JTA: Turkish Jews lobby against Armenian resolution in US
Turkish Jews lobby against Armenian resolution
A delegation of Turkish Jews lobbied against a resolution under consideration in the U.S. Congress that would recognize the 1915 massacres of Armenians as genocide. The three-person delegation, headed by Silvyo Ovadya, the president of the Turkish Jewish community, attended this week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference and met with Jewish leaders as well as members of Congress.
Turkish diplomats have been unsuccessful in mustering broad community support against the non-binding resolution proposed by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who is Jewish and has a large Armenian constituency. A number of Holocaust scholars have labeled the massacres, carried out by Ottoman-era Turks, as a genocide and have called it a precursor to the Holocaust. Ovadya said such considerations were best left to historians, but claimed that politically the resolution would harm relations between the United States and its closest Muslim ally.
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as a historian, I must say it was the armenians who attacked first the ottoman army in 1915. after that the ottoman army under german general ordered the armenians to be sent away from that area. hence so many armenians can be found today in
syria, lebanon, jordan and yemen.
there was no genocide. swedish officers’ reports in swedish archives prove. also german, russian, british and ottoman archives prove there was no genocide. also the armenian archives should prove the same thing, but armenians do not open their archives. in anycase this
was an incident which happened in
1915. turkish republic which was against ottoman emipre, was established in 1923.
are armenians crazy to accuse turkish republic for incidents which did not even happen in 1915? so they killed so many turkish diplomats as a revenge. armenians are guilty a