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Turkish Intellectuals Who Have Recognized the Reality of the Armenian Genocide Volume II

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Searched and Compiled by Hambersom Aghbashian, 

This book is Volume II of a very important study which sheds light on Armenian and Turkish history. 50 additional Turkish intellectuals (Turkish historians, physicians, artist, human rights activists, journalists and others ) who support justice to Armenians and justice to the world, and have recognized the reality of the Armenian Genocide,  blamed the Ottoman Empire for the perpetrated atrocities, and asked the Turkish government to admit the Armenian Genocide and  apologize for that, and even to make reparations to the victims ancestors, are researched and comprehensively presented by the author. It includes a work, which  puts history in the right perspective and proves the veracity of the Genocide. This is Volume II . Volume I was published in 2015.   

Volume II is also  published by “Nor Or Publishing Association, Inc.” and printed in USA.

For copies contact:
-“Nor Or Publishing Association, Inc.”   (Email: Nor-Or@sbcglobal.net),

-The Author ( Email: hampomg@yahoo.com). 

-https://www.amazon.com

The US Is Furious Turkey Published Location Of US Troops In Syria

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A senior State Department official tells BuzzFeed News that the US has raised “strong concerns” to senior Turkish officials after a report details the location and numbers of US troops in Syria.

John Hudson, BuzzFeed News Reporter

US officials accused Turkey Wednesday of putting US troops at risk after Turkey’s state-owned news agency published the locations of 10 previously secret US military outposts in Syria.

US military officials called the publication a security breach that could endanger US troops, and State Department officials said they’d expressed those concerns to Turkish officials.

“We’ve raised our strong concerns with publication of this information with senior Turkish government officials, as we do any time we have concerns about risks to US military or civilian personnel,” one official told BuzzFeed News.

The list, published Tuesday by the Anadolu news agency, detailed not just the location of US bases in Syria, but also provided the approximate number of US troops at each location – information the US has to date refused to divulge. It also provided information about French troops posted alongside them. Turkish officials verified the accuracy of the Anadolu list to The Daily Beast.

The report said Andalou reporters spotted the bases during reporting trips to Syria. The US military said it has not yet determined the source of the information.

US officials privately interpreted the publication as an expression of Turkey’s anger over the US conduct of its war against ISIS, in particular, the US alliance with Kurdish forces that Turkey says are aligned with separatists who’ve been waging a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state.

The US denies working with the separatists, saying it’s providing support only to the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-created force that consists of both Kurdish and Arab fighters but that is widely acknowledged to be led by the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, a Syrian Kurdish militia the Turks say is an affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or the PKK, the Turkish separatist movement. The PKK has been designated a terrorist organization by the US, the European Union, and Turkey.

The Andalou report gave little credence to US assertions about the SDF’s independence. “Despite the fact that the militants were given SDF uniforms, some of them wear uniforms with banners of Abdullah Ocalan, jailed head of PKK terrorist organization in Turkey,” the report said.

The US has deployed more than 1,000 US troops across Syria to advise, train and provide artillery and aerial support to the SDF push to capture Raqqa, ISIS’s Syrian capital. US officials stressed that they already have robust security measures in place, but the US military has cited security precautions previously in declining to release details of the US deployment.

US Central Command, which is responsible for the US operations in the Middle East, made no effort to disguise its dismay that a supposed ally would release those details.

“We are deeply concerned with any information that exposes coalition forces to unnecessary risk being in the public domain,” Centcom spokesman Army Maj. Josh Jacques told BuzzFeed News. “We generally do not disclose the locations of coalition forces operating in Syria to defeat ISIS due to operational security. We remain focused on maintaining the momentum in the continued annihilation of ISIS.”

The publication marks the latest dip in US-Turkey relations that have been troubled for years over US strategy in Syria. Tens of thousands of ISIS fighters used Turkey as a way station in their journey to Syria, amid allegations that the Turkish government was not doing all it could to stanch the flow.

Additionally, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the US government of protecting a Pennsylvania-based Turkish cleric, Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan blames for last year’s failed coup attempt. Last week, Turkey’s ambassador in Washington told reporters that his government is increasingly frustrated by the slow pace of the US proceedings against Gulen.

“It’s not moving as fast as the Turkish public opinion would like it to move,” Serdar Kılıç said. Meanwhile, the Justice Department has given no indication that it intends to press for Gulen’s extradition to Turkey.

In mid-May, the nations exchanged angry statements over Erdogan’s bodyguards’ beating of demonstrators outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington. Local prosecutors in Washington eventually charged 12 members of Erdogan’s entourage with crimes in connection with the beatings, which were captured on widely viewed video. Nine people were injured in the melee.

Erdogan was in Washington for meetings with President Donald Trump.

Newly published book, Turkish Intellectuals Who Have Recognized the Reality of the Armenian Genocide

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Compiled by Hambersom Aghbashian,

bublished-book-turkish intelicThis book is a study of a very important issue which sheds light on
Armenian and Turkish history. Many Turkish intellectuals (50 Turkish
historians, physicians, artist, human rights activists, journalists and
others ) who support justice to Armenians and justice to the world, and
have recognized the reality of the Armenian Genocide, blamed the
Ottoman Empire for the perpetrated atrocities, and asked the Turkish
government to admit the Armenian Genocide and apologize for that,
and even to make reparations to the victims ancestors, are researched
and comprehensively presented by the author. It includes a work, which
puts history in the right perspective and proves the veracity of the
Genocide. This is part(1) and part (2) will follow.
The book is published by “Nor Or Publishing Association, Inc.” and
printed in USA.
For copies contact the publisher (Email: Nor-Or@sbcglobal.net), or the author
(Email: hampomg@yahoo.com).

Just published Pinar Selek: Because they are Armenians

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selek-2-197x303Just published by Editions Liana Levi’s new book Pinar Selek, because they are Armenians, she said: “My book is a small token. But a cry too. »

April 2015 will mark the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. A black page in Turkish history, still controversial, still taboo. Pinar Selek, born in the 70s, offers a personal narrative, woven memories and encounters … With it, we earn from 

within the meaning build reciting in school slogans proclaiming national superiority, studying lying on textbooks, cutting through a city where Armenian names were erased signs …

Committed sociologist, writer and Turkish activist Pinar Selek was accused of terrorism in 1998 because of his work on minorities (prostitutes, transvestites …), Kurdish militants, the army … who disturb power. She lives for over 16 years a true judicial harassment. Her feminist work, militarism continues in France, where she lived in exile since 2012. She is currently conducting research on space militant Turkish and Armenian diaspora movements at ENS Lyon.

arton107799-475x394Big Table Pinar Selek receives, sociologist, writer and Turkish activist in exile in France since 2011, author of several essays, a novel The House of the Bosphorus (Liana Levi, 2013), with a thesis on the emancipation movements Turkey. She is now a researcher attached to the ENS de Lyon and publishes Because they are Armenians (Editions Liana Levi, February 2015). With philosopher Michel Marian, working for many years on the issue of Armenia, member of the editorial board of the journal Esprit, contributor to magazine News from Armenia and co-author with Ahmet Insel Dialogue on Armenian taboo (Liana Levi, 2009).

Thursday, February 5, 2015,
Jean Eckian © armenews.com

Turkish Foreign Ministry mistakenly publishes ‘Armenian Genocide Monument’ picture

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Sevil Erkuş – sevil.erkus@hurriyet.com.tr
n_77627_1The Turkish Foreign Ministry has “mistakenly” published a picture of an “Armenian Genocide Monument” on an official day planner, prepared to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Çanakkale in World War I.

A picture of the monument in Yerevan is included on the April page of the planner.

A Foreign Ministry official told the Hürriyet Daily News that the picture had been “accidentally included with other photographs.”

An investigation has been launched into the mistake and the individual responsible will be punished, the official said, adding that most of the day planners have yet to be distributed.

The official strongly refuted claims that the picture is part of a new “Armenian opening” on the part of Ankara, stressing that elements of any opening on dialogue with Armenians are delivered either by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.

Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group Publishes Final Report

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res-jusThe final report by the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group offers an unprecedented analysis on the issue of reparations for the Armenian Genocide

YEREVAN—The Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group (AGRSG) has just completed its final report, “Resolution with Justice – Reparations for the Armenian Genocide.” The report offers an unprecedented comprehensive analysis of the legal, historical, political, and ethical dimensions of the question of reparations for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923, including specific recommendations for the components of a complete reparations package.

Prior to formation of the AGRSG in 2007, the limited discourse on reparations for the 1915-1923 Armenian Genocide included abstract notions of territorial return, consideration of particular aspects such as insurance lawsuits, academic and other works focused on a specific part of the overall topic, and sometimes valuable short works treating the issue but without comprehensive or detailed analysis.

The AGRSG was formed in 2007 by four experts in different areas of reparations theory and practice. Their mission was to produce the first systematic, comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the reparations issues raised by the Armenian Genocide. Funded initially by a grant from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun, the AGRSG members are Alfred de Zayas, Jermaine O. McCalpin, Ara Papian, and Henry C. Theriault (Chair). George Aghjayan has served as a special consultant.

After early agreement that some form of repair is an appropriate remedy for the legacy of the Armenian Genocide as it stands today, the AGRSG prepared a preliminary report, which was released for limited distribution in 2009. Completion of the draft was followed by three symposia. The first was a panel discussion featuring three of the report authors, held on May 15, 2010 at George Mason University in the United States, in conjunction with the university’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. The second was a major day-long symposium featuring the four co-authors and a number of other experts on reparations for the Armenian Genocide, conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law through its International Human Rights Law Association, on October 23, 2010. The third was a panel by two of the report authors held in Yerevan, Armenia, on December 11, 2010. The AGRSG is now issuing for broad distribution its final report, an extensive revision and updating of the 2009 preliminary report.

The AGRSG final report remains the only systematic, all-encompassing, in-depth approach to Armenian Genocide Reparations. The report examines the case for reparations from legal, historical, and ethical perspectives (Parts 4, 5, and 6, respectively), offers a plan for a productive reparative process drawing on transitional justice theory and practice (Part 7), and proposes a concrete reparations package (Parts 3 and 8). The report also includes background on the Armenian Genocide (Part 1) and the damages inflicted by it and their impacts today (Part 2). Through its broad dissemination, this report fills a crucial gap in the scholarly work and policy discourse on the Armenian Genocide. It will give Turkish and Armenian individuals as well as civil society and political institutions the information, analysis, and tools to engage the Armenian Genocide issue in a systematic manner that supports meaningful resolution.

The present time is optimal for release of the report. The 100th anniversary year of the beginning of the Genocide, 2015, will see greatly heightened international political, academic, media, artistic, and public interest in the Genocide. In addition, in the past few years, reparations for the Genocide have gone from a marginal concern to a central focus in popular and academic circles. Much of that focus has been on piecemeal individual reparation legal cases. This report represents a decisive step toward a much broader and all-embracing process of repair that is adequate to resolve the extensive outstanding damages of the Genocide. Furthermore, genuine, non-denialist engagement with the legacy of the Genocide is growing in Turkey. Finally, in the past decade, there has emerged a global reparations movement involving numerous victim groups across an array of mass human rights violations. The Armenian case has a place within that movement.

The complete final report will be available in PDF format online. The Executive Summary and Introduction of the final report are already available on the site.

Inquiries about the AGRSG and its report can be directed to Henry Theriault at htheriault@worcester.edu, +1 (508) 929-8612, or Department of Philosophy, Worcester State University, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA 01602, U.S.A.

1. The positions taken and perspectives expressed in the report are those of the AGRSG members alone, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.