ABD Texas'da mukim Ferruh Demirmen'in, sözde ermeni karar tasarısını Temsilciler Meclisi Genel Kurulunda oylanmadan önce ele alan Kurallar Komisyonu üyelerine gönderdiği 27 Ekim 2019 tarihli mektup:
October 27, 2019
To the Distinguished Members of the House Committee on Rules.
Honorable Representatives:
I understand that in a day or so you will be considering H.Res.296, “Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide”, and if approved, send it to the House Floor for a vote. I would like you to now that H.Res.296, if passed, would be a shameful capitulation to the Armenian lobby, taking advantage of the temporarily strained relations between the U.S. and Turkey, a NATO ally. You would effectively be smearing the name of a whole nation, the Turkish people, in an attempt to take revenge on some political developments and entities you disapprove. Turkey has no ill intentions against Kurdish people, and 15-20% of Turkey’s population is of Kurdish origin.
But Turkey is rightly opposed to the separatist/terrorist activities on its soil emanating from some Kurdish factions both in Iraq and Syria. KDF, the “Kurdish Defense Forces” in Syria backed by the U.S. and battling the ISIS, is practically another name for YPG, the Kurdish terrorist group in Syria. YPG, the military arm of PYD with a Marxist-Leninist outlook, is closely affiliated with the PKK in Turkey and Iraq. Over the last 33 years the PKK has killed nearly 45,000 Turkish people, women and children included. The PKK is officially recognized as a terrorist group not only by Turkey, but also the U.S., the European Union, and NATO. The so-called “General” Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish forces, YPG, in northern Syria, is someone who Abdullah Ocalan, the blood-thirsty head of the PKK now in prison in Turkey, has called “My spiritual son.” In reality, Abdi is a war criminal, just as Ocalan was
Consider what the U.S. would do if a terrorist group is positioned just across its border.
As for the other terrorist group in Syria, the ISIS, it is no more than the product of the US-led coalition’s efforts to topple the Assad regime in Syria. The current Syrian war is a proxy war started by the Obama administration in 2011, and continued till now. The U.S. Syrian adventure ignored the disastrous consequences of the George W. Bush policy to topple Saddam Hussein in Iraq, which caused political instability in the region and unleashed a massive humanitarian crisis. The war against the Syrian regime, which Turkey joined, stoked the birth and rise of fundamentalist Islamic factions of different shades also opposed to the Syrian regime. These fundamentalist factions are now grouped under the umbrella name, “ISIS.”
It should be mainly the task of the Syrian regime, however with some unwholesome acts in the past, to fight ISIS, with some help from outside forces, mainly the U.S. and Russia. Currently any U.S. help is unrealistic.
As far as the U.S. engagement in Syria, what has long been going on in Syria, in essence, is using one terrorist group, YPG, to fight another, ISIS. You, as the U.S. Congresspersons, should ponder whether that is, and has been, the right and morally sustainable course of action for the U.S. The Syrian war precipitated a huge migrant crisis in Turkey, with 4 million refugees crossing the border from Syria. In contrast, the migrant crisis has hardly reached the U.S. shores.
Turkish soldiers fought alongside the American GI’s in Korea (at which time most of you were not even born) and Afghanistan. How many Kurdish soldiers of YPG affiliation died in Korea and Afghanistan? And, as we frequently hear in the media and among the politicians, it is the Kurds, not Turks, that are “allies” of the U.S.?
As for “Armenian genocide,” it has no historical basis, and likewise no legal basis. Hundreds of historians do not consider the 1915 events in Ottoman Anatolia as genocide. The recognition of “Armenian genocide” by the House would violate a fundamental tenet of the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide, which requires the judgment of a competent court for assignment of such crime to individual or individuals. There exists no such court determination. If the Armenian side wishes to press on with its genocide accusations, it should take its case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. But it does not dare to do so; instead, it relies on propaganda backed by much activism and financial resources. Legislators should not act as historians or as adjudicators. Nor should they sanction a prejudicial, hatred-driven bill aimed to politicize a tragic historical event. Please consider the facts included in the Attachment (a 7 plus-page PDF file) and vote NO against H.Res.296.
Respectfully,
Ferruh Demirmen, Ph.D.
Houston, Texas
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