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TurkishPAC Takes Position on Armenian-Turkish Relations

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In the last several months there has been a softening of Turkish-Armenian relations, and the pace of these developments has gained momentum. TurkishPAC has followed these developments with great interest. All indications to date are that the Turkish Government, under external pressure, is seriously considering opening the Armenia-Turkey border toward normalization of relations between the … 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

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

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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