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How to Come to Terms with One’s Own Past

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A Probe into History Including Armeno-Turkish Relations   by Prof. Dr. Türkkaya Ataöv Coming to terms with one’s past in historical context needs to conform to a number of conditions. Otherwise, it may be misleading in several ways. The methodology of such a probe into history should be the kind utilized in any scientific endeavour. … Read more

Rochester Seminar

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Professor Ataöv‘s Rochester seminar will be held at 4 PM on February 14th, at the following address: Turkish Society of Rochester 677 Beahan Road Rochester, NY  14624 For more information please visit www.tsor.org or contact tsrochester@gmail.com or ph: 585-266-1980.

Türkkaya Ataöv Lecture Series

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TurkishPAC is pleased to inform you about Professor Türkkaya Ataöv’s Houston seminar, "How to Come to Terms with One’s Own Past",  sponsored by Turkish Heritage Society and Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA). Professor Ataöv will also be visiting several other US and Canada cities for a series of lectures which will also be organized … Read more

Türkkaya Ataöv

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  Türkkaya Ataöv is Professor Emeritus in International Relations at Ankara University, Turkey. He did his graduate work in the United States, where he received two M.A.s (NYU & Syracuse Univ.) and a Ph.D. (1959, Syracuse U., NY). He taught at Ankara Univ. for more than four decades and lectured in several American, British, Russian, … Read more

It is Time for Us to Act Now!

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Below is an important announcement from Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA). For more information, please visit ATAA’s website.   IT IS TIME FOR US TO ACT NOW! Dear Friends and Members of the Turkish-American Community: At the beginning of a new era "Yes We Can", as Turkish Americans this is our opportunity to join … Read more

I Do Not Apologize!

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TurkishPAC supports the "I Do Not Apologize" campaign, launched two days ago against the "I apologize" campaign initiated by some misguided Turkish  academicians. The latter was launched at the beginning of this week and led by some of the well known so called "Armenian Genocide" protoganists, including Ahmet İnsel and Cengiz Aktar.  They ask visitors … Read more

Armenian Terrorism on 12.17.1980

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On this day, in 1980, two Armenian gunmen assassinate Turkish Consul General, Sarik Ariyak, and his bodyguard, Engin Sever in Sydney, Australia,
as the Turkish officials are walking toward their vehicle. Ariyak dies
instantly and the bodyguard dies on the way to the hospital.  JCAG claims responsibility…

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Stamps Honoring the Turkish Diplomats Who Saved Jews

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Turks have been instrumental in the Jewish survival since the early period of the Ottoman Empire; beginning with the firman issued by the second Ottoman Sultan Orhan the first in
1332 that allowed them to settle in the Ottoman territories. Similar
protection acts followed, including Sultan Beyazit the second’s evacuation of the Sephardic Jews from Spain in 1492 and the young Turkish Republic’s embracement of the Jews expelled from Germany. (Please click here for an informative article by historian Stanford Shaw.)

To commemorate some of these late efforts, the Turkish General Directorate of Post and Telegraph Organization (PTT) has issued two new stamps to honor the Turkish diplomats Necdet Kent (1911-2002) and Selahattin Ülkümen (1914-2003), who risked their own lives in order to save those of hundreds of Jews during the WWII. 

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CNN Action Alert – December 08

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CNN REPORT INCORRECTLY CHARACTERIZES ARMENIAN TRAGEDY

IMMEDIATE CORRECTION REQUIRED
 
Dear Turkish Americans and Supporters of U.S.-Turkish Relations.  CNN will be broadcasting a program titled, "Scream Bloody Murder" on December 4, 2008, regarding genocides in the 20th century.  Though CNN’s program advertisement does not list the Armenian case, we have learned that a small segment will discuss the events of 1915 in Ottoman Anatolia as a case of genocide.
 
TurkishPAC encourages all Turkish Americans to write to CNN.  The documentary program and reporter Ms. Christiane Amanpour’s recent statements in The Armenian Reporter (November 29), that the events of 1915 constitute the crime of genocide, prejudices inquiry into this genuine historic and legal controversy by proclaiming a verdict when in fact the evidence has never been tested by a proper neutral arbiter.  In applying the term genocide and associating the Turkish and Armenian tragedies during Word War I with later crimes against humanity, Amanpour enflames hatred against Turkish people and Muslims, while ignoring the current research that is piecing together a historical narrative that is revealing that Ottoman Armenians engaged in a bloody revolt and that multitudes of Ottoman Muslims perished from causes nearly identical to those which took the lives of so many Armenians.  Please click on "read more" link below for a sample letter/email text, and for more dertails.

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