Peres apologises after Erdogan storms out of Davos debate on Gaza

January 30, 2009
Article from: Agence France-Presse
ISRAELI President Shimon Peres has apparently apologised to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the latter stormed out of a Davos debate on Gaza.

Peres, Erdogan clash
A heated debate on Gaza at the World Economic Forum turns sour, as the Turkish Prime Minister tries...
Views today: 414Sorry, this video is no longer available.Mr Peres spoke to Mr Erdogan for five minutes and apologised, Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported, citing a source close to the Turkish Prime Minister.

Mr Erdogan defended himself after walking out of the debate, saying he objected to the way Israel's President had addressed him and the lack of time he had been given to speak.

“I do not think I will be coming back to Davos after this because you do not let me speak,” the Islamist-rooted Prime Minister shouted before marching off the stage in front of Mr Peres, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and an elite audience of ministers and international officials at the World Economic Forum.

Mr Erdogan criticised the audience for applauding Mr Peres' emotional defence of Israel's war in Gaza, before the moderator, Washington Post journalist David Ignatius, insisted that the debate had gone over time.

He said Israel had carried out “barbarian” actions in Gaza.

Mr Peres had told the audience that Israel had been forced into the offensive against Hamas by thousands of rockets and mortars fired into Israel.

“The tragedy of Gaza is not Israel, it is Hamas,” said Mr Peres. “They created a dictatorship. A very dangerous one.”

Mr Ban, Mr Erdogan, Mr Peres and Arab League secretary general Amr Mussa all gave long impassioned statements on the conflict which left more than 1300 Palestinians dead and widespread destruction in Gaza.

The UN secretary-general had called on Israel to end its blockade of Gaza, again condemned the Israeli bombing of a UN base in the territory, and called for Hamas to end its violence for renewed Arab efforts to bring together divided Palestinian groups.
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Do Not Apologize Campaign

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Letter To Hon. Joe Hockey, Federal MP, Australia: Genocide Allegations

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I DO NOT APOLOGIZE
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WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS TRUTH AND HONESTY, NOT SELECTIVE MORALITYBIAS IN THE PHRASE “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

”If one cherishes values like objectivity, truth, and honesty, then one should use the phrase “Turkish-Armenian conflict”. Asking someone “Do you accept or deny Armenian Genocide” shows anti-Turkish bias.

The question, in all fairness, should be re-phrased: “What is your stand on the Turkish-Armenian conflict?” Turks believe it was a civil war within a world war, engineered, provoked, and waged by the Armenians with active support from Russia, England, and France, and passive support from the U.S. diplomats, missionaries, media, and others with anti-Turkish agendas, all eyeing the vast territories of the collapsing Ottoman Empire.

[1]Most Armenians claim it is a one way genocide, totally ignoring the Armenian complicity in war crimes ranging from raids, rebellions, and terrorism to treason, causing many casualties in the Muslim, mostly Turkish, community.GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS IGNORE “THE SIX T’S OF THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN CONFLICT”While some amongst us may be forgiven for taking the ceaseless Armenian propaganda at face value and believing blatant Armenian falsifications
[2] merely because they are repeated so often, it is difficult and painful for people like us, sons and daughters of the Turkish survivors most of whose signatures you see below.
[3]Those seemingly endless “War years” of 1912-1922 (seferberlik yillari) brought wide-spread death and destruction on to all Ottoman citizens.

No Turkish family was left untouched, those of most of the signatories’ below included. Those nameless, faceless, selfless Turkish victims are killed for a second time today with politically motivated and baseless charges of Armenian genocide.

Allegations of Armenian genocide are racist and dishonest history.

They are racist because they imply only Armenian (or Christian) dead count, the Turkish (or Muslim) dead do not.

[4] The former must be remembered and grieved; the latter must be ignored and forgotten. Do you know how many Muslims, mostly Turks, were killed during World War One? Answer: About 3 million, including half a million of them at the hands of well-armed, well-motivated, and ruthless Armenian revolutionaries and para-military thugs.
[3,5] Compare that with less than 300,000 Armenian casualties
[8] which number is gradually magnified to 1.5 million over the years through Armenian propaganda. And the allegations of Armenian genocide are dishonest because they simply dismiss“THE SIX T’S OF THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN CONFLICT”:
1) TUMULT (as in numerous Armenian armed uprisings between 1890 and 1920) [6,7]
2) TERRORISM (by Armenian nationalists and militias victimizing Ottoman-Muslims between 1882-1920) [8,9]
3) TREASON (Armenians joining the invading enemy armies as early as 1914 and lasting until 1921) [6,7,8,9,10]
4) TERRITORIAL DEMANDS (from 1877 to present, where Armenians were a minority, not a majority, attempting to establish Greater Armenia. Ironically, if the Armenians succeeded, it would be one of the first apartheids of the 20th Century, with a Christian minority ruling over a Muslim majority ) [1-11]
5) TURKISH SUFFERING AND LOSSES (i.e. those caused by the Armenian nationalists: 524,000 Muslims, mostly Turks, met their tragic end at the hands of Armenian revolutionaries during WWI, per Turkish Historical Society. This figure is not to be confused with 2.5 million Muslim dead who lost their lives due to non-Armenian causes during WWI. Grand total: more than 3 million, according to Justin McCarthy) [7-10]
6) TERESET (temporary resettlement) triggered by the first five T’s above and amply documented as such; not to be equated to the Armenian misrepresentations as genocide.) [12]Armenians, thus, effectively put an end to their millennium of relatively peaceful and co-habitation in Anatolia with Turks, Kurds, Circassians, and other Muslims by killing their Muslim neighbors and openly joining the invading enemy. Muslims were only defending their home like any citizen anywhere would do.

VERDICT WITHOUT DUE PROCESS AMOUNTS TO LYNCHINGThose who take the Armenian “allegations” of genocide at face value seem to also ignore the following facts concerning international law:

1- Genocide is a legal, technical term precisely defined by the U.N. 1948 convention (Like all proper laws, it is not retroactive to 1915.) [13]

2- Genocide verdict can only be given by a "competent court" after "due process" where both sides are properly represented and evidence mutually cross examined. [14]

3- For a genocide verdict, the accusers must prove “intent” and “motive” at a competent court and by allowing due process to run its natural course. This was not, perhaps cannot ever be, done by the Armenians, whose evidence mostly fall into five major categories: hearsay, mis-representations, exaggerations, forgeries, and “other”. [15]

4- Such a "competent court" was never convened in the case of Turkish-Armenian conflict and a genocide verdict does not exist (save a Kangaroo court in occupied Istanbul in 1920 where partisanship, vendettas, and revenge motives left no room for due process.) [8]

5- Genocide claim is political, not historical or factual. It reflects bias against Turks. Therefore, the term genocide must be used with the qualifier "alleged", for scholarly objectivity and truth. [1-15]

6- Recognizing Armenian claim as genocide will deeply insult Turkish-Americans as well as Turkish-Europeans, and Turks around the globe. Such a conduct would negatively influence the excellent relations currently enjoyed between the U.S. and Turkey, if not the West and Turkey.

It will, no doubt, please Armenian lobbies in the U.S. Europe and Turkey but disappoint, insult, and outrage Turkey, one of America's closest allies since the Korean War of 1950-53.

Turks stood shoulder to shoulder with Americans in Gulf War, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and more. Armenian lobbies will have been allowed to poison the U.S.-Turkey relations. American gratitude and thanks will appear to come in the form of the worst insult that can be dished out to an entire nation.

7- History is not a matter of "conviction, consensus, political resolutions, propaganda, or public relations." History is a matter of research, peer review, thoughtful debate, and honest scholarship. Even historians, by definition, cannot decide on a genocide verdict, which is reserved only for a "competent tribunal" with its legal expertise and due process.

8- What we witness today, therefore, amounts to lynching [14] of the Turks by Armenians and their supporters to satisfy the age old Armenian hate, bias, and bigotry. American values like fairness, presumption of innocence until proven guilty, objectivity, balance, honesty, and freedom of speech are stumped under the fanatic Armenian feet. Unprovoked , unjustified, and unfair defamation of Turkey, one of America's closest allies in the troubled Middle East, the Balkans, and the Caucasus, in order to appease some nagging Armenian activists runs counter to American interests.
9- Hate-based, divisive, polarizing, and historically biased proclamations, such as Schiff’s HR 106, have never been an American way to do business. Why start now?
10- Those who claim genocide verdict [14] today, based on the much discredited Armenian evidence, are actually engaging in "conviction and execution without due process", which is the dictionary definition of “lynch mobs”.

APOLOGY ?

Those who claim Turks need to apologize or show sensitivity to victims of WWI and/or their descendants—without remembering or respecting the Muslim, mostly Turkish, victims of the same WWI due to same wartime conditions—are insulting the silent memory of millions of Muslim, mostly Turkish, victims of WWI tragedy.

They are also engaging in Ethocide [16],A new term coined by a Turkish-American in 2003, Ethocide means “systematic extermination of ethics via malicious mass deception for political, economical, religious, social, and other gain.” Ethocide comes with a new Turkish companion term: “AHLAKKIRIM” [17]
If an apology is needed today, then the entire humanity should apologize for the mistakes and excesses of the past generations, without resorting to “selective morality” and discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, race, or religion. And if more sensitivity is required, then it should be provided by all for all, without resorting to division, polarization, hostility, bias, or bigotry.

Our accounst of WWI are replete with expressions of sadness and sympathy for all the victims of WWI, Turk, Kurd, Laz, Circassian, Armenian, Arab, Greek, Jew, and all others.

We do not feel we should segregate the Armenians or others from this lot and grieve only for them.

If an apology is needed today, we should all start apologizing for the world hunger, global warming, aids epidemics, endless wars, inequity in income distribution, plundering human and natural resources, violation of civil rights of women, children, and some cases all humans, global lack of education and health care, and more.

ISN’T IT TIME TO STOP FIGHTING THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND GIVE PEACE A CHANCE?
We would like to conclude with a heartfelt message of peace: We wish the entire world just and lasting peace, good health, balanced and thriving nature, sufficient prosperity and unlimited happiness in the coming years.
As Ataturk so ably put it for all of us: “Peace at home, Peace in the World.”Coalition of Turkish-Americans, Turkish-Canadians, Turkish-Europeans, Turkish-Asians & Citizens of Turkey and the World Community for Truth, Fairness, Honesty and the Sons and Daughters of Turkish Survivors of Tragic “War Years” of 1912-1922Signed: 8 December 2008……………………….


.References:[1] History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Vol I & II, Stanford Shaw (Cambridge University Press, London, New York, Melbourne, 1976)[2] The Story Behind Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story, Heath W. Lowry ( The Isis Press, Istanbul, Turkey, 1990)[3] The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire, Justin McCarthy (Arnold, London, U.K., 2001[4] Declaration Signed by 69 Prominent North American Academicians, New York Times and Washington Post, may 19, 1985 (for a copy: http://www.turkla.com/yazar.php?mid=338&yid=4[5] Ermeniler: Sürgün ve Göç, Türk Tarih Kurumu (Ankara, Turkey, 2004)[6] Houshamatyan of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Centennial, Album-Atlas, Volume I, Epic Battles, 1890-1914 (The Next Day Color Printing, Inc., Glendale, CA, U.S.A., 2006)[7] The Armenian Rebellion at Van, Justin McCarthy, Esat Arslan, Cemaletting Taskiran, Omer Turan (The University of Utah Press, Salt lake City, USA, 2006)[8] The Armenian File, Kamuran Gurun (Rustem Bookshop, Mersin, Turkey, 1985)[9] The Armenians in History and the Armenian Question, Esat Uras (Documentary Publications, Istanbul, Turkey, 1988)[10] Free E-Book : "Genocide Of Truth" by Sukru Server Aya, Based On Neutral or Anti-Turkish Sources ( Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey, 2008) For a copy: http://armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2008/04/2429-new-e-book-genocide-of-truth-based.html[11] “Pursuing the Just Cause of Their People”, Michael M. Gunter (Greenwood Press, New York, USA, 1986)[12] “Ermenilerin Zorunlu Göçü, 1915-1917, Kemal Cicek (Turk tarih Kurumu, Ankara, Turkey, 2005)[13] Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948: http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html[14] Article 6, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948: http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html[15] Article 2, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948: http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html[16] Ergun KIRLIKOVALI, 2003, “It Was Not ‘Genocide’; It was - and still is – ‘Ethocide’ “, http://www.turkiye.net/bbasol/gorusler27.htm ; [17] Ergun KIRLIKOVALI, 2003, “SOYKIRIM DEGIL, AHLAKKIRIM ” ( http://www.turkla.com/yazar.php?mid=323&yid=4 )
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An unfortunate action of the South Australian goverment!

Minister Atkinson’s speech in PONTIAN BROTHERHOOD MEMORIAL PLAQUE UNVEILING.

January 8th, 2009
Saturday, 20 December 2008. Migration Museum of South Australia, Kintore Ave, Adelaide Australia

Agapitoi filoi Dear friends Pontians
A-gha-pea-Tea Fee-lee Ponn-dee
This is a solemn day as well as a day of celebration. Thank you for giving me the opportunity of participating in the Pontian Brotherhood of South Australia’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, and to unveil the memorial plaque reflecting this commemoration today.

The plaque remembers the Pontian Hellenic innocents who were lost in the tragedy of the Pontian genocide; the sad episode in history that Hellenic people call

“The Catastrophe.”
It is a duty I carry out with a sense of great sadness for the loss of more than 350,000 Pontian lives and a sense of the enormity of the crime that was visited upon the Pontian people.I also have a sense of optimism arising from the history of progress that the Pontian people created after this tragedy and the way they forged forward, without ever losing the link to their past.That history of progress includes the achievements of the Pontian Diaspora, both in Greece and elsewhere on the globe, and not least the achievements and contributions, over 50 years thus far, of the Pontian community and the Pontian Brotherhood of South Australia.In this, your year of celebrations for the first 50 years of the Pontian Brotherhood, you have resolved to honour your fallen compatriots, with a memorial plaque.You have chosen, quite appropriately, this ark of the history of many peoples and a place of many worthy memorials, the Migration Museum of South Australia, as the plaque’s home.
South Australia welcomed Pontian refugees and their descendants as migrants from Greece, and this simple act of homage today recounts a narrative of persecution and dislocation, of privation and loss, but also a narrative of hope.As a result of the disintegration of the decayed and corrupt Ottoman Empire by 1918, nationalist Young Turks had overturned the old regime.
They had set about creating a Turkey for Turks only by speeding up a process that Imperial Turkey had begun in 1914, with her entry into World War I as an ally of Germany and the Central Powers.This process was the sad and criminal ethnic cleansing of Hellenes, Armenians and Assyrians. And I am pleased to see the President Gevik Abedian and the Secretary, Alec Balayance of the Armenian Association here with us today.

All these people belonged to that land, and had preceded the Turks by many centuries. In the case of the Hellenes, by some 2,600 years!And so, the nationalist Turks led by Kemal Mustafa’s forces, and their frenzied followers began to persecute them through beatings, murder, forced marches and labour, theft of their properties and livelihood, rape, torture and deportations.More than three hundred and fifty thousand Pontian Hellenes died, as well as one and a half million Armenians and hundreds of thousands of Assyrians.

More than one and a half million Pontian Hellenes fled to Greece as refugees, and put a huge strain on the country, unprepared as she was for these events.And so, nearly three thousand years of Hellenic civilisation and history in Asia Minor, once a crucible of Hellenism, was extinguished in the bloodied lands and waters of Pontus and in the fires of Smyrna.Regrettably, the West remained mostly unmoved, and the cries of the victims were not heeded.

So claims no less a qualified person than George Horton, for 30 years Consul General of the United States for the “Near East” who was based in Smyrna.and gives an eyewitness account of the genocide in his book, “The Blight of Asia”, published in 1926.
Yet Pontian Hellenes bear no malice towards the people of Turkey, with whom they had once shared a homeland, a history, and a friendship.It is incumbent on a Turkey that aspires to be part of Europe to acknowledge the deeds of the past, instead of denying that which so many had borne witness to.

Every day that passes without acknowledgement of these tragic acts re-victimizes those who survived and their descendants.
A simple apology from Turkey will begin the healing, and bring on the dawn of a reconciled future in which the tormented spirits of the victims will finally rest.
The Pontian Hellenes have moved forward in every other way: their progress out of such adversity and tragedy has been remarkable by any standard.

The flowering of subsequent generations that hold tenaciously to their culture and heritage, so far from home, and the existence and fruitful activity of organisations such as the Pontian Brotherhood of South Australia are ample proof of this.

And they are reason for celebration, too.As the lyricist Pythagoras (Pith-a-GORR-as) says in “Mikra Asia” (Mik-RAH A-SEE-a): “Road by road we found earth and water, we came out of our pain and our desolation, like clouds we drifted to other skies, and our children have had children and grandchildren.”And so, today, we have gathered here to honour the memory for those Pontian Hellenes lost in the “Catastrophe” that was the Pontian Genocide.

I dare to hope, and work for the day, when no one will ever deny the truth of the Pontian Genocide.To the memory and honour of the Pontian Hellenes who perished in the genocide of 1916 to 1922, I unveil this memorial plaque.
http://www.malkidis.info/en/?cat=2

Fethullah Gülen's Grand Ambition -Turkey's Islamist Danger

by Rachel Sharon-KrespinMiddle East Quarterly Winter 2009, pp. 55-66

As Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) begins its seventh year in leadership, Turkey is no longer the secular and democratic country that it was when the party took over. The AKP has conquered the bureaucracy and changed Turkey's fundamental identity.

Prior to the AKP's rise, Ankara oriented itself toward the United States and Europe. Today, despite the rhetoric of European Union accession, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has turned Turkey away from Europe and toward Russia and Iran and reoriented Turkish policy in the Middle East away from sympathy toward Israel and much more toward friendship with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria. Anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Semitic sentiments have increased.

Behind Turkey's transformation has been not only the impressive AKP political machine but also a shadowy Islamist sect led by the mysterious hocaefendi (master lord) Fethullah Gülen; the sect often bills itself as a proponent of tolerance and dialogue but works toward purposes quite the opposite. Today, Gülen and his backers (Fethullahcılar, Fethullahists) not only seek to influence government but also to become the government.

Today, Turkey has over 85,000 active mosques, one for every 350 citizens—compared to one hospital for every 60,000 citizens—the highest number per capita in the world and, with 90,000 imams, more imams than doctors or teachers.

It has thousands of madrasa-like Imam-Hatip schools and about four thousand more official state-run Qur'an courses, not counting the unofficial Qur'an schools, which may expand the total number tenfold. Spending by the governmental Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet Işleri Başkanlığı) has grown five fold, from 553 trillion Turkish lira in 2002 (approximately US$325 million) to 2.7 quadrillion lira during the first four-and-a-half years of the AKP government; it has a larger budget than eight other ministries combined.[1] The Friday prayer attendance rate in Turkey's mosques exceeds that of Iran's, and religion classes teaching Sunni Islam are compulsory in public schools despite rulings against the practice by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the Turkish high court (Danıştay).[2] Both Prime Minister Erdoğan and the Diyanet head Ali Bardakoğlu criticized the rulings for failing to consult Islamic scholars.

Gülen now helps set the political agenda in Turkey using his followers in the AKP as well as the movement's vast media empire, financial institutions and banks, business organizations, an international network of thousands of schools, universities, student residences (ışıkevis), and many associations and foundations. He is a financial heavyweight, controlling an unregulated and opaque budget estimated at $25 billion.[3] It is not clear whether the Fethullahist cemaat (community) supports the AKP or is the ruling force behind AKP. Either way, however, the effect is the same.
...(Tamami icin :http://www.meforum.org/article/2045)

Conclusions
Gülen enjoys the support of many friends, ideological fellow-travelers, and co-opted journalists and academics. Too often, concern over Gülen's activities is dismissed in the Turkish, U.S., and European media as mere paranoia. When Turkey's chief prosecutor indicted the AKP for attempting to undermine the secular constitution, the pro-Islamist media in Turkey along with Western diplomats and journalists dismissed the case as an "undemocratic judicial coup."[53] Yet at the same time, many of the same outlets and officials have hailed the Ergenekon indictment, assuming a dichotomy between Islamism and democracy on one hand, and secularism and fascism on the other.[54] The repeated branding in Islamist outlets of Turkey's Islamists as "reformist democrats" and of modern, secular Turks as "fundamentalists" has to be one of the most offensive but sadly effective lies in modern politics.

Indeed, Turkey has never seen a single incident of attacks on pious Muslims for fasting during Ramadan, whereas in recent years there have been many incidents of attacks on less-observant Turks for drinking alcohol or not fasting.[55] While women who cover their heads in the Islamic manner can move freely in any area of the country, uncovered women are increasingly unwelcome in certain regions and are often attacked.[56]

Contrary to the impression prevalent in the West—that the conflict is between religious Muslims and "anti-religion, secular Kemalists"—the fact remains that the majority of Turks, secular included, are traditional and observant Muslims many of whom define themselves primarily as "Muslims first."[57] While the Turkish constitution recognizes all Turkish citizens as "Turks," the dominant sentiment in the country has always been that in order to be considered a Turk, one must be Muslim. The complete absence of any non-Muslim governor, ambassador, or military or police officer attests to the prevalence of Islam's dominance in the Turkish establishment. Therefore, it appears Gülen is not fighting for more individual freedoms but to free Islam from the confines of the mosque and the private domain of individuals and to bring it to the public arena, to govern every aspect of life in the country.[58] AKP leaders, including Gül and Erdoğan, have repeatedly expressed their opposition to the "imprisonment of Islam in the mosque," demanding that it be present everywhere as a lifestyle. Most Turks vividly remember statements by AKP leaders not long ago rejecting the definition of secularism as "separation of mosque and state." Gül has slammed "secularism" on many occasions, including during a November 27, 1995 interview with The Guardian. What Turkey's Islamists really want is to remove the founding principles of the Turkish Republic. So long as U.S. and Western officials fail to recognize that Gülen's rhetoric of tolerance is only skin-deep, they may be setting the stage for a dialogue, albeit not of religious tolerance, but rather to find an answer to the question, "Who lost Turkey?"
Rachel Sharon-Krespin is the director of the Turkish Media Project at the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Washington D.C.

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DUYURU! Hani Dost iki ulkeydik?

Hani 2004 de Annan Planini Turklere yedirme surecinde Yunanlilar , Rumlar.. ,Yunanistan bize dost ulkeydi?....
Ilginize ;
Tarih:08/01/2009
Melburn, 8 Ocak 2009

Adelaide’de bulunan Guney Avustralya Goc Muzesi'nde 20 Aralik 2008 tarihinde, "Pontus soykirimindan" soz eden bir plaket in acilisi yapilmistir.

Acilis icin deklarasyon yayimlayan Guney Avustralya Adalet ve Cok Kulturlu Isler Bakani Michael Atkinson Osmanli icin barbar ve soykirim kelimelerini kullanmistir.

Bakan Atkinson’un deklarasyon metni asagidadir:
"Guney Avustralya'daki Elen Pontuslular, 4.000 yil boyunca, san ve kolelik ile savas ve baris donemlerinde zor sartlar altinda paha bicilmeyen ve esi benzeri olmayan bir medeniyeti korumustur ve bu medeniyetin mirascilari ve gardiyanlaridir. Bu olaylardan hicbiri, hatta Turk Cumhuriyetini doguran Osmanli İmparatorlugu tarafindan yapilan trajik ve barbar Pontus Soykirimi bile, Pontus Medeniyetinin sactigi isigi ve parlakligi sondurememistir. Pontus-Elen medeniyetini yaratan, yayginlastiran ve koruyan Yunanistan ve Diasporadaki Pontuslular, bu medeniyete dunyanin her bir yaninda hizmet veriyor ve kutlamalar yapiyor. Guney Avustralya'daki Pontuslular, sevgi ve saygiyla kulturel miraslarini korumus ve yayginlastirmis ve bu sekilde Guney Avustralya'yi da zenginlestirmistir."

Bakan Atkinson’un iletisim bilgileri asagida sunulmustur:
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Turkish police round up 30 in coup probe

January 7, 2009 - 10:36PM

Turkish police have rounded up more than 30 people, including academics and retired generals, as part of a country-wide investigation into a purported plot to topple the Islamist-rooted government.
The arrests came in simultaneous raids on Wednesday in six provinces, including Ankara and Istanbul, on instructions from the Istanbul court investigating Ergenekon, an alleged gang of anti-government secularists, the Anatolia news agency said.

The agency put the number of detentions at more than 30, while the NTV and CNN-Turk news channels said nearly 40 people had been detained.

Among them are Yalcin Kucuk, a prominent but controversial academic, retired general Tuncer Kilinc and several other retired officers, as well as Kemal Guruz, the former head of Turkey's higher education watchdog, reports said.

In October, 86 people - retired army officers, politicians, journalists and underworld figures - went on trial for alleged membership in Ergenekon and plotting to topple the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

The indictment accused the defendants of planning violence and assassinations to foment political turmoil and pave the way for a military coup.

Some 30 others - including two retired generals - were arrested in the later stages of the investigation, but have yet to be indicted as prosecutors pursue their investigation.

The Ergenekon investigation has been hailed by pro-government circles and some liberals as an unprecedented step to combat rogue elements of the state intervening illegally in national politics.
But others, including secularists, accuse the AKP of using the probe as a tool of revenge against political opponents after their failed bid last year to have the Constitutional Court outlaw the party.
© 2009 AFP
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