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ANKARA TO ACTIVATE TURKIC DIASPORA
asbarez
Monday, April 16th, 2012
The architect of Ankara's plan, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag
ANKARA-In a campaign coordinated by Turkey's deputy prime minister,
official Ankara is pushing to organize "the million of people in its
diaspora" in a campaign aimed at countering international recognition
of the Armenian Genocide, reported the Hurriyet Daily News on Monday.
Reportedly, the plan is being penned by Turkey's Deputy Prime Minster
Bekir Bozdag. who run's a government body called the Overseas Turks
Agency, which was established in 2010.
"We are working on drafting a strategy document on the diaspora. It
will respond to our priorities, objectives and working methods. We
will also outline our messages through this document," a senior
government official told the Hurriyet Daily News over the weekend.
Hurriyet reports that in June, representatives of around 500
non-governmental organizations from mainly European countries and
elsewhere will converge in Ankara for conference "on legal ways to
confront racist and discriminatory attitudes toward Turks."
"Our objective is to provide our citizens and NGOs information on
ways to claim their rights in a conscious and organized manner,"
the official told Hurriyet. "We advise them to remain within the
boundaries of the law when they face racist attacks. We tell them to
go to the police and make written applications so that these attacks
can be addressed in a proper way using democratic means."
"However, we need to do more than this. We are encouraging them to
adopt dual citizenship and enjoy full-pledged rights," Hurriyet quoted
the official as saying.
Hurriyet also reported that some 2,000 Turks living abroad will be
invited to a meeting in Istanbul which would mark the establishment
of what the official called the "Turkish diaspora."
The plan envisions the inclusion of groups representing what the
paper called "other diasporas of like-minded countries."
The plan envisions a strong alliance with Azerbaijanis living outside
of Azerbaijan. To that end, a meeting is being planned to take place
on September 15, the when Nuri Pasha, an Ottoman general representing
Enver Pasha, one of the architects of the Armenian Genocide, commanded
Turkish troops to Baku in 1918 to fight the Russians.
asbarez
Monday, April 16th, 2012
The architect of Ankara's plan, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag
ANKARA-In a campaign coordinated by Turkey's deputy prime minister,
official Ankara is pushing to organize "the million of people in its
diaspora" in a campaign aimed at countering international recognition
of the Armenian Genocide, reported the Hurriyet Daily News on Monday.
Reportedly, the plan is being penned by Turkey's Deputy Prime Minster
Bekir Bozdag. who run's a government body called the Overseas Turks
Agency, which was established in 2010.
"We are working on drafting a strategy document on the diaspora. It
will respond to our priorities, objectives and working methods. We
will also outline our messages through this document," a senior
government official told the Hurriyet Daily News over the weekend.
Hurriyet reports that in June, representatives of around 500
non-governmental organizations from mainly European countries and
elsewhere will converge in Ankara for conference "on legal ways to
confront racist and discriminatory attitudes toward Turks."
"Our objective is to provide our citizens and NGOs information on
ways to claim their rights in a conscious and organized manner,"
the official told Hurriyet. "We advise them to remain within the
boundaries of the law when they face racist attacks. We tell them to
go to the police and make written applications so that these attacks
can be addressed in a proper way using democratic means."
"However, we need to do more than this. We are encouraging them to
adopt dual citizenship and enjoy full-pledged rights," Hurriyet quoted
the official as saying.
Hurriyet also reported that some 2,000 Turks living abroad will be
invited to a meeting in Istanbul which would mark the establishment
of what the official called the "Turkish diaspora."
The plan envisions the inclusion of groups representing what the
paper called "other diasporas of like-minded countries."
The plan envisions a strong alliance with Azerbaijanis living outside
of Azerbaijan. To that end, a meeting is being planned to take place
on September 15, the when Nuri Pasha, an Ottoman general representing
Enver Pasha, one of the architects of the Armenian Genocide, commanded
Turkish troops to Baku in 1918 to fight the Russians.