Emre Yücel

Here is the excerpt that Mr. Joe Snell wrote, in the article, titled, ‘Turkey investigates reported cancellation of Disney Plus series on Ataturk’ that is the subject of racism, defamation and hate speech that needs to be corrected immediately, i.e., ‘Historians estimate that 1.5 million Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks were killed in a campaign of forced marches and mass killings between 1915 and 1923, born out of Ottoman concerns that Christian communities would align with Russia during World War I. Armenians argue that the latter stages of the genocide were overseen by Ataturk once he took office.’

There are gross implications of simply attacking Turkish people in the following false and racist statements.

1. The article states, ‘Historians estimate that 1.5 million Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks were killed in a campaign of forced marches and mass killings between 1915 and 1923, born out of Ottoman concerns that Christian communities would align with Russia during World War I’ There is nothing that is in any way, shape or form that can be supported or claimed a fact or a scientific or a legal fact in this statement because everything about the statement is completely fabricated. First, there is not an account or list of historians in this statement. We don’t know who they are or what they stated, or what the presentation of the facts looks like. What and were are the facts?

Indeed, this is a lie and defamation further propagated and disseminated and distributed by the racist organizations to rape, murder, annihilate and plunder Turkish sovereignty, Turkish identity, and Turkish people in a racist attempt to set Turkish people aside and show them as murderous barbarians who are not civilized. This systematic and structural attack is an utter and despicable act by Washington Post and the racist opinion holders of this news paper, disseminating lies and defamation.

The history of what came to be the Armenian Question is hotly contested. The statement above that there was a forced march between 1915 until 1923 is complete fabrication and it doesn’t hold against facts. The Ottomans at the time contended that in the 1890s Armenian terrorists committed crimes against Ottoman citizens, including but not limited to other Armenians and Turks in the region as well as Jews and Anatolian Rums. Armenian terrorists killed, soldiers, police, officials, and civilians without remorse.

The details of the atrocities committed by the Armenian terrorists are detailed in books by several reputable scholars such as Justin McCarthy and Ömer Lütfi Taşçıoğlu. A brief summary can be accessed here: https://tadaweekly.org/facts-about-the-armenian-insurrection/

Words of Boghor Pasha, which describes the ongoing racist and hate-mongering efforts since Gladstone of the British ‘Evil’ Empire, to maime, plunder, rape, and commit mass murder against Turks to drive them out of their homeland can be accessed here: https://tadalliance.org/words-of-boghos-nubar-pasha/

Application of Group Libel amounts to Libel according to the US constitution. More details can be easily accessed here: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1-7-5-8/ALDE_00013809/

Taking a page from Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, your statement repeated a big lie, i.e., that Ottoman Turks perpetrated a genocide of Armenians during World War I. Goebbels instructed, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

No court of law has ever affirmed an Armenian genocide. It has been disputed by the European Court of Human Rights, the United Nations, renowned scholars such as Bernard Lewis of Princeton, Stanford Shaw of UCLA, Justin McCarthy of the University of Louisville, Gunter Lewy of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Israel’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres.

No person or nation has ever even been accused of an Armenian genocide in a court of law. Armenia has refused to take their allegation for adjudication to the International Court of Justice for 73 successive years under Article IX of the Genocide Convention. Other cases alleging genocide have proceeded before the ICJ, for example The Gambia’s pending suit against Myanmar for genocide of the Rohingya. The reason for the prolonged Armenian idleness is self-evident. They fear they will lose.

Their fear is fully justified. The Genocide Convention excludes politically motivated killings. Armenians themselves shouted from the rooftops at the post-World War I Paris Peace Conference that they died in large numbers fighting for the Triple Entente hoping for an independent Armenian nation. Their deaths were indistinguishable from the Confederate soldiers who died at Gettysburg during the Civil War on behalf of the Confederate States of America. The Armenian deaths were anchored to a political dispute over independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Yours Sincerely,