Saturday 28 February 2009

Set the record straight‏

February 27, 2009







Voices of Intolerance: Protesters Demand
'Armenians Out of Karabagh'

This week, anti-Karabagh protesters demonstrated
in front of the Armenian Embassy
calling for the forcible removal of Armenians from Karabagh.

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Call Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson - Today

The Honorable Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30)U.S. Representative from Texas Attacks Armenian Genocide Resolution

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, an eight-term legislator from Dallas, Texas, is attacking U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide as a "one-sided" view of a "historic dispute."

In a letter circulated on February 25th to all 434 of her House colleagues, she dismissed the Armenian Genocide as an "inter-communal war."

Please take two minutes to call her office to politely share your concerns. Phone number, sample talking points available on the ANCA action alert page.

Read the complete ANCA Action Alert
and CALL NOW!








ANCA Policy Memos Highlight Turkey-Sudan Axis of Genocide

Warns of Turkish Weapons Flow to Khartoum Regime

The Turkey-Sudan Axis of Genocide

Why is Turkey Selling Weapons to Sudan?
Commentary on the Turkey-Sudan Axis of Genocide
Turkey and Sudan

Support Armenian Genocide Legislation

Email your U.S. Representative to alert them of the Turkey-Sudan axis of genocide.
Call your U.S. Representative to be an early cosponsor of the Genocide resolution (phone script included).

Email President Obama to support
his promise to properly recognize the Armenian Genocide.

WASHINGTON, DC - In a series of three policy memos circulated to Capitol Hill offices this week, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) outlined for legislators how the Turkey-Sudan relationship is materially undermining international efforts to isolate Khartoum and end its genocide against the people Darfur.

As outlined in these policy memos, the Ankara and Khartoum regimes have grown markedly closer over the past two years, driven by Turkey's increasingly brazen efforts to undermine the international community's efforts to isolate Sudan's genocidal regime. The main three areas of cooperation between the two countries have been:

1) Turkey's sale of lethal weaponry directly to Sudan.

2) Turkish diplomatic support for the Sudanese government's genocide denials.

3) Turkey's use of its UN Security Council seat to block anti-genocide efforts.

Turkey has, in recent weeks, come under international scrutiny for hosting Sudanese Vice-President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha, who, during a meeting with Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, asked Turkey to use its position on the UN Security Council to block any possible attempts to arrest Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir on charges of genocide. Read more. . .

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