Armenian Genocide Bill 2007

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AVO47

 

"direct link

 

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/in...ml_video=111484

 

also the second part

 

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/in...ml_video=111538 "

 

 

 

 

For what Jon Stewart and Jay Leno do, they must be sent to turkish prison for insulting turkishness.

Edited October 13, 2007 by Aratta-Kingdom

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Turkey too dependent on U.S. to take harsh measures

 

12.10.2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ “The steps will be the same as in case with France and Poland when these countries recognized the Armenian Genocide. There will be condemning statements which, however, will never result in complete severance of diplomatic relations. Even after the recent parliamentary elections, Turkey sees itself as a part of Euro-Atlantic but not Near-Eastern region,” he said.

 

“Turkey is being pressed in all directions – from the Kurdish problem to democratization of the society. The Armenian Genocide resolution adopted by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee is an important tool in this process,” Dr Iskandaryan said.

http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=23664

 

 

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This means president a-Bush doesn't need to worry about the defense contracts. He can still make money since the best the turks can do is to burn Barbie and Spiderman dolls

 

 

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direct link

 

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/in...ml_video=111484

 

also the second part

 

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/in...ml_video=111538

 

Jon and the crew do it again. Thanks for posting.

 

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U.S. military looking at alternatives in case Turkey cuts access

 

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/12/us.turkey/index.html

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On Thursday, the Turkish Consumers' Union called for a boycott of US-made products. I wish that turkey also boycott and stop sending their products to the US, while at it it wouldn't be a bad idea if they included Canada in this since Canada's pairliament recognized the Genocide.

What the hack let them also include all the countries who accepted the AG.

Stupid fools!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Only in an ideal world. They will never do such a thing, even if the bill passes. That is the reason a Turk is called a Turk.

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Likely passage of Armenian genocide resolution reflects White House weakness

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/12/...ns-Genocide.php

 

We now know why Luis Fortuno of Puerto Rico voted against the resolution.

 

One of the committee members who said he was called by Bush is Puerto Rico's delegate, Luis Fortuno, who told Puerto Rican media on Thursday that he was surprised to hear Bush on his telephone. As a representative of the U.S. commonwealth, Fortuno has no vote on the House floor but can participate in committee votes.

 

"Usually, these calls are coordinated," Fortuno said, "but this was a call to my cell phone, and I take it. It was him, talking in Spanish; in other words, this is not the norm."

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Armenians have 1.5 million reasons to remember

Robert Gauthier/ Los Angeles TimesHRANT ZEITOUNTZIAN: A survivor of the Armenian genocide in Turkey, the 97-year-old now lives in Pasadena.By Molly Hennessy, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

October 12, 2007 LOS ANGELES -- Hrant Zeitountzian, 97, of Pasadena, still remembers being forced from his village into Syria by Turkish soldiers in 1915. He was 6 years old.

 

His father, a mule driver, had already been taken from the family farm by Turkish soldiers. As Zeitountzian marched to Syria, he watched his brother and sister, both toddlers, fall ill and die, bodies in the mud, two of an estimated 1.5 million who would die during the relocations.

 

It was stories like his, told by Armenian survivors in the decades following the mass deaths, that fueled a growing movement seeking official recognition of the killings. This week, Zeitountzian and others feel they're closer than ever before to winning officials recognition of the genocide in Washington.

 

Until now, their quest has been blocked for geopolitical reasons: The U.S. is a close ally of Turkey, which strongly opposes any officials recognition of the genocide.

 

Many in Washington have argued it's more important to respect the Turkish government than to address past wrongs. Congress failed to pass legislation recognizing the genocide in 1975 and 1984, due in part to intense lobbying by Turkish groups.

 

But the latest resolution, sponsored by Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., passed the House Foreign Affairs committee this week and has the support of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

 

"We've been through this game," said Professor Richard Dekmejian, director of the University of Southern California Institute of Armenian Studies.

 

But this time, "There seems to be a moral tipping point in favor of the Armenian genocide precisely because it has happened in other places, in Rwanda and Darfur, the feeling that if we don't come clean, they are going to happen in other places," he said.

 

For Armenian Americans in Southern California, which houses the largest Armenian community in the United States, the campaign had become a multi-generational obsession. The movement included outreach to non-Armenians and the Bush administration, which is fighting the measure, saying it would hurt relations with Turkey.

 

Many first-generation Armenian immigrants pushed the painful history aside to assimilate in America, settling where they found work in the Rust Belt; the mill towns of New England; in California's Glendale and Fresno.

 

A second wave of immigrants arrived in the 1960s, fleeing wars in Lebanon, Iran and other Middle Eastern countries, and settling primarily in Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena and an area that became known as "Little Armenia" in east Hollywood. They opened businesses, built ornate Armenian churches and schools and sought elected office. After the fall of the Soviet Union, a third wave of Armenians flocked to hubs in Glendale and Hollywood, boosting the community's political clout.

 

Together they would become the country's largest Armenian enclave, with more than 60,000 in the city of Los Angeles and more than 300,000 in Southern California, a large chunk of the 800,000 Armenians in the U.S., Dekmejian said.

 

"Everybody has relatives who were lost," Aram Hamparian, executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America, said of Armenians in Southern California. "People are very motivated."

 

Each year, thousands of Armenians gather to commemorate the genocide on April 24, and as their numbers grew, so did the ceremonies. Eventually, winning a national acknowledgment of the tragedy became a civil rights struggle. In 1965, on the 50th anniversary of the genocide, local Armenians unveiled the country's first memorial monument on public land in Montebello.

 

Former Calif. Gov. George Deukmejian, who recently recorded two promotional video messages in favor of passing the resolution, remembers standing with thousands of fellow Armenian-Americans, watching then-Gov. Ronald Reagan dedicate the white concrete monument in Montebello's Bicknell Park, with its plaque commemorating the "Armenian victims of genocide" and "Men of all nations who have fallen victim to crimes against humanity."

 

Deukmejian said having Reagan personally attend the event was a huge moment for many Armenian Americans, giving them hope that they could also win recognition in Washington.

 

Father Vazken Movsesian, an Armenian American priest in Glendale, agreed.

 

"We realized at that moment that it wasn't just a family story, it was a community story," Movsesian said. "There is a struggle that has to be answered."

 

In recent years, the cause has been taken up by a younger generation of Armenians in their 20s and 30s who learned about the genocide from their elders.

 

Young people as well as survivors have traveled to Washington to share their stories. Armenian youth fasted outside the Turkish consulate on Wilshire Boulevard, marched from Fresno to Sacramento and last week protested outside the office of Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.

 

Harman, a former sponsor of the genocide resolution, recently changed her mind and sent a letter to Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., urging him to withdraw the bill.

 

Harman did not return calls to her office late this week. But in a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece Friday, she said that while she recognizes that the Armenians were victims of genocide, she realized after visiting Turkey earlier this year that passing the genocide resolution "would isolate and embarrass a courageous and moderate Islamic government in perhaps the most volatile region in the world."

 

The Turkish government acknowledges that hundreds of thousands of Armenians died as a result of the forced relocations from eastern Turkey in 1915, but argues that it was not a systematic Ottoman government effort, but the result of World War I, famine and disease that killed Turks, too.

 

In response to the House's action, the Turkish government recalled their U.S. ambassador.

 

A showdown on the resolution is expected on Capitol Hill in coming weeks.

 

Carla Garapedian, the granddaughter of survivors and a Los Angeles native, is scheduled to travel to Washington next week to screen her new documentary about the genocide, "Screamers" for members of Congress. Earlier this year, she was summoned for a private screening of the film, which features Armenian L.A. rockers System of a Down, with David and Victoria Beckham in Beverly Hills.

 

"We're angry. It is our generation that is making people listen," Garapedian said.

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H.Res.106 will entail condemnation and recognition of Armenian Genocide in many states 12.10.2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Actions held in Turkey are initiated by the Turkish Workers’ Party led by Dogu Perincek, who is using the occasion to gain political weight. However, Turkey will face more serious trouble when the House of Representatives announces the date of vote on the Armenian Genocide Resolution. Presently, everything depends on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who should choose a politically favorable date for the vote,” Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the RA Academy of Sciences, Prof. Ruben Safrastyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

 

Turkish government may take drastic steps if the House passes H.Res.106, according to him.

 

“Adoption of the resolution will have a stupendous effect. For the first time a power like the United States stands close to name mass killings in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 Genocide. The whole scope of the Turkish-American relations will be endangered. The Gul-Erdogan government will take up a foreign policy less dependent on the U.S. and tending to Middle East,” he said.

 

As to Armenia’s interests, Prof. Safrastyan said, adoption of the resolution will have a political importance. “Even though it’s just “the opinion of the House”, it will entail condemnation and recognition of the Armenian Genocide in many states. There is also another important circumstance – the world comes to know about the “Armenian factor” in politics with the aid of a superpower, the United States. This fact brings us political dividends,” he underscored.

 

 

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DeFacto.am

AAA COMMENDED HOUSE SPEAKER

October 11 the Armenian Assembly of America issued a statement after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had told reporters she would not back down to Turkish and White House pressure and intended to bring the Armenian Genocide resolution (H. Res. 106) to the floor for a vote by the full House. The announcement from Pelosi comes one day after the resolution was approved by a bi-partisan majority of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "We applaud Speaker Pelosi for standing firm on her commitment to history and truth," said Armenian Assembly Executive Director Bryan Ardouny. "The opponents of this common-sense resolution – including the White House and the Turkish government and its army of lobbyists – have thrown every excuse at the resolution trying to create a political tsunami to prevent a vote. The entire Armenian-American community stands united with Speaker Pelosi and commends her for standing firm in the face of this alarmist drumbeat and outright blackmail by Turkey and its deniers. We know we have the support to pass it into law and I look forward to the full House going on record on this critical issue that has been neglected for far too long." Ardouny added that the Assembly, which had been working with Members of Congress since its inception in 1972, intended to continue working vigorously for passage of H. Res. 106. In the days and months leading up to yesterday's successful committee vote on this issue, the Assembly organized its more than 10,000 members to call, write and email members of Congress and provide them with accurate information about this issue to counter the misleading statements from Turkey. Regarding Turkey's recall of their ambassador to the U.S. in response to the House Foreign Affairs Committee's vote affirming the Armenian Genocide, Ardouny said, ‘’The House demonstrated yesterday that they wouldn’t allow the war in Iraq to be used as leverage against them. Members of Congress stood up against those pressure tactics by affirming the Armenian Genocide and we're encouraged by the fact that Speaker Pelosi went on the record today in defense of the truth."

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Serge Sarkissian is going to be in the USA next week and is going to meet with Cheney, Rice. Co-incidence since it was schedule months ago, though.

 

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/13/...-US-Armenia.php

[Arpa]

Why are people talking as if Turkey is the only superpower of the world?

 

H.Res.106 will entail condemnation and recognition of Armenian Genocide in many states 12.10.2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Actions held in Turkey are initiated by the Turkish Workers’ Party led by Dogu Perincek, who is using the occasion to gain political weight. However, Turkey will face more serious trouble when the House of Representatives announces the date of vote on the Armenian Genocide Resolution. Presently, everything depends on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who should choose a politically favorable date for the vote,” Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the RA Academy of Sciences, Prof. Ruben Safrastyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

 

Turkish government may take drastic steps if the House passes H.Res.106, according to him.

 

“Adoption of the resolution will have a stupendous effect. For the first time a power like the United States stands close to name mass killings in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 Genocide. The whole scope of the Turkish-American relations will be endangered. The Gul-Erdogan government will take up a foreign policy less dependent on the U.S. and tending to Middle East,” he said.

 

As to Armenia’s interests, Prof. Safrastyan said, adoption of the resolution will have a political importance. “Even though it’s just “the opinion of the House”, it will entail condemnation and recognition of the Armenian Genocide in many states. There is also another important circumstance – the world comes to know about the “Armenian factor” in politics with the aid of a superpower, the United States. This fact brings us political dividends,” he underscored.

Turkey will tend towards the Middle East? When did Turkey NOT be in the Middle East? What will happen? Turkey will turn into Saddam's Iraq or Ahmadi's Iran?

Turkey will turn towards the ME? How? Will turn away from Israel and ally with Iran and Syria?

Edited October 13, 2007 by Arpa

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[PA-1] - 3/12/2007Rep Braley, Bruce L. [iA-1] - 4/19/2007Rep Butterfield, G. K. [NC-1] - 6/28/2007Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44] - 1/31/2007Rep Camp, Dave [MI-4] - 6/7/2007Rep Campbell, John [CA-48] - 1/31/2007Rep Cantor, Eric [VA-7] - 1/31/2007Rep Capps, Lois [CA-23] - 1/31/2007Rep Capuano, Michael E. [MA-8] - 1/31/2007Rep Cardoza, Dennis A. [CA-18] - 1/31/2007Rep Carson, Julia [iN-7] - 6/28/2007Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 7/10/2007Rep Clarke, Yvette D. [NY-11] - 4/16/2007Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/31/2007Rep Cleaver, Emanuel [MO-5] - 1/31/2007Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 1/31/2007Rep Costa, Jim [CA-20] - 1/31/2007Rep Costello, Jerry F. [iL-12] - 1/31/2007Rep Courtney, Joe [CT-2] - 5/14/2007Rep Crowley, Joseph [NY-7] - 1/31/2007Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 6/28/2007Rep Davis, Artur [AL-7] - 6/26/2007Rep Davis, Danny K. [iL-7] - 1/31/2007Rep Davis, Lincoln [TN-4] - 1/31/2007Rep Davis, Susan A. [CA-53] - 1/31/2007Rep DeFazio, Peter A. 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GENOCIDE CONFLICTS WITH US INTERESTS

Peter Schurmann

 

New California Media, CA

Oct 12 2007

 

The Bush administration's response to the passing by congress of a

resolution defining the 1915 massacre of over one million Armenians as

'genocide' is reminiscent of the comments made recently by Iranian

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in regards to the genocide of six

million jews at the hands of Nazi Germany.

 

Reuters reports that administration officials urged congress not

to pass the resolution, warning that it threatens to undermine

US-Turkey relations, critical to American interests in the region

(and particulalry in Iraq, where another ethnic conflict has erupted

despite America's denial). And yet America wastes little time in

attacking Ahmadinejad for denying the Nazi holocaust during WWII.

 

Giving justice to the families of Armenian victims of what noted

journalist Robert Fisk calls the "first holocaust" is a step towards

redeeming the bloody and unresolved history of the Twentieth century,

a century that laid the foundations for our own turbulent era.

 

The connections in fact go much deeper. In "The Great War for

Civilization," Fisk writes of the close ties between Nazi military

leadres and Ottoman generals then in the process of working out

what they referred to as the "Armenian question." Tactics included

the organized rape and slaughter of women and children, starvation,

and the carrying off of would be victims via train, loved ones whose

whereabouts to this day are unknown.

 

Acknowledging the killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces during WWI

as genocide sends a clear message that perpetrators of such acts will

be condemned. Failure to do so extenuates past injustices and opens

the door to similar crimes today - such as in Darfur.

 

It is a double-standard that further implicates America's government as

one that , while preaching the value of human rights to others, fails

to live up to these standards when they conflict with US interests.

 

http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_articl...b6237ebffc229d4

[Yervant1]

Either Ali Babacan is a closet Armenian or the Hypocrite of the century.

 

 

 

 

Turkish FM: "We must learn lessons from the Holocaust"

 

EJP

 

Updated: 12/Oct/2007 13:10

 

JERUSALEM (EJP)---When he signed the guest book of the Yad Vashem

Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem during his visit earlier this week,

Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan wrote:

 

"This museum reminds us all the heart-breaking memories of the

Holocaust. We must learn lessons from the Holocaust; the way the evil

took hold, the insidious appeal of its ideology, co-option of many

apparently respectable people.

 

If we understand the danger of fight against evil doctrines, to

scapegoat, despise and dehumanize any religion and people, our

children will certainly live in a better world. Genocide, ethnic

cleansing, racism, anti-Semitism, Islam-phobia, Christian-phobia,

xenophobia, all historical yet contemporary evils that the

international community shares a solemn responsibility to combat.

 

On behalf of the Turkish people and the Turkish Government, I want to

express our reverence for the victims of the immeasurable evil.

Blessed be their memory."

 

Source: http://www.ejpress.org/article/20806#

 

[Aratta-Kingdom]

What is this nonsense we keep hearing from the A-Bush administration about turkey being a key ally? Is turkey really an ally or a partner in interest?

 

Isn't President Bush 'an elected official*' of the american people? Who is more important to President Bush, the armenian-americans who pay taxes and serve in the U.S. army or a so-calley ally which threatens you with the life of the U.S. soldiers?

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[Aratta-Kingdom]

 

Turkish minister cancels US visit

Saturday, 13 October 2007 11:37 A Turkish minister has cancelled a visit to the United States this weekend in reaction to a Congress vote to label the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks an act of genocide.

 

Minister of State Kursad Tuzmen, an influential member of the government charged with external trade, was to have attended a US-Turkish business meeting in New York.

 

Mr Tuzmen was the second Turkish official to cancel a planned visit to the US after the Turkish navy's commander Admiral Metin Atac.

 

AdvertisementTurkey on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Washington after the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed the genocide resolution despite Ankara's warnings that it could seriously damage bilateral ties.

 

 

[Aratta-Kingdom]

United States is a home to the Armenians who have escaped the genocide. We have failed to stop the turks when they came to the Armenian-Highland. We have learned from the history and will not make the same mistakes again. Every time the turks try to visit the land of the free, they will be confronted by the citizens of that country.

 

 

"Turkish minister cancels US visit

Saturday, 13 October 2007 11:37 A Turkish minister has cancelled a visit to the United States this weekend in reaction to a Congress vote to label the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks an act of genocide.

 

Minister of State Kursad Tuzmen, an influential member of the government charged with external trade, was to have attended a US-Turkish business meeting in New York.

 

Mr Tuzmen was the second Turkish official to cancel a planned visit to the US after the Turkish navy's commander Admiral Metin Atac.

 

AdvertisementTurkey on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Washington after the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed the genocide resolution despite Ankara's warnings that it could seriously damage bilateral ties."

[Aratta-Kingdom]

The problem is solved. Since the role of turkey has changed, now lets see what would the turks do without the support of the United States.

 

 

 

 

 

MILITARY SEEKS ALTERNATIVES IN CASE TURKEY LIMITS ACCESS

By David S. Cloud

 

New York Times

Oct 12 2007

 

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 - Loss of access to military installations in

Turkey would force the United States to send more supplies for Iraq

through other countries and could cause short-term backups in fuel

shipments and deliveries of critical equipment, senior officers

said Thursday.

 

The officials said they had a contingency plan in case Turkey followed

through on threats to shut off the United States military's use to its

territory if the full House approved a resolution condemning the mass

killings of Armenians during World War I as an act of genocide. That

could mean the loss at least temporarily of Incirlik Air Base in

southeastern Turkey, a key resupply hub for Iraq, and the closing of

the Turkish-Iraq border to fuel trucks for the American military.

 

It could take months to increase operations in other logistical hubs,

including Jordan, Kuwait and at the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr in the

northern Persian Gulf, the officials said.

 

"Turkey has been a tremendous hub for us, and if we didn't have it

that would increase time lines and distances," said a senior military

officer involved in logistical planning and operations. "But it would

be a short-term impact." The officer spoke on condition of anonymity,

as did other officials, because he was discussing matters of military

planning.

 

Turkey signaled its displeasure by recalling its ambassador to

Washington on Thursday, the day after the House Foreign Affairs

Committee endorsed the resolution. Meanwhile, Bush administration

officials stepped up their warnings that passage of the measure by

the full House could have dire consequences.

 

For the second day in a row, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned

about the "enormous implications" for American military operations

in Iraq if Turkey limited flights over its territory or restricted

access to Incirlik Air Base.

 

"All I can say is that a resolution that looks back almost 100 years to

an event that took place under a predecessor government, the Ottomans,

and that has enormous present-day implications for American soldiers

and Marines and sailors and airmen in Iraq, is something we need to

take very seriously," Mr. Gates told reporters in London.

 

In public, only Turkish legislators have explicitly warned of limiting

the American military presence, though other members of the government

have also warned of consequences.

 

"This is an issue where the Turkish officials have made clear their

very strong concerns about this and have raised questions about

potential consequences in the event that this resolution passes,"

said Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman.

 

Though a NATO ally, Turkey has proved a roadblock to American military

actions before, especially in March 2003, when its Parliament refused

to authorize movement of American ground troops through its territory

during the initial invasion of Iraq.

 

Mr. Gates and other military officials have said that 70 percent

of the military cargo sent to Iraq is flown through Incirlik or on

routes over Turkey.

 

To drive home the potential impact of the House action, American

officials have warned that delivery of new heavily armored trucks,

known as Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, could be

disrupted. Senior military officials said Thursday that the roughly

400 such vehicles delivered since July have been flown in over Turkey

but not landed on its territory. Those flights could avoid Turkish

airspace, if necessary, they said.

[Aratta-Kingdom]

SOONER OR LATER, ALL NATIONS WILL RECOGNIZE THIS CRIME

 

Panorama.am

01:18 12/10/2007

 

"Sooner or later, all nations will recognize these crimes against

humanity, and that doesn't only mean the Armenian Genocide," said

Republican party spokesman Edward Sharmazanov while talking with a

Panorama.am journalist. In his words, many were pessimistic before

the vote, which turned out positive in the end.

 

"The whole world is moving towards democratization," he said. "Nations

cannot overlook crimes such as this."

 

Speaking about relations with Turkey, Sharmazanov said Armenia is

always ready to develop relations, without any preconditions. "Turkey,

on the other hand, puts up preconditions. Erdogan repeats that

to develop relations with Armenia, the Armenian side has to forego

Genocide recognition and remove itself from activities related to the

settlement of the Karabakh conflict," the Republican party member said.

 

In Sharmazanov's opinion, if Turkey accepts its guilt, relations

between the two countries will improve and also become more

predictable.

 

 

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But since Turkey is an insecure nation unsure of its place in the world, it will continue to create problems for the international community. The time has came for the nations of the world to raise their voice and say no to mad turk disease.

[Yervant1]

Soon they will realise that their actions will cost them dearly in their pockets. Just imagine the amount of dollars generated by transfering all those goods through turkey will cease, turkish firms and companies making millions will come to a halt.

 

It won't be the last time that turkey shoots the goose that layed the golden egg, or is it a turkey egg?

 

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I have a feeling now that BBC is on the paycheck of turkish government. Now thy have an article about the genocides but they don't even mention our cause (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7043170.stm). On the other hand they still speak about the "unrests" armenians have caused in the international politics lately.

 

But yesterday their lies about the armenian student from Yerevan denying genocide was even in the headline in google news.

[DominO123]

I have a feeling now that BBC is on the paycheck of turkish government. Now thy have an article about the genocides but they don't even mention our cause (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7043170.stm). On the other hand they still speak about the "unrests" armenians have caused in the international politics lately.

 

But yesterday their lies about the armenian student from Yerevan denying genocide was even in the headline in google news.

 

BBC is by far the less credible news source in what regards the Armenian Genocide, from this BS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7040344.stm it has shown that they have no journalistic integrity. I have written a draft and don't feel sending it, so open to anyone who want to modify and send it.

 

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Laura Smith-Spark article Armenian sway over US lawmakers may reach the journalistic standards of some third world nation but is far from reaching ours. Had she had the same audacity, irresponsability to write something similar regarding the Holocaust she would probably be as we speak searching for a new job to not avail. It is indeed only by such ignorance (which obviously in such situation is of not excuse, even worst, in her case it is not ignorance by ill intend) that she has come to write such a poorly writen article, bad tasted, prejudicial. The title she picked for the article alone speaks volume, but that she has come to picture Armenians as lobbyiest defying proportion and to label the term genocide as their version of event; misleading by the same occasion the ignorant mass by claiming historians are divided about the topic is unacceptable. It is only by such a twist of reality, that she has created the illusion that a minority view among the academia warrant a division among historians. She should take the same pleasure to write about another subject which she ignore, on the son, with the same rational to claim that the generated heat by a thermonuclear reaction is still debated among Physicians because some physicists like Renzo Boscoli believe so.

 

Laura Smith-Spark mistakes were not innocent at all, they were calculated to mislead readers following the disgusting line the BBC has followed for years in what regards the Armenian genocide. It is obviously only by being ill intentioned that among many possible individual to interview she has choosen Svante Cornell. While she mentioned accuratly the ''Central Asia-Caicasus Institute ar Johns Hopkins University'' she has forgotten, or left out the Silk Road Studies Program. Also that he is also the Co-editor (with S. Frederick Starr), of the “Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: Oil Window to the West”. Or that his family runs the Cornell Caspian Consulting which the mission of which is to tract investors. To quote from their ''organization'': ''Even the most restrictive estimates of oil reserves in the Caspian (ca. 70 billion barrels) surpass the proven oil reserves of either Europe, Africa, or the rest of Asia.'' The Caspian Sea, where Azerbaijan pumps its billions of petro-dollars. He received a honorary degree from the Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences for service rendu. While the consulting passes as some sort of Caucasus consulting, its main interest is the construction of the pipeline which completely excludes Armenia from the region. He works with Fariz Ismailzade, who leads the project in Azerbaijan, and who is also director of the political program of the International Republican Institute stationed on the Caspian Business Center. Tabib Huseynov was the program assistant of the same institute, which basically means that Cornell has related links with most known figures of Azerbaijan's lobbyists in the West. So, it is king of ironic for Laura Smith-Spark to speak of a powerful Armenian lobby and to support her position interview one of the leading figures of the Azerbaijani lobby in the United-States.

 

I could waste my time covering her article bit by bit, but the time should be better used to educate true ignorants rather than people who are ill intentioned.

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Sent.

 

I will expect for an answer from them and will post it here.

 

Thanks Domino! Very well concepted letter.

Edited October 13, 2007 by Error 404

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From http://www.cornellcaspian.com/

 

Good research Domino!

 

And this is the source for the BBC to write articles about Armenians and Armenian Genocide.

 

http://www.cornellcaspian.com/whoweare/SC1.jpg

 

 

Svante E. Cornell

Executive Director

 

Postal Address:

CCC Head office

Topeliusv. 15

SE-16761 Bromma, Sweden

Tel. +1-202-663-7712

Tel. +46-70-744-0995

Fax. +1-253-550-4390

E-mail

 

 

Svante E. Cornell is Executive Director of Cornell Caspian Consulting. He is the Editor of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, a bi-weekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of The Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is also Research Director of the Silk Road Studies Program and Associate Professor of East European Studies at Uppsala University. In 2002-2003, he served Course Chair of the Caucasus Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State. His specialization is on conflicts, regional politics, and state-building in Southwest and Central Asia, especially the Caucasus.

 

Cornell holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University. His dissertation examined the role of territorial autonomy in the emergence of ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus, particularly Georgia. He also holds a B.Sc. with High Honor in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Prior to that, he obtained his Baccalaureat from the Lycee Charles de Gaulle in Ankara, Turkey.

 

He has traveled widely in the region, participated in numerous international conferences on Eurasian affairs, and published numerous articles on conflicts and geopolitics of the Caspian basin, as well as two books. His research on the Caucasus was recognized in 1999 by the Behmenyar Institute of Law and Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, which awarded him an honorary doctoral degree. He is fluent in Swedish, English, French, Turkish, German and Azeri. He also speaks Italian, Russian, and some Urdu.

 

 

 

Publications

 

Books and Monographs

 

Regional Security in the South Caucasus: The Role of NATO, Washington DC: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, 2004. (100 pp.) (Co-author).

 

The South Caucasus: Regional Overview and Conflict Assessment, Stockholm: Cornell Caspian Consulting and SIDA, 2002. (106 pp.)

 

Autonomy and Conflict: Ethnoterritoriality and Separatism in the South Caucasus - Cases in Georgia, Uppsala: Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Report No. 61, May 2002.

 

Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus, Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2000. (480 pp.) Sample chapter and contents available online.

 

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, Uppsala: Dept. of East European Studies, 1999. (156 pp.)

 

Conflict Theory and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Guidelines for a Solution? Stockholm: Triton, 1997. (70 pp.)

 

Articles and Reports

 

Handelns Fortsättning med Kriminella Medel" (The Continuation of Trade with Criminal Means), Axess, No. 6, 2004.

 

“The United States and Central Asia: In the Steppes to Stay?", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 17 no. 2, July 2004.

 

“NATO After Enlargement: PfP Shifts Emphasis to Central Asia and the Caucasus”, NIAS Asia Insights, no. 2, June 2004.

 

“NATO’s Role in South Caucasus Regional Security”, Turkish Policy Quarterly, No. 3, June 2004.

 

"Azerbaijan", in Nations in Transit 2004: Democratization in East-Central Europe and Eurasia, ed. Amanda Schnetzer et. al., New York: Freedom House, 2004.

 

"The Growing Threat of Transnational Crime", The South Caucasus: A Challenge for the EU, ed. Dov Lynch, Chaillot Papers, EU Institute of Security Studies, 2004.

 

“Regional Politics in Central Asia: the Changing Roles of Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and Iran”, India and Central Asia: Building Linkages in an Age of Turbulence, New Delhi: SAPRA Foundation, 2003.

 

“The Critical but Perilous Caucasus”, in Orbis, vol. 47 no. 4, Winter 2003 (with Amb. Kenneth Yalowitz)

 

“Regional Perspectives on Military and Economic Security in the Caucasus and Central Asia”, National Bureau of Asian Research Analysis, vol 14 no. 3, October 2003.

 

“Azerbaijan”, Nations in Transit 2003: Democratization in East-Central Europe and Eurasia, ed. Amanda Schnetzer et. al., New York: Freedom House, 2003. (with Fariz Ismailzade)

 

“Kvasistater i Eurasien”, [Quasi-States in Eurasia] Nordic Journal of East European Studies, vol. 17 no. 2, 2003.

 

“Nagorno-Karabach: Kvasistat eller Armeniens Maktcentrum?” [Nagorno-Karabakh: Quasi-State or Center of Armenian Power?], Nordic Journal of East European Studies, vol. 17 no. 2, 2003.

 

“The War against Terrorism and the Conflict in Chechnya: A Case for Distinction”, in Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, vol. 27 no. 2, Fall 2003.

 

“Azerbaijan 2002: Between the Storms”, Transitions Online Yearly Report, April 2003.

 

“Entrenched in the Steppes: America Redraws the Map”, Foreign Service Journal, April 2003.

 

'Turkey's Elections: Domestic Scenarios and Foreign Policy Implications', Caspian Brief No. 27, October 2002, with Ambassador Erik Cornell and Kemal Kaya.

 

‘America in Eurasia: One Year After’, Current History, October 2002.

 

“The Military in Turkish Politics”, in Bertil Dunér, ed., Turkey: The Road Ahead?, Stockholm: Utrikespolitiska Institutet, 2002.

 

'The Nexus of Narcotics, Conflict, and Radical Islamism in Central Asia', CCC Caspian Brief No. 24, June 2002.

 

'Autonomy as a Source of Conflict: Caucasian Conflicts in Theoretical Perspective', World Politics, vol. 54 no. 2, 2002. (html version)

 

'Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia', Marco Polo Magazine, No. 6, 2001. (With Regine Spector)

 

'Central Asia: More than Islamic Extremists', The Washington Quartely, vol. 25 no. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 193-206. (html version) (With Regine Spector)

 

'The PKK: Defeated or Hibernating?', Jane's Terrorism and Security Monitor, July 2001.

 

'Iran and the Caspian Region: The Domestic and International Context of Iranian Policy', in Global Dialogue, vol. 2. no. 3, Spring 2001.

 

'Democratization Falters in Azerbaijan', in Journal of Democracy, vol. 12 no. 2, April 2001.

 

'Renewed Russian Pressure on the Caucasus', Caspian Brief, no. 10, January 2001

 

'The Asian Connection: The New Geopolitics of Central Eurasia' in Marco Polo Magazine, no. 5-6, Winter 2000-2001. (PDF Format) with Maria Sultan.

 

“The Kurdish Question and the Turkish Political System“, in Orbis, vol. 45 no. 1, 2001.

 

'The Caucasian Conundrum and the Geopolitics of Conflict', in Marco Polo Magazine, no. 4, Fall 2000 . (PDF Format)

 

'Conflict and Cooperation in the North Caucasus', in Politics of the Black Sea: Dynamics of Cooperation and Conflict, ed. Tunc Aybak, London: I.B. Tauris, 2000.

 

“Uzbekistan: A Regional Player in Eurasian Geopolitics?“, in European Security, vol. 9 no. 2, 2000. (Also in PDF Format)

 

“Turkey: Return to Stability?“, in Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 35 no. 4, October 1999. (Special issue also published as Seventy-Five Years of the Turkish Republic, ed. Sylvia Kedourie, London: FrankCass, 1999)

 

“Geopolitics and Strategic Alignments in the Caucasus and Central Asia“, in Perceptions--Journal of International Affairs, vol. 4 no. 2, June 1999.

 

“The Devaluation of the Concept of Autonomy: National Minorities in the Former Soviet Union“, in Central Asian Survey, vol. 18 no. 2, June 1999. (PDF Format)

 

“The Place of Caucasian States in Eurasian Strategic Alignments“, in Marco Polo Magazine (Venice), no. 1, 1999. (PDF format)

 

“Birläshmish Shtatlar: Mövge Aydínlígína Dogru“, (The United states: Toward Engagement (in the Caucasus) ), in Qanun: Ictimai - Siyasi Jurnal (Baku), vol. 59 no. 3, 1999.

 

“International Reactions to Massive Human Rights Violations: The Case of Chechnia“, in Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, January 1999. (PDF format)

 

“Turkey“ in Islam Outside the Arab World, ed. David Westerlund and Ingvar Svanberg, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999.(With Ingvar Svanberg)

 

“Russia and the Transcaucasus“ in Islam Outside the Arab World, ed. David Westerlund and Ingvar Svanberg, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999. (With Ingvar Svanberg)

 

“Vatten och Terrorism: Relationerna mellan Turkiet och Syrien“ (Water and Terrorism: Turkish-Syrian Relations), in Utrikes Perspektiv, no. 4, 1998. (PDF format)

 

“Turkey’s Role and Prospects in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and its Regional Implications“, in Marco Polo Magazine, (Venice) no. 4-5, 1998. (PDF format)

 

“Religion as a Factor in Caucasian Conflicts“, in Civil Wars, vol. 1 no. 3, Fall 1998. (PDF format)

 

“Conflicts in the North Caucasus“, in Central Asian Survey, vol. 17 no. 3, Fall 1998. (PDF format)

 

“A Delicate Balance: Turkey and the Nagorno Karabakh Conflict“, in Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 34 no. 1, January 1998. (PDF format)

 

“Iran and the Caucasus“, in Middle East Policy, vol. 5 no. 4, January 1998.

 

“Conflicting Identities in the Caucasus“, in Peace Review--A Transnational Quarterly, vol. 9 no. 4, December 1997.

 

“The Unruly Caucasus“, in Current History, vol. 96 no. 612, October 1997.

 

“Peace or War? The Prospects of the Conflicts in the Caucasus“. in The Iranian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 9 no. 2, Summer 1997. (PDF format)

 

“A Chechen State?“, in Central Asian Survey, vol. 16 no. 2, June 1997.

 

“Undeclared War: The Nagorno Karabakh Conflict Reconsidered“, in Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 20 no. 4, Summer 1997. (PDF format)

 

 

Op-eds etc.

'Kashmir and Chechnya in the War on Terrorism', Policy Brief, 29 December 2001.

'Central Asia's Pakistan Connection', The News on Sunday, Islamabad, 18 November 2001.

Thank the Northern Alliance but also Rein it In, Los Angeles Times, 14 November 2001.

'Türk-Pakistan iliskilerini canlandirmanin olusturacagi firsatlar', (The Revival of Turkish-Pakistani Relations and its Opportunities) Zaman, Istanbul, 5 November 2001. (English)

'U.S. Policy and the Kashmir Dispute', The News on Sunday, Islamabad, 4 November 2001.

'China Unnerved with War, West so Close to Its Door', The Baltimore Sun, 23 October 2001. (With Niklas Swanstrom.) Also in Swedish daily Uppsala Nya Tidning as 'Kinas Dubbla Intressen', 26 October 2001.

'Finessing Two Rivals is Essential: The Trick is Balancing India and Pakistan', Los Angeles Times, 22 October 2001.

'Laden with Confusion', (US Policy in Afghanistan), The News on Sunday, Islamabad, Pakistan, 21 October 200.

'China's Trepidation in Afghanistan', Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 10 October 2001. (With Niklas Swanstrom)

'Ankara Iplerini Eline Aliyor' (Turkey Taking Charge in the Caspian'), Daily Zaman, 22 August 2001.

'Is the Caspian Dispute spiraling Out of Control?' (18 August 2001.)

'The 'Andean Syndrome'? Regional Implications of the Taliban Opium Eradication', 6 June 2001, (With Marcela Londoño, CACI Analyst)

'Interview with Sayid Rakhmatullah Hashimi, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan' 28 March 2001, (CACI Analyst)

'Rekindling Failing Negotiation in Nagorno-Karabakh', 14 March 2001 (Svante Cornell, CACI Analyst)

'The Afghanization of Chechnya', 28 February 2001 (Svante Cornell, CACI Analyst)

'Europe Betrays its Values with Restoration of Russia's Council of Europe Voting Rights', 13 February 2001, Eurasianet,

'Europe Betrays its Principles - Again', 7 February 2001

'Parliamentary Selections in Azerbaijan: A Lost Opportunity',2 February 2001, (CACI Analyst)

'Afghanistan as Center: Central Asia's New Geopolitics', 22 November 2000 (With Maria Sultan, CACI Analyst)

'Azerbaijani Leadership Struggles To Reconcile Opposition With Political Succession', 11 October 2000 (Eurasia Insight)

'Living with the Taliban: The Need for a Central Eurasia Policy', 10 October 2000 (PDF) (CCC Brief)

'A Strike of Genius? Azerbaijan's ‘Directed’ Elections', 9 October 2000 (CCC Brief)

U.S. Policy in 'Caspian-Asian': Imperatives of Strategic Vision, 2 August 2000 (CACI Analyst)

'Cloaking the Chechen War as Jihad: The Risk for Militant Contagion', 21 June 2000 (CACI Analyst)

'Armenia's Political Instability and Caucasian Security', 12 April 2000 (CACI Analyst)

'Segregation or Integration? The Perils of Self-Determination', June 2000 (CCC Brief)

"Putin's Past and Russia's Future in the 'Near Abroad'", 19 January 2000 (CACI Analyst)

"Nytt Kallt Krig Börjar i Kaukasus", 12 December 1999 (Dagens Nyheter Debatt)

'The Weary Path to Mutual Compromise: Elusive Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh', 8 December 1999 (CACI Analyst)

 

 

 

[Aratta-Kingdom]

 

 

 

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40 American States have already recognized the Armenian-genocide. The people of America have already spoken. After the House of Representatives passes the Armenian Genocide Bill, the White House and Pentagon will have no choice but to listen to the people of United States.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 13, 2007 by Aratta-Kingdom