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  • Daily Sabah: New York Times Declines To Run Pro-Reconciliation 1915

    DAILY SABAH: NEW YORK TIMES DECLINES TO RUN PRO-RECONCILIATION 1915 ADS

    19:30 23/04/2015 " SOCIETY

    The New York Times refused to run a pro-peace and reconciliation
    advertisement over the 1915 Armenian atrocities because it did not
    recognize the Armenian genocide, an e-mail correspondence between the
    newspaper's advertising department and the Turkish-American Steering
    Committee revealed yesterday, Daily Sabah reports.

    The ad, which was published by the Washington Post today instead,
    is written as an open letter addressing President Barack Obama and
    members of Congress, informing them that the Turkish-American community
    would march through downtown D.C. on April 24, beginning at the White
    House and ending in front of the Turkish Embassy to commemorate the
    100th anniversary of the 1915 atrocities. "Our most sincere hope is
    that Armenian Americans will join us on this walk. We will walk to
    pay our respects to the lives lost from all ethnicities and creeds,
    and to kindle a spark for what we believe should be our shared future"
    the letter reads.

    However the e-mails obtained by Daily Sabah revealed that The New
    York Times asked the Steering Committee that represents over 145
    Turkish-American associations to remove three out of five paragraphs of
    the letter, which depicts the 1915 incidents as a civilian tragedy that
    cost the lives of millions of Ottoman citizens including Armenians,
    Turks, Kurds and Arabs. The targeted paragraphs underline the fact
    that there is no academic consensus on the incidents by referencing
    substantial number of international scholars who declined to label the
    atrocities as genocide. "My legal team crossed out the first three
    paragraphs that do not pass acceptability," wrote Michael Hayden,
    the officer responsible for Advocacy Advertising at The New York
    Times. Hayden also said in the email that the legal team had wanted
    to exclude the slogan "Unite Us, Not Divide us," and this sentence
    in the fifth paragraph: "One hundred years ago, a brutal war started
    neither by Turks nor Armenians cost the Ottoman Armenians, the Ottoman
    Turks and many other groups so dearly."

    The newspaper made it clear that the letter must be changed before it
    could be published. Subsequently, emails from the Steering Committee
    asking for an explanation, Mr. Hayden had explained that as a matter of
    policy, they do not accept ads that deny great historical events that
    are generally accepted as facts, including the Armenian "genocide,"
    the Holocaust, and the World Trade Center bombing.

    http://www.dailysabah.com/politics/2015/04/23/new-york-times-declines-to-run-proreconciliation-1915-ads

    http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2015/04/23/genocide-daily-sabah/




    From: A. Papazian
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