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TheForgottenGenocide 21stApril2012 Dear, On 24th April 2012, we’ll remember the 97th year of the 1915 genocide perpetrated by the OttomanEmpireagainstallChristianpeople(Armenians,ArameansandPontianGreeks)living intheOttomanEmpire. Indeedinearly20thCentury,theOttomanEmpiretookthe“opportunity”oftheWWItomakean ethnic‐religiouscleansingtohaveonebighomogenous empirewithonenation:the Turksand onereligion:Islam. This conducted to mass killings of about 2.5 million of Christians: about 1.5 Million of Armenians,about750.000Arameansandabout350.000PontianGreeks. Since then, the successor of the Ottoman Empire, namely the Turkish state never recognized thesecrimesandonlyadmits“somemassacres”duetoWWI. In addition to the denial of the genocide, Turkey has conducted a policy of Turkifying of the region and the remaining Aramean Christians. On the ground this was done by forcing the Aramean(Syriac)ChristianstotakeTurkishfamilynames,bychangingthevillagenames(e.g.in TurabdinallAramean(Syriac)villageschangedtheiroriginalAramaïc‐SyriacnamestoTurkish ones),bybanningthespeakingandteachingoftheAramaiclanguage(spokenbyJesus‐Christ), Christianfaithandculture,etc. ShallweremindherethatTurkeyiswillingtojointheEuropeanUnion? After the fall of the Ottoman Empire (WWI), the Turkish state was established based on the Lausanne (CH) treaty in 1923. This treaty provided rights & protections for all non‐Muslim minoritiesthroughouttheArticles37‐45. Article40oftheTreatyofLausanne;“TurkishnationalsbelongingtoNON‐MUSLIM minorities shall enjoy the same treatment and security [guarantee] in law and in fact as other Turkish nationals. In particular, they shall have an equal right to establish, manage and control at their ownexpense,anycharitable,religiousandsocialinstitutions,anyschoolsandotherestablishments forinstructionandeducation,withtherighttousetheirownlanguageandtoexercisetheirown religionfreelytherein”. ThesearticleswereneverappliedtotheArameans(Syriacs)todate!!! Thereforewecalluponinternationalinstitutions,governmentsandbodiestoofficiallyrecognize the1915genocideagainstallChristianpeopleofthethenOttomanEmpire:Arameans,Pontian GreeksandArmenians. Wealsowouldliketopointoutthatthe“InternationalAssociationofGenocideScholars”(IAGS) recognized this genocide as perpetrated against the 3 Christian people (Arameans, Pontian GreeksandArmenians)inDecember2007. On11thMarch2010,Swedenwasthefirstcountryintheworldtorecognizethe1915genocide asperpetratedagainstthethreeChristianspeople:Arameans,PontianGreeksandArmenians. Wehopethatthisisonlyabeginningandothercountries andInternationalbodieswillfollow the example of the I.A.G.S. and Sweden by recognizing this genocide against the Arameans, PontianGreeksandArmenians. We also would like to stress that we are not against Turkey, nor the Turks. We ask for recognition, justice and memory work like did Germany for the Shoah and France for its collaboration. Yourssincerely, SuleymanGultekin Mobile:+32(0)474.540.744 [email protected] Somereferencesamongalonglist Swedenvoteaboutthe1915genocide YestomotionconnectedtotheMiddleEastandNorthAfrica(UU9) The Riksdag has approved a multi‐party motion containing the demand that Sweden should recogniseasanactofgenocidethekillingofArmenians,Arameans(Assyrians/Syriacs/Chaldeans) and Pontian Greeks in 1915. The Riksdag therefore calls upon the Government to recognise the genocide.… http://www.riksdagen.se/templates/R_PageExtended____21483.aspx InternationalAssociationofGenocideScholars 13 July 2007: IAGS Resolution on Genocides against Assyrians, Greeks, Armenians, and Other ChristiansbytheOttomanEmpire: http://www.genocidescholars.org/images/Resolution_on_genocides_committed_by_the_Ottoma n_Empire.pdf HenryMorgenthau,"TheGreatestHorrorinHistory,"RedCrossMagazine,March1918 "Will the outrageous terrorising, the cruel torturing, the driving of women into the harems, the debauchery of innocent girls, the sale of many of them at eighty cents each, the murdering of hundredsofthousandsandthedeportationto,andstarvationin,thedesertsofotherhundredsof thousands,thedestructionofhundredsofvillagesandcities,willthewilfulexecutionofthiswhole devilishschemetoannihilatetheArmenian,GreekandSyrian(Aramean)ChristiansofTurkey— willallthisgounpunished?" Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau (1856‐1946) was United States ambassadortotheOttomanEmpirebetween1913and1916.HewitnessedtheOttomanentry into World War I and the genocide of the Empire’s Armenian, Aramaean/Assyrian and Greek population. (ChapterXXII,page290‐91) And now the Young Turks, who had adopted so many of Abdul Hamid's ideas, also made his Armenianpolicytheirown.TheirpassionforTurkifyingthenationseemedtodemandlogicallythe extermination of all Christians‐‐‐Greeks, Syrians, and Armenians. Much as they admired the Mohammedanconquerorsofthefifteenthandsixteenthcenturies… (ChapterXXIV;page323‐325) TheArmeniansarenottheonlysubjectpeopleinTurkeywhichhavesufferedfromthispolicyof makingTurkeyexclusivelythecountryoftheTurks.ThestorywhichIhavetoldaboutthe ArmeniansIcouldalsotellwithcertainmodificationsabouttheGreeksandtheSyrians. AtlanticMonthly,November1916 "The extermination of the Armenians is well under way. Thousands of Nestorians and Syrians[oftheAssyrianOrthodoxChurch]havevanishedfromthefaceoftheearth.More than300,000GreekshavebeendeportedfromtheOttomanEmpire,andmanymoresentto theinterior.ThefatethatawaitsthesurvivingChristiansandJews—infact,ofallthenon‐ Turkishelements—dependsonthetermofthefratricidalwaranditsfortunes.TheYoung Turksarewatchfullywaitingtocarryouttheirprogram:'TurkeyfortheTurks.'" Dépêchediplomatiquedu9janvier1909duVice‐ConsuldeFranceàTurabdin(Sud‐estde laTurquieetrégionprincipalementoccupéeparlesAraméens‐Syriaques) ‘Legénocideoublié.Chrétiensd'Orient,lesderniersaraméens’.ParSébastiendeCourtois: «…laPorte[l’Empireottoman]poursuitdepuisquelquesannéessonbutquiestd’anéantir petitàpetitl’élémentchrétien…» DrArthurdeNadamlenzki‐ConsulautrichienàAndrinople Procès‐verbal (extrait) envoyé le 6/11/1915, rédigé d'un commun accord avec Seraphimoff, consuldeBulgarie: «Toutprincipedecivilisationetlessentimentshumainsquechaquechrétienressentpour son semblable ont été foulés aux pieds. Le fait que ce qui se passe n’est évidemment que l’exécutiond’unprogrammemûrementréfléchi,d’unprogrammequipoursuitcommebut «l’anéantissementdesélémentschrétiensenTurquie». Holstein,ConsulallemandàMossoulTélégrammedu19août1915(extrait) «J'ai lu dans différents journaux allemands des communiqués par lesquels la Turquie démentofficiellementlesmassacresdeschrétiensetjem'étonnedelanaïvetédelaPorte quicroitpouvoireffacerpardegrossiersmensongeslaréalitédescrimescommisparles fonctionnairesturcs.»