Recognizing the Armenian Genocide is important from a human rights perspective, Chairman of the House Rules Committee Jim McGovern said in an interview to NPR. 

Asked by NPR’s Michel Martin, why does recognizing the Armenian Genocide matter, he said: “Well, this matters because it’s the first time that the House of Representatives has unequivocally stated the facts of what happened in Armenia and called it a genocide.”

“You know, for a long time, various administrations have used euphemisms to describe what happened in Armenia. I mean, they call it a mass atrocity or something like that. But this calls it what it is. It is a genocide, and it is the right thing for us to do,” he said.

The congressman also noted that “when you don’t acknowledge what has happened – and in this case, a genocide – it paves the way for other authoritarian leaders, other dictators to – you know, to also commit genocide. So this is something important to do from a human rights perspective.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) continues to rally support for the Armenian Genocide Resolution, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Armenian Caucus Co-Chair Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) stated that they expected consideration of H.Res. 296, the Armenian Genocide Resolution, to take place. In an interview with NPR, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Engel noted that in addition to sanctioning Turkey for its actions in Northern Syria, a bill on the Armenian Genocide was also under consideration. “So we’re going to have a Turkey sanctions bill and we’re going to have an Armenian Genocide bill.

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Both of which I’m sure the Government of Turkey is not happy with, but then again we’re not happy with the Government of Turkey,” Chairman Engel said. In a Helsinki Commission hearing this afternoon, Armenian Caucus Co-Chair Pallone also indicated that the Armenian Genocide resolution was “very likely” to be considered next week. “I know that might not seem to be the topic today, but I think it’s also something that needs to be done in order to talk about the terrible history that Armenians faced over a hundred years ago,” Pallone stated. This past week, Representative Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) sent a “Dear Colleague” letter urging support of the resolution, as did Reps. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) calling for its immediate passage. H.Res. 296 was introduced this April by Reps. Schiff and Bilirakis along with Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Peter King (R-NY), and Jackie Speier (D-CA), and has 112 co-sponsors to date. During the Assembly’s 2019 National Advocacy Conference last month, Armenian Americans from across the U.S. met with Members of Congress and urged its adoption.  Congress has also been calling out President Erdogan for his violence against the Kurds and Christian minorities in northern Syria this month, and Members have drawn parallels between the current Turkish government’s actions and the Ottoman Empire’s atrocities against Armenians and other minority populations in 1915. 

Albio Sires (D-NJ) stated: “These actions are particularly concerning given Turkey’s historical precedent of eliminating minority groups that it perceives as a threat, as it did during the Armenian Genocide.” Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) said: “100 years ago, 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered in what is now Turkey. For decades, the US has refused to officially acknowledge that first modern genocide out of fear of alienating Turkey. Clearly, it’s past time we stop worrying about Turkey’s feelings & pass H.Res. 296.” “Not only should we have sanctions against Turkey. It’s also time that we formally recognize the Armenian genocide,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said on CNN. “This latest assault on vulnerable ethnic groups demonstrates the need for Congress to unequivocally affirm the Armenian Genocide and adopt the resolutions pending in the House and Senate,” Assembly Executive Director Bryan Ardouny said. “In order to prevent future genocides, we must not allow Turkey to continue to export its denial of the genocide and try to erase America’s role in helping save the survivors,” he added.
Established in 1972, the Armenian Assembly of America is the largest Washington-based nationwide organization promoting public understanding and awareness of Armenian issues. The Assembly is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt membership organization. 

GLENDALE — The Armenian National Committee of America–Western Region and the American Hellenic Council signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation during a special ceremony on Monday, signaling a new chapter of even deeper and more institutionalized relations between the two organizations.

The ceremony took place at the ANCA-WR headquarters in Glendale, with ANCA Western Region Chairperson Nora Hovsepian, Esq. and AHC President James Dmitriou, PhD signing the document that went into effect immediately.

The Memorandum recognizes the historic relations between the Armenian and Hellenic communities, accentuates the importance of collaboration and mutual understanding, and commits both communities to ensure comprehensive cooperation.

“The signing of this Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation elevates our relationship with the AHC to a deeper institutional level,” remarked ANCA-WR Chair Nora Hovsepian, Esq. “Our nations have lived side by side for millennia, and we’re codifying both traditional as well as novel areas for our extensive collaboration, taking our advocacy work to new heights.”
“We look forward to the great opportunity for the AHC to work with ANCA in a common commitment for justice and respect for the rule of law,” said Dr. Jim Dimitriou, AHC Chairman. “Turkey must not be allowed to continue to violate international treaties and law. The Greek and Armenian people share a long and turbulent history and now share a common purpose. We must stand united against a Turkish rogue regime that violates human rights, internationally recognized territorial borders while promulgating continual threats and violations against its neighbors.” 
He added, “Our time is now! The opportunity is great. The value is justice, and in the words of Plato, ‘Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.’”
Following this memorandum, both AHC and ANCA-WR have agreed to continue in collaboration to undertake joint advocacy measures and public education initiatives promoting human rights, peace, and the rule of the law, and continue their commitment in seeking justice for the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Genocide.

In recent years, both groups have worked tirelessly to fight for truth and justice for the Genocide of 1915 and have garnered the support of elected officials from all throughout the western U.S.

Moving forward, the parties will also undertake joint activities and initiatives aimed at genocide education; divestment from Turkish government bonds, justice for the cultural and civilizational destruction in Nakhijevan by Azerbaijani authorities; just and enduring reunification of Cyprus; international recognition of Artsakh; and a number of other priorities.
The close collaboration between ANCA-WR and AHC stretches back many years, as both organizations have already worked on a number of joint projects, most notably on seeking truth and justice for the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish government.

The American Hellenic Council is a non-partisan political advocacy organization. Its goal is to promote democracy, human rights, peace, and stability in Southern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, with an emphasis on Greece and Cyprus, by informing the American public and the government about on-going issues and conflicts in the area.

The Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region is the largest and most influential nonpartisan 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.

Peter Musurlian,

WHEN THE BLOOD MONEY DRIES UP, DOES THE GENOCIDE DENIAL SOFTEN?
In 1998, Rep. Bob Livingston (R-Louisiana) almost became Speaker of the House. A personal scandal derailed that inevitability. He abruptly quit Congress.
From 2000 to 2008, Livingston was the highest-paid lobbyist for Turkey in America. He made millions of dollars successfully killing Armenian Genocide Resolutions. 
On September 21, 2019, Globalist Films spotted Livingston at the D.C. funeral of journalist Cokie Roberts. With an iPhone recording, the 76-year-old millionaire was politely asked if he still thinks there was no Armenian Genocide. 
THE RESPONSE IS STRAIGHT FROM THE SWAMP.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzIRtqD5xAsPeter Musurlianwww.GlobalistFilms.com

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Turkish president Erdogan a liar and reminded him of Turkey’s crimes, including the Armenian Genocide.

His comments came in response to the statement made by Erdogan during a meeting with a group of Turkish citizens and Muslims at a meeting in New York.

“When we look at the Nazi genocide against Jews, we look at the massacre in the Gaza Strip from the same perspective,” Erdogan said.

By Harut Sassounian,

This is part IV (final-part) of the letter exchange between the two historic
figures Armin Wegner and Franz Werfel.

Armin Wegner wrote to Franz Werfel: “Of course, I do not know your own
connection with Asia Minor, and I can be fooled by guessing it. Strangely,
I have found that the Jewish soul, in the frame of German and Prussian
characters, makes them better able to imagine than the majority of German
poets can, that this Asian soul usually stands much further away and stays
more alien to the descendant of the European crusaders. This probably has
its deep foundation in the law of antagonism.

I have no right to ask you to give up your project. That probably
wouldn’t help much either. But you will certainly not be grateful to
me if I, who from the first moment of our meeting, passionately loved

and venerated your poetic work, ask you to consider all my thoughts,
which I submit to you here. Precisely because I appreciate you, not
only as a writer, but I also know the depth of your humanity, I can do
so with a clear conscience. Perhaps it will cause you to drop an
unfinished project that has barely begun, or to go beyond to design a
shorter novelistic study, as it originally began?
I need not emphasize the immense gratitude and the deep reassurance

that would fulfill me, having the opportunity to complete and market
my work without fear of competition. Truly, I cannot give up my
project, which has become my mission from my deepest, profound
experience, for which I have sacrificed laborious years of toil under

the greatest hardships and struggles, and for the sake of it, stood in
the background for so long.”

Werfel responded on Dec. 23, 1932 from Vienna: “Let me first briefly
tell you the story of the formation of my Armenian novel. Since the
war, I have been to the Middle East twice (for several months) – the
first time in 1925, the second time in 1929. In Damascus, I had a
shocking experience with Armenian children, which, to some extent,
made an epic plan virulent in me, which already existed since I first

heard of these things; perhaps just after the war. I do not know for
exactly how long. Oftentimes, in my method of writing, the dramatic or
epic plans grow in the darkness for many years before they are strong
enough to entice me to work. (I wrote the Verdi novel part time in
1911 and completed it in 1923.) In the case of my Armenian novel, I
started studying and sketching only last year. Of course, the work

progressed rapidly during the summer, and today I have already
finished more than half of my book. (around 400 printed pages.)
Be that as it may, I naturally like to acknowledge your primary
concern and bow to you for being an eyewitness. However, I am almost
reluctant to point out that there is no material legitimacy in the
field of poetry [creative writing]. You indicate it several times in
your letter. There are, perhaps, ‘personal’ substances that may belong

to the peculiarity of a particular writer – the World War, with all
its chapters, of which the Armenian tragedy is one, may by no means
count on these substances. Fairly considered, you have in your great
experience and your fateful connectedness, a tremendous advantage over
me, who cannot create his work based on experience, direct exposure,
grasp of senses, but only from imagination, inventiveness and thus
some historical documents. With such a competition, therefore, the

worry should be far more on my side.
But I believe, dear Wegner, that we can both be very calm, because our
works will certainly be completely different. Mine uses documented
facts of only one single episode that covers a few pages in the Alster
collection of Lepsius. The episode serves me as the framework for a
universal human happening, for a symbolic development, for figures
purely invented, it is not an end in itself but only an occasion. Nor

will there be much talk of atrocities and massacres in my book. I will
set aside all the documentary stuff. The human destiny of the invented
characters alone will be important. The scene I am referring to, the
contents of which have become known to you through the newspapers, has
very little to do with the actual novel. The scene I am referring to,
the contents of which have become known to you through the newspapers,
has very little to do with the actual novel. A multi-volume work like

yours will project a gigantic and magnificent painting of the Armenian
destiny, with ten thousand details. While mine, I hope, will be a
story limited to a certain region and a small fragment of people. The
emphasis will be more on the mythical-human side rather than the

Armenian cause.
Lastly, I am surprised about the muffled suspicion that sounds from
certain lines of your letter.
You are suggesting that I had heard of your correspondence with the
Prussian Academy and Paul Zsolnay Publishing House, and might have
been inspired to write my Armenian novel. In fact, I entered the
meeting room of the Poets Academy for the first time in my life
fourteen days ago, and, as far as publishing correspondence is
concerned, my own stuff is already annoying enough.
But is it possible that you seriously believe that the facts of your

work could stimulate my choice of substance and put you off your work?
You are a poet and, therefore, you know that it is not us who choose
the substance, but the substance chooses us. Nothing is more sensible
to me than that everything I write is essential, i.e., dictated from
within.

Until yesterday, from your books I had only the beautiful volume ‘The
Face of the Cities,’ which I admire and love very much. Unfortunately,
I haven’t read any of your prose. Since I work a lot, I read almost no
novels or short stories. I just got the mail with your open letter to

Wilson. The real glow of your words deeply moved me.
Please do not overestimate the rivalry of our works. They go different ways.
For me, and globally, you are a great authority on the Armenian cause,
through knowledge, experience, and connectedness. This was shown to me
in just the few pages I went through yesterday. The glow of these
pages, however, also suggests that your publisher cannot be unhappy,
even when another, be it a layman or artist, tries to serve the same
mission.”

Fortunately, Franz Werfel was not dissuaded by Wegner to give up his
plans to write “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.” On the other hand,
Wegner published only the first volume of his planned four-volume
book, depriving the world of his precious eyewitness accounts of the

Armenian Genocide.

Turkish ethnographer professor Makhturk

Turkish ethnographer professor Makhturk broke the theory about his own people.

June 26, 2019

The process of globalization has destroyed the walls of many bans and instilled in many peoples the spirit of freedom, raised them to fight for their rights. Many countries fell apart: USSR, Yugoslavia. Now Iraq is moving towards this. Globalization threatens the perception of ethnic identity. The process of globalization has both positive and negative sides. It is negative that this process can destroy family, religious traditions, and turn the world into a faceless monotonous mass, which can be easily controlled. I, as the son of the Turkish people, have always internally protested against this. Especially after Europe demanded that Turkey amend the 301 article of our legislation. But it has changed a lot in my life.

I am an ethnographer, and for decades studied ancient and modern architecture, songs and dances, national costumes, everyday life, wedding ceremonies, funeral rituals, cuisine, internal and external features of the construction of Turkish houses, etc. He studied everything that was associated with the Turkish people.

I have experienced pride in the culture of my people many times. But I, as a scientist, must transfer this knowledge and culture to the younger generation so that it does not fall under the influence of a foreign culture or anticulture. Therefore, I wanted to know: who we are – the modern Turks, where did they come from and where are we going?

And I, as a true patriot, decided to go to the homeland of my ancestors – to Central Asia and the Altai Territory, to Russia, to see where my ancestors, Seljuks, Oguzes and Turkmen, came to Anatolia in the 12th century. I wanted to get acquainted with the roots of the Turkish people, with the history of their culture, life, traditions, language, family relationships, etc. I wanted to build bridges between the Turks of Turkey and the Turkic-speaking peoples, and to focus their eyes on our common roots. At that time it seemed to me that we are two parts of one people and should have much in common. Our brothers living in Central Asia and Altai lived monotonously on their lands. Of course, during the Soviet period they were subjected to cultural expansion and losses for 70-80 years. But, another thing is 800 years old when we, the Turkish Turks, were biologically separated from our native biological field. For centuries we have lived in a new civilization field, and foreign culture has had a strong influence on our cultural development. Settling is the main influence of the Aborigines on the Seljuks.

Ethnographers know that in order to study and learn the originality of any nation, you need to go to deaf villages where people have not been influenced by time – urbanization, westernization, globalization, etc. Fortunately for the ethnographer, such places are preserved in Central Asia. Of course, not entirely in its pure form, but still a lot of information has been preserved, which gives us an idea of ​​the life, traditions, customs, etc. of the Turkish-speaking peoples from a scientific point of view. I was amazed how we – the Turks of Anatolia – are not like them either externally, or in everyday life, or in their behavior. There is nothing in common that could characterize us as peoples having a single racial affinity. After studying all the information and rich material, I came to the conclusion that the people living in Central Asia and Altai, belonging to the Turkic group, are anthropologically Mongoloids, and we, the inhabitants of Anatolia, belonging to the Turkic group are Caucasians. Of course, in Turkey there are Mongoloid Anatolian Turks, but they are a minority. Then the question arises: if we do not belong to a single anthropological and racial type, then how can we say that we are kindred peoples? And some politicians and people of art call us, exaggerating, blood brothers, despite our external dissimilarity, which can be seen with the naked eye. Some historians explain our Europeism by mixing with Armenians, Greeks, Slavs, etc.

But this sounds unconvincing, because when mixing, some of the characteristics of the texture are preserved, such as, for example, mulattoes and half-breeds. When I returned to Turkey, I decided to find the descendants of those Turkic tribes that 800 years ago came from Altai to Anatolia. I began my travels in Turkey, but from a new perspective on our history. I tried to find common features of the Turkic-speaking peoples. He compared the frets of musical instruments, the construction of melodies, dances, national costumes, rites, customs, and fairy tales. In a word – everything that characterizes the features of a race, nation, tribe. There were no similarities! And I realized that we are not Turks! It was a terrible shock for me. I was tormented by the question: if we are not Turks, then who are we? And who are the Turks? Studying both Turkish sources and works, and foreign ones (we have not had the opportunity to use foreign sources and works for a long time), I will briefly tell the story of how the Turks appeared in Anatolia.

In the 12th century, from the Altai and Central Asia, some Turkic tribes, known in history as ak koyun, kara koyun, oguz, and others, did not find any means of subsistence in their steppes either for themselves or for their sheep, moved to the southeast. The raids on Chinese lands began. And this forced the Chinese to build a huge wall in order to isolate themselves from the Turkic raids and any external influence. After building the Chinese wall, it became impossible for the Turks to survive there, and they moved to Iran, to the Armenian Highlands and to Asia Minor.

Our official historiography represents the Ottoman Empire in a very positive way. Our textbooks are crammed with the ideas of the great Turan, patriotism, pride. Television shows the history of the Ottoman Empire so beautifully that you don’t think about authenticity. And filled with pride for their ancestors. So we write. And what other nations wrote about the formation of our state was unknown to us, and any attempts to use the works of foreign authors or foreign sources were very risky. But now, the Internet has appeared, and all the information has become easily accessible. And what I found in foreign sources shocked me. The first is hatred of the Turks. I was hurt and offended by the words of the great Frenchman, Victor Hugo, about the Turks: “Where you see destruction, death, robbery and violence, you know, the Turks passed there.” But more and more I tend to think that Hugo was right.

From the day the Seljuk Turks settled in Asia Minor and the Armenian Highlands, they began to have problems with demographics. After numerous wars and losses, a young, just-formed state could be left without soldiers and lose its statehood. They understood that the self-reproduction of the army in a natural way is no longer real. Then they solved this problem in another way. The fastest way to replenish your army is to pick up the children of your subjects.
Otrigivanie Christian peoples living in Turkey, was very cruel. Many Christians – Greeks, Armenians, Slavs, Assyrians – could not pay huge taxes of that period. The state, besides natural products, also took money, while the peasants did not have cash. Trade was made by the method of commodity exchange. Christians who could not pay taxes were physically abused or executed, and children and wives were taken instead of taxes. Many were forced to convert to Islam. Increasingly, Christians left the country. On the other hand, over time, many became Turkish-speaking, and after some time – by the Turks.

All these facts have long been known to all, but not to the residents of Turkey. For the slightest deviation from the official course of interpretation of history, the authorities punish severely. Their principle: about the Ottoman Empire, either well or not at all.
The policy of mass cultivation of the peoples of Turkey had and has great political significance for both the Seljuks, the Ottomans and the Turkish Republic. For the revival of the ethnic identity of the autochthonous peoples of Asia Minor and the Armenian Highlands will lead to the death of Turkey.

I do not say that there are no pure-blooded Turks in Turkey. Of course they are. Today, the heirs of Seljuks and Turkmen – relatively purebred Mongoloid Turks – live in some parts of Turkey. Naturally, they could not completely disappear.

Honestly, I don’t want to indicate the places of their compact residence, because they are not to blame for being the descendants of the Seljuks, and they should not be responsible for the cruel acts of their ancestors. We are citizens of one country, and if one of our fellow citizens recognizes, accepts and respects their roots in the way of ethnic self-identification, honors the memory of their ancestors, then he is free to choose ethnicity. This idea may seem ridiculous or provocative to many, because in us sits a huge fear-like monster. This fear, which has passed on to us from our fathers and grandfathers, still lives in our subconscious.

In my opinion, now there are other times. The time has come to throw off this burden of fear and face the truth. This truth is to regain its original roots. Today, in Turkey, everything from the highest ranks to ordinary citizens has the problem of ethnic identity.

Many will ask: why am I talking about ethnic identification right now? I will answer. Recently, more and more, and more boldly, they began to talk about the genocide of the Armenian people, as well as about the genocides of the Greek, Assyrian and even Kurdish peoples. In our circles there are more and more people who do not hide their Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Slavic roots. The story of Fatie Cetina shook the whole of Turkey. And how many more such Armenian girls who were forcibly kidnapped during their deportation and then recast …

I appeal to my compatriots. My dear, write your family history, write honestly and compassionately, with a sense of responsibility. The souls of our ancestors are restless and roam the vast expanses of the universe. They changed religion to save their family, children and grandchildren. Otherwise, there would be no us. The memory of our ancestors requires a return to our roots.

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