The Denial Continues

[Nick_A]

http://www.armenianreporteronline.com/http://www.armenianreporteronline.com/

[Helen]

Denying Armenian Genocide in Times Square

Times Square in Manhattan was the scene of a very strange, very professionally-staged demonstration yesterday by a Turkish group denying the Armenian genocide. An LGF reader sent the link to a slideshow on Flickr with photographs of this event, featuring a Pinocchio statue representing “Armenian lies.”

Turkey, of course, is trying to be accepted into the European Union, and people keep bringing up the murders and persecution of Armenians. This is the first wave of a highly-funded public relations campaign to deny Turkey’s crimes.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25215_Denying_Armenian_Genocide_in_Times_Square#comments

[Joseph]

Times Square in Manhattan was the scene of a very strange, very professionally-staged demonstration yesterday by a Turkish group denying the Armenian genocide. An LGF reader sent the link to a slideshow on Flickr with photographs of this event, featuring a Pinocchio statue representing “Armenian lies.”

Turkey, of course, is trying to be accepted into the European Union, and people keep bringing up the murders and persecution of Armenians. This is the first wave of a highly-funded public relations campaign to deny Turkey’s crimes.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...quare#comments

Helen, thanks for the link.

[Joseph]

Helen, thanks for the link.

The link is growing more and more interesting.

[Joseph]

http://hragvartanian.wordpress.com/2007/04/22/armenian-genocide-rally-in-times-square/

Armenian Genocide Rally in Times Square

April 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Today’s Armenian Genocide rally in Times Square was well-attended by politicos, trying to make a point that they support recognition of the events of 1915 as genocide against the Armenian people. Some of the notables included (and this is only some of them) US Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), former US Ambassador to Armenia John Evan (who got canned from his post for recognizing the Armenian Genocide a few years back), and Curtis Sliwa–the founder of the Guardian Angels–who (pictured above) gave a rousing and aggressive speech about America’s failure to push Turkey to recognize its past. I’m guessing close to 5,000 people attended the rally which lasted 2 1/2 hours.

Among the thousands of Armenian Americans (and friends) that attended the rally were a small group of kids with really provocative signs that verged on the nationalistic (one crassly equated Turks with idiots–I think most Armenians can make the separation between a government and its people).

Someone at the rally mentioned to me that the previous day’s Armenian Genocide denial rally in Times Square (reputedly funded by the Turkish government and organized by a strange committee named YOUNG-TURKS) only included 200 protesters but they augmented their small numbers with large video screens and more professionally orchestrated banners (here’s the web posting on TURKSES announcing the rally [post], and just in case that comes down here’s a PDF of the announcement [PDF]).

The fact that the Turkish government is pouring money into such events shows how desperate they are becoming. Eventually, they must know that their lies will be surmounted by the truth.