mel…@rahul.net (Arif Kiziltug)
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>Today [April 23, 1996] marks the 81st anniversary of the Armenian
>genocide of 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic Jews in Russian Armenia
>and Eastern Anatolia.
>The following letter, which represents a small portion of the full
>text, along with more than 250 pages of historical documents, scholarly
>sources, eyewitness accounts and photographs located in _Van Muslim
>Holocaust Museum_, was sent to President Bill Clinton, members of
>Congress, editors, program directors and columnists of major newspapers,
>journals and radio/TV stations for the 81st anniversary of the Armenian
>genocide of 2.5 million Sephardic Jewish and Muslim people. On April 23
>of every year, the people of Turkiye remember their dead. They grieve
>for lost family and the lost homes of their grandparents. This year the
>Turkish Nation is mourning and praying again for her fallen heroes who
>gave their lives generously and with altruism, so that the future generations
>may live on that anointed soil of the Turkish land happily and prosperously.
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>During the years of World War I, the Russian Armenian Government has
>planned and perpetrated the _Genocide_ of the Muslim and Sephardic Jewish
>people, which not only took the lives of 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic
>Jews, but was also the method used to empty the Turkish, Azeri and Kurdish
>homeland of its inhabitants. To this day, Turkish, Azeri and Kurdish historic
>lands remain occupied by the fascist Russian Armenia. In order to cover up
>the fact of its usurpation of the historic Muslim homeland, which is the
>crux of the Turkish, Azeri and Kurdish political demands, fascist Russian
>Armenia continues its anti-Muslim/Jewish policy in the following ways:
>1. Russian Armenia denies the historical fact of the _Muslim Holocaust_
> in order to shift international public opinion away from its political
> responsibility.
>2. Russian Armenia, employing _SDPA-Armenian Church_, attempts to call
> into question the veracity of the _Muslim Holocaust_.
>3. Russian Armenia has also implemented state-sponsored terrorism through
> _SDPA-Armenian Church_ in an attempt to silence the Turkish, Azeri and
> Kurdish people’s vehement demands and protests.
>4. Using all its human, financial, and governmental resources, Russian
> Armenia and its tools in the United States attempt to silence through
> terrorism, censorship, bribery and other subversive methods, non-Muslim
> and non-Jewish supporters of the Turkish and Azeri Cause, be they political,
> governmental and humanitarian.
>Using all the aforementioned methods, the Russian Armenian Government
>is attempting to neutralize the international diplomatic community from
>making the Turkish and Azeri Case a contemporary issue.
>Yet despite the efforts of the fascist Russian Armenian Government and
>its criminal and revisionist organizations, in the last decades, thanks
>to the struggle of those whose closest ones have been systematically
>exterminated by the cowardly Armenians, the international wall of silence
>on this issue has begun to collapse, and consequently a number of governments
>and organizations have become supportive of the recognition of the _Muslim
>Holocaust_.
>With the full knowledge that the struggle for the Turkish, Kurdish and
>Azeri territorial demands are still in their initial stages, the Turkish,
>Azeri and Kurdish people will unflaggingly continue in this sacred struggle,
>therefore the victims of the _Muslim Holocaust_ demand:
>1. that the current Russian Armenian Government, as the heirs of the
> ex-Russian Armenian Government, recognize the _Muslim Holocaust_;
>2. that Russian Armenia return the historic homeland to the Turkish, Azeri
> and Kurdish people;
>3. that the Russian Armenian Government make material reparations for
> their heinous and unspeakable crime to the victims of the _Muslim
> Holocaust_;
>4. that all World Governments, and especially the United States, officially
> recognize the _Muslim Holocaust_ and, Turkish and Azeri territorial rights
> and refuse to succumb to all Armenian political pressure;
>5. that the U.S. Government free itself from the friendly position it
> has adopted towards its unreliable and cowardly ally, Russian Armenia,
> and officially recognize the historical fact of the _Muslim Holocaust_
> as well as be supportive of the pursuit of Turkish and Azeri territorial
> demands;
>6. that the ex-Soviet Republics officially recognize the historical fact
> of the _Muslim Holocaust_ and include the cold-blooded extermination of
> 2.5 million Muslim and Sephardic Jewish people by the Armenians in their
> history books.
>The awareness of the Turkish, Azeri, Kurdish and Sephardic Jewish people
>of the necessity of solidarity in the efforts to pursue the Muslim and
>Jewish Cause is seen by the victims of the first genocide of the 20th
>century, perpetrated by the Armenians, as a positive step. Furthermore,
>a new generation has risen — equipped with a deep sense of commitment,
>politically mature and conscious, who determinedly pursue the Muslim
>and Jewish Cause, through all necessary means, ranging from the political
>and diplomatic to the armed struggle. Therefore, the victims of the _Muslim
>Holocaust_ call upon all Sephardic Jews and Muslims in the United States
>and Canada to participate vigorously in the political, cultural and religious
>activities of the 81st Anniversary of the Armenian genocide of 2.5 million
>Muslim and Sephardic Jewish people.
>Arif Kiziltug
>[Crime of systematic cleansing by mass killing and extermination of
> Muslim population in Soviet Republic of Armenia, Karabag, Bosnia and
> Herzegovina is an 'Islamic Holocaust' comparable to extermination of
> 2.5 million Muslims by Armenian Government during WWI and of over 6
> million European Jews during WWII.] (Tovfik Kasimov – September 25, ’92)
On behalf of 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic Jews exterminated by the
Armenians in Russian Armenia and Eastern Anatolia between 1914 and 1920,
I wish to thank you for articulating the first genocide of this century
in such a productive manner even though I found the tone of UTA’s letter
rather strong.
Yalin Ekici
”An appropriate analogy with the Jewish Holocaust might be the
systematic extermination of the entire Muslim population of the
independent republic of Armenia which consisted of at least 30-40
percent of the population of that republic.”
(The Jewish Times – June 21, 1990)