Onumuzdeki hafta Amerikan Kongresine getirilmesi dusunulen Ermeni tasarisi ile ilgili
olarak Türk toplumunu aktif goreve davet ediyoruz.
Yapabilecegimiz seyler:
1 Tanidigimiz ABD Kongre uyelerine ornegini gonderdigim maili kullanarak
email, fax ve telefonlar ile dusunceleriniz bildirmeniz.
2 Tanidigimiz tum Türk ve Türk Amerikan kuruluslarinda uye bulunanlardan da
ayni seyleri yapmalarini rica etmek.
ABD Kongresindeki ve Parlemantodaki milletvekili ve senatorleri
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/index.html linkinden bulabiliriz.Tum
senatorlere ve milletvekillerine gonderebilirsiniz. BU sayfalaradan email
ve telefon adreslerine ulasabilirsiniz.
Asagidaki e mail ornekleri size bir fikir versin diye gondriyorum. Siz
kendinize gore uyarlayabilirsiniz.
————————-Örnek Yazı——————————–
An Open Letter to Congress
Dear Congress member;
On September 11, 2001, we lost 3,000 brave, innocent civilians to a vicious
terrorist attack. I am sure that no one will ever forget where they were
when they first learned the terrible news. At least I won’t. I had just
walked into the office when I saw several of my co-workers were huddled
around a TV set. Cheerfully, I asked, “Whassup guys?” Mike looked at me
incredulously, “You mean you haven’t heard?” Puzzled, but worried by the
distressed faces of all my coworkers, I looked at the TV. The twin towers
were burning, people were dying, jumping to deaths trying to flee the
flames. We all cried that day. It was the trigger that plunged our nation
into war – a war that would take us into many countries. First Afghanistan,
and now Iraq.
Could you imagine what it would have been like, if instead of losing 3,000
Americans to terrorism, if we had lost tens and thousands of people to an
invading army – an army being aided and cheered by some of our citizens?
What would we do to protect our homeland? What would we do to the citizens
supporting such a heinous act? Would we pack them all of to camps, like we
did to the Japanese-Americans in World War II? How far would we go to
defeat the invaders and root out evil?
While you think about the answer to this question, I want you to consider a
similar event that happened a little bit over 90 years ago. I want you to
go back to the year 1914, the year that the cities of Kars and Ardahan were
invaded by Armenian and Russian troops, in which 30,000 Turks – civilians,
guilty only of being Turkish – were savagely butchered by the invaders. I
want you to remember the siege of Van, in early 1915, during which
Ottoman-Armenian citizens welcomed the invading Russian and Armenian
troops, and during which over 86,000 Turkish civilians were massacred.
Back then, the Ottoman government decided on an action not unlike our own
Japanese internment: relocation to parts of the country where there was
little fighting. During these relocations, some Armenians were attacked by
rogue Kurdish bands seeking revenge. Some died of inflictions that claimed
the lives of many Ottomans during that time: disease and starvation. The
plight of the Armenians became well known throughout the western world,
although not a tear was shed for the 100,000 Turks murdered during 1914 and
1915.
In mid 1918, the Ottoman government reversed its relocation policy, and
began to bring Armenians back to their original homes, kicking out their
new Turkish inhabitants, many of whom themselves were refugees, victims of
ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. Then the newly established Republic of
Armenia in the Caucasus decided to take advantage of the Mondros Armistice,
which disarmed all Ottoman soldiers and initiated the widespread occupation
of Ottoman lands by Allied armies.
The goal was grabbing all of eastern and southern Turkey for themselves,
uniting it with Russian Armenia to form a Greater Armenian state. However,
even before the relocations, the Ottoman Armenians were a decided minority
in Eastern Turkey, considered by Europeans to be “historic Armenia,”
comprising only 20-25% at most of the population. Anatolia had been a
Turkish homeland for over a thousand years, nevertheless Armenians wished
to reclaim their former empire and engaged in merciless, false propaganda
in the West to garner Allied support for their brutal military campaigns.
Europe, for her part, had her own political and economical motives in
supporting Armenia, violating terms of Mondros to occupy even Cilicia and
other parts of Turkey. Armenians flocked back from overseas to take part in
Allied armies, such as filling the Armenian Legion in the French army. In
1919, Armenian General Boghos Nubar boasted that Armenians had contributed
over 200,000 troops to Allied armies.
Turks paid the price of this new invasion with their blood. Armenian
militias roamed the countryside, butchering Turkish villagers. Rape,
murder, torture, robbery were all crimes committed by these Armenian
militants. Sometimes the bodies were thrown into the river, sometimes into
a well. In the Hakmehmet village of Igdir, over 90 bodies were dug out of
one such well. Oftentimes, they were dumped in mass graves, after having
been shot execution-style or burned in ovens. The sanctity of mosques was
violated with their use as stables to house their horses, and over 1
million Turks were forced to flee for their lives into Central Anatolia. In
fact, there were more Turkish refugees due to Armenian violence, than there
were relocated Armenians. Turkey was a tinderbox that burst into flames, as
inter-communal fighting broke out all across the nation.
Had not the Turkish Liberation Movement, led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, been
successful in driving out the invading British, French, Greek, and Armenian
forces, eastern and southern Turkey would have been cleansed of their
majority Turkish population, not unlike the way the Turks were driven out
of the Balkans in 1912-1913. Indeed, the 1919 King-Crane report openly
mentioned that the creation of an Armenian state would require “convicing”
the Turkish majority to migrate elsewhere, leaving the Armenians in
majority. France also brought thousands of Armenians into southern Turkey,
deporting tens of thousands of Turks, to try to artificially create an
Armenian majority in Cilicia.
At the end of the day, Ottoman archives reflect that over 500,000 Turks
were massacred by Armenians, with over 2.5 million Muslims murdered during
the years of 1914-1923. Armenian deaths for the same period are estimated
at 600,000 – not the 1.5 million that the Armenian lobby claims. Census
data from Ottoman and European sources reflect that the entire Ottoman
Armenian population was not even 1.5 million! Furthermore, many deaths did
not even occur during the relocations, but afterwards, during the bloody
chaotic period that followed Mondros, or were due to disease and
starvation. Yet the Armenian lobby unjustly strives to blame all Armenian
losses on the Ottoman government, completely oblivious of the Armenian
revolution’s own war crimes.
Armenians lost their bid to conquer Anatolia, and since then have been
blaming the Ottoman government for genocide. In fact there is no proof
whatsoever indicating that the government ever ordered the massacre of any
Armenians. In the 1920s, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation even tried
to claim government involvement by presenting fake documents that were
rejected because they were believed to be forgeries.
Now, Armenians are asking my government – the American Government – to
declare that Armenians were victims of genocide. Not only is such a
statement untrue to facts, but insulting to the memory of my forefathers,
who were mercilessly butchered by Armenians. Turkish victims are not less
important than Armenian victims. All humans are equal before God - it would
be a grave mistake for America to remember the Armenian dead, while failing
to remember Turkish dead.
Armenians should not be allowed to manipulate history through political
resolutions. I ask that you not let yourself be made part of politicized
distortion of history, and that you vote against any resolution that aims
to blame the Ottoman government of genocide.
Respectfully Yours,
—————–İkinci Örnek —————————–
The Honorable House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
Fax 202 225 4188
We extend our warmest congratulations on your reelection to the U.S.
Congress and your historic selection to be the Speaker of the House.
As Turkish-Americans, we are grateful for the opportunities this country
provides, but also proud of our rich heritage and culture, and the close
relations between Turkey and the U.S., based on shared values and common
interests. As you undertake your duties and responsibilities, and are asked
to make foreign policy decisions, we hope you will take the following
points into consideration.
Turkey, is a secular democracy, with a free market economy. This makes
Turkey unique among nations with an overwhelmingly Muslim population.
Indeed, having undertaken significant political reforms over the years,
Turkey has now entered the final stage of its integration with the European
Union. Turkey’s progress serves as an inspiration to the countries of the
Broader Middle East and North Africa.
In July 2006, the US and Turkey signed a “Shared Vision Document,” which
outlines a strategic vision for bilateral cooperation and coordination on a
wide range of matters of common concern. It sets a broad agenda between the
two countries to advance their common objectives: the promotion of peace,
democracy, freedom and prosperity.
Turkey, having lost almost 30,000 lives over 15 years to terrorism, has
always emphasized the importance of genuine international cooperation in
combating terrorism in all its manifestations on a worldwide scale. In
Afghanistan Turkey assumed command of the International Security Assistance
Force two times. In Iraq, Turkey was the only Muslim country to authorize
sending up to 10,000 troops to Iraq (October 2003). Turkey has made its
base at Incirlik available as a transit point for American troops in Iraq
returning to the United States. Turkey also granted the US over flight
rights for attack strikes, and also is helping significantly in the
re-supply of coalition troops.
On Cyprus, while it was the Turkish Cypriots who voted for reunification of
the island, it was the Greek Cypriot side which became a member of the EU.
Yet economic and political sanctions against Turkish Cypriots continue. We
seek your consideration of this inequity.
Here in the U.S., Turkish Americans have become an indispensable element of
American society. We have rapidly integrated into our communities, working
for the betterment of our country in every way, while promoting our
culture, which enriches the diversity of our great nation.
Please be aware that numerous House, Senate or Joint “Armenian Genocide”
resolutions have been introduced in Congress since 1983, charging that
Ottomans perpetrated “genocide” against Armenians in the beginning of the
20th Century. None have passed the Congress. We hope that if and when you
will be asked to sign letters, make statements, or cosponsor legislation on
this issue, you will consider all sides before making all decisions.
Turkish Americans believe that it is historians, not Congress who should
decide what happened so many years ago. In 2003 Turkish Prime Minister
Tayyip Erdogan proposed a joint commission be established to study the
facts based on the archives of many nations. The Armenians rejected the
proposal, prefer to push through a one sided view that would seriously
damage U.S.-Turkish relations.
We will be glad to direct you to resources that provide a balanced view on
this difficult period of history. We would like the opportunity to discuss
all the issues affecting U.S.-Turkish relations. We would be very honored
to meet with you and kindly request to schedule a visit to your office in
Washington DC.
Sincerely,
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