Turkish Officials Admit To Playing Games With Protocols

'Armenian TV' is on the way
30.12.2008

TRT is now in preparation for the new Armenian TV station, which will begin broadcasts at the end of 2009. An affirmative outlook has been given by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the upcoming Armenian TV channel. The start of radio broadcasts in Armenian and an official website in February will prove as a test for the new television station. The television broadcasts will include famous Armenian musicians, such as Ara Gevorgian, Tata, Nune Yesayan, Andre and Sirusho as well as Kardeş Türküler and other Turkish groups that sing Armenian songs. Categorized as a family channel, Armenian TV will provide top headlines of developments in Turkey and Armenia on their newsreel. The new satellite channel, which will employ Armenian staff members, will also focus on those living in Armenia as well as on Armenians living in Turkey.

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Hayrapetian said the FFA has decided to ban Armenian soccer fans from bringing banners referring to the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and other “political” issues into the stadium. “Only football-related placards will be allowed there,” he said. “A victory for Armenia would send a much stronger message that a few banners.”

TALAT HEADS TO NEW YORK FOR TALKS WITH BAN

Today's Zaman, Turkey
Oct 15 2007

Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat departed on Sunday from İstanbul for New York, where he will have talks with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday and urge the secretary-general to be more active on the Cyprus issue.

Speaking to reporters upon his departure, Talat touched upon the controversy over the US House's adoption of a resolution labeling the mass killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I as genocide.

"This resolution is both strange and a little funny; because it is unbelievable that an assembly of another country is making a decision concerning incidents -- after around 100 years passed -- over which history should make a decision," Talat told reporters, noting that he did not have any meetings scheduled with US officials when asked whether he would bring up the issue during his meetings in New York.( Read more... )

Jasper Gerard
Sunday October 14, 2007
The Observer

Remind me, what is the war on terror for?

The world is viewed through the prism of a war on terror. President
Bush dismisses the attempted slaughter of a people as a ticklish
detail. He rejects a historic Congressional decision to call Turkey's
murder of 1.5 million Armenians 'genocide'. And not because he denies
butchery took place; rather, Turkey is a key ally, so best let
sleeping Armenians lie. One sees his point, naturally. The friendship
of a Muslim nation provides cover. Plus nationalist Turks, successors
to the 'young Turks' who nearly snuffed out the Armenians, are
itching to invade northern Iraq. So best placate Turkey...

But what is the war on terror for? Isn't it a response to a war of
terror, whose first shot was fired in 1915, when Turkey's interior
minister ordered Armenians to be 'terminated'? Why does the death of
3,000 in New York weigh heavier than 1.5 million? And if the war on
terror possesses moral as well as military force, shouldn't it be
about principle as well as pragmatism?

Otherwise, aren't we just the other side's enemy combatant?
Guantanamo, rendition, detention: staring through the prism, we've
lost perspective.

Turkey has already lost the "genocide" battle. There is simply no one — except people with a vested financial or political interest — who believe Turkey's side of the story. Whether "the events of 1915" amount to "genocide" or not is not even debated in the West. This is one of those situations where perception becomes reality. Turkey can blame the nefarious Armenians and all kinds of anti-Turkish lobbies for this situation, but the fact of the matter is that suppressing free debate on this issue and accusing academics organizing conferences does not help the slogan "leave history to historians."

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The ‘apology’ quoting America’s Ambassador to Armenia John Evans for saying he shouldn’t have referred to the Armenian genocide as such, turns out, was a fabrication by the State Department.

Один Грант умер, пусть будет много таких грантов. Сдохни, армянин!

One Hrant died, let it be many hrants like that. Die Armenian! [die like a dog]

Sa shat cicagheli e.
Mard@ kaxaghan ein hanelu, hesa kokortilozi arcunqner en tapum nuyn andsinq.
Amachel en chgiten...

Очень смешно.
То готовы были повесить, а теперь крокодильи слезы льют те же люди.
Стыда у них нет.