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    US ARMENIANS LAUNCH NEW 'GENOCIDE' RECOGNITION CAMPAIGN

    Today's Zaman
    Feb 5 2009
    Turkey

    An influential Armenian organization based in the United States has
    launched a new campaign to put pressure on the new US administration
    to officially recognize Armenian claims of genocide.

    The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) called on
    Armenian-Americans to send letters to both US President Barack Obama
    and the representative of the district they live in to urge them to
    officially recognize the alleged Armenian "genocide," the Anatolia
    news agency reported yesterday.

    "We are optimistic concerning the recognition with the new Congress
    and the new administration," Mark Kirk, a Republican congressman close
    to the Armenian diaspora, was quoted as saying by Anatolia. Kirk is
    co-chairperson of the US Congress' Armenian Caucus.

    Late last month some 20 Armenian-American advocacy, civic, religious,
    charitable and educational organizations sent a joint congratulatory
    message to Obama to mark his inauguration while also outlining the
    Armenian community's expectations of the incoming Obama administration.

    "Our government must clearly condemn the 1915 crime of race
    extermination by Ottoman Turkey that, during the course of eight years,
    killed 1.5 million Armenians, emptied vast areas of the Armenian
    homeland and inflicted grave material harm to every aspect of the
    Armenian people's cultural heritage, depriving it, to this day, of its
    right to exist on its native soil. Sadly, the inevitable consequence
    of Turkey's refusal to acknowledge this crime has been its inability
    to adapt to the changing realities in the region," the message said.
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