists in Africa and Oceania costing millions of innocent lives over several centuries, brought enormous pain and suffering to my Turkish predecessors. No less than 2.5 million Ottoman-Muslims, mostly Turks, died during the WWI (528,000 of them at the hands of Armenian nationalists; please don’t confuse these two figures.) This France is telling me what to do now? I think not! While I hold absolutely no grudge against French people today, I place the full blame on the French politicians for the bloodshed in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Americas, and elsewhere. France went to these places uninvited, used brutal military force to rain death and destruction on local people, and exploited their natural and cultural resources. France should learn to be big enough to face her history, before lecturing others on human rights. First France should apologize to Turkey and then I can forgive France. Until then, France has no credibility. The invitation ends with this: “… Please encourage your students to attend. Arrangements can be made for sign up sheets, etc. to be available…” Unsuspecting students, lured with the prospect of extra credits if they attended flocked to the theater where they would be subjected to the unadulterated Armenian propaganda. And here is the signature under the invitation for the record: “…
Best Regards,
Florence Baker, The History Department, El Camino College.”
Address: 16007 Crenshaw Blvd. Torrance, CA 90506
Phone: 310.532.3670 Toll Free:1.866.ELCAMINO 1.866.352.2646.
PART II: ATTEMPTS TO INCLUDE THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY FAIL
Some college professors who were also bothered by this one-sided presentation contacted the organizer. They pointed out to her that the scholarly way to cover a controversial subject was to allow both sides of that issue to be heard by the students. Only lively, open, and free exchange of ideas in a thoughtful debate could enable the students to judge a controversy, not partisan monologues or biased choruses. In order to protect these courageous professors from possible violent acts of Armenian terrorists who already claimed the lives of three Turkish diplomats in California alone in the last three decades, countless bombings, assaults, and death threats, I shall refrain from giving their names here. Their reasonable, honest, and scholarly requests were turned down by the organizer with hollow excuses like lack of time to make last minute rearrangements. The stage was thus set for the Armenian professor and his one-sided presentation.
A HEALTY DOSE OF PROPAGANDA DURING THE “LECTURE”
The lecturer showed certain sections of two video films, stopping the films whenever he wished for additional comments. Never mind that the photos, films, and stories he showed were mostly out of context, sometimes even irrelevant, and their scrutiny was not encouraged or invited. The lecturer chose the “blood and gore” segments of those biased films for maximum impact, such as eyes being gouged and bodies hung upside down, etc. Imagine the effects of this on the young minds. That’s exactly what this lecturer wanted: to create a cult following among the youth bent one hate for all things Turkish. I could very well show similar movies where the victims are Ottoman-Turks and perpetrators are Otoman-Armenians. In fact, I can show more recent movies where victims are Turks of the Republic of Turkey and the perpetrators are Armenian-American terrorists. That would be arguing the Turkish-Armenian civil war on the basis of who spilled more blood of the other and would prove nothing, other than a bloody civil war which is what it was in the first place. I would like to call this the “Texas chainsaw massacre approach” to history. This lecture milked the fears and prejudices of unsuspecting young minds so much that Hitler’s propaganda ministers could probably not top it. After the propagandistic lecture ended – not a moment too soon-- the floor was opened to questions and I asked the first question to the organizer: “Being of Turkish-American heritage, and having read a lot about the subject, I am unable to agree with the misleading and distorted characterizations embodied in this lecture. Would you please allow me five minutes on stage to refute the lecturer’s allegations for the benefit of the students here? “ Organizer appeared a bit perplexed and before she could respond, I heard the lecturer say something along the lines of this is not a panel and ending with “ Mr. Kirlikovali, please so ask what you want to ask.” “I didn’t utter my name, how did you know?” He said he knew me through my work. I thanked him and commented: “I am afraid I find your lecture racist and dishonest.” The lecturer asked why. I said: “ You never mentioned the Turkish dead and suffering. You implied that Turkish dead do not matter, only Armenian dead do. That, to me, is racist. And you did not say a word about Armenian insurgency, terrorism, and treason that caused the civil war and the ensuing temporary resettlement order. You left half the story out. And that’s dishonest. “By this time the temper in the hall was rising because some Armenian students didn’t want to hear what I was saying. The lecturer argued that his case was accepted by many as the settled history and he spoke the truth. A few pro-Armenian questions were fielded with which the lecturer was quite happy. Those questions were something to the effect did Turkey recognize the genocide and why did Turkey not recognize the genocide to this date. The lecturer jumped at the opportunity to do more Turk-bashing. He said things like it is not easy to accept genocide for an honorable person because it is a terrible stain in one’s history. More and more Turks are beginning to see the truth about genocide and coming out to embrace it (You wish…)One innocent question by a student must have annoyed him a bit, though he seemed to keep his cool. He asked why did the Armenians not sue Turkey at an international court to which I added 127 Turkish NGOs recently suggested just that to the Republic of Armenia. Also recently, the Turkish government proposed to the Republic of Armenia establishing a joint committee of historians and opening all archives so that they can study this matter and report on their conclusions. Armenia avoided saying yes to either one of these proposals. What are the Armenians hiding? What are they afraid of? The lecturer said that something like the situation was clearly a genocide and there is no need to go to court. I asked “Is genocide proven?” This was a trick question and he heard it all right. If he said yes, then I would ask for what court, when, where, where is the supporting documents and sources, which he obviously could not produce. If he said no, then the effect of today’s lecture would be annulled. After all, if genocide was not proven, then why was he presenting it as settled history? After a brief pause, he motioned to the screen behind him implying the video films and said: “Of course it is, these films and materials prove it.” I responded “Those materials could not stand to scrutiny of a any court of law. You know it, I know it.” (I may have also added something like those films and materials “ a bunch of crap” proving nothing…But I can’t recall.) One professor asked how many Turks were killed in Erzurum. Instead of replying, the lecturer questioned back saying something like since you seem to know the answer, suppose you tell me. The professor said he though this was a question-and-answer session and not a question-and-question session. The lecturer then said what is your source? I waved the book Armenia: Secrets of a Christian Terrorist Nation” written by Sam Weems and I offered to give it to him as my gift to him. The lecturer said that he already had that book and that Sam Weems was not a historian. I waved four more books (by Guenter Lewy, Kamuran Gurun, Salahi Sonyel, Justin McCarthy, and Stanford Shaw) and asked “These are by historians, have you read them?” The lecturer chose to respond other questions ignoring mine. Another question was about how the Armenian churches cultivate hate for all things Turkish. She gave the example of an Asian woman who had known nothing about Turks until she attended an Armenian church and pretty soon thereafter she found herself hating all Turks everywhere. The question was didn’t today’s lecture also cause the same kind of negative effect on young minds. The lecturer responded by saying that he could vouch for other churches and that if she could identify that church he would be happy to talk to them (Right!). A student sitting in front of the questioner arose to disagree with the questioner saying that she was the daughter of an Armenian minister and she doesn’t hate the Turks. Another professor asked, after identifying herself as a member of the faculty, that she was brought up being taught to hate the Turks and she did. Until of course she met Turks and she was stunned to find out how pleasant and war Turks were, nothing like the image with which she grew. She felt that the lecturer was aiding the perpetuation of hate among our youth for all things Turkish. The lecturer objected to this by saying that he made it a point of saying that not all Turks were responsible for what happened to Armenians and that some gracious Turks, even some Ottoman officials, did help save Armenian lives. There are Turks today that he loves listing the names of Turkish scholars known for embracing the official Armenian propaganda line such as Halil Berktay, Elif Safak, Fatma Gocek, Zarakolu, and others (He left Taner Akcam out!). I didn’t have a chance to say with the exception of Berktay, none are historians and Berktay has a hidden agenda with the Turkish Republic going back to 1970s when berktay was a “wanted” terrorist, along with Taner Akcam. These people were Marxist-Leninist militants who tried by force of arms and explosive to change the regime in Turkey, from a Western democracy to Soviet style communism. You can see the nostalgic “wanted” poster with Berktay’s and Akcam’s mugshots at www.tallarmeniantale.com today. That is why these “scholars” embraced the Armenian propaganda at face value. Their motivation is not historical truth but spite for Turkey. CONCLUSION The session ended after a few more “soft” questions by some students who seemed to have swallowed the Armenian propaganda hook, line, and sinker. If it weren't for the vigilance of one professor, we would never hear about this event. And if it weren't for another professor, who together with the first one went to see the organizer to convince her to allow the other side of the story to also be heard., the Turkish views would not be noticed. Both professors asked the lecturer excellent questions... One professor’s courageous last minute stand criticizing anti-Turkish hate teachings in the Armenian community was truly spectacular. One engineer, taking time from work to attend this lecture, also made the point about teaching of anti-Turkish hate in Armenian churches... All three were brave, determined, well-informed, and peace-loving. As for me, I knew I would not get straight answers to my questions, but that is fine, because my questions are not designed to change the mind of an Armenian lecturer. They were designed to alert and inform the unsuspecting audience to the nature and depth of Armenian propaganda they would be subjected to by this event. My questions would serve to create a question mark in their minds so that they would not buy the distorted Armenian claims at face value. Dare I say that my questions seem to have worked because a few African-American students came to me after the lecture asking for more information an websites on the Turkish views. This is good enough for me. As the Turkish saying goes “Damlaya damlaya gol olur.” (Drop by drop, a lake forms.) I left those students with these final remarks: “Today, you witnessed with your own eyes how the views of a group of people party to a controversial issue were censored by the organizers and the lecturer. Ask yourselves: How can this happen in the 21st Century at an institute of higher learning in the most advanced and richest state in the Union, California? And next time someone gives you a lofty lecture about the freedom of speech in America, please remember today!”
THE QUESTIONS I WANTED TO ASK THE ARMENIAN LECTURER
Question 1 - Historian Guenter Lewy in his article titled “Revisiting the Armenian Genocide” published in Fall 2005 edition of Middle East Quarterly ( http://www.meforum.org/article/895 ) says this: “…Most of those who maintain that Armenian deaths were premeditated and so constitute genocide base their argument on three pillars: the actions of Turkish military courts of 1919-20,…, the role of the so-called "Special Organization" accused of carrying out the massacres, and the Memoirs of Naim Bey[3] which contain alleged telegrams of Interior Minister Talât Pasha…. Yet when these events and the sources describing them are subjected to careful examination, they provide at most a shaky foundation from which to claim, let alone conclude, that the deaths of Armenians were premeditated….” End of quote. Based on this, isn’t it a bit dishonest of you to present a complex, contested, and clearly unresolved historical event as “settled history” to unsuspecting listeners? Don’t you think you should qualify your views as those of the Armenian camp?
Question 2 - Same historian Guenter Lewy in his letter of response to his critics of his article titled “Revisiting the Armenian Genocide” published in Winter 2005 edition of Middle East Quarterly ( http://www.meforum.org/article/895 ) follows up with this: “… the tribulations of Turkish refugees from the Balkan wars and other armed conflicts of the pre-World War I era have not received the attention and condemnation they deserve. The West has been preoccupied with the horrors of the Armenian story, and the suffering of Turks has often been ignored. The same holds true for the wartime famines that took a heavy toll of life among both Turks and Armenians. This double standard in recognizing human misery must be repudiated for the sake of historical truth and to help descendants of these victims live with their pain…”Isn’t this double standard clearly displayed here again today by your embellishing and magnifying the suffering of Christian Armenians while ignoring, or worse yet, dismissing the more profound suffering of Muslim Turks? Do you think such selective morality is scholarly?
Question 3 - There are millions of Turks today who have similarly tragic stories of entire Turkish families and neighborhoods having been wiped out by Armenian nationalists armed by the Western allies. Some of the Muslim victims, mostly Turkish, were themselves refugees who survived terrible massacres in the Balkans, the Aegean Islands, the Crimea, the Caucasus, and elsewhere and who were resettled into Eastern Anatolia only to be met by yet another cycle of Christian violence at the hands of Armenian bands. Isn’t it true that their stories were never told, their pain and suffering were never noticed, and their tears never seen, due to the endless Armenian propaganda which has saturated the West since 1915?
Question 4 - More than 70 Western students of Ottoman history categorically rejected the appropriateness of the genocide label for the fate of the Armenian community in Ottoman Turkey in an statement published in 1985. Other prominent scholars and intellectuals, including distinguished scholars such as Roderic Davison, J.C. Hurewitz, Bernard Lewis, and Andrew Mango, joined their ranks since. Doesn’t dismissing such awe-inspiring array of learned opinion boil down to bigotry in academia ? Are you comfortable with the dogmatism that ignores the enormous body of evidence disputing Armenian claims of genocide?
Question 5 - Careful reading shows that the reports of British, French, American, German, and Austrian consular officials and Western missionaries, who were on the spot in Anatolia, confirm the occurrence of killings, though in a biased and sometimes even racist manner, but do not implicate the "Special Organization" or any other agency of the central government. Moreover, almost none of these mention the terrible massacres to which the Muslims were subjected and which are documented in the Ottoman archives. When the entire body of evidence put together, the picture emerging explains most non-partisan historians use the phrase “a civil war within a world war” to describe the Turkish-Armenian conflict. Why, for example, did you not dwell on the Muslims suffering at the hands of Armenians? After all, 523,000 Muslim victims, mostly Turkish, were documented in the Ottoman archives to have met their end at the hands of Armenians. Why this double standard on your part here today?
Question 6 - Isn’t your allegation of a systematic elimination of the Armenian population undercut by the exemption of the large Armenian communities of Istanbul, Izmir, Edirne, and Aleppo from deportation? Since Armenian activists like to compare the Turkish-Armenian conflict for World War One to the Holocaust, in an attempt to gain instant credibility by association, wouldn’t this be comparable to Hitler exempting the Jews of Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, and Hamburg from the final solution? How can you, in all fairness and honesty, compare the civil war between the Turks and Armenians during WWI to the Jewish Holocaust of WWII?
Question 7 - The alleged telegrams of Talât Pasha contained in the Naim-Andonian book supposedly ordering the killing of all Armenians are exposed as crude forgeries not only by Turkish historians but also by almost all Western students of Ottoman history. Even a Hilmar Kaiser, an anti-Turkish biased scholar popularly cited by Armenian activists, concluded that "further research on the ‘Naim-Andonian' documents is necessary." How scholarly or honest is it to base the serious accusation of genocide on a proven forgery?
Question 8 - If Armenians wish to believe that the verdict of the Turkish courts-martial of occupied Istanbul during 1919-20 is proof of the guilt of the Young Turk regime in the premeditated murder of Ottoman Armenians, they are free to do so. Armenian sympathizers, however, should know that the evidence used by the military tribunals, including but not limited to witness and expert testimony, confessions, searches and seizure is hardly reliable. They were never cross-examined. What’s worse, this evidence simply does not exist and the original documentation of the trials is conveniently “lost” by the Armenians and their victorious “foreign” allies. What we have today are “copies” of some documents in the gazette of the Ottoman government and the press in occupied Istanbul. Could even a single person be convicted of murder based solely on hearsay and press reports? How can the Armenians convict a whole nation of the most serious crime? Isn’t all this a bit to too extreme?
Question 9 - I am deeply saddened and somewhat offended by your anti-Turkish biased presentation of this highly controversial subject. Isn’t presenting only one side of a controversial issue such as this one, while censoring the other side unscholarly, unfair, even unethical ? You would not think about covering controversial subjects, such as abortion, gun control, immigration, war in Iraq, or others with only one side of the story told, would you? Why then would you settle for one side of the story when it comes to the Turkish-Armenian conflict? All we heard is the Armenian views; where is the Turkish point of view here? Why this prejudice against the Turks and the Muslims?
Question 10 - According to the Armenians, Turkish pain does not exist. Turkish dead do not matter; only Armenian dead do. Turks do not deserve a chance to be heard. Do you subscribe to such a blatantly racist approach? And if you don’t, where is the Turkish speaker up there?
Question 11 - I don’t believe I heard much about the well-documented facts that the Ottoman-Armenians resorted to agitation, terrorism, armed revolts, and supreme treason (as in joining and invading enemy), in that order, from 1890 to 1915. Do you deny these facts to make your genocide allegations stick?
Question 12 - The Armenians activists label "deniers” all who rightfully challenge the baseless Armenian accounts of history. Those “deniers” are then harassed even terrorized-- as an unfortunate incident at UCI last week showed where a student was attacked by Armenians just for being Turkish. Some Armenian even go farther than that to categorically label all Turkish-Americans paid Turkish government agents. Do you think such intimidation and terror tactics by Armenians are justifiable?
Question 13 - I believe Armenian accounts boil down to dishonest history with racist interpretations and should have no place at an institute of higher learning such as this college. Wouldn’t it be fair to invite the representatives of the responsible opposing views to challenge the unfounded allegations of the Armenian camp for the benefit of your listeners? Isn’t a thoughtful and lively debate always better than a partisan monologue or a bigoted chorus?
Question 14 - Isn’t Genocide is a legal term precisely defined by the U.N., that can be used only after a verdict is reached by a competent tribunal (such as Nuremberg), after due process where both sides of the conflict are properly represented and heard and cross examined? Does such a court decision exist? Have Turks ever been heard? Shouldn’t this term , in all fairness, truth, and objectivity, be preceded by the qualifier "alleged" until a competent court decides that the term genocide applies to the Turkish-Armenian conflict?
Question 15 - As the table in McCarthy’s book clearly demonstrates, Turkish and Muslim losses are to enormous and spread over too long a period to “casually escape one’s attention” or to be considered an “honest oversight”. Can you appreciate how important it is for the Turkish Americans and Muslim Americans, that any balanced coverage of the Turkish-Armenian conflict during World War One (WWI) mention the truth about the more than 2.5 million Turks and Muslims killed by the allies and their Ottoman-Armenian cohorts? Especially when 523,000 of those victims met their end at the hands of Armenian nationalists between 1914-1918 alone?
Question 16 - Are the atrocities committed against Turks and Muslims not worth your time, attention, and/or respect? Are their lives less valuable than the lives of the Christian Armenians?
Question 17 - Here is what By Justin McCarthy says on page 309 of his book DEATH AND EXILE: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922 (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1995) : Total of 5,060,000 Muslim Deaths and 5,381,000 Muslim Refugees. Have you been just, fair, and honest in covering both sides of this issue for the benefit of your unsuspecting listeners? How can anyone, let alone any scholar, ignore such an enormous human suffering spread over such a long time? Isn’t this bias and bigotry at its worst?
Question 18 - I was deeply disappointed to see a one-sided presentation of a controversial subject here. The right thing would be to allow the “other side of the story”, namely the Turkish side, also be heard by the unsuspecting listeners. Failing that, as was the case, the teachers were exposed to biased Armenian allegations only. Is this fair or even?
Question 19 - Because of all this lopsided coverage of the Turkish-Armenian history in America, a Turkish-American had coined a new word back in 2003, his humble gift to the English language, which word now perfectly describes this lecture: Ethocide. Coined from the words "ethics" and "cide" (killing), ethocide means " extermination of ethics via systematic and malicious mass deception for political, social, cultural, economic, religious, and/or other gain". Isn’t it time that this ethocidal coverage of the Turkish-Armenian conflict riddled with anti-Turkish bias and bigotry gave way to sensible dialogue to properly evaluate a dark chapter in history where my Turkish predecessors paid the highest price in terms of loss of life and property, and 91 years later, it seems, dignity?
Question 20 - Don’t Armenian claims seem to find acceptance only in those platforms where Turkish views are censored? Isn’t it ironic that the truth is not in what the Armenians say , but ironically, in what they don’t say? Where is the Turkish suffering in your presentations? Where are the Armenian terrorism, armed uprisings, treason? Where is half the story?
Question 21 - Isn’t it a fact that most of the Armenian allegations were proven to be exaggerations, embellishments, distortions, fabrications and/or fraud? Aren’t some celebrated examples of bogus Armenian claims include the infamous Hitler quote, the skull-pyramid photo, the Talaat telegrams, the Andonian files, Musa Dagh episode, Morgenthau’s ghost writers, 1.5 million casualty figure, population statistics, causes, and more? Is it right to treat these unchallenged and baseless Armenian claims as “facts”?
Question 22 - Do you know the difference between “allegations” and “judgments”? Isn’t it true that while anyone can make any claim, only judgments are filtered through the “due process” by careful and orderly cross-examination of factual, relevant input? Have the Armenians ever won a court case authorizing them to use the term genocide? How can they endlessly benefit from a nonexistent “judgment” of genocide?
Question 23 - Are you aware that 127 leading non-governmental organizations in Turkey recently suggested to the Republic of Armenia to take the Republic of Turkey to the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands? I agree with those NGOs as it makes a lot of sense to me. Since Armenians seem to have many books, films, exhibitions, witnesses and more, they should have no problems having Turkey convicted. So, what are the Armenians waiting for? Is it because the Turkish archives would be opened for all to see in such a court and Turkish views would be heard perhaps for the first time for most?
Question 23 - Are you aware that the Republic of Turkey just recently made an official offer to the Republic of Armenia recently to establish a joint committee of historians and open all the archives, so that this matter can be studied based on facts and figures, not propaganda and hearsay? Do you know that Turkey’s archives are open, but Armenia’s, the Armenian churches’ and the Armenian Diaspora’s are not ? Do you know that Prime Minister Erdogan said the Turkish side would accept the outcome of such a competent research committee, regardless of which way the final verdict goes: genocide or civil war. So what are the Armenians waiting for? Since you are so convinced, why not say yes to this investigation committee? Question
24 - Are you aware that the British refused to use the Armenian sources in their Malta Trials (1919-1921)? Do you know that the Armenians filed all the documents you now speak of, although mostly hearsay and accusations, with the court clerk when the British imprisoned the Ottoman leadership to investigate the Armenian charges. Do you also know that the British had to let the Ottoman leaders go free, without filing a single charge? Shouldn’t this be the end of all Armenian allegations?
Question 25 - Don’t partisan presentations such as yours today deliberately distort the truth, deepen divisions and polarizations among the Americans of differing heritage (ie Turks, Azeris, Armenians, and others) and prevent peace?
Question 26 - Isn't it ironic, that we have bombed Yugoslavia punish the Serbians for ethnic cleansing; we have fought Saddam first for aggression and then for supporting international terrorism; but we rewarded with US help when Armenia, a Christian terrorist country, committed all three of these crimes? Didn’t Armenia conduct aggression and ethnic cleansing in Azerbaijan since 1994 causing 1 million Azeri refugees to leave their home at gun point? Didn’t Armenia support international terrorism from 197os to present killing, 70+ Turkish diplomats and bystanders worldwide? Isn’t this a double standard on the part of the successive U.S. governments?
Question 27 - Aren’t Armenian allegations of genocide dishonest and racist history? Racist because they imply that Turkish dead do not matter, but Armenian dead do? And dishonest because they deliberately misrepresent as genocide a civil war within a world war caused by Armenian greed, , terrorism , armed revolts, and treason?
Question 28 - Isn’t your presentations typical of the official Armenian propaganda line? Can it pass the "the Four T’s” test: tumult (as in armed revolts against their own government); terrorism (both domestic and international, then and now); treason (as in joining the invading enemy armies); and Turkish suffering they caused (2.5 million Turks lost their lives during WWI, 523,000 thousand of them at the hands of Armenian nationalists.) ?
Question 29 - Armenians keep saying that they believe genocide is settled history. Since when history has become a matter of “belief”? Isn’t history supposed to be a matter of “scholarship”, as in research, peer review, and debate? One would expect from the organizers to serve the American public by providing a free-speech-platform here where dialogue and thoughtful debate can help to illuminate issues. How does this partisan speech exposing the public only to the biased views of Armenian camp serve the public?
Question 30 - Why do Armenians keep invoking the Jewish Holocaust? Did Jews establish Jewish armies behind German lines? Did Jews kill Germans to terrorize the German population into fleeing? Did they join the invading enemy armies and commit terrorism and stage armed revolts and commit treason? And did they do all that for 25 years prior to 1940 to establish a Jewish state on German soil? Of course, not. But Armenian did all that and much worse between 1890-1915 in Anatolia, victimizing Ottoman-Muslims. How can the two vastly different histories be mentioned in the same breath? How can a civil war be equated to the Holocaust?
Question 31 - Was it genocide or wartime tragedy? If Armenian resorted to terrorism, armed uprisings, and outright treason, and Turks responded to the serious wartime security threats with a wartime measure of temporary resettlement, wouldn’t it make it a civil war?
Question 32 - If it was genocide, where is the court verdict? Where is the proof of intent? If there is no intent, how can there be genocide? Didn’t the Malta Tribunals of 1919-1921 by the British, abandoned due to lack of evidence, prove that today’s Armenian allegations of genocide are nothing more than an afterthought, a new spin on an old event, and a political maneuver?
Question 33 - How come we heard nothing about the Turkish suffering caused by the Armenian nationalists like the Dashnaks, the Hunchaks, the Ramgavar, and others? Weren’t the Turkish losses at least 4 times heavier than Armenian losses?
Question 34 - What about Armenian terrorism, rebellions, and treason? Why didn’t we hear anything about them?
Question 35 - As the prominent Turkish Historian Halacoglu recently said, crying makes poor history. Isn’t it a fact that my grandparents can’t cry on TV today, like those Armenian survivors, because the Armenians and Greeks killed them in Anatolia between 1911-1922 ?
Question 36 - It is well documented that until May 2, 1915, the date of the telegraph by Enver Pasha from the Russian front to Talaat Pasha in Istanbul, there was not even talk of temporary resettlement; so how can it be genocide if there is no intent of killing Armenians?
Question 37 - Where is the right of the Turkish-Americans’ to the freedom of speech with access to this panel denied? Question 38 - Isn’t New York Times guilty of censoring Turkish views? Didn’t NYT publish 145 anti-Turkish stories in 1915 with zero rebuttals, refutations, or challenges allowed for Turks? Is this the fair and balanced coverage the Armenians are basing their allegations on?
Question 39 - Aren’t Armenian allegations of genocide are dishonest history because they ignore Armenian terror, rebellions, and treason!
Question 40 - How come you always mention denial by the Turkish government when you know we are the Turkish-Americans, not the Turkish government and we also categorically reject the Armenian claims of genocide?
Question 41 - Do you know the first of the six apologies the Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for Britain to apologize for the wartime propaganda in the “Blue Book” on which today’s genocide claims are built and for raining death and destruction on our grandparents’ in Anatolia?
Question 42 - Did you know that Boghos Nubar Pasha, the Armenian leader, said in a published letter that “Armenians Were de-facto belligerents during WWI”? Doesn’t it prove that it was a civil war?
Question 43 - Do you know the second of apologies Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for France to apologize for the wartime propaganda in the “Yellow Books” and for raining death and destruction on our grandparents’ in Anatolia?
Question 44 - Do you know the third of six apologies Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for Russia to apologize for destroying 850 years of harmonious Turkish-Armenian co-habitation in Anatolia?
Question 45 - Do you know the fourth of six apologies Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for the Protestant Missionaries sent from Boston to apologize for dividing, polarizing, and destroying 850 years of harmonious Turkish-Armenian co-habitation in Anatolia ?
Question 46 - Do you know the fifth of six apologies Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for the New York Times to apologize for biased coverage of 1915? Did you know NYT published 145 partisan reports defaming Turks versus zero rebuttals by Turks allowed?
Question 47 - Do you know the sixth of six apologies Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for the Ottoman-Armenians to apologize for destroying 850 years of harmonious Turkish-Armenian co-habitation in Anatolia with their greed, agitation, terrorism, rebellions, and treason?
Question 48 - Did you know the Ottoman Empire loved and cherished the Armenians as “the most loyal nation” but the Armenians betrayed this respect by donning the French and Russian uniforms to kill their Ottoman-Muslim neighbors?
Question 49 - George M. Lamsa, a missionary well known for his research on Christianity, The Secret of the Near East, The Ideal Press, Philadelphia 1923, p 133 said and I quote: "…In some towns containing ten Armenian houses and thirty Turkish houses, it was reported that 40,000 people were killed, about 10,000 women were taken to the harem, and thousands of children left destitute; and the city university destroyed, and the bishop killed. It is a well- known fact that even in the last war the native Christians, despite the Turkish cautions, armed themselves and fought on the side of the Allies. In these conflicts, they were not idle, but they were well supplied with artillery, machine guns and inflicted heavy losses on their enemies…." Isn’t this proof enough of the Armenian fraud and Western complicity?
Question 50 - John Dewey, of the Library Dewey System fame, wrote in The New Republic on 12 November 1928 the following: “...Few Americans who mourn, and justly, the miseries of the Armenians, are aware that till the rise of nationalistic ambitions... the Armenians were the favored portion of the population of Turkey, or that in the Great War, they traitorously turned Turkish cities over to the Russian invader; that they boasted of having raised an Army of one hundred and fifty thousand men to fight a civil war, and that they burned at least a hundred Turkish villages and exterminated their population...” Isn’t this proof enough of the Armenian distortions?
Question 51 - Dr. Gwynne Dyer, a London-based independent journalist, wrote in 1976: “… The deafening drumbeat of the propaganda, and the sheer lack of sophistication in argument which comes from preaching decade after decade to a convinced and emotionally committed audience, are the major handicaps of Armenian historiography of the diaspora today…” Isn’t this a proper description of the Armenian fanaticism?
Question 52 - Georges de Maleville, lawyer and a specialist on the Armenian question, La Tragédie Arménienne de 1915, (The Armenian tragedy of 1915), Editions F. Sorlot-F. Lanore, Paris, 1988, p 61-63, said: “…In all the countries, under all the regimes, the staff of the armies in the field evacuate towards the back, the populations which live in the zone of fights and can bother the movement of the troops, especially if these populations are hostile. Public opinion does not find anything to criticize to these measures, obviously painful, but necessary. During winter of 1939-1940, the radical - socialist French government evacuated and transported in the Southwest of France, notably in the Dordogne, the entire population of the Alsatian villages situated in the valley of the Rhine, to the east of the Maginot line. This German-speaking population, and even sometimes germanophil, bothered the French army. It stayed in the South, far from the evacuated homes and sometimes destroyed until 1945….And nobody, in France, cried out for inhumanity…” Doesn’t this point poignantly to the hollowness of the Armenian claims?
Question 53 - How did “the most loyal nation” in the Ottoman Empire turn into “the most distrusted nation” ? Can Turks be blamed for losing their trust in Armenians after Armenian rebellions and treason? Question 54 - What about Armenia’s aggression in Karabagh-Azerbaijan since 1988? What about Armenia’s aggression in Azerbaijan since 1992? What about Armenia’s ethnic cleansing both in Karabagh and Azerbaijan since 1992? Why did you ignore one million Azeris expelled from their homes at gun point by Armenian thugs in 1994? Why is everyone so hush-hush about the tragedy of one million Azeri refugees who still brave the freezing Caucasus winters in leaky tents with little food or medicine for the 12th years in a row?
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PART 1: THE MISLEADING INVITATION
It all started with an innocuous looking invitation to the faculty members at El Camino College in Torrance (near Los Angeles, California): “ The History Department invites you and your students to attend a free lecture: Dr. Levon Marashlian on the Armenian GenocideTuesday, May 9, at 1:00 in the Campus Theater “Shouldn’t that have read the “alleged” Armenian Genocide? Isn’t Genocide a special legal term with a very precise definition, arrived at after many years of diplomatic negotiations, until it was concluded in the 1948 convention in the United Nations? Isn’t it true that the genocide convention was one of the longest negotiated issues in the UN history? Doesn’t it require that a genocide charge must be proven at a “competent tribunal” after proper “due process” before the label of genocide can be used to characterize a certain tragic event after 1948? Isn’t it true that this law, like all proper laws, is not retroactive? For example, we know that the Holocaust is an incontrovertible fact, not because of those numerous Hollywood movies, but because the charges of crimes against humanity leveled against the German Nazis were subjected to a proper and rigorous “due process” at Nuremberg Tribunal after the World War II. The prosecutors introduced supporting evidence, facts, figures, eye witnesses and more and the defendants were allowed to cross examine them before the final verdict was reached: what Nazis did to Jews during WWII was a genocide ( as Rafael Lemkin, the creator of the term, intended the term to mean). This term now seems to be deliberately misused by partisans to misrepresent almost every human tragedy. Is every killing a genocide? Is every my-grandma-told-me-story, family photo, or crying eye witness account a genocide? Of course, not. There are other laws that deal with such crimes. Genocide is a very special concept where a government acts with “premeditation” to exterminate directly or indirectly part or whole of a group of people for national, ethnic, racial, and/or religious reasons. While individual can take part in a genocide, only governments can launch and conduct genocide. “Intent” is the key word here. Intent to exterminate must be proven at a “competent tribunal” before anyone can use the genocide label. Just because Armenian lobbyists shout the loudest doesn’t make a civil war a genocide. Where then was this “competent tribunal” for the Armenian allegations of genocide held? And when? Who held them? Was due process allowed to run its course? How come we didn’t hear about it? After all, Turks are a party to this issue and they must have been heard at such a tribunal, right? Turks should have cross-examined the Armenian evidence and present counter evidence, right? Isn’t this what “due process” is all about? Turks can easily prove that most of the Ottoman-Armenians were brutal insurgents, armed to the teeth by the Western allies during WWI, all of whom were intent on destroying the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman-Armenians did cause the deaths of 523,000 of their Muslim neighbors, mostly Turks, between 1914-1923. Those insurgents did not shy away from using their own wives, kids, elders as “human shields” after their bloody attacks on Turks to escape Turkish investigations or retaliations. As one can easily see, the baseless charges of genocide would be turned on its end and Armenians would be proven to be the bogus victims of a nonexistent genocide. Didn’t a human tragedy take place there? Of course it did, but that human tragedy victimized all peoples of the area, without discriminating them on the basis of ethnicity, nationality, language, or religion. Why cherry-pick the Armenian suffering and losses from the lot and totally ignore or dismiss the much larger Muslim suffering and losses? Is this what genocide meant to be? A selective morality? Applied only to the Christian dead by Christians? I think not. Could this Armenian lecturer perhaps mean the Ottoman courts martial of 1915-1916 as the “competent tribunal” that rendered a verdict of genocide? Nope, he couldn’t. Those trials prove exactly the opposite of genocide charges where the Ottoman government tried and convicted actually some of its own who did abuse the government’s temporary resettlement order. Most of the defendants in those trials did commit crimes ranging from theft to murder; they were tried, found guilty, and punished severely, some even with death. These court proceedings clearly show that the Ottoman government had no intention of systematically exterminating its Ottoman-Armenians as alleged. On the contrary, they genuinely wanted to temporarily re-settle those Ottoman-Armenian who took up arms against their own government, resorted to insurgency, terrorism, and treason at a time of war of survival. ( Can anyone remember the German-Nazi courts trying German-Nazi officers for mistreating, robbing, and/or killing Jews? Even the most biased Armenian can see how absurd it is for the Armenian lobbyists and their sympathizers to compare the factual Jewish Holocaust with the fictional Armenian genocide. ) Could this Armenian lecturer possibly mean the court proceedings of 1919-1920 as the “competent tribunal” that rendered a verdict of genocide, where the leaders of Union and Progress were all convicted and sentenced to death ? Nope, he couldn’t do that either, because those trials were held in occupied Istanbul, by partisans with an anti-Unionist agenda who happily accepted hearsay and questionable press reports as evidence, allowed no cross examination of such shaky evidence, and violated almost every aspect of the “due process”. These Kangaroo courts were so biased that the embarrassed occupiers, the British, asked the crown courts to step in and take over the prosecution. The Ottoman leaders were exiled to the Island of Malta awaiting trials there when the British desperately wanted to find the evidence which could stand the scrutiny of the crown courts to convict the Turks of the alleged war crimes. Result? No such evidence was found and the Turks were let go free after two years of incarceration without filing a single charge against any Turkish leader. Imagine this outcome, in spite of the following facts: 1-The director of the Ottoman archives was an Ottoman-Armenian who scanned the Ottoman archives with a fine tooth comb to fined at least one “smoking gun” among a body of some one million documents; 2- The British had access to all Armenian records, Ottoman or Russian, clergy or lay, all claims of smoking guns”, all “crying survivors” and “sobbing witnesses”, and more; 3- The British had the Blue Book (a major source still used by Armenians today to prove their genocide claims) at their disposal , having written the book themselves, which book is a compilation of wartime propaganda material and falsified and/or embellished accounts of wartime atrocities all of which were allegedly committed by the Ottoman-Turks; 4- The British had unfettered access to the U.S. ambassador Morgenthau’s and U.S. Consuls’ diplomatic reports and communications; 5- The British had unlimited access to the state archives of their wartime ally, France; 6- The British had easy access to the state archives of their wartime ally, Russia; 7- And more. Imagine all this enormous body of data, records, books, films, witnesses, diplomats, soldiers, politicians, produced nothing, not one shred of evidence. Malta, technically speaking, marks the end of all speculations about allegations of systematic extermination of Ottoman-Armenians by Ottoman-Turks. That’s why today, after 91 years, Britain still refuses to label the human tragedy that engulfed the Eastern Anatolia victimizing all of its inhabitants, Armenian, Turk, and others, despite Armenian political pressure, threats, and terrorism. That’s why today, after 91 years, only a handful of states recognize the “alleged” Armenian Genocide, as an unfortunate but clear extension of their anti-Turkish historical bias, more than anything. After all, how can politicians decide a controversial debate pitting historian against historian? Wouldn’t short sighted, fascist laws mandating a certain view and censoring all others stifle further research, free exchange of information and thought, and destroy freedom of speech? Didn’t Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Taliban try similar laws dictating their views to be taught all children to the exclusion of all other views, ideas, and teachings? Did legislating K-12 education along fascist lines in Massachusetts and California to teach Armenian “allegations” of genocide as “settled history”, after tremendous pressure from the Armenian lobby in the last two decades, work for America? Jury is out here. The former is being sued and latter may be next. And if some short-sighted and ignorant French parliamentarians don’t check their attempts to appease their arrogant Armenian constituents (and French bias and bigotry) and pass the anti-Turkish racist law banning freedom of speech on refuting Armenian claims, then France is in for a lot more than it bargained for. If it is not the courts martial of 1915-1916, or the Kangaroo courts of 1919-1920 in occupied Istanbul, or the 1919-1921 Malta Tribunal that never was, then what court verdict could this Armenian lecturer be basing his “genocide verdict” on? I decided to ask him this very question after his “presentation”. The inevitable conclusion, therefore, must be this: either the Armenian professor produces a court verdict given by a “competent tribunal” as specified by the 1948 U.N. convention, stating that Turkish-Armenian conflict during the World War I is genocide or he starts using the qualifier “alleged” before the term genocide in his writings and lectures until such a genocide verdict is at hand. Scholarly honesty demands this from him. Either show a court verdict or say “alleged genocide”. It is as simple as that! Let’s continue reading the invitation sent by The History Department of El Camino College: “…The Armenian genocide in 1915 was the first genocide of the twentieth century…”No, not really. The first genocide, or systematic and wholesale massacre (since the term genocide was not invented until 1943 by Rafael Lemkin and therefore can not be used retroactively) was the killing of the Herreros of Southwest Africa (Namibia) by the German colonialists in 1904. The second systematic and wholesale massacre was the killing of the Ottoman-Muslims, mostly Ottoman-Turks, by the Ottoman-Christians during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, where my father’s entire village of Kirlikova was annihilated leaving my father, a one year old baby then, as the sole survivor (you can read more about this tragic story in the archives below.) So, the Armenian professor is wrong again. Where does the tragedy of the Ottoman-Armenians come on this list? No where. Civil wars do not qualify under systematic-and-wholesale-massacre category ( a precursor to post 1948 genocide category.) After all, deaths of 523,000 Ottoman-Muslims, mostly Ottoman-Turks, are directly attributable to wartime atrocities committed by the Armenian nationalists armed by France, Britain, and Russia. (Though the term “nationalist” is not always necessarily a negative one, the Armenian version of nationalism is, as it meant wholesale death and destruction to the Ottoman-Muslims in Eastern Anatolia between 1890-1920.) Back to the invitation by The History Department: “… and resulted in about one and a half million deaths; nevertheless, it is often called the Forgotten Genocide…”In my son’s history classroom during the last open day, I noticed a poster dated 1919 on the wall among many other historical artifacts from different years and subjects. This one solicited funds for the starving Armenians of the Middle East. What really attracted my attention was the number given as the total for the Ottoman-Armenian casualties: 600,000. Knowing full well that even this number is more than double the actual number of casualties ( as Kamuran Gurun gives the figure of 300,000 in his book “The Armenian File” and please compare this with Turkish casualties of 528,000 who met their end at the hands of Armenians, so that you can put this whole civil war reality in perspective), how did this Armenian professor and others like him manage to come up with this figure of 1.5 million? Do dead multiply? I guess Armenian dead do… Is there any other explanation? Then there is this: the entire Ottoman-Armenian population, according to the official Ottoman government sources, was 1,295,000. How can more people than the entire population die? Did some die twice? Even that doesn’t explain where the Armenian Diaspora today came from? If the entire population was killed (and some were killed twice) then where did the Armenians we see today in America, France, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere come from? You see, the Armenian numbers don’t add up. They never did. Just like the non-existing court verdict of genocide, 1.5 million dead do not exist. The inaccuracies in the invitation continue: “… Not only is little known outside the Armenian community about the Turkish attempt to destroy the Armenian people, but today Turkey denies that it ever took place…”“Little known?” Honestly, can anyone watch on TV, hear on radio, read in the press anything other than bogus Armenian claims? What exactly is this professor’s concept of “little known?” Turkish attempt was not to destroy the Armenian people but to defend herself against the fifth column activities of the Eastern Anatolia Armenians at a time of war of survival. Turkey can not deny something that doesn’t exist. The invitation reads: “…This issue has become especially important as Turkey seeks entry into the European Union, since France and other nations have called for Turkey's recognition of the Armenian genocide…” France is one of the six parties that Turks expect to hear apologies from since the end of WWI. France was not invited to Anatolia and did not come bearing flowers or to have a peaceful picnic there. France, along with other allies, rained death and destruction on my people, Turks. Not content, France secretly divided up Ottoman Empire between France and Britain (Sykes-Picot agreement) and used Ottoman-Armenians to kill their Ottoman-Muslim neighbors. France donned French uniforms on Ottoman-Armenian citizens and watched as neighbor killed neighbor. Thus, France, along with her allies, ruthlessly destroyed a “millennium of harmonious co-habitation” between the Turks and Armenians in Anatolia. Such shameless and evil schemes staged in the name of advancing political French interests, fine tuned by the French colonialists in Africa and Oceania costing millions of innocent lives over several centuries, brought enormous pain and suffering to my Turkish predecessors. No less than 2.5 million Ottoman-Muslims, mostly Turks, died during the WWI (528,000 of them at the hands of Armenian nationalists; please don’t confuse these two figures.) This France is telling me what to do now? I think not! While I hold absolutely no grudge against French people today, I place the full blame on the French politicians for the bloodshed in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Americas, and elsewhere. France went to these places uninvited, used brutal military force to rain death and destruction on local people, and exploited their natural and cultural resources. France should learn to be big enough to face her history, before lecturing others on human rights. First France should apologize to Turkey and then I can forgive France. Until then, France has no credibility. The invitation ends with this: “… Please encourage your students to attend. Arrangements can be made for sign up sheets, etc. to be available…” Unsuspecting students, lured with the prospect of extra credits if they attended flocked to the theater where they would be subjected to the unadulterated Armenian propaganda. And here is the signature under the invitation for the record: “…
Best Regards,
Florence Baker, The History Department, El Camino College.”
Address: 16007 Crenshaw Blvd. Torrance, CA 90506
Phone: 310.532.3670 Toll Free:1.866.ELCAMINO 1.866.352.2646.
PART II: ATTEMPTS TO INCLUDE THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY FAIL
Some college professors who were also bothered by this one-sided presentation contacted the organizer. They pointed out to her that the scholarly way to cover a controversial subject was to allow both sides of that issue to be heard by the students. Only lively, open, and free exchange of ideas in a thoughtful debate could enable the students to judge a controversy, not partisan monologues or biased choruses. In order to protect these courageous professors from possible violent acts of Armenian terrorists who already claimed the lives of three Turkish diplomats in California alone in the last three decades, countless bombings, assaults, and death threats, I shall refrain from giving their names here. Their reasonable, honest, and scholarly requests were turned down by the organizer with hollow excuses like lack of time to make last minute rearrangements. The stage was thus set for the Armenian professor and his one-sided presentation.
A HEALTY DOSE OF PROPAGANDA DURING THE “LECTURE”
The lecturer showed certain sections of two video films, stopping the films whenever he wished for additional comments. Never mind that the photos, films, and stories he showed were mostly out of context, sometimes even irrelevant, and their scrutiny was not encouraged or invited. The lecturer chose the “blood and gore” segments of those biased films for maximum impact, such as eyes being gouged and bodies hung upside down, etc. Imagine the effects of this on the young minds. That’s exactly what this lecturer wanted: to create a cult following among the youth bent one hate for all things Turkish. I could very well show similar movies where the victims are Ottoman-Turks and perpetrators are Otoman-Armenians. In fact, I can show more recent movies where victims are Turks of the Republic of Turkey and the perpetrators are Armenian-American terrorists. That would be arguing the Turkish-Armenian civil war on the basis of who spilled more blood of the other and would prove nothing, other than a bloody civil war which is what it was in the first place. I would like to call this the “Texas chainsaw massacre approach” to history. This lecture milked the fears and prejudices of unsuspecting young minds so much that Hitler’s propaganda ministers could probably not top it. After the propagandistic lecture ended – not a moment too soon-- the floor was opened to questions and I asked the first question to the organizer: “Being of Turkish-American heritage, and having read a lot about the subject, I am unable to agree with the misleading and distorted characterizations embodied in this lecture. Would you please allow me five minutes on stage to refute the lecturer’s allegations for the benefit of the students here? “ Organizer appeared a bit perplexed and before she could respond, I heard the lecturer say something along the lines of this is not a panel and ending with “ Mr. Kirlikovali, please so ask what you want to ask.” “I didn’t utter my name, how did you know?” He said he knew me through my work. I thanked him and commented: “I am afraid I find your lecture racist and dishonest.” The lecturer asked why. I said: “ You never mentioned the Turkish dead and suffering. You implied that Turkish dead do not matter, only Armenian dead do. That, to me, is racist. And you did not say a word about Armenian insurgency, terrorism, and treason that caused the civil war and the ensuing temporary resettlement order. You left half the story out. And that’s dishonest. “By this time the temper in the hall was rising because some Armenian students didn’t want to hear what I was saying. The lecturer argued that his case was accepted by many as the settled history and he spoke the truth. A few pro-Armenian questions were fielded with which the lecturer was quite happy. Those questions were something to the effect did Turkey recognize the genocide and why did Turkey not recognize the genocide to this date. The lecturer jumped at the opportunity to do more Turk-bashing. He said things like it is not easy to accept genocide for an honorable person because it is a terrible stain in one’s history. More and more Turks are beginning to see the truth about genocide and coming out to embrace it (You wish…)One innocent question by a student must have annoyed him a bit, though he seemed to keep his cool. He asked why did the Armenians not sue Turkey at an international court to which I added 127 Turkish NGOs recently suggested just that to the Republic of Armenia. Also recently, the Turkish government proposed to the Republic of Armenia establishing a joint committee of historians and opening all archives so that they can study this matter and report on their conclusions. Armenia avoided saying yes to either one of these proposals. What are the Armenians hiding? What are they afraid of? The lecturer said that something like the situation was clearly a genocide and there is no need to go to court. I asked “Is genocide proven?” This was a trick question and he heard it all right. If he said yes, then I would ask for what court, when, where, where is the supporting documents and sources, which he obviously could not produce. If he said no, then the effect of today’s lecture would be annulled. After all, if genocide was not proven, then why was he presenting it as settled history? After a brief pause, he motioned to the screen behind him implying the video films and said: “Of course it is, these films and materials prove it.” I responded “Those materials could not stand to scrutiny of a any court of law. You know it, I know it.” (I may have also added something like those films and materials “ a bunch of crap” proving nothing…But I can’t recall.) One professor asked how many Turks were killed in Erzurum. Instead of replying, the lecturer questioned back saying something like since you seem to know the answer, suppose you tell me. The professor said he though this was a question-and-answer session and not a question-and-question session. The lecturer then said what is your source? I waved the book Armenia: Secrets of a Christian Terrorist Nation” written by Sam Weems and I offered to give it to him as my gift to him. The lecturer said that he already had that book and that Sam Weems was not a historian. I waved four more books (by Guenter Lewy, Kamuran Gurun, Salahi Sonyel, Justin McCarthy, and Stanford Shaw) and asked “These are by historians, have you read them?” The lecturer chose to respond other questions ignoring mine. Another question was about how the Armenian churches cultivate hate for all things Turkish. She gave the example of an Asian woman who had known nothing about Turks until she attended an Armenian church and pretty soon thereafter she found herself hating all Turks everywhere. The question was didn’t today’s lecture also cause the same kind of negative effect on young minds. The lecturer responded by saying that he could vouch for other churches and that if she could identify that church he would be happy to talk to them (Right!). A student sitting in front of the questioner arose to disagree with the questioner saying that she was the daughter of an Armenian minister and she doesn’t hate the Turks. Another professor asked, after identifying herself as a member of the faculty, that she was brought up being taught to hate the Turks and she did. Until of course she met Turks and she was stunned to find out how pleasant and war Turks were, nothing like the image with which she grew. She felt that the lecturer was aiding the perpetuation of hate among our youth for all things Turkish. The lecturer objected to this by saying that he made it a point of saying that not all Turks were responsible for what happened to Armenians and that some gracious Turks, even some Ottoman officials, did help save Armenian lives. There are Turks today that he loves listing the names of Turkish scholars known for embracing the official Armenian propaganda line such as Halil Berktay, Elif Safak, Fatma Gocek, Zarakolu, and others (He left Taner Akcam out!). I didn’t have a chance to say with the exception of Berktay, none are historians and Berktay has a hidden agenda with the Turkish Republic going back to 1970s when berktay was a “wanted” terrorist, along with Taner Akcam. These people were Marxist-Leninist militants who tried by force of arms and explosive to change the regime in Turkey, from a Western democracy to Soviet style communism. You can see the nostalgic “wanted” poster with Berktay’s and Akcam’s mugshots at www.tallarmeniantale.com today. That is why these “scholars” embraced the Armenian propaganda at face value. Their motivation is not historical truth but spite for Turkey. CONCLUSION The session ended after a few more “soft” questions by some students who seemed to have swallowed the Armenian propaganda hook, line, and sinker. If it weren't for the vigilance of one professor, we would never hear about this event. And if it weren't for another professor, who together with the first one went to see the organizer to convince her to allow the other side of the story to also be heard., the Turkish views would not be noticed. Both professors asked the lecturer excellent questions... One professor’s courageous last minute stand criticizing anti-Turkish hate teachings in the Armenian community was truly spectacular. One engineer, taking time from work to attend this lecture, also made the point about teaching of anti-Turkish hate in Armenian churches... All three were brave, determined, well-informed, and peace-loving. As for me, I knew I would not get straight answers to my questions, but that is fine, because my questions are not designed to change the mind of an Armenian lecturer. They were designed to alert and inform the unsuspecting audience to the nature and depth of Armenian propaganda they would be subjected to by this event. My questions would serve to create a question mark in their minds so that they would not buy the distorted Armenian claims at face value. Dare I say that my questions seem to have worked because a few African-American students came to me after the lecture asking for more information an websites on the Turkish views. This is good enough for me. As the Turkish saying goes “Damlaya damlaya gol olur.” (Drop by drop, a lake forms.) I left those students with these final remarks: “Today, you witnessed with your own eyes how the views of a group of people party to a controversial issue were censored by the organizers and the lecturer. Ask yourselves: How can this happen in the 21st Century at an institute of higher learning in the most advanced and richest state in the Union, California? And next time someone gives you a lofty lecture about the freedom of speech in America, please remember today!”
THE QUESTIONS I WANTED TO ASK THE ARMENIAN LECTURER
Question 1 - Historian Guenter Lewy in his article titled “Revisiting the Armenian Genocide” published in Fall 2005 edition of Middle East Quarterly ( http://www.meforum.org/article/895 ) says this: “…Most of those who maintain that Armenian deaths were premeditated and so constitute genocide base their argument on three pillars: the actions of Turkish military courts of 1919-20,…, the role of the so-called "Special Organization" accused of carrying out the massacres, and the Memoirs of Naim Bey[3] which contain alleged telegrams of Interior Minister Talât Pasha…. Yet when these events and the sources describing them are subjected to careful examination, they provide at most a shaky foundation from which to claim, let alone conclude, that the deaths of Armenians were premeditated….” End of quote. Based on this, isn’t it a bit dishonest of you to present a complex, contested, and clearly unresolved historical event as “settled history” to unsuspecting listeners? Don’t you think you should qualify your views as those of the Armenian camp?
Question 2 - Same historian Guenter Lewy in his letter of response to his critics of his article titled “Revisiting the Armenian Genocide” published in Winter 2005 edition of Middle East Quarterly ( http://www.meforum.org/article/895 ) follows up with this: “… the tribulations of Turkish refugees from the Balkan wars and other armed conflicts of the pre-World War I era have not received the attention and condemnation they deserve. The West has been preoccupied with the horrors of the Armenian story, and the suffering of Turks has often been ignored. The same holds true for the wartime famines that took a heavy toll of life among both Turks and Armenians. This double standard in recognizing human misery must be repudiated for the sake of historical truth and to help descendants of these victims live with their pain…”Isn’t this double standard clearly displayed here again today by your embellishing and magnifying the suffering of Christian Armenians while ignoring, or worse yet, dismissing the more profound suffering of Muslim Turks? Do you think such selective morality is scholarly?
Question 3 - There are millions of Turks today who have similarly tragic stories of entire Turkish families and neighborhoods having been wiped out by Armenian nationalists armed by the Western allies. Some of the Muslim victims, mostly Turkish, were themselves refugees who survived terrible massacres in the Balkans, the Aegean Islands, the Crimea, the Caucasus, and elsewhere and who were resettled into Eastern Anatolia only to be met by yet another cycle of Christian violence at the hands of Armenian bands. Isn’t it true that their stories were never told, their pain and suffering were never noticed, and their tears never seen, due to the endless Armenian propaganda which has saturated the West since 1915?
Question 4 - More than 70 Western students of Ottoman history categorically rejected the appropriateness of the genocide label for the fate of the Armenian community in Ottoman Turkey in an statement published in 1985. Other prominent scholars and intellectuals, including distinguished scholars such as Roderic Davison, J.C. Hurewitz, Bernard Lewis, and Andrew Mango, joined their ranks since. Doesn’t dismissing such awe-inspiring array of learned opinion boil down to bigotry in academia ? Are you comfortable with the dogmatism that ignores the enormous body of evidence disputing Armenian claims of genocide?
Question 5 - Careful reading shows that the reports of British, French, American, German, and Austrian consular officials and Western missionaries, who were on the spot in Anatolia, confirm the occurrence of killings, though in a biased and sometimes even racist manner, but do not implicate the "Special Organization" or any other agency of the central government. Moreover, almost none of these mention the terrible massacres to which the Muslims were subjected and which are documented in the Ottoman archives. When the entire body of evidence put together, the picture emerging explains most non-partisan historians use the phrase “a civil war within a world war” to describe the Turkish-Armenian conflict. Why, for example, did you not dwell on the Muslims suffering at the hands of Armenians? After all, 523,000 Muslim victims, mostly Turkish, were documented in the Ottoman archives to have met their end at the hands of Armenians. Why this double standard on your part here today?
Question 6 - Isn’t your allegation of a systematic elimination of the Armenian population undercut by the exemption of the large Armenian communities of Istanbul, Izmir, Edirne, and Aleppo from deportation? Since Armenian activists like to compare the Turkish-Armenian conflict for World War One to the Holocaust, in an attempt to gain instant credibility by association, wouldn’t this be comparable to Hitler exempting the Jews of Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, and Hamburg from the final solution? How can you, in all fairness and honesty, compare the civil war between the Turks and Armenians during WWI to the Jewish Holocaust of WWII?
Question 7 - The alleged telegrams of Talât Pasha contained in the Naim-Andonian book supposedly ordering the killing of all Armenians are exposed as crude forgeries not only by Turkish historians but also by almost all Western students of Ottoman history. Even a Hilmar Kaiser, an anti-Turkish biased scholar popularly cited by Armenian activists, concluded that "further research on the ‘Naim-Andonian' documents is necessary." How scholarly or honest is it to base the serious accusation of genocide on a proven forgery?
Question 8 - If Armenians wish to believe that the verdict of the Turkish courts-martial of occupied Istanbul during 1919-20 is proof of the guilt of the Young Turk regime in the premeditated murder of Ottoman Armenians, they are free to do so. Armenian sympathizers, however, should know that the evidence used by the military tribunals, including but not limited to witness and expert testimony, confessions, searches and seizure is hardly reliable. They were never cross-examined. What’s worse, this evidence simply does not exist and the original documentation of the trials is conveniently “lost” by the Armenians and their victorious “foreign” allies. What we have today are “copies” of some documents in the gazette of the Ottoman government and the press in occupied Istanbul. Could even a single person be convicted of murder based solely on hearsay and press reports? How can the Armenians convict a whole nation of the most serious crime? Isn’t all this a bit to too extreme?
Question 9 - I am deeply saddened and somewhat offended by your anti-Turkish biased presentation of this highly controversial subject. Isn’t presenting only one side of a controversial issue such as this one, while censoring the other side unscholarly, unfair, even unethical ? You would not think about covering controversial subjects, such as abortion, gun control, immigration, war in Iraq, or others with only one side of the story told, would you? Why then would you settle for one side of the story when it comes to the Turkish-Armenian conflict? All we heard is the Armenian views; where is the Turkish point of view here? Why this prejudice against the Turks and the Muslims?
Question 10 - According to the Armenians, Turkish pain does not exist. Turkish dead do not matter; only Armenian dead do. Turks do not deserve a chance to be heard. Do you subscribe to such a blatantly racist approach? And if you don’t, where is the Turkish speaker up there?
Question 11 - I don’t believe I heard much about the well-documented facts that the Ottoman-Armenians resorted to agitation, terrorism, armed revolts, and supreme treason (as in joining and invading enemy), in that order, from 1890 to 1915. Do you deny these facts to make your genocide allegations stick?
Question 12 - The Armenians activists label "deniers” all who rightfully challenge the baseless Armenian accounts of history. Those “deniers” are then harassed even terrorized-- as an unfortunate incident at UCI last week showed where a student was attacked by Armenians just for being Turkish. Some Armenian even go farther than that to categorically label all Turkish-Americans paid Turkish government agents. Do you think such intimidation and terror tactics by Armenians are justifiable?
Question 13 - I believe Armenian accounts boil down to dishonest history with racist interpretations and should have no place at an institute of higher learning such as this college. Wouldn’t it be fair to invite the representatives of the responsible opposing views to challenge the unfounded allegations of the Armenian camp for the benefit of your listeners? Isn’t a thoughtful and lively debate always better than a partisan monologue or a bigoted chorus?
Question 14 - Isn’t Genocide is a legal term precisely defined by the U.N., that can be used only after a verdict is reached by a competent tribunal (such as Nuremberg), after due process where both sides of the conflict are properly represented and heard and cross examined? Does such a court decision exist? Have Turks ever been heard? Shouldn’t this term , in all fairness, truth, and objectivity, be preceded by the qualifier "alleged" until a competent court decides that the term genocide applies to the Turkish-Armenian conflict?
Question 15 - As the table in McCarthy’s book clearly demonstrates, Turkish and Muslim losses are to enormous and spread over too long a period to “casually escape one’s attention” or to be considered an “honest oversight”. Can you appreciate how important it is for the Turkish Americans and Muslim Americans, that any balanced coverage of the Turkish-Armenian conflict during World War One (WWI) mention the truth about the more than 2.5 million Turks and Muslims killed by the allies and their Ottoman-Armenian cohorts? Especially when 523,000 of those victims met their end at the hands of Armenian nationalists between 1914-1918 alone?
Question 16 - Are the atrocities committed against Turks and Muslims not worth your time, attention, and/or respect? Are their lives less valuable than the lives of the Christian Armenians?
Question 17 - Here is what By Justin McCarthy says on page 309 of his book DEATH AND EXILE: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922 (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1995) : Total of 5,060,000 Muslim Deaths and 5,381,000 Muslim Refugees. Have you been just, fair, and honest in covering both sides of this issue for the benefit of your unsuspecting listeners? How can anyone, let alone any scholar, ignore such an enormous human suffering spread over such a long time? Isn’t this bias and bigotry at its worst?
Question 18 - I was deeply disappointed to see a one-sided presentation of a controversial subject here. The right thing would be to allow the “other side of the story”, namely the Turkish side, also be heard by the unsuspecting listeners. Failing that, as was the case, the teachers were exposed to biased Armenian allegations only. Is this fair or even?
Question 19 - Because of all this lopsided coverage of the Turkish-Armenian history in America, a Turkish-American had coined a new word back in 2003, his humble gift to the English language, which word now perfectly describes this lecture: Ethocide. Coined from the words "ethics" and "cide" (killing), ethocide means " extermination of ethics via systematic and malicious mass deception for political, social, cultural, economic, religious, and/or other gain". Isn’t it time that this ethocidal coverage of the Turkish-Armenian conflict riddled with anti-Turkish bias and bigotry gave way to sensible dialogue to properly evaluate a dark chapter in history where my Turkish predecessors paid the highest price in terms of loss of life and property, and 91 years later, it seems, dignity?
Question 20 - Don’t Armenian claims seem to find acceptance only in those platforms where Turkish views are censored? Isn’t it ironic that the truth is not in what the Armenians say , but ironically, in what they don’t say? Where is the Turkish suffering in your presentations? Where are the Armenian terrorism, armed uprisings, treason? Where is half the story?
Question 21 - Isn’t it a fact that most of the Armenian allegations were proven to be exaggerations, embellishments, distortions, fabrications and/or fraud? Aren’t some celebrated examples of bogus Armenian claims include the infamous Hitler quote, the skull-pyramid photo, the Talaat telegrams, the Andonian files, Musa Dagh episode, Morgenthau’s ghost writers, 1.5 million casualty figure, population statistics, causes, and more? Is it right to treat these unchallenged and baseless Armenian claims as “facts”?
Question 22 - Do you know the difference between “allegations” and “judgments”? Isn’t it true that while anyone can make any claim, only judgments are filtered through the “due process” by careful and orderly cross-examination of factual, relevant input? Have the Armenians ever won a court case authorizing them to use the term genocide? How can they endlessly benefit from a nonexistent “judgment” of genocide?
Question 23 - Are you aware that 127 leading non-governmental organizations in Turkey recently suggested to the Republic of Armenia to take the Republic of Turkey to the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands? I agree with those NGOs as it makes a lot of sense to me. Since Armenians seem to have many books, films, exhibitions, witnesses and more, they should have no problems having Turkey convicted. So, what are the Armenians waiting for? Is it because the Turkish archives would be opened for all to see in such a court and Turkish views would be heard perhaps for the first time for most?
Question 23 - Are you aware that the Republic of Turkey just recently made an official offer to the Republic of Armenia recently to establish a joint committee of historians and open all the archives, so that this matter can be studied based on facts and figures, not propaganda and hearsay? Do you know that Turkey’s archives are open, but Armenia’s, the Armenian churches’ and the Armenian Diaspora’s are not ? Do you know that Prime Minister Erdogan said the Turkish side would accept the outcome of such a competent research committee, regardless of which way the final verdict goes: genocide or civil war. So what are the Armenians waiting for? Since you are so convinced, why not say yes to this investigation committee? Question
24 - Are you aware that the British refused to use the Armenian sources in their Malta Trials (1919-1921)? Do you know that the Armenians filed all the documents you now speak of, although mostly hearsay and accusations, with the court clerk when the British imprisoned the Ottoman leadership to investigate the Armenian charges. Do you also know that the British had to let the Ottoman leaders go free, without filing a single charge? Shouldn’t this be the end of all Armenian allegations?
Question 25 - Don’t partisan presentations such as yours today deliberately distort the truth, deepen divisions and polarizations among the Americans of differing heritage (ie Turks, Azeris, Armenians, and others) and prevent peace?
Question 26 - Isn't it ironic, that we have bombed Yugoslavia punish the Serbians for ethnic cleansing; we have fought Saddam first for aggression and then for supporting international terrorism; but we rewarded with US help when Armenia, a Christian terrorist country, committed all three of these crimes? Didn’t Armenia conduct aggression and ethnic cleansing in Azerbaijan since 1994 causing 1 million Azeri refugees to leave their home at gun point? Didn’t Armenia support international terrorism from 197os to present killing, 70+ Turkish diplomats and bystanders worldwide? Isn’t this a double standard on the part of the successive U.S. governments?
Question 27 - Aren’t Armenian allegations of genocide dishonest and racist history? Racist because they imply that Turkish dead do not matter, but Armenian dead do? And dishonest because they deliberately misrepresent as genocide a civil war within a world war caused by Armenian greed, , terrorism , armed revolts, and treason?
Question 28 - Isn’t your presentations typical of the official Armenian propaganda line? Can it pass the "the Four T’s” test: tumult (as in armed revolts against their own government); terrorism (both domestic and international, then and now); treason (as in joining the invading enemy armies); and Turkish suffering they caused (2.5 million Turks lost their lives during WWI, 523,000 thousand of them at the hands of Armenian nationalists.) ?
Question 29 - Armenians keep saying that they believe genocide is settled history. Since when history has become a matter of “belief”? Isn’t history supposed to be a matter of “scholarship”, as in research, peer review, and debate? One would expect from the organizers to serve the American public by providing a free-speech-platform here where dialogue and thoughtful debate can help to illuminate issues. How does this partisan speech exposing the public only to the biased views of Armenian camp serve the public?
Question 30 - Why do Armenians keep invoking the Jewish Holocaust? Did Jews establish Jewish armies behind German lines? Did Jews kill Germans to terrorize the German population into fleeing? Did they join the invading enemy armies and commit terrorism and stage armed revolts and commit treason? And did they do all that for 25 years prior to 1940 to establish a Jewish state on German soil? Of course, not. But Armenian did all that and much worse between 1890-1915 in Anatolia, victimizing Ottoman-Muslims. How can the two vastly different histories be mentioned in the same breath? How can a civil war be equated to the Holocaust?
Question 31 - Was it genocide or wartime tragedy? If Armenian resorted to terrorism, armed uprisings, and outright treason, and Turks responded to the serious wartime security threats with a wartime measure of temporary resettlement, wouldn’t it make it a civil war?
Question 32 - If it was genocide, where is the court verdict? Where is the proof of intent? If there is no intent, how can there be genocide? Didn’t the Malta Tribunals of 1919-1921 by the British, abandoned due to lack of evidence, prove that today’s Armenian allegations of genocide are nothing more than an afterthought, a new spin on an old event, and a political maneuver?
Question 33 - How come we heard nothing about the Turkish suffering caused by the Armenian nationalists like the Dashnaks, the Hunchaks, the Ramgavar, and others? Weren’t the Turkish losses at least 4 times heavier than Armenian losses?
Question 34 - What about Armenian terrorism, rebellions, and treason? Why didn’t we hear anything about them?
Question 35 - As the prominent Turkish Historian Halacoglu recently said, crying makes poor history. Isn’t it a fact that my grandparents can’t cry on TV today, like those Armenian survivors, because the Armenians and Greeks killed them in Anatolia between 1911-1922 ?
Question 36 - It is well documented that until May 2, 1915, the date of the telegraph by Enver Pasha from the Russian front to Talaat Pasha in Istanbul, there was not even talk of temporary resettlement; so how can it be genocide if there is no intent of killing Armenians?
Question 37 - Where is the right of the Turkish-Americans’ to the freedom of speech with access to this panel denied? Question 38 - Isn’t New York Times guilty of censoring Turkish views? Didn’t NYT publish 145 anti-Turkish stories in 1915 with zero rebuttals, refutations, or challenges allowed for Turks? Is this the fair and balanced coverage the Armenians are basing their allegations on?
Question 39 - Aren’t Armenian allegations of genocide are dishonest history because they ignore Armenian terror, rebellions, and treason!
Question 40 - How come you always mention denial by the Turkish government when you know we are the Turkish-Americans, not the Turkish government and we also categorically reject the Armenian claims of genocide?
Question 41 - Do you know the first of the six apologies the Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for Britain to apologize for the wartime propaganda in the “Blue Book” on which today’s genocide claims are built and for raining death and destruction on our grandparents’ in Anatolia?
Question 42 - Did you know that Boghos Nubar Pasha, the Armenian leader, said in a published letter that “Armenians Were de-facto belligerents during WWI”? Doesn’t it prove that it was a civil war?
Question 43 - Do you know the second of apologies Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for France to apologize for the wartime propaganda in the “Yellow Books” and for raining death and destruction on our grandparents’ in Anatolia?
Question 44 - Do you know the third of six apologies Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for Russia to apologize for destroying 850 years of harmonious Turkish-Armenian co-habitation in Anatolia?
Question 45 - Do you know the fourth of six apologies Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for the Protestant Missionaries sent from Boston to apologize for dividing, polarizing, and destroying 850 years of harmonious Turkish-Armenian co-habitation in Anatolia ?
Question 46 - Do you know the fifth of six apologies Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for the New York Times to apologize for biased coverage of 1915? Did you know NYT published 145 partisan reports defaming Turks versus zero rebuttals by Turks allowed?
Question 47 - Do you know the sixth of six apologies Turks have been waiting for since the end of WWI which is for the Ottoman-Armenians to apologize for destroying 850 years of harmonious Turkish-Armenian co-habitation in Anatolia with their greed, agitation, terrorism, rebellions, and treason?
Question 48 - Did you know the Ottoman Empire loved and cherished the Armenians as “the most loyal nation” but the Armenians betrayed this respect by donning the French and Russian uniforms to kill their Ottoman-Muslim neighbors?
Question 49 - George M. Lamsa, a missionary well known for his research on Christianity, The Secret of the Near East, The Ideal Press, Philadelphia 1923, p 133 said and I quote: "…In some towns containing ten Armenian houses and thirty Turkish houses, it was reported that 40,000 people were killed, about 10,000 women were taken to the harem, and thousands of children left destitute; and the city university destroyed, and the bishop killed. It is a well- known fact that even in the last war the native Christians, despite the Turkish cautions, armed themselves and fought on the side of the Allies. In these conflicts, they were not idle, but they were well supplied with artillery, machine guns and inflicted heavy losses on their enemies…." Isn’t this proof enough of the Armenian fraud and Western complicity?
Question 50 - John Dewey, of the Library Dewey System fame, wrote in The New Republic on 12 November 1928 the following: “...Few Americans who mourn, and justly, the miseries of the Armenians, are aware that till the rise of nationalistic ambitions... the Armenians were the favored portion of the population of Turkey, or that in the Great War, they traitorously turned Turkish cities over to the Russian invader; that they boasted of having raised an Army of one hundred and fifty thousand men to fight a civil war, and that they burned at least a hundred Turkish villages and exterminated their population...” Isn’t this proof enough of the Armenian distortions?
Question 51 - Dr. Gwynne Dyer, a London-based independent journalist, wrote in 1976: “… The deafening drumbeat of the propaganda, and the sheer lack of sophistication in argument which comes from preaching decade after decade to a convinced and emotionally committed audience, are the major handicaps of Armenian historiography of the diaspora today…” Isn’t this a proper description of the Armenian fanaticism?
Question 52 - Georges de Maleville, lawyer and a specialist on the Armenian question, La Tragédie Arménienne de 1915, (The Armenian tragedy of 1915), Editions F. Sorlot-F. Lanore, Paris, 1988, p 61-63, said: “…In all the countries, under all the regimes, the staff of the armies in the field evacuate towards the back, the populations which live in the zone of fights and can bother the movement of the troops, especially if these populations are hostile. Public opinion does not find anything to criticize to these measures, obviously painful, but necessary. During winter of 1939-1940, the radical - socialist French government evacuated and transported in the Southwest of France, notably in the Dordogne, the entire population of the Alsatian villages situated in the valley of the Rhine, to the east of the Maginot line. This German-speaking population, and even sometimes germanophil, bothered the French army. It stayed in the South, far from the evacuated homes and sometimes destroyed until 1945….And nobody, in France, cried out for inhumanity…” Doesn’t this point poignantly to the hollowness of the Armenian claims?
Question 53 - How did “the most loyal nation” in the Ottoman Empire turn into “the most distrusted nation” ? Can Turks be blamed for losing their trust in Armenians after Armenian rebellions and treason? Question 54 - What about Armenia’s aggression in Karabagh-Azerbaijan since 1988? What about Armenia’s aggression in Azerbaijan since 1992? What about Armenia’s ethnic cleansing both in Karabagh and Azerbaijan since 1992? Why did you ignore one million Azeris expelled from their homes at gun point by Armenian thugs in 1994? Why is everyone so hush-hush about the tragedy of one million Azeri refugees who still brave the freezing Caucasus winters in leaky tents with little food or medicine for the 12th years in a row?
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