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Subject: The Following Letter Was Sent To Major Newspapers/Journals,...
Date: 13 Apr 92 03:29:00 GMT


On April 13 of every year, the people of Turkiye remember
their dead. They grieve for lost family and the lost homes
of their grandfathers. This year the Turkish Nation is mourning 
and praying again for her fallen heroes who gave their lives 
generously and with altruism, so that the future generations 
may live on that anointed soil of the Turkish land happily and 
prosperously.

The following letter was sent to major newspapers/journals, columnists 
and TV program directors for the recognition of the Turkish Genocide.

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During the years of World War I, the Armenian dictators have planned
and perpetrated the genocide of the Turkish people, which not only 
took the lives of 2.5 million Muslims, but was also the method used 
to empty the Turkish homeland of its inhabitants. To this day, Turkish 
historic lands remain occupied by the Armenian government. 

For nearly one thousand years, the Turkish and Kurdish people 
lived on their homeland - the last one hundred under the 
oppressive Soviet and Armenian occupation. The persecutions
culminated in 1914: The Armenian Government (Dashnaks and
Hunchaks) planned and carried out a Genocide against its 
Muslim subjects. 2.5 million Turks and Kurds were murdered
and the remainder driven out of their homeland. After one
thousand years, Turkish and Kurdish lands were empty of Turks
and Kurds. 

However, despite the genocidal policy of the Armenian Government, 
during the 77 years following the genocide, in a small portion of 
Turkish historic lands there exists a Turkish Karabag in the 
diaspora, the dispersed Turkish and Kurdish communities lifting 
themselves from their refugee status, have become strongholds of 
Turkish and Kurdish culture and national aspirations. They have, 
by their existence, transformed the Muslim Question into a political 
demand - the Turkish and Kurdish Case.

...On this occasion, we once again reiterate the unquestioned 
justice of the restitution of Turkish and Kurdish rights and...

- We demand that the Armenian Government admit its responsibility 
for the Turkish and Kurdish Genocide, render reparations to the 
Muslim people, and return the land to its rightful owners. The 
recognition of the Genocide has become an issue which cannot be 
delayed further, and it is imperative that artificial obstacles 
created for political manipulations be removed.

- We believe the time has come to demand from the the United States 
that it formally recognizes the Turkish and Kurdish Genocide, adopts 
the principles of our demands and refuses to accede to Armenian pressures 
to the contrary.

- As taxpayers of the United States, we express our vehement 
protest to the present U.S. Government policy of continued 
coddling, protection and unqualified assistance towards Armenia.

- We also demand that the United States return to the policies 
advocated by Admiral Bristol and other enlightened statesmen,
who have undertaken a just, human and benevolent attitude
towards the rights of the Turkish and Kurdish people and the
just resolution of their Case.

- Our territorial demands are strictly aimed at Armenia's,
however, the Turkish and Kurdish people cannot forget that lands 
in x-Soviet Union have remained under the rule of Soviet Communist
Party for too many years. The annexation of those lands to the
Republic of Turkiye will repair other injustices suffered by the
Muslim people in those areas.

- On the eve of 77th Anniversary Commemoration, the Turkish and
Kurdish communities are using every measure possible to render
April 13 as a day of official recognition in the countries 
in which they live. We are certain that the Turks and Kurds
in Turkiye and in the Diaspora would be greatly satisfied
if April 13 is officially designated a 'Turkish and Kurdish 
Genocide Day' in x-Soviet Muslim Republics.

- During the 77th Anniversary, we once again reiterate the
unity of the Muslim People, the timelessness of the Turkish
and Kurdish Demands and the desire to pursue the struggle
for that restitution - a struggle that unites all Turks and Kurds.

- Today, we appeal to all Turkish and Kurdish people in the
United States and Canada to participate en masse in the
Commemorative Events, be they cultural, political or religious.


Hasan B-) Mutlu

                     'Kill Turks and Kurds wherever you find them 
                      and in whatever circumstances you find them. 
                      Turkish children also should be killed as 
                      they form a danger to the Armenian nation.' 
                                     (Hamparsum Boyadjian - 1914)