Bugün emailime geldi. Aralık 4 yani bugün CNN’de yayınlanacak Ermeni Soykırımı Yalanı haberine hep birlikte tepki gösterelim.
4/12/2008
Degerli Vatandaslarim, Soydaslarim ve Dernek Uyelerimiz,
4 Aralik 2008 tarihinde, CNN, sozde Ermeni soykiriminida iceren “Screamed Bloody Murder” adli bir belgesel yayinlayacaktir. Ermeni diasporasinin, baskilarina boyun egemeyen CNN’e acil programin durdurulmasini belirten bir protesto kampanya baslatmis bulunuyoruz.
Turk-Amerikan Dernekleri Federasyonu olarak, gerekli calismalar baslamistir.Asagida belirttigim kontak bilgilerine hem email ile hemde telefon ile programin durdurulmasi icin cagrida bulunmasini rica ediyorum. Yazdigimiz ornek mektuplardan biri de asagidadir.
Mark Nelson: CNN Vice President and Senior Executive Producer for Editorial. Email: mark.nelson@turner.com; Telephone: (404) 827-1500.
Kathy Slobogin: CNN Special Projects Managing Editor, Email: kathy.slobogin@turner.com ; Telephone: (202) 515-2939. Fax: (202) 898-7932.
Rick Davis: CNN Executive Vice President of News Standards and Practices; Telephone Email: rick.davis@turner.com , Telephone (202) 898-7900;
Ayrica,
Sözde Ermeni soykirimi iddialarina yer verilen ve tarihimizi karalamaya çalisan belgeselle ilgili CNN ve Amanpour’a tepkinizi iletmek için buraya tiklayarak http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?101 konuyla ilgili görüs¸ ve düsüncelerinizi dile getirebilirsiniz.
Lütfen mesaji uye, dost ve arkadaslarinizla paylasin.
Saygilarimla
Kaya Boztepe
TADF Baskani
Dear …………,
As a loyal CNN viewer, I never thought I would be writing a such letter but I guess there is a first for everything.
On behalf of the Federation of Turkish American Associations, I am writing to condemn CNN for its decision to broadcast a two-hour special report titled “Screamed Bloody Murder” that will include a discussion about “So-Called Armenian Genocide” on December 4, 2008.
I am also aware that CNN Chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour had recently an interview with heavy coverage of Armenian-American community news, the Armenian Reporter. “We have profiled individuls,” Ms. Amanpour told the Armenian Reporter in an interview, “who have had the courage to stand up and tell their governments what was going on and how it needed to be stopped.”Ms. Amanpour said, “One of the people we look back on is Raphael Lemkin, who . . . coined the term genocide specifically after the Armenian Genocide and put that word right there in our vocabulary and lobbied very, very hard for the Convention that would define that word.”
Does CNN and her International Correspondent know that considering the complexity of the issue and lack of credible information on the claims regarding the 1915 events the Turkish Government actively encouraged collaborative efforts to study these events? Recently, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan proposed the establishment of a joint commission consisting of Turkish and Armenian scholars which will be tasked with studying these tragic events. This commission was supposed to have unhindered access to archives both in Turkey and Armenia. However, this proposal was rejected by Armenian government.
Genocide is a legal term. The only legally recognized genocides are the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide. How can CNN Intl Correspondent Christiane Amanpour criminalize denial of a so called genocide that does not even legally and historically exist? As you probably might know according to article 2 of the UN Convention on Genocide of 1948 “there has to be an intension to exterminate a race, ethnic group..”
While there is a clear international law for the term genocide, why don’t Armenians take the so-called case to an international court.
What happened in WWI is that a favored segment of Ottoman society, the Armenians, grew seditious over the course of some thirty years and finally rebelled, joining their nation’s enemies during a war where three superpowers were bent on the extinction of the Ottoman nation. The Ottomans resettled this dangerous community within the impoverished empire, a huge operation undertaken in a hurry without the proper resources and manpower, allowing for some Armenians to get massacred by renegade forces, inasmuch as most died from the same non-murderous reasons the bulk of the 2.7 million other Ottomans died from, as famine and disease. The Armenians lost their gamble. Taking advantage of the tremendous prejudice against Turks in existence among Christian Western nations, the Armenians took their revenge by making a “genocide” out of their tragedy. Such also served as a marvelous way to cover up the Armenians’ own massive ethnic cleansing campaigns.
Why can’t CNN broadcast the other side of the coin?
It is of course no secret that the events in Eastern Anatolia during the WWI remain a controversial issue, with disputing Turkish and Armenian narratives as to the true nature and scope of the events of 1915. Therefore, introducing undue bias on the complex nature of these events through televised narratives would be detrimental to the efforts that are exerted towards establishing an understanding between Turkey and Armenia concerning diverging interpretations of this issue.
I can promise you that broadcasting this “so-called” documentary will result in a substantial loss of support from viewers of CNN. As the President of FTAA, I urge you not to approve the airing of the “Screamed Bloody Murder” that plans to air on December 4th.
Sincerely,
FEDERATION OF TURKISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONS, INC.
821 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212-682 7688, Fax: 646-290 6171
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