Lets celebrate friendships and peaceful acts, do not to support sick minds please!

Every April towards to the Anzac Day, some Australian reporters or programs ( this year ABC radio and TV) trying to turn the history upside down with full of biased emerging statements with false and misleading reports to the Australian people in order convey animosity, sadly on the week of 'the Friendship' between Australia and Turkiye despite of the Turks and their efforts to established good will around the world.

The following letter written to : http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/guestlst/guestbook.pl?foreign

Dear Eric and Foreign Correspond producer

For the segment due to be shown on 22 April. 2008 …(http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2008/s2207929.htm)
This program will let down many Turkish-Australians…by reading of your program’s synopsis, this film again one of those ones that turning the history upside down with full of biased emerging statements in order convey to inform with false and misleading report to be given to the Australian people, sadly on the week of ‘the Friendship’ between Australia and Turkiye.

Turkish Australians who have being living in Australia harmoniously by respecting multicultural Australia and Australian values for more than 40 years now. However, such this program supports to give immerse reverse impact. Your report and ABC TV should already know that such a divisive program doesn’t and won’t help Australia where supposed be a fair go country for everyone, every nationality unless an opportunity should have been provided for every nation to be able express their story and their historical realities. Otherwise, such one sided and bias program encourages and sustains animosity nothing else! Is that what you want? Turks believe the notion of ' animosity breeds animosity; it is a vicious circle ‘ therefore Turks support the idea of ‘ Peace and Harmony in Australia, Peace and Harmony in the Universe’.Turks never supports hatred for any nation consequently Turkish people in Australia and Turkey never hate Australians for invasion of the Gallipoli War. They rather focus on the lessons from history and try to grow friendship and peace in Australia out of the Gallipoli War because they know that their heritage values require supporting peace, not war!.
They also believe that there are hardly any wars, which the past conflicted parties jointly commemorate. Gallipoli serves as a message of ' PEACE ' to the whole world.

Lets celebrate friendships and peaceful acts not to support sick minds please! Otherwise you and your like minded people have to chose imperialistic ideas to grow in Australia or notLest we forget the price of animosity!

Julia Gul Arslan
Founder of Australia-Gallipoli Friendship Society Inc.