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TURKISH MEDIA ACCUSE HIZMET GROUP OF BACKING GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
April 14, 2014 - 19:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Turkic American Alliance (TAA) has refuted the
pro-government daily Sabah's and Yeni Å~^afak's claims of "treachery,"
linking the Hizmet movement, a faith-based group inspired by Turkish
Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen, with the passing of the Armenian
Genocideresolution at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Today's Zaman said.
Pro-government Sabah daily claimed on Sunday, April 13 that the
"parallel structure" (in reference to the Hizmet movement) has funded
Senator Menendez's election campaign. Yeni Å~^afak daily wrote on
Saturday that Menendez attended a gala meeting of TAA, which has
ties with Hizmet, only one day before the resolution was adopted at
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 10, suggesting that
Hizmet was behind the preparation of this resolution against Turkey's
interests and using an American senator to that end.
Sabah claims that Menendez has received $9,500 in total from two
schools, one law firm and one computer company that have allegedly
close ties to Gulen.
TAA President Faruk Taban and TAA's member organization Turkic
American Association Council (CTAA) President Furkan KoÅ~_ar made a
joint statement on Saturday that Yeni Å~^afak's story is erroneous,
only based on a photo taken at the gala meeting of TAA. In a photo
that appeared in Yeni Å~^afak on Saturday, CTAA President Furkan
KoÅ~_ar and Menendez are seen talking to each other.
TAA, the largest national Turkic organization in the U.S., held its
third annual Turkic American Convention in Washington, D.C., on April
12-13 in cooperation with the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen
and Industrialists (TUSKON).
Calling the story a lie, TAA and CTAA said that they have always
expressed their displeasure to Menendez over resolutions that upset
Turks and Azerbaijanis. The statement said that linking TAA and
CTAA with the Armenian resolution at the U.S. Congress is part of
an operation to manipulate people's perceptions. Taban and KoÅ~_ar
said the journalist and Yeni Å~^afak will be sued for linking their
organizations with the passing of the Armenian resolution.
For the first time in nearly a quarter century, a U.S. Senate committee
on April 10, adopted an Armenian Genocide Resolution, calling upon
the Senate to commemorate this crime and encouraging the President
to ensure that America's foreign policy reflects and reinforces
the lessons, documented in the U.S. record, of the still-unpunished
genocide.
With a vote of 12 to 5, the Committee voted to condemn and commemorate
the Armenian Genocide.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
spearheaded the effort to have this influential foreign policy panel
speak clearly regarding the Ottoman Turkish Government's centrally
planned and systematically carried out campaign of genocide from
1915-1923, which resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million men,
women and children.
April 14, 2014 - 19:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Turkic American Alliance (TAA) has refuted the
pro-government daily Sabah's and Yeni Å~^afak's claims of "treachery,"
linking the Hizmet movement, a faith-based group inspired by Turkish
Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen, with the passing of the Armenian
Genocideresolution at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Today's Zaman said.
Pro-government Sabah daily claimed on Sunday, April 13 that the
"parallel structure" (in reference to the Hizmet movement) has funded
Senator Menendez's election campaign. Yeni Å~^afak daily wrote on
Saturday that Menendez attended a gala meeting of TAA, which has
ties with Hizmet, only one day before the resolution was adopted at
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 10, suggesting that
Hizmet was behind the preparation of this resolution against Turkey's
interests and using an American senator to that end.
Sabah claims that Menendez has received $9,500 in total from two
schools, one law firm and one computer company that have allegedly
close ties to Gulen.
TAA President Faruk Taban and TAA's member organization Turkic
American Association Council (CTAA) President Furkan KoÅ~_ar made a
joint statement on Saturday that Yeni Å~^afak's story is erroneous,
only based on a photo taken at the gala meeting of TAA. In a photo
that appeared in Yeni Å~^afak on Saturday, CTAA President Furkan
KoÅ~_ar and Menendez are seen talking to each other.
TAA, the largest national Turkic organization in the U.S., held its
third annual Turkic American Convention in Washington, D.C., on April
12-13 in cooperation with the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen
and Industrialists (TUSKON).
Calling the story a lie, TAA and CTAA said that they have always
expressed their displeasure to Menendez over resolutions that upset
Turks and Azerbaijanis. The statement said that linking TAA and
CTAA with the Armenian resolution at the U.S. Congress is part of
an operation to manipulate people's perceptions. Taban and KoÅ~_ar
said the journalist and Yeni Å~^afak will be sued for linking their
organizations with the passing of the Armenian resolution.
For the first time in nearly a quarter century, a U.S. Senate committee
on April 10, adopted an Armenian Genocide Resolution, calling upon
the Senate to commemorate this crime and encouraging the President
to ensure that America's foreign policy reflects and reinforces
the lessons, documented in the U.S. record, of the still-unpunished
genocide.
With a vote of 12 to 5, the Committee voted to condemn and commemorate
the Armenian Genocide.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
spearheaded the effort to have this influential foreign policy panel
speak clearly regarding the Ottoman Turkish Government's centrally
planned and systematically carried out campaign of genocide from
1915-1923, which resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million men,
women and children.