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 TCA Deplores HFAC Vote on H.Res. 252
March 4, 2010, Washington, DC - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) sent a signal to the world that the US is willing to sacrifice one of its most important, long-term strategic relationships for short-sighted political gains driven by an ethnic lobby. The Committee members who have voted for the Resolution have ignored their primary mandates of resolving the immediate and pressing concerns in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and other troubled parts of the world, and voted to waste the taxpayers’ time and money on a resolution that will alienate a key ally and trading partner.
H.Res.252, like previous incarnations of the so-called “Armenian genocide” resolution, should never have been on the docket of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congress is neither the ‘conscience’ of the world, nor its historian. There are significant errors in the version of history that Congress is trying to legislate, and the passage of H.Res.252 will bury the truth under a mound of politics. [read] |
TCA RAISES PUBLIC AWARENESS ON H.RES. 252
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New Scholarship Disputes Armenian "Genocide" Narrative
The following recent articles published on Armenian-Ottoman history demonstrate the inappropriateness of legislating history, as H.Res.252 intends to do. This history has neither been fully researched, nor authoritatively written. H.Res.252 does injustice to the diversity of scholarship on this issue in favor of endorsing a defect and biased narrative. TCA renews its support for the establishment of an independent historical commission to examine this painful chapter in Turkish-Armenian history and invites all interested parties and particularly the United States Congress and Administration to fully support the formation of this commission.
- NORMAN STONE, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford and head of the Russian-Turkish Institute at Bilkent University, Author of The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 and World War One: A Short History.
Bad Things Happen When Empires Fall Apart, The Times Online, March 8, 2010.
- ERMAN SAHIN, Independent Researcher, Ankara, Turkey. Review Essay: The Armenian Question, Middle East Policy Council Journal, Spring 2010
- EDWARD J. ERICKSON, Associate Professor of Military History, Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University.
Captain Larkin and the Turks: The Strategic Impact of the Operations of HMS Doris in Early 1915, Middle Eastern Studies Journal, January 2010. See also: The Armenians and Ottoman Military History, 1915, War in History, 2008-15.
- JEREMY SALT, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science at Bilkent University Ankara, Author of Imperialism, Evangelism and the Ottoman Armenians 1878-1896.
Forging the Past: OUP and the 'Armenian question', Eurasia Critic, January 2010.
- STEPHEN KINZER, Former NYT Bureau Chief to Istanbul, Author of Crescent and Star.
Genocide Vote Harms US-Turkey Ties, The Guardian, March 5, 2010.
To read more from scholars, who dispute the one-sided narrative of this history, click here.
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Below ad was paid for by the TCA and published in the The Hill, Politico and Roll Call newspapers on March 3, 2010.
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The Case Against U.S. Recognition of Armenian Genocide
The Atlantic Wire, March 4, 2010
Congress should do its job
Galveston County, March 3, 2010
Dissing an Ally
The Hill, March 3, 2010
Genocide Vote Unneeded
Rockford Register Star, March 3, 2010
Congress wasting time on genocide resolution
The Citizen, March 3, 2010
It's not up to Congress to write history of Turkey and Armenia
NJVoices, March 3, 2010
Don’t write history, Congress
Inside NOVA, March 2, 2010
Congress should do its job, not write history
The StarPress, March 2, 2010
Oppose Resolution
Nortwest Herald, March 2, 2010
Congress Shouldn't write history
Charlotte Sun, March 2, 2010
A Waste of Washinton's Time
Journal Standard, March 1, 2010
Once again, quest for Armenian genocide resolution begins
McClatchy, February 19, 2010
Armenian, Turkish groups react to protocols
The Hill, October 10, 2009 |
 Top Commanders in Afghanistan: Turkish Presence is a Model
The top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal hailed Turkey’s role in Afghanistan during a meeting with visiting Turkish reporters. Praising Brigadier General Levent Çolak, the top Turkish commander in Afghanistan and current commander of the ISAF force that is guarding Kabul [ read] |
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 TCA Partnered with Spelman College in Atlanta, GA
TCA partnered with Spelman College-the nation’s leading historically black female institution of higher education – to introduce a unique perspective to its celebration of Black History Month by hosting an event exploring African American-Turkish connections pioneered by Ahmet Ertegun and James Baldwin. [ read] |
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