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    ANCA CALLS FOR APOLOGY FROM AMBASSADOR RICCIARDONE

    Panorama
    Aug 16, 2011
    Armenia

    The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) today called for
    an apology from U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone over
    his recent written response to a Senate inquiry falsely claiming that
    "most of the Christian churches functioning prior to 1915 are still
    operating as churches."

    The August 15th letter from ANCA Chairman Ken Hachikian to Secretary of
    State Hillary Clinton reviewed the facts surrounding the Ambassador's
    offensive and inaccurate comment whitewashing the vast destruction
    of Christian holy sites, noting that the Ambassador's remarks reflect
    "his eagerness to embrace the government of Turkey's false and hateful
    genocide denial narrative, at lengths beyond even the Administration's
    longstanding and shameful complicity in Turkey's denials of the
    Armenian Genocide."

    The ANCA letter specifically calls for three actions: an official
    statement by Ambassador Ricciardone and the Department of State
    retracting his response; a full and formal correction affirming
    that the vast majority of Christian churches on the territory of
    present-day Turkey were desecrated, destroyed or stolen by the Ottoman
    and Republican Turkish governments, and that any surviving churches
    and all religious properties should be returned to their rightful
    Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Syriac, Pontian and other Christian church
    and lay ownerships; and an apology from Ambassador Ricciardone.

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