ANKARA'S HOPELESS DOLLAR TRANSFUSIONS NO MATCH TO THE
ARMENIANS' SHIELD OF TRUTH
25-05-2006 15:50:00 | USA | Articles and Analyses
Armenian Americans, Friends Put Their Money Where Their
Mouth Is
By Appo K. Jabarian
Executive Publisher/Managing Editor
USA Armenian Life Magazine
Ever since the announcement of the planned May 18 voting on
the proposed French law on penalizing the denial of the Armenian
Genocide, the denialist Turkish leadership in Ankara resorted to
an unprecedented political attack. The Turkish denialist
offensive against France was multi-pronged. Never before since
its name-change from the "Ottoman Turkish Empire" to the
"Republic of Turkey" in 1922, the denialist masters in Ankara
were so hyper-active in their desperate efforts to suppress the
facts of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923.
In order to defeat the proposed French law, Turkey outspent
its opponents by leaps and bound. Contrary to Turkish
expectations, the Parliament of France simply postponed the
voting till November.
A few days before the postponement of the French voting,
Harut Sassounian, the Publisher of The California Courier, in an
article titled "Turkey Declares Diplomatic War on France on
Armenian Genocide Law," unmasked the imminent danger of ultimate
Turkish failure to secure a lasting international cover-up of
the facts of the Armenian Genocide.
As the news of the postponement emerged, denialist Turks
began celebrating this mistaken "quasi victory". No sooner than
their uneasy celebrations begun, Sassounian's lucid comments and
observations about the entire affair began making in-roads in
several political circles.
Sassounian foresaw: "Even if this law is not adopted this
week by the French Parliament, the bullying behavior exhibited
once again by the Turkish government on this occasion, would
surely further erode its low standing in the eyes of the
European public. A country that uses threats and boycotts
against its future partners cannot then turn around and ask for
their support to gain entry into the European Union."
Sassounian concluded: "Furthermore, thanks to the Turkish
overreaction to this proposed law, Ankara has once again managed
to do something Armenians could never have accomplished on their
own: it has placed the Armenian Genocide issue on the front
pages of newspapers around Europe and indeed around the world.
The only thing that would top this in the future is if the
Turkish government would repeat its erratic behavior in many
more countries. Should that happen, Turkey would withdraw its
ambassadors from several countries, cancel all trade, boycott
foreign products, and become an isolated pariah state - a
fitting punishment for a denialist regime!"
The impact of Sassounian's well-guided views was felt not
only in Paris and Ankara but also in many distant places and
circles around the world. One such circle was the "Armenian
Listserv" emanating out of the University of Michigan.
Several Turkish members along with few non-Turkish
crony-members of the "Armenian Listserv" administered by Turkish
Prof. Muge Gocek, resorted to an attempt to psychologically
encircle Sassounian, a fellow member. Their desperate attempts
were driven by their desire to subdue and eventually silence
Sassounian, an Armenian American writer who is respected by
literally tens of thousand of readers worldwide for being guided
by clarity and courage.
It is no surprise at all, that a writer who sheds
much-needed light on the dark pages of a denialist government in
Ankara would create great unease not only among its members but
also among the righteous Turks who are torn between their urge
to speak out in favor of the truth, on the one hand, and the
fact that they are voluntary or involuntary preys at the hands
of the Turkish denialist machine in Ankara, on the other.
It is interesting to see how long more these "Armenian
listserv" members will carry on with their psychological
offensive. Will their attacks succeed in intimidating Sassounian
into submission? Will they be able to eventually silence
Sassounian? To my knowledge, both questions will definitely land
decisive "no" answers.
It is no secret that the Turkish denialist leadership is
fighting tooth and nail to avert a near-total political
encirclement by Armenians, Greeks, Kurds, Assyrians, Arabs, and
others. They know very clearly that a political encirclement
will ultimately usher in economic encirclement. See? It's not
the "G" word -Genocide- that the denialists detest the most but
the "D" word-Disintegration.
Several righteous Turks privately confide that to let
Turkey's future in the hands of the denialist hard-line leaders
in Ankara would be suicidal for the Turkish people. They are
striving to avert a political adventure that was started by the
now-infamous criminal triumvirate Talaat-Enver-Jemal.
The righteous Turks complain that, had the 1915-23 Turkish
leadership acted wisely and not resorted to genocidal ethnic
cleansing of the indigenous Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians,
today's region would have been home to various sovereign
republics cordially co-existing in contentment. The criminal
Turkish triumvirate of 1915 missed an immense opportunity to
live and let the Armenians live on ancestral lands of Western
Armenia. And the result proved to be disastrous for the
Armenians and the Turks.
It is yet to be seen if today's Turkish denialist leaders
squander away new opportunities to voluntarily respect the
Armenian people's birthright to live, let others live and to
prosper on ancestral lands.
No Justice, No Peace
And now, with the way the current political climate is
continuously poisoned by the denialist Turks, and in the absence
of justice, no peace will prevail. The denialist descendants of
the Turkish perpetrators can do well to realize that the
genocidal objectives by Talaat et al. were not realized. The
victims are not completely annihilated.
Of the 1915 total worldwide Armenian population of nearly
seven million, five and one half million survived. And today
they number anywhere from 12 to 15 million. Their number is
growing and certainly they will not go away.
And to make matters even worst for denialist Ankara, just a
few days ago, the nearly two million Armenian Americans and
friends put their money where their mouth is. Collectively they
have raised over $2.7 million, in little over than six hours,
for the specific purpose to even more actively pursue their
Cause through the timely efforts of the Armenian National
Committee of America. True, this amount is no match for the
hundreds of million spent by Ankara to obstruct justice for
Armenians. However, Ankara's artificial life-support system that
is constantly bailed out by hopeless dollar transfusions is no
match to the Armenians' shiny shield of truth either!