THE history of Gallipoli and the sacrifices of Australian soldiers have become mired in a row over the new national curriculum.
If a draft modern history curriculum is approved, year 11 and 12 students would learn of alleged "controversies surrounding the purpose and function of memorial sites and commemorative events".
A spokesman for the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority said there was a view that asked "should we be glorifying Gallipoli?"
"In some areas of the community, more in the academic community, you will find those sorts of arguments," he said.
But RSL president Don Rowe said yesterday he struggled to understand how educators could justify the claims war memorials or commemorative events were controversial.
"There are thousands and thousands of young people who have gone to Gallipoli and continue to go to Gallipoli. They're not there to glorify it, that is for sure," Mr Rowe said.
"I would certainly like to have a look at the final curriculum.
"I think somebody needs to have more of an input in it if that is what they're looking at."
Opposition education spokesman Adrian Piccoli said: "High school history is not the place to start questioning the purpose of events such as Anzac Day."
The national curriculum spokesman said there was no intention of diminishing the role of war memorials and commemorative events. "Rather, the intention is to provide a context for debates that have taken place, and continue to take place, about the role of war in Australian memory," he said.
Students would also be asked to examine "disagreements between historians about key events and interventions by politicians and other public figures".
In another section about the "search for peace and Arab unity", students would learn about the "aims, beliefs and influence" of al-Qaida.
An agreement between education ministers two years ago also means environmental sustainability will be taught across subjects including history.
Climate change film An Inconvenient Truth is on a draft study list for English students.
Students could "undertake their own research" into the film's claims, the spokesman said.
"Sustainability simply recognises that successful learners understand their place as local and global citizens, sustaining and improving both natural and social environments,"
he said.http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/curriculum-includes-controversial-views-on-memorials/story-e6frf7kx-1225943437277
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
(Dikkat ironi içerir!
...Onlarca Türk bürokratını acımasızca katleden ASALA örgütünün eski lideri Ara Toranyan'dan insanlık ve hoşgörü dersleri - hem de Radikal gazetesi aracilgiyla-...)
Ahtamar propagandası tutmadı
12/10/2010 2:00
Türk hükümeti Ahtamar'daki ayinle imajını düzeltmeyi amaçlıyordu. Fakat tarihi başkentlerinin tam kalbinde yer alan en kutsal tapınaklarından birini 'tarihsel bir kalıntı' olarak müzeye çevirip, Ermenilere senede bir gün dua etme izni verilmesi çok da hoşgörülü bir tavır gibi görünmüyor
Ara Toranyan (Arşivi)
Bu sefer ne tartışma oldu ne de en ufak bir polemik. Birkaç şahsi istisna dışında Ermenilerin tümü, eski Ermenistan’ın beşiği Van Gölü’ndeki Ahtamar Adası’nda Ermeni mimarisinin en saf mücevherlerinden birinde Türk devletinin yapılmasına izin verdiği ayini boykot etmeyi tercih etti. Bu propaganda operasyonunun iplerinin bu sefer bir katedral kadar aşikâr olduğunu söylememiz gerekir.
Türk hükümeti, AB’ye üyelik dosyasında kullanmak üzere, dünyaya Ermeniler konusunda yeniden bir hoşgörü imajı vermeye çalışıyordu, zira insan hakları ve azınlıklar açısından ilerlemesinde gevşek davranıyor.
İslamcı Türk yetkililer birkaç senedir otların daha ‘yeşil’ göründüğü Asya veya Ortadoğu’ya göz dikerek iştahlarına çeşitlilik katmaya çalışsalar da Avrupa hedefinden de vazgeçmiş değiller.
Bu açıdan bakıldığın-da, Brüksel’e giden her yol mübah.Haç, samimiyetsizliği açık ettiİnananların sıkıntılarının ve Ermenilerin nostaljisinin bu şekilde kullanılması, ‘halkla ilişkiler planı’nın da ötesinde, Türk yönetiminin inanılmaz sinizmini ortaya çıkarmasaydı, gülüp geçebilirdik. Ermenilere karşı en karanlık borçlardan birini taşıyan bir devlet (1,5 milyondan fazla kurban, 2 bin yıkılmış kilise), böylesine kaba düzenbazlıklarla tekrar hoşgörülüymüş gibi bir imaj edinebileceğini sanıyor.
Türk devleti mucizelere inanıyor anlaşılan. Bu girişim yönetimin iyi kalpliliğini vurgulamak şöyle dursun, kibiri ortaya koymaktan başka işe yaramıyor. Ermenilere tarihi başkentlerinin tam kalbinde yer alan en kutsal tapınaklarından birinde dua etmeleri için sadece senede bir izin verilmesine başka ne denebilir? Ama doğrudur, 100 yıllık yasağın ardından birdenbire bundan fazlasını vermek baş döndürebilirdi.
Acelesi yok, anladık.Hıristiyan varlığın imhası ve 1915 soykırımıyla tanınan bu ülkenin geçmişinde doğal olarak yer alan ve günümüzde de kendinden söz ettirmeye devam eden bu zihniyetin üzerine, nadir görülen bir küstahlık ekleniyor. Siz söyleyin: Bugün dünyanın 16. ekonomik gücü olmakla böbürlenen bu ülke, kilisenin üzerine bir haçı zama-nında yerleştirecek parayı bulamıyor. Yani Ermeniler alenen bir müzeye davet edilmiş oldu. Ermeni halkını tarihin bir kalıntısına indirgeme isteği hiçbir zaman sönmemiş olan devlet mekanizmasından, şaşırtıcı olmayan, güçlü bir sembol.Tüm bunlar yetmezmiş gibi bu medyatik şov, bilindiği gibi Ankara’nın soytarılıkları nedeniyle hezimetle sonuçlanan Ermenistan-Türkiye protokollerinin imzalanmasından bir yıl sonra düzenleniyor.
Bu tarih dünyaya, Türk yönetiminin daha birkaç gün önce imzaladığı bir belgeye sonradan koşullar ekleyerek sergilediği 180 derece dönüşü dünyaya hatırlatmak için mi seçildi?
Niyet ne olursa olsun, Van’daki küçük düşürme teşebbüsü ters tepti. Kamera-manlar bu Türk turizm ‘ofisi’ne düzenle- nen rehberli ziyaretten tatmin olmadı. Ve hemen hemen tüm medya, bu ıssız bölgede böylesine bir şaheser yaratabilmiş insanların nasıl ve hangi koşullar altında ortadan kaybolabildiği sorusunu sordu.Bu olaydan çıkarılan ders şu ki, Türk yönetimi bundan böyle Ermeni sorunu hakkında ne yaparsa yapsın, hep köşede kendisini bekleyen biri olacak.
Her zaman, her koşulda, felsefeci Bernard-Henri Levy’nin deyişiyle ‘bu ibret verici ve neredeyse ilk soykırım’ı, bu temel suçu hatırlatacak bir parlamento, bir siyasetçi, bir gazeteci, sağ kalanların soyundan gelen birileri çıkacak.
Türk yönetimi bu olaydan ders çıkarıp Ermenilerle tarihin daha farklı, daha insani bir biçimde yazılmasını isteyen kendi aydınlarından bazılarına daha fazla kulak vermeli.Türkiye bugün artık insan haklarına önem verme lüksü olmayan, gelişmemiş bir ülke değil. Eğer maddi varoluş koşullarının vicdan üzerinde bir etkisi varsa, bu devlet artık bilmesinlercilik için yoksulluk mazeretini kullanamaz. Yeniden kavuştuğu refah, bilakis bu devletin kutsala saygısızlık etmeyen genel bir kalkınma düzeyine erişmesini sağlamalı.
Yoksa AKP’nin yaptığı gibi dini siyasete davet etmek ne işe yarar? Diğer dinleri hakir görüyorRuhani ile dünyevi arasındaki bu evlilik, Ankara’nın bir kez daha gösterdiği gibi, diğer dinleri hakir görmekten başka işe yaramıyorsa, bu birliktelik Avrupalı yetkililer nezdinde Türkiye dosyasına da yaramayacaktır. Aksine bu yetkililer, en azından Avrupa konusunda Türkiye’nin geleceğinin Ermenistan’dan geçeceğini düşünmeye başlayabilirler.
\(Fransa’da yayımlanan Nouvelles d’Armenie (Ermenistan’dan Haberler) dergisinin yayın yönetmeni, eski ASALA lideri, 7 Ekim 2010)
http://www.radikal.com.tr/Radikal.aspx?aType=RadikalHaberDetay&ArticleID=1023277&Date=12.10.2010&CategoryID=99
...Onlarca Türk bürokratını acımasızca katleden ASALA örgütünün eski lideri Ara Toranyan'dan insanlık ve hoşgörü dersleri - hem de Radikal gazetesi aracilgiyla-...)
Ahtamar propagandası tutmadı
12/10/2010 2:00
Türk hükümeti Ahtamar'daki ayinle imajını düzeltmeyi amaçlıyordu. Fakat tarihi başkentlerinin tam kalbinde yer alan en kutsal tapınaklarından birini 'tarihsel bir kalıntı' olarak müzeye çevirip, Ermenilere senede bir gün dua etme izni verilmesi çok da hoşgörülü bir tavır gibi görünmüyor
Ara Toranyan (Arşivi)
Bu sefer ne tartışma oldu ne de en ufak bir polemik. Birkaç şahsi istisna dışında Ermenilerin tümü, eski Ermenistan’ın beşiği Van Gölü’ndeki Ahtamar Adası’nda Ermeni mimarisinin en saf mücevherlerinden birinde Türk devletinin yapılmasına izin verdiği ayini boykot etmeyi tercih etti. Bu propaganda operasyonunun iplerinin bu sefer bir katedral kadar aşikâr olduğunu söylememiz gerekir.
Türk hükümeti, AB’ye üyelik dosyasında kullanmak üzere, dünyaya Ermeniler konusunda yeniden bir hoşgörü imajı vermeye çalışıyordu, zira insan hakları ve azınlıklar açısından ilerlemesinde gevşek davranıyor.
İslamcı Türk yetkililer birkaç senedir otların daha ‘yeşil’ göründüğü Asya veya Ortadoğu’ya göz dikerek iştahlarına çeşitlilik katmaya çalışsalar da Avrupa hedefinden de vazgeçmiş değiller.
Bu açıdan bakıldığın-da, Brüksel’e giden her yol mübah.Haç, samimiyetsizliği açık ettiİnananların sıkıntılarının ve Ermenilerin nostaljisinin bu şekilde kullanılması, ‘halkla ilişkiler planı’nın da ötesinde, Türk yönetiminin inanılmaz sinizmini ortaya çıkarmasaydı, gülüp geçebilirdik. Ermenilere karşı en karanlık borçlardan birini taşıyan bir devlet (1,5 milyondan fazla kurban, 2 bin yıkılmış kilise), böylesine kaba düzenbazlıklarla tekrar hoşgörülüymüş gibi bir imaj edinebileceğini sanıyor.
Türk devleti mucizelere inanıyor anlaşılan. Bu girişim yönetimin iyi kalpliliğini vurgulamak şöyle dursun, kibiri ortaya koymaktan başka işe yaramıyor. Ermenilere tarihi başkentlerinin tam kalbinde yer alan en kutsal tapınaklarından birinde dua etmeleri için sadece senede bir izin verilmesine başka ne denebilir? Ama doğrudur, 100 yıllık yasağın ardından birdenbire bundan fazlasını vermek baş döndürebilirdi.
Acelesi yok, anladık.Hıristiyan varlığın imhası ve 1915 soykırımıyla tanınan bu ülkenin geçmişinde doğal olarak yer alan ve günümüzde de kendinden söz ettirmeye devam eden bu zihniyetin üzerine, nadir görülen bir küstahlık ekleniyor. Siz söyleyin: Bugün dünyanın 16. ekonomik gücü olmakla böbürlenen bu ülke, kilisenin üzerine bir haçı zama-nında yerleştirecek parayı bulamıyor. Yani Ermeniler alenen bir müzeye davet edilmiş oldu. Ermeni halkını tarihin bir kalıntısına indirgeme isteği hiçbir zaman sönmemiş olan devlet mekanizmasından, şaşırtıcı olmayan, güçlü bir sembol.Tüm bunlar yetmezmiş gibi bu medyatik şov, bilindiği gibi Ankara’nın soytarılıkları nedeniyle hezimetle sonuçlanan Ermenistan-Türkiye protokollerinin imzalanmasından bir yıl sonra düzenleniyor.
Bu tarih dünyaya, Türk yönetiminin daha birkaç gün önce imzaladığı bir belgeye sonradan koşullar ekleyerek sergilediği 180 derece dönüşü dünyaya hatırlatmak için mi seçildi?
Niyet ne olursa olsun, Van’daki küçük düşürme teşebbüsü ters tepti. Kamera-manlar bu Türk turizm ‘ofisi’ne düzenle- nen rehberli ziyaretten tatmin olmadı. Ve hemen hemen tüm medya, bu ıssız bölgede böylesine bir şaheser yaratabilmiş insanların nasıl ve hangi koşullar altında ortadan kaybolabildiği sorusunu sordu.Bu olaydan çıkarılan ders şu ki, Türk yönetimi bundan böyle Ermeni sorunu hakkında ne yaparsa yapsın, hep köşede kendisini bekleyen biri olacak.
Her zaman, her koşulda, felsefeci Bernard-Henri Levy’nin deyişiyle ‘bu ibret verici ve neredeyse ilk soykırım’ı, bu temel suçu hatırlatacak bir parlamento, bir siyasetçi, bir gazeteci, sağ kalanların soyundan gelen birileri çıkacak.
Türk yönetimi bu olaydan ders çıkarıp Ermenilerle tarihin daha farklı, daha insani bir biçimde yazılmasını isteyen kendi aydınlarından bazılarına daha fazla kulak vermeli.Türkiye bugün artık insan haklarına önem verme lüksü olmayan, gelişmemiş bir ülke değil. Eğer maddi varoluş koşullarının vicdan üzerinde bir etkisi varsa, bu devlet artık bilmesinlercilik için yoksulluk mazeretini kullanamaz. Yeniden kavuştuğu refah, bilakis bu devletin kutsala saygısızlık etmeyen genel bir kalkınma düzeyine erişmesini sağlamalı.
Yoksa AKP’nin yaptığı gibi dini siyasete davet etmek ne işe yarar? Diğer dinleri hakir görüyorRuhani ile dünyevi arasındaki bu evlilik, Ankara’nın bir kez daha gösterdiği gibi, diğer dinleri hakir görmekten başka işe yaramıyorsa, bu birliktelik Avrupalı yetkililer nezdinde Türkiye dosyasına da yaramayacaktır. Aksine bu yetkililer, en azından Avrupa konusunda Türkiye’nin geleceğinin Ermenistan’dan geçeceğini düşünmeye başlayabilirler.
\(Fransa’da yayımlanan Nouvelles d’Armenie (Ermenistan’dan Haberler) dergisinin yayın yönetmeni, eski ASALA lideri, 7 Ekim 2010)
http://www.radikal.com.tr/Radikal.aspx?aType=RadikalHaberDetay&ArticleID=1023277&Date=12.10.2010&CategoryID=99
Multimillion dollar health care fraud, hands of Armenian mobsterss
The highlight of the day is the looting of Armenian gangsters and their associates making use of the phantom health care clinics and various other measures to bluff Medicare out of $163 million, reported to be the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program's history.
Federal prosecutors in New York accused 73 people of causing raids on Wednesday morning in New York City and Los Angeles, at the same time arrests happened in New Mexico, Georgia and Ohio.
The scheme's aim is to “put the traditional Mafia to shame," U. S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a Manhattan news conference.
Fedarcyk, head of the FBI's New York office, said that the notion of this movement was to bribe people to sign up for unneeded treatments.
The operation was performed under the protection of an Armenian crime boss, known to be former Soviet Union as a "vor," prosecutors said. The reputed boss, Armen Kazarian, was earlier in custody at the Los Angeles.
Kazarian, 46, of Glendale, Calif., and two alleged ringleaders — Davit Mirzoyan, 34, also of Glendale, and Robert Terdjanian, 35, of Brooklyn — were accused of committing the crime which also involved racketeering conspiracy, bank fraud, money laundering and identity theft.
http://topnews.co.uk/214696-multimillion-dollar-health-care-fraud-hands-armenian-mobsterss
The highlight of the day is the looting of Armenian gangsters and their associates making use of the phantom health care clinics and various other measures to bluff Medicare out of $163 million, reported to be the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program's history.
Federal prosecutors in New York accused 73 people of causing raids on Wednesday morning in New York City and Los Angeles, at the same time arrests happened in New Mexico, Georgia and Ohio.
The scheme's aim is to “put the traditional Mafia to shame," U. S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a Manhattan news conference.
Fedarcyk, head of the FBI's New York office, said that the notion of this movement was to bribe people to sign up for unneeded treatments.
The operation was performed under the protection of an Armenian crime boss, known to be former Soviet Union as a "vor," prosecutors said. The reputed boss, Armen Kazarian, was earlier in custody at the Los Angeles.
Kazarian, 46, of Glendale, Calif., and two alleged ringleaders — Davit Mirzoyan, 34, also of Glendale, and Robert Terdjanian, 35, of Brooklyn — were accused of committing the crime which also involved racketeering conspiracy, bank fraud, money laundering and identity theft.
http://topnews.co.uk/214696-multimillion-dollar-health-care-fraud-hands-armenian-mobsterss
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Sozde soykirimin 100 yilina hazirlanan Ermeniler konferanslar, oratorya, pul, kitap her tur yontemle kamuoyuna mesaj vermek uzere tum hizlariyla calisiyorlar...
Herkesden destek alarak, her yontemi deneyerek, sadece taninma degil kultur savasi da veriyorlar...
Ya biz?
Biz de sadece ve sadece zaman zaman kendimiz savunmaktan oteye gidemiyoruz... Bir de futbolu cok severiz.
Fotbol stratejidir. Onda sadece savunma yoktur, daha cok saldiri vardir..
O zaman bizimde 100 yila hazirlanip, bazi stratejiler gelistirmemiz gerekmiyor mu?
Ilginize; Isvec besteci Alexander Brincken sozde Ermeni soykirimini anmak amacli ve 2012 de tamamlanamk uzere ve 2015 de yani sozde soykirimin 200 yili dolayisiyla calinmak uzere bir oratorya uzerinde calisiyor. Alexander Brincken yapilan basin toplantisinda Ermeni kulutru ve tarihini vurgulayacak calismalar yapmak icin oldukca istekli oldugunu soylemis.
23 Ekimde Kaliforya universtesinde Amerikanin Bati Bolgesi (ANCA-WR) Ulusal Ermeni komitesi Insan Haklari Adalet kurulusunun sponsorlugunda Los Angeles da, uluslararasi bir konferans duzenlenecek.
Haypost CJSC, trajedi konusunda kamuoyu yaratmak amacina yonelik olarak pul cikartacak
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/culture/news/54939/Swiss_composer_works_on_creation_of_oratorio_in_commemoration_of_Armenian_Genocide Swiss composer works on creation of oratorio in commemoration of Armenian Genocide October 8, 2010 - 17:50 AMT 12:50 GMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Swiss composer Alexander Brincken is working on creation of oratorio in commemoration of Armenian Genocide. Armenian Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan promised support, stipulating that the oratorio should be completed by 2012 and performed in 2015, on the 100th anniversary of Genocide, Mr. Brincken told a news conference in Yerevan, emphasizing his keen interest in Armenian culture and history. 23 Ekimde Kaliforya universtesinde Amerikanin Bati Bolgesi (ANCA-WR) Ulusal Ermeni komitesi Insan Haklari Adalet kurulusunun sponsorlugunda Los Angeles da, uluslararasi bir konferans duzenlendi http://asbarez.com/86369/anca-wr-sponsors-ucla-genocide-reparations-conference-on-oct-23/ANCA-WR Sponsors UCLA Genocide Reparations Conference on Oct. 23 LOS ANGELES, CA The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region (ANCA-WR) announced Friday its sponsorship of the upcoming conference on genocide being hosted by the International Human Rights Law Association at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The conference, entitled Genocide and Then What? The Law, Ethics, and Politics of Making Amends features a soon to be released report regarding the legal and ethical foundation for reparation claims stemming from the Armenian Genocide. The event will take place at UCLAs Dodd Hall Auditorium on Saturday, October 23rd and is scheduled from 11:00am-5:00pm. The featured report was authored by genocide and legal scholars Professors Alfred De Zayas, Jermaine McCalpin, and Henry Theriault as well as former Ambassador Ara Papian. In addition to presenting the report, the event will feature panels exploring Armenian Genocide reparations in the broader contexts of human rights violation reparations, the ethical foundations, the political implications, and real property determinations for reparations. The Armenian Genocide reparations report is unique in that it is first effort to provide a comprehensive legal and ethical exploration of the issue. While recent court cases have dealt with individual victims property cases related to Armenian Genocide, the report provides an outline of the legal basis for a political process for reparations as a means of justice for this crime against humanity. With the continued development of reparations studies related to the Holocaust and more recent genocides such as those in Rwanda as well as in response to human rights injustices closer to home, including African American slavery and the Native American genocide in the United States, this conference also takes a look at the issue of Armenian Genocide reparations in this broader context. De Zayas is former senior lawyer with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Chief of Petitions. McCalpin is a specialist in long-term as well as transitional justice. Papian is a former member Armenias diplomatic corps, previously serving as its Ambassador to Canada and is an expert on treaty history and law. Theriault is a specialist in the ethics of reparations for crimes against humanity. In hosting Genocide and Then What? The Law, Ethics, and Politics of Making Amends, the International Human Rights Law Association is building on the UCLA School of Laws established reputation as a leader in international human rights and justice issues. The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region is the largest and most influential Armenian American grassroots advocacy organization in the Western United States. Working in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout the Western United States and affiliated organizations around the country, the ANCA-WR advances the concerns of the Armenian American community on a broad range of issues. Haypost CJSC, trajedi konusunda kamuoyu yaratmak amacina yonelik olarak pul cikartacak http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/society/news/54959/Haypost_to_issue_stamp_dedicated_to_100th_anniversary_of_Armenian_Genocide Haypost to issue stamp dedicated to 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide October 8, 2010 - 20:23 AMT 15:23 GMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On October 8, Director of Haypost CJSC Arman Khachatryan said that in 2011 the company will issue a stamp dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Through it, Haypost will make its small contribution to increasing awareness of this tragedy worldwide, Khachatryan told a press conference in Yerevan. Stamps are not only a means for postal services payment - they are small ambassadors of our country, said Khachatryan. http://asbarez.com/86315/papian-experts-discuss-legal-powers-of-treaty-of-sevres/ Papian, Experts Discuss Legal Powers of Treaty of Sevres GLENDALE, CAAra Papian, an international law specialist and the foremost expert on the Treaty of Sevres, spoke to a packed audience at the Glendale Public Library on Saturday, October 2, about the ramifications of implementing the Treaty of Sevres in the international arena. The event was organized by the United Commemorative Committee, a coalition of leading community organizations, coordinating Armenian Genocide commemorative events in Southern California. Also speaking at the presentation were California Courier Publisher and Lincy Foundation Vice President Harut Sassounian, AEF Chair of Armenian Studies Dr. Richard Hovannisian, and Woodrow Wilson decedent and head of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Donald Wilson Bush. Representatives from the traditional Armenian political parties also presented on the issue. The speakers discussed the modern day application of the treaty and the need to collaborate with international legal experts to ascertain the exact legal power of the document. Key to the presentation was an emphasis on the Republic of Armenias vital role in advancing the Armenian peoples historic claims through international courts of law. The Treaty of Sevres was signed after the Armenian Genocide at the end of World War I on August 10 1920, between the Ottoman Empire and Allied powers. The international document recognized the then Democratic Republic of Armenia and mandated that the frontiers of Armenia and a new Turkish state be fixed in the provinces of Erzerum, Trebizond, Van and Bitlis through an arbitration award by the US President Woodrow Wilson. Sevres empowered Wilsons award to be binding with or without treaty ratification, but the Allied Powers failed to implement its decisions and instead signed new treaties that recognized a Turkish Republic that encompassed must of its former Ottoman territories, including those awarded to Armenia.
Herkesden destek alarak, her yontemi deneyerek, sadece taninma degil kultur savasi da veriyorlar...
Ya biz?
Biz de sadece ve sadece zaman zaman kendimiz savunmaktan oteye gidemiyoruz... Bir de futbolu cok severiz.
Fotbol stratejidir. Onda sadece savunma yoktur, daha cok saldiri vardir..
O zaman bizimde 100 yila hazirlanip, bazi stratejiler gelistirmemiz gerekmiyor mu?
Ilginize; Isvec besteci Alexander Brincken sozde Ermeni soykirimini anmak amacli ve 2012 de tamamlanamk uzere ve 2015 de yani sozde soykirimin 200 yili dolayisiyla calinmak uzere bir oratorya uzerinde calisiyor. Alexander Brincken yapilan basin toplantisinda Ermeni kulutru ve tarihini vurgulayacak calismalar yapmak icin oldukca istekli oldugunu soylemis.
23 Ekimde Kaliforya universtesinde Amerikanin Bati Bolgesi (ANCA-WR) Ulusal Ermeni komitesi Insan Haklari Adalet kurulusunun sponsorlugunda Los Angeles da, uluslararasi bir konferans duzenlenecek.
Haypost CJSC, trajedi konusunda kamuoyu yaratmak amacina yonelik olarak pul cikartacak
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/culture/news/54939/Swiss_composer_works_on_creation_of_oratorio_in_commemoration_of_Armenian_Genocide Swiss composer works on creation of oratorio in commemoration of Armenian Genocide October 8, 2010 - 17:50 AMT 12:50 GMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Swiss composer Alexander Brincken is working on creation of oratorio in commemoration of Armenian Genocide. Armenian Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan promised support, stipulating that the oratorio should be completed by 2012 and performed in 2015, on the 100th anniversary of Genocide, Mr. Brincken told a news conference in Yerevan, emphasizing his keen interest in Armenian culture and history. 23 Ekimde Kaliforya universtesinde Amerikanin Bati Bolgesi (ANCA-WR) Ulusal Ermeni komitesi Insan Haklari Adalet kurulusunun sponsorlugunda Los Angeles da, uluslararasi bir konferans duzenlendi http://asbarez.com/86369/anca-wr-sponsors-ucla-genocide-reparations-conference-on-oct-23/ANCA-WR Sponsors UCLA Genocide Reparations Conference on Oct. 23 LOS ANGELES, CA The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region (ANCA-WR) announced Friday its sponsorship of the upcoming conference on genocide being hosted by the International Human Rights Law Association at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The conference, entitled Genocide and Then What? The Law, Ethics, and Politics of Making Amends features a soon to be released report regarding the legal and ethical foundation for reparation claims stemming from the Armenian Genocide. The event will take place at UCLAs Dodd Hall Auditorium on Saturday, October 23rd and is scheduled from 11:00am-5:00pm. The featured report was authored by genocide and legal scholars Professors Alfred De Zayas, Jermaine McCalpin, and Henry Theriault as well as former Ambassador Ara Papian. In addition to presenting the report, the event will feature panels exploring Armenian Genocide reparations in the broader contexts of human rights violation reparations, the ethical foundations, the political implications, and real property determinations for reparations. The Armenian Genocide reparations report is unique in that it is first effort to provide a comprehensive legal and ethical exploration of the issue. While recent court cases have dealt with individual victims property cases related to Armenian Genocide, the report provides an outline of the legal basis for a political process for reparations as a means of justice for this crime against humanity. With the continued development of reparations studies related to the Holocaust and more recent genocides such as those in Rwanda as well as in response to human rights injustices closer to home, including African American slavery and the Native American genocide in the United States, this conference also takes a look at the issue of Armenian Genocide reparations in this broader context. De Zayas is former senior lawyer with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Chief of Petitions. McCalpin is a specialist in long-term as well as transitional justice. Papian is a former member Armenias diplomatic corps, previously serving as its Ambassador to Canada and is an expert on treaty history and law. Theriault is a specialist in the ethics of reparations for crimes against humanity. In hosting Genocide and Then What? The Law, Ethics, and Politics of Making Amends, the International Human Rights Law Association is building on the UCLA School of Laws established reputation as a leader in international human rights and justice issues. The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region is the largest and most influential Armenian American grassroots advocacy organization in the Western United States. Working in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout the Western United States and affiliated organizations around the country, the ANCA-WR advances the concerns of the Armenian American community on a broad range of issues. Haypost CJSC, trajedi konusunda kamuoyu yaratmak amacina yonelik olarak pul cikartacak http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/society/news/54959/Haypost_to_issue_stamp_dedicated_to_100th_anniversary_of_Armenian_Genocide Haypost to issue stamp dedicated to 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide October 8, 2010 - 20:23 AMT 15:23 GMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On October 8, Director of Haypost CJSC Arman Khachatryan said that in 2011 the company will issue a stamp dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Through it, Haypost will make its small contribution to increasing awareness of this tragedy worldwide, Khachatryan told a press conference in Yerevan. Stamps are not only a means for postal services payment - they are small ambassadors of our country, said Khachatryan. http://asbarez.com/86315/papian-experts-discuss-legal-powers-of-treaty-of-sevres/ Papian, Experts Discuss Legal Powers of Treaty of Sevres GLENDALE, CAAra Papian, an international law specialist and the foremost expert on the Treaty of Sevres, spoke to a packed audience at the Glendale Public Library on Saturday, October 2, about the ramifications of implementing the Treaty of Sevres in the international arena. The event was organized by the United Commemorative Committee, a coalition of leading community organizations, coordinating Armenian Genocide commemorative events in Southern California. Also speaking at the presentation were California Courier Publisher and Lincy Foundation Vice President Harut Sassounian, AEF Chair of Armenian Studies Dr. Richard Hovannisian, and Woodrow Wilson decedent and head of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Donald Wilson Bush. Representatives from the traditional Armenian political parties also presented on the issue. The speakers discussed the modern day application of the treaty and the need to collaborate with international legal experts to ascertain the exact legal power of the document. Key to the presentation was an emphasis on the Republic of Armenias vital role in advancing the Armenian peoples historic claims through international courts of law. The Treaty of Sevres was signed after the Armenian Genocide at the end of World War I on August 10 1920, between the Ottoman Empire and Allied powers. The international document recognized the then Democratic Republic of Armenia and mandated that the frontiers of Armenia and a new Turkish state be fixed in the provinces of Erzerum, Trebizond, Van and Bitlis through an arbitration award by the US President Woodrow Wilson. Sevres empowered Wilsons award to be binding with or without treaty ratification, but the Allied Powers failed to implement its decisions and instead signed new treaties that recognized a Turkish Republic that encompassed must of its former Ottoman territories, including those awarded to Armenia.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Turkey must lift veil on 'first Holocaust'
by the australian
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/turkey-must-lift-veil-on-first-holocaust/story-e6frg6ux-1225916670398
TRAVEL to Istanbul or any of the Aegean coast towns of Turkey and you may think this secular, hospitable place with its pebbled beaches and Hellenistic ruins has no secrets. Travel east and you come to traditional Turkey, a land of headscarves and workaday mosques, a far cry from the architectural wonders of the Suleiman Mosque and Aghia Sophia.
Here you will see desecrated frescoes in 10th-century churches, towns and villages whose names have been changed.
Beneath Turkey's veneer as an easy tourist destination lies a history that is darker, a reality more complex.
Scratch the surface and the mass graves, the bloodstained banknotes and the dearth of ethnic minorities beg questions the Turks still refuse to answer.
Here took place a forgotten genocide. Robert Fisk calls it "th
e first Holocaust" and claims "the parallel with Auschwitz is no idle one". Turkey's reign of terror against the Armenians was an attempt to destroy the entire race. The death toll was about two million between 1915 and 1917.
Related Coverage
The divided self The Australian, 27 Aug 2010
Turkey expands influence in Middle East The Australian, 17 Jun 2010
Does Gaza signal Turkey's defection The Australian, 2 Jun 2010
Armenian genocide the final frontier The Australian, 23 Apr 2010
Obama raises nuclear terrorist spectre The Australian, 11 Apr 2010
Those who didn't die during the deportations were taken to concentration camps and worked to death or killed. Others were herded into underground caves in their thousands and set on fire - the world's first gas chamber, which became a model for the Nazis.
Most of the survivors are now dead, their descendants scattered, even as far as Australia. Yet there are two million Turks today with an Armenian grandparent.
Fethiye Cetin grew up proudly Turkish; reciting nationalist poems at school festivals, comfortably ensconced in her culture.
All this was shattered the day she learned that Seher, her Muslim grandmother, was really Heranush, a Christian Armenian. During a death march, Heranush was wrenched from her mother's arms by a gendarme on horseback and brought up Turkish Muslim. She kept her past secret until she was close to death. Then she finally confided in her granddaughter.
Cetin is a human rights lawyer, writer and activist for the recognition of the genocide. In her intimate, tender memoir she tells the story of a woman who was no nameless victim, nor bearer of grudges. What occurred in Heranush's world at the dawn of the20th century was typical of the pattern throughout eastern Turkey, the former Armenia.
When the Young Turks triumvirate took over the government from the corrupt Ottomans they promised Christian minorities equality and the right to bear arms. So when Turkish gendarmes came to Heranush's village in 1915 with guns and bayonets, they brought also a sense of betrayal. Men and boys were rounded up, taken away to be shot, their throats cut and bodies thrown into rivers or ravines. The death marches began; the endless lines of elderly and infirm forced from their villages into the Syrian desert, to the killing centres of Shaddadie and Der ez Zor.
Of course there were humane Turks who hid Armenians in their homes, adopted children, saved them.Yet the stubborn fact remains that the majority of Turks still refute the genocide today. Officially there is a culture of denial in Turkey, leading to self-censorship, trials in criminal courts, prison, even murder. In January 2007, Armenian journalist and academic Hrant Dink was gunned down outside the offices of his Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos by an ultra-nationalist, a 17-year-old boy. Before his death, he had been convicted under infamous article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, the crime of "anti-Turkishness".
Cetin represented him during his trial, and continues to work for his family. He wrote articles urging his own people to forget the "poisonous blood" between them and the Turks and reconcile their differences. The Turkish popular press twisted his meaning, attributing to him the words, "Turkish blood is dirty".
It has since been proven that security forces knew of plans for the murder, that his phone was tapped and his emails and correspondence intercepted. How far the government, police and judiciary are involved in reprisalsis cause for debate.
Yet after Dink's death, the boy who killed him was photographed posing with the two gendarmes, smiling under a Turkish flag.
This is the same law under which Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk was tried, after merely talking about the genocide in a Swiss magazine. He faced up to three years in prison.
"What happened to the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 was a major thing that was hidden from the Turkish nation; it was a taboo," he said. "But we have to be able to talk about the past."
In 2006, Turkish-American Elif Shafak wrote a novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, containing one Armenian character, descendant of those killed in the genocide. She was put on trial for the same crime of "denigrating Turkishness", but the charges were dropped. How could they not see the absurdity of pressing charges against a fictional character?
Armenia is now an eighth of its original size. Many of its western provinces were ceded to Turkey after World War I, from Lake Van to Erzerum to the Black Sea coast. Yerevan, the capital of the Republic of Armenia, is where the country's spiritual symbol, Mount Ararat, can be seen from every window, yet it is across the border on Turkish soil.
Cetin's memoir highlights our need to officially recognise this atrocity as genocide, to record the details of these lost and grant them their place in history. It reminds us of our duty to finally put names and stories to all those in unmarked graves, mothers and fathers and children whose bones will never be found.
Katerina Cosgrove is the author of The Glass Heart and a forthcoming novel based on the Armenian genocide.
She will be in conversation with Fethiye Cetin at Sydney's Gleebooks today at 6.30pm.
Cetin's memoir, My Grandmother, is published by Spinifex Press
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/turkey-must-lift-veil-on-first-holocaust/story-e6frg6ux-1225916670398
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/turkey-must-lift-veil-on-first-holocaust/story-e6frg6ux-1225916670398
TRAVEL to Istanbul or any of the Aegean coast towns of Turkey and you may think this secular, hospitable place with its pebbled beaches and Hellenistic ruins has no secrets. Travel east and you come to traditional Turkey, a land of headscarves and workaday mosques, a far cry from the architectural wonders of the Suleiman Mosque and Aghia Sophia.
Here you will see desecrated frescoes in 10th-century churches, towns and villages whose names have been changed.
Beneath Turkey's veneer as an easy tourist destination lies a history that is darker, a reality more complex.
Scratch the surface and the mass graves, the bloodstained banknotes and the dearth of ethnic minorities beg questions the Turks still refuse to answer.
Here took place a forgotten genocide. Robert Fisk calls it "th
e first Holocaust" and claims "the parallel with Auschwitz is no idle one". Turkey's reign of terror against the Armenians was an attempt to destroy the entire race. The death toll was about two million between 1915 and 1917.
Related Coverage
The divided self The Australian, 27 Aug 2010
Turkey expands influence in Middle East The Australian, 17 Jun 2010
Does Gaza signal Turkey's defection The Australian, 2 Jun 2010
Armenian genocide the final frontier The Australian, 23 Apr 2010
Obama raises nuclear terrorist spectre The Australian, 11 Apr 2010
Those who didn't die during the deportations were taken to concentration camps and worked to death or killed. Others were herded into underground caves in their thousands and set on fire - the world's first gas chamber, which became a model for the Nazis.
Most of the survivors are now dead, their descendants scattered, even as far as Australia. Yet there are two million Turks today with an Armenian grandparent.
Fethiye Cetin grew up proudly Turkish; reciting nationalist poems at school festivals, comfortably ensconced in her culture.
All this was shattered the day she learned that Seher, her Muslim grandmother, was really Heranush, a Christian Armenian. During a death march, Heranush was wrenched from her mother's arms by a gendarme on horseback and brought up Turkish Muslim. She kept her past secret until she was close to death. Then she finally confided in her granddaughter.
Cetin is a human rights lawyer, writer and activist for the recognition of the genocide. In her intimate, tender memoir she tells the story of a woman who was no nameless victim, nor bearer of grudges. What occurred in Heranush's world at the dawn of the20th century was typical of the pattern throughout eastern Turkey, the former Armenia.
When the Young Turks triumvirate took over the government from the corrupt Ottomans they promised Christian minorities equality and the right to bear arms. So when Turkish gendarmes came to Heranush's village in 1915 with guns and bayonets, they brought also a sense of betrayal. Men and boys were rounded up, taken away to be shot, their throats cut and bodies thrown into rivers or ravines. The death marches began; the endless lines of elderly and infirm forced from their villages into the Syrian desert, to the killing centres of Shaddadie and Der ez Zor.
Of course there were humane Turks who hid Armenians in their homes, adopted children, saved them.Yet the stubborn fact remains that the majority of Turks still refute the genocide today. Officially there is a culture of denial in Turkey, leading to self-censorship, trials in criminal courts, prison, even murder. In January 2007, Armenian journalist and academic Hrant Dink was gunned down outside the offices of his Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos by an ultra-nationalist, a 17-year-old boy. Before his death, he had been convicted under infamous article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, the crime of "anti-Turkishness".
Cetin represented him during his trial, and continues to work for his family. He wrote articles urging his own people to forget the "poisonous blood" between them and the Turks and reconcile their differences. The Turkish popular press twisted his meaning, attributing to him the words, "Turkish blood is dirty".
It has since been proven that security forces knew of plans for the murder, that his phone was tapped and his emails and correspondence intercepted. How far the government, police and judiciary are involved in reprisalsis cause for debate.
Yet after Dink's death, the boy who killed him was photographed posing with the two gendarmes, smiling under a Turkish flag.
This is the same law under which Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk was tried, after merely talking about the genocide in a Swiss magazine. He faced up to three years in prison.
"What happened to the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 was a major thing that was hidden from the Turkish nation; it was a taboo," he said. "But we have to be able to talk about the past."
In 2006, Turkish-American Elif Shafak wrote a novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, containing one Armenian character, descendant of those killed in the genocide. She was put on trial for the same crime of "denigrating Turkishness", but the charges were dropped. How could they not see the absurdity of pressing charges against a fictional character?
Armenia is now an eighth of its original size. Many of its western provinces were ceded to Turkey after World War I, from Lake Van to Erzerum to the Black Sea coast. Yerevan, the capital of the Republic of Armenia, is where the country's spiritual symbol, Mount Ararat, can be seen from every window, yet it is across the border on Turkish soil.
Cetin's memoir highlights our need to officially recognise this atrocity as genocide, to record the details of these lost and grant them their place in history. It reminds us of our duty to finally put names and stories to all those in unmarked graves, mothers and fathers and children whose bones will never be found.
Katerina Cosgrove is the author of The Glass Heart and a forthcoming novel based on the Armenian genocide.
She will be in conversation with Fethiye Cetin at Sydney's Gleebooks today at 6.30pm.
Cetin's memoir, My Grandmother, is published by Spinifex Press
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/turkey-must-lift-veil-on-first-holocaust/story-e6frg6ux-1225916670398
Sayin Buyuk Elcimiz Oguz Ozge'nin ABC Radio Nat.'da yayýnlanan prog. hakkýnda (3)
TURKISH EMBASSY
Ambassador
6 Moonah Place, Yarralumla
ACT 2600, Australia
Tel : (02) 6234 0000
Fax : (02) 6273 4402
E-Mail: turkembs@bigpond.net.au
Canberra, 23 September 2010
Mr Robyn Williams AM
Presenter of “Ockham’s Razor”
ABC Radio National
Mr Williams,
I feel compelled to write to you about the “Ockham’s Razor” that was broadcast on 29th August on ABC Radio National. I have already written to Ms Kate Dundas, Director of Radio, about the programme.
It is very distressing to see impartial, balanced and objective radio journalism trampled on in such a way as to show bias and prejudice against the Turkish nation on such a controversial issue as the events of 1915. The content of the programme pertaining to the events of 1915 was presented in a manner totally favouring the Armenian allegations that the right of the Australian public to receiving accurate and impartial information was completely ignored.
That some of Dr Kaplan’s remarks carrying racist overtones is all the more disturbing.
I am also convinced that the content of the programme is in breach of several articles of the ABC Code of Practice.
I draw your attention to Dr Kaplan’s remarks that “… the Ittihadist Party unleashed the mass murder of an innocent people whose sole offence, as far as the Turkish nationalists were concerned, was that they existed…” are not only totally false but also go a long way towards tarnishing the image of the Turkish state in Australia. As presenter, you owe an explanation about how such a shocking allegation without any evidence should be allowed to be made. Further, on what reliable grounds did you let Dr Kaplan equate the Turkish leaders of the First World War with those of Nazi in World War II. In the same vein, Dr Kaplan’s claim that the “genocide” of 1915 set a precedent for Hitler and the Nazis is not only misleading but also unacceptable. Dr Kaplan’s utterance of Hitler’s alleged reference to “who remember the Armenians” is inaccurate too. The original texts of Hitler’s speeches in 1939 and the documents submitted to the Nuremberg Tribunal do not contain such a reference. Consequently, Dr Kaplan’s unsupported remarks and mention of sheer propaganda material in the programme were enough to confound the public’s mind to form impartial opinion about the controversy surrounding the events of 1915.
I call your attention to the fact that Nazi holocaust was legally determined by an international tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946, whereas Armenian allegations for genocide have not been brought to trial because the burden of proving the alleged genocide would fall upon Armenians and contrary to the disinformation that they are engaged in disseminating in Australia, this would necessitate them to produce hard facts. Genocide is a legal term under the 1948 UN Convention of Genocide and in accordance with the provisions of the Convention the events of 1915 cannot be claimed as genocide
for the simple fact that the Armenians rose up against the Ottoman Empire several times prior to the Great War, killing many innocent people and in 1915 the Armenians sided with Russia and attacked to the rear of the Turkish soldiers who were waging war on the Russian army. That is why the Ottoman government had to decide to move the local Armenians away from the theatre of war.
On the other hand, just after World War I, the British forces who were in occupation of Istanbul rounded up about 145 politicians (ministers), army generals and high level administration officials (governors) to deport them to Malta for trial against alleged misconduct of Armenians. Those deportees were held in Malta for more than 2 years in the expectation of finding evidence to convict them. In 1922, however, they were all released, because no substantial evidence could be found in spite of search through the whole files of the Ottoman Empire. Among released was Dr. Mehmet Nazım, whom Dr. Kaplan accuses, in total disregard of the latter fact, of over one million of Armenian deaths.” The paragraph he quoted from Dr Mehmet Nazım during the programme should be looked upon as dubious in light of the above fact.
His remarks about Dr Tevfik Rusdu also are without foundation. Dr Rusdu was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the New Turkish Republic from 1923 to 1938. Had he been really faced charges of the the serious sort that Dr Kaplan saw fit to lay on him, could he have been stayed foreign minister for so long?
The others, Dr Bahaddin Sakir, Dr Ali Said and pharmacist Mehmet Hasan whom Dr Kaplan charged with cruelty against the Armenians were all respected men who served their nation diligently. No wrongful conduct may be attributed to them without any conclusive evidence.
I am not sure if all the above information would interest Dr. Kaplan as “historian” whose principal aim seemed to condemn the Turkish nation and its eminent doctors on spurious arguments as if he had possessed valid documents other than those faked by the Armenians themselves.
As presenter, you must bear responsibility for enabling Dr Kaplan to speak without making any slightest allowance for what he said might be challenged by the other side. Thus you appear to have contributed considerably to the environment of disinformation which the Armenian diaspora deliberately seeks to prevail in Australia.
Finally, I would like to underline that Dr Kaplan’s reference to the Greeks and Assyrians lacks any seriousness. Like Armenians, they are all in desperate need of an enemy in order to prevent their diaspora from losing their identity and from being assimilated by the community they live in.
Yours sincerely,
Oguz Ozge
Ambassador
6 Moonah Place, Yarralumla
ACT 2600, Australia
Tel : (02) 6234 0000
Fax : (02) 6273 4402
E-Mail: turkembs@bigpond.net.au
Canberra, 23 September 2010
Mr Robyn Williams AM
Presenter of “Ockham’s Razor”
ABC Radio National
Mr Williams,
I feel compelled to write to you about the “Ockham’s Razor” that was broadcast on 29th August on ABC Radio National. I have already written to Ms Kate Dundas, Director of Radio, about the programme.
It is very distressing to see impartial, balanced and objective radio journalism trampled on in such a way as to show bias and prejudice against the Turkish nation on such a controversial issue as the events of 1915. The content of the programme pertaining to the events of 1915 was presented in a manner totally favouring the Armenian allegations that the right of the Australian public to receiving accurate and impartial information was completely ignored.
That some of Dr Kaplan’s remarks carrying racist overtones is all the more disturbing.
I am also convinced that the content of the programme is in breach of several articles of the ABC Code of Practice.
I draw your attention to Dr Kaplan’s remarks that “… the Ittihadist Party unleashed the mass murder of an innocent people whose sole offence, as far as the Turkish nationalists were concerned, was that they existed…” are not only totally false but also go a long way towards tarnishing the image of the Turkish state in Australia. As presenter, you owe an explanation about how such a shocking allegation without any evidence should be allowed to be made. Further, on what reliable grounds did you let Dr Kaplan equate the Turkish leaders of the First World War with those of Nazi in World War II. In the same vein, Dr Kaplan’s claim that the “genocide” of 1915 set a precedent for Hitler and the Nazis is not only misleading but also unacceptable. Dr Kaplan’s utterance of Hitler’s alleged reference to “who remember the Armenians” is inaccurate too. The original texts of Hitler’s speeches in 1939 and the documents submitted to the Nuremberg Tribunal do not contain such a reference. Consequently, Dr Kaplan’s unsupported remarks and mention of sheer propaganda material in the programme were enough to confound the public’s mind to form impartial opinion about the controversy surrounding the events of 1915.
I call your attention to the fact that Nazi holocaust was legally determined by an international tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946, whereas Armenian allegations for genocide have not been brought to trial because the burden of proving the alleged genocide would fall upon Armenians and contrary to the disinformation that they are engaged in disseminating in Australia, this would necessitate them to produce hard facts. Genocide is a legal term under the 1948 UN Convention of Genocide and in accordance with the provisions of the Convention the events of 1915 cannot be claimed as genocide
for the simple fact that the Armenians rose up against the Ottoman Empire several times prior to the Great War, killing many innocent people and in 1915 the Armenians sided with Russia and attacked to the rear of the Turkish soldiers who were waging war on the Russian army. That is why the Ottoman government had to decide to move the local Armenians away from the theatre of war.
On the other hand, just after World War I, the British forces who were in occupation of Istanbul rounded up about 145 politicians (ministers), army generals and high level administration officials (governors) to deport them to Malta for trial against alleged misconduct of Armenians. Those deportees were held in Malta for more than 2 years in the expectation of finding evidence to convict them. In 1922, however, they were all released, because no substantial evidence could be found in spite of search through the whole files of the Ottoman Empire. Among released was Dr. Mehmet Nazım, whom Dr. Kaplan accuses, in total disregard of the latter fact, of over one million of Armenian deaths.” The paragraph he quoted from Dr Mehmet Nazım during the programme should be looked upon as dubious in light of the above fact.
His remarks about Dr Tevfik Rusdu also are without foundation. Dr Rusdu was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the New Turkish Republic from 1923 to 1938. Had he been really faced charges of the the serious sort that Dr Kaplan saw fit to lay on him, could he have been stayed foreign minister for so long?
The others, Dr Bahaddin Sakir, Dr Ali Said and pharmacist Mehmet Hasan whom Dr Kaplan charged with cruelty against the Armenians were all respected men who served their nation diligently. No wrongful conduct may be attributed to them without any conclusive evidence.
I am not sure if all the above information would interest Dr. Kaplan as “historian” whose principal aim seemed to condemn the Turkish nation and its eminent doctors on spurious arguments as if he had possessed valid documents other than those faked by the Armenians themselves.
As presenter, you must bear responsibility for enabling Dr Kaplan to speak without making any slightest allowance for what he said might be challenged by the other side. Thus you appear to have contributed considerably to the environment of disinformation which the Armenian diaspora deliberately seeks to prevail in Australia.
Finally, I would like to underline that Dr Kaplan’s reference to the Greeks and Assyrians lacks any seriousness. Like Armenians, they are all in desperate need of an enemy in order to prevent their diaspora from losing their identity and from being assimilated by the community they live in.
Yours sincerely,
Oguz Ozge
Sayin Buyuk Elcimiz Oguz Ozge'nin ABC Radio Nat.'da yayýnlanan prog. hakkýnda(2)
Canberra, 20 September 2010
Ms Kate Dundas
Director for Radio
ABC
Ms Dundas,
I take the liberty of writing to you about “Ockham’s Razor” programme broadcast on Sunday, 29th August, on ABC Radio National. I was unable to listen to the programme, but read the text of it as released by ABC.
I regret to say in the first place that I am bitterly disappointed with the programme being so one-sided and prejudiced against the Turkish nation that Dr. Robert Kaplan, being also presented as historian, proves his information of history to be restricted to merely repeating unsubstantiated Armenian allegations of genocide, as if they were historical facts. Were Dr Kaplan’s allegations to be accurate, Turkey would have been long condemned for genocide under the 1948 UN Convention of Genocide at international courts. Quite conversely, just after the First World War, the British forces, who occupied Istanbul rounded up 145 high level Turkish politicians, senior army commanders and civil servants to deport to Malta for them to stand trial for alleged misconduct of Armenian subjects. Armenians and Greeks who collaborated with the British went through all the Empire’s files to adduce evidence against the deportees. The arrest that began in March 1919 resulted in the release of all deportees in 1922 for lack of substantial evidence. Dr Mehmet Nazım, whom Dr. Kaplan holds responsible for “over a million of Armenian deaths”, was one of the deportees that were released in 1922. Dr Tevfik Rusdu, whom Dr. Kaplan accuses of being “precursor of the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Treblinka” served for 15 years, 1923 to 1938, as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the new Turkish Republic, as such attending many bilateral meetings and international conferences.
I do not see any point in taking much of your time with further inconsistencies in Dr. Kaplan’s version of the events of 1915. I intend to write, however, in greater detail to those taking part in the radio programme for the purpose of exposing their responsibility in making ABC Radio National available to a distortion of the events of 1915 in order to suit the needs of Armenian propaganda.
In conclusion, I feel deeply sorry for the concept of impartial, objective and balanced radio journalism which “Ockham’s Razor” grossly neglected on 29th August, even by failing to invite one particular person who might have thrown a little light on the history of the Ottoman Empire in World War I in order that at least the other side of the coin may not remain incomplete.
With deep regards,
Oğuz ÖZGE
Ms Kate Dundas
Director for Radio
ABC
Ms Dundas,
I take the liberty of writing to you about “Ockham’s Razor” programme broadcast on Sunday, 29th August, on ABC Radio National. I was unable to listen to the programme, but read the text of it as released by ABC.
I regret to say in the first place that I am bitterly disappointed with the programme being so one-sided and prejudiced against the Turkish nation that Dr. Robert Kaplan, being also presented as historian, proves his information of history to be restricted to merely repeating unsubstantiated Armenian allegations of genocide, as if they were historical facts. Were Dr Kaplan’s allegations to be accurate, Turkey would have been long condemned for genocide under the 1948 UN Convention of Genocide at international courts. Quite conversely, just after the First World War, the British forces, who occupied Istanbul rounded up 145 high level Turkish politicians, senior army commanders and civil servants to deport to Malta for them to stand trial for alleged misconduct of Armenian subjects. Armenians and Greeks who collaborated with the British went through all the Empire’s files to adduce evidence against the deportees. The arrest that began in March 1919 resulted in the release of all deportees in 1922 for lack of substantial evidence. Dr Mehmet Nazım, whom Dr. Kaplan holds responsible for “over a million of Armenian deaths”, was one of the deportees that were released in 1922. Dr Tevfik Rusdu, whom Dr. Kaplan accuses of being “precursor of the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Treblinka” served for 15 years, 1923 to 1938, as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the new Turkish Republic, as such attending many bilateral meetings and international conferences.
I do not see any point in taking much of your time with further inconsistencies in Dr. Kaplan’s version of the events of 1915. I intend to write, however, in greater detail to those taking part in the radio programme for the purpose of exposing their responsibility in making ABC Radio National available to a distortion of the events of 1915 in order to suit the needs of Armenian propaganda.
In conclusion, I feel deeply sorry for the concept of impartial, objective and balanced radio journalism which “Ockham’s Razor” grossly neglected on 29th August, even by failing to invite one particular person who might have thrown a little light on the history of the Ottoman Empire in World War I in order that at least the other side of the coin may not remain incomplete.
With deep regards,
Oğuz ÖZGE
Sayin Buyuk Elcimiz Oguz Ozge'nin ABC Radio Nat.'da yayýnlanan prog. hakkýnda (1)
"ABC" radyosunda 29 Aðustos 2010 tarihinde yayýmlanan "Ockham's Razor" adlý programda Dr. Robert Kaplan tarafýndan ileri sürülen mesnetsiz iddialar baðlamýnda Sayýn Büyükelçimizce ABC radyo-televizyon kuruluþunun ilgili birimine, ABC Radyo Direktörü Kate Dundas ve anýlan programýn sunucusu Robyn Williams'a gönderilen mektuplarýn metinleri ekte sunulmaktadýr.
ABC Audience and Consumer AffairsP.O. Box 9994 Canberra ACT
Dear Sir or Madam,
I wish to lodge a complaint with the ABC Audience and Consumer Affairs about the “Ockham’s Razor” which was broadcast on August 29, 2010, on ABC Radio National. A large part of the radio program addressed the Armenian allegations for genocide in 1915, during the First World War, in a one-sided manner favouring only the Armenian perspective. The content of the program as it related to the Turkish Republic, successor state to the Ottoman Empire, was biased and prejudiced, even provoking racial hatred for the Turks. The program was thus totally misleading and deceptive. It is utterly in breach of the ABC Code of Practice.
The events of 1915 have yet to be determined legally. Unlike the Nazi holocaust, the events of 1915 have not been judged by a competent international court. Consequently it is a controversial issue. The Armenians and Turks have differing views about those events.
The “Ockham’s Razor” of 29th August failed completely to offer the Australian public an impartial, unbiased and objective reporting about the events of 1915. The Turkish perspective was totally omitted. The Australian public’s right to receiving an impartial, accurate and balanced viewpoints was ignored.
The Guest speaker Dr. Kaplan’s remarks on the program lacked any accuracy and were in contradiction to the historical facts. His claims about the Turkish nation in general and its rulers and medical doctors in particular during the War years were unsubstantiated, lacked any reference to reliable sources or documentation. It seemed to be more of a smear campaign against the Turkish people than a historian’s assertion of hard facts.
I have written to the ABC Radio Director as well as presenter of the “Ockham’s Razor”. I attach herewith those letters in order to bring to your attention a Turkish perspective to certain points raised by Dr Kaplan. In lodging this complaint, I seek remedial action. In one of the forthcoming programmes of the “Ockham’s Razor” the presenter must announce that the program of 29th August conveyed to the public one of the perspectives of the controversy on the events of 1915 and let the invited guest speaker offer the Turkish viewpoint so that the Australian public may be provided with an impartial and balanced version of the events of 1915.
Yours sincerely,
Oguz Ozge
ABC Audience and Consumer AffairsP.O. Box 9994 Canberra ACT
Dear Sir or Madam,
I wish to lodge a complaint with the ABC Audience and Consumer Affairs about the “Ockham’s Razor” which was broadcast on August 29, 2010, on ABC Radio National. A large part of the radio program addressed the Armenian allegations for genocide in 1915, during the First World War, in a one-sided manner favouring only the Armenian perspective. The content of the program as it related to the Turkish Republic, successor state to the Ottoman Empire, was biased and prejudiced, even provoking racial hatred for the Turks. The program was thus totally misleading and deceptive. It is utterly in breach of the ABC Code of Practice.
The events of 1915 have yet to be determined legally. Unlike the Nazi holocaust, the events of 1915 have not been judged by a competent international court. Consequently it is a controversial issue. The Armenians and Turks have differing views about those events.
The “Ockham’s Razor” of 29th August failed completely to offer the Australian public an impartial, unbiased and objective reporting about the events of 1915. The Turkish perspective was totally omitted. The Australian public’s right to receiving an impartial, accurate and balanced viewpoints was ignored.
The Guest speaker Dr. Kaplan’s remarks on the program lacked any accuracy and were in contradiction to the historical facts. His claims about the Turkish nation in general and its rulers and medical doctors in particular during the War years were unsubstantiated, lacked any reference to reliable sources or documentation. It seemed to be more of a smear campaign against the Turkish people than a historian’s assertion of hard facts.
I have written to the ABC Radio Director as well as presenter of the “Ockham’s Razor”. I attach herewith those letters in order to bring to your attention a Turkish perspective to certain points raised by Dr Kaplan. In lodging this complaint, I seek remedial action. In one of the forthcoming programmes of the “Ockham’s Razor” the presenter must announce that the program of 29th August conveyed to the public one of the perspectives of the controversy on the events of 1915 and let the invited guest speaker offer the Turkish viewpoint so that the Australian public may be provided with an impartial and balanced version of the events of 1915.
Yours sincerely,
Oguz Ozge
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