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    Maybe one day the Jewish lobbying groups will grow tired of being associated with genocide deniers and oppresors of human rights.





    US Jewish lobby warns Turkish MFA: Even we might not be able to block the Armenian genocide bill if you don’t move

    Saturday, January 13, 2007



    EYÜP CAN
    I am not trying to draw up a new crisis scenario for this year.

    However, I received news that might have a ?profound impact? on Turkey-U.S. relations at a dinner for top officials last night.

    A very important member of the Jewish lobby in the United States said very openly, ?If Turkey doesn't do something, the Armenian genocide bill will pass in the U.S. Congress despite our best efforts to block it.?

    Indeed, this information which was ?very sharply? worded had a cold-shower effect on all of us seated around the table including retired ambassadors and reputable businessmen.

    Everybody there knew what Nancy Pelosi had promised the Armenian diaspora regarding a genocide bill and that she had pressed the button to start actual work on the topic, but nobody really expected a representative of the Jewish lobby to declare that ?even we might not be able to block it if continues like this.?

    The Armenian genocide bill appears on the U.S. agenda every year on April 24 but it has always been blocked by the president (regardless of whether he is a Democrat or a Republican) on one side and the Jewish lobby on the other side openly supporting Turkey.

    However, according to what our guest was saying, neither the Jewish lobby nor President George W. Bush's last-minute efforts will stop the bill. The current political environment in the United States has turned against Turkey to an unprecedented degree. The degree is so large that the American Armenian National Congress expressed in a statement issued last week that their chances for passing the bill are now the highest they have been in the last decade.

    But why is that?

    For one thing, newly elected Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will be taking up the bill, which was last year abandoned by Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert after President Bush interfered. This is why the genocide bill which made its way to the House of Representatives last year is almost sure to be sent to the Senate after being voted on in the House. Secondly, the Democrats have a majority in the Senate, unlike last year.

    Thirdly, the Armenian diaspora, which collected signatures from 32 senators and 175 congressmen in 2005 in a letter calling for Bush to recognize the genocide, has already guaranteed 50 senators will support the bill this year.

    Lastly, President Bush, who was able to block the bill from being adopted at the last minute last year doesn't seem to have the power or the room to maneuver to block the bill this year.

    For all these reasons, the U.S. Jewish lobby which has always managed to block the Armenian genocide bill in the past has warned the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to ?either do something or be ready to face the consequences.?

    The other day, I talked to a senior diplomat from the MFA to confirm what our guest said. He sufficed to say, ?Unfortunately, all that you heard is true.?

    What can Turkey do to reverse the tide in the United States?

    There are three possible answers to this answer.

    A group of senior diplomats criticize Turkey's past policies regarding the allegation and assert that ?there's nothing we can do after this hour.?

    Some in the Jewish Lobby believe that it is still not too late. If Turkey established diplomatic relations and opened the borders with Armenia, the tide could turn around. They have already suggested this as a way out to the Turkish MFA.

    A third group says, since an overwhelming majority of parliaments in the world have already recognized the genocide, the United States will inevitably have to join them in the end. Turkey should be producing pro-active policies rather than reactionary policies on this topic.

    Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül in a recent interview with the Sabah daily expressed that they perceived the Armenian question as the second biggest threat for Turkey after the situation in Iraq. ?The Armenian question will be taken up in the United States again," Gül said. "We are trying to block that. This topic will never be off the table for Turkey. We should always be alert and prepared. If this bill is passed, it might lead to very complicated consequences. We have no way out but to prevent this from happening.?

    Obviously, Gül demonstrates that he has taken the warnings he received very seriously.

    Another official from the MFA told me: ?Although the atmosphere in the United States seems to be against Turks, we can still get some of the Democrats and Republicans on our side by staying on top of the issue. It is not too late.?

    The same official said he didn't even want to imagine what it would be like if Turkish-U.S. relations were further crippled by the Armenian bill after the row over Iraq. U.S. diplomats express similar concerns.

    Diplomats of both countries are concerned that U.S. acceptance of the genocide won't be anything like that of France of Slovakia. Turkish-U.S. relations from military tenders to trade relations would be dealt a very heavy blow. The image of the United States in the public opinion, which is currently panting on the floor (with only 20 percent of the population having positive feelings toward the Unites States) would crash altogether. The wounds still healing after the crisis over Turkey's rejection to deploy U.S. troops on its bases would be hit even worse than they were by the problems with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Iraq. This is why both Turkish and U.S. diplomats don't want to accept this as the end-scenario.

    However, the bill has already turned into a scare for the Jewish lobby in the United States.

    The only hope, for now, is Turkey's opening up its border with Armenia.

    Although the MFA seems to be favoring a more pro-active policy, this seems unlikely since 2007 is the year of general elections in Turkey.

    As you can see, the year 2007 is pregnant with a crisis that would leave even crises over the presidential elections and the general elections in the shadow, with the Jewish lobby already warning the Turkish MFA about the yet unborn child.
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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    Anti-Fascist communique from Holland- 1995

    Turkish extreme nationalist protest against Armenian genocide

    Searchlight, June 2005

    Turkish fascist Grey Wolves celebrated 24 April, the worldwide day of commemoration by Armenians population of the genocide against them by the Turks between 1915 and 1923, with a 300-strong "youth rally" in Utrecht.

    The event, the second "youth meeting" of the Grey Wolves since they established an umbrella organisation called Turkse Federatie Nederland (TFN) in 1995, has to be seen as a direct insult to the memory of the Armenian genocide, still a very controversial topic in Turkey and in Turkish communities across Europe.

    Turkish ultra-nationalists claim, despite numerous eye-witness accounts, documents, scientific studies and a mountain of other evidence to the contrary that there was a genocide of the Turks by the Armenians whom they accuse of trying to take over the Ottoman Empire, together with the Russians, during and just after the First World War.

    The Utrecht gathering has to be seen in the context of a massive rise of nationalism in Turkey, where the Grey Wolves, despite not being in power, still have several strongholds in society and inside the police, have taken over the streets.

    The background factors in the revival of ultra-nationalism are widespread fears of the loss of national identity if the country joins the European Union and the rise of Kurdish nationalism in neighbouring Iraq. There are also concerns that the situation in Kurdish Iraq could lead to renewed demands by the Kurdish minority in Turkey for their own territory in the south of Turkey and to criticism by European countries of the human rights situation in Turkey with calls by the same countries for recognition of the Armenian genocide.

    The tense situation in Turkey is now finding its reflection in the Netherlands, not least in the efforts of the Grey Wolves to exploit the nationalistic atmosphere. They still have an infrastructure in the Netherlands with 60 local branches nationwide. Some of them obtain funds from the local councils, and all kinds of support still comes from their parent organisation in Turkey, the Nationalist Action Party (MHP). The size of the Grey Wolves membership in the Netherlands is variously estimated at between 12,000 and 30,000.

    The TFN, for its part, seeks to segregate the Turkish community from the Dutch community on ethnic lines, using a strong racism and claiming Turkish superiority

    In this context, the expression "Proud to be a Turk" is not an innocent patriotic outcry, but represents a feeling of being part of the most superior "race" in the world and a willingness to shed blood for its honour. The parallels with the Nazis are obvious.

    Likewise, for the Grey Wolves, left-wing Turks and Kurds are designated "traitors" and "enemies of the people" while the Armenian are "terrorists" and antisemitic ideas and conspiracy theories abound. For example, in March the selling of the Turkish translation of Mein Kampt topped 50.000 and thus becoming a best-seller in the country.

    In Utrecht, half of the three hundred people present were women and the meeting had a strongly propagandistic and military character with children being handed out toy guns and teenagers showing off their martial arts skills. Between performances by some of the most infamous Turkish nationalist singers, chants like "Martyrs die but the nation never" could be heard.

    On the walls of the meeting hall hung huge portraits of two MHP leaders, the late Alparslan Turkes, a former colonel involved in military coups in the 1960s and 1970s and the party's current boss, Devlet Bahceli, who visited the Netherlands when he was still vice-president of Turkey, in 2004.

    The Dutch authorities, warned about the meeting, not for the first time, opted to turn a blind eye to these extremists whose intention is to fuel tensions between Turks, Kurds, Iraqis, Armenians and Dutch people; tensions that will benefit nobody except the Grey Wolves.

    By Jeroen Bosch of Alert! and Antifa-Net in Utrecht
    [email protected]
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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      Turkey Unleashes a Fierce War Against Genocide Recognition

      Ankara fears that Turkey will stop existing as a State as soon as it recognizes the Genocide




      ankara is taking all measures against Genocide recognition. In the given situation the Jewish lobby, which enjoys rather heavy weight in the USA, also has its significant role in the matter. Besides political and military-strategic factors there are also financial factors, which sometimes work even more efficiently in the USA than the others. For instance, because of the probable adoption of the Resolution N 106 the military-industrial complex of the USA, which by the way is the initiator of the Iraqi War, will lose about $15 billion. This is the sum the USA hopes to sell Turkey the armament for, to be used in "re-equipment of the army and struggle against the Kurdish radicals in the north of Iraq." Nobody knows how much the closing of "Incirlik" will cost, but this is already the political aspect of the issue.

      The Turks themselves do not regret any money which can somehow support the denial of the Armenian Genocide. According to some sources Turkey spends $1 billion per year on anti-Genocide propaganda. Only $10 million per year is spent on the USA and Canada. It's obvious that this is the money spent officially, one may only guess the sum of the money spent unofficially, and the matter is not in bribery only, which is considered a penal act in the USA. Everything is much easier; Turkey buys armament, although it might be bought from other countries too, for instance Russia, or France, though after the law on the denial of the Armenian Genocide was adopted there, it will be rather difficult for Turkey itself to get armament in France.

      During the latest meeting of the diplomatic officials, accredited in different countries, Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Gyul warned the Ambassadors that in case the Resolution is passed in the USA or in other countries, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs will consider that the Ambassadors weren't able to accomplish their mission. In the ceremony to the memory of the death of the Turkish diplomats abroad, Gyul once again announced that they had become "victims of the Armenian terrorists." However, the case with "the Armenian terrorism" doesn't work out any more. The whole world already knows that the assassinations of the Turkish diplomats pursued one main aim only, which was achieved -- the world learned about the 1st Genocide of the XX century.

      Turkey is not alone in the denial of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and enjoys strong support from Azerbaijan, which realizes very well that it doesn't and in the nearest future will not have any other alley than Turkey.

      How far will Turkey go in this matter and whether or not Turkey will be able to prove that there was no Armenian Genocide, is just a matter of time and money. This is at least what Ankara thinks. In fact everything is much more complicated. Modern Turkish Republic itself is the offspring of the Genocide just like the Armenian Diaspora is. According to ARF "Dashnaktsutiun", Ankara is well aware of the fact that if the Armenian, as well as the Greek and Assyrian Genocides are recognized, Turkey will stop existing as a State. Perhaps this is the reason of Ankara's sudden unwillingness to change the 301st Article in the Turkish Criminal Code, which is the only method to keep the Turkish scientists and intellectuals like Taner Akçam and Orhan Pamuk under control.



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      Second, it is violently opposed; and
      Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

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